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@Aragorn Returns:
Yeah, I know what you are talking about. I am from SoCal. You planning to go to Ozzfest?

BTW, nice thread title. Guess you heard NoFX huh?

no, i wasn't planning on going to ozzfest, but i'm pretty excited for the warped tour, the bands aren't as good as last year, but they're still good. ya, i got the thread title from NOFX, i have 5 of their CD's.

Originally posted by Word
the Who

They hold the distinction of having loudest condert ever...wish I could of heard them.got tickets yesterday to the Poison <reunion> tour..Cinderella,Winger and Faster ****ycats also on the card.Saw both Poison and Cinderella in 1988 hope they still can put on the same high level show that they did then.

I'm looking forward to seeing Nick Cave next week at the Beacon Theater in NYC. I had tickets from all the way back in October--but he cancelled due to the WTC thing. (I heard he was afraid to come to NYC! the wuss...)

I have a thing for men with deep voices--would love to go to Europe this summer and see Tindersticks, since it does not appear that they will ever come to the USA.

i went to a free concert today at UCI! totally nuts, something coperate and unwritten law played. it was crazy. since it was free they had very very little security. also, they didn't limit the number of people and it was outside so tons and tons of people came to the show. i started out right in the middle, there was some intense moshing, much much more intense than blink or green day, it still doesn't beat the adolescents mosh though. i went crowd surfing several times, you stayed up forever because it was sooo crowded. i then proceded to the front, on my way i nearly suffocated, at the front i was amazed becaused i could actually kind of breathe. it was honestly more packed than i have ever been, i'm suprised nobody really sufficated or got hurt really badly. at the front i was talking to the lead singer of unwritten law. he was wearing an idependent skateboards hat that i really wanted, i figured i needed a souveneir and i also collect hats, i have scores of hats. he wouldn't give me the hat, he said it was his favorite hat, i do understand hat sentimentality because of all my hats so i know where he's coming from. when unwritten law was done i snuck backstage (like a said, very little security) and kept asking the guy for the hat, he told me some long story about stealing his hat from a friend and then his friend let him keep it or something, i really wasn't paying attention, but then he told me to leave. i was very upset, i want that hat. if anybody goes to an unwritten law show, GET THE HAT AND SEND IT TO ME PLEEEEEASE!

@Ned-OMG! You got to see Ben Harper live?! I am sooo jealous! [wistful]Musta been awesome[/wistful].

I think Tool is coming to Perth pretty soon, but all the tickets were sold out after two days. No-one ever comes to Perth, I live in the world's least entertaining city.

Seems like our Almighty Ultimate Lurker is a big music fan

Originally posted by VoodooDali
Bands I somehow never got to see live and wish I had (who were still alive when I was old enough to start going to shows):

Elvis
Lou Reed
Iggy & the Stooges
Patti Smith (her band in the 70's)
Sex Pistols
The Selector
The Residents

I saw Lou Reed at a music festival when I was 13. I managed to convince my parents I could go since I went with a female friend who was 18. In the big crowd, I met a male friend who is 6.4, and since I was very small, he offered to let me sit on his shoulders. I had a really tight skirt on, but I thought what the hell, who is going to notice me, everybody is looking at the stage. So I spent the whole concert on my friends shoulders, about 2 meters from Lou Reed
Unfortunately for me, part of the show was broadcasted on Swedish news. My parents watched it. I was sent off to my grandparents in Lapland But it was worth it

I saw Selector long ago also, also at some music festival. I wasn't so impressed, probably because I didn't like their albums either.

Residents I've seen twice They always put up a great show as the performance artists they are. They offer so much more than their extraordinary music: choreography, light, costumes, multimedia installations...

I've never seen Dead Kennedy's, I wish I had, I used to like them a lot, especially the lyrics.

To change genre, the best live act I've ever been to were the former Soviet Union Ministry of Culture symphony orchestra and the Moscow Radio Symphonic orchestra. No rock band in the world can ever get the heavy pressure and intensity of such large and extremely good orchestras! I heard them many times, I used to go to Moscow on cheap Aeroflot tickets just to go to concerts and ballets. The Tchaikovsky comptetion in Moscow, the world's finest competition in classical music, is one of the best music events I've ever heard

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
@Ned-OMG! You got to see Ben Harper live?! I am sooo jealous! [wistful]Musta been awesome[/wistful].

I think Tool is coming to Perth pretty soon, but all the tickets were sold out after two days. No-one ever comes to Perth, I live in the world's least entertaining city.

What!

You didn't get your ticket. Shame on you

I saw tons of good classical concerts when I went to Interlochen Arts Academy's music camp. The jazz concerts they had there were the best, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie with Sarah Vaughn, etc. I was a piano major there--my teacher at the camp was Dady Mehta (Zubin Mehta's brother). He hated the way I'd been trained and my lessons with him were excruciating. He bawled me out every time. I did really well at organ there, and was singled out for praise by one of the leading organists in the world. When I returned home, I wanted to continue organ, but could not find an organ to practice on. The churches would not let me use theirs. I used to love going into the organ building at night and turning the organ on, playing spooky music like Bach's fugue in G minor.

On another note, when I first met my current significant other, on our second date, I went to see his band at Collective Unconscious, a club in the East Village. He was wearing a suit, and stripped till he was nude while singing, "I used to have a career!" It was hilarious.

@Voodoo: What I've really missed out on, is good jazz music. The Swedish jazz scence doesn't interest me a lot, partly because it's really pretensious most of the time, and internationally I don't know enough to know where to find good contemporary jazz.

I like the old stuff a lot, but almost all of these musicians died long before I was born. I'm sooo envious of my father who has seen all members of "the great jazz band in heaven" live!

What! The churchers wouldn't let you use their organs to practise on although you had the support of one of the leading organists in the world? What about the music academies? I have had two Swedish friends who were organists, and none of them had any problems with finding organs to practice on in churches. They didn't pay for the service, but one them used to play in the church sometimes on masses, probably to return the favour. I always find it so sad when talanted and motivated people have to give up things because of finacial or practical reasons

Re your SO: LOL I can see why you fell in love with him

Originally posted by C Elegans
Seems like our Almighty Ultimate Lurker is a big music fan

I've never seen Dead Kennedy's, I wish I had, I used to like them a lot, especially the lyrics.

They put on a decent show, my exboyfriends band opened for them one of the times they played here. Of all the punk shows I saw the band I wanted to see badly never came here(that I heard about) Crucifix.

I saw Lita Ford, A band I can't remember and Poison when I was 18, sadly can't remember much because of the beer.

I saw Hank Williams Jr, Sawyer Brown and some body else when I was 24, this one I can remember parts of, Women throwing bra's, people laid out drunk on the floor and me in a complete daze. Sawyer Brown was the highlight of this event, mainly cause they were the first band I believe, after that...blurr blurr.....


See why I don't drink anymore?

Originally posted by Weasel
I saw Lita Ford, A band I can't remember and Poison when I was 18, sadly can't remember much because of the beer.

I saw Hank Williams Jr, Sawyer Brown and some body else when I was 24, this one I can remember parts of, Women throwing bra's, people laid out drunk on the floor and me in a complete daze. Sawyer Brown was the highlight of this event, mainly cause they were the first band I believe, after that...blurr blurr.....


See why I don't drink anymore?

LOL!! Lita Ford goes back a while!

Originally posted by Yshania


LOL!! Lita Ford goes back a while!

That was 13 years ago and IMHO she didn't look too hot then. Since I don't listen to music much nowadays (At least not on the radio), is she still around?

I do happen to like Rob Zombie, but only when I'm racing and you don't want to be in my car while I'm doing this.

I'm more of a eighty's person. Duran Duran, AC/DC, Def Leppard, ect ect..

As far as I am aware, she is left somewhere back then I believe it was only her connections with Lemmy and Ozzy Osbourne that ever offered her any street cred!

who's better lemmy or god?

bumpedy bump

Thought I'd bump up this thread.... (feel like talking about music )

Anyway, as to the question above: I reckon God. Less moles...

And...Haha I'm going to see David Bowie in a couple of weeks! Anyone else going to the gig (Manchester)? Or has anyone else seen Bowie live?

and on a slightly spammy note, anyone ever heard People Under The Stairs? (Robnark ?) Know anything about them anyone? I just found a record called 'Question In The Form Of An Answer' IIRC that's pretty cool, but I'd not heard of the people before....

Originally posted by Robnark
curses! you've found the limits of my obscurism. i have heard of them, but i can't remember from where, and have no idea what they sound like. what are they like?

LOL They sound cool... the intro is some wierd talking over the top of Scarborough Fair... They've got pretty funky melodies, tending towards the sunny West coast breakin party end of things, but they've got some mean twisty beats too. There's some jazzy sampling and soulful stuff occasionally too (but not Jay-Z oohing and aahing). It's cool, because even though the lyrics aren't ultra smart and the breaks aren't all that obscure, it's cheerful and stylish in a slightly J5 ish Mos Defish way....

not amazing...although I was pretty impressed when I firts listened to it...