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    RocknRoll
    Joined: 29 Nov 2011

    Damn, I've got nothing on these awesome stories!

    Blackheart, please tell me everything about seeing AC/DC with Bon. He is one of my rock heroes. I am intensely jealous of all the amazing 70s and 80s bands you saw/hung out with.

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      MikeC
      Banned
      Joined: 7 Nov 2011

      Has anyone been to legendary shows, not just legendary to you?  Mine are:
      Woodstock 99
      Phish 99/00 Millenium Celebration in The Everglades

      And yes, I've read Blackheart's list.  All of her early shows are legendary…..

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        JLG
        Joined: 10 Oct 2011

        @MikeC:

        Has anyone been to legendary shows, not just legendary to you?  Mine are:
        Woodstock 99
        Phish 99/00 Millenium Celebration in The Everglades

        And yes, I've read Blackheart's list.  All of her early shows are legendary…..

        I was at both of those as well. They were good and I had more fun at the Phish show than I was expecting, but I'm not sure they hold legendary status for me from a musical perspective, but certainly from a 'what the f is going on around me'… And obviously they're legendary (at least Woodstock) because of all of the hoopla that went down.

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          Blackheart
          Joined: 4 Mar 2011

          Good call Mike C, legendary shows would be great to hear about. 😉

          RocknRoll I'll PM you about the AC/DC gig.

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            wolfblood
            Joined: 11 Jul 2013

            In the late 70s there use to be a yearly show at the superdome called " a day of rocknroll" on one ticket we saw Johnny winters, Rick derringer,blue oyster cult, nazareth, heart,Ronnie montrose,the eagles but memorable is used very loosely here 😢 we were sooooo baked by the second act. I saw the first lozzapalosa(spelling?) in Dallas in the early 90s with Janes addiction, Rollins, butthole surfers, body count, sioxie and the banshees, I had just sobered up from years of alcohol and drug abuse so I remember the whole gig!

            "I was never one of you." Arthur Rimbaud

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              wolfblood
              Joined: 11 Jul 2013

              I would of given my left ball to see the damned, Johnny thunders and the heartbreakers in 77 blackheart was that in LA or London? Walter Lure was in New Orleans a couple of months ago doing a memorial gig for Thunders, who died of a methadone overdose a couple of blocks away from the club. RIP L.A.M.F.

              "I was never one of you." Arthur Rimbaud

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                Blackheart
                Joined: 4 Mar 2011

                I saw the Damned in 1977 at the Starwood in LA, Dave had the whole vampire thing going on and Rat tried
                to hit on all the girls after the gig! Saw them again in 1979, one of my fave bands.

                Saw Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers in August of 1978 at the Whisky in LA, they played Friday and
                Saturday night, two shows a night, I saw all four. Joan Jett and Steve Jones were there for all the gigs too,
                we stood together. It was about 80 degrees at night that weekend and I remember Walter Lure coming outside
                between the sets and talking to us because it was so hot in the club.
                Johnny was so strung out he could hardly stand up, didn't matter though, the gigs were classic.

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                  mclaincausey
                  見習いボス
                  Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                  Keep em coming BH, we can assemble a book with these!

                  Think it, be it.

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                    Blackheart
                    Joined: 4 Mar 2011

                    😉 Okay, I have a couple more fun ones…

                    Iron Maiden, 1981 Killers tour opening for UFO at the Long Beach arena. We were backstage for that one...
                    I drove with a friend of mine who was having car trouble, the battery was going dead. We got there after
                    a jump from someone. After Iron Maiden's set she went out to try and start the car, it was dead. She
                    came back in as I was talking to Dave Murray and told me the bad news. Dave offered to jump start her
                    tiny Toyota with the tour bus! Paul Di'Anno overheard us and invited us to stay with him at the hotel if we
                    couldn't get it started and Steve Harris pulled some money out of his pocket and offered it to her so she
                    could call a tow truck. This blew us away, amazing band, amazing people. I still have the key to Paul's hotel
                    room and the backstage pass.
                    We did get the car started btw from a guy who had jumper cables and Iron Maiden had us covered just in
                    case. 😉 😘

                    Motorhead 1981 at the Counrty Club in Reseda, CA. They had opened for Ozzy at the Long Beach arena
                    and we missed their gig due to traffic, I was pretty gutted. Luckily they played a one off gig at the Country
                    Club a couple nights later, my friend Leslie and I got there early so we could get close to the stage. We walk in
                    and Lemmy is at the bar and waves us over...He ordered us Jack & Cokes and sat us each on a knee chatting
                    until he had to get ready. Whoa!
                    Of course we were right at the front of the stage, don't remembered who opened but after their gig we
                    turned around and Metallica were standing behind us as well as Motley Crue, Ratt and a host of other LA
                    bands. It was the loudest show I'd ever attended and one of the warmest...
                    This explains why: Towards the end of the show they did the song Fire Fire, the air started to smell like
                    something was burning...Leslie and I thought cool! Smell effects! Close.
                    After the gig we went outside and the Sears department store at the end of the block was on fire and you
                    could see about 5 feet in front of you!
                    One of my top 5 fave gigs of all time, I should pop down to the Rainbow one night and ask Lemmy if he
                    remembers it. 😉

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                      derivative666
                      Joined: 30 Jan 2011

                      Definitely not this JEW center stage Central Park NYC. Happening right now

                      "Obstacles are stepping-stones That guide us to our goals"

                      "honorable mention to the bearded giant aka derivative666 for being a stand up dude & not changing with the seasons since i've been around these parts" Monday

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                        mclaincausey
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                        Turning towards future memorable concerts, is anyone contemplating this thing in Virginia, Interlocken?

                        Think it, be it.

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                          riffblaster general
                          Raw and Unwashed
                          Joined: 23 Mar 2010

                          i've played interlocken in europe.  switzerland i think?

                          PUT DOWN THAT STARBUCKS, PICK UP THAT GNARBUCKS!!

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                            Finn666
                            Joined: 20 Jan 2011

                            Interlaken it is nate 😉

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                              mclaincausey
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                              Nice RBG my buddy went this year

                              Think it, be it.

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                                MikeC
                                Banned
                                Joined: 7 Nov 2011

                                @JLG:

                                @MikeC:

                                Has anyone been to legendary shows, not just legendary to you?  Mine are:
                                Woodstock 99
                                Phish 99/00 Millenium Celebration in The Everglades

                                And yes, I've read Blackheart's list.  All of her early shows are legendary…..

                                I was at both of those as well. They were good and I had more fun at the Phish show than I was expecting, but I'm not sure they hold legendary status for me from a musical perspective, but certainly from a 'what the f is going on around me'… And obviously they're legendary (at least Woodstock) because of all of the hoopla that went down.

                                Not legendary?  Name one other band that has ever played for 8 hours straight, no break, port-a-pottys on stage. Several epic 20-30 min versions of songs (see their cover of Rock n Roll, it's well over a half an hour). If that's not legendary, I don't know what is.  Most bands don't even have the material to play 6 straight sets (with one of them being 8 hours long) without repeating one song.

                                Seems like a lot of you think Phish is some fruity jamband like the Grateful Dead or String Cheese Incident, but are you all wrong. They are a rock n roll band, straight up. Granted there are some corny lyrics, but when it comes to rocking, few bands can come close. Not to mention, that their light show is only second fiddle to Pink Floyd's rig (which seldom gets used). Ask Derivative666, he's into heavy shit, like all of you. He thought the same thing, but look at him now, he loves them. They are a musician's band.  Please take a listen before passing judgment.

                                FYI, they cover heavy shit too, like Sabbath, Nirvana, Rage, etc.

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                                  derivative666
                                  Joined: 30 Jan 2011

                                  Couldnt agree more. I may be the only person on this forum to see Clutch, Phish, Converge in the same month. As Mike stated I am far from being a fan of the whole jam band genre. Phish fucking rock enough said.

                                  "Obstacles are stepping-stones That guide us to our goals"

                                  "honorable mention to the bearded giant aka derivative666 for being a stand up dude & not changing with the seasons since i've been around these parts" Monday

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                                    mclaincausey
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                                    Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                    I wouldn't write the Dead off as a "fruity jam band" but to each his own. I don't like Phish but I wouldn't write them off either, just not my (AC/DC) bag.

                                    Think it, be it.

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                                      riffblaster general
                                      Raw and Unwashed
                                      Joined: 23 Mar 2010

                                      I gotta say one of the best live bands I've ever seen was The Fabulous Thunderbirds.  Absolutely floored me.  Jimmy Vaughn is a bad ass motherfucker, and Kim Wilson tore the crowd a new one with his harmonica.  This was close to 20 years ago and blues just wasn't on my radar really.

                                      Also X is still to this day one of the best live bands on the planet.

                                      I don't know if I mentioned Morrissey on the Your Arsenal tour but wow…what a show.  Best line up of his band in my opinion.

                                      recent....Grinderman.

                                      PUT DOWN THAT STARBUCKS, PICK UP THAT GNARBUCKS!!

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                                        derivative666
                                        Joined: 30 Jan 2011

                                        Agreed on Moz and Grinderman. Everything Nick Cave touches is gold.

                                        Bands I'm dying to see:
                                        GYBE
                                        Tom Waits
                                        Boards of Canada

                                        Bands I can't wait to see again
                                        Sigur Ros the best live show I have seen in recent years
                                        MBV

                                        "Obstacles are stepping-stones That guide us to our goals"

                                        "honorable mention to the bearded giant aka derivative666 for being a stand up dude & not changing with the seasons since i've been around these parts" Monday

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                                          mclaincausey
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                                          Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                                          One of the greatest concerts I've ever seen was Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express. He and James DePrato are the definition of guitar synergy (I know I hate that word too but can't think of a better one). Left a smoking crater where my brain was both times I saw them at the Turf Club in St. Paul.

                                          Think it, be it.

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