Music

Jett129

It’s definitely a Bucket List place for me to go to a concert at. The Black Crowes will be there this Summer.

Honestly I’ve been there in the morning just to walk around and run stairs more than I have for concerts.

mclaincausey

It's aight!

Stuart.T

Best music venue for me is most definitely different to most memorable!

Camden Roundhouse sound engineers are on point, and I've enjoyed so great shows there. Most memorable?

Wetland and CBGBs in NYC in the early 90s
Stone Pony in NJ early 90s
The Marquee in London, 90s
London Union Chapel for Mudhoney, Love Battery, Ahghan Whigs, Nirvana shows all around 1990
The Powerhouse for Bikini Kill in the mid 90s, to see Mark Lamar get owned!
The Garage in London for many a hardcore and death metal show.
The old Wembley stadium for GnR in 91, just to hear 75000 people singing from out of nowhere by Faith No More. That was incredible.

I've had amazing box seats and floor seats at the Royal Albert Hall but found the acoustics (rather than sound engineering) not to be good.

Security restrictions in the late 90s started to kill the atmosphere of gigs. Accountability and insurance really put an end to my stage diving career!

organisys

I've seen Bicep at the Roundhouse and yeah the sound was good…

Give the R.A.H another bash as they have been improving things a lot in recent years...

Jett129

Saw the Stray Cats at the Roundhouse,and recorded my second album at Roundhouse studios.

mclaincausey

Colin Hay was great last night at the Saban in Beverly Hills.

His fans are total nerds, and not in a good way. Shut the fuck up and let the man talk and play. He shut em down in one instance by saying effectively the same thing. In another, when some asshole started to try to clap on the one, he stopped and pointed out that he'd rearranged the song to make it difficult to clap to. There were other behaviors to rant about, but a general lack of etiquette wasn't enough to derail a great show.

Anyway, very funny man, and I had no idea he could shred guitar that hard.

neph93

@Jett129:

Saw the Stray Cats at the Roundhouse,and recorded my second album at Roundhouse studios.

Legend!

mclaincausey

Setzer lives (or at least lived) in Minneapolis. He was very nice to us fans who accosted him

Jett129

Many years ago,my band was playing at a club in Philadelphia and the opening band was a band we had never heard of called the Bloodless Pharaohs. The guitar player was Brian Setzer. Needless to say they were quite hard to follow.

Aetas

Never heard of the Bloodless Pharaohs before.

Thanks @Jett129 for posting.

You all where still young at this time ….

Together with Gary Setzer!

mclaincausey

Local roaster has a blend branded "Bitches Brew" so now a formative album will be freaking out the dogs for the next couple of hours. Just love this damn album… So evocative of mystery and the mystical.

I would strongly recommend Miles Davis' autobiography as well, it is fascinating, in turns hilarious, inspiring, and tragic, and definitely you can hear his raspy voice narrating the thing as you read it. He, like another of my favorites, Frank Zappa, was so visionary and so good at assembling and motivating the talent needed to realize his vision.

organisys

Betty Davis….

mclaincausey

She rules. I learned about her on season 2 of Mike Judge's brilliant series "Tales From the Tour Bus" (a must for music lovers: first season did outlaw country, second did funk. I bought each season from YouTube for $20 a pop, 10 episodes–well worth it because you can always screen them for guests and they never get old).