Super Steve Earle
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I did one, but...Barely a song title gag on the entire thread! Is this NSC?!
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[Music] Frankie Valli, Brian Wilson, legends and other “museum acts”
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I saw the Who a few times through the 2010s (I was a BIG FAN around the time I was at uni) and they were always good. Back then you could get decent tickets for somewhere around the £60-£80 mark rather than the minimum £100ish it's gone up to in the last few years as well.
I haven't been since because a) I've seen them enough times that paying that amount just doesn't seem worth it, and b) at some point I'd think "ah, this probably was a tour too far" and I don't really want to be there for that.
Normally a decent mix of ages in the crowd as well, obviously not full of teenagers or anything, but compared to crowds when I've seen Deep Purple (I think the only other big '60s band I've seen) where a woman once straight up said to me "you seem too young for this" there was clearly some sort of appeal down the across generations.
- Oct 17, 2008
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Same, I wouldn’t go back at this stage.
I got to thinking of all the legendary artists I’ve ever seen actually;
Michael Jackson “Dangerous” tour. (Wembley 1992) - I was 6.
Madonna (3 tours)
Elton John (2 concerts)
Billy Joel
The Who
Oasis
My ex-girlfriend’s Dad once saw The Jackson 5 in a working men’s club near Featherstone when they were starting out! The only band I remember off the top of my head seeing before they got big were Keane at The Pressure Point (is that still there?). Saw David Gray at The Bedford in Balham.
Robinjakarta
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I don't know why but both single and album fell under the radar in the UK but not the US maybe because the group had split up when they were released? The album sounds as good today as it did then.
Robinjakarta
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Same experience with Dylan in Singapore in 2012. Awful and unrecognisable, yes, and not a word, yes. Thankfully, I'd been warned what it would be like.
I saw Dylan at Glastonbury in 1998. He mumbled a lot and spent a lot of time facing away from the crowd.
Perfidious Albion
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Come on, Bob Dylan has never been one for audience communication between songs , and he does not work the crowd..With him you go along and listen , it’s the music that counts.
He is going strong at 83 , and will be in Britain in November. I would love to be able to go.
The sound quality can vary at some poor venues.. not his diction. I last saw him just a few year’s back at Cardiff and he was bang on form .
He is going strong at 83 , and will be in Britain in November. I would love to be able to go.
The sound quality can vary at some poor venues.. not his diction. I last saw him just a few year’s back at Cardiff and he was bang on form .
cheshunt seagull
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I saw her at Koko in Camden in June and she was amazing as is her latest album.
- Jul 10, 2003
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A few guys the wrong side of 70 still 'getting by' here, a year ago 
- Oct 17, 2008
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A few guys the wrong side of 70 still 'getting by' here, a year ago
That was f***ing awesome. I’d see these lads
Robinjakarta
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OK, I'll 'come on' at the last bit in particular because it's just not true as is well known by Dylan fans and in the business. I saw him at a top venue in Singapore with John Legend and others all fine but Dylan's songs unrecognisable. Very many others have had similar experiences .. and that was over 12 years ago. Others have got lucky, but it was very hit and miss even then.
Half Time Pies
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I have seen Dylan 3 times and it was exactly the same experience for me. The first two gigs I couldn't work out what he was playing apart from like a rolling stone which he did as an encore at one of the gigs and was brilliant. I just thought if I could watch him play a whole gig of songs like that it would be amazing. So when I heard he was playing an intimate gig at the Camden Roundhouse I got my hopes up, I figured that the gig must be for nostalgic reason and Dylan would be on top form. Unfortunately it was even worse than the others, he played a set of unrecognisable songs with his back to the audience, seemed disinterested and got off after playing for barely an hour. It was at the point I realised that although his music is great Dylan is a pretentious twat!
Half Time Pies
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Best legends gigs I've been to were:
Macca at the Camden Roundhouse in 2007, I was down the front and will never forget the experience of being a few feet away from him when he played let it be on the piano. A magical experience for a huge Beatles fan!
Cream at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005, Creams first gig since their farewell concert at the same venue in 1968. The gig was great but the main thing was the excitement and nostalgia of seeing them back together after 36 years. I was also extremely lucky to get a ticket as they were like gold dust at the time.
Macca at the Camden Roundhouse in 2007, I was down the front and will never forget the experience of being a few feet away from him when he played let it be on the piano. A magical experience for a huge Beatles fan!
Cream at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005, Creams first gig since their farewell concert at the same venue in 1968. The gig was great but the main thing was the excitement and nostalgia of seeing them back together after 36 years. I was also extremely lucky to get a ticket as they were like gold dust at the time.
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I think we've discussed this before . . . 2005 with RC, 'Ove. great, except I was always frustrated by the fat mattress bass player . . . LAzy IMO. a few very average gigs, gave up, then Oct 22 back in 'Ove . . . . And a new Bass player, who not only listened to the records and channeled his inner RC, did some of the vocals too . . . Great gig.
Pye is an old man and his voice isn't so strong, but he was still superb, in tune and on time, whilst playing guitar as well. . . . . Far better than many of his squillionaire stadium filling contemporaries.
Jim Leverton.
Well, he is no Richard Sinclair, nor even John G Perry, but I liked him. I liked his singing.
The new boy, Lee Pomeroy, sounds promising. Perhaps I will re-engage.
Poor old Jim. Lives in a Caravan (I shit you not) near here.
This is lovely. Great backing vocals by Pye. And flute by Jimmy.
JImmy passed away earlier this year. Limits is bliss. Short but oh so sweet.
Jim, yes, a good bass player, but the few times I saw Caravan he just wasn't fully engaged . . . No harm done.
If I relied on a bass income, I'd be in a caravan as well. . . . It could be worse!
Jim, yes, a good bass player, but the few times I saw Caravan he just wasn't fully engaged . . . No harm done.
If I relied on a bass income, I'd be in a caravan as well. . . . It could be worse!
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Same, saw him at Earl’s Court in the late 70s and he was terrible. Sounded like he wanted to join the Punk revolution, loud and shit (to my ears given what I was expecting to hear) and I didn’t have a clue what songs he was playing most of the time, the ones I did recognise were almost unrecognisable in how he played them.
I also saw Van Morrison in Brighton late 70’s, early 80s. Played for 45 mins with zero interaction with the crowd. Surly fucker
Saw Chris Farlowe, Mike D’Abo (I think!) and Colin Blunstone in Worthing in a 60’s revival at Worthing Town Hall, and that was bloody brilliant.