Concerts You've Been To Or Are Going To ?

CathayPacific · 11-08-2011, 08:59 PM

I'll start:

Been To:

U2-Rogers Arena
Red Hot Chilli Peppers-Rogers Arena
Kings Of Leon-Pacific Colliseum
Black Eyed Peas-Outdoors (boring)

Going To:

TIESTO New Year's Eve at BC Place !

Bill-ay · 11-08-2011, 10:14 PM

none for me. Met U2, AC/DC, KISS among others though...if that counts lol.

A Tupolev · 11-09-2011, 12:55 AM

To numerous to mention all, but some highlights...

Paul McCarthy
George Harrison
Bruce Springsteen
Elton John
Pink Floyd
The Kinks
Frank Zappa
Talking Heads
The Tubes
The Clash
UB40
Oingo Boingo
Alice Cooper
ZZ Top
Jethro Tull
B-52's
Cosby Still Nash & Young
Eric Clapton
Devo
Wall of Voodoo
Blondie
Roxy Music
The Cars
The Cure
Electric Light Orchestra
Queen
Elvis Costello
Midnight Oil
The Police
Randy Newman
Red Hot Chili Peppers
XTC

There are some I'm missing, but there was a lot of drugs and alcohol involved.

steve kicic · 11-09-2011, 01:16 AM

Billy Joel, Bryan Ferry, and Boney M, not a real concert person, but I enjoyed all 3 shows!!!

Rudi · 11-09-2011, 04:32 PM

I love Jazz and Black Music! Let's see...

Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Azymuth, Alphonse Mouzon, Monty Alexander, Roy Ayers, George Benson, Billy Cobham, George Duke, Crusaders, Earth, Wind & Fire, Bob James, Level 42, Tania Maria, Mezzoforte, Passport, The Real Thing, Lee Ritenour, Sade, Shakatak, Spyro Gyra, UB40, Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Guitar Watson, Maceo Parker, Tommy Emmanuel, Victor Bailey, Anastacia, Till Brönner, Stanley Clarke, Candy Dulfer, Steely Dan, Deborah Henson-Conant, Incognito, Al Jarreau, Marcus Johnson, Diana Krall, B.B. King, Viktor Lazlo, Jeff Lorber, New York Voices, Sting, Take 6, Dave Brubeck...

Last Saturday we enjoyed Fourplay in our Jazz Club in Minden

gospodin · 11-09-2011, 05:09 PM

Never heard of "Black Music", but I think that might get the PC cops after you. I think you mean Hip-Hop, Soul and Motown. I enjoy some good Motown and jazz every so often, been to a Commodores concert once upon a time, and one by Joe Sample. Like Tupi, I've been to many concerts, and quite a few of them are a haze now. The mellow ones:
The Eagles
Linda Ronstadt
America
Foreigner
Foghat
Supertramp
The Police
The Pretenders
The Doobie Brothers
The Moody Blues
The Motels
The B-52s
The Tubes
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Charley Daniels Band
Kentucky Headhunters
The Knack
Tears for Fears
The Fixx
The Eurythmics
Percy Sledge
Grand Funk Railroad
The Black Crows
Elton John...I got dragged to that one, get it?
Tony Bennett
Black Sabbath
These are all the ones I remember clearly, there were probably a dozen more I can't even recall a thing about. The 70s were berry berry good to me.

dboyd001 · 11-10-2011, 09:17 AM

The last one, though I don't really think of it as a concert:

Etta James

Before that, really concerts in my mind:

The Doors
Simon & Garfunkle

So those last two really date me.
Dave

Rudi · 11-10-2011, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by gospodin

Never heard of "Black Music", but I think that might get the PC cops after you. I think you mean Hip-Hop, Soul and Motown.

Haha, that's funny! I just googled "Black Music" and got about 200 000 000 hits but... most results on the first pages were in German.

Could it be "Black Music" just sounds English but only Germans use this expression? For some reason in Germany a cell phone is called "Handy". Most Germans are pretty surprised when English speaking persons don't understand what they mean.

Just curious!

Prop-Jet Electra · 11-10-2011, 02:46 PM

Being 52, my big concert-going period was mid-to-late '70s, early '80s

Aerosmith x 4 (because they're among the greatest)

Led Zeppelin (1977)
Black Sabbath
Uriah Heep
Heart
B-52s
REO Speedwagon (much better in concert than their top-40s crap)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (not into that genre of music but I suppose they were/are musically talented)

and there are more I'm not remembering (can't imagine why... )

Here's another question - how many of us still have their ticket stubs? Mine are in a box somewhere but I still have them.

gospodin · 11-10-2011, 04:32 PM

Other than a few drink coasters from some gasthauses I was at, I don't have too many physical reminders of my time spent in the '70s, especially not the ticket stubs. They just didn't seem important at the time. A lot of the concerts I went to were overseas, since that was where I was stationed in the late '70s-early '80s. Hamburg was THE place to go for bands and fests.

Prop-Jet Electra · 11-10-2011, 10:13 PM

I've saved crap all my life... so what did I end up with? Boxes full of crap.

more:

Blue Oyster Cult
Ted Nugent (not easy to admit to that one - the man is a moron)
Golden Earring
Nazereth

and I think there are more - maybe those brain cells are just relaxing

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gospodin · 11-10-2011, 10:27 PM

I just remembered that I have an old Styx T-shirt that I had Tommy Shaw sign...and I don't remember the concert. Like the lyrics to a song by Katie Perry, "It's a blacked-out blur, but I'm pretty sure it ruled...damn!"

A Tupolev · 11-10-2011, 10:31 PM

I also got to see Cab Calloway when he was doing a tour of colleges in the eighties.

xyira · 11-10-2011, 10:46 PM

Tiesto is the best, seen him in Cleveland. I hope you have a blast New Year's.

A Tupolev · 11-10-2011, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by gospodin

I just remembered that I have an old Styx T-shirt that I had Tommy Shaw sign...and I don't remember the concert. Like the lyrics to a song by Katie Perry, "It's a blacked-out blur, but I'm pretty sure it ruled...damn!"

You must have been smoking some good s**t.

gospodin · 11-10-2011, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by A Tupolev

I also got to see Cab Calloway when he was doing a tour of colleges in the eighties.

Was he all decked out like in "The Blues Brothers"? That might have been fun to go to. Some of the oldie oldies were pretty entertaining. Seeing Tony Bennett, Roy Orbison and Lena Horne back in the '70s/'80s was enjoyable...but not a steady diet, just change up from rock and roll.

gospodin · 11-10-2011, 11:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A Tupolev

You must have been smoking some good s**t.

I was working for Uncle Sam at the time, in secure communications with a Top Secret clearance...I would NEVER do anything like that!

j.patroni · 11-10-2011, 11:50 PM

Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance tour