OT: The Music Thread Part 5

[Blowfish]

How about memorable concerts theme...difficult to find but I was there.

 

[bwunderlich]

Carlos is excellent. My first concert ever was Santana (with Linda Ronstadt opening) at the old Boston Garden.

Sounds like he is OK...Thankfully

Seems like just a moment ago. So a few friends, we biked over to this place in West Hurley, NY called Oehler's Mt Lodge. We met a bunch of older friends who drove. This was 1976. We get to the soccer field and everyone is wearing white, looking like druids and meditating.

My friend has a Guitar Player magazine with Carlos Santana on the cover. We hang out, doing what you do . . .Sri Chinmoy was there and sitar music was playing. It was a bit much for this pre-teen, but we see this guy with a guitar and small amp walking our way. Carlos sits down with us, signs my friends mag, and we all just talked a bit, my first time meditating (w/Carlos) . . . just a cool experience that at that age, I could not come close to appreciating, but is as vivid a memory as I have.

 

[Blowfish]

Carlos is excellent. My first concert ever was Santana (with Linda Ronstadt opening) at the old Boston Garden.

Sounds like he is OK...Thankfully


and one older one

Oye up there as one of my all time fav songs. Wish I had a chance to see him live. Love the Woodstock footage.

 

[BNHL]

My first,Allman Brothers headlined backed up by the Eagles 1974. At about midnight Gregg said the last train was leaving North Station but they were playing all night!!!

Fast forward 40 years to J Geils opening for Bob Seger,Geils blew the house down and Seger had to raise his usual brilliance to a higher level.

Many in between-Alice Cooper,Bad Company,The Who,Stones, a couple of more Segers at the Garden and one that got away-Led Zeppelin,had 2 tickets but a ticket day riot got it canceled

 

[aguineapig]

All my friends told me they went to Woodstock. I don't know about them and I'll never tell. I did meet these two in 1969, musically speaking.

 

[Ladyfan]

How about memorable concerts theme...difficult to find but I was there.

 

[Agent86]

How about memorable concerts theme...difficult to find but I was there.

I was there as well, not sure if you remember but there was an unrelated Neil Young running for the NDP in the Beaches that year and a bunch of people absconded with his campaign signs and were waving them around. Almost got whacked in the head a few times, lol.
Saw the Who at their 'final concert' as well in December of '82 and have seen them 5 times since, ha. Won't Get Fooled Again!

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Carlos is excellent. My first concert ever was Santana (with Linda Ronstadt opening) at the old Boston Garden.

Sounds like he is OK...Thankfully


and one older one

Nice first concert!

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Nice first concert!

5 songs into a set.... luckily, a tarp was brought out to shield the EMS Workers

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

My first concert was a triple act

 

[BMC]

breaking from WJBK Fox 2 Detroit:

Carlos Santana suffers medical emergency/collapses during performance;

MEDICAL EMERGENCY LATER TBD as Heat Exhaustion

That's nasty stuff. I hope he will be all right.

 

[Terrier]

Speaking of Santana:

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

 

[aguineapig]

A Goffin/King composition dedicated to the B's scouting dept.

The Byrds made it sound easy takin' a ride with Captain America and Billy

Still covering it 50 years later

 

[bwunderlich]

27 years ago today. Last song Jerry ever sang. Died a month later in a rehab facility. He was only 53. The last 5-minutes of this version still elicit a tear. He walked a lot of Roads in a short time.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

 

[Dreghorn2]

Thread needs some Tokyo Funk and some tight brass (stick around for the trombone)

 

[BNHL]

Saw Roger Waters at the Garden last night,little more than an anti American indoctrination rally. All that great music ruined by a constant barrage of his politics.

 

[EvilDead]

 

[bossfan]

Good choice. Slaid Cleaves is so good.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Saw Roger Waters at the Garden last night,little more than an anti American indoctrination rally. All that great music ruined by a constant barrage of his politics.

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It’s anti-fascist.

Waters has gotten called anti everything under the sun. His work (all the way back to his stuff in the early 70s…not sure why it’s seemingly just being figured out now) is a brash critique of social/political systems.

The funny thing is…if you’re someone with political beliefs, you’re likely going after the same ideologies and systems he is in your own way. But you just express it differently and toward different figureheads.

I don’t understand how people ever listened to albums like The Wall, Animals or The Final Cut and are surprised by how he’s applying his beliefs to modern times. They haven’t changed much.

 

[LSCII]

Saw Roger Waters at the Garden last night,little more than an anti American indoctrination rally. All that great music ruined by a constant barrage of his politics.

Seems like that would be more of a you problem than anything, IMO. Anyone who has paid attention over the years is fully aware that his shows are very much a reflection of his views and those he has for the current climate of this country.

 

[BNHL]

Seems like that would be more of a you problem than anything, IMO. Anyone who has paid attention over the years is fully aware that his shows are very much a reflection of his views and those he has for the current climate of this country.

No one that I spoke to and had seen his prior shows,including longtime Garden ushers had ever seen this barrage of American hate from him. Constant,in your face hatred of everything,from Reagan to Obama to Biden. Our country may be divided,but he hates ALL of it. But not one word of his own homeland from the angry,insane Brit.

 

[BNHL]

…

It’s anti-fascist.

Waters has gotten called anti everything under the sun. His work (all the way back to his stuff in the early 70s…not sure why it’s seemingly just being figured out now) is a brash critique of social/political systems.

The funny thing is…if you’re someone with political beliefs, you’re likely going after the same ideologies and systems he is in your own way. But you just express it differently and toward different figureheads.

I don’t understand how people ever listened to albums like The Wall, Animals or The Final Cut and are surprised by how he’s applying his beliefs to modern times. They haven’t changed much.

As I already said,he attacked Reagan,Clinton,Bush,Obama,Trump,Biden.Hates everything American,and wasn't just a little speech here and there,it was a continuous and constant berating of America. He's full of hate and blathered on about the rich too,of which he's one. Maybe he has a show rigged for every country he visits. The show sucked,and many people just hung out in the hallways or left the building. The only thing I got from it is I hate him.

 

[LSCII]

No one that I spoke to and had seen his prior shows,including longtime Garden ushers had ever seen this barrage of American hate from him. Constant,in your face hatred of everything,from Reagan to Obama to Biden. Our country may be divided,but he hates ALL of it. But not one word of his own homeland from the angry,insane Brit.

I've never seen him and really wouldn't because it's not my cup of tea (like the music but I don't want to hear anyone's political beliefs for hours when I'm paying to be entertained). But even with me having no interest, I was well aware of what his shows entailed. I'm honestly surprised you and your friends were unaware. I mean he had floating blimps of a specific political figure dressed like a baby last tour that circled the stage the entire show.