Way OT: Summertime concerts

[RaySun2Be]

LOL@MoFunk. 🙂 I know my daughter listens to some stuff that I would now find objectionable, but I listened to and played a buch of rock n roll that my parents didn't care for, and I've been able to keep my phsycopathic tendancies in check so far 😉

No concerts planned at this time. 🙁 So I'll just remember some concerts I've been too. 😉

Seen some good ones in my day. 🙂 I remember going to a Summer Fest in Kansas City, head line band was Fleetwood Mac, with Kansas on just before them. (I don't even remember the other bands that played). I was going to see Kansas (they were just starting to make a name for themselves, but I had already pegged them as one of my favorites 🙂) and my friends were going to see Fleetwood Mac.

Kansas came out and put on one heckuvan excellent show, had everyone pumped up and rockin! 😀 Then Fleetwood Mac came on and started playing some of their mellow stuff, and people started leaving including my friends and I, as everyone was too pumped up to listen to mellow stuff. 😀 I also made them admit that Kansas was one excellent band! 😀

Let's see, in no particular order, Styx (before they became a headline band), Blue Oyster Cult, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Kansas, Jethro Tull (another fav of mine), Peter Frampton, Ted Nugent, Fleetwood Mac, Olivia Newton-John during her Physical tour (ok, not one I would usually go see, but I got free floor tickets, so I took my GF, and dasm was Olivia in excellent shape! 😉) Gino Vanelli, and a bunch of others I can't quite recall off the top of my head.

I never got to see Emerson Lake and Palmer (another top fav of mine), Pink Floyd, Yes, or Styx when they were on top of their game.

 

[Wellcky]

Gonna try & see "Weird Al' Yankovic this august @ the Minn State Fair!! :music: 😀

 

[Phoenix2]

Originally posted by: zodder

Wish Pink Floyd would tour again....saw them in Germany too, along with about 99,999 other folks at the massive open-air concert in Mannheim Germany. Best ever

This wouldn't happen to have been in the late 80s, would it? I saw them in Mannheim, too, around 1988. I was stationed in Stuttgart at the time. 🙂

That's exactly the one 🙂

We were at the same concert! 🙂

Van

 

[Phoenix2]

Originally posted by: JetBlack69
What is a good Kate Bush song?

Her biggest US hit was "Running Up That Hill", and before that "Wuthering Heights", which Pat Benatar did a cover of a few years later.

Her main collaboration with Peter Gabriel was "Don't Give Up".

I have too many favorites of hers to really list, but "Breathing" was the one that finally got me into being a fan of hers. "Night of the Swallow" remains one of my favorites of hers. She never really got too big here in the US, but was/is huge in England. She's a true artist---beyond her amazing 5-octave voice range, she writes all her own lyrics, and produces everything.

"Moments of Pleasure" is also incredibly moving and a beautiful song.

With Kate, people tend to love her or hate her...there isn't much grey area. I was force-fed her music by the guy next door to me in the Air Force dorm I was in many years ago, for almost two years before it suddenly dawned on me that at some point I really REALLY started liking her! Before that happened, there were many nights when I was ready to shove his stereo up where the sun don't shine 😀 😉

Guess I'm saying you have to approach Kate with an open mind, and be willing to invest thought processes into the depth of her lyrics and the synergy of her albums. BTW, her remake of her own song, "Wuthering Heights", off her "Greatest Hits" album (actually named "The Whole Story") is wondrous as well....

Van

 

[SWScorch]

Wuthering Heights.... great book. Don't care for the song though 🙂

 

[deerslayer]

I went to Brooks & Dunn a week or two ago 😀

 

[Phoenix2]

You know what hurts Kate Bush? Herself. She has toured exactly one time----in 1979, when she was like 18 years old or so, after being discovered by Dave Gilmore of Pink Floyd. During that tour, she said "I *will* tour again". She never has. I wasn't a fan of hers then, and missed it. And I resent not being able to see her in concert to this day.....

BTW, during that one 1979 tour, she was the one who originated wireless mics. No other performer had ever used them before she did.

Van