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Who would you have liked to seen live in their prime?


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haha yeah i know he wasn't there at the very beginning, just can't recall when he joined.


i still watch his live {censored} and am just blown away by the musicianship. my #1 thing about SRV is his timing. every single note placement is just perfect. translates into my playing a lot.

 

 

 

I really had the feeling at the time that this was the best guitarist I'd ever seen.. or heard. Arguably he was.

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NOT the Beatles. Now, I'm a huge fan of the Beatles, but wouldn't want to have seen them in their "heyday" because it would have just been in audiences filled with screaming girls where you couldn't even hear the band. And since they stopped touring after Rubber Soul, there wasn't really any concerts to go to.


Now, if I could have been a fly on the wall while they were making Revolver or Sgt. Pepper's...then that's something else.

 

 

I saw the Beatles in '64 and am glad I did. It was a bunch of screaming girls but I could still hear (except when Paul sang the words 'All my loving..' when the screaming went to an eardrum-busting level).

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The Beatles
Charlie Parker
Duke Ellington circa 1940 (with Jimmy Blanton on bass)
Steely Dan in the early 1970's
John Coltrane in the early 1960's (with the classic quartet)
Jaco Pastorius circa 1976
Spirit
Free (the original lineup with Andy Fraser and Paul Kossoff)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
Olivier Messiaen
Rolling Stones (the late 60's/early 70's lineup with Mick Taylor)
Jimi Hendrix Experience (actually, my dad saw a JHE gig back in 1967... I'm still green with envy)

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot to mention... The Allman Brothers Band circa 1971.

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Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett at the helm...like at the UFO in '67. :thu:
Jimi Hendrix
the Yardbirds
Marley & the Wailers

and about a zillion others.

My wife saw the Beatles twice and said you couldn't hear a {censored}ing thing for the screaming.

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Jimi
SRV
Floyd in the mid to late 70s
Van Halen Fair Warning era
Guns n' Roses circa Appetite for Destruction
Motley Crue on the Feelgood Tour
Metallica either with Cliff or with Jason on the Justice tour
Megadeth Rust In Peace tour
Primus right after Pork Soda
In Flames Colony/Clayman era
Nirvana Nevermind tour
Nine Inch Nails circa Downward Spiral...
lot's of stuff really! :blah:

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Nirvana, Jesus Lizard, Dinosaur Jr, Big Black, Sublime, Maiden, White Zombie, Johnny Cash, pretty much all the 1st & 2nd wave punk rock bands, Zeppelin, Hendrix, The Who, The Beatles, The Doors, MC5, Iggy & the Stooges, Dead Boys, New York Dolls, Skynyrd... Could go on forever.

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True Story:

The Count Basie Orchestra was doing a show in Albuquerque, at the convention center. This was about 1985. Tickets were kinda pricey, but I was gonna go. I jus t had to wait till payday, which was Thursday. The concert was Friday.

They cancelled it on Wednesday, due to low presales.

Basie died the following week.

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I was lucky to catch Roth-era VH in their prime. Twice. My first concert was Ted Nugent, and VH opened for him and stole the show. The next VH show I saw was the Women and Children First tour, they pwned the place.

I would love to have caught the vintage 70s Skynyrd (Ed King or Steve Gaines, either lineup), but I would not have been old enough to go to a concert. Damn those guys took no prisoners in their prime.

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oooh. thats a good choice!


I saw Fogerty at the first show where he started playing CCR tunes again.


I'd like to see DLR-era VH on the 1984 tour.... or Fair Warning



i was lucky enough to see VH on fair warning, diver down, and 1984 tours.

my last cover band just had ccr open for them about a month ago.
:D

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