Concert memories

Ooh, We get to prattle on to all the youngsters about how prog was better in my day and all these upstarts on the scene now are no match for the 'old' bands. Did you know I could go out, have a meal, see THREE prog bands, get drunk, pick up a whore, spend a night in Kenya, hire a Harrier Jumpjet to get home and STILL have change from a fiver...

Actually, I did see a three prog band bill once. At the Apollo (in Victoria - London), I saw Soltice, Pallas and Tillogy and 'twas a bloody good evening. Not very well attended mind you but we were on the downslide of the big Prog boom during the early 80's. I saw Twelfth Night a few weeks later and they were excellent too. I just wish I had seen them with Geoff Mann, that would have been a sight to see.

Hello

I haven't any experience of concerts in the 70s because I was too young then.

But I have seen some unique ones : Jean-Michel Jarre in concert In Houston back in 85 I think and also at La Défense in 89 (?). There was approxiamately 1 million people at that concert...

I also saw Pink Floyd at the Chateau de Versailles for their Momentarary Lapse of Reason tour.

I also saw Magma, Pendragon and a smaller French band called Versailles.

Not much of an experience but some of these concerts are unforgettable.

Jean-Francois

Any concert memories that dont involve sex with the Headliners?

 Maybe if the Thread Title was changed to...

Concert Mammaries.....................

My first show ever was the Moody Blues- it was there and then that I decided to become a rock star, which explains why I'm so rich and famous right now...

Rush (Power Windows tour) and Pink Floyd (Momentary Lapse tour) were the pinnacles of my high school prog experience. I saw Rush again this past year and I think they've aged more gracefully in the last decade and a half than I have.

I also had a memorable experience earlier this year when I tried to go see a Yes concert...

I saw Twelfth Night a few weeks later and they were excellent too. I just wish I had seen them with Geoff Mann

I wish I could at least say the same. The only TN concert I've seen is on an old VHS tape.

I saw TN without Geoff Man (before he joined) in 1979 at the Target club in Reading, where they were recording an album (Live at the Target).

Lucky bastard.

I next saw them at Reading's festival in 1982 with Geoff, where they were superb (I have a tape of that gig somewhere...).

Lucky bastard.

The last time I saw them was in 1983 at the Marquee in London where they were recording another live album (Live and Let Live)

Lucky bastard.

Currently I'm trying to persuade Brian Devoil to play drums on some of the music I've written (I'm in regular email contact with him), and I had an email from Andy Revell, who's currently living in Spain...

I thought it was Sears who's living in Spain? I know he performed a set of TN songs with a Spanish band not too long ago (early '04, I believe).

If I ever win the lottery, I'll organize my own prog fest and Twelfth Night will regroup and perform. They won't be able to turn down the money, trust me. I won't care if they suck, either, because at least then I'll be able to say I've seen Twelfth Night in concert!

Certif1ed wrote: I saw TN without Geoff Man (before he joined) in 1979 at the Target club in Reading, where they were recording an album (Live at the Target). I next saw them at Reading's festival in 1982 with Geoff, where they were superb (I have a tape of that gig somewhere...). The last time I saw them was in 1983 at the Marquee in London where they were recording another live album (Live and Let Live) - so you can hear me whooping on both their live albums Currently I'm trying to persuade Brian Devoil to play drums on some of the music I've written (I'm in regular email contact with him), and I had an email from Andy Revell, who's currently living in Spain...

Jealous moi?

Goddamm right I am!!!! 

My first gig was Steeleye Span at the Liverpool Phil in about 1975 (I think).

My first prog gig was Genesis at the Stafford Bingley Hall in June 1976, on the TTOT tour with Bill Bruford on drums. Between then and leaving school in 1980 I saw Pink Floyd (Animals tour), Yes (GFTO), Tangerine Dream twice, Hawkwind (as Hawklords), Steve Hackett, Gryphon at Southport Floral Hall (Treason) and then Genesis again at the Liverpool Empire in 1980 (past their best, but it was great to see them in such a small venue AND Granada TV filmed it and there's a brief shot of me in cheesecloth shirt and flared jeans dancing like a donkey's **** *** . Thankfully no record exists of the banana skin spliff one of my friends mistakenly believed to have psychoactive properties.).

I also took in some non prog gigs, including Devo's first UK show at Manchester Free Trade Hall, quite a few small Jazz and folk gigs and early versions of bands like Echo and the Bunnymen and Orchestral Manouvres round Liverpool.

I regret not being born a year or two earlier - I missed out on Gabriel era Genesis, most of the Canterbury bands, Daevid Allen's Gong and Faust. Many years later I caught reformed versions of Magma in London, 2000 and King Crimson in Nagoya, 2002, and I'm not ashamed to say both occasions brought a small tear to the eye.