Most Memorable Live Prog Experience?

VDGG or Roger Waters  They were both great. I'm going to see Porcupine Tree in september for their "Incident Tour", or I don' know what it's called. I'm sure it will be AMAZING!

seeing Renaissance at a place called The Front Row in Cleveland in the round.  so close I could almost touch Annie`s bare feet.  It was during the Azure D`or tour.

TOOL  at Memorial Hall in Kansas City 2007 Warm up tour for 10,000 days - The most Intense show i have ever been to.
Rush at Sandstone Theater in KC 2008 - It was my first time seeing them live, the first song was limelight. I was amazed right away!
The Mars Volta - At the Granada in Lawrence Kansas 2003, it is a really small venue and they played almost all of De Loused Live. It was their first tour in support of De Loused also.

There are great moments from several (King Crimson '84 doing LTIA Pt.2; Yes '77 doing then-unreleased material; backstage at a Wakeman gig in '85 where he regaled us with hospitality & tales of debauchery past), but the overall best was booking Patrick Moraz to play at my house for the CHAT I Tour in March, 1995. He even helped set up the piano (having a look around the living room and repositioning it for better acoustics). He played for about 110 minutes (the contract called for 90 minimum), including Happy Birthday to my wife, who'd recently celebrated, and told stories about song origins, inspiration and other tidbits. Stayed to sign multiple autographs and was such a gentleman. A truly unforgettable experience.

Never been to a life prog performance  I guess liking 70s prog as a 17 yr old nowadays has it's drawbacks. 

Yes, but at least there is a lot of video footage of some of the bands, and the big advantage is that you will learn much more about music than anyone else your age!   I started to listen to ELP when I was about 16 which in turn turned me on to a lot of classical music and jazz.  You are way ahead of the game! 

 

 

Originally posted by progvortex Never been to a life prog performance  I guess liking 70s prog as a 17 yr old nowadays has it's drawbacks.

Originally posted by The Pessimist Saw Opeth at the Carling Academy in Birmingham last year. That was fantastic man, can't remember the exact setlist but I know they played Godhead's Lament, The Grand Conjuration, Demon Of The Fall (obviously), Closure, Deliverance, Bleak, Heir Apparent and The Drapery Falls. It was absolutely insane. I had to have a face transplant as it was ripped clean off.

I'm going to have to go for the exact same gig, with Cynic in support, absolutely amazing! (I am. of course, assuming you are on about their performance in November and not the Defenders of the Faith tour earlier in May).

However, they certainly didnt play Bleak that day and they did play The Lotus Eater. Other than that the set list is spot on.

I agree progvortex, im 25 and only recently seen the light with Genesis and Yes etc, so ill never get to see them in their hayday,  a fact im GUTTED about, however, im confident that i see plenty of decent memorable prog with bands like opeth, cynic, DT etc. And if Peter Gabirel ever does a reunion tour with Genesis im there!

Rush '77 - A Farewell To Kings, Ambrosia opened
Pink Floyd '78 - played all of Animals/WYWH, no opener
Jethro Tull '78 - Bursting Out, UK (trio) opened
Kansas "78 - Two For The Show, Sniff 'n the Tears opened
Frank Zappa '79 - premiered Sheik Yerbouti, played most of LINY, my first experience of Bozzio and Bellew.
King Crimson '84 - played Discipline, Beat, and TOAPP, no opener

It's impossible to choose. I'm not certain on the dates either (long time ago) because Bozzio played the Zappa show, but then I saw with UK

Originally posted by Bitterblogger but the overall best was booking Patrick Moraz to play at my house for the CHAT I Tour in March, 1995. He even helped set up the piano (having a look around the living room and repositioning it for better acoustics). He played for about 110 minutes (the contract called for 90 minimum), including Happy Birthday to my wife, who'd recently celebrated, and told stories about song origins, inspiration and other tidbits. Stayed to sign multiple autographs and was such a gentleman. A truly unforgettable experience.

That's amazing...did you video it? Was this in Los Angeles or on the east coast...?