first prog concert?
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Topic: first prog concert?
Posted By: Padraic
Subject: first prog concert?
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 11:53
| Rush, Dec. 9, 1991. |
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:03
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Hawkwind, Dec.8 (I think) 1986 It was terrifying.... ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:22
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Never. not on a large sacle, at least. I did saw Congreso a few times, because it is a quiet group. But I hate massive events. ------------- ˇBeware of the Bee! |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:25
| By accident: Alquin 1974, on a school party, I was 13! First real progrock concert: Yes 1977 Going For The One tour, amazing: Chris Squite with his triple neck, Steve Howe with his guitar museum and Rick Wakeman with his wide range of keyboards on 3 different floors, including 5 Minimoogs! |
Posted By: horza
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:29
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November 1979 - Steve Hillage - Glasgow Apollo - awesome ------------- Originally posted by darkshade: Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. |
Posted By: tarkus2112
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:48
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Rush Signals tour. ------------- Seasons change and so can I Hold on Boy No time to cry Untie these strings I'm climbing down I won't let them push me away |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:48
Damn I'm jealous of you older guys! (I was born in 1977). Although the Yes concerts I have been to in the past 10 years have been great, it would have been incredible to have gone to shows in the 70s. |
erik neuteboom wrote:Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:54
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I don't remember which was first, it was either Yes w/Patrick Moraz, or Queen on the Bohemian Rhapsody tour. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:55
 1974 Genesis;;;; Madison square garden : the lamb tour.. Yes im in my 50s... Gabriel rules 
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Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:56
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None, yet. ------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 12:57
Roger Waters in Mexico march 19th 2001 ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Flip_Stone
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 13:00
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Kansas, late 1976 or early 1977
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 13:03
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memowakeman:::: im jealous,but I did see wakeman during his ""center of the earth tour" in Italy in1982.
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 13:06
| Genesis, Rotterdam, Invisible Touch tour, in 1987. |
Posted By: pots
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 13:12
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POTS ------------- pots |
URIAH HEEP OTTAWA CANADA DEC 1972 (and I'm only 49)Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 13:12
  Cant wait Peter Gabriel at PNC art center ( EX : garden state art center)  8/12/06..........................im so there.. This makes it 4 times ive seen PG there...
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Posted By: CandyAppleRed
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 13:51
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Not entirely sure now as it was all a very long time ago, but it would certainly have been at Newcastle City Hall, early 70's. I think it must have been Genesis, probably the Foxtrot tour.
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 13:57
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YES on their Close to the Edge tour in 1972. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 14:03
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i see wakeman in the 35th Yes Anniversary... ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 14:14
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ELP, Greens Playhouse (later the Apollo), Glasgow about 1971. Had to stand on the seat for the entire concert to see, cause everyone else was standing on theirs. Unforgettable! |
Posted By: Space Dimentia
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 14:39
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Well I saw Pink Floyd at Live 8 last year, and Dream Theater last year if you could say they are my first prog gigs but I did go and see man and wishbone ash 2 years. ------------- Prog is music for the mind Hear your Orphaned child! Check out my bands myspace site: www.myspace.com/equinox17 |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 15:20
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My first concert will be tomorrow and it's going to be with DREAM THEATER in there start of there 20th aniversary tour ! I'm so exited!!!  ------------- 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 15:31
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Sadly I've yet to see a prog band in concert ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005  |
Posted By: Rushman
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 16:03
| Rush - Permanent Waves tour. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 16:10
AWESOME! Seen them several times, the show where they performed
the entire SFAM was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. |
Posted By: Nipsey88
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 16:11
Ditto. Closely followed by Yes 90125 Tour. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Nipsey88/?chartstyle=myspace02" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:29
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Green Day 2005
Frank Zappa 1975 Queen 1976
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Posted By: Lex C
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:41
| My first prog concert was the Mars Volta, I saw them with System of a Down, Both bands were great live. |
Posted By: gabbel ratchett
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:42
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ELP, the Tarkus tour, that would be 1971 I think. I was about 15 at the time. Opening for them was Taj Mahal and Edgar Winter's White Trash. ------------- dead things don't talk too well, they've got a shaky sense of diction. |
Posted By: Hibou
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 20:53
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Genesis “The Lamb Lies Down on
Broadway” with Peter Gabriel, at the Montreal Forum, December 1974. And
to think that I came out of there disappointed because they hadn’t played one
single song from Selling England by the Pound. ------------- [IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b311/Progueuse/Album.jpg"> Gene Police: You!! Out of the pool! |
Posted By: Speakerfish
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 21:12
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I saw that whole Styx/REO thing. I guess that was my first real taste of live prog. Complete with a spinning keyboard set and all that. My first REAL prog show was when Rush came to Chicagoland for their 30th anniversary tour. Geddy had a "bit of a frog in his throat" but it made him sing more subdued. Frankly, I thought it sounded amazing. And Peart did a drum solo with a swing recording in the background!!! ------------- Dissonance; subtle harmonic dissonance Contemplating and completing the negative space Romantic symphonies left on the floodplains |
Posted By: laztraz
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 21:23
| Kansas in the mid 70's-Point of Know Return tour |
Posted By: Oxygen Waster
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 21:34
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I want to die Mine was Porcupine Tree-Deadwing tour....when I first I got into Prog I listened to all the 70's Symphonic stuff and that was only a couple years ago so I missed it all by not being alive. |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 21:36
that must have been pretty awesome. I think they will play the whole octavarium song (i hope)... man, I get more exited the more i think about it ! -------------
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Posted By: Emiaj
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 22:30
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Jethro Tull, Jon Anderson or Rick Wakeman in 1993 ..can't recall which was first.. 
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 05:19
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Well people, today is the day I get to see one of my favorite bands for the first time on stage.
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 05:38
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Hibou wrote: "Genesis “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” with Peter Gabriel, at the Montreal Forum, December 1974. And to think that I came out of there disappointed because they hadn’t played one single song from Selling England by the Pound. Well, Hibou, I have seen The Wall in London and Dortmund but when I had seen it just after The Wall 2-LP was released, perhaps I also would have been disappointed or walked away halfway because the musical direction between The Lamb and Selling is as different as between The Wall and Animals, both were at that time controversial concept albums with lots of variety and short songs, way ahead of the sound of the previous (s) album (s). And you were waiting for Selling songs, I was waiting for Animals, Wish You Were Here and Dark Side songs but in vain ..Pink Floyd only played The Wall and then left the stage .. we started screaming for 'more' but the lights went out and the stage crew very quickly removed the equipment .. |
."Posted By: Pylo
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 06:54
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 11:26
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Im going to see them on march 2nd, im so excited too.. i hope you ´ll enjoy it Chamberry ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: aprusso
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 11:32
| Aaahhhh..... Twelfth Night, mid July 1983, somewhere around Cambridge... it all came from there |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 11:34
| Yes, GFTO tour, Wembley Arena 1977. |
Posted By: walrus333
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 09:52
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I saw the prog-death metal band into eternity in september which was my first prog concert, but I had not heard of them before the show (they were opining for Stratovaious). It was good, nothing great. I am planning to go see Carl Palmer when he comes to around here in June. I envy you older guys though all those yes/genesis/etc. concerts must have been amazing! ------------- If anyone knows where I can get a copy of some Flute and Voice (Indo-Prog/Raga Rock) albums please PM me! Many thanks! |
Posted By: R_DeNIRO
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 10:19
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Dream Theater. Feb, 2004, Oporto. Simply Awesome. ------------- We were always be much human than we whish to be. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 10:42
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I'm jealous, Phil I bet that was fantastic! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Guzzman
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 11:14
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Nektar, back in the early 70s that was. It was a ten-hour festival with the Scorpions as opening band, Jane, Country Joe McDonald, Nektar and Chicken Shack.
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Posted By: Buze
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 11:18
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In Quebec City, Canada, March 3 1986 : a) Mariliion (Misplaced Childhood) b) Rush A DREAM ! |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 11:26
I did http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19478&PN=1&TPN=1 - here is what happened -------------
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Posted By: MDOMANIN
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 16:25
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It was a very intense political period. Somewhere I should have the poster of Arbeit macht frei. ------------- confusion...will be my epitaph. |
AREA in 1974 in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan) during the occupation of a school... Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 16:56
Me neither ------------- My recent purchases: 
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Posted By: Em1ty
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 17:12
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You guys are OLD !!!! Joking... I was born in 1987 so... not a good time to start seeing prog shows. But i've seen 2 or 3 anyway: The lamb lies down on Broadway and Selling England by the pound from The musical Box and I also saw a show with a participation of Ian Anderson
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 17:36
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The Flower Kings. 2002 or thereabouts...
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Posted By: Paleviper
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 18:10
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Yes at the Wembly Arena sometime in 1978 I think
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Paleviper/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: andYouandI45
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 18:43
| Jethro Tull, December 10th 2005! |
Posted By: fairyliar
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 19:15
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Yes - Paris 2003 One of the best moment in my life. An excellent live (some moments can be seen on Yesspeaks) with enthousiastic audience. And I was at the second row (just behind Rick's wife), so I got excelent sound and vision!!! |
Posted By: Viajero Astral
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 19:25
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Mmm well, not a concert but I went to a Prog Rock festival the last year, but ˇTHE NEXT WEEK IM GOING TO SEE DREAM THEATER! My official first Prog Rock concert ------------- 
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Posted By: arnold stirrup
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 19:29
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Jethro Tull, Madison Square Garden, NYC, March, 1975, Warchild tour. Yes, Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, NJ, July, 1975, Relayer tour. Sorry, I just had to list the first 2.
------------- So much music. So little time. |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 08:01
And with good reason! |
*envies*Posted By: ColonelClaypool
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 08:45
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Pink Floyd, Oslo - Division Bell tour 1994. Since that I've seen Jethro Tull, King Crimson and Anekdoten live, all of them playing in Bergen. (not a lot of prog shows in Norway, unless you count various metal bands, in which case I've seen Enslaved half a dozen times) ------------- With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 10:36
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I honestly cannot say which concert was my first one. all I know is I
was still a little kid then (a few months old). my parents went to
concerts with me. yes, I really grew up with prog. amazingly my mother
claims I only ever cried when my diapers had to be changed or when I
was hungry. my parents were real weirdos back when prog started
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: arnold stirrup
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 14:55
Here's the setlist from the Yes show: Firebird Suite In all honesty, I was unfamiliar with Ritual at the time and remember being slightly bored during it. But the Relayer material was astonishing. ------------- So much music. So little time. |
Posted By: A'swepe
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 06:40
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1972 - Yes Fragile tour. They played "The Pit", literally a hole in the ground at Stetson University in DeLand Florida. About 500 people showed up - it was all word-of-mouth. Free admission of course. I was 18 at the time.
Come to think of it I saw Jethro Tull's Aqualung tour in late71/early 72 but I don't remember which came first. Old age is setting in! ------------- David - Never doubt in the dark that which you believe to be true in the light. http://www.myspace.com/aardvarktxusa - Instrumental rock http://www.soundclick.com/aardvarktxusa |
Posted By: Possessed
Date Posted: March 02 2006 at 15:57
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first prog concert: Jethro Tull second: Genesis third: Yes fourth: Pink Floyd fifth: King Crimson I've also seen rock concerts in between those listed that I would not consider as "prog" |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: March 02 2006 at 21:50
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Jethro Tull 1972 - Aqualung Tour - still stands out (after all these years)as one of the best concerts I have seen! If I recall correctly some material from "Warchild" was introduced at this concert. -------------  "Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Gaspy Conana
Date Posted: March 03 2006 at 00:51
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Dream Theater and Symphony X last year at Gigantour. The Moody Blues last night. :3
------------- i no wuts proggeir and u dont so their |
Posted By: Nazgul
Date Posted: March 03 2006 at 01:58
Wow, some of You people are very old. My grandmother says that at early 70 people eat each other, and there was no TV. And sometimes walks around huge reptiles
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