Forum Home Forum Home > Progressive Music Lounges > Top 10s and lists
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - 70s Bands I Wish I'd Seen Live
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic Closed70s Bands I Wish I'd Seen Live
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <12
Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
Slartibartfast View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam

Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
Status: Offline
Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 06:49
Getting in on the prog bandwagon in the late '70's, I did manage to see a few good ones at their peak.  Kansas for instance.  Would have really liked to see Genesis with Gabriel, of course.  Been pleasantly surprised at what has been turning up on DVD.  Gentle Giant and Bruford come to mind in particular.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
Back to Top
Bufo View Drop Down
Forum Groupie
Forum Groupie


Joined: June 07 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 43 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 09:27
Man.  I wish I'd seen most everybody.

I've only seen Yes (1990s-2000s,) Jethro Tull (1980s-2000s,) Frank Zappa (1980s,) Pink Floyd (1980s,) Ronnie James Dio (1980s,) Blue Oyster Cult (1990s,) Alan Parsons Live Project (1990s,) and Fairport Convention (1980s.)

I think I saw White Snake.  Yeah, White Snake!

Ha, and Philip Glass (1980s) and PDQ Bach (1980s.) LOL

Man, and Rufus Wainwright (2000s.) 

Who else am I forgetting?

I wish I'd seen everybody.


Edited by Bufo - June 08 2009 at 09:33
Stuck in the '70s
Back to Top
GaryB View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: April 17 2009
Status: Offline
Points: 451 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 09:57

I'm a big fan of Secret Oyster's instrumental works like Sea Son and Krankenhaus (also Bohling in Hurdy Gurdy). It would have been great to see this band in about 1977. Unfortunately I don't have a live album by these guys.

The Kraan Live album (2 LPs) really shows the band's excellent musicianship. It appears to have been recorded at a club rather than an auditorium or concert hall and the band seems to have really connected with their audience. Front row center is where I'd like to have been that night.
Back to Top
moshkito View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 04 2007
Location: Grok City
Status: Offline
Points: 18645 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 10:00
Hi,
 
Exciting blend of stuff ... not bad at all ...
 
As for me, there are only a handfull of things I wish I had seen ...
 
1. Seventh Wave ... They played in LA with 7 keyboard players ... that would have been a sight!
2. Mike Oldfield ... except he does not do America, who would rather pay Bruce Springsteen and Brittany Spears ... or The Eagles some exorbitant prices for over rated stuff .... and the amount of music that money could support!!!  Definitly would like to see Exposed ...
3. Vangelis ... same as reason for 2
4. Klaus Schulze ... unffortunately we will never see him in America
5. Ash Ra Tempel with Terje Rypdal in London
6. Amon Duul 2 - Live in London
7. Ange - Tome 6 era ... what a fabulous live album that is. I would rather see this than Genesis anyday.
8 Caravan and the New Synfonia. Even though this album gets trashed a lot, it is one of the finest orchestrated work for a band ever done.
 
I passed on a lot of things over the years ... Michael Jackson -- my line was that I was not interested in pop music and the king of pop !!! ... that had a few feathers ruffled! 
 
Passed on Led Zeppelin in Santa Barbara, I think in 1974 ... I had several bootlegs at the time and they were not as good later in concert as they had been when they busted into LA up until 1972, when their famous series of bootlegs was really showing that this band was worth it in concert.
 
Carmen ... they had a bunch of shows in LA that I waas not able to see because I could not afford it ... but if you see the YouTube video, you can tell that this was hot and then some.
 
Sadistic Mika Band when they opened for Roxy Music before their producer broke the band by taking off with Mika (so I hear ... ).
 
Yellow Magic Orchestra ... story is that when they first hit LA they really turned things inside out ... and had a heck of a party ... and in the end, missing Riuichi Sakamoto later ... but I have never seen him do any live concerts.
 
PFM ... on their first tour that yielded the PFM Cook album ... that lineup still is/was their very best and their first 3 to 4 albums show it.
 
Missed Gentle Giant ... was directing a play at UCSB and we had performances that weekend! Would have loved to see it.
 
Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny ... did a show with Loggins and Messina (I heard the tapes and they stunk badly!) in Santa Barbara just weeks before she passed away. That album has one of my favorite cuts of all in music ... One More Chance. Get the re-mastered album and her solo piano version is even better than the violin/guitar duet in the original. It was obviously done after she passed away, as the emotional content in that song is almost un-bearable and too tearful to handle more often than not.
 
In those days, I relied on bootlegs to find out if the band was as good as the albums or advertised ... so, with that in mind, here is the rest:
 
I did see "Tales of Topographic Oceans" at the Long Beach Arena and what a fine show it was and then some. Don't think I ever found a bootleg but considering the musicianship involved and the new album was fantastic in my book ... I was gonna see it!
 
I did not want to see ELP as I was not interested in "The Sheriff" ... and other "fun" stuff ... I preferred the more serious stuff, and they were more interested in the fun stuff and rotating organs on stage! . And at least 2 bootlegs were total utter crap. I mean bad, and we're not talking about the recording quality at all!
 
I passed on King Crimson several times, as the bootlegs showed that these were not very good shows all around. They cleaned up a bit later by the time Adrian Belew entered the scene, but in general, the boots from that area were not very good.
 
Passed on Grateful Dead several times. Not exactly my favorite but I will forever respect these guys for having the best and cleanest sound system of any band ever ... and even when bad they sound good in the bootlegs.
 
Passed on Rush many times. Not that they weren't good, but because I felt that compared to other European things this was nice, but not great ... they are very tight and good onstage and have been forever. And that speaks volumes for their artistry.
 
Would have liked to see ... Focus (1974/77) ... Egberto Gismonti ... Keith Jarrett ...
 
In general, other than the 3 greatest composers of our time (Oldfield, Vangelis and Schulze), almost none of the others were really worth it to me ... popular music is just that ... popular music ...


Edited by moshkito - June 08 2009 at 10:40
Back to Top
crimhead View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: October 10 2006
Location: Missouri
Status: Offline
Points: 19236 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 11:39
Can
Soft Machine
Hawkwind
King Crimson(Didn't see them till the 80's)
Peter Gabriel(Same as above)
Nektar
Larry Fast
Camel
PFM
Focus
Back to Top
OzzProg View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 02 2008
Location: Quebec
Status: Offline
Points: 540 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 11:44
PFM and GonG...

oh wait, they're going to NEARFest!!! OH wait... I couldn't afford NEARFest, and I don't have a ticket...

CryDeadCryDead
CryDead
Soundcloud
Back to Top
Calculate900 View Drop Down
Forum Groupie
Forum Groupie


Joined: June 04 2009
Location: USA
Status: Offline
Points: 87 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 16:35
Considering I wasn't born in the 70's, I wish I would've seen Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull after releasing "Aqualung," Rush after releasing "2112," ELO after releasing "Out of the Blue," and Pink Floyd.
Back to Top
Garion81 View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: May 22 2004
Location: So Cal, USA
Status: Offline
Points: 4338 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 17:06
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I'd love to have seen Yes on their Tales from Topographic Oceans tour and Kansas some time before Leftoverture came out.
 
I saw them once open for the Kinks in 1975.  The problem being they were an opening band and while they played with great energy they rarely had more than an hour to play.  So if you were expecting to see the Pinnacle or other long material it wasn't going to happen. They played SFA and Journey to Mariabronn but the rest of the set was mostly the shorter rockier tunes. The Kirshner show may be truly one of the few live recordings of the Pinnacle. By the time they became headliners it was all about promoting Leftoverture.
 
 
 


"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?"
Back to Top
Bitterblogger View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: November 04 2007
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 1719 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 17:08
Originally posted by JROCHA JROCHA wrote:

So many!
Weather Report- ( Early 70's )
Mahavishnu Orchestra - classic lineup
Gabriel Genesis
Jon Wetton King Crimson
Brand x
Return to forever

Thumbs Up What he said.
I did manage to see Brand X (presumably you mean the Collins era) and Return To Forever (reunion) out of this list.
Back to Top
yeshead777 View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: May 25 2009
Location: Chattanooga,Tn.
Status: Offline
Points: 10 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 17:16
King Crimson 82-84
Kansas 74-77(saw them in 1978)
Roxy Music
Led Zep(I know-not really prog)
Jethro Tull
AWBH
Back to Top
Garion81 View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: May 22 2004
Location: So Cal, USA
Status: Offline
Points: 4338 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 17:21
Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

Hi,
 
I did not want to see ELP as I was not interested in "The Sheriff" ... and other "fun" stuff ... I preferred the more serious stuff, and they were more interested in the fun stuff and rotating organs on stage! . And at least 2 bootlegs were total utter crap. I mean bad, and we're not talking about the recording quality at all!
 
IWould have liked to see ... Focus (1974/77) ... Egberto Gismonti ... Keith Jarrett ...
 
 
I don't agree with that those bootlegs were absolutely terrible recordings where the tape would slow down and speed up.  My friend saw them in 71 or 72 with Mahavishnu Orchestra at the Long Beach Arena and he said the show was great and those bootlegs did them no justice.  (The guy did sound for Allan Holdsworth for several years)  I saw them in 1973 or 4 (it was in the winter) in Anaheim on BSS tour and I thought they were fantastic.  They did play the Sheriff and Jeremy Bender for sure but they also played Tarkus, entire Karn Evil, Tocatta and also the second side of Pictures was the encore.  It was just a hair under 3 hours and the sound was incredible.
 
I agree with Focus and PFM. Focus played at Cal State Fullerton of all places in 1974.  I saw Gentle Giant 3 times twice at the Shrine 76 and 77 the second with Renaissance opening for them and maybe the strangest show in 1976 with Yes on the Relayer tour at Anaheim Stadium with Gary Wright and Peter Framtom sandwiched in between.
 


Edited by Garion81 - June 08 2009 at 17:25


"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?"
Back to Top
Jethro's Toe View Drop Down
Forum Newbie
Forum Newbie
Avatar

Joined: November 04 2006
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 6 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 18:39
I saw Jethro Tull on the "Songs from the Woods" tour, and Rush twice. Once in a bar (the Key in Bala, Ontario...also saw Max Webster here.)  after the release of  the "Fly by Night" album, and much later in an arena around 1981. Saw "FM" in the "Gasworks" in Toronto with Nash the Slash.
Wish I had seen Genesis with Gabriel (number one regret), ELP  on the "Brain Salad Surgery" tour, Yes in the 70's with any of their three keyboardists, Pink Floyd (with Roger Waters) and would love to see "The Tangent".
"How can you be in two places at once; when your not anywhere at all?" Firesign Theater
Back to Top
paulwalker71 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: October 07 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2009 at 18:48
Hmmm where to start Confused

I was just a bit young to see early 70's prog. So whilst I managed to see Collins-era Genesis, I sadly missed out on Gabriel fronting Genesis.

Have caught up on many of the giants of prog since, even in much-changed lineups. But one that I would love to have seen was Gentle Giant - pretty certain that i'll never get the opportunity to now....
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <12

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.602 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.