+- Jamericans (https://jamericans.net/yellowboard)
+-- Forum: Jamaicaholics (https://jamericans.net/yellowboard/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: Message Board (https://jamericans.net/yellowboard/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Thread: What is the best concert you have been to? (/showthread.php?tid=100718)
RE: What is the best concert you have been to? - Bruce - 12-18-2014
Awesome Marley story Rootswoman!
RE: What is the best concert you have been to? - Sharleen - 12-19-2014
Rootswoman, I attended that concert in Lenox Massachusetts also -- a for sure great show. I still live in that area, it's about 45 minutes from where I live.
RE: What is the best concert you have been to? - rootswoman - 12-19-2014
Thanks Bruce! It was fun writing about it.
Sharleen! What a small world. That is a beautiful neck of the world over there.
I found this blog with a great description of that show
http://midnightraverblog.com/2011/12/08/the-music-inn-lenox-ma-1978/
and talk about a blast from the past her is an actual recording of the show
http://www.mixcloud.com/dubwisegaragecollection/bob-marley-and-the-wailers-the-music-inn-lenox-ma-june-18-1978-one-of-bobs-longest-shows/
Bob Marley and The Wailers - The Music Inn Lenox, MA June 18, 1978 One of Bob's Longest Shows
Disc 1:
01. Sun Is Shining [06:06.07]
02. Positive Vibration [05:06.72]
03. Them Belly Full [04:02.25]
04. Concrete Jungle [05:59.65]
05. Running Away [04:13.31]
06. Crazy Baldhead [04:02.30]
07. Is This Love [06:06.73]
08. War [04:42.32]
09. No More Trouble [02:02.59]
10. The Heathen [03:19.59]
11. Time Will Tell [04:06.55]
12. One Love [04:43.33]
13. Natural Mystic [05:03.36]
14. So Much Things To Say [06:01.24]
15. Who The Cap Fit [07:47.65]
Total: [73:25.66]
Disc 2:
01. Rat Race [05:47.41]
02. Roots Rock Reggae [07:14.31]
03. I Shot The Sheriff [04:44.62]
04. No Woman No Cry [08:01.57]
05. Lively Up Yourself [06:32.73]
06. Jammin [08:57.22]
07. Easy Skanking [04:23.38]
08. Punky Reggae Party [04:28.24]
09. Get Up Stand Up [06:42.66]
10. Exodus (cuts) [00:23.16]
RE: What is the best concert you have been to? - Bruce - 12-19-2014
(12-17-2014, 08:39 AM)Firemon Wrote: P.S. I also got to see Bruce Springsteen in 1973 in a fairly small club in Kansas City but I had no idea who he was. In truth about all I really remember was that the sax player rocked the place and I mean that place was rocking. Only went because my girlfriend's college dorm roommate was from...New Jersey. And since it was one of the first shows I ever saw in my young adult life I didn't realize how spectacular it was. Later I grew to appreciate most performers never reach such a fever pitch with their audiences.
Yes Clarence Clemmens was an awesome sax player and a integral part of Springsteen's band. I was in the music business for a good part of the 70's and part of my job was to attend concerts, and I never saw a performer with that energy that would transfer directly to the audience. The second best concert I saw was Springsteen about a year later in another small venue. I've seen many great shows, but for me nothing comes close to the two Boss shows. I did see him again once in a large arena and it was just not the same.
RE: What is the best concert you have been to? - twk55 - 12-19-2014
Talking Heads, Stanley Theater Pittsburgh, 1978 I think. "Stop Making Sense" tour.
RE: What is the best concert you have been to? - Bruce - 12-19-2014
(12-17-2014, 08:33 AM)Blues Pirate Wrote: I can't pick just one. There are so many and it depends on if you define 'best' as most interactive party with the crowd or staging on a grand scale.
Best interactive is probably the Doobies in a huge bar in Kitchener Ontario called Lulu's in the early 90s shortly after they started touring again. We were sitting at a table within 20 ft. of the stage and it was an incredible party atmosphere.
I bet that was great. The Doobies always put on a high energy show.
They were here the night before Thanksgiving in 1977, and I was there doing my job as a promotion guy. That was a very good show with Pablo Cruise as the warm up, and Hall and Oates showed up backstage and joined the Doobies for a bit on stage. After the show I told the guys I was going to fly up to Duluth to catch their Thanksgiving night show, and they invited me to fly up with them on their Doobieliner. A fan here in Mpls had given Skunk Baxter a really life like puppet of him and he was really having a good time playing with it on the flight, then the guys did a little acoustical jamming. That was a very fun couple of days.
RE: What is the best concert you have been to? - Bruce - 12-19-2014
(12-19-2014, 07:39 PM)twk55 Wrote: Talking Heads, Stanley Theater Pittsburgh, 1978 I think. "Stop Making Sense" tour.
Talking Heads were awesome! Too bad David Byrne was a total dick.
RE: What is the best concert you have been to? - rastagirl777 - 12-20-2014
"Talking Heads, Stanley Theater Pittsburgh, 1978 I think. "Stop Making Sense" tour."
I was at the Forest Hills version of that show - they filmed it for the movie. Forgot about that, that rates as one of the best shows I've ever seen. But it wasn't '78, in '78 Talking Heads were still playing at the Mud Club...I think it might have been '80 or '81.
RE: What is the best concert you have been to? - rootswoman - 12-20-2014
Oh how I love the Talking Heads. I would have loved to have seen them.
Bruce! Unbelievable! What a time that must have been. Man, you must have some stories to tell.
Did anyone get to see "The Police" - I hear that they put on quite a show.
Several people mentioned Toots and the Maytalls. I have seen them 5 or 6 times and have never been disappointed. Toots puts on an incredible show. It doesn't seem to matter how old he gets, he still has so much energy and pulls out those remarkable dance moves. I haven't seen him for a couple of years - I can't imagine he will ever stop, but he is getting up there. If anyone hasn't seen him and you get the chance - jump on it! Talk about a "feel good show" from a seasoned performer, that man knows how to do it!
RE: What is the best concert you have been to? - Kiknback - 12-20-2014
(12-20-2014, 02:27 PM)rootswoman Wrote: Toots puts on an incredible show. It doesn't seem to matter how old he gets, he still has so much energy and pulls out those remarkable dance moves. I haven't seen him for a couple of years - I can't imagine he will ever stop, but he is getting up there.
Unfortunately, for now he has stopped. There was an incident a few years ago now where some idiot threw a bottle onstage and hit him in the head. He now says he does not feel safe in front of an audience and has stopped performing. Really disappointing.
And the thing is, I saw him play a few days after the bottle incident, and it was an amazing show! It was an acoustic show, with Anders Osbourne backing him up on guitar. He kept saying he "was only about 80%", but I certainly couldn't tell, and it was one of the best shows I've seen. I think he played maybe one more show, then cancelled the tour and hasn't played since. Really hope he comes back.