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I saw KISS last year at the blues festival at Lebreton flats, Ottawa. We were close to the stage, and it was loud. I would have traded that opportunity to see Santana this year though. My sister went while I minded the nephews. I saw Aerosmith at Joe Louis arena - their "back in the saddle" tour way back.Saw Tina Turner at Castle Farms, Michigan. Billy Idol another summer.
I really liked Parachute Club's Dancing at the feet of the moon. Haunting song and lyrics they were. It was a fun time for me. Their lead singer reminded me of my gf then.
Sounds like you guys above are real rock and blues fans though and been to more concerts than I have. Rock on!
CTRL F + Prine turns up only myself
You're all missing out on a treasure!
I have a few Prine albums, but have never seen him perform live. He's a gem. Concerts I had an opportunity to see, but for some reason I was prevented from getting there: Joni Mitchell, Paul Anka, the Beach Boys, Bruce Cockburn, and the McGarrigles.
The Move?
I saw John Prine at Mariposa at least once.
Very fine singer-songwriter.
Kulu Kulu Garden at the Biltmore. Awesome show with 4 other Japanese bands.
I remember seeing ELO. All I can remember of The Move is a poster I keep seeing in my head. I don't remember seeing them perform.
BTW, Yes and Alice Cooper opened for the Black Sabbath second album tour (Masters of Reality?) in Ottawa in 1971. I think that was the loudest concert I ever attended. Oh - and I added Mott The Hoople to my list!
ETA: In those early days of hard rock and metal, some bands were really careful to fulfill concert obligations, while some, for various reasons, couldn't make their scheduled concert dates. Thus, in Ottawa in the late 1960s and early 1970s, we had some weird concert combinations, thrown together at the last minute. I think putting Yes with Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper was one of those blips. Another was Mott The Hoople - they were supposed to perform with Queen, but Queen got stuck somewhere, I think Montreal - and another band - I forget who - filled in for them. But, basically, it was mostly an all-Hoople show, which was a good thing.
ETA: My brother played bass in an Ottawa band around 1965, can't remember the name, but I got to see them perform at Pineland several times with the Staccatos and other bands. I saw Five Man Electrical Band there later. The Ottawa Ex had a lot of bands providing free music in the daytime as well as expensive big name concerts in the evenings with the Beach Boys usually headlining. When CTV opened their first station in Ottawa (CJOH) I was there, my brother's band performed at a lot of their dances, as well as dances sponsored by Ottawa rock station CKOY. Heard a lot of small-time bands from all over Ontario in those days (1964 - 1968).
JROOTHAM
i am jealous that you got to see stan rogers. I still get shivers when i listen to his records. My parents were big into him back in the day and a few years ago i dug out some of his old records like home in halifax, fogarty's cove, between the breaks from their collection. That voice!
You guys make me jealous. UB40? The English Beat? The Mothers of Invention? I saw Dweezil Zappa last year. I went to see the Saskatoon Symphony about a year before that. In 1997 I saw Dave Brubeck and Diana Krall, as well as the Saskatoon Klezmer Band opening for Finjan, a concert I MCd. I've seen the Robin Nolan Trio quite a few times. They used to play Manouche jazz, which I really liked, but have since splayed all over the place.
Hmm, I've seen Les Negresses Vertes, Ar Re Yaouank and Tri Yann (X2) in and around Nantes, where I also saw a string trio busking in the streets.
I heard Clifton Joseph doing his dub poetry at Black-a-Rama in Winnipeg, where I saw Teenage Head and the Boomtown Rats in '81.
I saw Peter Tosh (X2), Jimmy Cliff and Steel Pulse.
David Lindley, Dread Zeppelin, Deja Voodoo, The Dik Van Dykes, Jerry Jerry and his Sons of Rhythm Orchestra, The Gruesomes (x3), the Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, Chixdiggit, The Forbidden Dimension.
The Selecter.
Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper. Elvis is Everywhere!
When the Saskatoon Opera Company performed Carmen a few years back, I saw my distant cousin, Julie Nesrallah, sing the title role.
B.B King, Big Dave Maclean, Ellen McIlwaine, and a concert with J.J. Cale opening for Robert Cray. I had worked a graveyard shift on a drilling rig in Alberta the night before and driven to Saskatoon that day. I kept falling asleep throughout the two acts.
I saw a couple of guys who played with Muddy Waters, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Calvin Jones, playing in an outfit known as The Legendary Blues Band. I hung around with them between sets at Buds on Broadway and was a wee bit disappointed to hear them talk about making music as a job. They talked like clock-watchers in a factory, just counting down how many tunes they had to play before quitting time.
In '78 I saw Herman's Hermits at the A-Four. One snag is that Peter Noone wasn't with them at the time. Does McLean and McLean count as a musical group? If not, well F--- ya.
Back when I was on the farm I saw The Canadian Brass and Valdy at the Anne Portnuff Theatre in Yorkton. Hmmm, Yorkton. At the Ex I saw Trooper (which was my first rock concert), as well as groups like Toronto and others of that ilk which I disremember.
I saw Al Hirt at Buffalo Days in Regina in '68.
Multiple classical musicians though Jeunesse Musicale.
Toronto
Trooper
Crash Test Dummies
Moxy Fruvous
Barenaked Ladies
Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman
Bruce Cockburn
The Rankins
NB Symphony Orchestra with Sally Dibblee
Bourbon Tabernacle Choir
Rick McGhie
James Keeleghan
The Shaggy Dogs ( now Heckman and Downes)
The Leslie Spit Trio
Julia Propellor
Philip Thomson
David Myles
Brent Mason
Frances Helyar
Hot Toddy
Carew, Brees and Wilson
The Pardonbeggars
And many bands in university bars which I can't remember. Memory loss might be related to what was consumed in those locations.
Like others, I went to lots of concerts and festivals in the "old days", including:
Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz festival - 1972, 1973 - Highlights - Charlie Mingus, John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Dr. John)
Festival Express - 1971 - Highlights - Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy, The Band
Mariposa Folk Festival - 2 or 3 times on Toronto Island
Rock Hill Festival
A festival in Madoc, Ontario with local Ontario bands that was more or less broken up by bikers.
Beggars Banquets (3 full day festivals in Toronto) - Highlights - Edgar Winter, Beach Boys, Sha Na Na
The Monkees
Lighthouse (many times)
Crowbar (many times)
RUSH (highschool auditorium - they went to our school)
Seal
Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon, 1972 and their last concert in T.O. about 20 years ago)
Paul McCartney & Wings
The Who
Johnny Winter
Alice Cooper
Jefferson Starship in Berkeley
Mountain
CSNY
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels (El Mocambo)
The Amboy Dukes
Black Sabbath
Would have loved to have had Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, David Bowie, Bob Marley, The Cream, U2 and Michael Jackson on the list but alas.
When you saw the Monkees, was Jimi Hendrix still their opening act?
I think I can now confirm that I didn't see The Move perform, but a poster of their concert remains in my memory. I've edited a couple of my posts this morning as my memory gradually returns with regard to some concerts. Dang, living so far away from cities definitely has disadvantages - I'd love to get to some oldies concerts, especially the Stones' last concert tour next year.
Oh! I saw Anvil play live at a pub in Ottawa a number of years ago. It was a total suprise for me. I didn't even know they were a semi-serious rock band at the time.
I saw the Tragically Hip, Blue Rodeo, and 54-40 at Lansdowne another time.
In no particular order:
The Fixx
OMD
Nik Kershaw
Power Station
Teenage Head (at my high school!)
King Apparatus
Fishbone
Nine Inch Nails
Sisters of Mercy
The The
The Cranberries
Front 242
The Boredoms
Nirvana
Living Color
The Rolling Stones
Me, Mom & Morgentaler
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper
The Cramps
Green Day
Bad Religion
The Sex Pistols
Bauhaus
The Tragically Hip
Holly Cole
Shonen Knife
Sons of Freedom
Meat Beat Manifesto
MC 900 ft. Jesus
Consolidated
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
Lush
Babes in Toyland
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Kid Koala
Amon Tobin
Devo
The Dead Milkmen
Ladytron
Special Beat (member of the Specials and The English Beat)
The Skatellites
King Kobb Steelie
Kraftwerk
Ministry
Frank Black
The Ramones
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
The Wonder Stuff
And others that I have forgotten.
One I can't believe I forgot, because he's truly unforgettable: Jonathan Richman, a half-dozen times, both with and without various incarnations of the Modern Lovers.
I know a guy who drove hours and hours (radio on) over hundreds of miles, forded rivers, climbed mountains and crawled across deserts, just to see a Jonathan Richman concert. Afterwards he asked Richman for an autograph. Richman said, "Naw, I don't do that."
When my daughter was six months old, my wife and I packed her up and went for a picnic at the Lilac Dell near Cootes Paradise, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton. It was a glorious sunny day, but because it was a Monday hardly anyone was around at 11:30 a.m. We walked into a secluded grove of lilacs and met Yo-Yo Ma, who was playing one of the Bach unaccompanied suites for cello. He had a film crew with him and was seated on a trolley that ran along a semi-circular track as he sawed away in time to a recorded background. We sat with the butterfly wrangler, who had a large aluminum photography case packed with coolant slabs. Every once in a while he would lift out a few of the sluggish butterflies, warm them up, then set them loose to flutter winsomely about Mr Ma. We stayed for half an hour, and were amazed by the cellist's stamina. He rewarded my daughter with a wink as we left. I've told her this story till she's sick of it.
Standout concerts I've heard not mentioned here so far:
The Kinks at Massey Hall (far and away the best live show ever); George Thorogood; Van Cliburn; Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen; the great Richard Knechtel; John Sebastian; Leon Redbone; John Cougar Mellencamp (most ear-splitting show ever); George Harrison at MLG; Jacksoul (RIP Haydain); Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir; the Rheostatics; Canned Heat (a travesty, really, since only Fito de la Parra, the second drummer for the group was an "original", but it just felt so good when they launched into Work Together); Magic Slim and the Teardrops: two sets of tedium followed by one of incandescent fury and brilliance; Tamarack; Robert Cray; Ray Davies solo at the Music Hall on the Danforth; Spirit of the West; County Vaudeville, as close as we'll get in these degenerate days to Flanders and Swann;Washington, Whitely, and Scarlett; a deathly pale balding Englishman with a National guitar named Bob Greenwood who sounds nothing like Robert Johnson but made my spine tingle when he sang his songs: the power came over him; wait, maybe the best live show was Vladimir Horowitz at Massey Hall.
I have seen so many musicians over the years I could never remember or list them all.
Also , I ran a rehersal studio for 8 years. I heard and played in so much music. Fuck, if I could live my life like that forever, it would be like heaven.
Unfortunately no. That would have been something. I think he did open for them in Toronto at another venue.
And you saw the Amboy Dukes? Was Ted Nugent acting like the Nuge then, or was he just another guy with a guitar?
DOA is coming here in October. I'd like to add them to my list.
He claims he that he didn't know what the songs "Journey To The Center Of Your Mind" & "Down On Phillips Escalator" were about, so I guess he was acting like the Nuge back then (in other words, a moron)
I used to like Ted Nugent untill he bought a radio station in Detroit and then was a DJ.. What a right winged opinionaed ass. No when I hear a song of his I think about his crappy personality.
I heard a rumour that he shot a couple of black guys in Detroit but was never charged.
I was in junior high and high school during the days when The Nuge actually SOLD records, and I didn't like him THEN. He was always the guy the class bullies were into.
Ted Nugent - Worst Person in the World
I liked Ted Nugent when I was 17. I still listen to "Double Live Gonzo" once in a while. But I've always considered him a goof and an idiot.
Well , in the end I do have to say there are a few songs of his that are pretty good. At least to my taste.
Growing up in Windsor and tuning into Detroit radio I got a chance to listen to a lot of classic rock. I kinda moved on from that.
sorry about the new login, couldn't remember my old password and email has changed. pretty hard to make a complete list
supertramp
goose creek symphony
lighthouse
crowbar
witness
mahgony rush
joe cocker
peter tosh
april wine
george thorogood, loudest #1
stevie ray vaughn and double trouble, loudest #2
johnny winter, loudest #3
jerry jerry and the sons of rythym orchrestra (lots of other from this period that i can't remember
)
rodney crowel
vince gill
johnny cash
the judds
blue rodeo
the hip
alanis
dire straights - the best arena show (edmonton, money for nothing) i ever saw
the head pins
bb king
john lee hooker
the mighty sparrow...funny story
michelle schocked
THE SADIES
the arkells
Wilco
micheal bubble
CUFF THE DUKE
luke duccette
there's more but jeez....
top regrets (had the chance but...WTF?)
john prine...like at the regina folkfest this year
steve earle
lucinda williams
Hi Chester! I assume you're a prairie shark. Do you want me to reset your old password? I have that power.
Hi Catchfire, I am indeed that Chester. sure that would be great all powerful one, no need for two logins. but you also need to remind me of exactly what the original login was...Chester the praire shark, chester the prairie shark, not sure.