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Ok, chester. Done. Check your PMs (in Chester...still) for the necessary info.
Welcome back, Chester.
We really do have to get a shinny game going this winter.
Is that "Witness" band you saw the same outfit as Kenny Shields and Streetheart? I had a Streetheart poster from a high school dance that had "formerly 'Witness'" scrawled on it with a magic marker.
Another of those bands, Cambridge (lotsa Nazareth covers), went on to extreme lameness as the Queen City Kids. The Headpins was another band I saw at the Yorkton Ex.
hey neighbour! I'm going to get skates this winter...for sure.
Yes Witness was a kenny shields vehicle. It was a pretty big band in the early '70's and they carried a horn section so they could cover steely dan and the like. I saw shields in clubs a lot in the eighties, he always had a great band. the guy is a perfect cross between rod stewart, who he looks like, and mick jagger, who he's built like and moves like.
of course us old guys all probably saw max webster and kim mitchell at some point and the Lincons were a great club act in the 80's.
Musicians I've seen live (there are lots more I can't remember off the top of my head, as most of these performances were more than 20 years ago, and some more than 35 years ago):
Beach Boys
Bee Gees
Michael Bolton
Styx
Heart
Supertramp
Mandala
Five Man Electrical Band
Boston
Eagles
Gary Puckett
Liz Story
Huey Lewis and the News
Barenaked Ladies
Jody Raffoul
I also saw the bands below, but couldn't remember until seeing their names in other peoples' lists!
Three Dog Night
Chicago
Amboy Dukes
(had tickets to see Michael Jackson at a private function - for Apple Computer retailer store owners - but it got cancelled when he burned his hair. Huey Lewis was a last-minute replacement)
I am not much of a concert-goer, mostly high-school friends' basements and turntables (you know the '70s drill), so to read some of the lists above -- Boom, LTJ, remind -- whew!, you guys live in another cultural world from me, wow, congrats
my modest big-concert list includes a few real standouts, A-No. 1 of which was no doubt The Police at the Big O in Montreal in 1983:
at the peak of their popularity and power they gave a SENSATIONAL show, really tremendous, and encore after encore... bravo Sting, he really rocked -- that much more sensational given that I went to see the Talking Heads, and Police were really second billing for me...
Next biggest date would be the 1988 Amnesty tour, with Springsteen and Sting battling it out (literally) for top billing, and Peter Gabriel and others rounding out the bill: Springsteen did a cover of Twist and Shout that was great, esp for a volumnious locale like the Big O...
One small-concert note: went for my 18th birthday and first legal beer to a small club on Carlton in Toronto, cannot recall the name to see David Amram, a memorable gig.
final note: I take it from the above that no babbler claims to have seen the Beatles live.
How big was the club with Amram? There was a tiny one on the north side near Parliament that did folk.
Just went to the Chick Corea show at Massey Hall in Toronto. Was a good one.
It was tiny, all right, but I recall it -- way back -- being closer to the Ryerson/ Jarvis areas, so farther west than the club you refer to ...
Hey, this is fun. Sort of in order from my first concert back in my high school daze,
Rush
Nazareth
Steppenwolf
The Guess Who
Pink Floyd
The Strawbs
Elvis Costello
Teenage Head
Bachmann Turner Overdrive
King Sunny Ade
The Rolling Stones
Trooper
The Clash
The Ramones
Remmy Ongala
Kanda Bongo Man
Thomas Mapfumo
The Mighty Diamonds
Gregory Issaacs
Culture
Muddy Waters
Siouxshee and the Banshees
Bow Wow Wow
Les Quatres Etoiles
John Cale
The English Beat
Plastique Bertrand
The Undertones
Tabu Ley Rochereau
The Fleshtones
Burning Spear
Eek-a-Mouse
Yellowman
and a bunch more I can't remember. The last concert I saw was the Dresden Symphony Orchestra with a 300 person choir doing Beethoven's Ninth and, yes Dorothy it was MAGNIFICENT!
I guess that means none of us were trying to pad our resumes!
That's the best list so far. I'm jealous.
So who was singing when you saw Plastic Bertrand?
From What I can remember right now
999
The Stranglers
The Jam
Athletico Spizz 80
The Dickies
U.K Subs
Angelic Upstarts
The Fall
The Buzzcocks
The Clash
Black Uhuru
Killing Joke
The Cramps
Billy Bragg
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Specials
The Beat
UB40
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Sturmgroup
Kinetic Ideals
Dinosaur Jr.
Cheetah Chrome
John Otway and Wild Willy Barret
Iggy Pop
Gang of Four
Heimlich Maneuver
King Cobb Steelie
Maggot Fodder
Bauhaus
No Means No
Sly and Robbie
Sinead O’Connor
Sly and Robbie w Sinead O’connor
Johnny Cash
Len Cohen
Mad Professor
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Soul Asylum
Henry Rollins Band
Sonic Youth
Nick Cave and the Bad Seed
Stereo Lab
Primus
Radio Head
Royal City
Sex Pistols (reunion-yawnnn)
The Pogues
Shane Magowan and the Popes
The Dubliners
PJ Harvey
Interpol
Gallon Drunk
L7
Guided by Voices
Mercury Rev
Femi Kuti
King Sunny Ade
Broken Social Scene
right, or Elvis, another resume booster !
I blush! N.R.Kissed's list looks pretty rockin' to me. I didn't realize there was a controversy around Ca Plane Pour Moi till your remark but wiki confirms that it would have been Plastic Bertrand and not that other fella who'd originally recorded the song. PB had a gig - straining to remember, here - at the El Mocambo I think, or some even tinier venue around Spadina and College, way back in the day. I remember it as good fun, he was this slightly portly, sandy-haired fella in a suitably silly metallic costume vigorously jumping up and down as he blasted through the set.
Yeah, no kidding. These lists almost make me wish I grew up in a big city down east.
On the other hand, I bet I'm the only one here who saw the Gough brothers play a wedding dance.
Bobby Gimby. We sang Oh Canada with him in 1971. I was in kindergarten or grade one, one or the other.
I saw The Hot Club of Edmonton a couple of weeks ago. They were OK, but not great - certainly no Jimmy Rosemberg and Sinti. The group who shared billing with them, Les Imposteurs, were technically good, but aesthetically unlistenable.
OK, they ain't musicians, and they ain't the Bolshoi (we were in Nimes a couple of years ago - the Bolshoi was going to perform at the Roman ampitheatre there, but we didn't go because our nine-year old didn't want to...D'OH!), but I saw the Moscow Ballet perform this earlier this week.
The Little Swans
This is about how the place looked when I was there. It's great, but how cool would it have been to see a performance of the Bolshoi there?
Whoa, some pretty comprehensive lists here, eh? Remind, Nirvana AND Cheech and Chong?! Yikes.
I'm heavy into the local never-heard-of-them-before punk scene in Toronto and southern Ontario but some of my "big" shows include...
CSNY
Leonard Cohen
Dylan x2 (once was amazing, once was sad and pathetic)
SNFU
Hanson Bros. (the Nomeansno Hanson bros, not the blonde children)
Propaghandi
J.K. Samson
1755 (vive l'acadie, anyone?)
Harry Manx
Stephen Fearing (2 or 3 times)
Ashley MacIsaac
J.P. Comier
Fred Fortin
Joey Shithead (of DOA, who was just playing accoustic guitar on the street one night, in Toronto)
Yep, in settings that were worlds apart, saw C&C in Regina at the Centre of the Arts, and Nirvana in a bar in Seattle. Was fortunate that my partner worked security for a music promotions company, got to see lots that would never have otherwise. Though some I wish I had opted out of. Alanna Myles comes to mind.
We were, and I suppose still are, like that with R&B and folk blues, always over at the Yale, or at Nanaimo's 2 good blues spots, when great local artists were playing. Too many bands to even remember a short list. There is a smallish, but great music festival, here everyyear that we get to partake of, that satisfys our need for live music.
I saw Spamalot tonight. It's basically The Holy Grail performed as a parody of Broadway musicals. It took me a while to get into the Broadway slant, as I expected a more strictly Pythonesque presentation, but once I adapted I liked their adaptation.
I'm going to test my memory and see if I can remember the musicians I've seen perform (excluding those probably less know). In order of appearance more or less:
April Wine
Valdy
10 CC
Queen
David Bowie
Supertramp
George Thoroughgood
Bob Marley
Bruce Springsteen
Murray Head
Robert Palmer
Peter Tosh
Peter Gabriel
YES
Genesis
Scott Merritt
Clash
Who
UB40
Suzanne Vega
Jane Siberry
Buckwheat Zydeco
Iggy Pop
Grateful Dead
Neville Brothers
U2
Gill Scott Heron
Pearl Jam
James Brown
New Order
Steve Millar Band
Dave Mathews Band
Cocteau Twins
Brand Van 2000
Tony Bennett
Prince
Calexico
Billy Bragg
Burning Spear
Stars
- bump - I think this thread needs updating!