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Father Time
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2/6/2016 3:41:30 AM
the most unbelievable moment I ever experienced at a concert
It was at a CSNY show in 06. They played Let's Impeach the President and put the words up on the screen and most everybody was singing along. A few people got mad as witnessed in this video of the song.
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Hop On Pop
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2/6/2016 5:55:22 AM
For me, it was when, at the end of a Television show in 1992, Richard Lloyd TORE THE STRINGS OFF OF HIS STRAT!
The last song of the night, "Call Mr. Lee" ends with Lloyd playing runs up and down the neck. He had veins bulging out of his neck, as he got more intense. Then, he reached up, detuned all the strings, and ripped them off the guitar, while he was still playing it, with the full band playing behind him. After that, he just dropped the guitar on the floor, and walked off stage. A roadie or sound guy or something, jumped up to turn off his amp and save everybody's ears.
Incredible show. Incredible ending. And I'd never seen anybody do that before.
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2/6/2016 8:04:56 AM
Having never seen a BEATLES Concert,
which I'm sure would have been extraordinary,
I'd love to Time Travel back
to their performance at Carnegie Hall, My God.
My favorite witnessed concert moment,
was, oh my, I forget the year, 1977? Maybe,
Frank Zappa doing his Halloween gig,
at the Palladium,
and on this occasion, he brought out this Violinist from India,
named L. Shankar...
the only heads up the audience got,
was Frank saying
"This is Shankar. He plays very good.
He will now play very good for you!"
And Shankar starts playing, slow at first,
then he whips into the craziest sickest violin playing
that anyone had ever heard in their life....
and then Zappa and Shankar started jamming.
It was insane.
They egged each other on something insane.
It was beyond description. And the audience knew it,
by the end of the show, everyone, was on their feet,
it was as if God walked into the room that night.
Such was the presence of absolute impossibility....
"are we really hearing this?"
was the look on the whole audience's face that night.
Saw nothing like it, before or since.
Saw many Zappa concerts, and many Shankar concerts,
my brother, Whitney, was actually later on in Shankar's band.
I kid you not. That was awesome.
Anyway, I never saw anything like that one particular night around Halloween.
~L
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Larree
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2/6/2016 9:49:08 AM
I have been to some amazing concerts in my life. I have definitely witnessed some unbelievable performances and events. One of the best ever? A real standout event? The Les Paul Trio at the Hollywood House of Blues. A tribute show with Les's trio, Slash, Stephen Stills, Steve Vai, and more. The highlight of the night? Les Paul and Steve Vai doing a duet on 'Summertime.'
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Larree
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2/6/2016 10:30:02 AM
FT - I remember when that happened. Saw it on the news. Those people were probably not real fans, as any real fan knows how strongly political CSNY has always been.
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Father Time
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2/6/2016 11:08:07 AM
Well I think their issue was that he was attacking Dubya and they were Republicans.
Other great moments..
Neil and Stills trading leads in a 20 minute version of Down By the River.
Crosby singing Almost Cut My Hair in full voice after years of illness.
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Richard Scotti
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2/6/2016 12:44:38 PM
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One of the best concerts I've seen:
One of the first performances that included Young. (Fillmore East)
It was thrilling beyond belief. The vocal chemistry was amazing
and the dueling lead guitar solos on songs like Wooden Ships
seemed too good to actually be happening.
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Larree
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2/6/2016 1:22:53 PM
I saw CSNY at Golden Gate Park. The Bill Graham Memorial Concert. Just about everybody you would ever want to hear from the Bay Area music scene was there. One of the high points of that day was a set of CCR songs by John Fogarty backed up by The Grateful Dead.
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Hop On Pop
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2/7/2016 6:24:06 AM
You know, it was only not so crazy unbelievable because it was Tom Zé, and nothing really surprises me from that guy. But, I guess it was pretty unbelievable that, for the encore of the only show that he's ever played in Chicago, he did this:
Wheeled out a 15-ft. industrial saw.
Donned a welding mask.
Grabbed a piece of sheet metal.
Started rhythmically sawing away at that sheet metal, sparks flying everywhere.
His backing band (consisting of the brilliant post-rock band Tortoise, plus one guy he brought with him from Brazil), jumped in, improvising around the rhythm that he created with the sheet metal.
Built the song into a frenzy, with sparks flying everywhere, before ending the show.
Best show I've ever seen, and that was the highlight.
Guess it was pretty unbelievable.
Amazing.
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