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It has to be Pink Floyd at the odean in Newcastle mid 70s. The animation with the surfer and the clocks were at the time state of the art effects for live bands on stage. Think it was the first in quadraphonic sound for me. Also Thin Lizzy at Reading. Oh and B B King at Metro Arena Newcastle.

But, wish list has to Led Zepp, envy envy.

The one that always comes to mind is ELO at Wembley in 1978, was offered a ticket but for some reason decided not to go.

Got to agree with Bowie in the Ziggy days though, that would have been something to see

Tigger wrote: wrote:

either...
Emerson Lake & Palmer at the Hammersmith Odeon (Tarkus on stage!!)
or
Led Zep at the Ally Pally

both around 1975

I was at those as well! Our college used to run bargain gig trips all over, plus we had Trentham Gardens and de Montfort hall, both major venues in the day and just along the road.
Was also at Earls Court in 73 for the Floyd.
I stopped going to gigs when the super-venues started taking over. I went to see Yes at Crystal Palace and despite being around the centreline, couldn't really see bugger all. Big screen technology was not very advanced.

Its like a Senior Citizens outing in here...
All well before my time but I should have liked to have seen Queen at their height...I imagine Woodstock in the Summer of Love would have been quite an experience too.
Also seeing Nirvana would have been something special for me, I was just a bit too young and on the wrong side of the pond.

Supercover wrote: wrote:

Its like a Senior Citizens outing in here...
All well before my time but I should have liked to have seen Queen at their height...I imagine Woodstock in the Summer of Love would have been quite an experience too.
Also seeing Nirvana would have been something special for me, I was just a bit too young and on the wrong side of the pond.

Yep, senior citizens of the age of all the people you wish you'd seen.

Can't imagine anyone reminiscing about a One Direction or Jedward gig in 30 years time.

My first gig was Jamiroqui at the NEC. It was great, although the abiding memory was driving home in my '64 VW camper with no heaters in sub zero temps... I was frozen stiff by the time I got home.

Ah,
we belong to a golden age when music was made by gifted musicians on real instruments. A lot of them were ugly ungainly bastards, but that didn't matter because the ONLY thing was the MUSIC.


Now the process seems to be:-

Find someone who looks good.

Teach them to lipsynch.

Train them to jig about.

Dress them slutty/sexy.

Put a load of sexy/slutty dancers behind them to make their jigging about look coordinated.

Manufacture some backing music with an insistent beat.

Put a vocal lead on. If the 'star' can vaguely approximate singing put it through an autotune and enhance it. Multiple track it with people in the wings who can actually sing.

...and there you have her...






Cheryl Cole.