The recent and upcoming gigs thread

[kap'n krunch]

Wait, I think I finally deciphered this post... Kap'n Krunch took a righteous psychedelic trip to go to see King Crimson, right? Awesomesauce! I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like!

Hmmm, you COULD say THAT!!!!!

 

[Soundfield]

With The Proms sadly over for another year, time to return to the opera house. A great way to start last night, Don Giovanni at Covent Garden:

Some superb singing and a remarkable visual production making extensive use of real time 3D projection mapping:

 

[Hamilton59]

I'm excited to see King Crimson this coming Sunday evening in Atlanta.... This will be my 4th Crimson concert if I remember correctly.... My first Crimson show was at the Agora Ballroom in ATL back in '81 for the Discipline tour. Blew my mind!!! Up to that concert, I only new their 1st album, In the court of the Crimson King. Man that show actually changed my life! I became a huge Crimson/Fripp/Belew/Levin/Bruford fan and searched for anything & everything I could find on all of these guys. I remember leaving the show bewildered by what I just experienced.... and the traffic sounds of ATL still sounded like Crimson !!!

 

[Steve Schoultz]

Way back in 1975, Jeff Beck was touring in support of Blow by Blow. He was alternating headlining with mahavishnu orchestra. That night in San Antonio Jeff Beck headlined. It was an awesome show! Since then he hasn’t been back to San Antonio. The original theater was mostly destroyed by a fire in 1979. It’s been rebuilt and has awesome acoustics. Well Sunday night he returned. The guy is 75 years old and is still fantastic in concert. The only downside was him inviting Johnny Depp to play with him half the concert. He’s a serviceable player, but come on! Jimmy Hall joined in for a few songs and was terrific. He nailed Little Wing. I wonder if I will ever see Jeff again...sorry about the lousy picture!

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Way back in 1975, Jeff Beck was touring in support of Blow by Blow. He was alternating headlining with mahavishnu orchestra. That night in San Antonio Jeff Beck headlined. It was an awesome show! Since then he hasn’t been back to San Antonio. The original theater was mostly destroyed by a fire in 1979. It’s been rebuilt and has awesome acoustics. Well Sunday night he returned. The guy is 75 years old and is still fantastic in concert. The only downside was him inviting Johnny Depp to play with him half the concert. He’s a serviceable player, but come on! Jimmy Hall joined in for a few songs and was terrific. He nailed Little Wing. I wonder if I will ever see Jeff again...sorry about the lousy picture!

That still sounds like a pretty neat show; the only time I saw Jeff Beck was when he was on tour with Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie opened and Jeff closed; but it was at Sacramento's Arco Arena and the sound was atrocious. Also Jeff was in a weird faze of his music with a lot of whammy bar antics that was just over done IMO. So hopefully the set you saw had some good tunes and a great sound.

 

[kap'n krunch]

aw, ****.. Little Steven got cancelled!!!!

 

[paligap]

Way back in 1975, Jeff Beck was touring in support of Blow by Blow. He was alternating headlining with mahavishnu orchestra. That night in San Antonio Jeff Beck headlined. It was an awesome show! Since then he hasn’t been back to San Antonio. The original theater was mostly destroyed by a fire in 1979. It’s been rebuilt and has awesome acoustics. Well Sunday night he returned. The guy is 75 years old and is still fantastic in concert. The only downside was him inviting Johnny Depp to play with him half the concert. He’s a serviceable player, but come on! Jimmy Hall joined in for a few songs and was terrific. He nailed Little Wing. I wonder if I will ever see Jeff again...sorry about the lousy picture!

Miraculously, I remember that show in 1975 well. I still grin at the memory of John McLaughlin shaking his head in disappointment with the raucous SA crowd for not acceding to his request for a few moments of silence before he began his set. He didn't hold it against us, though, and he and JB both delivered blistering performances that night. I'm looking forward to the Experience Hendrix show later this year at the same venue.

 

[elmer]

Scored a couple of tix to see Chris Thile's Live From Here (formerly Prairie Home Companion) radio show at Town Hall in NYC w/special guest Paul Simon. I grew up a few blocks from Paul and his Mom (Mrs. Simon) was my sisters third grade teacher but I've never seen him perform live - very psyched!

 

[Soundfield]

Enjoyed this story of frustrated love by Massenet that I’d never seen on stage before at Covent Garden last night:

Thin on plot, but some fine signing, particularly from Juan Diego Florez.
In complete contrast, looking forward to some Handel on Monday.

 

[lennon fan]

I'm mad for IDLES and will see them in 2 weeks at the 9:30 club in DC.

 

[Marplot]

Tiger Army on the 12th, should be fun. I expect to be the oldest person there ... again.

 

[GOS]

Tiger Army on the 12th, should be fun. I expect to be the oldest person there ... again.

Tiger Army? Never heard of them....

 

[GOS]

October 8th, Chicago. Row 4! Whoopee....

 

[Hamilton59]

October 8th, Chicago. Row 4! Whoopee....

That should be a fun show! I saw them in a theatre in Macon 2 years ago and they sounded great! The trombonist, James, was especially enjoyable to watch. We decided he was the hardest working musician we’d ever seen! I hope you enjoy the show.

My best friends and I are leaving for Atlanta at 4 pm today to see King Crimson tonight! I really like the current big band setup playing music from their whole catalog. It be even better to me if Adrian Belew could come in for half of the show!

 

[Marplot]

Tiger Army? Never heard of them....

Psychobilly. Think Stray Cats with attitude... at least on their first few. More recently Nick has mellowed out, but are the music is still quite enjoyable.

 

[Marplot]

That should be a fun show! I saw them in a theatre in Macon 2 years ago and they sounded great! The trombonist, James, was especially enjoyable to watch. We decided he was the hardest working musician we’d ever seen! I hope you enjoy the show.

Yeah, Chicago is an enjoyable show ... freed from the restraint of record label radio singles they get to play what they enjoy.

He is hard working, but Doug Pinnick may give him a run for that title. I saw King's X once when he was sick with the flu. He had to blow his nose after every song but he still killed the vocals; and if you were within three states you probably felt his bass.

Side note, one of my top 5 shows, King's X, Dream Theater and Joe Satriani ... that was an outstanding evening! The only way to top it would have been an encore with everyone like G3, but alas it did not happen.

 

[Patrick Cleasby]

I'm going to see Richard Thompson's 70th birthday bash at the Royal Albert Hall tonight. The list of guests is insane...

 

[Hamilton59]

The mighty Crimson were in fine form last night in Atlanta! I think we’re very lucky that the current lineup are playing through the old catalog. I never would have thought I’d ever get to here Fripp and company play songs off of In the Court etc... (except I guess this is at the cost of new Crimson music...)
High points for me were Easy Money (magical...the Crimson King still rises!) and Discipline (how do those 3 drummers stay in sync like that? Incredible!)

I really missed not hearing some version of Larks Tongue though.

Great show and highly recommend. Catch them while you can!

David H

 

[kap'n krunch]

....(how do those 3 drummers stay in sync like that? Incredible!)....

well, besides all three being MONSTER drummers, Pat Mastelotto told me a secret three years ago...they all have a click track with count ins..

 

[Hamilton59]

That would help with a count in... but when they're taking turns swapping the beats during Discipline, that's where the MONSTER drummers parts come in to play!!! Very cool you got to discuss things like this with Pat!

After college in Athens, GA around '87, I was working as an audio/video tech. One of my friends played drums in an all electric band, drums synths guitars... He asked me to build a circuit for him that would take the sync pulses from a midi device and use it to pulse on LED's on the groups microphones so they could all see the beat and start together from silence on a dark stage.... It wasn't a hard thing to design/build and it worked like a charm! Their "sync track" was visual, not audio....

Cool!