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You win. I've seen them all separately, but never together. Pretty sure my cousin was at that concert, though.
I've thought of a few more since my OP, but you get the point. Been to several rock, blues, and bluegrass fests, thought I don't recall much about the line-ups,, or, in some cases, the festival itself!
I don't do large venues much these days. Maybe if they had a Laz-Y-Boy section... Don't do much nostalgia, either. Many of the old classic rock acts should FIRE, though I suspect many have drank/snorted at too high a SWR, and are touring because of the money. A few acts always impress: Jeff Beck hasn't lost anything; in fact, I think he gets better. But many acts are no better than a tribute/garage band, with few "original" members, and often sloppy playing and squeaky vocals. Anyhow, unless Lennon and Harrison reincarnate, and The Beatles reunite, I'm mostly done with nostalgia.
Luckily, there are programs like "Austin City Limits", "Later with Jools Holland", "Live From Daryl's House", and "Texas Music Scene", among others, that offer exposure to unknown artists, from the comfort of my iCouch!
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I was extremely lucky to be in Minneapolis from 1968 to 1975. There were a lot of great venues. The best was the Tyrone Guthrie Theater.There are some pretty good concert lists here. This one would make a good wish list for me.
Not really concert oriented... Only two come to mind as being memorable, though I'm sure we've been to many over the years.
Most memorable... The first Newport Jazz Festival in 1954, when I had just graduated from High School, and it wasn't really like being there in the audience... ....
OK, please don't be mad at me, music is subjective and all, but we were invited to go with some friends to see TSO some years back. Itas... an 'experience'. We kept rolling our eyes and tried hard to keep from LOL with the other couple we went with, while the TSO fan couple that invited us were total engrossed in the spectacle.
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Speaking of Newport, how could I have forgotten to list... Dave Brubeck (late 80's? Post Paul Desmond, he had his sons with, and he gave me and my wife an autograph at the bar and was very nice)!
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Can you describe the first time you came to Maine, and what it was like for you?
DB: Well, not counting Bowdoin College (I performed at a number of Maine colleges in the 1950s – I’ve even been up here when it was all snow and people had those little red flags on their fenders … you know, it was really a lot of snow, I remember) … not counting that, do you know Swan’s Island. One of my close friends lives there, Eric Kunzel, conductor of the Cincinnatti Symphony, and I used to go visit Eric on Swan’s. It was fun to go to Swan’s Island because the crab were so abundant that you could eat all you want and not feel like you were spending a lot of money. The people would give you crab and say, ”Here, take this.” Fishermen would come by once in a while. We like Monhegan Island, too. You know the Black Point Inn? We like to go there, too.
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He came to our fraternity after the concert, and played w'Paul Desmond using the piano in our party room basement. Very memorable... freestyle fun...
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Thanks for bumping the memory!
I agree that TSO can be rather dramatic but we like the rock Christmas music. ...
Many of the old classic rock acts should FIRE, though I suspect many have drank/snorted at too high a SWR, and are touring because of the money.
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The band was "Flim and the BB's", who I'd never heard of. Hartford nailed it in the context of what I was listening to at the time.