It doesn't get much better than a Who concert :)
Posted on 07/17/2009 12:33:32 PM PDT by Gillmeister
Anyone but me into "Prog Rock"..........you know, the awesome 15 min long songs from the 60's and 70's?
Some of my faves..........early Genesis, Yes, Camel, Caravan, ELP, Harmonium, Gentle Giant, Van Der Graaf Generator.............anyone ?
Yes, yes and yes!
HA! Well maybe a guitar or two get hurt in the case of The Who :)
Otherwise, I consider "Quadrophenia" to be fairly 'prog' in a sense --- especially the overture (Quadrophenia) and underture (The Rock)
Ramones ??? What can I say ?? 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 ... bang bang bang ... over and done with in 2 minutes flat --- NEXT !! Gotta love The Ramones :)
And ironically he was so frustrated with the album that he left the band!
That was YOU who I was chatting with at that concert ???
I remember you saying something such as: "Reagan has an uphill battle for the nomination" ... and I replied: "Someday his time will come, maybe in '80" ...
Otherwise I just made up all the above (/chuckle) ... still, great concert at the ol' decrepit Roosevelt Stadium, ehhh? /grin
It doesn't get much better than a Who concert :)
Yah, I like guitars that are in-tune, as well as drums which are at least somewhat syncopated. But at least the Dead gives ya plenty of opportunities for 'beer runs', a-la their 'space jams' :)
/sarc off
Some comments on Grobschnitt’s Solar Music Live (which I recommended earlier) can be found here:
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=2868
I still have the first pressing LP (BRAIN Records) and though I’ve long since moved on to classical/jazz music, this LP is still a joy to play. Epic.
Have you heard the recent "Aqualung Live" CD? It's a live recording of the entire Aqualung album, in order, done in a studio for with a small audience present, for broadcast .. in it, Ian jokes about how Aqualung was construed by reviewers as being a 'concept album', which it really wasn't. But that if they wanted a 'concept album', wait'll they hear THIS one! (meaning TAAB)
(just a little Ian'ism anecdote :)
MM,
Yes, I actually have seen and heard parts of that live CD on Youtube, recently!
:) you’ve made me want to see it again! I hope it can still be found!
Junie K
There is nothing like a Who concert at the Garden ... absolutely NOTHING like it ... they absolutely OWN the big ol' barn when playing there, and we the audience OWN them too ... its a give-n-take dynamic which is inexplicable, but exists nonetheless ...
Remember the Concert for New York, just after 9/11 ?? The Who just simply took the place over and didn't give it back ... poor Paul McCartney, who organized the event, went on later and the barn was still buzzing over The Who's performance! Really something special with The Who and NYC audiences, and it hasn't faded either
Ian has said that in a number of interviews, well, how does he explain that in the very next song after “Aqualung”, “Cross eyed Mary”, we hear “rather make it with a lecherous gray, or maybe her attention was drawn by Aqualung...”
Plus, there are a number of melodic themes that are modified and re-worked.
So whether he INTENDED it to be a concept album, it certainly came out that way.
Yes to all! How about:
Strawbs
Banco
Osanna
IQ
Glass Hammer
Pendragon
Jethro Tull
Locanda Della Fate
...
A cover for the 131?
Yes, and I love how "Mother Goose" was reworked, with its Scottish folk themes ... I kinda sorta 'stumbled' on this CD a few weeks ago and since then its been playing nonstop in my vehicle.
Tull is one of my all time favorite bands, there is a tremendous body of work out there from them over the decades, plenty of it I've not yet heard, but whenever I do hear a 'new' thing from Tull, it is always charmingly melodic and interesting :)
Just for the record, my first *big* concert was Tull in 1973, "A Passion Play" tour ... man, they were on top of the world back then, its just too bad that Passion Play got slagged so badly in the press, I generally cherish that album.
Well, the first song is about Aqualung, a decrepit, degenerate ne’er do well.
Then, later, we hear “My God”, a song about redemption and restitution.
Co-inky-dink?
I don’t think so...
The CD I have has the original 13 tracks, plus an additional 6 or so. It’s not an anniversary edition, so I’m not sure why they put more on.
That is one hell of a question...interesting that the blonde like Close to the Edge...Relayer and a brunette is a winning combination.
Yes was the very first band I saw live. One of my all time favorites.
I’m with you Gargantua. The Dead (to their credit) took a lot of musical risks. When it didn’t click it could be boring. But when the stars lined up right, their jams were amazing, and, in my opinion, beyond anything anyone else has done.
Btw, I saw Phil Lesh and Friends a few years ago. Very, very, good. They did an extended jam that turned into “Playing in the Band” that was memorable.
I hear ya. Back in the 70’s I was big-time into that genre. My favorites were King Crimson, ELP, Yes and Kansas. Now, when I hear those bands I wonder what the hell I was thinking — they generally sound so overblown and pretentious, in spite of the fact that the musicianship is pretty good. Now I’m digging stripped-down bands like Disturbed and Audioslave. Absolutely killer, evil guitar riffs, monster, in-your-face drumming and no BS lyrics. To each his own!
Wow! I was at that concert, too! They opened with Siberian Khatru and when everybody stood up, my friend and I walked up to around 20 feet away from the band.
Didn’t someone get stabbed at that concert? I remember something about a stabbing at a Roosevelt Stadium concert and that’s what caused it shut down.
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