OT - Which of these bands have I NOT seen live?

[swaledale]

Gerry Rafferty

No saw him Newcastle City hall June 1978

[swaledale]

Got to be Lynyrd Skynyrd, way too redneck for you

No saw them twice Knebworth in 1976 and Birmingham Odeon in Feb 1977, then of course they had the plane crash, never seen the surviving members. who resumed sometime later.

I actually like quite a few southern rock bands, Allman brothers, The Outlaws.

[ramAnag]

Me neither. Ok here goes

Fairport Convention
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Cream
Frank Zappa
Grateful Dead
Hot Tuna
Neil Young
Leonard Cohen
Jethro Tull
Robert Cray Band
Bob Dylan
Santana
Abba
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Robin Trower
Joni Mitchell
Gerry Rafferty
Captain Beefheart
Tom Petty
The Tubes
Devo
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin

I’ll go for Joni Mitchell. Suspect you’re too young to have seen her in her hay day and she hasn’t toured much since.

GP...I feel as if you’ve been stalking me. Not only were you at Blackbushe but also Knebworth. Which one(s) did you go to? I was at the first one...Van Morrison (only time I’ve seen him happy), Doobie Bros, Allman Bros and ‘78 I think...Devo, Genesis and I can barely remember who else.

[Andy_Faber]

#3 would have been Henry McCullough then
Joe Cocker without Joe Cocker would have been an improvement
Have seen Dread Zeppelin but not the other two
So I will go with Def Leppard as the bluff

My fib was the Police last gig, I'd gone off them by then and anyway the last gig was in USA

Correct on Henry Mac, he did the Feelgoods UK tour after Wilko left

Joe Cocker is a strange one, he was so out of it in the late 70s that for one UK tour the promoters advertised 'Joe Cocker And Friends', and insisted on a reserve vocalist being on hand in case JC lost it. I saw the Stoke gig, got there late and he's already dipped out, and Roger Chapman (Family, Streetwalkers) was warbling through the second half of the set. JC was wheeled back on for the encores

Iron Maiden, younger rock fans consider it a thing of wonder that anyone still alive ever saw the Di'Anno line-up but they were well-toured before he left, I saw them a few times including the Assembly Rooms supported by Preying Mantis

I saw lots of early Police gigs, their really early gigs were just 'Fall Out' and a couple of other half-formed songs as a three piece before being part of Cherry Vanilla's or Jayne/Wayne County's band, I saw their first SOLO gig at The Music Machine and one of very few four-piece gigs at the same venue a month later (I'd been watching the Aussies at Leicester only two hours before, my mate (pre-mobiles, pre-internet) CAME AND FOUND ME coming out of Grace Road to see if I fancied going to the gig

Dread Zep can be a hoot on a good night, my two encounters with proper Zep were Knebworth 79 and o2 2007 (best gig I ever went to)

Utopia did a tour in the 70's where they put a made-up band name on the tour posters and actually did the first set themselves. You should have seen the rush from the bar!

And your pick, Def Leppard? No, saw them a few times in their early days, the first being a very early gig at a place I went to most weeks, again with my (older, driver) mate, The Limit in Sheffield, what a dive that was. My mate recalls we were at The Limit the week before and asked to go by one of the band who were at the club that night as punters, he's always reckoned it was Joe Elliot, but I don't remember that. Of course they later played the even bigger dive The Ajanta in Derby, and to show how they took off in 1980 they sort of filled The Ajanta in Feb, then sold out the Assembly Rooms in April the same year (I think it was April, didn't go to that one)

[Geoff Parkstone]

I’ll go for Joni Mitchell. Suspect you’re too young to have seen her in her hay day and she hasn’t toured much since.

GP...I feel as if you’ve been stalking me. Not only were you at Blackbushe but also Knebworth. Which one(s) did you go to? I was at the first one...Van Morrison (only time I’ve seen him happy), Doobie Bros, Allman Bros and ‘78 I think...Devo, Genesis and I can barely remember who else.

I was stalking Swale at Knebworth in fact - was the Nils Lofgren Hot Tuna 10cc Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Stones year. 1976 maybe

[Geoff Parkstone]

Oops my bad, Todd Rundgren not Nils, always get them muddled up. And Don Harrison (ex CCR) Band

[ramAnag]

My fib was the Police last gig, I'd gone off them by then and anyway the last gig was in USA

Joe Cocker is a strange one, he was so out of it in the late 70s that for one UK tour the promoters advertised 'Joe Cocker And Friends', and insisted on a reserve vocalist being on hand in case JC lost it.

Don’t go too early, Andy. I was just poised to say that about the Police.

I saw Joe Cocker at Belle Vue, Manchester in ‘72. He was so late on that many had given up and were thinking of leaving...then suddenly there he was...strange and slightly deranged figure who looked surprised to find he had arms that didn’t seem to belong to him...proceeded to perform one of the best sets I’ve ever had the privilege of seeing.

Interesting...think AF has pointed out before how music threads stop all the bickering and backbiting and it’s happened again.
Can’t help thinking though that this is all the forum’s sixty somethings sounding like their parents ‘reminiscing’ about the War.
Suppose it should tell us how lucky we were.

[swaledale]

I’ll go for Joni Mitchell. Suspect you’re too young to have seen her in her hay day and she hasn’t toured much since.

GP...I feel as if you’ve been stalking me. Not only were you at Blackbushe but also Knebworth. Which one(s) did you go to? I was at the first one...Van Morrison (only time I’ve seen him happy), Doobie Bros, Allman Bros and ‘78 I think...Devo, Genesis and I can barely remember who else.

Good try, but I caught her at the Birmingham NEC Arena in April 1983, not exactly the best venue for her to be honest.

Its actually an act which you would think I'd seen and indeed I had tickets but then caught glandular fever and was in no fit state to attend.

Seems Andy that were in the same vicinity at Knebworth, I went 1975,1976 and 1977.

[Andy_Faber]

Good try, but I caught her at the Birmingham NEC Arena in April 1983, not exactly the best venue for her to be honest.

Its actually an act which you would think I'd seen and indeed I had tickets but then caught glandular fever and was in no fit state to attend.

Seems Andy that were in the same vicinity at Knebworth, I went 1975,1976 and 1977.

Same piece of earth, different year. I only went in '79, but your '76 attendance makes my Skynyrd guess wrong obviously

[Andy_Faber]

Interesting...think AF has pointed out before how music threads stop all the bickering and backbiting and it’s happened again.
Can’t help thinking though that this is all the forum’s sixty somethings sounding like their parents ‘reminiscing’ about the War.
Suppose it should tell us how lucky we were.

Less of the sixty somethings please! I'm only just 59 (yesterday), and just to prove its not all peace and love the highlight of my day was *******ing some ignorant Frenchies for blowing fag smoke over my dinner table at the 'posh' (ie expensive) restaurant she took me to. But yes you are right, music seems to unite in a strange way that most other things don't and how much better to talk about happier younger days than our parents. Not sure the current younger generation will be able to do it but hey ho