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Good evening boys and girls and everything in between. Your normal cordial and hospitable host, CBD, is out on assignment or something to that effect.

So Garrett will be free from Croc memes for another month. Perhaps.

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Concert season will soon be upon us. At least that is what we Frozen Tundra residents say.

Attending concerts is one of the joys in life that The Fabulous and I do together. And as spring approaches we already have a couple of them lined up. One of the interesting things that has come about with the world wide web is the vast amount of knowledge and how varied it is.

For example when we see Chuck Prophet and The Bodeans in concert over the next couple of months we can go online and obtain the following:

-Set lists
-Merchandise to be found at the concert
-A view of the stage from your seat
-Reviews of the concert at previous venues

So you are probably thinking what does the definition of surprise have to do with tonight's Music Thread? Good question.

The Fabulous and I are big fans of Neil Young & Crazy Horse. We traveled to the famed Summer Fest grounds in Milwaukee in the Summer of 2003 to see Mr. Young and the best grunge band perform.

Young's new album hadn't been released. We hadn't heard of any reviews. We had no idea what was in store for us that evening. We were expecting classic Young & Crazy Horse. Boy were we surprised when he unveiled Greendale. The entire album was played. Then to top it off, they played 5 encore songs. I don't have a great memory, I have the handy dandy internet.

So I can look up all the information about an upcoming show. However, I do enjoy being surprised.

So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?

Thank you for stopping by. If you have complaints about tonight's entertaining music thread. Please contact CBD. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 08:00 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 18, 2025 08:00 PM (GYt5+)

2 Early!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at January 18, 2025 08:00 PM (FAbrK)

3 Metokur is back youtu.be/G35LWb5fxhA

Posted by: gKWVE at January 18, 2025 08:00 PM (gKWVE)

4 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 08:01 PM (fwDg9)

5 ( loud airplane sound, turn down )

@disclosetv 15m
NOW - Trump lands in Washington, DC.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 08:01 PM (mlg/3)

6 Howdy MisHum! Now, off to check out the content.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 18, 2025 08:01 PM (mH6SG)

7 Crocodile Hunter impression.

https://is.gd/Ka2xV9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 08:04 PM (L/fGl)

8 Been listening this week to a lot of 90s alternative music, then today a few videos on what happened to them since most broke up

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 08:06 PM (fwDg9)

9 Since wasn't a big concert goer as a teenager until went out on my own any concert was a shock to me.

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 08:08 PM (fwDg9)

10 Good evening morons and its great to have an mh ont

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 18, 2025 08:12 PM (LMyYC)

11 Last concerts I went to that I enjoyed were Jon Anderson (just him and an acoustic guitar) and Anonymous 4 (Medieval motets).

Anything electric just gets too loud and the sound just kind of mushes in the air. Boy do they make sure the drums come through crystal clear. Never understood that--drums are for keeping time, right?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 18, 2025 08:14 PM (CHHv1)

12 I alway love the emeritus reference. Nice to see you, Mis Hum.

Posted by: scampydog at January 18, 2025 08:15 PM (yMOnf)

13 So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?

Pink Floyd on their early Dark Side of the Moon tour. Not so much a surprise (since I had the album already) as a sensory overload. What an amazing show that was.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 18, 2025 08:15 PM (mH6SG)

14 So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?
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Saw Laurie Anderson on her Mister Heartbreak tour back in 1984 in Richmond VA. It was my first non-Classical concert, done in a beautiful old historic venue. She played her tape-bow violin, and there was animation projected behind her. It was all very avant-garde and art pop-y and I loved it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 18, 2025 08:17 PM (kpS4V)

15 I can't do concerts anymore. Too loud. I always preferred small venues, but those are too loud now, too.

One of my fave small shows was Julie and Buddy Miller. That was good.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 18, 2025 08:17 PM (OX9vb)

16 And hello MisHum. Nice to see you.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 18, 2025 08:18 PM (kpS4V)

17 Actually seeing Pink Floyd doing The Wall wasn't as much as a surprise.
1st week at Knebworth was a shock, 2nd time then not as much.

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 08:19 PM (fwDg9)

18 Several, but the one that really stands out is seeing Goose Creek Symphony (!) at The Cellar Door in DC somewhere in the second half of the 70's. They were tight! And you were part of the joy they were feeling in playing. On the other end of the spectrum, saw the Stills-Young tour whenever the heck that was (at Largo, I think , for you old DC folks), with a thoroughly drunk and embarrassing Stills; I vaguely remember a very pissed Young taking over the rest of the show.

Posted by: Patches at January 18, 2025 08:20 PM (8ma84)

19 hahahah!! uninstalling Biden!

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 08:20 PM (g47mK)

20 Of Monsters and Men at Bonnaroo. 2013
Adele at Bonnaroo. 2008

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at January 18, 2025 08:20 PM (5k1jg)

21 You cannot buy R134 refrigerant in the state of washington. This guy I know went to the local parts store to buy some unaware of this fact. After much discussion and ranting about the idiot gov. this guy left the store.
He was followed out by another customer who related that if my friend were to drop 40 dollars after finding two cans of refrigerant at the rear of this persons car, things would be good. They were.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at January 18, 2025 08:20 PM (+VovS)

22 Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 18, 2025 08:14 PM (CHHv1

I love Anonymous 4!! I haven't seen them in years, didn't even know they were still touring.

We saw them in the 90s; they performed at the dedication of a Greek Orthodox church that had been restored. Or maybe it was just the ceiling that had been restored and an incredible mosaic mural installed.
At any rate, the concert was literally breathtaking. They sounded like one voice. It was mesmerizing to hear them live after many years of enjoying their cds at hone.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 18, 2025 08:21 PM (Vvh2V)

23 It was all very avant-garde and art pop-y and I loved it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 18, 2025 08:17 PM (kpS4V)

Oh, that would have been right up my alley!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 18, 2025 08:21 PM (OX9vb)

24 I love going to see bands, but am pretty much done with the large shows. MisHum, Chuck Prophet is of course big out here in the SF Bay area. I've only seen him once a couple of years ago. I just missed him at a very small venue about a month ago. What do you think of his new album Wake the Dead with its Latin feel?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at January 18, 2025 08:21 PM (lg881)

25 So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?

The 'farewell' Boingo concert at Universal. I think I'm in the concert DVD.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 08:22 PM (mlg/3)

26 "I love Anonymous 4!! I haven't seen them in years, didn't even know they were still touring."

This was several years ago as I recall. Early 2000's I believe.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 18, 2025 08:23 PM (CHHv1)

27 MisHum! How wonderful to see your wonderful posting! While my story wasn't a concert surprise, it was a surprise.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at January 18, 2025 08:23 PM (+VovS)

28 I can't do concerts anymore. Too loud. I always preferred small venues, but those are too loud now, too.

One of my fave small shows was Julie and Buddy Miller. That was good.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 18, 2025 08:17 PM (OX9vb)

I always hated concerts. Also went to a number of raves back in the day; also too loud and obnoxious.

I could enjoy some live music, if only it were quieter. The worst, imho, is going to a bar or coffee shop that has live music. They play so loud you can’t have a conversation.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 18, 2025 08:23 PM (FC8SQ)

29 Good evening everyone.

Both Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd played Cleveland back in '77.

I'm told I had a hell of a time.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:24 PM (WXNFJ)

30 It was all very avant-garde and art pop-y and I loved it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

I just loved her Oh Superman! (Laurie Anderson)

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:25 PM (WXNFJ)

31 >>You cannot buy R134 refrigerant in the state of washington.

Dafuq. What are you supposed to use? Isobutane?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 18, 2025 08:25 PM (FC8SQ)

32
Ahh, there's good news. Sony is releasing on 94 CDs the 1964-1983 recordings by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, supplementing the releases of the mono recordings from 1944-1957 and the early stereo recordings from 1958-1963. Now all they need are the RCA albums from the 60s and 70s

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 18, 2025 08:26 PM (dxSpM)

33 So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?

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I don't like surprises.....

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 08:26 PM (g47mK)

34 My first concert was Zappa, with Bill Withers as opening act. The surprise was that Diane C. agreed to go with me.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at January 18, 2025 08:26 PM (+VovS)

35 27 MisHum! How wonderful to see your wonderful posting! While my story wasn't a concert surprise, it was a surprise.
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at January 18, 2025 08:23 PM (+VovS)

Howdy Some Rat
Stick around for an Ont

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2025 08:26 PM (QXQ4l)

36 "So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?"

July 13, 2024

Boz Scaggs was booked for Avery Fisher Hall before Silk Degrees climbed the charts. So a small venue and a tough ticket. I finagled four in the front row far right.

Seven songs in the lights went out. No sound except a coked-up Jeff Porcaro banging away on his drums in the dark.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 08:26 PM (Gqoy+)

37 I meant July 13, 1977,

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 08:27 PM (Gqoy+)

38 I hadn’t listened to Neil Young much in a decade or two, but I did go to see him in Phoenix on his Rust Never Sleeps tour, and that was a great concert.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 08:27 PM (7MHHr)

39 I've been to many, many great concerts. I think the only real surprise....more of a shock, honestly...was Bob Dylan/ Greatful Dead, at Anaheim Stadium.

I think the Dead were all clean, the show was very professional, everyone played really well.... and it was the most boring Dead concert I'd ever been to.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 18, 2025 08:27 PM (Vvh2V)

40 It just occurred to me to try O Superman next time I can't fall asleep because of mindrace.

I'll bet that beat and her soothing voice would calm everything right down.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 18, 2025 08:28 PM (OX9vb)

41 And hello MisHum. Nice to see you.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 18, 2025 08:18 PM (kpS4V)

Nice to be seen, I do believe

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2025 08:28 PM (QXQ4l)

42 Hello, MisHum!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 18, 2025 08:28 PM (Vvh2V)

43 Dafuq. What are you supposed to use? Isobutane?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Use a licensed dealer, who has paid all the proper fees and passed a rigorous environmental course. (I'm guessing on the latter part)

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at January 18, 2025 08:29 PM (+VovS)

44 Nice to be seen, I do believe
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

As a funeral home buddy says to me - It's always been to be seen rather than viewed.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:29 PM (WXNFJ)

45 Surprised at an event? Well, I went to my very first NHL game. It was at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, and due to where I lived, I was obligated to root for the Flyers.

The surprise occurred in the second period. The ref took a spill skating backwards down the ice and broke his ankle. Despite being a distance away from the ice, I could tell that he broke his ankle because of the bizarre way it was pointing. Obviously, the ref was in serious pain and he banged his fist on the ice it emphasize that truth.

The Flyers fans booed the ref for five straight minutes because he wouldn't get off the ice and allow the game to continue. That....surprised...me. Although, in retrospect, it shouldn't have.

Posted by: Orson at January 18, 2025 08:30 PM (dIske)

46 Nice to be seen, I do believe
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Depends on what place you're seen leaving at 4AM. (smiley face icon here)

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at January 18, 2025 08:30 PM (+VovS)

47 Show that surprised me - Jean Luc Ponty in the 70’s. I got a ticket to a 200 seat venue, very intimate, through a strange confluence of events, and web having no idea I’d be listening to this electric violin playing jazz. Wild!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 08:30 PM (7MHHr)

48 An event that surprised me. I went and saw Dinosaur Jr at a small venue in Tijuana in 1991 (Iguanas, they had some cool bands play there). I had listened to the opening band's first album through a friend and liked it but didn't know much about them. They blew us away. A couple of months later they released the first single from their upcoming second album "Nevermind", "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at January 18, 2025 08:31 PM (lg881)

49 "Pink Floyd on their early Dark Side of the Moon tour."

When I saw them in 1977 at Nassau Coliseum they played Animals for the first set, DSOTM for the second set and 20 minutes of Echoes for an encore.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 18, 2025 08:31 PM (Gqoy+)

50 Are Philly fans pan-assholic across all sports? Damn.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 18, 2025 08:32 PM (kpS4V)

51 youtu.be/WLi5dsMd8IA

Howdy.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 18, 2025 08:32 PM (C26rB)

52 PDJT just disembarking from his plane.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:33 PM (WXNFJ)

53 Thought of another one. Yo-Yo Ma.

I love classical music, especially cello. I had heard a lot about him, everyone raving, all of it good.

Well.
I fear my ear is not sophisticated enough for all that ~~caterwauling~~ type of thing.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 18, 2025 08:34 PM (Vvh2V)

54 Use a licensed dealer, who has paid all the proper fees and passed a rigorous environmental course. (I'm guessing on the latter part)
Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at January 18, 2025 08:29 PM (+VovS)

Ahh, I thought they had banned it altogether; they’re just forcing you to go to a mechanic. I wonder how much the dealer associations paid for that?

When I’ve done auto a/c work I’ve just vented it to the atmosphere. The ozone depletion/global warming hit is so ridiculously small, especially compared to India and China.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 18, 2025 08:34 PM (FC8SQ)

55 SHIT! nvmd. It was on tape.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:34 PM (WXNFJ)

56 As a funeral home buddy says to me - It's always been to be seen rather than viewed.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:29 PM (WXNFJ)

I saw Funeral Home Buddies open for none other than the Grateful Dead.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 08:35 PM (W/lyH)

57 I just loved her Oh Superman! (Laurie Anderson)
Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 08:25 PM (WXNFJ)

That album, Big Science, is the only one of hers that I own. It's a great album and that song is almost hypnotic.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at January 18, 2025 08:35 PM (lg881)

58 The most raucous concert I’ve gone to was AC/DC a couple months before Bon Scott died. They had this unknown (at the time) warm up band with them called Cheap Trick.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 08:35 PM (7MHHr)

59 Lindsey Stirling is pleasant.

Posted by: Eromero at January 18, 2025 08:36 PM (LHPAg)

60
SHIT. Are you Biden? LOL

Posted by: four seasons at January 18, 2025 08:37 PM (3ek7K)

61 Posted by: Diogenes at January 18, 2025 08:35 PM (W/lyH

😂

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 18, 2025 08:38 PM (Vvh2V)

62 So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?

As an afterthought, I went to a Loverboy concert at Killians in Tampa. Mid 90s sometime. I was with some friends and pretty drunk by the time they started. Excellent show. There selling out arena days and charting songs are long in the past, but they didn't play like it. Gave it their all and it was a hell of a show.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 18, 2025 08:38 PM (C26rB)

63 what happened to them since most broke up
Posted by: Skip
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Some just aged out.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 08:39 PM (4780s)

64
So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?

_________

I went to a recital by Jean-Pierre Rampal. I had expected him to be a dapper little fellow and was surprised to see he was a huge shambling bear of a guy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 18, 2025 08:41 PM (dxSpM)

65 Another surprise...mostly that I enjoyed myself. I'm not a big James Taylor fan, although I enjoy a nice melody regardless of the artist. I went to the concert at the Mann Music center which is an outdoor stage with grass seating.

The surprise came when he did "Shower the People." Turns out an errant rain cloud decided to upstage Mr. Taylor and let out a light drizzle through the entire song...When the song ended, so did the rain, and the sun came out again. No embellishment. Taylor spent the next few minutes laughing and shaking his head in wonder before continuing the concert. Bonus: Totally unannounced, Carly Simon showed up to duet with Taylor (apparently they had been previously married and at the time they were getting along)

Posted by: Orson at January 18, 2025 08:43 PM (dIske)

66 I was surprised by the opening act when I saw The Who.
It was some Southern group I hadn't heard of. Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 18, 2025 08:44 PM (63Dwl)

67 Another concert that was a surprise was Lyle Lovett and his Large (not Big) Band. A rare group that is far better live than they are on recordings. Partly because Lovett is such an entertainer, in between songs he’d tell stories and jokes and talk to the audience like he knew you personally.
One of the most amazing things was that about every 3 songs he’d stop and about 3 or 4 of the band members would go to the sidelines and replacements would come out; and the band would totally change its style. They’d go from country to bluegrass to gospel to western to light rock, and watching Lovett was like watching a coach calling plays, moving players on and off the field like a master. It was like watching 6 different bands with 6 completely different sounds that night.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 08:44 PM (7MHHr)

68 SPINAL TAP
AND
PUPPET SHOW

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 18, 2025 08:45 PM (kpS4V)

69 The only live concert i was too of modem as opposed to classical was Bob Dylan. I think that was in the early 80's. It was on date with the future FenSpouse . I wouldn't say I'm a huge Dylan fan and his voice is terrible but he wrote some quotes good songs and music , he arrived on time and did a good show. I don't think he's a primadonna musician and seems to appreciate his fans.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 08:45 PM (hgasP)

70 quite not quote

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 08:46 PM (hgasP)

71 In 2006, I went to see Natalie MacMaster, the great Cape Breton fiddle player.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdHR12lPcgI

What I did not know is that she also dances.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HuwuZG_HFo

Easily one of the best shows I've been to see.

Posted by: huerfano at January 18, 2025 08:46 PM (DKIGo)

72 Well, I hope Neil Young will remember,
Southern man don’t need him around anyway.

Posted by: R. VanZant at January 18, 2025 08:47 PM (/YsEG)

73 Uninstalling Joe Biden

The Joe Biden OS has left trojans, worms, virii, and all sorts of open back doors.
I suggest the entire system get a full security scan.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 18, 2025 08:47 PM (ynpvh)

74 Seeing Dave Mason in concert for the first time was a pleasant surprise.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 18, 2025 08:48 PM (mH6SG)

75 Was leaving a bar in the late 90s and heard a kind country/rockabilly music coming from the club next door. Went in and saw the Derailers. Best show I've seen.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 18, 2025 08:48 PM (Dm8we)

76 Posted by: huerfano at January 18, 2025 08:46 PM (DKIGo)

Thanks. I will look her up. My family when I was a kid spent years in the summers in Cape Breton.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 08:49 PM (hgasP)

77 Now this isn’t really a concert, but I did go to Blue Man Group once and that was a lot of fun.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 08:51 PM (7MHHr)

78
Blue Man Group show we attended was so much fun. We took our kids and it was a great time.

Posted by: four seasons at January 18, 2025 08:52 PM (3ek7K)

79 >>Another surprise...mostly that I enjoyed myself. I'm not a big James Taylor fan, although I enjoy a nice melody regardless of the artist. I went to the concert at the Mann Music center which is an outdoor stage with grass seating.

Very first concert I went to as a wee tot was James Taylor at Princeton University. Smaller hall that was on the law school campus, he was still on the way up. He was there with his full band and an overflow crowd of few thousand, all electrified acoustic stuff.

First song, the power goes out with a bang. Lights out, music done and the crowd getting loud and pissed. Taylor started playing without any amplification and the whole place was quiet as a church. He played about an hour like that and the only time the crowd made a sound was to clap enthusiastically after each song.

That was unexpected but pretty cool.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 08:52 PM (LkLld)

80 Good evening, dear Horde. I'm literally ill with anxiety to have this appalling decade in our country's history come to an end!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 18, 2025 08:53 PM (D6+4s)

81 Well, I hope Neil Young will remember,
Southern man don’t need him around anyway.
Posted by: R. VanZant
_______

According to the Drive-by Truckers song Three Alabama Icons, he was an honorary pallbearer at your funeral.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 18, 2025 08:53 PM (Dm8we)

82
Ladyl,

Hubby and I feel the same way. We're praying Bribem
doesn't kick the bucket before the inauguration and we have Kumula for a day. Egads!!

Posted by: four seasons at January 18, 2025 08:54 PM (3ek7K)

83 Howdy all! I was totally surprised when I went to a Chris Isaak concert with my wife at a small-ish outdoor venue. I assumed it was going to be predominantly chick music, but I was totally wrong and completely blown away by his talent as a musician and entertainer. He came off the stage and made a bit loop through the crowd while singing/playing. One of the most fun concerts I've been to.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at January 18, 2025 08:54 PM (kOluj)

84 So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?

Early on, Dream Theater would change their setlist every night on tour, so you were guaranteed a few surprises.

I wasn't one of the super-crazy fans who would follow them around and see the "same" tour show a dozen times, but they changed enough songs that people did that.

Posted by: mikeski at January 18, 2025 08:54 PM (DgGvY)

85 Most surprising concert I went to was on The Radiators' goodbye tour.
They played a somewhat staid art/folk rock venue in Fall River, and the band and the packed crowd of 2 or 3 hundred had other ideas.
Never had a more fun concert at the place either before or after.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 08:55 PM (4780s)

86 Mars Needs Garretts

Posted by: Gays on Mars at January 18, 2025 08:55 PM (v0R5T)

87 Ladyl,

Hubby and I feel the same way. We're praying Bribem
doesn't kick the bucket before the inauguration and we have Kumula for a day. Egads!!
Posted by: four seasons at January 18, 2025 08:54 PM (3ek7K)

Oh Good God NO!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 18, 2025 08:56 PM (D6+4s)

88 ha! I just checked up on the HUge Hispanic Inaugural Ball. Javier Milei and the El Presidente de Paragua gave speeches, and it's all a big party.

Posted by: runner at January 18, 2025 08:56 PM (g47mK)

89 If not a surprise a bit bizarre, at Myrtle Beach a band ( Molly Hatchet I think) was playing outside at one of the venues but to see them behind the barricades one had to pay but of course music isn't stopped by plastic

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 08:56 PM (fwDg9)

90 Well, I hope Neil Young will remember

Sorry, no space available.

Posted by: Neil Youngs brain cells at January 18, 2025 08:57 PM (v0R5T)

91 Went to a Huey Lewis and the News concert. Part way through Huey asked the stage crew to turn off the lights and then said to the audience, "turn around and look at that! That's what we've been seeing from the stage all this time!" Was the most *glorious* sunset, in technicolor. I appreciated the gesture

(was a good concert too!)

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at January 18, 2025 08:57 PM (arzIt)

92 So much controversy surrounding the performers and musical atmosphere for the inauguration. Let us not cast out our friends and allies and accept their future support with grace and big balls.

youtube.com/watch?v=B_3TlrZLpQ0

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 08:58 PM (hXQfZ)

93 My dream is to go to a concert at Red Rocks in Colorado. I toured the site in July and it was fantastic!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 18, 2025 08:58 PM (D6+4s)

94 A concert I skipped that I always kinda regretted - on our honeymoon night we drove up to a resort hotel in Hot Springs, Ark. so as we headed up the room that had Champaign waiting for us I noticed their entertainment hall was packed (they were known for hosting big acts) and the sign read “Tonight only; B.B. King!”

Yeah I was tempted, but naah.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 08:58 PM (7MHHr)

95 >>Most surprising concert I went to was on The Radiators' goodbye tour.
They played a somewhat staid art/folk rock venue in Fall River

The Narrows?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 08:59 PM (LkLld)

96 Saw 38 Special open for the Police in VA in the early 80's... 38 Special was all over the stage, jumping off of speaker columns... HIGH ENERGY...

Police, came out and played... sounded perfect... but zero energy... we left half way through their set.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 18, 2025 09:00 PM (QAkQ3)

97 I linked this on the ONT a couple nights ago, but OK Go's videos are always surprising. Or jaw-dropping.

https://youtu.be/MOEULOSVNK4

Posted by: mikeski at January 18, 2025 09:01 PM (DgGvY)

98 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 08:58 PM (7MHHr)

Saw BB King more than once, at of all places... the Denver Bar B Que Concert and Competition... had multiple stages and GREAT Blues... and of course... Free BBQ... (you'd get a sample at every stand, and vote on the best).

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 18, 2025 09:02 PM (QAkQ3)

99 Posted by: Neil Youngs brain cells at January 18, 2025 08:57 PM (v0R5T)

Neil Young BASIC routine:

10 Hate white people
20 Complain about GMOs
30 Shill for big pharma
40 goto 10

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 18, 2025 09:02 PM (FC8SQ)

100 A request, if you have any jewelry made by jewells would you please send a picture to TRex at the hobby thread.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:03 PM (oT+t6)

101
An event that surprised me.
I. Was. There.

on the 4th of July in San Diego when the pyrotechnician accidentally shot off ALL the fireworks in the first go. Up close it was supposedly fantastic, but from where we were on a hilltop, they made this sad little arc and fell in the ocean, and that was it for the whole night. It made national news.

My friends from the East Coast and I had packed their squirming kids into the car to get to a great view. It took about an hour to drive three miles to get home.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 18, 2025 09:03 PM (lCaJd)

102 "So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?"

Many years ago, I attended a concert by a Chicago-based early-music group, the Harwood Early Music Ensemble, in which they played Anglo-Burgundian music by Josquin de Prez, Johannes Ockeghem, and Heinrich Isaac. It introduced me to entire school of wonderful music. Glad I went!

Posted by: Nemo at January 18, 2025 09:04 PM (S6ArX)

103 Ladyl! Good evening!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 18, 2025 09:04 PM (OX9vb)

104 Free BBQ... (you'd get a sample at every stand, and vote on the best).
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 18, 2025 09:02 PM (QAkQ3)

TANSTAAFBBQ

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 18, 2025 09:05 PM (FC8SQ)

105 The Narrows?
Posted by: JackStraw
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Yeh, just a few years back. It's a nice place but kind of fell out of the rotation with the endless highway work.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 09:05 PM (4780s)

106 >>>Yeah I was tempted, but naah.

Posted by: Tom Servo

>B.B. King was a one of kind special act like no other. A magnificent showman and always played from his heart and soul. Simply the finest.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 09:06 PM (hXQfZ)

107 You paid money to sit and listen to Neil Young?

Huh

How odd.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 18, 2025 09:07 PM (Q4IgG)

108 I been to Red Rocks but sadly no concert was going on there at the time.

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 09:08 PM (fwDg9)

109
Another event that surprised me. I went to the Monterey Jazz Festival one year and really liked the Reverend Horton Heat and Koko Taylor. Went home and downloaded some of their music and it seemed so... meh. Live performances are somehow better. Even if it's the same song, it sounds better somehow live.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 18, 2025 09:10 PM (lCaJd)

110 >>Yeh, just a few years back. It's a nice place but kind of fell out of the rotation with the endless highway work.

Ever make it down to the tent at the Newport Yachting Center before they fucked that up with yet another useless hotel? Some great shows there.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 09:10 PM (LkLld)

111 I'm a Parrothead so my husband took me anughter to and our oldest daughter to see Buffett. We have been to many but this time we haven't bought tickets. Husband went to the ticket office and asked what was available. We scored second row center. Saw The Flying Elvis'es (?) drop in and Otis Day and the nights singing Shout andof course JB. At another JB show, we were there when the volcano caught fire and had fire trucks from all over come to put out the fire.

Posted by: Megthered at January 18, 2025 09:10 PM (kotdD)

112 Good evening, Dash!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 18, 2025 09:10 PM (D6+4s)

113 I spent the day driving and listening to Talking Heads Greatest hits . Twice.

Nice way to pass 2 1/2 Hours.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 18, 2025 09:10 PM (D6PGr)

114 Megthered, that sounds more like a Spinal Tap concert!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 18, 2025 09:11 PM (kpS4V)

115 Zappa at the Cowtown Ballroom, KCMo. Maybe '75?
They were in tuxedos, and had the big band era music stands. Bizarre. He's more fun in person than on vinyl.
Warmup band was a new (to us) act Steely Dan

Posted by: MkY at January 18, 2025 09:12 PM (cPGH3)

116 113 I spent the day driving and listening to Talking Heads Greatest hits . Twice.

Nice way to pass 2 1/2 Hours.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 18, 2025 09:10 PM (D6PGr)

I can't help it. I love Talking Heads. They're kind of addictive.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 18, 2025 09:12 PM (D6+4s)

117 Posted by: Megthered at January 18, 2025 09:10 PM (kotdD)

Saw Buffet a couple times in Hawaii at the Honolulu Shell.... great outdoor concert, and the only one where you were almost required to bring your own booze in...

And... Black and Decker battery powered blender to make Margaritas? Yeah.... I was popular that night.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 18, 2025 09:13 PM (QAkQ3)

118 Oh, had a friend convince me to go see Leo Kotke at a small room (not even a music auditorium) at UMKC.
Maybe 12 people?
He did his job. What a guitarist!

Posted by: MkY at January 18, 2025 09:13 PM (cPGH3)

119 Cowtown? Ballroom? I saw Commander Cody there in 75/76?

Posted by: free tibet at January 18, 2025 09:13 PM (1wtUm)

120 I can't help it. I love Talking Heads. They're kind of addictive.
Posted by: Ladyl at January 18, 2025 09:12 PM (D6+4s)

My favorite song of theirs has gotten to be And She Was. Hard to sit still listening to that one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 09:14 PM (7MHHr)

121 I saw most of my concerts at the Lake Charles Civic Center in Louisiana. I don’t know who my father knew but he got free tickets for every concert played . I even saw Elvis in 1975 when I was 14 years old.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 18, 2025 09:14 PM (D6PGr)

122 Cowtown? Ballroom? I saw Commander Cody there in 75/76?
Posted by: free tibet

It was a fun venue. Only time I felt ripped off was Ravi Shankar.

Posted by: MkY at January 18, 2025 09:14 PM (cPGH3)

123 UMKC- mostly spent our time in the river Quay area, before the mob burned it out. Dirty McNasty's

Posted by: free tibet at January 18, 2025 09:15 PM (1wtUm)

124 MisHum--would you know how I might send photos to TRex for the hobby thread? Thank you so much, dahlin.

Posted by: Ladyl at January 18, 2025 09:15 PM (D6+4s)

125 A request, if you have any jewelry made by jewells would you please send a picture to TRex at the hobby thread.
****
And could you please send all photos this week, in time for posting in next week's Hobby Thread. Thank you very much.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at January 18, 2025 09:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

126 I saw Sammy Davis Jr. in a supper club in Tahoe.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:16 PM (oT+t6)

127 I saw BB King at an outdoor blues concert in Orlando though I was really there to see Eric Johnson. Eric was okay (though he appeared to be melting from the FL heat and humidity) and BB was good, of course. But, the guy who really stole the show was Buddy Guy. His set blew my mind.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 18, 2025 09:16 PM (DTX3h)

128 Ever make it down to the tent at the Newport Yachting Center before they fucked that up with yet another useless hotel? Some great shows there.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Only once, can't remember who. My Newport friends went there a lot.
I'm Rt. 95, Westerly to Pawtucket; Knickerbocker, Pump House, Nick-a-Nee's, The Met.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 09:16 PM (4780s)

129 So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?

Why yes, now that you ask, I have, and that very recently.

I am totally surprised to peruse an entire music-themed Thread hosted by the esteemed and inimitable Misanthropic Humanitarian without Frank Zappa.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2025 09:16 PM (a3Q+t)

130 Grateful, I will keep repeating that request. Have already sent out asks.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:17 PM (oT+t6)

131 A request, if you have any jewelry made by jewells would you please send a picture to TRex at the hobby thread.
****
And could you please send all photos this week, in time for posting in next week's Hobby Thread. Thank you very much.
************
Lastly, can you please pass this on so everyone knows about the request? Thanks again

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at January 18, 2025 09:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

132 A concert I would love to have gone to but never did was Dire Straits because I love their music and think Mark Knopfler is brilliant as a guitarist. I don't know why going to concerts of modern trendy musicians just never occurred to me- maybe the cost ( I went to a lot of free music things at Princeton University) .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:17 PM (lPE4Z)

133 Most surprising concert for me was a whim 2 friends and I had to go see, for lack of anything better to do, Fields of the Nephelim in Dusseldorf Germany in 91. We had never heard of them before that.
Awesome show and years later I found it on Youboob so I am actually reliving it right now.
Not a lot of people enjoy the emo gothic stuff but I have been a fan ever since.
Latest was Clutch at Harrahs Lake Tahoe whome I catch every chance I get.

Posted by: Reforger at January 18, 2025 09:18 PM (xcIvR)

134 https://cowtownbr.weebly.com/

Must have been '74 we saw Zappa. 38 months.
I must have gone to 10 or 12 shows in that time. Always with older bros and friends.

Posted by: MkY at January 18, 2025 09:18 PM (cPGH3)

135 "This Must Be The Place" is a good Talking Heads song

Posted by: gKWVE at January 18, 2025 09:18 PM (gKWVE)

136 Mark Knopfler is also great as a solo artist. Great song writer.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 18, 2025 09:19 PM (OX9vb)

137 didn't Neil Young disavow "southern man"?

Posted by: gKWVE at January 18, 2025 09:20 PM (gKWVE)

138
131 A request, if you have any jewelry made by jewells would you please send a picture to TRex at the hobby thread.
****
And could you please send all photos this week, in time for posting in next week's Hobby Thread. Thank you very much.
************
Lastly, can you please pass this on so everyone knows about the request? Thanks again
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at January 18, 2025 09:17 PM (IQ6Gq)

Grateful--do you have contact info for TRex so I can send the pictures?

Posted by: Ladyl at January 18, 2025 09:21 PM (D6+4s)

139
101

on the 4th of July in San Diego when the pyrotechnician accidentally shot off ALL the fireworks in the first go. Up close it was supposedly fantastic, but from where we were on a hilltop, they made this sad little arc and fell in the ocean, and that was it for the whole night. It made national news.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 18, 2025 09:03 PM (lCaJd)

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I was there, around the North end of San Diego bay, I guess a couple of miles away. I recall that all the fireworks colors combined made a whitish-purple color.

It was actually international news. Relatives overseas asked about it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 18, 2025 09:21 PM (QOikT)

140 free tibet
Got some stories about the whole River Market thing. Went to grade school with a "Cummins" (Comissano), and had a pretty good friend in High School named Barber (Barbarino).
Worked with an old bookie who became a commodity broker. His book was the "Who's Who" of KC tough guys... all old and pretty mellow when I met them.

Posted by: MkY at January 18, 2025 09:21 PM (cPGH3)

141 Trump is back in DC. He rode in on AF1.

America is Back, Baby!

Posted by: ALH is a girl at January 18, 2025 09:22 PM (+HzbQ)

142 weirdest fact about Laurie Anderson: she married Lou Reed.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 18, 2025 09:22 PM (CHHv1)

143 Saw Commander Cody at Knebworth 79, last week he was brought up and watched a few videos afterwards

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 09:22 PM (fwDg9)

144 During my dirtiest I was trying to determine which Talking Heads song was my favorite. I ended up with a ten way tie.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 18, 2025 09:22 PM (D6PGr)

145 We always had a great time at Buffett concerts. We saw Clapton at the first concert after his son died. He was totally acoustic, just a guitar and sitting on a stool. It was amazing, the feelings at that show.

Posted by: Megthered at January 18, 2025 09:23 PM (kotdD)

146 Lady L, TRex's email is moronhobbies at protonmail dot com

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at January 18, 2025 09:23 PM (IQ6Gq)

147 As I recall, Neil Young loved "Sweet Home Alabama" and was saddened that he never got to tell Ronnie Van Zant

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 18, 2025 09:23 PM (CHHv1)

148 How did drive turn into dirtiest? Autocorrect is a funny mf’er.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 18, 2025 09:23 PM (D6PGr)

149 Ben Had.
Harrahs supper club?
I saw the Moody Blues there in 1988.

Posted by: Reforger at January 18, 2025 09:23 PM (xcIvR)

150 Pick 6.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 18, 2025 09:23 PM (VcQbU)

151 46 Lady L, TRex's email is moronhobbies at protonmail dot com

Thank you!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at January 18, 2025 09:23 PM (D6+4s)

152 What's up with Jewells?

Posted by: ALH is a girl at January 18, 2025 09:24 PM (+HzbQ)

153 >>Only once, can't remember who. My Newport friends went there a lot.
I'm Rt. 95, Westerly to Pawtucket; Knickerbocker, Pump House, Nick-a-Nee's, The Met.

If you ever turn left and head east let me. Wakefield is about 15 minutes from me.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 09:24 PM (LkLld)

154 I've been thinking of blasting this tune for a neighbor or two on Monday. It was used as the theme song for television's "The Plot Against America" aka Fascism comes to USA via Charles Lindbergh had he used his popularity and successfully ran against FDR prior to WWII. The show brought out many comparisons from the Left to Lindy and DJT after he mentioned "putting America first."

It's actually a New Deal song by Dick Powell and I love the fact that maybe said neighbors might confuse "Dawn" the golden start of the day" as " Don the golden start of the day" in the opening lyrics.

https://youtu.be/eCKvfLcwL3E

Posted by: Rex B at January 18, 2025 09:24 PM (LS72h)

155 Reforger,yep. Saw Louie Prima and Keely Smith there too.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:24 PM (oT+t6)

156 I also have no idea what Knopfler's politics are which I appreciate-as opposed to Neil Young.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:25 PM (MQJVv)

157 Fen, I would have loved to see Knopflet/Dire Straits as well! Never got the chance. Especially if I could have seen their Brothers in Arms tour.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 09:25 PM (7MHHr)

158 Wish I could've seen the James Gang. Heard Joe put on a helluva show with them.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 18, 2025 09:26 PM (Dm8we)

159 >>>But, the guy who really stole the show was Buddy Guy. His set blew my mind.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik

>Buddy Guy is a virtuoso. His vocals were never in the same sphere as his playing, but he was unsurpassed with Muddy Waters and Junior Wells and the list goes on and on.

Loved that Guy playing.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 18, 2025 09:26 PM (hXQfZ)

160 Posted by: ALH is a girl at January 18, 2025 09:24 PM (+HzbQ)

She's been having cancer treatments and reported that she is in a lot of pain and isn't able to get out of bed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:26 PM (MQJVv)

161 I've seen a lot of good Thursday night shows over the years in Providence, bars and small venues.
Especially newer bands, they can squeeze in an extra gig between NY and Boston area gigs.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 09:26 PM (4780s)

162 ALH, hard times for a good lady. A thread will be donated to her talent and generosity.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:26 PM (oT+t6)

163 So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?

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I never saw the Tertiary Era coming.

Posted by: A Stegosaurus at January 18, 2025 09:27 PM (dDmld)

164 >>A concert I would love to have gone to but never did was Dire Straits because I love their music and think Mark Knopfler is brilliant as a guitarist. I don't know why going to concerts of modern trendy musicians just never occurred to me- maybe the cost ( I went to a lot of free music things at Princeton University) .

Saw them at the Worcester Centrum in 198?. Great show. Not every band is better live but they were.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 09:27 PM (LkLld)

165 155 Reforger,yep. Saw Louie Prima and Keely Smith there too.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:24 PM (oT+t6)

I was there 2 years ago to see Clutch. They took all the tables out for that one.

Posted by: Reforger at January 18, 2025 09:27 PM (xcIvR)

166 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:26 PM (MQJVv)

I'm sorry to hear this. I hope her treatments are successful.

Posted by: ALH is a girl at January 18, 2025 09:28 PM (+HzbQ)

167 As I recall, Neil Young loved "Sweet Home Alabama" and was saddened that he never got to tell Ronnie Van Zant
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
______

The interwebs say he wrote Powderfinger with the intent of recording it with them.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 18, 2025 09:28 PM (Dm8we)

168 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 09:25 PM (7MHHr)

That would have been a great tour. I am one of those old fogies that still has CDs and a working CD player.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:28 PM (lPE4Z)

169 Saw Pink Floyd at The Shoe (OSU) and when they started singing Wish You Were Here the audience sang the entire song. The band stopped playing to listen to us sing their song.

Posted by: Megthered at January 18, 2025 09:28 PM (kotdD)

170 Believe it or not, Air Supply had a great concert last night!

Posted by: LinusPresley at January 18, 2025 09:29 PM (b4Eig)

171 Leo Kottke is fantastic, he is a great story teller as well. It was almost worth it to listen to those. Time takes us all, not sure he tours any longer. We could also do a thread on regrets, too I betcha. I could have seen Doc Watson live without too much trouble in my early wandering bird days, but I didn’t really know who he was.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 18, 2025 09:29 PM (/2mYZ)

172 Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:26

What a lovely idea for the hobby thread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 18, 2025 09:29 PM (lPE4Z)

173 Wish I could've seen the James Gang. Heard Joe put on a helluva show with them.

You heard right.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 18, 2025 09:30 PM (mH6SG)

174 If you ever turn left and head east let me. Wakefield is about 15 minutes from me.
Posted by: JackStraw
===
Will do. RI might not exist, but it has some damn fine live music.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 09:30 PM (4780s)

175 170 Believe it or not, Air Supply had a great concert last night!
Posted by: LinusPresley at January 18, 2025 09:29 PM (b4Eig)

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A Ha!

Posted by: Take On Me at January 18, 2025 09:31 PM (dDmld)

176 Mark Knopfler is also great as a solo artist. Great song writer.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Dire Straits "On Every Street" tears my guts out every time. She was the one that got away. Bad timing for both of us and certainly no hard feelings but still, 30 years later - ouch.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:32 PM (WXNFJ)

177 Anybody that has an AoSHQ key chain please send a picture to TRex

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:32 PM (oT+t6)

178 I think there are photos with Van Zandt wearing a Neil Young emblazoned T-shirt as well.

If you listen to Sweet Home tune with headphones carefully, you can barely tho distincly hear a snippet of the “southern man” lyric buried in the mix. Directly after “I heard ole Neil put her down”.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 18, 2025 09:33 PM (/2mYZ)

179 Because my concerts were free I saw a variety of artists.

Eddie Rabbit
KISS
Ronnie Milsap
The GoGos
ZZ Top
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Bad Company
and of course Elvis

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 18, 2025 09:34 PM (D6PGr)

180 Anybody that has an AoSHQ key chain please send a picture to TRex
Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:32 PM (oT+t6)
~~~~~

I've got one, Ben. Will do right now.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 18, 2025 09:36 PM (3ImbR)

181 >>Will do. RI might not exist, but it has some damn fine live music.

We have a fun local bar place here. Been here forever and is getting to be a bit out of place as the town has become a bit more gentrified. It's a locals place.

But it still has live music at least a couple nights a week and blues on Sunday afternoon. Owners are locals and determined to keep it that way.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 18, 2025 09:37 PM (LkLld)

182 IrishEi, thank you so much.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:37 PM (oT+t6)

183 The band stopped playing to listen to us sing their song.
Megthered

What an amazing event to keep and retrieve in your cherished memories.

Posted by: friends in low places at January 18, 2025 09:37 PM (WD60c)

184 Saw Andre Segovia solo in concert at Ravinia (Chicagoland) about 1972. Unbelievable. We asked for encore after encore. Finally he said, “I’m an old man. Let me go.” He was 84.

Posted by: Lester Fahrner at January 18, 2025 09:40 PM (J5OL/)

185 *touching the dial - heh heh heh*
Oh, hi, MisHum.

So have you ever been to an event that totally surprised you?

Well, that Zappa concert in Chicago where he brought out guest "Mister Sting" was a nice surprise.
https://youtu.be/Q6XcvlVe_3o

MiladyJo recalls thinking they were going to see the Kinks, but it turns out they couldn't get their visas, so they saw the Moody Blues instead. She didn't know who they were, just that they weren't the Kinks.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the crowd at Indigo Girls, but it wasn't a pleasant surprise... at January 18, 2025 09:40 PM (Mud1j)

186 >>> 93 My dream is to go to a concert at Red Rocks in Colorado. I toured the site in July and it was fantastic!
Posted by: Ladyl at January 18, 2025 08:58 PM (D6+4s)

Red Rocks is the correct venue for concerts. I saw Rush and Gary Allen (no, NOT the same event silly Horde) there. For comparison I've always heard that Fiddler's Green *sucks*.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 18, 2025 09:42 PM (NtUSo)

187 New hash again?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 18, 2025 09:43 PM (NtUSo)

188 175 170 Believe it or not, Air Supply had a great concert last night!
Posted by: LinusPresley at January 18, 2025 09:29 PM (b4Eig)

Not my cup of tea, but glad you enjoyed your concert

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 18, 2025 09:44 PM (QXQ4l)

189 Mis Hum, hugs to you both.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:45 PM (oT+t6)

190 Council of the Cancelled
...I brought together a panel of experts to discuss vaccine safety, Covid mandates, bioweapons, and the future of science
_Nicole Shanahan

Dr. Andrew J. Wakefield, Dr Jack Kruse, Dr. Mary Talley Bowden

https://tinyurl.com/5n7frxy2

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 09:46 PM (rhmc0)

191 Dire Straits "On Every Street" tears my guts out every time. She was the one that got away. Bad timing for both of us and certainly no hard feelings but still, 30 years later - ouch.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 18, 2025 09:32 PM (WXNFJ)

Some of their music is so poignant - they had a real talent for that. Another one like that is “Hand in Hand”.
“ If I've been hard on you, I never chose to be
I never wanted no one else
I tried my best to be somebody you'd be close to
Hand in hand like lovers are supposed to.
The sky is crying, the streets are full of tears
Rain, come down, wash away my fears
And all this writing on the wall
Oh, I can read between the lines.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 09:46 PM (7MHHr)

192 191 - The end of Tunnel of Love does it without words.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 18, 2025 09:49 PM (Dm8we)

193 I've got one of the AoS keychains. As a matter of fact, I have a lot of Jewel's jewelry. They are all brilliant and beautiful, and I bought them with the idea that there might, perhaps, be a BeckoningChasmistress out there.

[Hearty laugh sound]

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 18, 2025 09:49 PM (CHHv1)

194 Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

I can listen to it on a loop.

youtu.be/EX2n2ftbdZU

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 18, 2025 09:49 PM (C26rB)

195 I am totally surprised to peruse an entire music-themed Thread hosted by the esteemed and inimitable Misanthropic Humanitarian without Frank Zappa.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 18, 2025 09:16 PM (a3Q+t)

He's saving that for the ONT.

Posted by: ALH is a girl at January 18, 2025 09:49 PM (+HzbQ)

196 193 I've got one of the AoS keychains.
[Hearty laugh sound]
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 18, 2025 09:49 PM (CHHv1)

Me too, it's cool looking

Posted by: ALH is a girl at January 18, 2025 09:51 PM (+HzbQ)

197 Beckoning Chasm, any pictures to TRex will be appreciated.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:52 PM (oT+t6)

198 Saw Andre Segovia solo in concert at Ravinia (Chicagoland) about 1972. Unbelievable. We asked for encore after encore. Finally he said, “I’m an old man. Let me go.” He was 84.
Posted by: Lester Fahrner
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Saw him on the same tour, a small college classroom building auditorium, maybe a hundred students there. Spellbinding. Stonehill College.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 18, 2025 09:52 PM (4780s)

199 I wrecked my AoSHq Keychain

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 09:52 PM (fwDg9)

200 Dire Straits "On Every Street" tears my guts out every time. She was the one that got away. Bad timing for both of us and certainly no hard feelings but still, 30 years later - ouch.
Posted by: Tonypete

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The Universe decided Sinead O'Connor needed to cover "Nothing Compares To U" right when I had my worst breakup.

Good times. Good times.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 18, 2025 09:53 PM (8AONa)

201 Ben Had, I'll send pics of all of them.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 18, 2025 09:53 PM (CHHv1)

202 Beckoning Chasm. Thank you.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:54 PM (oT+t6)

203 https://youtu.be/MOEULOSVNK4
Posted by: mikeski

New OK Go? Cool.

Posted by: mindful webworker - ok cool at January 18, 2025 09:54 PM (Mud1j)

204 194 Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

I can listen to it on a loop.

youtu.be/EX2n2ftbdZU
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 18, 2025 09:49 PM (C26rB)

Telegraph Road is like a James Michener novel set to music.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 18, 2025 09:56 PM (7MHHr)

205 Slipping this in quick before the ONT

🎶 🎹 amateur hour again

The Resistance of the Camel
1. The Morning
Acknowledging behavioral stimuli

Link in nic. Should play from 9:24 to 12:15 in the vid.
A cut from Mindful Webworkshop #5, 2016 Sep 4

🌅

Posted by: mindful webworker - ok cool at January 18, 2025 09:56 PM (Mud1j)

206 Hi all! I am so sorry about Jewells. I have an anklet with a heart she made and my daughter has one of her necklaces.

Posted by: Piper at January 18, 2025 09:57 PM (p4NUW)

207 Telegraph Road is like a James Michener novel set to music.

Posted by: Tom Servo

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Yes indeed

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 18, 2025 09:57 PM (8AONa)

208 Piper, send pictures please.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 18, 2025 09:58 PM (oT+t6)

209 Got some stories about the whole River Market thing. Went to grade school with a "Cummins" (Comissano), and had a pretty good friend in High School named Barber (Barbarino).
Worked with an old bookie who became a commodity broker. His book was the "Who's Who" of KC tough guys... all old and pretty mellow when I met them.
Posted by: MkY at January 18, 2025 09:21 PM (cPGH3)

Spent a lot of time in Westport - Kelly's of course.

Posted by: free tibet at January 18, 2025 09:59 PM (1wtUm)

210 The concert that really stands out for me was on Boston’s first tour. They somehow got booked into a smallish club in Waukesha WI (I was lucky to get a ticket cuz my small-time regional rock band regularly played there). What a performance!

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at January 18, 2025 09:59 PM (kV8cp)

211 208, I will!

Posted by: Piper at January 18, 2025 10:00 PM (pZEOD)

212 Lived on Belleview. I think the old building is gone now. 4336 bellview, top floor.

Posted by: free tibet at January 18, 2025 10:00 PM (1wtUm)

213 New hash again?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 18, 2025 09:43 PM (NtUSo)

That's nutso!

Posted by: mikeski at January 18, 2025 10:04 PM (DgGvY)

214 ONT IS UP

Posted by: Skip at January 18, 2025 10:04 PM (fwDg9)

215 Willowed here, but one of my favorite Mark Knopfler songs ever.

Darling Pretty - https://tinyurl.com/4m7ftvfu

Posted by: Notorious BFD at January 18, 2025 10:06 PM (mH6SG)

216 I was watching an old documentary from the 80s about American dialects, back before the Internet annihilated them all.

It had two segments on Pittsburgh. One was four old ladies from down Southside. The other was three teenage girls, from an unspecified area. From the sound of them, I'd guess up northeast from Pittsburgh in Allegheny county.

I used to stew in those accents as a little kid, before I left for the mountains in Colorado, and then Appalachia. Nothing sounds like them anywhere else, even in the rest of PA.

Once I was hearing them again on this video, I was captivated. I ended up sitting there through those entire segments for overcame hour, because it took me right back to being a little 10yo yinzer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 18, 2025 10:07 PM (BI5O2)

217 Thought this was ONT?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 18, 2025 10:08 PM (rhmc0)

218 171>>Leo Kottke is fantastic, he is a great story teller as well. Time takes us all, not sure he tours any longer.

Leo Kotke is truly great to see. I saw him play in Baton Rouge in the late 80s. He is actually still touring. He recently played a show here in Austin that I missed.

Posted by: Solutus at January 18, 2025 10:24 PM (Jnnb9)

219 Circa 1975, Woody Herman came to Happy Valley. I knew he was ancient but I also knew he used to be somebody so I should go. (Resorting to Wiki and using basic math, he was around 52 so, you know, he was ancient.) He absolutely blew my socks off.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 10:30 PM (L/fGl)

220 I went to a few concerts, but never really immersed myself in the lyrics. I think True Devotees actually absorbed a Cult Like Religion, as they subjected themselves to their "Marxist Minstrels" ... who were anti-(Christian)religion, and anti-America.

Sure they "fought" for some freedom against the government tyranny, but they were actually controlled by the Commie/Marxist evil cabal.

From my early college days I transitioned into a Christian Revolution, not only against the commie institutions, but also against the Christian Institutions, which (imo) also had succumbed to The Evil Empire(s).

Where from here, forty years later? idk, AoS is not my source of Truth, but this place offers a place of comfort in times of trouble.

(though my Christian Doctrine opposes a majority here ... I oppose everyone, at some point, it would seem ... heh)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 18, 2025 10:33 PM (Cus5s)

221 weirdest fact about Laurie Anderson: she married Lou Reed.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

She took a walk on the wild side?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 18, 2025 10:36 PM (L/fGl)

222 The 'farewell' Boingo concert at Universal. I think I'm in the concert DVD.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 18, 2025 08:22 PM (mlg/3)

I thought I had seen you somewhere.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 18, 2025 10:39 PM (/Elj1)

223 where I am, we don't get back above 20 degrees till Wednesday. That's thanks to some brief 5 day "Arctic Blast". But I'm fine, even if power goes out.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 18, 2025 10:47 PM (Cus5s)

224 You know what's really cold? Your property taxes increasing year after year based on unrealized gains. You gain no income yet the bureaucrats will tell you if you are retired to get a job or sell to pay these taxes.

Property taxes should be ruled unconstitutional takings.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at January 18, 2025 11:25 PM (bXvrr)

225 Hello MisHum! Long time no talk. Glad to see you are still consistent with Frank Zappa. Yellow Snow. Perhaps one of his all-time classics?

Reminds me of my younger days, a buddy who had visited family (lots of cousins) back east somewhere for the summer returned and said, "LCD, you HAVE to listen to this song! It's by a guy named Frank Zappa." I had never heard of him before, having listened to a steady of English rock like Zep, Tull, Trower, Stones, with some American RandR like Deep Purple, Skynyrd, Allman Bros.
But nothing, and I mean nothing, was ever like Zappa.
And he played, on his cassette tape, "Yellow Snow."
I was amused, amazed, and very well entertained.

And decades later, I still smile when surprised by your Mystery Link.
Hope all is well with you and the Missus. Oh, and stay warm.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 18, 2025 11:27 PM (n4dGz)

226 All these memes about Floridians not being able to handle cold while Northerners are not fazed is the purest bullshit. I live in Tampa, have for a long time, and last week's cold snap I, and all the Floridians I saw, here in t-shirts, shorts, flip flops and the snowbirds were bundled up with winter coats and scarves, long pants. I (and most Floridians) don't even OWN a winter coat. I wear long pants to church and that's about it, I don't care how cold it gets (although it rarely gets below freezing). This trope about Northerners being immune is pure crap, I see them daily all bundled up in 40 degree weather like it's a flippin' blizzard or something. We're just too used to dressing light. We don't layer. But it makes stupid northerners, who live in the shittiest climate, feel good about it. While you are laughing at Florida man, we're laughing at you scraping your windshields, shoveling snow, starting your care 30 mins before you leave to get them warmed up, stamping your slush sodden boots and winter socks to get your feet warm and your fingers burning as they come back alive.

Posted by: docweasel at January 19, 2025 01:37 AM (sy8ig)

227 To answer the original question: Yes, I went to a concert that surprised me: Jelly Roll.

We have season passes and I saw this on the event list and knew nothing about it. My wife knew what he looked like and that he was a rapper and we both figured that it was going to be gangster rap that we ordered on Wish.com. But we get the season passes to gain experience, so what the hell.

Jelly Roll was great in concert. Very wholesome, great personality, amazing audience interaction. I knew nothing about the dude or his act and it was a hell of a good time.

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