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A little trip down memory lane for me.  My first arena act concert was Genesis on their Mama tour in 1984, and here they are from a couple years later at the height of their popularity at Wembley.


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Bagman67 said:
A little trip down memory lane for me.  My first arena act concert was Genesis on their Mama tour in 1984, and here they are from a couple years later at the height of their popularity at Wembley.
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Holy Geez! The Mama tour, that brings back some memories. I saw that show in '83 at the Garden, in NYC. Got a call at work from some friends said they were picking me up, but wouldn't say where we were going. By the time we got here, we were pretty blitzed from passing around several bottles of "fortified" wine. (I won't go into what it was fortified with...) I remember the show opening with a totally dark stage. Then some purple, floor level lights slowly came up illuminating a huge amount of fog. Then, when Collins started to sing, he was standing in the middle of the purple fog, and a yellow spot light came on, shining from under his face. We sat there in total awe for the rest of the show. 35 years later, I can still see every detail in my mind, needless to say the fog wasn't the only purple swirling around that night!
 
1988.  I was 20, just rolling over to 21.  At that age I was totally into reading all the guitar porn I could get my hands on - Guitar World, Guitar for the PRacticing Musician (tabs, tabs, tabs!), and especially Guitar Player, which even to my untutored eye seemed like a much more professional undertaking. Back then, GP had little phono records every month they called Soundpages, and one month in particular, there was a cover feature on this new guy, Joe Satriani.  They had a Soundpage of him doing a ditty called "Crush of Love" and the flip was a track of him playing a one-handed, hammered-on solo called "Power Cosmic."  I was floored. I decided I just had to get my hands on his recent release, "Surfing with the Alien."  I was stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and the nearest town of any size was Tucson, so off I went the first weekend I got a chance.  I got hold of the cassette and immediately put it in the player in my car.  I sat in the parking lot outside the Wherehouse records store and listened to the whole thing. I just sat there and literally laughed at how amazing this guy's guitar playing was. Anyway - the showstopper, for me, was "Always With You, Always With Me," which demonstrated to me that shredding guitar could be beautiful and sensitive and tender.  And so I share this live version with you.


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My first concert I went to. Rainbow in Copenhagen 1976.

Some (unsynchronized) footage have actually surfaced on the interweb:

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I flew 2,400 miles to LA to stay for one night and see this tour. This is obviously not from LA, but it's the same tour. The beginning of this song is the same as it always is, but I really think he rips for the solo.

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Look, I love Purple Rain as much as the next guy, but let's face it, most folks don't bring anything new or interesting to it.  AJ Ghent plays it pretty straight here, but he (a) has a wonderful singing voice, and (b) just burns on the slide guitar solo. So enjoy.  It's not groundbreaking, but it's a damn sight better than yet another blues-jam murdering of the tune.


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The whole Live at Ronnie Scott’s performance is flat-out amazing, but this track is the one I can’t stop listening to lately...
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That whole Ronnie Scott's show is wall-to-wall excellence, but the performance of "Nadia" really does stand out as a showcase for Colaiuta, whose control and sensitivity are unparalleled.  Thanks for sharing.
 
A little proto-metal from Mountain at Woodstock, since apparently we all have to bathe in the radiance of the little hootenanny at Yasgur's Farm this summer.  But I digress. Leslie West just tears it up.


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A 1982 from Canada's OTHER highly-technically-proficient power trio with a guy who does a mean falsetto:  TRIUMPH.  I remember seeing this show on MTV back when they had a concert film every Saturday night, back when I was 15.


Later, in the late 1990's,  I met Rik Emmett at McCabe's Music in Santa Monica while I was going to law school in LA.  We were both checking out guitars in one of the rooms where they have high-end custom-builder stuff.  He gave me an impromptu lesson for about 15 minutes that was a little over my head, to be honest.  I was prety sure it was him, but wasn't 100% sure, but I got confirmation from a staffer.  Very nice man, Mr. Emmett.  Very positive and encouraging, generous with his knowledge, and extremely not-a-celebrity-tool.



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Brazilian Metal band, Korzus:
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Very nice record IMO


Also this band that perhaps will be used as base for my 1st ever band:
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Some quality Japanese metal, quite accessible, musically speaking.  The English lyrics in the comments suggest these guys are bringing the buddhist vibe their costumes suggest.


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Arguably the best band working today doing roots/blues based rock'n'roll, the Tedeschi-Trucks Band did two sets as headliners at the Lock'n festival over the last weekend. Their second set was a start-to-finish cover of Derek & The Dominoes' "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" album.


Tremendous show.  Y'all enjoy.



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