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Blatant Excuse
this is just a blatent excuse to celebrate the fact that I'm going to see Pearl Jam in August!!
I've been a fan since they first hit British shores [ due to working for Our Price records I was officially the first owner of 'Ten' in my town...aren't I fabulous]
However due to Work commitments and other reasons I never managed to see them live apart from in 2006 at Leeds festival..[ I drove down from Scotland, watched Pearl Jam and drove back ...didn't see anyone else[ okay I may have caught the end of Slayer and a dreadful Placebo set but they didn't register].. that's how desperate I was to see them
But now I can finally see them as they intended, THEIR gig...albeit a large stadium.
Do any other readers still get a juvenile excitement about the prospect of seeing one of their favourite acts?
Has anyone been thwarted from seeing their heroes and reduced to thinking it will never be..?
17 years wait man !! but I'm there and gonna love every second..
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Genesis
a couple of years back for the reunion thing. Spent much of an evening at Old Trafford with something in my eye...
First band I ever got really obsessed with as a teenager around Wind & Wuthering - bugger that punk nonsense, give it some prog!
Saw the documentary on that Reunion
Great insight into a band I never really followed. Phil struggling to remember and execute his old drum fills was really eye-opening. Showed they really cared and wasn't just cash in which is always the cynics viewpoint. I was a Marillion man for about 5 years though..saw Fish's last gig with them in Abedeen.
Dick Dale!
I first heard Dick Dale around 1980 and was instantly smitten by the magical noise he makes. By that point, he was not gigging much any more. I bought what records I could find, at record fairs mainly, and tried to find out what I could about him.
In 1986, when I started The Beat Poets, an instrumental rock & roll band, we were greatly influenced by Dick Dale ( and Link Wray, Jon & The Nightriders, The Fleshtones, etc)
In 1991, we were on holiday in California - he was playing the Orange County State Fair! But it was on the day we arrived (at midnight) so we missed him by a day.
In 1993, we were on holiday in New York - he was playing at The Ritz! With Chuck Berry! But that was on the day we left, so we missed him by a day again.
Finally Dick Dale came to play in Britain in 1995, riding high in recognition via Pulp Fiction. We went down to London to see him at the Garage and he was absolutely magnificent, rocking, funny, a tribal elder.
Even better, when he came to Scotland on that tour, the Beat Poets supported him for the tour. We saw him and supported him a bunch of times after that and he was always great.