Best show you've ever seen?

What's the best show you've ever seen?

Mine was Skid Row in 1988. Just kidding. It was actually the Wailers (minus Bob Marley) around 1996. They came to my college and I checked them out, and they were absolutely incredible. And I'm not even into reggae. Harry Connick was great, as was the Count Basie Band (around 1993 at the Newport Jazz Festival).

I saw the DeJohnette/Hanckock/Holland/Metheney show at the Mellon Jazz fest in Pittsburgh awhile back and it was simply transcendental.

Those guys are GOOD.

ANd Rush's last tour was incredible. That was a helluva concert. Neil played his ass off in Detroit and it was just rockin.

The Test for Echo show I caught in Philly second row and the whole vibe was great, Philly is definitely a concert city.

#1 Chick Corea Elektric Band II in Boston 1993
#2 John McLaughlin trio 1992

The best show I've seen is the myron one I'm going to tomorrow with free tickets. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Seriously, seeing the weckl band 3 times in london over the last couple of years was amazing. Also, Frank McComb a few weeks ago was incredible.
And T.O.P. a few years back, with mick mestek on drums( taught by garibaldi so I heard).

1992 Tribute to Jeff Porcaro at Universal Amphitheater. All-star lineup of guest artist. Simon's first tour with Toto.

I was also the worst because I hated listening to Toto without Jeff's incredible groove.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 03, 2004 04:41 PM: Message edited by: ladanny ]</font>

Amen brother Danny!
CB

benrand I think that very show with Herbie and Pat is on DVD. I have one with the same lineup, around the same time, same venue as well. Should be able to get it here.

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1992 Tribute to Jeff Porcaro at Universal Amphitheater. All-star lineup of guest artist. Simon's first tour with Toto.
I was also the worst because I hated listening to Toto without Jeff's incredible groove.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">-Ladanny

Well, thanks to JDouglee you can revisit some bitter sweet memories right here.
If you don't already have it, that is?

EB

Groove........That was the quartet tour with James, Jimmy, Clifford and Carlos.

Got it in one Randy my friend. What a band it was.

To finally see Carlos play live literally bought a tear to my eye, that and the superb JT and rest of the band.

Carlos seemed in such great spirits and played so well, (as well, if not better than any of the other God know how many JT bootlegs I have with him on!). I feel blessed to have witnessed this when I did.

I talked with James about Carlos, I didn't know he was in a bad stage when he was, I expect only his family did. It never showed on stage. Just magical...

MP

Eaglebeat,

I have a version of the show, but not as complete as this one! How can I get this without loading Bittorrent on my comupter?

I REALLY want to get this... anybody willing to trade?

I was lucky enough to hang with Carlos on a few of the JT dates back in late 94 early 95, sitting at the back of the bus just working on stickings listening to some latin grooves while Jimmy was up front trying to relax and read a book.. But I have to say seeing him with Burning Water was the real treat. CV with Taylor was inredible and inspiring, but to see him be the muscle in BW was just numbing.

As to that tour, not sure when you caught it but yes Carlos was in a very bad position and during the tour his wife and girls had to be brought out to hang with him just so they could finish the remaining dates without him losing all control.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 04, 2004 08:04 PM: Message edited by: Randy Walker ]</font>

James Taylor with his smaller all-star band in London in 1998, just before Carlos passed on.

It was magical, and something I'll never forget.

MP

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Eaglebeat,
I have a version of the show, but not as complete as this one! How can I get this without loading Bittorrent on my comupter?

I REALLY want to get this... anybody willing to trade?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Danny,
Maybe you could do a trade with some of the L.A. guys (JD?) since I live a few miles away (across the Atlantic)?.
Btw, this is the remastered version! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Are you sure you don't want to install a BitTorrent client? Check out STG
to see what you're missing!
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EB

Thanks for the tip Steve, but I've had that DVD for awhile now. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

It's really well done, no dubbing issues or synching problems and good clear shots of Jack.

My guess is that his sig line of Sabians only sound good when he plays them.

Jazz Ministry at the Potato 1/2003--"The Asian Video Incident" Classic gig on all accounts!

OK Story Time, gather round:

My first week in LA I was moving furniture into my place and one of the tennants introduced himself, so you're a drummer, yada yada. Proceeds to tell me VINNIE is playing at Catalina's (where?) all week with the Patitucci band. This was 1993.
That night I went with some friends and being right off the truck from Jersey it was quite an experience. I didn't have the understanding of phrasing that I do now and as a result it was more OMG OMG WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT (which I still do really hehe). It was magical.
We went 3 nights that week and one night, Vinnie played a huge drum solo in the FIRST tune of the set that got a STANDING OVATION, on the first tune! I've never seen anything like it since. After the applause died down, I said jokingly to my friend, "wow..not bad!" Vinnie heard this and starts screaming into the audience.."Not Bad? Who said that? Well FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU NOT BAD!" Needless to say I sank into my chair having caused a ruckus with my sarcasm. He didn't see who said it but after the show I spoke with him and told him I said it, I was obviously kidding, it was some of the best drumming I had ever seen. He said "Thanks for taking a joke!" at which point my friend with me says "Oh yeah, no problem. By the way Vinnie FUCK YOU!!" We all had a laugh at that. What do you expect from a couple of guys just in from Jersey right?

That story has gotten back to me several times all bent out of shape. It's funny how stuff like that gets around. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Fortunately I've gotten to see a lot of drum legends:

Tony Williams and Buddy Rich, Mitchell and Hendrix, Moon with The Who, Cobham with Mahavishnu, Palmer with ELP, Porcaro with Toto, Bozzio with Missing Persons and Jeff Beck, Simon and Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, plus many others. I got to see Little Feat in the mid-80s before Lowell George died and they were brilliant. I saw a small hall '78 Stones show and have a video of it; Charlie hammers away in a Mitch-Mitchellian frenzy; and despite how good the Stones were that night opening act Peter Tosh blew them away.

But the most amazing drum performance of those was Bozzio on his roto-tom kit with Missing Persons in January 1983. Their first album was #16 on the Billboard chart and the Persons were stunningly good. Terry's showmanship came out of left field and I looked at the drums differently from that day forward.

Now, the two best stories I've ever read on HOD, so far, are The Asian Video Incident and Not Bad, Who Said That? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 06, 2004 01:22 PM: Message edited by: Five Eight ]</font>

Yo 13...I mean 5/8, that roto tom kit Bozzio used had a huge impact on all us kids back then. I had to have one and to this day still love it. There's something about those high pitched roto's...still love hearing the local high school band play them Friday nights during football games.
When they went way out of style I still dug the thing and had big problems using them with others..."What's that?" What was chic a few years earlier was now lame.

http://www.terrybozzio.com/images/gal/erlymp2.jpg

How can you hate a drum kit that tunes in minutes?

OK...a little off topic, but...

YEAH, Pocket...i too had to go & get rotos, altho i only got the 3-on-1 stand version [6, 8, 10"], since i already had an acoustic kit with 8, 10, 12, 14" closed toms...i tuned the rotos [in succession] up higher than the CTs, to give me those Peart hi-to-lo & back tom rolls...

I traded a cymbal for them to an at-the-time rock drummer friend of mine who was freakin' on TBoz in Persons...he needed an extra cymbal bad, i guess...he had the 3 rotos in addition to dbl-bs Ludwig clear blue vistalites...

I had to have them because
A] Peart had 6, 8, & 10" concerts
B] TB had rotos.... [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img]

Peart did some really cool rolls on those toms, but TB really showed what you could do with those suckers, didn't he [check UK awa Misg Pers]

I saw Persons on a triple bill with Triumph & Saxon [or was it Riot?] back in the early-to-mid 80's...Gil Moore was good for his role, but TB kicked all their butt's that night....

I'll have to think about it & get back to the orig topic '?' later....

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 06, 2004 05:40 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>

That's a tough one for me because
there are different aspects to a
show and each one has to be eval-
uated in its own terms.

I have seen a LOT of shows. I think
I probably have seen over 200!

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Well, for the overall effect, I
think that the Welcome Back My
Friends to the Show that Never Ends
tour, by ELP, has to take it. I
think that was 1977. It was just
over the top.

There was a Jethro Tull concert
that year that was incredible too.

For the musical impact, I think
that one of the Shakti concerts
has to take the cake, with Zakir
on percussion - just astounding!

For the drums, I think that I
have to choose the Ralph McDonald
Show in NYC, with Rick Marotta
and Steve Gadd on drums. Chuck
Rainey was on bass. Richard Tee
was playing organ, with Leon
Pendarvis on electric piano...
Eric Gale was on guitar, with
Hugh McCracken, Dave Sanborn on
alto, and the Breckers....

That must have been in 1978.

That has to be the one!

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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 06, 2004 05:40 PM: Message edited by: peter c ]</font>

That's the craziest, funniest shit I've ever heard.

I must name two shows. The first one was Karizma in Copenhagen. Needless to say, Vinnie Came on stage and took the leading role of the band. He made a Stand up comedy show for like 15 mins explaining his "I'm Tweeked/Attack of the 25lb Pizza" to the crowd after they played it.

There was alot of communication with the audience that night. Unforgetable.

The other show was Little Feat. I think Little Feat is one of the greatest bands around on tour. It's just purely magic when they're playing. Richie Hayward is one of my favorite drummers too, he makes the worlds most tastiest fills on his splashes. I Watched them in 1995 and in 2001, bot shows is one of my best live-experiences ever.

RONALD BRUNER with Kenny Garrett this past Friday! No one can even touch this guy! Think I'm kidding? Ask Vinnie! He's been a mentor to him....By the way,He's only 21 years old! Quite possibly the most incredible shit I have ever seen.....I'll try and post some of the show....UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!

sashal3,

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Eagle...check your PM.