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    Quote Originally Posted by toycollector10 View Post
    Nice one Hitcher, I didn't know you were 75 years old you knob
    I know, what an oldie -- personally, I'm into this young, hip music John Coltrane and Lee Morgan are putting out

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    Bands at a party:

    Scorpions
    Judas Priest
    Disturbed
    Murwayne
    Ozzy
    And I recon Axel would be all go...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Andre Rieu and the Johan Strauss Orchestra.
    where did you get those names?? the "BAND NAME GENERATOR"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by naphazoline View Post
    where did you get those names?? the "BAND NAME GENERATOR"?
    Mwahahaha, I'll tell you a little secret, my husband and kids enjoy listening to him. I think it's a Dutch thing.

    For performers, in regard to a live acts as opposed to recordings, Elton the queer is right up there in my book (yes I did see him years and years ago in Auckland), am really looking forward to seeing Kylie next week; and even though he's the king of mega weird I reckon as a live act Jacko would have to be right up there with the best of them. (When he was at the top of his game anyway).
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    Quote Originally Posted by PrincessBandit View Post
    I think it's a Dutch thing.
    Like double-salt licorice?
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    Quote Originally Posted by toycollector10 View Post
    I've seen or heard them all:

    Banana Mouse-cry (just joking, google Nana Mouskouri)
    Who, in their right mind, would have gone to see her???
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Andre Rieu and the Johan Strauss Orchestra.
    You listen to Roy & HG ????

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    Barry Manilow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Like double-salt licorice?
    Zouten dropjes? Eek!
    My in-laws are Dutch, and strangely, although my wife doesn't like salty licorice, our eldest son does. Mind you, he's weird...
    It can't be good for you though, it's loaded with all kinds of salts and chemicals.

    I have to admit, if you don't count Sleepwalkers and Mombassa, I haven't been to many live concerts. My feelings are a great concert is one where the performer sounds much better than listening to a recording. Too many sound worse (don't put anything extra into it).
    I went to see Bowie on his "Serious Moonight" tour some 25 years or so ago, and was most disappointed. After listening to his live performances from the prior decade, and given that Auckland was his last concert on the tour, I was expecting somewhat more than the measured and restrained performance he gave, and felt ripped off. Similarly, Little Rive Band at Nambassa may as well have not bothered turning up - they sounded exactly like a recording. So now, with the odd exception, I don't 'do' live concerts, as they're often overpriced and poorly engineered; do concerts have to be so loud that you can't actually hear any detail?
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
    Barry Manilow.
    Has a new album out. Greatest hits of the 80s (not his). Tears for Fears will never be the same...
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    Quote Originally Posted by toycollector10 View Post
    I've seen or heard them all:

    Jimi Hendrix
    Lou Reed
    The Animals
    The Band
    Jefferson Airplane
    The Rolling Stones
    Talking Heads
    UB40
    AC/DC
    Bob Dylan
    Neil Young
    Cream
    Eric Clapton
    The Yardbirds (Go on, you've never heard of them, have you)
    Banana Mouse-cry (just joking, google Nana Mouskouri)
    The Who
    Split ENZ
    Moody Blues
    America
    Dire Straits
    Elvis Presley
    The Cure
    Journey
    Roy Orbison
    And thousand and thousands more









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    Quote Originally Posted by vifferman View Post
    I went to see Bowie on his "Serious Moonight" tour some 25 years or so ago, and was most disappointed. After listening to his live performances from the prior decade, and given that Auckland was his last concert on the tour, I was expecting somewhat more than the measured and restrained performance he gave, and felt ripped off. Similarly, Little Rive Band at Nambassa may as well have not bothered turning up - they sounded exactly like a recording. So now, with the odd exception, I don't 'do' live concerts, as they're often overpriced and poorly engineered; do concerts have to be so loud that you can't actually hear any detail?
    [anorak warning]
    Just so you know, there is a newly released Bowie Live CD "Called Live at Santa Monica 1972". Its been widely bootlegged though often of inferior quality because it was simulcast on a local radio station. The official release is worth buying because the sound is not bad. As Bowie says in the liner notes "we screwed up a few things, but it was a good gig" or words to that effect.

    I am a HUGE fan of a Bowie live recording called "David Live": its concerts recorded in Philedelphia in 1976. You need to get the reissue because it has better sound and an extra track. The Ziggy Stardust live DVD/CD at the Hammersmith Odeon (ending with the immortal "this is not only the last stop on this tour its the last concert we'll ever do" line) is only OK in my view.

    Stage is the other essential live Bowie recording as well. If only for the version of Station to Station on it.

    I dont share your opinion about the Serious Moonlight gig/tour by the way: I saw the Wellington show and it was excellent. Theres a DVD of it around too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrayWolf View Post
    Black Sabbath


    Sorry guys I saw them at Wembly (final concert) Has to be Queen, he was I think the best entertainer I have ever seen.
    I have just finished reading a book about Black Sabbath, and have been playing their first five albums non stop for two weeks.

    Jealous about the Wembley thing: thats an amazing DVD.


    The band I would most like to see live (apart from the Clash, or the Sex Pistols in 1976) presently is Rammstein. I reckon that would be good show (having watched the Volkerball DVD a LOT)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Has a new album out. Greatest hits of the 80s (not his). Tears for Fears will never be the same...
    The term "Gah! Thud" comes to mind...
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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    The band I would most like to see live (apart from the Clash, or the Sex Pistols in 1976) presently is Rammstein. I reckon that would be good show (having watched the Volkerball DVD a LOT)
    They are EPIC live.

    A little known Punk band called "Amen" is one that springs to mind for me. The 'Stones we're awesome too.
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