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I saw Leon Russell on a tour shortly after the Concert for Bangladesh, and he and his whole huge band were freakin' awesome. They burned the place down.

I would love to have caught Leon back then, but I was only a few month old. I know it was quite a while ago, but did he do anything off of Asylum Choir?


This was the Shelter People Band... I guess I was 15, maybe 16. I can't say whether or not they played anything from the first Asylum Choir, because the only one I knew was Asylum Choir II ("Straight Brother," "Ballad for a Soldier," etc.)

Was "Alcatraz" on the first Asylum Choir record?
That's right, I meant Asylum Choir II (You Mentioned two of my Favorite All Time Tunes). I've never seen a copy of Asylum Choir. Alcatraz was off "Leon Russell and the Shelter People", another great Album that doesn't get the recognition it deserves, and I think the Bonus track on the Asylum Choir II CD are from Asylum Choir I. They're a little playful compared to "Down on the Base" or "Salty Candy".


Well, that explains it. The Shelter People album (was that the one with the egg on the cover?) was the record this band was touring behind, and they played all that stuff, in long, rambling, gospel/rave versions that got the crowwd goin' like a Baptist church. Yowsah!

Asylum Choir II is one of the weirdest great or greatest weird records ever made. You gots-ta loin how to boogie!
Tryin' 'ta Stay 'Live...and keep my sideburns, too.

Man that's Great Album.

I was probably being born when you were at the concert, so I had to get the cassette tape of Shelter People in the '80's. It had a very small picture of Leon pointing up, and no linear notes. I had the Vinyl Asylum Choir II, with the lyrics sheet. My parets gave it to me with my first record player (That's my kids music, I still don't know the words to Itsy-Bitsy Spider).

Leon still does it the same, he fires up and plays a bunch of tunes, stepped up and livley. The only "Break" he took was when he let his Female Singer and the bass player do Ray Charles's "Night Time is the Right Time".

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I didn't get to see this show, but my wife and her family did... they lived just outside of Bethel, New York. Jefferson Airplane's tour bus was stuck in the traffic jam on the way to the ORIGINAL Woodstock concert. They got off the bus and played on my grandmother-in-law's front lawn while they waited for the helicopter to pick them up.

I visited the Woodstock site once... I swear you can still feel the energy in those hills. Looking forward to checking out the new Woodstock museum that was just opened there!!!!


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Jay Nash, Adrianne, Garrison Starr, and Gabriel Mann playing together as "The North La Brea All-Star Conquistadors."

Four brilliant songwriters, sitting six feet away from me, playing each others' songs.

It was a private event, but I was there on a more personal level. I'm seeing Gabe again in a few weeks... we might even play together.


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The first festival I went to was the Neport Jazz Festival way back when. Saw Andre Segovia and fell in love with the guitar.

First concert I went to was 5 years later and it was Blue Oyster Cult hard to beat your first concert. My favorite was the ZZ top concert at the El Paso county coliseum. It seemed like they played all night long it was rtight after the Fandango album came out and they were playing everthing they knew, incredible.


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Paul McCartney at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, September 20, 2005. A very close second would be The Doobie Brothers on the Stampede tour at Memorial Colisium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1975.


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I saw YES live in 2000. Not much on the symphonic first set, but the second half was murderous.

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I've been to quite a few live shows in my life but I don't think I could pick just one as the best I've every seen. Here are a couple that stand out in my memory:

* John Mayall in a concert setting. This was in the late '60s when Mick Taylor was playing with him. The opening act was, I seem to remember, Deep Purple. The back of the stage of their set was wall-to-wall Marshall Stacks. In contrast, Mick's setup was stark. He had a small amp placed on what looked like a kitchen chair with a stage mike jammed up to the speaker. Mayall, the band and Mick with his small amp proceeded to eat Deep Purple's lunch.

* Bonnie Raitt in concert. Jeff Healey was the opening act. While I loved Bonnie's set I was absolutely floored by Jeff. I'd had never heard of much less heard Jeff before that evening. He returned to town 2-3 weeks later to play at a small nightclub. Needless to say, I snagged tickets for that one too.

* The first time I went to see Robben Ford was on the advice of a friend who knew I liked blues. He played in a trio setting with Roscoe Beck on bass and Tom Brechtlein on drums. That evening was a revelation. I'd not heard Robben before and I wasn't sure what to expect. From the opening notes I was hooked. I'm asking myself what planet had I been on not to have heard of him before this point. And then, and then .... in the middle of a song he goes off on a 10 minute improve. Here's Robben wailing away with Roscoe wondering around the stage with his back to Robben while Tom was staring off into space and yet those guys were absolutely wired together. They were just about tightest group I've ever seen perform, bar none.

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* Again the late '60s. I remember this concert not so much for the music, but for what happened. This was one of outdoor, day long, multi-act concerts. I took my 35mm camera and a really big lens – huge in fact. It was big enough and heavy enough to have its own tripod socket. Looking back, I must have stood out like a sore thumb. At any rate, a couple of hours after the concert started a young man about my age came up and started asking photo questions. We had an amiable 5-10 minute conversation about cameras, lenses , film, etc. The young man was Jesse Ed David and he invited me to come up on stage during the Taj Mahal set to take some photos. I bet you can guess what I did. Yup, a day to remember!

One more thing. As read (proof) what I've written about Robben I realize that one of the greatest gifts you can someone you like is to turn them on to someone or something new in area that they love. My friend gave me the lifelong gift of Robben's music.

Doug

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Joe Cocker- Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour. Okla City

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Madonna - Sticky & Sweet Tour - Live in Athens on September 27th, 2008
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more than 75,000 people in the stadium!!


P.S. I understand how a lot of people here dislike Madonna, but even if you don't like her songs or her attitude, you just got to give it to her for the shows she's doing!

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There's been so many for me, Queen, Aerosmith, Peter Gabriel, Van Morison, Tom Waits, Eric Clapton, the list goes on and on. I'm going to see Counting Crows on the 18th of December, I'm looking forward to that. I've got a spare ticket if anyone wants to go :lol:


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I keep having deja-vu when I see these older threads coming back. :?

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Supertramp - Crime of the Century tour. Early 70's - I can't remember the year. (I'm amazed I can remember the concert!)

It was at the tiny Vancouver Playhouse. They started on time, played absolutely flawlessly without a break till the final title song (and a small light show.) Then they said, "Goodnight Vancouver. You've been a terriffic audience"...and they were gone! No encore. No hanging around the stage. They played their hearts out and didn't owe us a thing!!

What a fantastic, professional show!

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My God, there have been so many....

Muddy Waters birthday celebration hosted by Joe Ely at the Cotton Club in Lubbock - 1980 (a few dozen friends dropped in - Johhny Winters, Pinetop Perkins, Jimmy Rogers, BB King, SRV, and a guy named Eric something or other.... )

Billy Joel at the Paramount Theatre in Austin -Turnstiles tour -- very intimate...

Trapeze in concert for the first time, 1971.

First time I saw Stevie Ray - in a bar in Lubbock called Fat Dawg's in 1979.

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Oops! My bad. Before I get corrected by someone else from Vancouver, (although I'm not sure that there IS anyone else from Vancouver on this site), Supertramp played at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, not the Vancouver Playhouse as previously stated.

Whew! That feels better!

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We had Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee play at our high school in 68 (I think).

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