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kyree
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Killer Scout
|  | | P: | 08/25/2021 12:26 EST | | E: | 08/25/2021 12:33 EST |
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your favorite performance of any art!
Why is it your favorite?
I took my Mom to See Alice Cooper at The Melody Tent on Cape Cod https://melodytent.org/seating-chart/
A small theater in the round
Being able to bridge generations of music is the ultimate...
I've seen shitallica perform as Spastic Children...I've seen Suicidal perform in roller skating rinks
I've played Unreal Tournament 3 on a tour bus with Slipknot
I took my Daughter to see Black Veiled Brides for her first concert ever...fortunately GWAR played first...I haz pictures of her covered in GWAR spew..
I've sat in on sessions, that later became albums...but NOTHING compares to watching Alice Cooper with my Mother...
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mmarino51589
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Soldier Flag
Defense
| | | P: | 08/25/2021 12:37 EST |
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Took my mom to see Billy Joel @ MSG a few years back. Spent the extra dough on box seats for a more comfy experience (they've managed to cram MORE seats into that fucking place since it was last renovated around 8 years ago).
Dead center, right across from the stage. For the final verse of piano man, as the song builds up, he cuts the band and the whole garden sings the final verse on loop for a few bars. Unreal energy...goosebumps.
Miami 2017 was also an epic performance. Best live music moment I've ever seen and experienced...and that being with my mom made it really special. | |
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JiK MAZZ
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WMD Creator
| | | P: | 08/25/2021 12:45 EST |
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It wasn’t my favorite but I saw Billy Joel and Elton John on the Face2Face tour my senior year of HS. Was a damn good performance. And the tickets were like $180 each but my close friend got his parents to pay for him and 6 friends for his 18th birthday. | |
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moose poop
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Body Splatter
| | P: | 08/25/2021 13:07 EST | | E: | 08/25/2021 13:23 EST |
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Some 20 years ago, wife and I happened to be at the Boston Commons by the bandstand when we heard Tony Bennet doing a sound check...he did about 4 or 5 songs as we sat on the grass and ate a sandwich
Herbie Hancock and Carlos Montoya with my godfather back in the 70's; he want to expose me to "other" than top 40 am radio
Squeeze at the Belly Up in San Diego; we were in the same restaurant before performance and had dinner with Difford and Tilbrook before their performance. This was in the early 2000's
ZZ Top in 1989, me and a couple of friends happened to be in Europe at the time and got in on a lark, had a great time
Billy Joel and Elton John San Diego with my wife; not great but we liked both artist for a long time and my wife plays piano
jimmy cliff; it was early 80's don't even know how we got in - don't even remember the place (yeah I was high) but it was in San Diego and it was in the downtown area before it got pretty
Pitbull 2016 or 17; Puerto Rico, geez talk about party, party, party
Santana late 78-79; happened to be in a club on the strip in Tijuana when he went on stage with some other band and just played very cool but it was only a cameo
Ohio Players, Alice Cooper, The Cars, ELO, Blue Oyster Cult in San Diego at the Forum during the late 70's
Wall of Voodoo, the English Beat, Country Dick Montana, Capt. Beefheart and I am sure others I have forgotten either at the Back Door or the Del Mar playgrounds all in the late 70's and early 80s'.
Some young guy in a band in a bar in Austin Texas 2019; he was just great; I remember the stage was by the front door and he had stepped outside cause it was so hot and was still playing the guitar (he played it dirty) while smoking a cig and zooming some young things walking down the sidewalk. The epidemy of rock and roll.
There are others like Harry Belafonte, Sinatra, the Everly Brothers, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Diamond.
The only performance that I did not like, was the Cars; unemotional, everything sounded the same, they were just not in to it.
* almost forgot: Michael Jackson at some waterpark south of L.A.
and two excellent performances by Fleetwood Mac and The Eagle at the Universal Amphitheater
did a couple of shows at the Whiskey but I can't remember anything
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sp0t
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Assault Cannon
Lover
| | | P: | 08/25/2021 13:41 EST | | E: | 08/25/2021 13:46 EST |
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The greatest live performance of any form of art I've ever seen was 'The King and I' with Yul Brynner at the Pantages a few years before he died.
'Sunset Blvd' with Glenn Close at the Shubert is probably second...
Best non-musical play: 'Twilight of the Golds' at the SF Performing Arts Center or 'Angels in America' at the Mark Taper Forum
Best concert: The Cure at Dodgers Stadium, 1989
Best performance art: A Karen Finley installation at the MOCA in LA that was probably the most meaningful and powerful offense I've ever seen
Best touring art exhibition: Rene Magritte at the LACMA
Best museums: The Norton Simon and Huntington Library in LA, the Met and the Guggenheim in NYC
Best immersive art experience was a weekly Industrial Music club in LA called 'Sinamatic'
Best spontaneous art I've witnessed was some guy projectile vomiting off a balcony all over people on a dancefloor at a rando club in NY
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kyree
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Killer Scout
| | | P: | 08/25/2021 14:12 EST |
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 | moose poop wrote:
Some 20 years ago, wife and I happened to be at the Boston Commons by the bandstand when we heard Tony Bennet doing a sound check...he did about 4 or 5 songs as we sat on the grass and ate a sandwich | |
One time I was walking through Boston common, and heard Whitney Houston warming up.....worse than nails on a chalkboard...I WILL always cringe at those memories
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kyree
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Killer Scout
| | | P: | 08/25/2021 14:13 EST |
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| The greatest live performance of any form of art I've ever seen was 'The King and I' with Yul Brynner at the Pantages a few years before he died. | |
Jesus fucking christ...WE ARE NOT WORTHY!
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| Best spontaneous art I've witnessed was some guy projectile vomiting off a balcony all over people on a dancefloor at a rando club in NY
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So like jackson pollack would like put paint in buckets with holes on the sides/bottoms and twirl it around over a floor canvas. my thought was take like a bunch of bolemic chicks and swing them upside down while they vomit and make like a sort of jackson pollack out of vomit.
you'd probably need a lot of chicks for this because the canvas has gotta be pretty large so you probably should find participants on a facebook eating disorder group or something.
and then some pretentious asshole can explain what the art means about society, and God, probably with Nietzsche quotes. like, maybe some people just like vomit. | |
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Boo Boo
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Master HWGuy
| | | P: | 08/26/2021 18:06 EST |
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I've been to a Cirque Du Soleil performance, Quidam I believe. It was outstanding. | |
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kyree
Super Regular
Killer Scout
| | | P: | 08/26/2021 18:28 EST |
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| mmarino51589 wrote:
Took my mom to see Billy Joel @ MSG a few years back. Spent the extra dough on box seats for a more comfy experience (they've managed to cram MORE seats into that fucking place since it was last renovated around 8 years ago).
Dead center, right across from the stage. For the final verse of piano man, as the song builds up, he cuts the band and the whole garden sings the final verse on loop for a few bars. Unreal energy...goosebumps.
Miami 2017 was also an epic performance. Best live music moment I've ever seen and experienced...and that being with my mom made it really special. | |
nice! <head nod> | |
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kyree
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Killer Scout
| | | P: | 08/26/2021 18:30 EST |
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| Boo Boo wrote:
I've been to a Cirque Du Soleil performance, Quidam I believe. It was outstanding. | |
Boo...tell us more...was it what you thought? or did it exceed your expectance?
I've never been but have always been entralled | |
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sprite
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Propaganda Machine
| | | P: | 08/27/2021 01:23 EST |
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| Boo Boo wrote:
I've been to a Cirque Du Soleil performance, Quidam I believe. It was outstanding. | |
Agree, Cirque was fantastic.
A doc I worked for took all the medical assistants to Vegas & to see 'O'. Shows are not something I'm into. I never would have thought to spend money on it. It was eye opening.
It wasn't just a bunch of random choreography. The story was interesting. The costumes were freaking un-real. Even the intermission comic relief (part of the show) was fun. The stunts and props were great. There were high divers, choreographed swimming 'skits', and dancing. At one point there's a metal 'ship' above the water being swung back and forth by the riders, and they are doing high-bar jumps back and forth on it. It was just good-weird and super neat all jumbled up.
The beginning was stunning, a girl descended from the domed ceiling above the audience. It made the whole experience feel magical for a moment.
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kyree
Super Regular
Killer Scout
| | | P: | 08/27/2021 08:57 EST |
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that sounds amazing...I can tell by your description, that you genuinely enjoyed yourself! | |
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sprite
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Propaganda Machine
| | | P: | 08/27/2021 14:11 EST |
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Mr. Walnuts
Daycare Manager
Pipey FlagCatcher
| | | P: | 08/27/2021 19:04 EST |
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It was early June, 1994, and I was out cruising in my Delta 88 convertible. There, in the midst and middle of the infamous Houston urban sprawl, I spy some guys building a big stage in about 80 acres of pastoral openness. This piqued my interest so I go over and ask what's up. Concert tonight. Leon Redbone, Warren Zevon, and, headlining, Wilson Pickett. Festival style. Fuck me! I run home and call up a few friends and we head out there that night loaded with party favors.
Gorgeous night/full moon, I'll never forget it. We arrive and there's like 30 people there, sitting around in lawn chairs or on blankets. We're thinking shit, we must be way early. But stage lights up right away and Leon comes out accompanied by a tuba player. Having already bought ALL his albums, this was a dream for me. His set was really sweet and he was absolutely hilarious.
Then Warren comes out by himself with just a guitar and a piano. I'm thinking, well, ok. But he plays both instruments like a fuckin orchestra. Songs, of course, were riveting.
We were surprised one of them did not headline the event -- until Pickett comes out with an 8 piece band and four backup singers. Opens with "Land of 1000 Dances". The place goes nuts, everyone way drunk and stoned. Closes with "Mustang Sally" of course, two and a half hours later.
More people showed up, but there was never more than a couple of hundred.
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