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Writer's Block: Legends of Rock
Dec. 7th, 2008 06:10 pm[Error: unknown template qotd] Really this is a tie between three concerts, two of them the same band.
#1 - Metallica headlining with Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies opening - Cheshire Fairgrounds, North Swanzey, NH (1994)
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quantumswordsmn won the tickets from WAAF for lounge-singing Bohemian Rhapsody. It was kind of amazing. I only wish I had been present to witness the lounge-singing for myself! We arrived at the show and I was just really excited to see Suicidal Tendencies, who were my band of obsessive choice at the time. I bought a ST baseball cap and an ST baseball jersey at the show before it started just to show my enthusiasm! Danzig was okay, but I was really disappointed. They played everything just the same as the record and there was almost no crowd interaction. The promoters for ST spotted me all ST-geared out and asked me if I wanted to go backstage for their part of the show. I laughed it off as a prank. They were serious. Then I was going to refuse to go because they wouldn't let ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quantumswordsmn come with me, but then he talked sense into me and said I would be stupid not to go, so I did. I got to meet the guys after the show, but I got to spend time hanging out with Robert Trujillo (who later went on to play bass for Ozzy and now ironically Metallica) while he did his pre-show prep. He was really awesome, very personable and very talkative with the few of us ST fans that got backstage. After their part of the show I got autographs on my jersy from a most of the guys. I still have the jersey complete with the Metallica backstage pass sticker. Metallica was great, too. It was the tour they used for the Live Shit boxed set, I'm pretty sure. Jay Newstead passed out about halfway through the show. While the band was waiting to see if he would be okay to play more, they told jokes. It was just after Kurt Kobain died, so they told Kurt Kobain jokes. They decided to continue without Newstead and cranked the low end on the guitars to compensate. Then Newstead came out to sing only because that was all the doctors said he should be doing. Then he decided to go against doctors' orders and picked up the bass and finished the show.
#2 Yes headlining with Kansas opening - Masterworks tour - Fleet Pavilion, Boston (2000)
This was an amazing show. Not only did we get to see Yes, but also Kansas! Kansas was amazing. Yes was even better. Even still about 40 years after they formed, they still play/sing as good as ever and they still put on excellent, energetic shows with great sets. For this tour they played only their old stuff and I believe only stuff picked by fans. At this particular show the newest song they played was "The Gates of Delirium," (the only song on the first side of the original LP and inspired by Tolstoy's War and Peace) from Relayer, released in 1974. My only regret was not buying a CD from the tour. They did something really cool that I had never seen done before: they listed a bunch of songs from various shows (including the show we saw in Boston) on their website and let fans custom-build their own double-disc live Masterworks CD. What a cool live album concept! The whole tour was nothing but fan-driven.
(This is a great live version from another show on the Masterworks tour, but I recommend listening to the original album version of the song. It includes some rather inventive percussion, including the use of old car parts, and Patrick Moraz playing prototype synths that hadn't even been released yet.)
#3 Yes - The Ladder tour - Orpheum Theater, Boston (1999)
This was my first time going to a show in The Orpheum in Boston and I was blown away by how gorgeous it is, even if in need of repair. They started with an extremely extended version of "Yours Is No Disgrace," which is one of my most favorite Yes songs. They played all of the songs from The Ladder, and during "Homeworld (The Ladder)" they projected an accompanying music video made from clips of the PC game Homeworld for which they had licensed the song. It was that concert that had prompted us to want the game and I'm so glad we got it, because it is probably one of my all-time favorite real-time strategy games.
#1 - Metallica headlining with Danzig and Suicidal Tendencies opening - Cheshire Fairgrounds, North Swanzey, NH (1994)
This was an amazing show.
quantumswordsmn won the tickets from WAAF for lounge-singing Bohemian Rhapsody. It was kind of amazing. I only wish I had been present to witness the lounge-singing for myself! We arrived at the show and I was just really excited to see Suicidal Tendencies, who were my band of obsessive choice at the time. I bought a ST baseball cap and an ST baseball jersey at the show before it started just to show my enthusiasm! Danzig was okay, but I was really disappointed. They played everything just the same as the record and there was almost no crowd interaction. The promoters for ST spotted me all ST-geared out and asked me if I wanted to go backstage for their part of the show. I laughed it off as a prank. They were serious. Then I was going to refuse to go because they wouldn't let quantumswordsmn come with me, but then he talked sense into me and said I would be stupid not to go, so I did. I got to meet the guys after the show, but I got to spend time hanging out with Robert Trujillo (who later went on to play bass for Ozzy and now ironically Metallica) while he did his pre-show prep. He was really awesome, very personable and very talkative with the few of us ST fans that got backstage. After their part of the show I got autographs on my jersy from a most of the guys. I still have the jersey complete with the Metallica backstage pass sticker. Metallica was great, too. It was the tour they used for the Live Shit boxed set, I'm pretty sure. Jay Newstead passed out about halfway through the show. While the band was waiting to see if he would be okay to play more, they told jokes. It was just after Kurt Kobain died, so they told Kurt Kobain jokes. They decided to continue without Newstead and cranked the low end on the guitars to compensate. Then Newstead came out to sing only because that was all the doctors said he should be doing. Then he decided to go against doctors' orders and picked up the bass and finished the show.#2 Yes headlining with Kansas opening - Masterworks tour - Fleet Pavilion, Boston (2000)
This was an amazing show. Not only did we get to see Yes, but also Kansas! Kansas was amazing. Yes was even better. Even still about 40 years after they formed, they still play/sing as good as ever and they still put on excellent, energetic shows with great sets. For this tour they played only their old stuff and I believe only stuff picked by fans. At this particular show the newest song they played was "The Gates of Delirium," (the only song on the first side of the original LP and inspired by Tolstoy's War and Peace) from Relayer, released in 1974. My only regret was not buying a CD from the tour. They did something really cool that I had never seen done before: they listed a bunch of songs from various shows (including the show we saw in Boston) on their website and let fans custom-build their own double-disc live Masterworks CD. What a cool live album concept! The whole tour was nothing but fan-driven.
(This is a great live version from another show on the Masterworks tour, but I recommend listening to the original album version of the song. It includes some rather inventive percussion, including the use of old car parts, and Patrick Moraz playing prototype synths that hadn't even been released yet.)
#3 Yes - The Ladder tour - Orpheum Theater, Boston (1999)
This was my first time going to a show in The Orpheum in Boston and I was blown away by how gorgeous it is, even if in need of repair. They started with an extremely extended version of "Yours Is No Disgrace," which is one of my most favorite Yes songs. They played all of the songs from The Ladder, and during "Homeworld (The Ladder)" they projected an accompanying music video made from clips of the PC game Homeworld for which they had licensed the song. It was that concert that had prompted us to want the game and I'm so glad we got it, because it is probably one of my all-time favorite real-time strategy games.
