Beep Posted June 13, 2003 Author Share Posted June 13, 2003 Question! Didn't Journey and Kansas tour together one year? I think that's when I saw Kansas. With Journey. Or am I misremembering?? Anyone know if they toured together?? Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggiesjc Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Hi again, Beep. Chris McVie is tired of touring, so opted out of the latest FM album and tour. I'll miss her, but Stevie and Lindsey will keep me entertained, I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beep Posted June 13, 2003 Author Share Posted June 13, 2003 First Concert.....Seals and Croft, 1974 I believe. Kevin Out Kev, forgot to mention that I think Seals and Crofts are dreamy! I was wild about them! Still am. I also liked England Dan and John Ford Coley. (No one laugh at me or I'll send you a nastygram! KIDDING!!) But I did like them. Still do. Also dreamy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beep Posted June 13, 2003 Author Share Posted June 13, 2003 Hi again, Beep. Chris McVie is tired of touring, so opted out of the latest FM album and tour. I'll miss her, but Stevie and Lindsey will keep me entertained, I'm sure. Thanks Jennifer! I thought it might be something like that! Thanks for the 411!! Oh, I KNOW you'll have a great time!! I would! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beep Posted June 13, 2003 Author Share Posted June 13, 2003 I've never heard these guys mentioned, but they are one of my absolute big-time favorites; I spent over $100 for a comprehensive CD collection of the Moody Blues. LOVE THEM! I listened to them when I was in high school. Their older stuff. "Timothy Leary's Dead!" "Ride My SeeSaw" "Tuesday Afternoon!" They were, and are, awesome! The first time I drove the Blue Ridge Parkway (breathtaking!), I did so with the Moody Blues playing. The entire way. It was inspired!! They hit a nosedive with "Octave," but it doesn't negate who they are!! Delicious!! (I cannot afford to buy $100+ anthologies, but Moody Blues? I managed!) I also have one of the same quality of The Carpenters. (Laugh and die, I'm tellin' ya!) Karen's voice? Wow! Richard's arrangements and compositions? Brilliant! Okay, laugh if you want. But I stand firm!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 We seem to have a "topic within a topic" thing goin' on here.....so typical . Anyway, I remember posting on this very topic several months ago and stated my first concert was "Lawrence Welk" !!! (I was just a little kid though) My first concert as a full-blown teenager was "The Captain and Tenille" with my then boyfriend. The next day he gave me a great card with a penciled sketch of Toni on the front that said "Love....." and on the inside, "will keep us together" and was signed, Love Always. Oh how I cherished that card. Still have it. He hadn't told me that he loved me at that point, but there it was in print! (needless to say, we broke up a few years later....but, that's another story!!) The concert that impressed me the very most was oddly enough, John Denver. I wasn't a huge J.D. fan, but had tickets so I went with a friend. At intermission, someone tripped and dumped a "Big Gulp" full of Coke on the sound board and totally shorted it out. The auditorium had lights but nothing else. (this was at Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum in Omaha, NE). Anyway, after a really long delay, John Denver himself came out on stage and bellowed out to the crowd, "can you all hear me?" "Ya!!!" weresponded. So, John picks up a regular guitar and walks out on to the center of the stage and sings his little heart out! What a performance! It was the coolest concert experience I've ever had. Pure, unfiltered, un-enhanced, un-amplified John Denver. I'm guessing that not too many people ever had the chance to hear him sing this way, and it was truly magnificent. They were able to get everything going again, but that 20 minutes or so was unforgettable and John really lived up to the adage, "The show must go on"!--Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beep Posted June 13, 2003 Author Share Posted June 13, 2003 I saw ELO with MY first true love! So I know! He and I were both wild about Billy Joel ("The Stranger" had JUST been released), and it would have been AWESOME to have seen BJ with Dwayne!! ::::sigh:::: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 I remember seeing ELO in Mtl in 1977 and thinking, "hmm..this sounds a bit too much like the recording." It was only a few months later that I read in Circus magazine that ELO was rumoured to be using pre-recorded tracks in their concerts to capture the orchestration of their recorded music.MARVIN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beep Posted June 13, 2003 Author Share Posted June 13, 2003 I saw them in '77. They sounded live to me! I even heard some "ouchies" in there, so they couldn't have been TOO pre-recorded. That was the year they used some kind of spaceship on-stage, but Murphy Center in Murfreesboro (MTSU) was too small a venue to fit their whole stage scene in. I eventually got over it. I think?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Beep I saw the same "Spaceship" show. I think the rumours were that most of the orchestration was pre-recorded. I guess ELO was way before their time because today, many artists pre-record / sample etc.MARVIN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevG Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Beep, I liked EDAJFC also. My favorite song is "Some Things Don't Come Easy" great acoustical guitar tune. I recently bought their greatest hits on CD and listen all of the time. I also listen to Dan Seals solo stuff, he made a great career for himself in the country scene.Yes, the MP3 files on the Clarks site are slow, I have complained to the moderator their before. the Real video files actually download quicker if you want to go that route. the files are the entire 4 minutes of song they should have compressed them more. It's worth the frustration, especially the real Video file of "Better off Without You".I saw ELO in 77 with Foreigner and Journey in Cleveland Stadium. Bev Bevan and Mick Kaminski (string section) did solos so I don't think the entire string tracks were prerecorded or looped. It was a great show, awsome when the saucer opened up at the beginning and before oncor.Producer Justin Neibank has his own studio just outside of Nashville, he has a name for it but it escapes me at the moment. He is known mostly for his work with Marty Stewart, Patty Loveless, John Hiatt, Eric Clapton among others.Have a great day all. Beep something tells me a nasty gram from you wouldn't be all that offensive....just a guess Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darlene Posted June 13, 2003 Share Posted June 13, 2003 Beep, it was so very long ago, but I went to so many Raspberries performances, it had to be them. I used to lie in wait for performances anywhere near my area of the country! I also saw, very early, Harry Chapin, "up close and personal" at the Perth Amboy waterfront, at one of his famous charity benefit concerts. He was just sitting there, eating an ear of corn. He looked at me, offered it, and asked "Want some?"So we shared this ear of corn. He was so down-to-earth, easygoing and just plain kind, that I was so impressed. Later, his band came and his lovely wife Sandy and his kids. He invited everyone at the concert to one at his home in Huntington, Long Island to a BIG benefit concert for charity. It was wonderful. His whole backyard was Huntington Bay! We later went to his shortlived show,"The Night That Made America Famous," and I told him I wanted to give him $20, and he just HAD to accept it, even if he just gave it to charity. He said, "Okay, but WHY?" I said, "Because there's just something I HAVE to say to you." I gave him the $20 bill and said "Harry, keep the change!" He loved it! --Darlene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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