I’ve never attended a large scale festival, probably never will, but tonight we got chatting about the current music scene, and how tastes have changed over the years.
Several of my friends are Bradfordians who have joined the N Yorkshire exodus and we tried to remember the bands we saw at either St Georges Hall or Bfd uni whilst at school or late teens.
None of us remember seeing Cliff R, but we do remember seeing Led Zep, Hawkwind & Queen ( in their early years). Quo made annual visits that we always attended.
Reminiscing isn’t necessarily a good thing, but those concerts must have been good because they remain in our memories to this day. I wonder if today’s artists will do so for the youngsters who attend these days?
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Reckon they will, I remember ELO at Wembley in '78, the Style Council at the Albert Hall etc though have been to gigs in recent years, this year Coldplay, Robbie Williams, James Bay, the former and latter with one son and daughter, and daughter also saw Justin Bieber and Shaun Mendez, they'll be just as memorable to them ...
We also had tickets for Adele's last gig at Wembley though she blew us out ...
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>>None of us remember seeing Cliff R..>>
Actually I took a then girl friend to see him at my local theatre in 1959....:-)
Remember watching Genesis in Round Hey Park in Leeds in the early 1990s when the attendance was 72,000.
I also saw the Beatles perform many times in the early 1960s - in fact I knew them and manager Brian Epstein well. Along with other big Liverpool and Manchester bands at the time, including Gerry and the Pacemakers and Freddie and the Dreamers, plus the big Trad Jazz bands such as Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball.
Great time....:-) :-)
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>> plus the big Trad Jazz bands such as Acker Bilk
I thought Acker Bilk was a name taken on by an individual and not a band:
Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk
Acker meant friend or mate.
Last edited by: rtj70 on Thu 7 Dec 17 at 01:45
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Came to live music quite late in life due to living in a crap town as a kid and never having any dosh to go to gigs.
Try to go at least 4 times a year now to something and saw the Fleet Foxes last week and went to a Festival in a Day in September.
Will be in the Cavern Club for our Xmas do!
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>> I thought Acker Bilk was a name taken on by an individual and not a
>> band:
I think he generally performed with his Paramount Jazz Band. Saw him towards end of his career along with Humphrey Lyttleton where both were solo give or take some anonymous backing musicians.
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An old girlfriend bought tickets for us to see PJ Proby in Wrexham in the '60s. I was blown away by his voice, performed live, on stage.
Dave Berry could also still sound exactly like he used to in the '60s.
I saw an Eagles tribute band Talon a few years ago. Reckon they sounded better than The Eagles do now.
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I remember the Alchemy live concert by Dire straights in the 70's, I'm on the album cover (in the crowd!)
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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Edinburgh, around '76. Weirder than a weird thing but memorable.
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>> I remember the Alchemy live concert by Dire straights in the 70's, I'm on the album cover (in the crowd!)>>
Dire Straits were fantstic - still listen to their stuff regularly.
The band was also notable because its LP recordings were of such outstanding quality that they were used as a benchmark at hi-fi exhibitions up and down the country.
Mark Knopler's guitar work, like Acker Bilk's clarinet playing I've mentioned in another comment, was also instantly recognisable, yet he never sought to overshadow other band members' musical contributions.
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Sultans of Swing is still one of my favourite pieces of music.
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>> Sultans of Swing is still one of my favourite pieces of music.>>
....and Walk of Life still remains a hugely uplifting, feel good track.
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>> Sultans of Swing is still one of my favourite pieces of music.
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It's a classic, but thanks to Harry Enfield, I can't hear it without this popping into my head.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G4OuZhwtHg
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I made a post here earlier and it's gone.
Was it deleted for any reason?
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Not by me Zippy...what was it ?
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Just a comment on the humorous clip above and how I really enjoyed listening to a few of their albums on a road trip to Yorkshire once and needed to dig them out again.
Sorry if it offended anyone - absolutely none meant!
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None taken I'm sure...most odd.
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Nor me.
Prob still get the blame though
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Only right that you should, as senior mod :-)
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>>> band was also notable because its LP recordings were of such outstanding quality that they were used as a benchmark at hi-fi exhibitions up and down the country.
Sadly to the point of musical ad nauseam by the Christmas 1982 push for sales... the first 2mins of Telegraph Road blasting out of every hi-fi/electrical store.
In truth that LP was a gift to the retail hi-fi world as it made modest gear sound far better than it really was.
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>>In truth that LP was a gift to the retail hi-fi world as it made modest gear sound far better than it really was.>>
I was referring to genuine, top class hi-fi specialists....:-)
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>>>I was referring to genuine, top class hi-fi specialists....:-)
Indeed they too were not immune to using that album to make their high priced gear sound even more expensive... but I think Laskys may have more to thank that album for in volume sales.
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>> I thought Acker Bilk was a name taken on by an individual and not a band:>>
You don't say? It's quite clear what I meat - why list Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band and Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen in full otherwise?
In fact Acker Bilk, who learned to play the clarinet with such distinctiveness while serving with the Royal Engineers in Suez during his National Service, had at least one giant solo hit with Stranger on the Shore.
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I worked with a guy who was in school with Mr Knopfler and I met Sting once in the early 80s. Been to a load of concerts. These days I prefer small gigs. Last gig was with Amy Wadge - about a 100 souls. Those who've never heard of her, she's Ed Sheeran's Grammy winning co-writer. Being doing the rounds for years, been to a few of her gigs. We'll be seeing her again at Gwaenysgor (google it) village hall. A great artist with no pretentiousness. We've been lucky up here to see Elton John and Bryan Adams in Colwyn Bay !
Our choir had a gig last night, we got a standing ovation. We're really quite good. Oh and 10cc in Rhyl a few months ago...superb.
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Not much in the way of live musical memories here, but I did take a girlfriend to see Acker Bilk at the Town Hall in Cheltenham around 1966/67. What an excellent performance it was, too.
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but I did take a
>> girlfriend to see Acker Bilk at the Town Hall in Cheltenham around 1966/67. What an
>> excellent performance it was, too.
And what was the gig like?
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So many highlights.
Favourite live music memory probably ELO with full orchestra in Tilgate park in Crawley....absolutely superb .
Also remember the Everley Brothers were superb live .
Sky were very good and very loud indeed.
Stacey Kent with her superb voice and her husband Jim Tomlinson on sax float my boat as well , saw them again last month at Chichester and had a great evening, especially when she shamed the phone filmers , a pet hate of mine.
Also Ben Waters..his super boogy woogy piano playing is always memorable and a nice guy as well.
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"So many highlights."
h/c, I noticed the following in Miloš Karadaglić's Wiki entry:
"On 18 October 2016, Miloš announced via Facebook that he would be withdrawing from performance owing to a problem with his hand.[14] In November 2017 it was announced that he would return to performing in spring 2018, with two violin concertos composed for him."
I hope that Mrs h/c hasn't given up on him!
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. I wonder if today’s artists will do so for the youngsters who attend these days?
Depends on what you like, I guess, but this is a brilliant cover of a great song but with a different approach.
I recommend full volume...
youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4
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That version will end up as a timeless classic, it really is excellent.
My first live musical memory was Gene Vincent at Peterborough Corn Exchange, followed by Rainbow and Gary Moore at Granby Halls Leicester.
With that I got the bug and discovered the type of music I like was available much cheaper at the de Montfort hall with Viccy Park to chill out in afterwards!
Saxon, Motorhead, AC/DC, Quo, Rod Stewart followed before the original Monsters of Rock in Donnington Park.
Pat
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Frequently covers are disappointing, but that one isn't and, as you say, should end up as a lasting classic.
This one also (Johnny Cash covering a Nine Inch Nails track).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc
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Musical memories - Hard Cheese
