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Post by DoTheMath on Aug 8, 2017 20:06:43 GMT
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Post by DoTheMath on Aug 10, 2017 17:47:37 GMT
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Post by DoTheMath on Aug 12, 2017 15:39:24 GMT
Was gonna go with the midnight special version but since there's always been "misunderstood lyrics" with this song, I went with this instead.  |
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Post by DoTheMath on Aug 12, 2017 15:43:06 GMT
In honor of John Garrett
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Post by DoTheMath on Aug 12, 2017 15:45:34 GMT
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Post by beren44 on Aug 13, 2017 21:14:30 GMT
is this classic enough for you? Bonus points for intro by Glen Campbell. R.I.P.
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Post by bigvanray on Sept 3, 2017 21:51:09 GMT
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Post by DoTheMath on Sept 16, 2017 14:45:04 GMT
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Post by beren44 on Aug 7, 2018 6:21:22 GMT
OH how I wish I had been at this concert/tour... It doesn't get much better than this.
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Post by backroadjunkie on Aug 8, 2018 19:46:36 GMT
OH how I wish I had been at this concert/tour... It doesn't get much better than this.
The only Zep concert I was at was in 1977. Presence tour, I believe. I destroyed a lot of brain cells that night. My ticket was $10.00, lol...
But my favorite group was Yes. I have seen Yes four times, from Yessongs to Relayer. Did I ever post the link to the time I photographed one?
Here's a blurry pic of the set list. (The pics of the concert are much better.)
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Post by backroadjunkie on Aug 8, 2018 19:57:58 GMT
Has anyone seen the DVD, "Styx, Return to Paradise"? Someone on YouTube posted a tune from it.
They were done with the tour, and the group returned to Chicago to do a final concert, and they filmed it.
I was at that very concert. (Still have the ticket stub to prove it.) I believe it was the last time the band was together. It as a great show.
And sorry, Styx is not Styx without Dennis DeYoung. He was the heart and soul of the group.
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Post by beren44 on Aug 8, 2018 21:55:06 GMT
OH how I wish I had been at this concert/tour... It doesn't get much better than this.
The only Zep concert I was at was in 1977. Presence tour, I believe. I destroyed a lot of brain cells that night. My ticket was $10.00, lol...
But my favorite group was Yes. I have seen Yes four times, from Yessongs to Relayer. Did I ever post the link to the time I photographed one?
Here's a blurry pic of the set list. (The pics of the concert are much better.)
You and I would get along quite well. YES is also my favorite band. By far. I have been lucky enough to see them 14 times, the first being the Tormato tour in 1978, and most recently the 'Three Albums' tour, about 3 years ago. Not trying to upstage your post, really, but I have a hell of a story. I was attending North Texas State University as a jazz guitar major, (now U.N.T.), and 4 of us went to that first concert. One was a professional photographer, and had a lot of gear with him. When we checked in to the hotel (The Hilton in Fort Worth), it happened by sheer chance that the photographer was wearing the same earlier tour t-shirt that the roadies were wearing that time around, and the hotel thought we were part of the entourage, and placed us on the same floor as Yes. This was all totally by coincidence, we didn't even know that they were staying at the same hotel. We got to meet them, I even sat around the swimming pool and visited with Alan White and Chris Squire. Met Steve Howe in the elevator, and partied with Rick Wakeman late that night after the show.
The whole weekend was a surreal dream for a fan. I still cannot believe how the stars aligned for us that night. The photographer got to set up tripods and everything at the concert from the first elevated row. The concert was in the round, and the first six rows were folding chairs placed on the floor below stage level, and we were in the 7th row, the first elevated section, level with the stage. He got about 2 shoeboxes worth of photographs, of album cover quality.
I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT WEEKEND!
EDIT: I just looked at your photos, they are awesome! It looks like you got to have a similar experience! That is wonderful, thank you so much for letting me re-live that memory. One of the high points of my life, for sure.
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Post by beren44 on Aug 8, 2018 22:26:52 GMT
Has anyone seen the DVD, "Styx, Return to Paradise"? Someone on YouTube posted a tune from it.
They were done with the tour, and the group returned to Chicago to do a final concert, and they filmed it.
I was at that very concert. (Still have the ticket stub to prove it.) I believe it was the last time the band was together. It as a great show.
And sorry, Styx is not Styx without Dennis DeYoung. He was the heart and soul of the group.
I haven't seen the DVD, but I agree Dennis was integral to the band. I got to see them only once, I believe it was the first tour with Tommy Shaw playing with them. Excellent show! |
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Post by backroadjunkie on Aug 9, 2018 3:38:19 GMT
You and I would get along quite well. YES is also my favorite band. By far. I have been lucky enough to see them 14 times, the first being the Tormato tour in 1978, and most recently the 'Three Albums' tour, about 3 years ago. Not trying to upstage your post, really, but I have a hell of a story. I was attending North Texas State University as a jazz guitar major, (now U.N.T.), and 4 of us went to that first concert. One was a professional photographer, and had a lot of gear with him. When we checked in to the hotel (The Hilton in Fort Worth), it happened by sheer chance that the photographer was wearing the same earlier tour t-shirt that the roadies were wearing that time around, and the hotel thought we were part of the entourage, and placed us on the same floor as Yes. This was all totally by coincidence, we didn't even know that they were staying at the same hotel. We got to meet them, I even sat around the swimming pool and visited with Alan White and Chris Squire. Met Steve Howe in the elevator, and partied with Rick Wakeman late that night after the show. The whole weekend was a surreal dream for a fan. I still cannot believe how the stars aligned for us that night. The photographer got to set up tripods and everything at the concert from the first elevated row. The concert was in the round, and the first six rows were folding chairs placed on the floor below stage level, and we were in the 7th row, the first elevated section, level with the stage. He got about 2 shoeboxes worth of photographs, of album cover quality.
I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT WEEKEND! It's called being in the right place at the right time. I think where we diverge is the group lost me with 90125. I even liked Drama, but listen to 90125 and then Close to the Edge, and they were just taking a direction I wasn't going. (I thought The Solos was okay.) They completely lost me with Big Generator. All the personnel changes probably didn't help... Jon Anderson actually toured and appeared at a small venue here a few years ago. I looked into the show, and it would have cost something like $300-400 to take someone there with me. Excuse me? That's a long way from the $8.50 it used to cost to see the band!
You're welcome. It was from a time I could hold a camera steady.  (Hey, the F3 with a 70-210 zoom gets heavy!)
Off topic, about 25% of the photos are pretty marginal on the actual transparency (I was shooting slides), so it wasn't until 2008 that I was able to repair them with a new (really, really good) scanner and, of course, Photoshop. So it wasn't until 30 years after the shoot that some of the image became usable... Ah film. Even though I was one of the last to cross over to digital, how I don't miss you...
On topic, classic rock.
I was down at the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando, and was by the pool. Because that's what you do when it's a bazillion degrees with a hot, roasting sun. They're playing 70's tunes (well, it's the Hard Rock), and the teenagers knew all the words to all the songs. It was kind of an eye opening experience. (I mean, if you play something from South Pacific (the movie or play) I could probably tell you that it was from South Pacific, but I wouldn't know the words...)
It was the best music produced, but that's probably a biased opinion. But I can't help thinking that the kid being drilled with the music by mom and dad since being popped out of the womb doesn't have a lot to do with it...
(Yes, I'm copying some large files and am wasting time. Can you tell?)
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Post by FreeKresge on Jan 1, 2021 2:57:25 GMT
We can hope that the first line of this song comes true. On the other hand, those familiar with the story knows what happens during the song.
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Nov 24, 2024 23:10:42 GMT
I'll be spending next weekend with some family I like and trying to avoid any remotely controversial conversations with others that I spend the rest of the year avoiding 