The best gig i have seen

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Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band.

NY Giants Stadium, New Jersey.

September 2003.

Last date of The Rising World Tour.

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So many, mainly in the Eighties when I was reviewing music for a newspaper or two. The most fun was Kid Creole and the Coconuts at the (all-standing, all-dancing) Bristol Locarno in 1982. August Darnell was the consummate showman, with Sugar-Coated Andy Hernandez not far behind. Most of the audience was wearing safari gear, including pith helmets. And the amazing, formidable Coconuts were wearing not much at all.

I saw them again at an atmosphere-free showground in Shepton Mallett or Yeovil, somewhere like that, a year or two later. Lightning didn’t strike twice. The band needed proximity to an enthusiastic crowd to shine.

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For me without any shadow of doubt it would be Lynyrd Skynyrd at Knebworth in 1976. Very important for me because it was the first time i had heard them, along with the first time i worked with them (i was their sound engineer that day). That gig sealed my fate within the music industry and led to my last day in the industry in 1987 on the Skynyrd “Tribute Tour”. I will always be grateful to both Ronnie and Johnny Van Zant for kickstarting and ending my time in the industry.

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I saw him without the e street band in London. The Seeger sessions.
Amazing

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I remember helping set up for Dire Straits in the Colchester Institute.
They were just starting out and had no helpers. A very small audience as I recall.
Colchester university downstairs was another room/car park to listen to rising stars.
Not a student.

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I have to say Motorpsycho at Øya 2008.

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For me it has to be Gary Clail’s on u sound system at the Islington Powerhouse, with a surprise guest appearance by Lee Scratch Perry.

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I saw Skynyrd in Jan 77, they were excellent. I was still at school. I saw them twice again in later incarnations, the first of those with Ed King in the band. Good memories.

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I saw both the Blues Band and Nine Below Zero in about 1980 when a student. They were great. Definitely near the top of my list.

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If Ed King was back in the band, that would have been the Tribute Tour. I take it you live in the USA then @Collywobbles

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Queen on the ‘Crazy Tour of London’ in 1979. It was at Ally Pally and the sound was probably awful but as I was at the very front and centre I didn’t notice. I’d seen them before, and after, but when they broke out ‘Liar’ I completely lost it!

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No, it was Town and Country Club London in 92 from memory. They were touring the “Skynyrd 1991” studio album. Pyle was no longer in the band though.

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Absolutely - I was privileged to see Missisippi Fred McDowell there. Happy days.

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Bowie StationToStation tour. Wembley Empire Pool 1976.

Totally blew my 16 yer old mind.

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What a band. Still great.

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I could list a number of great gigs, but I suppose the most “spectacular” would be PF’s “The Wall” concert at Earls Court.

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Many superb gigs to choose from.

But I’d have to choose Richard Thompson accompanied by Danny Thompson on double bass at the Ulster Hall in Belfast, in the late 1990s.

First time seeing RT perform live. I was sitting in the side balcony area and couldn’t see the entire stage. I was convinced initially there was another guitarist on stage. There wasn’t, it was all the incredible string work by Richard Thompson.

I walked away from that concert totally amazed at the musicianship.

I’ve seen RT many times since, and never disappointed.

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Echo & The Bunnymen at the Royal Albert Hall, Monday 18 July 1983. On that one night, the best band in the world. The performance of “Do It Clean” is on the B side of the 12” version of The Killing Moon. A happy day…

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and it’s on YouTube…

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I was there too. Great gig. But then, all Queen gigs were great.

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