Last night, I drove the 100 or so miles from DeeCee to Richmond, VA to see a band I get kidded around a lot for ’round these parts: ZZ Top.
Some of you might be surprised to learn that this was the first time I’d ever seen the band, given my fan-boy love for almost all things Zeezy, and particularly Gibbonsian. Nevertheless, there I was, at a peculiar, very small outdoor venue (seemed more like a neighborhood park, and there couldn’t have been more than 1500 people there) — and I was frankly surprised how much the band rocked — with a weird, loping groove they seem to have developed in their dotage. I’ve never heard anything like it. If it weren’t mathematically impossible, I’d say that the whole band was playing behind the beat. Billy’s playing was especially stellar — I was worried what I might see, after witnessing some pretty shambolic TV appearances in recent years. No worries there; the Rev was ON.
Anyhow, the show was definitely worth the $20 I paid to see it, and might have even been worth the five-hour round-trip drive. But that’s not why I write!
I’m writing because ZZ Top was on my increasingly short list of “bands I really need to see while I still can/really should have seen while I had the chance.” I’m here to share my list, indicating whether or not I got to see the artists on it — and I hope you’ll share yours. Please note that historical impossibilities are not allowed — but missed opportunities are. Here, then, is my list, in no particular order, to serve as example:
SEEN
James Brown
P-Funk All-Stars
Paul McCartney
Ray Davies/Kinks
ZZ Top
Prince
Upper Crust
Paul Weller
Booker T & the MGs
AC/DC
The Minutemen
Alex Chilton
The Beach Boys
Ringo Starr
Brian Wilson
Danny Gatton
Chris Stamey
The Who
Van Fucking Halen
Eddy Grant
Elvis Costello
Burt Bacharach
Jimmie Vaughan
The La’s
NRBQ
Sloan
Stevie Wonder
NOT SEEN
Terence Trent D’Arby/Sananda Maitreya
Tom Jones
Roy Wood
Nick Lowe
Allen Toussaint
Pernice Brothers
Motorhead
Jim Hall
Jeff Beck
The J. Geils Band
The Isley Brothers
Chuck Berry
Fats Domino
Jerry Lee Lewis
Candi Staton
Merle Haggard
Rolling Stones
Supagroup
Delbert McClinton
Jason Falkner
MISSED MY CHANCE
Rory Gallagher
Johnny “Guitar” Watson
The Clash
John Lennon
George Harrison
Curtis Mayfield
Woody Herman
XTC
The Jam
Muddy Waters
Barry White
I look forward to your responses.
HVB
My list shouldn’t be too long – and many of my “missed my chance” artists, although I could have seen them as far back as 30 years ago, I chose not to, thinking they’d already passed the point of diminishing returns. I’m not including artists I would like to have seen since the time I turned 12 but would have been unrealistic to have seen at that young an age. For instance, John Lennon was long past touring by the time I was a teenager, so I can’t count him.
SEEN
Elvis Costello & the Attractions
The Clash
The Undertones (w/o Feargal, but it was the best I could do)
Pere Ubu
Television
James Blood Ulmer
X
Van Morrison
Nick Lowe
James Brown
PiL
Glenn Branca
Roxy Music
The Roches
NOT SEEN
Roy Wood
Ornette Coleman
Neil Young
The Residents
Terry Riley (most recent addition)
Robert Fripp/King Crimson
MISSED MY CHANCE
Bob Dylan
XTC (missed seeing them in high school them by 2 days!)
The Specials
Talking Heads
The Who
The Rolling Stones
Sleater-Kinney
The Buzzcocks (can’t imagine they’d be the same reunited, old, and with a different drummer)
The Kinks (had no interest in seeing them in high school and college days)
WAS TOLD BY OTHERS I HAD TO SEE AND DID NOT REGRET SEEING
Yes
WAS TOLD BY OTHERS I HAD TO SEE AND WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE STAYING HOME AND WATCHING “TOMMY” INSTEAD
The Grateful Dead
Genesis
The Boss
SEEN
Bob Dylan (About 10 times)
Willie Nelson (About 8 or 9 times)
Paul McCartney (2002 & 2005)
Neil Young
Booker T & the MGs
Alex Chilton/Big Star (three times)
Brian Wilson
The Who (2000 & 2006)
Elvis Costello (Solo twice, once with Allen Toussaint)
Allen Toussaint (Solo)
Dr. John
Sonic Youth
Tower of Power
Marshall Tucker Band
Steppenwolf
Joan Jett (twice)
The Pretenders
Roger McGuinn
The Police
R.E.M.
Simon and Garfunkel
Paul Simon
Bryan Adams
Def Leppard
Whitesnake
Metallica (Justice and Black Album tours)
Motley Crue
Blondie
Great White
The Cult
Warrant
Steven Curtis Chapman
Phil Keaggy
Michael W. Smith
Third Day
Elton John
Billy Joel
Ben Folds
Oasis
The Donnas
Ben Kweller
The Watson Twins
Ben Lee
Merle Haggard
Randy Travis
The Magnetic Fields
The Mountain Goats
Del Amitri
The Connells
Wynton Marsalis
(and probably some others that I either can’t recall or remember, but really may not matter)
NOT SEEN
Chuck Berry
Fats Domino
Jerry Lee Lewis
Rolling Stones
Jeff Lynne/ELO
Peter Gabriel
Michael Nesmith
Ryan Adams
Will Oldham
The New Pornographers
Weezer
ZZ Top
Prince
Aerosmith
Tom Petty
Pearl Jam
Bruce Springsteen
Fleetwood Mac
Weird Al Yankovic
Stevie Wonder
Beck
AC/DC
U2
MISSED MY CHANCE (assuming this would be a wish list due to being born too late or the group no longer exists)
Warren Zevon
The Clash
John Lennon
George Harrison
Roy Orbison
Pavement
Harry Nilsson
The Jam
James Brown
Johnny Cash
Jimi Hendrix
The Who (circa 1969-1970)
TB
I could add Van the Man to my list of NOT SEEN. Would definitely see Van given the chance. Also add The Raconteurs and The White Stripes to the list. Plus, Loretta Lynn. Okay, that’s all.
I also have a list of WOULD NEVER SEE IF THEY WERE PLAYING AROUND THE CORNER OF MY HOUSE FOR FREE:
The Beach Boys
Kenny G
Davy Jones
Mariah Carey
Billy Ray Cyrus
Michael Bolton
Celine Dion
Oprah Winfrey (okay, she souldn’t count, but I really can’t stand her)
TB
SEEN
Kinks/Ray Davies
Devo
Robyn Hitchcock
Elvis Costello
R.E.M.
Brian Wilson
Booker T. & The M.G.’s
The White Stripes
The Replacements (as opening act for Elvis Costello)
NOT SEEN
Bob Dylan
Belle & Sebastian
Martin Newell
MISSED MY CHANCE
The Ramones
The Jam
The Undertones
Is the SEEN list supposed to be all inclusive like everything I’ve seen for all time and stuff?
SEEN
Blur
Crowded House
The Kinks
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Wilco
Sons and Daughters
Cheap Trick
Bob Dylan
Jarvis Cocker
Westerberg
Sonic Youth
Neko Case
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
Quasi
Elvis Costello
Electrelane
Richard Thompson
Randy Newman
R.E.M.
X
Roxy Music
NOT SEEN
The Divine Comedy
Teenage Fanclub
Morrissey
David Bowie
McCartney
MISSED MY CHANCE
Pulp
XTC
The Replacements
The Smiths
The Beatles
I’ve not listed every show that I’ve seen, just shows that were on my list of folks to see before one of us dies.
Seen:
The Replacements
Paul Westerberg
Tom Waits
Television
Guided By Voices
Plimsouls
Rolling Stones
Chuck Berry (with Ron Wood)
Spinal Tap
ZZ Top
Bruce Springsteen
Los Lobos
Tom Petty
The Beat Farmers
The Band (alas, about 6 months after Richard Manual hanged himself).
Grateful Dead
J Geils Band
KISS
AC/DC
Daniel Lanois
Elvis Costello
Alex Chilton
Aerosmith (kind of)
Kinks
Cyril Jordan
Lou Reed
Wilco
Hoodoo Gurus
Paul Kelly and the Messengers
Jimmy Cliff
Peter Tosh
Neil Young
Sonic Youth
U2 (not a big fan but I always suspected that they would be really good live. I would not have paid but I got free tickets, excellent show.)
Not Seen (tickets would have to be well under $100, and not for nose bleeds either):
Yo La Tengo
The Raspberries
Prince
Steely Dan
Mott the Hoople
Willie Nelson
Missed My Chance:
George Jones
The Who
The Clash
Bob Marley
Sex Pistols
Francis Albert Sinatra
Lynyrd Skynyrd (had a ticket but the plane crashed)
Darkness-era Springsteen (had a ticket but also had a bad report card so was not allowed to go. Heard a bootleg from that tour and have still not forgiven my parents.)
As I listen to my Guided By Voices “best of” I’m reminded that they should have been on my list of WAS TOLD BY OTHERS I HAD TO SEE AND WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE STAYING HOME AND WATCHING “TOMMY” INSTEAD. I really like most of the 30 or so songs on this GBV collection, but they sucked when I saw them live.
Oats, come on! How old are you? You didn’t “miss your chance” to see the Beatles, surely!
To be clear:
SEEN = bands that are/were on your list of “bands I MUST see while I have the chance” that you have seen
NOT SEEN = bands that are/were on your list of “bands I MUST see while I have the chance” that you have NOT seen. Note: these have to be bands that you *could* see, today.
MISSED MY CHANCE = bands that were on your list of “bands I MUST see while I have the chance” that you didn’t get to see before they broke up/died/whatever. I’d prefer not to include artists that used to be good, but now suck. At the very least, they would have had to be good during a time frame in which you *could’ve* seen them live — and *should’ve*, and wanted to — but didn’t.
Just being thorough and honest! Not being born yet counts as “missing” in my book.
Oats is older than you think. He doesn’t like to admit it, but he was in an office building down the street when the Beatles did the rooftop concert, but he couldn’t be bothered to look out the window until they’d been shut down.
I liked seeing Guided By Voices live just to see Pollard casually putting back all the booze he did during the show. I was impressed and it upped my respect for the guy.
NOT SEEN
Bowie
Prince
Radiohead
WOULD HAVE SEEN BUT TOUR WAS CANCELED RIGHT BEFORE IT GOT HERE
Lynne’s ‘ELO’ tour from a few years ago
HAVEN’T SEEN BUT WILL NEXT TIME THEY COME BACK
Dirtbombs
King Khan
Hrrundi wrote:
Come on, man. You take Lennon off your list and I’ll take The Kinks, The Stones, and a few others off my list. When did Lennon last play live, outside of joining Elton John on stage in 1976 or so, like 1974? You’re telling me your 10-year-old self even conceived of having seeing Lennon live? I say that qualifies as not having had the chance to see him live!
Hurrndi also wrote:
“SEEN = bands that are/were on your list of “bands I MUST see while I have the chance” that you have seen”
This is relative and that’s why my list of “Seen” bands is so long.
Bands like Paul Kelly and the Messengers might be a footnote’s footnote now but I was really psyched when I saw them in the mid 80s. Paul Kelly was unknown here and from Australia, so the fact that he made it to Philly with the Messengers was my own personal cause for celebration.
SEEN
The Who
Rolling Stones
Cheap Trick
The Boss
Meat Puppets
Minutemen
Replacements
Husker Du
Red Hot Chili Peppers
REM
X
Pere Ubu
Feelies
The Clash
Eleventh Dream Day
Stooges (reunited)
Elvis Costello
Pink Floyd
Pavement
Dinosaur Jr.
Neil Finn
Talking Heads
King Crimson
Sex Pistols (reunion)
English Beat (reunion)
Spinal Tap
Roxy Music
Robyn Hitchcock
Devo
Crowded House
NOT SEEN
The High Dials
New Order
The Residents
MISSED MY CHANCE
Queen
ELO
Kinks
Police
The Specials
Buzzcocks
Undertones
XTC
SEEN BUT REGRETFULLY TOO HIGH TO REMEMBER
PiL
Hrrundi, I’m intrigued by this notion of all three members of ZZ Top playing behind the beat. Sure it seems to be mathematically impossible, but I wonder if this concept could be tested out in RTH Labs. See what your friends over there think about it.
I will just do the one in each category that stands out to me:
Seen (Saw?)
Ted Hawkins. Complete happen-stance in the early 90’s at the exact moment I was obsessed with his “Watch Your Step” album. It was in a firehall basement in Ballard, WA. He was dead months later.
Not Seen:
Macca
Missed My Chance:
The Ramones. They played the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver every year. I always intended to see them the next year. Until there was no next year. Shit.
Mod — you’re right; Lennon was way off base. Charge that one to my heart, not to my head.
SEEN:
The Clash
Morrissey
Van Morrison
New Order
Leonard Cohen, circa Various Positions
The McGarrigles
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Missed my chance
Talking Heads, circa Fear of Music. For which I will never forgive myself and have never had the heart to see David Byrne since.
Pulp. We lost the general admission tickets. Grrr.
cdm, Paul Kelly is still alive and well and gigging his little heart out in Australia. He supported Leonard Cohen on the recent tour here.
An interesting exercise. I’m sure I’m missing some, but this started to get out of control when I began looking at other peoples’ lists. Only people I really like are listed (so no Cactus, Jethro Tull, Bloodrock, etc). Some dates approximate, included only to indicate it wasn’t later, inferior version of the artist I saw.
SEEN
Jefferson Airplane
Grateful Dead ( 70 and 77)
Stooges/ MC5 (71?)
Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green version, Danny Kirwan version, Bob Welch version, and impostor version)
Allman Bros, also Allman Bros + Peter Green
Procol Harum (69, 71)
Geils
Mott the Hoople (72?)
Roxy Music (76)
Meters (73, 75)
Bob Dylan (75, 08)
Byrds (71)
Jackson Browne
Stones (75)
Beach Boys (74)
Ry Cooder
Bruce Springsteen (75, 79)
Tom Petty (77)
Rockpile/Blondie
The Clash
Talking Heads
Professor Longhair (79)
Bob Marley & the Wailers
Elvis Costello (w/ Attractions — This Year’s Model, Trust – with Confederates — King of America — also with Impostors in the 00’s)
Nick Lowe solo (86)
Marshall Crenshaw (3x)
Cheap Trick
U2 (80)
Police/Specials
XTC
Squeeze (80,81)
Plimsouls
Beat Farmers
NRBQ (twice late 80s)
REM (81, 84)
X (5 times)
King Crimson (first Belew version)
Minutemen
Husker Du
Cramps
English Beat
Dave Edmunds
King Sunny Ade
Bow Wow Wow
The Fall
Alex Chilton (3 times?)
John Cale (2 or 3 times, 70s/80s)
Pretenders
Gang of Four (4 times, reunion gig canceled due to natural disaster)
Prince (Controvery tour)
Devo (80)
Kinks (75, 77)
Snakefinger
James Blood Ulmer
Cecil Taylor
Old & New Dreams
Neil Young & Crazy Horse (90)
Yo La Tengo
Richard Thompson
Mekons
David Lindley
Randy Newman (4x)
Everything But the Girl
King’s X
Radiohead
Caribou
American Music Club, also Eitzel solo
Richard Buckner (last week)
NOT SEEN
Pere Ubu
Tom Waits
Robyn Hitchcock
Van Morrison
Sonic Youth
Lou Reed
Paul Simon
David Bowie
Los Lobos
Wilco
ZZ Top
MISSED MY CHANCE
Beatles
Hendrix (never played in my area)
The Who (don’t know why I missed an early 70s date)
The Band (76, date canceled due to poor ticket sales)
Little Feat (78, date canceled due to rain)
Sex Pistols
The Jam
Buzzcocks
Smiths
Blur
Regrets, I’ve had a few…Never seeing The Chills. Their LP Soft Bomb had come out, they were touring Australia. I was in the right city (holidaying in Melbourne) at the wrong time. They were playing in Perth, my home town.
Alex, I was all set to see Lynne/ELO on that cancelled Zoom tour! How disappointed was I when it got canned due to lack of sales on the new record. I hate to say it, but Jeff should have considered something smaller like the casinos. I know this is probably a “step back”, but that tour seemed too ambitious from the beginning.
A band I would like to add to my list of Never Seen/Missed My Chance would be Led Zeppelin. I would pay good money to see Page/Plant/Jones and the Bonham kid. I would.
I would love to have seen Pink Floyd with Roger Waters, but that’s a reunion that will never happen now. So, I missed my chance there, too.
TB
SEEN – Everybody (seriously)-every major artist that I have had any interest in seeing I have seen (If they toured between 1984 and 2009)
Page +Plant, Who , Kinks, Stones, Floyd, dylan, petty, springsteen (10x) john lee hooker, james brown, fogerty, The Band, clapton, mc cartney, zz top, van halen, ac/dc , aerosmith, Run DMC, Queen, cheap trick, Big Star….can go on and on
NOT SEEN –
David Bowie
Ozzy Osbourne
Neil Young
Brian Wilson
Oasis…..that’s basically it
On ZZ Top
Saw them in 1987, 1990, 2003 — ’87 was for Afterburner and was more of a “show” than a concert (special effects + lasers + drum machines) 1990 was the Recycler tour (the night Black Crowes got kicked off the tour for raggin’ on Miller Beer banners all over the arena) and 2003 was with Ted Nugent..and to a much smaller crowd (9,000 instead of 15,000+) They deliver the goods every time. The boots from the 70’s are better, but that’s true for just about anyone. The DVD from 2008 is pretty good. I think if you were AT that show you would like it better than watching it on TV (which has too many close ups)
yes they all play WAY behind the beat (and yes that does appear to be mathematically impossible) but it gives the songs a strange sluggish quality and also makes it groove like a rattlesnake
Snakefinger! Very cool, BigSteve.
I’ll add Lou Reed to the list of artists I really should see but have never had the balls to go out and see. (I don’t want to ruin my love for that early ’80s concert tape from The Bottom Line.)
“cdm, Paul Kelly is still alive and well and gigging his little heart out in Australia. He supported Leonard Cohen on the recent tour here.”
Yeah he occasionally makes it back to Philly but not with the Messengers (or the Colored Girls, for that matter). I caught him once solo and he was good but it wasn’t the same.
Speaking of excellent down under bands, the Hoodoo Gurus played here last year. I saw the twice back in the day and they were fantastic but I just couldn’t rally this time.
SEEN:
Elvis Costello & the Attractions
David Bowie
Pink Floyd
Todd Rundgren
Adrian Belew
Mark Eitzel/American Music Club
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Lou Reed
Aimee Mann
Brian Wilson
Built To Spill
Silkworm
King Crimson
Ringo & His All-Starr Band
The Who
Stanley Clarke
Dizzy Gillespie
Patti Smith
Pretenders
Cheap Trick
Devo
B-52’s
Jeff Beck
The Tubes
Peter Gabriel
Tina Turner
Lindsey Buckingham
The Posies
NOT SEEN:
Nick Lowe
Prince
Stevie Wonder
Bob Dylan
Willie Nelson
Radiohead
Los Lobos
MISSED MY CHANCE:
The Clash/Joe Strummer
Queen
The Cars
Frank Zappa
Kate Bush
Perhaps we need to do a thread about artists we were really excited to see that turned out to be terrible live.
these lists are boring as fuck to read. i won’t burden you with my re-shuffling of the above named bands, most of which fall somewhere on my own lists (although there *would* be a lot more hardcore and indie rock acts).
but i want to say something about how thinking about this question made me react.
when i saw the dead in ’83 at the old civic center, i had already become jaded about big concerts in arenas. i wanted intimate experiences in crappy clubs, old abandoned theaters, and vfw halls.
so i really enjoyed being unexpectedly blown away by the moment when the dead took the stage and felt the excitement of the crowd around me.
that’s what i love about seeing bands. i really AM looking forward to that moment when they hit the stage, in order to see if it makes my pulse quicken, especially if i didn’t expect it.
That’s TWO sniffing put-downs in one day. Well done, Sat!
See what you think of this. This guy’s also clearly got King Kong-sized BALLS, just like you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx64_N4AA04
hvb:
omg! i know right? rotfl, lmao!
Sat: you have the last word again! Well played!
“last word”? those aren’t words. besides, that’s your specialty. i was just responding in kind.
but really, now: care to say anything about *the rest* of my comment?
i mean, did you read to the part where I said “these lists are boring as fuck” and then go off to some quiet place to inflict small wounds on yourself, or did you read the rest?
did your pulse quicken when zz hit the stage in a way that you didn’t expect?
Settle down, Sat. Sheezus!
i’m settled. i have been the whole time (i say lots of abrasive things calmly…it’s my way…so read this with the soiund of a slow, calm deep voice in your head).
okay, let me see if i’ve got this straight.
i post a valid criticism of this thread (that lists of classic rock bands are a boring read…and as a rth aside, only townsman kilroy can make a list that i want to read). then, in the same post, i offer some thoughtful comments on what i see as the really valuable point of this thread , which is not its result, a number of “been there, done that” and “shoulda, coulda, woulda” lists, but what it brought to my mind that is truly compelling about seeing a band: the feeling it gives you to see them take the stage and hear those first notes fill the room and rattle one’s ribcage.
you, all hurt and bothered, post a rico suave video, to which i respond with good nature, and then ask if you have any thoughts on the *other* part of my post, to which you respond by telling me to settle down.
i’ll ask one more time: do you care to actually have a conversation about what it’s like to *see* bands play? if you feel that it’s another topic for another thread, fair enough. i thought maybe you’d be into discussing that. you seemed so excited to finally see zz!
as an olive branch, i’ll make use of your list to ask you another question: of the acts you’ve seen, which ones were in your prime, and gave you the most unexpected thrill? which ones were disappointments?
sat,
I completely agree. This shouldn’t be about filling your dance card. Rather, it’s the experience of the concert itself.
For me, a huge disappointment was the Stones, Steel Wheels Tour. From the moment Jagger emerged in a green waistcoat to the perfunctory renditions of the classics, it was a letdown. The only cool thing I remember was an epic sounding “2000 Light Years from Home.”
I was blown away by Black Mountain a few years back. It was like Pink Floyd met Black Sabbath in heaven. They sound great on record, I have since found, but there is no substitute for seeing them live.
Oh, come on, Sat and Dr. John. You’re saying neither one of you have had any bands at all on the “gotta see ’em before one of us dies” list? Sat, you mean to tell me you’ve never made a point of seeing, say, Neil Young *simply because it’s Neil Young*? Hogwash.
Obviously, the feeling you get from actually attending a show is of vastly — hell, infinitely — greater importance than the fact that you’ve carved another notch in your rock pistol butt. And you may find the reading of these lists boring. My purpose in asking my question was not to find out whose live show attendance dick was biggest; it was to see which artists were considered “must-sees”, both in the past and in the present.
Sat, I jumped on your shit because of the humorless, disdainful tone in your initial responses to the last two new threads. You might not have intended to, but you came off like you were way too cool for RTH school, and my intention was to haul your ass back down to the rest of us in the bottle cap-snapping cheap seats.
As to your follow-up question, I offer this — another list!
James Brown — disappointment
P-Funk All-Stars — met expectations
Paul McCartney — barely met expectations
Ray Davies/Kinks — Ray met expectations; the Kinks were a disappointment
ZZ Top — exceeded expectations, but my expectations were so low that wasn’t hard
Prince — vastly exceeded already high expectations
Upper Crust — exceeded expectations
Paul Weller — exceeded expectations
Booker T & the MGs — vastly exceeded expectations
AC/DC — disappointment
The Minutemen — exceeded expectations
Alex Chilton — disappointment
The Beach Boys — disappointment, even though I exected to be disappointed
Ringo Starr — met extremely low expectations
Brian Wilson — met expectations
Danny Gatton — exceeded expectations
Chris Stamey — disappointment the first time, met expectations the second
The Who — barely disappointed
Van Fucking Halen — barely disappointed
Eddy Grant — exceeded expectations
Elvis Costello — met expectations
Burt Bacharach — met expectations
Jimmie Vaughan — disappointment
The La’s — exceeded expectations
NRBQ — disappointment, every time
Sloan — disappointment first time, met expectations the second
Stevie Wonder — barely disappointed, but my expectations were huge
hvb, are you even reading my posts?
i never said i don’t have a list of said bands. i just think these lists are a boring read. and, dude, i like to read.
your interpretation of my posts as “too cool for rth school” says more about you than it does about me.
oh, i forgot: thanks, dr. john!
hvb, i’m not finished with you (again, read with a a calm, deep voice in your head):
i’m “too cool for rth school” because i don’t like a piece of shit tune by jason faulkner (like most of the rest of the people who posted in that thread, i might add) or reading lists that say “elvis costello…led zeppelin….neil young…etc.” in various combinations (and you do)?
you martyr yourself and then wrapped your bloody carcass in the rth flag over *that*?
you pass diva 101 with honors! good show.
heaven forbid i actually give a crap about your thread and try to steer it in a more conversational direction.
if i was ‘too cool’, i wouldn’t have posted at all.
love ya, dude.
hvdiva…i’m surprised to read that your expectations for zz were low.
how come? we’ve shared plenty-a-youtube of them over there years where they sound great.
was it just the age factor you cite in the thread starter, or were you afraid your heroes would disappoint? they really are a great live band. i’ve even heard live recordings of them playing “afterburner” era stuff i don’t even like and it sounded *better* than the canned stuff!
was v-fucking-h on the recent david lee tour?
i saw them on the ‘diver down’ tour, and dude, you *wish* you could time travel back to this show. un-friggin-believable from start to finish.