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Post by Mr Kite on Dec 8, 2018 13:27:28 GMT
Hello reader . I have to tell you about this new Forum as my mate is an Admin and he`s badgering me about getting people I know who go to Gigs and Beatle fans of course Well , in a nutshell its a Gig Site/Forum where you can put in all the Gigs you have been too It`s pretty unique and you can post your ticket stub , photos and Programs and even your Videos And it will be there for eternity and you may even get people who went to the same Gig as you Anyway just join ! Also you can set up your own Blog on anything you want , I`ve done a Beatle one , I know a shocker ! Here is the link www.wotgigs.com/ And here is my blog www.wotgigs.com/community/wotgigs-crowds/9-the-beatles-solo-years
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Post by Mr Kite on Feb 28, 2020 11:17:06 GMT
Absolute amazing Gig last night to see The Staves at The Gorilla The great venue and the sound was top notch Back again at the Gorilla on Tuesday to see Samantha Fish I have to admit last night I got a bit teary when they played Mexico And I was up front with the kids !
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Post by BeatleAdamDavid on Feb 28, 2020 13:17:50 GMT
First major band I saw was Yes in 1979 at Boston Garden, in the round. Cost was about $13.50 and was the last Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman tour before they were replaced by Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes.
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Post by pothos on Feb 28, 2020 14:08:37 GMT
First band I saw live (I think was) Shawaddywaddy.
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Post by lovelyrita1 on Feb 28, 2020 15:02:53 GMT
I think the first band i saw live was The Faces . I still play Rod today but it's always early Rod .
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Post by ROCKY on Feb 29, 2020 15:09:05 GMT
First concert I can remember was going to see Janis Joplin & Santana on the same bill!! Nov. 2, 1969!! I got FREE tickets from a Columbia Records promotional man. It was so spectacular they still talk about it 50 years later!! this was before people took pics every second a performer is on stage and snuck tape recorders in to bootleg shows. So nothing exists of that show anymore. Even the Civic Arena is gone! But I still hung onto the ticket stub after all this time and have it in a little frame near my computer now! I can still remember rushing the stage with my friend to get a better look at her. I was no more than 20 feet from her! She was incredible!! I miss her alot today! www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2010/10/03/Janis-Joplin-s-69-show-at-the-Civic-Arena-was-a-raucous-affair-from-start-to-finish/stories/201010030308
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Post by pothos on Mar 1, 2020 11:09:57 GMT
Wow Rocky that was cool. My Shawaddywaddy gig was strange. Someone had got tickets and I had no idea who we were going to see or even where we were going for that matter. It was Shawaddywaddy in the early 1980's long after the hits had ceased. They played at Darlington Dolphin pool centre (A swimming and leisure center)I was not expecting much but they were amazing. Great band behind the League vocalist Dave Bartram who made comments about Simon Le Bon taking his fame.
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Post by Mr Kite on Mar 5, 2020 20:34:32 GMT
Mr Kite Has A rant about Gigs post
Yes people , it`s a rant and it`s really about a certain band that I thought had gone away , but not yet it seems The Band ?.
Genesis , Genesis .. I wont sat it three times as you know what happened in that film with Virginia Madsen , her career when down hill... Yes I did say that band They are back and touring with their most popular decade ..80`s No Peter (Godlike ) Gabriel and that other fella It`s Phil (The Devil Why ? ) Collins and his son , who is on drums , so no in the air stuff wrist sweatbands And the other two blokes There touring . I know ! And they are doing arena`s ! And ! The prices are £200 plus ! I know ! My mate from Liverpool looking for a ticket ( ?!) for the Echo Arena and they were coming up at a grand and a half ! I..Know !
Now , I do jest at the the fact that they even think that people will be going to pay all that money and be entertained by classics like I Can`t Dance and ...
The the thing is , it just smells "A big pay day " tour and that they wont be playing stuff like Carpet Crawlers as the fans that will be paying almost a weeks wage to see them will not even remember such classics as ....
Anyone think I`m being harsh ?
The last few years , I`ve been going to a lot of small venue Gigs and I`ve really enjoyed them , and also very cheap and your not sitting watching the large T.V Screens and listening to people shout what they did last night and how expensive the beer is . I really have a real hate now for big venues and I don`t think I could ever do a festival , these places seem to have become just a night out , and now really bothered about whats happening on stage . I`m being cynical , you may say , or I`m an ol` git who should be staying in with my pipe and slippers . I saw Samantha Fish the other night and it was such a great night and even the support was quality ( Felix Rabin ) and I was thinking that it really would be wonderful that she gets more respect than she really deserves But that would mean she would sell more albums and play bigger venues and the connection you get at the small venues would be lost and I`d end up watching T.V. screens and listening to people shout at each other about what they did last night
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Post by henryj on Mar 5, 2020 22:39:37 GMT
As I have mentioned on here before, I actually got to see the Beatles live. Memphis, TN, August 1966. Mid-South Coliseum. I have it in a thread somewhere on this forum from several years ago.
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Post by pothos on Mar 5, 2020 23:27:04 GMT
I cannot get over it is £200 + that is shocking, that is not far off a festival ticket price and you get three or four days for that. How much did it cost to see The Beatles back in the day.
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Post by pothos on Mar 5, 2020 23:55:39 GMT
Just did a quick price comparison for major acts touring this year.
The Who £98 - £115 The Rolling Stones - £162 -£190 (US gig) Queen - £220 - £284 (yikes) Fleetwood Mac - Not confirmed but believed to be £75 - £200 Stevie Wonder £78.55 Paul McCartney - £67- £94 Elton John - £296 - £310
Just remember some of these will be bought by unoficial sources and are not what the acts are charging Isle of Wight Festival £179 - £269 (Mutiple acts inc Duran Duran Lionel Ritchie Lewis Capaldi
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Post by pothos on Mar 6, 2020 16:30:10 GMT
By the way I think a lot of these issues are due to secondary ticketing sights. I would never pay the prices they are charging. McCartney and Wonder seem to be selling theirs on non secondary sights and on their official pages hence why they are cheaper. £200-300 is ridiculous but you wonder if the acts have much say at the moment.
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Post by Mr Kite on Mar 6, 2020 20:18:27 GMT
It`s incredible that these "non official" sites get away with it , and the bloody cheek they are selling them even before they are on sale .
I`m still seething about my attempt to buy a ticket for Laura Marling They went on sale at 10.00. am and I was sat there with my finger over the buy ticket and I still did n`t get one ! But I can buy a £30 ticket on ViaGoGo for £169.00 this very minute ! For a sold out gig !
I will not give up hope and nearer the time I will be on social media praying for a spare .
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Post by henryj on Mar 7, 2020 22:39:46 GMT
I cannot get over it is £200 + that is shocking, that is not far off a festival ticket price and you get three or four days for that. How much did it cost to see The Beatles back in the day. I think it was about $5US, maybe 6. I think that would be between 2 and 3 pounds in 1966. It was me and my two younger brothers, then my parents decided they wanted to see it. So the whole family got to see the Beatles. Somewhere on the forum I posted about seeing the Beatles live. Several years ago.
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Post by henryj on Mar 7, 2020 22:51:04 GMT
In case you are wondering, here is what I posted in 2017 about the Beatle concert in 1966 in Memphis:
I decided to copy and paste rather than post a link. I started a thread about this in 2013. Here is what I posted.
Well, I got to see the Beatles live. Geezer that I am, I saw the Beatles perform in Memphis, TN on August 19, 1966. Mid-South Coliseum. Their part of the show lasted about 30 minutes.
Official set list: Rock and Roll Music She’s a Woman If I Needed Someone Day Tripper Baby’s in Black I Feel Fine Yesterday (performed as a band!) I Wanna Be Your Man Nowhere Man Paperback Writer Long Tall Sally
Opening Acts: Fashion Show Remains The Ronnettes (backed by the Remains. Not exactly a Phil Spector wall of sound.) Bobby Hebb The Cyrcle
I found the fashion show somewhat boring. Though I had heard of the Remains, I had never heard them on the radio nor seen their records in stores, and 1 have not since.
Equipment: John and George had begun playing brown sunburst Epiphone Casinos. John had not yet removed either the finish or the pickguard from his Casino. Paul was still playing his Hofner bass, despite having been photographed with his Rickenbacker. They played through the big Vox Super Beatle amps (the American versions of the AC-100, if I understand correctly). Don’t know about the PA system. George played a Ric 360-12 new style, not the old style such as he had played in A Hard Days’ Night, on his song “If I Needed Someone.”
Before the Beatles came on, an announcer said that anyone seen taking pictures would be removed from the Coliseum and their camera confiscated. We saw a number of girls seen carried off crying by security guards carrying the confiscated cameras.
You could hear the Beatles singing over the girls screaming. Barely. One cool thing about the Beatles’ live performances was the fact that they did not go near a mike unless they were actually singing. When Paul started singing “She’s A Woman,” the mike was dead, and you could not hear him at all, so he calmly strolled over to the mike John was supposed to sing into.
John was wearing rose-tinted steel-rimmed glasses. I had never seen him wearing glasses before.
This was the afternoon show that we saw. Reportedly, at the evening performance, someone threw a firecracker on the stage, making a gunshot-like sound. When John did not hit the floor, the Beatles continued playing. This was not long after John’s “more popular than Jesus” comment. Another 10 days and their touring days would be over.
I left out the fact that the Vox Super Beatle amps were solid-state whereas the British Vox AC-100s were powered by tubes (or valves)
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Post by Mr Kite on Aug 31, 2021 21:37:15 GMT
Good evening reader ! I'm on the bus home from my 1st (music) gig since the whole world got shut down in March last year .
It was very surreal and that was just the music . A new band for me Lump . Well it's basically a side project of the 21st century goddess Laura Marling. Now I must confess I'm not a big fan of Lump in fact I had only heard a few tracks before I bought my ticket . But on a whim and the fact I will finally see Laura Marling in the flesh (so to speak) Anyway . I enjoyed it . I wouldn't go as far to say I'm now a huge fan of Lump . But for just a little over £20 it was worth the trip . 3 gigs next month . Should be a blast A Welsh lass , a busker and All Them Witches. I'm almost home now , so I'd best sign off
Lump . The Gorilla Bar. Manchester. 31/8/21 .
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Post by ROCKY on Sept 1, 2021 8:53:15 GMT
Now that Samantha Fish is back to touring LIVE I may go see her in Oct. when she comes here. It's at a bar setting so should be great, but I hear she is done with the Meet & Greet's after the show. But somehow I'll get her to sign my stuff again!!
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Post by pothos on Sept 1, 2021 9:16:55 GMT
Glad you enjoyed the gig.
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Post by ROCKY on Nov 1, 2021 11:02:44 GMT
SAMMIE IS BACK! 10-26-2021 Although I missed the show here is the closing of the concert.
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Post by Mr Kite on Apr 9, 2022 19:26:05 GMT
Back again ! Money is to tight to mention as a redhead lad from Haughton Green once sang and he`s right . But I have a mission this year and it`s to go as many Gigs I can in a calandar year and I`m going to put you through it with me reader . With my (honest) thoughts on the gigs and anything else I come up with And I kicked off the year with my old favourite`s Smoke Fairies The Deaf Institute. Manchester . 12/2/22 Just managed to catch them just before lock down and they toured with their new album . 2 years on and they toured with no album . But I guess it`s been tough on them with the whole world locked up More or less the same songs and they are still sticking to being a rock band . Love the Fairies and I will always go and see them as long as I can, but I`m yet to see them as I think they are at their best and a vocal harmonies and laid back and acoustic songs . Their latest album is probably their most successful to date and I get they have to travel light and can`t bring a whole array of guitars and set ups that they can do a few acoustic songs . The 2 encores with just the two of them was the highlight for me . No band backing . Maybe I will get my wish one day . The Damn Truth Manchester Academy 2 . Manchester . 17/2/22 This band popped up on You Tube doing a slightly nod to The Beatles I Want You She`s So Heavy . Then I watched a few more and before I knew it I was looking for Gig dates .. Playing Manchester on the 17th of Feb . Support band ! That`s a Thursday , on my 60th Birthday ! , and ticket was bought . They were the support ,so it was just a 40 minute or so set , but I loved it ! Really love the new album that they were touring with and I also ending up meeting the band after the show . My mate went round telling the band it was my birthday and of course I was getting lots of best wishes and a signed album and CD and a photo with the whole band . What a birthday bash The Weather Station The Gorilla . Manchester 17/3/22 Got into this band by pure wonderful luck . I started to read a magazine I had bought a few weeks earlier and read a review of their new album that was out next week . Went on the ol` Spotify and it wasn`t up yet so I played the album from last year Ignorance . Loved , loved , loved . And look for gigs and I was very lucky , they were playing near me ! 2 or so weeks later I`m watching them at my fav venue in town and what a gig ! Such a incredible band led by the wonderful Tamara Lindeman . I`m now a devotee . Dead Can Dance Manchester Cathedral. Manchester. 8/4/22 Wow ! and that was the 1st song . Such an incredible performance, a band I`ve been a casual fan over the years and not gone through their albums as much I should have , but after last night that needs to change . The wonderful setting for the band and the acoustics of the church gave it a more perfect vibe . You could have heard a pin drop in a very packed and sold out venue . Loved it . Pipes of the Dead .
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