Bands You Always Wanted To See

[237SJ]

I`ve seen just about everyone that I wanted to see but I have never seen these. Anyone else going to see them? https://hamptoncourtpalacefestival.com/artists/tearsforfears

[tonyav]

Yes Ginger Baker was the drummer in Cream.

[Stephen_G]

I wanted to see Queen at Wembley in '86.

[Buenchico]

>>> I had just discovered Cream when they announced they were splitting up

Snap! I remember seeing them on The Old Grey Whistle Test and thinking "Wow! This is really good!" and then finding out that it was their recently recorded final performance.


>>> May sem a bit oddball but I really want to go to an evening of Choral Music by the likes of Kings College Cambridge or The Tenebrae Choir in a suitable setting

Thank heavens I'm not the only AB member who looks beyond the UK and US charts for some decent music. (OK, there are a few others, such as Spathiphyllum and Mamyalynne, but trying to get some people on here to sample something a bit different can be hard work at times!)

[Captain2]

Thanks for that 237, I'll have a look for the book.

[Ken4155]

I've seen most of my fav bands - Queen, Sabbath, Home, Deep Purple, Kinks, Animals, early Genesis (not the pretentious Genesis (;-/) Stones, to name a few - but never saw Pink Floyd nor Thin Lizzy. And i had chances to go and see both but other things took precedence at the time.

[237SJ]

Re Genesis. I was lucky enought to get tickets for Live8. I had to leave just before they came on stage because we had to get the last train home. I regret that. I should have slept in the park with everyone else that night.

[Buenchico]

It's said that a certain puppet drummer (not entirely dissimilar to my avatar!) was based upon Ginger Baker. His style was certainly flamboyant and totally different to that of my favourite drummer these days (who sits calmly in his suit and tie, making something incredibly difficult look really easy), the mighty Gilson Lavis.

[Captain2]

Oh I can spread around the genres easily Chris (as I'm sure most on here can); last year went to see The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace written and conducted by Karl Jenkins - amazing afternoon.
My current fad is New Orleans street music.

[237SJ]

I would have loved to see Pink Floyd. Dave Gilmour has a studio down the road from here

[Buenchico]

I enjoy New Orleans street music too, Cap'n.

I also love the sounds of Africa. If there's ever a performance of Alexander L'Estrange's "Zimbé" in your area, I urge you to go. There are some (annoyingly brief) snatches of it here. (I attended this performance in Ipswich three years ago):

[EdmundD]

Too long a list to say which bands & musicians I saw in the 70s/80s/90s but I've always wished I could have seen Crowded House.

[andy-hughes]

As a music writer, and a long-term music fan, I have been privelidged to see some of the best bands ever, and I am very grateful for the opportunities I have had.

Some of my regrets are not seeing T. Rex or Free when they regularly played locally, and I shall always regret never seeing Leonard Cohen, I have been a fan for nearly fifty years, but never did get to see him perform.

The memorable shows are Bruce Springsteen (five times) Pink Floyd (eight times, starting with the DSOTM tour in 1974) Bowie in 1973 as Ziggy, Queen as a support act in 1974, Lizzy as a support act and another dozen times after, the list just goes on.

I am really looking forward to seeeing and meeting up with the ladies from Larkin Poe in the spring - just interviewed them again for the Acoustic offshooot from Guitarist Magazine - should be in the next issue.

[andy-hughes]

Oh yes, I saw Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers as a support act when they broke through over here when they played with Nils Lofgren, and I never did get to catch them again, I am a huge fan, and deeply saddened by Tom's passing.

[emmie]

i wish i had seen Queen in the early days, but my taste ran to different music then. Saw Al Green who was amazing, James Brown several times, what a gig that was, Edwin Starr, The Jackson five when they just starting out, Stevie Wonder in 1968, truly astonishing..
and Pink Floyd, which i walked out of as the noise was beyond me. I am sure i should have stayed but it was to me excruciating.

[237SJ]

^ Would have loved to have seen James Brown.

[andy-hughes]

Buenchico - // It's said that a certain puppet drummer (not entirely dissimilar to my avatar!) was based upon Ginger Baker. His style was certainly flamboyant … //

As I understand it, Animal is not actually based on any drummer, but fans believe he is based on Keith Moon, whose style he resembles far more than GB, who is, as he will tell anyone who will listen, a jazz drummer.

[andy-hughes]

tonyav - // Yes Ginger Baker was the drummer in Cream. //

Mr Baker has the reputation - of which he may be proud, I don't know - of being the most argumentative cantankerous musician ever to have played an instrument.

I have interviewed him, and I can entirely agree - he could start an argument in a phone box with no money!!!

[emmie]

237sj
he was amazing, full of energy and could dance like no one else. I saw him twice and remember thinking this was the ultimate showman.

[retrocop]

Just the Glenn Miller orchestra would of floated my boat. As for the rest. No thanks.

[dannyk13]

Maybe not a band but I would love to have been a James Last Orchestra performance.