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OT: What now defunct band would you love to see in concert?

I saw Journey at the arena while at Pitt. And while the acoustics in that building sucked....and many would claim the band was typical pop music crap, the truth was, Steve Perry could crush it.

But since the Op asked about who you would like to see today...and since Journey is no longer the original band with Perry,

Ill throw the Doobie Brothers into the discussion.
 
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pitt-girl said:
For me hands down it would be Queen. (I get they are still touring but it is sans Freddy Mercury who was its soul.) I was listening to Queen Platinum Collection today doing yard work and it reminded me the breadth of their work is amazing plus they were true singers, so live not much is lost.

Digressing but can't wait for the long stalled Freddy Mercury biopic coming out in November starring Remi Malek. Trailer looks great; hope it meets expectations. What a talent.

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Saw that Queen tribute band last year...very good.
 
BTW,

there was a guy in Bethel Park who lived in a little Ryan Homes, 1 story 1000 sf ranch style house. A friend of mine in the real estate business told me this guy had in his basement....in a glass case on a mannequin....the costume that Elvis wore in his last show in Pittsburgh.

The guy told my buddy the costume was worth 4 times the house (at the time a number of years ago)
 
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BTW,

there was a guy in Bethel Park who lived in a little Ryan Homes, 1 story 1000 sf ranch style house. A friend of mine in the real estate business told me this guy had in his basement....in a glass case on a mannequin....the costume that Elvis wore in his last show in Pittsburgh.

The guy told my buddy the costume was worth 4 times the house (at the time a number of years ago)
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In a related item, I'm fairly sure that Elvis performed his final New Years Eve concert in the Civic Arena -- which I thought was surprising, given the number of shows that he did in Vegas.

And Marley performed his final concert at the downtown Stanley Theatre on September 23, 1980.
 
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From Rolling Stone Magazine:
The Beatles
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Illustration by Paul Davis
By Elvis Costello

I first heard of the Beatles when I was nine years old. I spent most of my holidays on Merseyside then, and a local girl gave me a bad publicity shot of them with their names scrawled on the back. This was 1962 or '63, before they came to America. The photo was badly lit, and they didn't quite have their look down; Ringo had his hair slightly swept back, as if he wasn't quite sold on the Beatles haircut yet. I didn't care; they were the band for me. The funny thing is that parents and all their friends from Liverpool were also curious and proud about this local group. Prior to that, the people in show business from the north of England had all been comedians. Come to think of it, the Beatles recorded for Parlophone, which was known as a comedy label.

I was exactly the right age to be hit by them full on. My experience — seizing on every picture, saving money for singles and EPs, catching them on a local news show — was repeated over and over again around the world. It was the first time anything like this had happened on this scale. But it wasn't just about the numbers.

Every record was a shock when it came out. Compared to rabid R&B evangelists like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else. They had already absorbed Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry, but they were also writing their own songs. They made writing your own material expected, rather than exceptional.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were exceptional songwriters; McCartney was, and is, a truly virtuoso musician; George Harrison wasn't the kind of guitar player who tore off wild, unpredictable solos, but you can sing the melodies of nearly all of his breaks. Most important, they always fit right into the arrangement. Ringo Starr played the drums with an incredibly unique feel that nobody can really copy, although many fine drummers have tried and failed. Most of all, John and Paul were fantastic singers.

Lennon, McCartney and Harrison had stunningly high standards as writers. Imagine releasing a song like "Ask Me Why" or "Things We Said Today" as a B side. These records were events, and not just advance notice of an album release.

Then they started to really grow up. They went from simple love lyrics to adult stories like "Norwegian Wood," which spoke of the sour side of love, and on to bigger ideas than you would expect to find in catchy pop lyrics.

They were pretty much the first group to mess with the aural perspective of their recordings and have it be more than just a gimmick. Before the Beatles, you had guys in lab coats doing recording experiments in the Fifties, but you didn't have rockers deliberately putting things out of balance, like a quiet vocal in front of a loud track on "Strawberry Fields Forever." You can't exaggerate the license that this gave to everyone from Motown to Jimi Hendrix.

My absolute favorite albums are Rubber Soul and Revolver. When you picked up Revolver, you knew it was something different. Heck, they are wearing sunglasses indoors in the picture on the back of the cover and not even looking at the camera ... and the music was so strange and yet so vivid. If I had to pick a favorite song from those albums, it would be "And Your Bird Can Sing" ... no, "Girl" ... no, "For No One" ... and so on, and so on....

Their breakup album, Let It Be, contains songs both gorgeous and jagged. I remember going to Leicester Square and seeing the film of Let It Be in 1970. I left with a melancholy feeling.

The word "Beatlesque" has been in the dictionary for a while now. I can hear them in the Prince album Around the World in a Day; in Ron Sexsmith's tunes; in Harry Nilsson's melodies. You can hear that Kurt Cobain listened to the Beatles and mixed them in with punk and metal.

I've co-written some songs with Paul McCartney and performed with him in concert on a few occasions. During one rehearsal, I was singing harmony on a Ricky Nelson song, and Paul called out the next tune: "All My Loving." I said, "Do you want me to take the harmony line the second time round?" And he said, "Yeah, give it a try." I'd only had 35 years to learn the part. It was a very poignant performance, witnessed only by the crew and other artists on the bill.

At the show, it was very different. The second he sang the opening lines — "Close your eyes, and I'll kiss you" — the crowd's reaction was so intense that it all but drowned the song out. It was very thrilling but also rather disconcerting. Perhaps I understood in that moment one of the reasons why the Beatles had to stop performing. The songs weren't theirs anymore. They were everybody's.

 
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Scrubby and the Dynatones

Jimmy Webber and the Sounds

Matt Wazaleski and the Polka Jets

I am old and love the music.
I can do yard work all day listening to polkas
 
Panther Parrothead said:
In a related item, I'm fairly sure that Elvis performed his final New Years Eve concert in the Civic Arena -- which I thought was surprising, given the number of shows that he did in Vegas.

And Marley performed his final concert at the downtown Stanley Theatre on September 23, 1980.
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I was there, great show. If anyone wants to hear that show, purchase Bob Marley "Live Forever". It is a recording of the live show at the Stanley.
 
I agree with recruitsread..., Lynyrd Skynyrd were awesome with RVZ. He literally beat them into being great musicians. Would love to see the real deal, RVZjust died a few days before I was born.
 
pitt-girl said:
For me hands down it would be Queen. (I get they are still touring but it is sans Freddy Mercury who was its soul.) I was listening to Queen Platinum Collection today doing yard work and it reminded me the breadth of their work is amazing plus they were true singers, so live not much is lost.

Digressing but can't wait for the long stalled Freddy Mercury biopic coming out in November starring Remi Malek. Trailer looks great; hope it meets expectations. What a talent.

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The classic John Coltrane Quartet. Trane on tenor, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. Sheer genius.
 
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I agree with recruitsread..., Lynyrd Skynyrd were awesome with RVZ. He literally beat them into being great musicians. Would love to see the real deal, RVZjust died a few days before I was born.
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On YouTube, find the Old Grey Whistle Test 1975 Synyrd appearance. Fast forward to Freebird. Sit back, and be friggin amazed. Like 14 minutes long, 7 minutes guitar solo to end it, Allen Collins was unbelievable. It is funny, you can see Ronnie Van Zant a couple of times kind of try and reel Collins in, and Collins keeps on jamming with everyone else only even louder, the credits play and come and go, they are still jamming. It is absolutely amazing.
 
Ray-Ray said:
I was there, great show. If anyone wants to hear that show, purchase Bob Marley "Live Forever". It is a recording of the live show at the Stanley.
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Yeah, I ordered it as soon as it was announced. (Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the show, as the stork visited the P. Parrothead home just a few months earlier - so that's where our priorities were at that time.)

What I find remarkable is that while Marley was alive - and the years immediately after - his image was used on any number of different items, so that a lot of different people were making money from him. Finally, his heirs hired a solid legal team to tie-up the rights to "all things Marley", and they've been racking-up millions of dollars ever since. In 2017 alone, Bob Marley (his likeness, his music, etc) earned his family $23 Million, ranking him #5 on the list of Forbes' deceased celebrities.

For anyone interested, here's the Top Ten:

1. Michael Jackson.......$75 Million
2. Arnold Palmer...........$40 Million
3. Charles Shultz..........$38 Million
4. Elvis Presley.............$35 Million
5. Bob Marley...............$23 Million
6. Tom Petty.................$20 million
7. Prince......................$18 Million
8. Dr. Seuss.................$16 Million
9. John Lennon...........$12 Million
10. Albert Einstein.......$10 Million
 
bobfree said:
Chris Cornell was really special would like to have seen him do his solo stuff live.

Stone temple Pilots first two albums were awesome.

Led Zeppelin is obvious.

Do Hall and Oates still perform together? Just kidding
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Just saw Hall & Oates about 6 months ago. Has always been Mrs. Atlanta Panther’s favorite band although I was never into them. The concert was OK but I think the acoustics were lousy at the Gwinnett Arena where we saw them which really detracted from the performance so much I was ready to leave mid way through the concert. I will say that they played all their songs and the voices are still pretty much there.

I would have like liked to have seen David Bowie. Saw him at the Syria Mosque in 1974? And he was great as a showman.
 
Chicago ala CTA, and Chicago 1. Terry Kath days. He was a genius. Bowie, Spirit, Heep, Who, Humble Pie, Al Kooper’s BS&T. Great days, all on my music cue...Original Deep Purple, Machine Head days.
 
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From Rolling Stone Magazine:
The Beatles
rs-134991-square.jpg

Illustration by Paul Davis
By Elvis Costello

I first heard of the Beatles when I was nine years old. I spent most of my holidays on Merseyside then, and a local girl gave me a bad publicity shot of them with their names scrawled on the back. This was 1962 or '63, before they came to America. The photo was badly lit, and they didn't quite have their look down; Ringo had his hair slightly swept back, as if he wasn't quite sold on the Beatles haircut yet. I didn't care; they were the band for me. The funny thing is that parents and all their friends from Liverpool were also curious and proud about this local group. Prior to that, the people in show business from the north of England had all been comedians. Come to think of it, the Beatles recorded for Parlophone, which was known as a comedy label.

I was exactly the right age to be hit by them full on. My experience — seizing on every picture, saving money for singles and EPs, catching them on a local news show — was repeated over and over again around the world. It was the first time anything like this had happened on this scale. But it wasn't just about the numbers.

Every record was a shock when it came out. Compared to rabid R&B evangelists like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else. They had already absorbed Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry, but they were also writing their own songs. They made writing your own material expected, rather than exceptional.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were exceptional songwriters; McCartney was, and is, a truly virtuoso musician; George Harrison wasn't the kind of guitar player who tore off wild, unpredictable solos, but you can sing the melodies of nearly all of his breaks. Most important, they always fit right into the arrangement. Ringo Starr played the drums with an incredibly unique feel that nobody can really copy, although many fine drummers have tried and failed. Most of all, John and Paul were fantastic singers.

Lennon, McCartney and Harrison had stunningly high standards as writers. Imagine releasing a song like "Ask Me Why" or "Things We Said Today" as a B side. These records were events, and not just advance notice of an album release.

Then they started to really grow up. They went from simple love lyrics to adult stories like "Norwegian Wood," which spoke of the sour side of love, and on to bigger ideas than you would expect to find in catchy pop lyrics.

They were pretty much the first group to mess with the aural perspective of their recordings and have it be more than just a gimmick. Before the Beatles, you had guys in lab coats doing recording experiments in the Fifties, but you didn't have rockers deliberately putting things out of balance, like a quiet vocal in front of a loud track on "Strawberry Fields Forever." You can't exaggerate the license that this gave to everyone from Motown to Jimi Hendrix.

My absolute favorite albums are Rubber Soul and Revolver. When you picked up Revolver, you knew it was something different. Heck, they are wearing sunglasses indoors in the picture on the back of the cover and not even looking at the camera ... and the music was so strange and yet so vivid. If I had to pick a favorite song from those albums, it would be "And Your Bird Can Sing" ... no, "Girl" ... no, "For No One" ... and so on, and so on....

Their breakup album, Let It Be, contains songs both gorgeous and jagged. I remember going to Leicester Square and seeing the film of Let It Be in 1970. I left with a melancholy feeling.

The word "Beatlesque" has been in the dictionary for a while now. I can hear them in the Prince album Around the World in a Day; in Ron Sexsmith's tunes; in Harry Nilsson's melodies. You can hear that Kurt Cobain listened to the Beatles and mixed them in with punk and metal.

I've co-written some songs with Paul McCartney and performed with him in concert on a few occasions. During one rehearsal, I was singing harmony on a Ricky Nelson song, and Paul called out the next tune: "All My Loving." I said, "Do you want me to take the harmony line the second time round?" And he said, "Yeah, give it a try." I'd only had 35 years to learn the part. It was a very poignant performance, witnessed only by the crew and other artists on the bill.

At the show, it was very different. The second he sang the opening lines — "Close your eyes, and I'll kiss you" — the crowd's reaction was so intense that it all but drowned the song out. It was very thrilling but also rather disconcerting. Perhaps I understood in that moment one of the reasons why the Beatles had to stop performing. The songs weren't theirs anymore. They were everybody's.
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Not much mention here of the Beatles, I'd love to see the beatles come out in the matching suits and do the pre 1965 stuff.
 
BurghGuy68 said:
Rush :)
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Mrs Buffett and I have gone to the Lotus Land Rush Tribute Band concerts two times and they are very close to the real thing.
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If you like Rush hit one of the Rush tribute band shows.
They will be in Sellerville PA around 7/14/18 I think. We may go if we can fit it in!
Kansas has a great tribute bank as well.

"it's five o'clocks somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
 
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Pitt1975 said:
Chicago ala CTA, and Chicago 1. Terry Kath days. He was a genius. Bowie, Spirit, Heep, Who, Humble Pie, Al Kooper’s BS&T. Great days, all on my music cue...Original Deep Purple, Machine Head days.
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Definitely would have loved to have seen Chicago on their first couple of tours.
 
From 1996-2001 as a HS and College student I worked at the Civic Arena, so I saw a lot of concerts. I personally never was a concert fan, I love music but never much into concerts. The 2 best concerts I saw was Garth Brooks and Kiss. Not so much for the concert themselves but the chicks those 2 brought in was like no other performers. I was expecting a lot of country beauties for Garth and boy was there, but Kiss I was not expecting it. They were old when they came so i was expecting late 40's early 50's many miles on them women. I was not expecting to see many 8 and 9's let a lone 10's (I know that is chauvinistic, but I was 17 at the time and that was my thoughts). The arena was packed with hot women.
 
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HOF Coach said:
From Rolling Stone Magazine:
The Beatles
rs-134991-square.jpg

Illustration by Paul Davis
By Elvis Costello

I first heard of the Beatles when I was nine years old. I spent most of my holidays on Merseyside then, and a local girl gave me a bad publicity shot of them with their names scrawled on the back. This was 1962 or '63, before they came to America. The photo was badly lit, and they didn't quite have their look down; Ringo had his hair slightly swept back, as if he wasn't quite sold on the Beatles haircut yet. I didn't care; they were the band for me. The funny thing is that parents and all their friends from Liverpool were also curious and proud about this local group. Prior to that, the people in show business from the north of England had all been comedians. Come to think of it, the Beatles recorded for Parlophone, which was known as a comedy label.

I was exactly the right age to be hit by them full on. My experience — seizing on every picture, saving money for singles and EPs, catching them on a local news show — was repeated over and over again around the world. It was the first time anything like this had happened on this scale. But it wasn't just about the numbers.

Every record was a shock when it came out. Compared to rabid R&B evangelists like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles arrived sounding like nothing else. They had already absorbed Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry, but they were also writing their own songs. They made writing your own material expected, rather than exceptional.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were exceptional songwriters; McCartney was, and is, a truly virtuoso musician; George Harrison wasn't the kind of guitar player who tore off wild, unpredictable solos, but you can sing the melodies of nearly all of his breaks. Most important, they always fit right into the arrangement. Ringo Starr played the drums with an incredibly unique feel that nobody can really copy, although many fine drummers have tried and failed. Most of all, John and Paul were fantastic singers.

Lennon, McCartney and Harrison had stunningly high standards as writers. Imagine releasing a song like "Ask Me Why" or "Things We Said Today" as a B side. These records were events, and not just advance notice of an album release.

Then they started to really grow up. They went from simple love lyrics to adult stories like "Norwegian Wood," which spoke of the sour side of love, and on to bigger ideas than you would expect to find in catchy pop lyrics.

They were pretty much the first group to mess with the aural perspective of their recordings and have it be more than just a gimmick. Before the Beatles, you had guys in lab coats doing recording experiments in the Fifties, but you didn't have rockers deliberately putting things out of balance, like a quiet vocal in front of a loud track on "Strawberry Fields Forever." You can't exaggerate the license that this gave to everyone from Motown to Jimi Hendrix.

My absolute favorite albums are Rubber Soul and Revolver. When you picked up Revolver, you knew it was something different. Heck, they are wearing sunglasses indoors in the picture on the back of the cover and not even looking at the camera ... and the music was so strange and yet so vivid. If I had to pick a favorite song from those albums, it would be "And Your Bird Can Sing" ... no, "Girl" ... no, "For No One" ... and so on, and so on....

Their breakup album, Let It Be, contains songs both gorgeous and jagged. I remember going to Leicester Square and seeing the film of Let It Be in 1970. I left with a melancholy feeling.

The word "Beatlesque" has been in the dictionary for a while now. I can hear them in the Prince album Around the World in a Day; in Ron Sexsmith's tunes; in Harry Nilsson's melodies. You can hear that Kurt Cobain listened to the Beatles and mixed them in with punk and metal.

I've co-written some songs with Paul McCartney and performed with him in concert on a few occasions. During one rehearsal, I was singing harmony on a Ricky Nelson song, and Paul called out the next tune: "All My Loving." I said, "Do you want me to take the harmony line the second time round?" And he said, "Yeah, give it a try." I'd only had 35 years to learn the part. It was a very poignant performance, witnessed only by the crew and other artists on the bill.

At the show, it was very different. The second he sang the opening lines — "Close your eyes, and I'll kiss you" — the crowd's reaction was so intense that it all but drowned the song out. It was very thrilling but also rather disconcerting. Perhaps I understood in that moment one of the reasons why the Beatles had to stop performing. The songs weren't theirs anymore. They were everybody's.
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Cure for insomnia. No fire, no soul. Pop pap.
 
Pitt79 said:
I have to disagree, I lot of high energy music especially early on.
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Sounded more like commercials for sugared cereals. As dangerous as cotton swabs. Bouncy froth.
And only Harrison was a decent musician. Media creation, wildly successful...but so was the Gong Show.
 
Pitt1975 said:
Chicago ala CTA, and Chicago 1. Terry Kath days. He was a genius. Bowie, Spirit, Heep, Who, Humble Pie, Al Kooper’s BS&T. Great days, all on my music cue...Original Deep Purple, Machine Head days.
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I never understood why Uriah Heep was not a bigger band. Man, they were good. I really enjoy listening to their albums on my turntable. The growl on the Hammond B-3 is legendary, especially on their songs.
 
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The classic John Coltrane Quartet. Trane on tenor, McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. Sheer genius.
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I would have loved to see the combined Basie/Ellington bands that played on the album "The Counts meets the Duke". I think that was the title. Supposedly louder than The Who in concert.
 
Ray-Ray said:
I never understood why Uriah Heep was not a bigger band. Man, they were good. I really enjoy listening to their albums on my turntable. The growl on the Hammond B-3 is legendary, especially on their songs.
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Most are unbelievably talented.

But:

It's like anything else in this world success involves hard work, talent, and being in the right place at the right time.

I listened to an A.M. radio host who recently retired in his mid 70's from a nationally syndicated morning gold mine radio show and is worth around $ 50 mill give or take a few million.

He once told his listeners how he got his break. He was just getting by in his radio gig, was on the air when the station owner showed up, the station owner needed a talk radio guy for a new show, asked him if he wanted to try out, he said yes and the rest of the story $50 mill later is history.

Had he not been on the air at the time the owner showed up he'd probably still be scrambling to make ends meet.

Same for performers it's a hit and mostly miss proposition even for the talented!

Being in the right place at the right time happened to me about 15 yrs ago.

The CFO called a staff meeting of his Global Business Directors ( I was one of them), he was late showing up, finally showed, and announced he just terminated a Global Business Director and wasn't sure how he would replace the person.
I was a Global Finance Business Director at the time. But I had hired really talented young guys and girls over the years which was why I was successful and I had the feeling they were about to run over me soon.
The meeting ended I hung around and told the CFO you know I think I can do that job plus mine. He thought about it, later told me ok it's yours on a trial basis, and it took me all the way until I retired? One of my subordinates did get my Finance job so my intuition was correct.
If I hadn't been in that meeting, with the CFO, when he announced the termination, not sure how he was going to replace the person, I might not have thought to ask for the job.

Being at the right place at the right time counts !

"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
 
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