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    Best/Worst gig you have been to

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    Best? Possibly..., Billy Joel at the MEN Arena Manchester 2007. Gifted front row tickets on getting in. Only member of the 12000 audience to sing into Billy’s mic, on the last line of “It’s Still Rock n Roll to Me”. Large portion of the crowd goes nuts in my direction. Yes!

    Best/Worst gig you have been to

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    20 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

    Best gig: hhhmmm one of these three I reckon:

    • The Magic Band (Post Beefheart) 2002 London
    • Dahka Brahka Couple of years ago London 
    • Goat Couple of years ago London

     

    Worst: Hard to say but I'll go for Stump, late 80's I suppose.

    I assume the band played OK, but he soundman forgot to put an audible amount of guitar or bass into the mix :facepalm:

    Magic Band at Shepherds Bush Empire? If it’s the same one I was there and yes, it was fantastic 

    Greatest guitarist of all time??

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    The whole concept of greatest guitarist is a bit daft really, it’s a bit like saying who the greatest painter is. Prince is a great guitarist. Is he one of the greats? Dunno. 
     

    My favourites;

    Hendrix, Prince, Zappa, Angus and Malcolm, The Edge, John Frusciante, Graham Coxon, Tim Smith, Jimmy Page, Billy Gibbons, Nile Rodgers, Zoot Horn Rollo,  Tony Iommi, Guthrie Govan, Annie Clark....

     

    You go and see a favourite artist live and come away seriously disappointed.

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    Jane's Addiction at the Brixton Academy in 2003.  It was bloody awful. THE only gig I've ever walked out of and I can remember security telling me that I wouldn't be able to re-enter once Id stepped out the door, to which I replied, "I really don't want to". 

    I'd seem them before in 1991 on the Ritual de lo Habitual tour, at the Manchester Academy with Primus in support.  The whole night had been amazing and I was really looking forward to seeing them again.  2003 and the energy, danger and excitement which was so evident 12 years earlier had gone from the both their sound and performance.  Even the crowd was dull, dutifully singing along to all their songs.  I was glad to get out of there.

    Also Chili Peppers at the O2 in 2011.  A tired performance with no Frusciante. Kiedis hid behind the drums for a good portion of the gig.  Flea's whackiness grated. And Josh. Absolutely fantastic in 1990, 1992, 1996 (with Dave Navarro) and 1999 when I'd seen them but this was a real clunker. 

    Also Prince in 1990 on the Nude Tour at the NEC.  I kind of blamed it on the NEC at the time but really it was at the start of the period I stopped listening to him so much. I was gutted on the coach home.  I'd seen him before, twice in 1988, and I saw him twice since, in 2002 in Hammersmith and 2007 at the O2 and consider all four of those concerts as all-time favourites, but like the Peppers one above, this one was very poor.

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