Moody cow 87 Posted June 28, 2015 Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 Seen Motörhead in Nottingham Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 28, 2015 Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 Blondie,your dead right,I wish he was still alive!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,084 Posted June 28, 2015 Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 My milestones all took place in a short but sweet timeframe. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Wembley Arena 1974 Led Zeppelin Earls Court 1975 Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) Manchester Palace Theatre 1975 Pink Floyd Knebworth 1975 The Who Bingley Hall 1975 Saw many other bands around that time, whether at the Boat Club, Nottm Uni, De Montfort and Granby Halls, as well as Reading Festivals, but those stand out as once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 28, 2015 Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 RobL:also did knebworth..was the Marshall Tucker band on that year?? Saw uboat as well they were excellent! Tell us some more bands I love to hear stories about gigs!..jealous to think people saw Hendrix or cream etc.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob.L 1,084 Posted June 28, 2015 Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 Marshall Trucker weren't on that year, the line up was: Linda Lewis Monty Python Steve Miller, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band I checked the archive for Reading festival as well, and it looks like they may have been one band that I never saw! http://ukrockfestivals.com/index.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 28, 2015 Report Share Posted June 28, 2015 Maybe it was that hot '76.. The stones were two hours late!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tompa 285 Posted June 29, 2015 Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 I went to see Freddie and the Dreamers in Linköping Sweden in 1990, there was only 10 people in the audience, but they did the show. After the show we went and a had a few words with him and I said how disappointing it must have been with so few people, but he replied......... it's not a problem, we go out there and play as though it was a full house. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 3, 2015 Report Share Posted July 3, 2015 Another milestone, went on a bus trip with some site workers on a Sunday..Doncaster I think..to a workman's club. Gene Pitney and a full brass set up !! Two hours of brilliance. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Here's a few to inspire others: was in Miami when Bob Marley passed away.been in Eddie Cochran's house and saw "that" red guitar.saw the Who at Charlton's ground.saw Humphrey Lyttleton,twice!! Went to see B52's at the pink pop festival in Holland.Played full version of 'solid Air' at my Mother's funeral. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Isle of Wight 1970 Jimi Hendrix,The Who,Ten Years After,Jethro Tull, Family,Taste + many more I don't think there has been a better line up at a festival since. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 I'm with you on that one Bubblewrap. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 The "Blind Faith" FREE concert Hyde Park 1969 also featuring The Edgar Broughton Band,Third Ear Band & Richie Havens? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Also The FREE Rolling Stones & The Moody Blues concerts also at Hyde Park. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OrphanAnnie 296 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Status Quo are the best ones I've seen live, various venues up and down the country. Remember at the Arena we were right in the gods, I was terrified of standing up in case I fell down! Didn't they do a tv series 'Rock from the Royal' or similar, early 80;s I think. It was on a Monday night, and broadcast after the performance? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OLDACE 196 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 A group of us bikers from the White Hart went to Knebworth in 1975, Floyd were out of this world. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Blondie, carni and iandawson; how would you like to tell people that you know a chap who knows a woman who knows a woman who's son played in Billy Fury's group? The chap is me, the first woman is the wife, who meets the other woman at a weekly lunch club on the Rise Park estate. She says that BF used to come to her house, and once brought her a parrot. Her son is still in the group, which now tours as a tribute band. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OrphanAnnie 296 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 What a fantastic claim to fame chulla, sounds like 6 degrees of separation!! My brother is a dj and works on the 60's and other themed weekends at Butlins. They are amazing weekends, the groups are mostly the originals with a couple of interlopers. Alvin Stardust was a lovely man, very down to earth. My favourites were the Tremeloes, I spent the evening in heaven only two feet away from the band, who still wear leather trousers. The drummer was having a hip replacement so the chap from Paper Lace stood in. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 OA, yes, and carni has actually sat next to the chap in question. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Now then. Is the chap; that I have sat next to, the chap that is the son of the woman who knows the woman that you know, who is your wife and goes to the lunch club every week, or is the chap that I have sat next to, the husband of the woman who meets the woman who's son plays in the tribute band these days. If it is the Latter, then yes, I have sat next to him. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 carni; if the chap was the first one you mentioned then we would never have heard the last of it lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Hey, and I know a chap who's in the Tribute band. Wonder if it's the same chap whose mother dines weekly with the wife of the chap who I've sat next to on several occasions. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Haha. So, the chap that i've sat next to, is possibly not the same chap in the Tribute Band that Lizzie knows, who is the son of the woman who dines weekly with the wife of the chap that Lizzie has sat next to on many occasions. I'm so glad that I now know which chap I sat next to. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Ladies, did the chap you sat next to send a tingle up your spines? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,497 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Absolutely! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Certainly! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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