UPDATE

Here is an exclusive CrapCam photo of Hannah Montana. Or a boat explosion. Either way, it's quality entertainment.

Comments

[crossgirl]

lucky, siouxie!

rush. hank williams jr. ac/dc. van halen. van hagar. cinderella. sister hazel, multiple times. journey. don henley with the bangles opening. the eagles reunion tour. chicago with what was left of the beach boys. tom petty & the heartbreakers. dave matthews. reo speedwagon (not my choice). jonny lang. uncle kracker. rod stewart with jefferson starship opening. and the list goes on. too tired to think of more.

[Auntie M]

Geez. So much jealousy in my brain right now! Someday I might get to a few of these people. When they're in Branson, Missouri.

[gjd]

Well, it is late. I need to head to bed.

Dave, I hope you and Mrs. Blog survive the evening and that the girls get to sleep some time before next Tuesday.

[foggiest notion]

Crossgirl, I saw Tom Petty a couple of years ago at the County Fair (I remember thinking...has it come to this? The County Fair?) but I got goosebumps listening to him just the same, in the midst of the cow poo and the racing pigs. (P.S. - I love Tom)

[DeskDiva]

Duran Duran 3 x. That's my biggie. I'm so depraived. :) Seriously - I love Mike and Baum, gjd. I think they are my favorite everything, too. I canNOT help but love every single one of their hymn sets. LOVE them. And do NOT ask me to sing "Crown Him" at its normal tempo anymore. It's just not possible. My one regret is that I lost their entire CD collection when my CDs were stolen out of my car 2 years ago. *SOB!*

[Wyo Cowboy]

sweep

[PirateBoy]

Living close to LA does have advantages:
Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond (I'm a face in the crowd in "Love at the Greek II", a terrible live album!), Jimmy Buffett dozens of times, Styx, The Who, Springsteen, Ramones, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Blondie, Henley, Moody Blues (Front row center!), Steve Miller, Steely Dan, U2, Bowie, the Apple Computer "US Festivals", and far more that I can't remember.

And don't get me started on live musicals, Auntie M! We got trouble, right here in River City...

[rebekah]

I saw Steppenwolf in concert in 1970(awful) but they had a band I had never heard of opening for them. They were really good, they were called The Eagles

[Siouxie]

Oh and the Rock Bottom Remainders. 4 times now!

Now I'll be off to bed. Waking up pretty early in the morning to drive to Sarasota and pick my daughter up.

Sweet dreams and ROCK ON!! *holding rock/devil hands*

[Siouxie]

that would be..holding UP rock/devil hands!

niteeeeeeee

[Meditrina]

cg, rush?!!!! I had no idea.

[Wyo Cowboy]

Sioux, hug Alys for me. hell, hug 'em both.

[SandyEgo]

I saw/LOVED Jimmy Buffet back in the early '70s, when he was still playing the colleges (off side/ story - we saw him in Ia City, and a couple was having S*x in a poolside room, with the curtains OPEN - whooo - and we gave them a standing ovation when they exited their room!

Have tickets to the upcoming Celine Dilone concert -altho I don't know why - would have preferred Willy Nelson, or Garth Brooks.

[Auntie M]

PirateBoy: With a capital "T" that rhymes with "B" and that stands for...Blog!

[CJrun]

When I was a college kid, @ 1981, I worked on Tom Petty's homecoming concert in Gainesville; fancy Hippy boy coming back to Cow Town, as some kinda famous guy. I got his family settled and they had a grand time, for most of it. That's all I have to say, about that.

[danceswithvowels]

Bunch of others late teens, early 20s -- Emerson, Lake & Palmer a couple of times, Frank Zappa and the Mothers, Lightnin' Hopkins, Stevie Wonder opening for the Stones' Hot Lick tour, LA Forum '72, Love Song in San Diego the same summer, Al Dimeola opening for Renaissance, some sucky Stephen Stills thing post-CSNY (with Atlanta Rhythm Section? That ain't what I call R&R), TMBG several times, once opened by OK Go, and Dylan & Costello.

The strangest combination was a not-quite-Lollapalooza combination of 6 acts in one night put on by KILT 610 in Houston in '66. I can't remember them all but 2 of them were Neil Diamond and Neil Young. ISIANMTU. Everybody knows this is nowhere, not even the song sung rust. I missed some of the show because I was backstage waiting to go on stage. I was 13 and I'd won a motorcycle in some goofy contest sponsored by Tackle. Anybody remember that product?

[PirateBoy]

Auntie M, I just left you two website URL's on your blog comments. Hope you like them!

[danceswithvowels]

(Points out the obvious that TMBG, OKGo, D&C are recent, not from his youth.)

[Auntie M]

Thanks, PirateBoy. I'll check them out. I love the kitties, but Hubby and my mom are both allergic.

[danceswithvowels]

*Snork* at Auntie's Branson!

[Auntie M]

dwv--Nice list you have there. Don't know what Tackle is, unless it's part of an Austin Powers joke about his twigs and berries.

[klezmerphan]

First live concert: Dan Fogelberg at what used to be Irvine Ampitheatre; currently some mega-communications place has their name on it, I think (Verizon?). (Went with two friends and that's when we found out it's actually illegal to run out of gas on the freeway.)

As for live theatre, I was raised on Broadway shows of the last half of the twentieth century (with some folk music thrown in for balance). I know 'em all... can't carry a tune in a bucket, but I can lip-sync all the classics: Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma!, Music Man, My Fair Lady, Guys & Dolls, Carousel, West Side Story, etc. My parents were also big Gilbert & Sullivan fans, so I have Pirates of Penzance & The Mikado (in both English and Yiddish) on my iPod™.

Good music never goes out of fashion.

Hope Dave survives tonight!

[Auntie M]

The Mikado...in Yiddish? My dad would LOVE you! He speaks more Yiddish than most of the Jewish people he knows.

All good musicals, klezmerphan!

[danceswithvowels]

Thanks, Auntie!

Best local Houston band that played dances in high school: Fever Tree

Acts you've seen that I'd love to see/have seen:

The RBRs (goes with/out saying)
Talking Heads
Bowie
Queen
Tom Petty
Garth
Blue Oyster Cowbell
U2
Duran Duran Barbarella!

Wyo, LeDoux's probably not my cup of meat, but I love Lyle Lovett, if that's any compensation. Hank Jr., too. Others I'd love to see/have seen ...

Leo Kottke
Marc Ribot
Scissor Sisters
Chemical Brothers
Crystal Method
Led Zeppelin
The Bea'les
Einstürzende Neubauten

[danceswithvowels]

What was on General Ulysses S. Grant's iPod?

[Sarah J]

The first concert that I begged to go to was Joshua Bell and the SF Symphony, in 2002. It was my 18th birthday present and it was fantastic!
The first concert I went to without my parents (so other than our season tickets to the Symphony) was Jason Mraz, at the home of a girl I went to HS with, before his first single/CD was released. He was a teriffic performer then and the other times I've seen him.

[Renee (the First)]

Actually, HM is the one Disney Channel tween I can endure. *Puts bag over head* I know, I know, but at least the kid has a halfway decent voice and a sense of humor. Now, if Sophie ever asks to be taken to the "High School Musical" tour . . . run for your life and leave no forwarding address.

Can I join your lip-syncing band, kezmerphan? I know all the show tunes too! If Britney can make a career out of pretending that sounds are coming out of her mouth, why not us?

[Renee (the First)]

(I'll grant that the HM concert needs to turn down the lights, though. My browser nearly gave up the ghost on me, not once, not twice, but four times while trying to deal with that picture.)

[Auntie M]

snork @ dwv. My Hubby just gave me a PowerPoint of the
Gettysburg Address, as written by Abraham Lincoln.

[Jessica R.]

gjd,
I went to those Monkee concerts! I also saw Billy Joel (Stormfront - awesome opening) and Barry Manilow. I have taken my children to see the Wiggles and a Sesame Street Live performance. These days I would love to go to a George Strait concert, but I am more often found backstage at a live theater than I am in the house at any event.

[Jessica R.]

wyo,
I lived in TX a grand total of 3 months (the US Army moved us that fast) and I know who Chris LeDoux is. I believe that he is gone now (to the big rodeo in the sky). Is that correct, or is my brain fading with age?

[Auntie M]

So, I'm gathering that Chris LeDoux is a....country singer of some sort?

[Jessica R.]

Yes, a hunky one, but, I think, he is currently deceased. I will look it up.

[danceswithvowels]

Auntie, that reminds me of a column by the late great Mike Royko years ago when grammar checkers were relatively new. The checker made a hash of the Gettysburg Address, naturally, but Royko's presentation was fabulous. Almost Dave-like! I can't find it online, though.

[Jessica R.]

Yes, Chris LaDoux passed away on March 18, 2005 from complications of liver cancer. He was 56 years old.

[Auntie M]

I always tell my students that they can't rely on grammar and spell check for their work. I've got a great poem about it that they can hardly read, but includes correctly spelled, incorrectly used words. I've always been kind of a grammar nazi.

[ArcticAl]

Sorry to lay down a royal flush and end this poker game, but my first concert was in 1964 at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens (a hockey arena). We saw this relatively unknown band from the UK called...

The Beatles, in their first North American tour.

We sat in the front row of the balcony behind the band and slightly to their left. We were about 40 feet from them and were able to read their lips as they spoke to each other above the noise of several thousand teenage girls screaming. I still have the ticket stubs.

[Just Ducky]

*flaps back in for a bit*

Auntie, sorry to have sammiched you earlier. I don't know why my post showed up twice, but I hope you enjoyed the stereo sound!

*picks feathers out of Auntie's hair*

[Auntie M]

You suck, Al. I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course.

[Auntie M]

It's okay, Ducky. I just thought it was wabbit season, not duck season.

[Just Ducky]

Auntie, I think it's turkey season.

Wow, Al. Hope you have those ticket stubs in a safety deposit box, or something. That must have been some concert.

[danceswithvowels]

Anybody else like Christina's Candyman music video? (Link causes your souffles to fall iTunes to ruin your life pop up.)

[Auntie M]

I hadn't seen it, dwv. MTV doesn't play music videos anymore, ya know. Very WWII.

[danceswithvowels]

Wow, Al! I didn't even try to get tickets to the Fab Four although I'm too senile to remember why exactly. What was the question again?

Getting tickets to Jimi was struggle enough, and that was a simple footrace / pushing match with other guys. I'd have been no match in the big contest.

[Just Ducky]

Does she do the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company C?

[danceswithvowels]

She manages blonde, brunette, and redhead, all at once. Reminds me of a story about a bar ...

[danceswithvowels]

Don't think so, Ducks. I think you're stuck with Bette Midler, and the Andrews Sisters who completely ignored MTV.

[Just Ducky]

dwv, much as I'd love to hear that story, it's time for me to flap off to bed. I need to get a head start on Thanksgiving food prep tomorrow.

Nighty-night, y'all--sweet dreams!

[Auntie M]

I think Bette's done VH-1 once in a while. But no Bugle Boy song. Sad. That's a good one, too.

[Auntie M]

It's time for me to go to bed, too. Someone needs to set the timer on the Blog Mr. Coffee.

Night! Dream of turkeys!

[danceswithvowels]

Night-time lullaby from our old pal Frank Zappa ...

Movin' to Montana soon
(Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
Movin' to Montana soon
(Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)

[Doc Rick]

Hannah Montana is nothing more than the young female trade off for Halo 3 with the boys. The exception being is that you pay $60 for Halo once, Hannah Montana could hang around for another couple of years and cost ya the GNP of Panama in products and tickets purchases.

[SW]

Gee, I coulda gotten you some good tickets to this Hanna-Barbera show. Almost the same and a whole heckuva lot cheaper.

[Doc Rick]

Did the concert take place in Valencia because it looks like a small tactical nuke went off in that picture?

[SW]

I have an equally good view of the concert as I watch it on Google Earth.

[Mot The Hoople]

* Lays out wayward turkeys captured from productivity enhancer for all the bloggers for Thanksgiving dinner *

Thankfully I'm not aware of Hannah Montana fever over here, but then I'm an old codger and If I moved in circles with the parents of 7 year old girls I might sing an entirely different tune.

[Doc Rick]

Trust me Mott you never, EVER want to experience the force of nature that is "Hannah Montana". Pray that your country is never graced by the offspring of "Achy Breaky Heart" singer Billy Ray Cyrus.

[Mot The Hoople]

BTW. First concert was The Byrds in Johannesburg in 1969. *Lays claim to the keys of the geezer bus*

[Doc Rick]

Mot, I was but a wee infant that particular year but I grew up loving the Byrds thanks to my semi-"we aren't really" hippie parents for the love of good old Rock 'n Roll!

[Mot The Hoople]

Achy Breaky Heart was a huuuuuge hit amongst our very own Redneck brigade. Smalltown SA is populated by people who'd be right at home in the US South, the only problem would be language as they're Afrikaans speaking and are not that good at English, Apart from that they have the same hair styles (mullets and derivatives), they are in love with their pick-ups, TV remotes and sports teams and the main weekend activity is walking to the fridge for another beer. NTTAWWT of course.

[Siouxie]

Oh dear Lord, they're still at the concert!

Mornin' Afternoon! I'm off to pick up my daughter in Sarasota. You all have a great day and I shall see yas later.

Oh yeah and I also saw "The Who".

[Meanie the Blue]

Allman Brothers Band (many times), Marshall Tucker, Outlaws, Commander Cody, David Bromberg, Pink Floyd, The Who, Santana, and way too many others to type in on a PDA. (OK, Roy Buchanan.)

*Changes battery in hearing aid*

*(Jealous)snork!*@ Antique Arctic Al*

[Doc Rick]

I've only seen Springsteen, Mellencamp, and Garth Brooks live so my view of live music events are a bit jaded. Each of those individuals put on great concerts with killer curtain calls. Springsteen ranks #1 because he did a 4 hour show with no opening act (Tunnel of Love Tour).

[gjd]

Good morning, all. - Doc, from what I understand, that is par for the course for Bruce. (Ah, that all men could age so well...*sigh*) My sister saw the Born in the USA tour from row 7.

[gjd]

Have a safe trip, Siouxie!

[gjd]

Muffins, coffee, and apple cider on the blog bar on this beautiful autumn morning.

Off to get g, j, and d ready for their annual check-ups.

[crossgirl]

autumn? i've heard of that.

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

re CJrun @ 10:06 PM: I'd give my left nut to see Louis.

First concert: Bruce in Philly in the early 80s.

[WayneHere]

First concert-Renaisance. Was gonna ask if anyone knew who they are, but danceswithvowels actually saw them, also. Classical-influenced Prog-Rock. On the river in Philly, with the Tall Ships (for the Bicentennial-YES,I'm old) sailing behind the stage in front of a full moon. Second concert, Doobie Brothers.

[danceswithvowels]

Mornin'! Coffee's up.

Wow, Meanie. You've moved to the top of my list with Pink Floyd (yep, past The Beachles). Which show(s) did you see? Also I forgot I'd like to see King Crimson and/or Robert Fripp. And Ry Cooder. And prolly a hunnert others.

mrs.dances and I saw several seasons of Houston Grand Opera in the later '70s. Kiri TeKanawa and Marilyn Horne (not at the same time). Samuel Ramey in Don Giovanni was spectacular.

Drive safe Siouxie and everybody else moving from 'Getting to 'Giving!

[danceswithvowels]

Errr, by the time I finished the post I started this morning, the coffee was long gone. But, have some more with lunch!

[WayneHere]

Yes I saw Pink Floyd The Wall in 1980. Took 2 weeks off work and visited college friends up & down the east coast. It was a blur. Also saw King Crimson. Was talking to my ex almost 10 years after and said"I always wished I saw King Crimson" She responded "We did". She remindeed me it was the concert Katie threw up on my shoes. Concerts=blurs. I see a pattern from my youth.

[WayneHere]

I took my ex and her mother to see Ormandy's last performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She now has advanced Alzheimer's and literally doesn't remember her own daughter. But she remembers me taking her to that concert. The mind is a funny thing.

[WayneHere]

As we see on this thread. music triggers memories.

[Red or Green?]

1st concert- James Brown and the Famous Flames 1965, El Paso Texas. Best concert, ZZ Top in a bar also in El Paso 2 weeks before the release of their 1st album. Near best, Jimi Hendrix a couple of months before he died in Albuquerque.
Mot, you arn't the only one w/ keys to the (magic) geezer bus! I even got to see Mott the Hoople, opening for Ten Years After, sometime in the early seveties.
My daughter and 2 year old grandson took me to see Lyle Lovett and KD Lang this summer in ABQ, sweet for all kinds of reasons. My daughters first was the good ole' Grateful Dead when she was 3!
I'm usually just a lurker, but the memories everyone has shared were enough to get me off the fence.

[danceswithvowels]

Red Green! How's things at the Lodge? ;-)

Ten Years After? Next someone's gonna mention Incredible String Band.

Oh, and I forgot Leon Redbone.

[Meanie the Blue]

DWV - I saw Floyd on their Animals tour in '77 (Madison Square Garden) and The Wall tour in '80 (Long Island, NY). Man, they were awesome shows.

I forgot that I had also seen Ten Years After in the seventies. Never saw King Crimson, but I did see Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Like you, there were hundreds I could list that I didn't get to see. Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, .....