The Musician Asks:
This morning, I was jamming to some serious tunes on the radio, and for a moment-I was back in college. In my senior year, I was in a rock band.<br />
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The most powerful narcotic out there is the applause of an audience. I made some good money that year, but I would've done it for little to nothing because of the thrill of a performance. I'm just wondering if there are any here who had this kind of fun ? <br />
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Barring that, have you ever been to a concert with great musical performances ?<br />
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Let's share a love of music.
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The most powerful narcotic out there is the applause of an audience. I made some good money that year, but I would've done it for little to nothing because of the thrill of a performance. I'm just wondering if there are any here who had this kind of fun ? <br />
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Barring that, have you ever been to a concert with great musical performances ?<br />
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Let's share a love of music.
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Radiohead are the best musicians I've ever seen. Watching them on the "In Rainbows" tour was mind-blowing. For them to create the complex music they did LIVE was amazing. The five of them all play multiple instruments, sometimes playing multiple instruments in the same song. Jonny Greenwood is especially good at this.<br />
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Green Day and David Lee Roth put on the best shows ever. Green Day, especially. If I were a 15 year old seeing Green Day as my first concert I would be totally happy.</p>
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Also I have heard strippers say they "don't need the money" because they have husbands (ie judyjudy) but they enjoy it for the fun of it and the crow pleasing. <br type="_moz" />
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Sorry to get long winded here, but I saw Lionel Hampton in Seattle a few months before he passed away back in the early 2000's. My wife wasn't feeling well after dinner, so she went back to the hotel and I went to see Lionel in little a club in downtown Seattle. He had suffered a stroke a few years before, and had a long piano bench with a guy on each side of him to keep him from falling over. Obviously he was touring because he needed money, but was barely able to perform - sort of a freak show feeling about it. But in his prime he was a great jazz musician who played with unmatched intensity, and I am proud to say that I saw him even though he was a shadow of what he had been.<br />
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After the show I stopped by Rick's for a while before going back to the hotel. <br />
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The best musicians I saw was Deep Purple on their Perfect Strangers tour (1984).<br />
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In my band, we had some very talented artists who wowed our audiences with the unexpected. Our keyboardist was our only classically trained musician. She wrote and performed a solo called "Space Trilogy" in which sheopened with "Also Sprach Zarathusta" and closed with her intrpetation of the tar Wars theme. Ou lead keyboardist once did Stairway to Heaven on the piano, melody with on hand, rhythm with the other. Of course, the one thing that mde our audience go nuts was anytime we played Rush. Quite accidentally, Spirit of Radio, became our keynote song. We couldn't leave the stage without playing it.