21 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

I had a press card too from KSR. I never saw them but remember how big they were in Thailand

I used to have a Thai neighbor never stopped playing I often wondered what the connection 

 

Just now, ChipButty said:

I used to have a Thai neighbor never stopped playing I often wondered what the connection 

 

I lived near a nightclub that never stopped playing them! I used to like the Eagles and CCR and Bob Marley before coming to Thailand! 

Forgot these fellas

 

 

And the Pogues! How could I forget getting a backstage pass and getting wasted with the singer. I swear he drank a full bottle of tequila in a couple of hours and a few spliffs.

8 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Amen Corner

 

You are going back sometime there not heard that name for a long time Andy Fairweather-Low

 

 

8 minutes ago, Saltire said:

I did this recently for a Facebook thing to list a band for each letter of the alphabet you've seen live.

 

The band I seen the most times was probably Deep Purple, around 6 or 7 times. Could also have been Status Quo but Ritchie Blackmore was my hero.

 

The worst band I seen were Egg who got boo'd off the stage at Glasgow Apollo.

 

THe biggest surprise band were very early Genesis before they were known at all.

 

Most memorable gig was Pink Floyd Pulse at Earls Court. The bus run home sftae the concert to Glasgow was also memorable.

 

A- Argent, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, The Almighty
B- Bad Company, Biffy Clyro, BB King, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Black Sabbath, Blue Nile, Beggars Opera, David Bowie, B-52’s, Big Country, Blues in Trouble
C- Ry Cooder, Glenn Campbell, Celine Dion
D- Deep Purple, Dire Straights
E- Egg, Eagles, Earth Wind and fire
F- Fats Domino, Free
G- Genesis, Groundhogs, Peter Gabriel, George Thoroghgood, Rory Gallagher
H- Heads, Hands and Feet, Hall & Oates, Hawkwind, Huey Lewis and the News, Ian Hunter, Muse
I- Ian Gillan, Ice House
J- Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull, Joe Walsh, Jean Michel Jarre
K- Kraftwerk, Mark Knopfler
L- Led Zeppelin
M-Moody Blues, Motorhead, Mott the Hoople
N- Nazareth
O- Ozzy Osbourne
P- Robert Plant, Plant and Page, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Pink Floyd
Q- Status Quo
R- Chris Rhea, Rainbow
S- Paul Simon, Peter Frampton, Phil Collins, Shakin Stevens, Shania Twain, Simple Minds, Joe Satriani
T- Ten Years After, Thomson Twins, Tina Turner, Travis
U- Uriah Heep, Ultravox
V- Van der Graf generator
W-Wishbone Ash
X-
Y- Neil Young, Yes
Z-

 

Anybody seen X Ray Spex and Zombies??

 

I really miss live music.

 

 

 

 

 

X -  X  Funk ban from LA   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(American_band)

Z - Now I really wish I had seen ZAPPA. Couldn't appreciate his music when he was around though I liked The Mothers  album Freak Out!

Led Zeppelin x 3 Times

Blue Oyster Cult

Wishbone  Ash

Rolling Stones X 2 Times

The Who

Rory Gallagher

Joan Armatrading

The Cranberrys

Ian Dury and the Blockheads

Wild willy Barret and John Ottway

The list goes on over the Years

Xray specs were one of my favourites

 

First live concert I went to was a Tommy Roe/Del Shannon UK tour in 1962/63. Also featured was The Beatles! 

 

In that era I also saw The Searchers, The Animals, The Hollies and a few others that I don't recall.

 

Lots of trad jazz artists including Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball Chris Barber, Terry Lightfoot and Monty Sunshine. And I always remember with a smile, The Back o' Town Syncopators.

 

Later in life got to see Destiny's Child and the Moody Blues.

 

Last concert before leaving the UK for ever was Alicia Keys

 

 

 

 

Cant believe nobodies mentioned Rod Stewart yet here goes 

 

 

2 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Cant believe nobodies mentioned Rod Stewart yet here goes 

 

 

And he isn't Scottish! 

I was an EMT-Paramedic on the Shreveport fire Dept.

Later EMS supervisor, my uniform got me in many places

usually on a wing of the stage and back stage.

We always provided EMS for concerts, we had the Ambulances.

So I saw a lot. Some were not something I would have paid for.

Best.. Tina Turner, she could turn on an audience.

Saw The Who long ago.

George Jones, Merrill Haggard, The Silver Fox Charlie Rich

Motly Crew when the drummer's cage flipped upside down.

ZZ Top , wow! 

Joan Jett and the black hearts, she looked like a wet rat

when she came off stage. I stood guard on the restroom door

for her while she had a shower.

Poison

Rat

so many metal bands I can't remember.

Naomi Judd and her daughter.

Loretta Lynn

MC Hammer

Grew up with the The Uniques rock band based in Louisiana, with Joe Stampley

"Not Too Long Ago" and "All These Things"

Louisiana Mafia had string of clubs in Bossier City, called The Strip

right near the Texas line . Had all the usual mafia stuff going on.

They could get just a ton of acts in for their clubs back in the '50s

and '60s. Back when groups traveled the the circuit, basically for 

day money. Lots of '60s and '70's groups played the clubs.

Most of the clubs were burned out for insurance money in the

late '70s.

And Shreveport La had the Louisiana Hayride that rivaled Nashville

for being home to country singers in the '50s and '60s .

Where Elvis got his start, along with many others.

1 minute ago, Neeranam said:

And he isn't Scottish! 

(born 10 January 1945) is a British rock singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 120 million records worldwide.

14 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

You are going back sometime there not heard that name for a long time Andy Fairweather-Low

 

 

Always liked them, and saw them at the Isle of Wight Music Festival (1968 or thereabouts) when they sang Bend Me, Shape Me.........then had a drink with them at a local pub and they were a nice bunch of guys.

5 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

And the Pogues! How could I forget getting a backstage pass and getting wasted with the singer. I swear he drank a full bottle of tequila in a couple of hours and a few spliffs.

Shane MacGowan... the ultimate rebel pisshead.

 

Their album Hell's Ditch had the track House of the Gods with the following lyrics.

 

Finally found a place they could never reach

Sipping singha beer on Pattaya Beach

Singha beer don't ask no questions

Singha beer don't tell no lies

Singha beer don't ask no questions

Singha beer don't tell no lies

 

There's a guy next to me won't tell me his name

Buy's me mekong whiskey just the same

Singha beer don't ask no questions

Singha beer don't tell no lies

Singha beer don't ask no questions

Singha beer don't tell no lies

 

I'm just a wally Hanging out on Pattaya Beach

I'm just a wally Hanging out on Pattaya Beach

 

Met a girl said she's really going to blow my mind

She say's she don't mean sex and I say alright

Turns out she's a bloke, tries to give me head

I have to run out screaming to the street instead

 

She's just a wally Hanging out on Pattaya Beach

I'm just a wally Hanging out on Pattaya Beach

Singha beer don't ask no questions

Singha beer don't tell no lies...

 

Notable he got fired after this album was released "owing to the decline of his reliability as a performer, which was caused by his abuse of alcohol and drugs."

 

He lost it in Pattaya I guess.

2 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

Shane MacGowan... the ultimate rebel pisshead.

 

Their album Hell's Ditch had the track House of the Gods with the following lyrics.

 

Finally found a place they could never reach

Sipping singha beer on Pattaya Beach

Singha beer don't ask no questions

Singha beer don't tell no lies

Singha beer don't ask no questions

Singha beer don't tell no lies

 

There's a guy next to me won't tell me his name

Buy's me mekong whiskey just the same

Singha beer don't ask no questions

Singha beer don't tell no lies

Singha beer don't ask no questions

Singha beer don't tell no lies

 

I'm just a wally Hanging out on Pattaya Beach

I'm just a wally Hanging out on Pattaya Beach

 

Met a girl said she's really going to blow my mind

She say's she don't mean sex and I say alright

Turns out she's a bloke, tries to give me head

I have to run out screaming to the street instead

 

She's just a wally Hanging out on Pattaya Beach

I'm just a wally Hanging out on Pattaya Beach

Singha beer don't ask no questions

Singha beer don't tell no lies...

 

Notable he got fired after this album was released "owing to the decline of his reliability as a performer, which was caused by his abuse of alcohol and drugs."

 

He lost it in Pattaya I guess.

Before he got his new teeth, many years ago, his girlfriend was a top London model. It was weird looking at them together -  he was drooling with a spliff hanging out his mouth, more interested in his bottle of tequila. Nice guy but...

Dr Hook

Bob Dylan

Neil Young

David Bowie

Lou Reed

The Cure

The Motels

George Thorogood

The Ramones

Leo Kottke

Midnight Oil

Split Enz

Cyndi Lauper

Cold Chisel

The Angels

The Stranglers

 

Lou Reed was having a bad night and the Cure were terrible, otherwise wonderful memories

2 minutes ago, Bluetongue said:

Lou Reed was having a bad night and the Cure were terrible, otherwise wonderful memories

One concert I regret missing was Lou. I did however, see Nico sing a coupld of his songs at the Aberdeen University Union, where Bowie sang his first concert of the 70s. I also saw a great band there -  Clint Eastwood and general Saint.

8 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Cant believe nobodies mentioned Rod Stewart yet here goes 

Ok, just for you:

my first show at the Fillmore East the headliner was Jeff Beck (early 1968) and his nibs was the lead singer.  We were sitting in the balcony just a few rows from the edge.  In the row in front us was a cute-as-all-hell gal in a miniskirt with two guys who were more interested in each other.  In between songs she'd call out "hey Jeffy!"  She had her feet up on the chair in front of her and when Beck looked her way she raised her skirt to show him where the party was.  I was 16 and I can't recall how long it took for me to lift my jaw off the floor.

I think it was about a year later that the band broke up.  As it happens I was at their last show together, at the same outdoor arena where I saw Hendrix (see above post).  Story was they broke up right there, Beck felt literally abandoned.  Also on the bill was Vanilla Fudge, a NY area band, and they took him in, hence all those collaborations over the following years.

 

Once in Bkk I fell in with a bunch of Scot guys for a night of drinking and pleasure pursuits, they were quite proud of their Roddie, and I had the sense to hold my tongue.

 

 

2 hours ago, Phil McCaverty said:

I've seen too many bands to mention them all here but by far the standout live performance for me was The Sensational Alex Harvey Band at the Barrowlands, Glasgow, '74. A true performer who put on a proper show. The set ended with "Anthem" which included a professional opera singer and mid way through the song was accompanied with a Scottish pipe band who, much to everyone's surprise, entered the hall from the back and slowly marched through the audience, the pipes getting louder and louder as they neared the stage. Absolutely magical.

I saw The Sensational Alex Harvey Band at the best concert I have ever been to - The Who, live at Charlton, 1975. Alex Harvey and guitarist Zal Cleminson were awesome and a great support band for the Who. Here they are on whispering Bob's show:

 

Worst concert - Oasis, Live in Bangkok. What a let down. Arrogant tossers.

14 minutes ago, bendejo said:

Once in Bkk I fell in with a bunch of Scot guys for a night of drinking and pleasure pursuits, they were quite proud of their Roddie, and I had the sense to hold my tongue.

 

 

Good story he always made out he was a Scottish football supporter, I saw him RS and Denis Law and Francis Lee walking through the car park at Wembley ready for the England v Scotland game, that was the game England won 5-0

6 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

One concert I regret missing was Lou. I did however, see Nico sing a coupld of his songs at the Aberdeen University Union, where Bowie sang his first concert of the 70s. I also saw a great band there -  Clint Eastwood and general Saint.

Regrets yes! I regret walking past the Queen Margaret Union at Glasgow University one Friday night and seeing a blackboard with 'Tonight - Queen'. Never heard of them, walked on to the mens union.

 

2 weeks later who jumped to number 1 with 7 Seas of Rye?

 

Any more regrets?

 

One more - When I saw Muse at the Aberdeen Conference Centre it was standing only. I was relatively 'old' in the crowd and after the first few songs abandoned the swaying crush to the sidelines. Scary, especially when in the 70s i'd not be happy unless I was near the stage. Never been in a mosh pit thankfully, don't understand that ????

3 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

Here they are on whispering Bob's show:

I always hear this in my head when sat in a bar on Soi 6. Also performed at the Barrowlands. Probably their most famous song.

 

 

Anyone see The Clash in Bangkok re 1982?

The only band I've seen 3 times is the Stranglers. Good memories of pushing the bouncers back, one of which was my best mate's old man  

Back in the mid 60"s we were working in Sheffield I think the night club was called The Black Cat live bands every night was normal them days and saw Joe Cooker before he became famous sadly he passed away no,

 

 

2 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Anyone see The Clash in Bangkok re 1982?

I didn't even know where Bangkok was in 1982. Saw the Clash in my home town circa 1978. Didn't enjoy all the spitting.

4 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Anyone see The Clash in Bangkok re 1982?

Didn't they make a video in BKK?

Having seen a lot of bands over the years it's easiest for me to say :

 

Best Night- Dead Kennedys in San Francisco New Years Eve 1981

 

Best Weekend - Holidays in the Sun- Blackpool 1996  It was a Punk revival festival with many bands looking worse for wear. Sham 69 got the weekend off with a bang. The following year I went again and subsequently up to Morecambe when the festival moved location.

 

Worst Band - The Virgin Prunes who supported Bauhaus in 1982

 

 

 

Holidays in the Sun

• Friday, August 9, 1996

  GBH

  Sham 69

  X‐Ray Spex

• Saturday, August 10, 1996

  999

  Anti-Nowhere League

  Chron Gen

  External Menace

  Funeral Dress

  Hanx

  Major Accident

  Mere Dead Men

  One Way System

  Proles

  Public Toys

  Radio Stars

  Sic Boy Federation

  Special Duties

  Splodgenessabounds

  Suburban Studs

  The Casualties

  The Damned

  The Lurkers

  The Vibrators

  UK Subs

  Walking Abortions

   

• Sunday, August 11, 1996
  Buzzcocks

  Die Toten Hosen

  English Dogs

   

The mayority we was born in the generation of live’s concerts. I had my time working in a Radio, can not remember how many concerts I have been, including interviews with singers... Really, can’t remember but a very Interesting Zappa, Chick Corea, All Jazz festivals, All Guitars Festival,  N. Young, knopfler, Stones, Pink Floyds... ufff!