What are you listening to, right now................
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Went to see Roger Waters at Vector on Monday night. Fantastic concert - great music and theatre.<br />
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The opening song (In the Flesh) had more pyrotechnics in that than I have ever seen in any closing song by any act live:<br />
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[quote name='Chris B.' timestamp='1329876381' post='271258']<br />
A bit more Neil Young.<br />
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How cool would it have been to be here to hear Neil's intro to his brand new song. "I don't travel with a band anymore..." <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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I saw Neil perform live about 8 times, but not since the mid-1990s. The best show I saw him do was Christchurch in (I think) 1985 at the showgrounds/Addington Raceway. On that tour he did three sets, he brought the International Harvesters (country band) to back him for the first set; did a solo acoustic (with "Old Laughing Lady" on the piano, the most memorable song I've ever seen him perform) for the 2nd; and then ripped into the heavy rock with Crazy Horse for the 3rd set. When I told people back in Canada, who'd seen him play more times than me, their heads exploded, 'cos they never got to see that (epic) short tour. (I think Neil was on a windsurfing holiday of NZ and Australia and took his sweet leisurely time (from memory, three shows in NZ for an 11 day vacation) and brought the whole extended NY entourage along with him for the fun 'n hijinks.) I was also lucky to see his sound check many hours earlier that same day, he was driven through the campground in a van wearing his sunglasses and waved in about 20 onlookers. Surreal. Watched him rip through a short set that included Hurricane, Cortez and Powderfinger (!!!) in their entirety, so Neil and Crazy Horse were shredding for 20 minutes, it was a fantasy come real for a Neil freak. Last time I saw him his band was the MGs (Booker T, Steve Cropper, etc.) and that was pretty amazing, but that earlier Chch show is still far-and-away my fave.<br />
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[quote name='Tim' timestamp='1329888083' post='271304']<br />
More Neil Young: (Sample and Hold)[/quote]<br />
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Saw the Trans tour too, and some fans were booing. It was weird, but his updated version of "Mr. Soul" was cool. I think Sonic Youth covered "Sample & Hold" for a Bridge benefit record. -
<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Cool. Nice work seeing the Trans tour.
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Another thing about that Christchurch show that people up here absolutely love, was the ticket stub, a nice oversized thick linen card-stock, numbered with picture of Neil (from Comes A Time). Tickets up here suck large, they are boilerplate Tickermaster stubs, purely functional computer print-outs that all look the same, with ink that fades after a couple years. When I show that stub to friends, they are always wowwed, 'cos they see nothing like it up here for anything other than tiny club indie shows with hand-printed stubs.
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Another thing about that Christchurch show that people up here absolutely love, was the ticket stub, a nice oversized thick linen card-stock, numbered with picture of Neil (from Comes A Time). Tickets up here suck large, they are boilerplate Tickermaster stubs, purely functional computer print-outs that all look the same, with ink that fades after a couple years. When I show that stub to friends, they are always wowwed, 'cos they see nothing like it up here for anything other than tiny club indie shows with hand-printed stubs.<br />
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On the topic of memorable rock shows in NZ, I recently came across the following ("Bitch") at youtube from the Rolling Stones 1973 tour at Western Springs in Auckland (Feb.11/73):<br />
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Quite an excellent live bootleg recording (I'm guessing it was a bootleg source, though I don't know that for certain...some of you will think I'm nuts for saying that, but believe me, compared to the bootleg vinyl from the 70s & 80s, this is really good bootleg audio), and a hot take from the Stones of one of their best songs. The [url="http://www.stonesarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/32.jpg"]poster[/url] from that concert has been reproduced internationally and is a fairly popular seller, I see it showing up in head-shops all over North America, and I have a memory of the show when I was a kid from friends at primary school whose cooler older brothers attended (that's really how I learned about the Stones, listening to Radio Hauraki back then it was a really-big-deal, as well as the Led Zeppelin show at Western Springs the year before - there's a bootleg version of some of that at youtube as well, but the audio is much inferior to this Stones show). The entire recording of the Stones show in Auckland is available from the same youtube account and is a cool document. (Note: If you try to do a search for it, the mis-spelling is "AUKLAND".) -
Has anyone else cottoned on to thisismyjam.com yet?<br />
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Still in Beta and not yet compatible with mobile devices (which will be when it gets really good) but it's a cool idea not dissimilar to this thread.<br />
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Basically you sign up and link your membership to a Twitter or FB account (if you want). You get to pick one song that is your current 'listening too right now' fave and log it in.<br />
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You can either pick up on friends tastes from FB or Twitter or just randomly search around on the website for someone's track that interest's you.<br />
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If you like what they like you get the option to stream all of their previous choices as a playlist. Music choice sharing. Could be really good to find or rediscover stuff. -
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is this man part of the solution or part of the problem??? thoughts people??<br />
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Will withhold judgment until I read what Stephen the Mustache from Hell Jones has to say. (He admits he likes Springsteen more than he likes rugby. Which makes me feel kinda bad for Bruce.) -
Thank you Tim, that shit is awesome!! I listened to their other stuff, and "Prehistoric Dog" is all kinds of awesome.
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[quote name='mariner4life' timestamp='1333408025' post='278662']<br />
Thank you Tim, that shit is awesome!! I listened to their other stuff, and "Prehistoric Dog" is all kinds of awesome.<br />
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Glad you liked it dude(s).<br />
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I have a feeling that I'll be posting more metal here soon. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
