I was at the last few shows of the Born In The USA tour at the LA Coliseum (Sept/Oct 1985). At least two tracks (War and Rosalita), maybe up to 4 or 5, from the Live 75-85 set were recorded on those nights.
Hey, you guys have some cool stories to tell!
I think I saw a listing somewhere for a recording of King Crimson’s show at Massey Hall, Toronto in 1981. If that’s out there, I was at that show. Some moron up in the balcony kept shouting, in the quiet parts, of course, “Attaboy, Bob!” A highlight of that show was that Fripp, who never normally speaks to the audience, got up to the mic, to overwhelming, thunderous applause. They never stopped, so he turned around and went back to his guitar, and they played “Lark’s Tongues In Aspic (Part 2).” Brought down the house!
Keep the stories coming!
If bootlegs count, then I’m in the crowd for a 10,000 Maniacs concert held in Jamestown circa 1992/3. It was prior to the release of “Our Time In Eden”, but they performed most of the songs that would make up that disc. Natalie also sang a bizarre acapella cover of “All Right Now” by (I think) the J. Geils Band.
There’s a DVD of a Grateful Dead concert held in Buffalo, NY circa 1989, which I am almost certainly on. A friend of mine swears there is a shot of me & him in it as the camera pans over the crowd, but I have never actually seen it to confirm it.
I’m the guy that made Elvis laugh during that Are You Lonesome Tonight? performance.
Checking my ticket stubs, I can confirm that I am on:
My Hometown
Cover Me
The Promised Land
Darlington County
War
The River
Seeds
Born In The U.S.A.
All from the September 30, 1985 show.
I was at one of the two Leo Kottke shows that he taped in Denver sometime in the '90s.
“Just That Time of Year” and “Baby, I Love Your Way” were from the Plattsburgh show, 11/22/75.
I was at the Winterland show. (“Hello, San Francisco!!!”)
Woodstock.
Ani DiFranco, Carnegie Hall 4.6.02. Awsome show, and the first time I’d been to Carnegie Hall.
Nope, not a one. Never been to a concert.
When I was but a lad, my school music teacher was in the Edmonton Sympony Orchestra. The group Procol Harem choose them to play the orchestral sequences on “Conquistador”…
Her classes were brought in to the Jubilee Auditorium as “Seat fillers”, to complete the concert hall sound. (It sounded “empty” with out bums in seats")
It was not a “live” recording, per se, as in “concert”, and we had been instructed to be quiet, not a cough, not a sneeze, not a giggle, and no talking under pain of death by flaming Oboe.
As a goggle eyed kid, though, it was fascinating to watch the recording progress.
Regards
FML
Jimmy Buffet, Live In Hawaii, the tracks from the concert at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Kahului, Hawaii on January 30, 2004. Nothing like rocking with Jimmy under an open sky, with palm trees and the sound of surf in the distance.
Andrew Bird in Flagstaff, 2004. It was an awesome show!
my very first Pearl Jam show was 7/10/03 at Madison Square Garden in NYC. They played for over 3 hours, even after they received a $40,000 fine for breaking curfew. In the words of Eddie Vedder “fuck it, you’re the ones who made us rich in the first place!” It was the most amazing concert I’ve ever been to, and the band felt that way too, and released the show on 2 DVDs as Live At the Garden.
A funny story actually. My brother is a longtime member of the Ten Club, which was how he got tickets for the 7/10 and 7/11 shows at MSG. Another one of our friends wanted to go, and we agreed that he could go to the 7/11 show with my brother. MSG came down on Pearl Jam really hard after the stunt they pulled last night, and that show was about half the length as mine…man was he pissed for going to that show instead!
Lots of things recorded on Live! by The New Pornographers. I expect I’ll be a part of tracks on Challengers Executive Edition, which is being put together.
Where were they taped? I might have been there.
I was here:
Grateful Dead, Denver Coliseum, 1973
and here:
Neil Young Live At Red Rocks, 2000
You can see me and a bunch of friends on Gotta Let This Hen Out video of Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians at the (old) Marquee club. I also saw Thin Lizzy about the time of Live and Dangerous* but I think they’d finished recording by then.
*I know the ‘live’ bit is dubious but it is a fair record of their act at the time.
I was in the audience for the parts of Jackson Browne’s Running On Empty which were recorded at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The tracks on the album from that concert are Running On Empty, The Load-out, and Stay.
Very weird. I just mentioned this to a friend at breakfast on Sunday.
Sam Kinison’s Louder Than Hell. The album cover says that some of the concert was recorded in Norfolk Virgina at the Boat House, but I have no idea what bits from that show made it into the final mix.
I just remembered that part of the Firesign Theatre’s Back from the Shadows was recorded in Berkeley…but I don’t know which parts, and since I was stuck in traffic and missed a large chunk of the show, it’s even possible that I wasn’t in the audience for the part they used.