>>Perhaps the most interesting concert I ever went to was Simply Red on their goodbye tour - not the part of their usual repertoire, but the opening act. Hucknall instead of calling in another group as openeing act performed great pop songs from other artists - and he is gifted and his taste in other music correlated with mine. One of the really few concerts where the unexpected stuff surpassed the typical highlights by a mile.
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>>>I think SuperTramp was vastly underrated in the U.S. Don't know if you knew this, but the long-time producer for Supertramp helped Rush produce their 1989 album, "Presto"
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>>Did not know. Thx.
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>>>I like individual Stones songs. And I certainly like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.
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>>Wish you were here probably the album after Tull most listened to with earphones for nuances here in my early years. And Styx is wonderful Autobahn stuff - no earphones and other drivers are allowed to listen in ;-)
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>>Stones live is great if you pay enough to be less than 50m away. Also good motivational stuff when eye of the tiger was decades away.
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>I was fortunate enough to see Simply Red at their home club in Manchester. Also Lone Justice. The wife of one of my coworkers got tickets for 6 of us. She said most of us don't have time to wait in line for hours; I do. Marie McKee was incredible. Sue's husband Rob, one of my pledge sons, said after the opening number "They aren't saving it for the encore, are they?"
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>My computer sound is broken but I can still hear them. She was a whirling dervish.
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>UPDATE: I also saw the Uurethmics in Manchester. Princess Di was one of the attendees. Annie Lennox had a habit of dropping her pants during performances and was firmly told not do do so. Sadly, she didn't.
Glad for you - such memories are the best IMO. Once I had a chance to visit Robbie Williams in one of his Paris Club Night gigs but was too lazy/tired to work out the surrounding tasks like arrange for nanny here or take one with us - TGV was planned instead of flying - and at that stretch in time I was packing 40+H into 3 or 4 workdays on site plus family life in the other time (which is not relaxing for me, but that is another matter...) leaving me somewhat burned out on the rest as I did not have sports to balance me at that time. Would have been the cost of 2 weeks in a not too shabby ski resort, but in retrospect I wonder how I could have been too tired to work a way to go there.
