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(33,643 posts)Saw them on this tour, Cow Palace baby!
Openers: Saxon and Fastway. Epic!
flying rabbit
(4,644 posts)I remember Eddie coming out in a strait jacket. Good times!
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)First tune I ever sang with a band?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Yeah that show was sick AF ... I was like 16 ...
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)How things be witchoo, my son? Stopped in, saw Sarges state tunes post and was back in! LOL!
Had to be a sick show. My first album was Piece Of Mind (and Thriller. My parents saw the artwork for Piece and tried to steer me in a different direction.)
My musician uncle gave me a dubbed tape of Saxon a few weeks later. Dude? This tune was played so much I wore out the tape!
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Good to see man, you should stop by more often
And yeah that tune is badass. They were great that night too.
My mom made me put my Number of the Beast album-cover poster someplace in my room where someone walking by wouldn't see it lol ...
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)I feel you. I was banned from buying AC/DC when I was a kid. Fast forward 20+ years and mom is all, I love AC/DC! That one song. It starts with a bell? Bong, bong. Yeah ma, I know the tune! Its Hells Bells. If I listened to it at 12 I was going to be sacrificing neighborhood children, remember?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)'appropriate at your age' lol.
My mom isn't rocking any AC/DC still but she's become more liberal overall and is willing to listen to a tiny bit 'harder' stuff without losing her mind about how 'loud and angry' it sounds.
Like in the 80's 'Life in the Fast Lane' was too hard rock for her, now she knows a bunch of the words and will hum along.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)More recently, I took my granddaughter and her boyfriend to see them on the Legacy of the Beast tour.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)They're still pretty on it from the recent footage I've seen ...
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)And their stage show has become even more of a spectacle. Nothing but fun and they are coming back next year so I might get to see them again.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,656 posts)Chord heavy, loud sound. I dunno, I like Pink Floyd's version of Learning to Fly, better. If we are talking about flying....
https://music.
ruet
(10,039 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,656 posts)Back in the day, I much preferred acoustic/electric bands that you could marvel at, love the message, and even dance if you are so motivated. Lots of sounds to choose from, but heavy metal wasn't on the radar.
But that's the whole point, I guess. Creating the contrast.
ruet
(10,039 posts)One of the best live performances I've ever seen. ... better than the studio version. The end is about as Floyd as you can get without being Floyd
OAITW r.2.0
(24,656 posts)Overall, not my cup of tea.
ruet
(10,039 posts)But if you choose not to, I understand. Different strokes and all that.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)ruet
(10,039 posts)I just can't get into Wilsons solo work.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Play this through the end ...
ruet
(10,039 posts)"The Great Gig In The Sky" vibes. Not playlist worthy but competent.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Were The Final Cut and Piece of Mind
Though there was also a TON of 90125 as well.
ruet
(10,039 posts)Can't remember much of it though. Regretfully I've never seen Maiden. ...had tickets for Floyd but decided not to go at the last minute. I regret not being able to say I've seen them but not sure I regret, actually, not going.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)For 90125 I was on a hit of purple pyramid I scored at Peoples Park before walking up the hill to the Greek (Berkeley). So it's a bit hazy for me as well, other than remembering it was one of the best nights of my life
And Floyd on both DSOT and Division Bell tours ...
DSOT was the better show IMHO ... in some measure because I much prefer DSOT as a record.
ruet
(10,039 posts)Not a bad song on it.
My very first album!
A landmark record w/o question!
radicalleft
(481 posts)an epic song...
ruet
(10,039 posts)I'm partial to "To Tame a Land", "Die With Your boots On" and 'Still Life". "The Trooper" can die in a fire. It's soooo played out.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)it was the first one I ever bought. And still my favorite although I listen Powerslave and Somewhere in Time a ton still too.