Blimey mate - was at Leeds Uni 71-74 doing Civ Eng.. saw yes, paul macca in the refec but the Who was just before my time..
Mining & Mineral Eng. myself, then High Temp Ceramic research @ Holdsworth plus plus - too many bloody exceptional music gigs to miss to get out & work, spinned it out as long as I possibly could. Brilliant times in Leeds. Hull City fan through & through, but had quite an affection for Revie's LUFC when I couldn't find time to hitch back to Boothferry Park. Remember Frank Horne, great footballer, doing PhD in Civil E....maybe Mech Eng., I forget, despite him being a mate of mine. How the years have passed us by.....
You saw some good stuff - perhaps you missed the biggies in the Jan to June timeframe in '71 if you started in Sept that year. I'm still archiving the stuff I saw from '65 to '69....believe me, some brilliant gigs..... - â71 - Pink Floyd, Traffic, Elton John , Leon Russell, Legend, John Mayall, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Curved Air & Mott The Hoople, Kinks, Roy Harper, Amazing Blondel, Rory Gallagher, Wild Angels, Mark Almond, Gary Wrightâs Extraction, Soft Machine, Curved Air, America, Rod Stewart & The Faces, Yes, Lindisfarne & Osibisa, Velvet Ubderground ( bloody concert was cancelled â canât remember why, but was pissed off), Moddy Blues, Mark Almond (again), If & Terry Reid, Groundhogs & Mike Abrahams - â72 Ten Years After, Jeff Beck, Mountain, Robert Lee Band, Paul McCartney & Wings, Black Sabbath, Barkley James Harvest, Procul Harum, Vinegar Joe, Jeff Beck, Heaven, Jethro Tull, Leonard Cohen, Argent, Egg, Donavan, Richie Havens, Al Stewart, Home & Mike dâAbo Band, Genesis, Hawkwind, Status Quo, Crowbar, Sandy Denny, Groundhogs,â¦â¦ ...I could go on....
Have a look at these guys with the Red Army Choir: [video=youtube_share;cj0Ydm06aPw]http://youtu.be/cj0Ydm06aPw[/video]
3 concerts spring to mind, all around the same time , about 1984..... David Bowie ( China Girl Tour) live at Adelaide oval with Peter Frampton on lead guitar, Dire Straits Love Over Gold Tour live at Memorial Drive, Adelaide, and Bob Dylan with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Live at Memorial Drive. Hard to split them as all were brilliant, but if I had to say 1 it would be Dylan
Saw them at either Brunel Uni Runnymede or Royal Holloway College (both in Egham so can't remember which one) circa 1992. Joint worst band I've ever seen live. Clearly incapable of playing their own songs. Took them three attempts to play the introduction to 'Leave Them All Behind' and them stopping and starting again was just embarrassing. Joint winner was Super Furry Animals supporting the Manics at the Ice Arena. Equally incapable of playing their own songs, but to be fair their reason looked to be chemically induced, whereas Ride were just a bunch of young lads who had obviously had a lot of help from some grown ups when they'd got to the recording studio. Best gig for me Julian Cope at Leeds 1994ish
Far and away the best concert that I have seen was Ggordello Bordello at the 9:30 Club in DC on new years eve. Not really my favorite music but one hell of a show. They put punk bands to shame for the insanity and drunkenness. Otherwise most of my favorite shows have been no name garage bands at small punk venues. [video=youtube;p_81l4DXlwM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_81l4DXlwM[/video]
I've recently got in to Terry Reid and I never realised he was set to be the frontman of Led Zeppelin until Robert Plant came along. Alot of the big bands such as Cream were after him and you can see why. He named his album Superlungs for a reason! This video of him playing the first ever Glastonbury defines everything I'd expect of music in the '70s. [video=youtube;updTFU9IqIg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=updTFU9IqIg[/video]
Blimey , small world.. lived up at Bodington for the whole three years so never really enaged in Union life TBH - could never bring myself even then to watch TWS except for an afternoon kickoff game (three day week miners strikes and all that) in the FA Cup against Liverpool.
I saw Lynerd Skynerd at Leeds university about 1978 time just months before the plane crash they were great. Also was at Dire Straits concert in Hannover Germany (making movies tour) and Meatloaf Bat out of hell tour Gothenburg Scandinavium but I was working the Meat and Dire Straits tours so I probably enjoyed the Skynerd one best
Thanks for the clip kirkellatiger....he was good. Don't you just love those bikers...showing up on their mighty steeds and whisking the good looking birds away....what you reckon OLM ?
Bodington Hall - great Friday night dances...set the weekend off....in '65-'67...live local bands & great DJ's...lots of Motown if I recall....many a good looking chick lured to that venue...passed me by mainly...needed a skinful to climb up the drainpipes to sneak in free...oh the mammories....
Yes was in Vaughan House - same time that Nicholas Witchell (BBC newscaster) was doing law I believe and resided in Hey House next door.. Blimey that is along time ago now to such an extents discos were called hops - blimey is even disco a term still used today anyway ?
Now discos to me have connotations of not such great music genres..prefer hops, even raves. Lawyers....had a few skirmishes with Jack Straw during the mid-sixties. Notably when I dropped a water-bomb on him from the 4th floor of the Henry-Price building when he was canvassing for president of the union. Amazingly, when he got wind I'd been caught in the act and up for de-frocking ( or was it called being sent-down ?) for the infringement, he defended me, argued that as a candidate such "high-jinx" was par for the course in seeking election, and got me off, no malice intended. I've admired him for that ever since...despite the bother he got himself into with Blair & the boys & all that stuff with Clinton. No doubt the man has integrity. Gotta say, Suttontiger, you're dislodging a lot of memories for me on this thread...thanks for that.
I actually crewed for Ride on their first tour, reckon they were a bit pants, but still were ephemeral darlings of the indie scene. Best concert I ever saw? The late great Ted Hawkins at the Bristol Thekla in '90 - gobsmackingly wonderful. And The Fall the same year at Bristol Poly was anarchic brilliance. Too old for it all now. Though, Stone Roses last year here in Budapest were surprisingly good: they were crap at Spike Island all those years ago!
heres a few pics I took at that Maiden concert! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2977788250150.156297.1425207553&type=1&l=62ff114ad1
