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Date Posted: 12:13:51 10/17/03 Fri
Author: wwolfe
Author Host/IP: 161.149.63.110
Subject: The Go-Gos.
In reply to: Grim ,_,_) 's message, "Grim's stoopid question of the day." on 09:30:46 10/17/03 Fri

I've seen them six times. Four were magical, the other two were solid. Since they're all still alive and playing together from time to time, this is a wish that could come true.

A high school friend and I had fifth row seats to see Mott the Hoople in Akron on the big 1975 tour that was going to finally put them over the top in America. They broke up a month before the show. That one still hurts. All the guys are still alive, but I don't think 60-year-old Mott the Hoople members would be a pretty sight.

I dearly wanted to see the Temptations/Impressions show in the summer of 1982. It was all the original members of both groups - arguably the two best soul groups ever, and definitely my two favorites - for a once in a lifetime how. My best friend was getting married in Ohio that same weekend, though, and there was no question where I had to be. I certainly don't regret going to my friend's wedding, but I'll always sigh a little over not seeing that show. Since then, all but one of the original Temptations has died, and the great Curtis Mayfield, leader of the Impressions, has also died.

I'd love it if John Fogerty would stop being so bitter and nasty and ungrateful to his former bandmates and friends, Stu Cook and Doug Clifford, and re-form Creedence Clearwater Revival for a tour. John's older brother, Tom, the band's rhythm guitarist, has died, but it wouldn't be too hard to find a fill-in for him. I have no doubt this tour would be greeted with great joy on the fans' part, as well as tremendous critical acclaim. The latter would be sweet for the band members, since - as astonishing as it seems to consider this now - Creedence was not all that highly regarded by the critics when they were making all that great music thirty years ago. None of this will happen, though, because John Fogerty is consumed by an ugly bitterness toward everything connected with the band. This has sadly diminished him as a person, although it happily has no effect on the greatness of the band's accomplishments.

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[> Rage against the machine -- rktekt, 03:24:23 10/18/03 Sat (67.117.144.130)

With Zack as lead singer.

Also, Van Halen with David Lee Roth before he went all loopy

Genesis with Peter Gabriel as lead singer

CSN&Y - all of them together would be nice.

Not too much to ask huh?


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[> [> I'm with you on the Genesis thing -- Kuzibah, 09:36:25 10/20/03 Mon (12.175.117.195)

In fact, the day they invent time travel, I'm booking a passage to the "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" concert at the Tower Theatre. Also, Pink Floyd performing "The Wall."


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[> [> I saw CSN&Y at Cleveland Stadium in August 1974. -- wwolfe, 11:24:09 10/20/03 Mon (161.149.63.110)

My first real rock concert. They headlined a big bill, starting around noon and going until close to midnight. There were about 100,000 people there, counting the 88,000 that sat in the stands, along with all of the people on the infield grass.

CSN&Y were good, but the thing I remember most clearly is when Jesse Colin Young was singing "Sunshine" in the midst of a rain shower and the sun broke through the clouds. That was cool.

Other than Mott the Hoople in '75 and the Tempts/Impressions reunion show in '82, the concert I most regret missing is Van Halen's tour closing show at the LA Forum in December '84. That was the close of the "1984" tour, and it turned out to be Roth's last shows with the band, as well. Given their status as hometown heroes, I've always imagined those shows were a huge party.


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