Skipped Jethro Tull - now regretting

Jethro Tull performed in Helsinki a good week ago. I thought I don't want to see the tired Anderson singing
flat anymore. Then...the newspaper critics praised the concert very, very liberally. Anderson did not have the lead role
anymore but performed only here and there. I think they were playing Passion Play or some other of the Big Ones.
The critics said the whole show was simply a bulls eye. " If this is what Mr. Anderson is about we'll hopefully see him on stage for many more years to come."
I really would have wanted to see this fresh take with new musicians.

Hi,
 
I don't know ... I always believed that if it was meant for me to be there, I would. I missed out on seeing Led Zeppelin, for example, but in the end, I had at one time so many bootlegs, it was like ... I didn't need to see them. I had already felt what it was like. The energy was quite clear in the early days and specially the 71/72 series of concerts in the West Coast.
 
All in all, I have not seen a few things, but then, I got to see things that otherwise would be considered major in rock history ... the original "The Wall", the world premiere show of the film in SF in quad ... Tangerine Dream's first American tour and in LA ... Magma's first tour in America just a bit ago ... Gong's first American tour in 1994 ... I can't complaint.
 
There are some things that I wish that others could have seen that I did see ... I gotta chance to see Stevie Ray Vaughn in Salem, OR at the County Fair with Robert Cray, and had a chance to see a guy named Mississippi Charles Bevel, that used to work at the PBS station in LA, and he was the best singer I have ever encountered, but he was not interested in the music business or selling his stuff ... he just wanted to live his work, and did not care for anything else. His guitar mate, Chick Streetman, was also incredible. There even was a small half hour or so bit done in the PBS station in LA where he worked, but I have never been able to find that video again, and would have loved to share it ... it is as inspirational as anything I have ever seen. 
 
I would have liked to see Jefferson Airplane, for example, and had many chances, but the fights and internal stuff with them turned me off, though I loved a lot of their music. Grateful Dead, I did not want to be a part of the circus, though it was obvious that the quality of the music was excellent, and the best sound system ever put together on any stage for rock music! Chicago, I never saw, though I had a chance in Madison and Milwaukee. Saw The Who before they were famous and were opening for Herman and the Hermits ... of all people!
 
There are only a handful I would like to meet before I depart ... Peter Hammill, Klaus Schulze, but time is not on their side, or mine, as they do not come this far away, and Klaus is done touring. Ryuichi Sakamoto would be another I would love to see do a solo concert with keyboards and piano and hear so many of his pieces of music including soundtracks, going back so many years. And lastly, Vangelis, but he does not do live shows either, for the most part. maybe even Mike Oldfield, but it would be such a huge circus that it would turn me off, and I don't think he would be as good with just a rock band, though it would be nice ... in tat sense he never compromised.
 
These folks are the major musicians of our time. I would have liked to catch Ian and JT during the TAAB or PP days ... the time when I find their work excellent all around, and not just a rock song for the radio.
 
All in all, I'm happy with the things I have seen. ECM folks not withstanding, but they don't usually tour and I think Rypdal, Gismonti and Garbarek are now getting a bit old, and Jarrett is becoming a feisty old twit ... still would love to see either of them.
 
Lastly ... the one that would never happen ... I would have liked to see ... The Coffee House Band, play one show ... even if it were simply an internet thing. I know it sounds crazy and difficult, but it would be an achievement, worthy of all of you and then some! I get to introduce the players at the end of the show hopefully! 

Hi,
 
Been listening to Magma since 1972! I think only Craig might have more Magma than I do, or possibly you, now!

Moshkito
Been listening to Magma since 1972! I think only Craig might have more Magma than I do, or possibly you, now!

I came across them when I was posted to Germany in 1971. Holy Frogrock! They blew me away. Magma, and Amon Düül II. I was posted to Augsburg, which was only an hour from Munich by train. Spent MANY weekends there!
 
Well, let's do an inventory. Apologies for not having the Magma font for Windows. 
 
CDs (in more or less chronological order):
 
Magma
Magma 2 - 1.001° Centigrades
Mythes Et Legendes 1970-1980 Vol. 1
Concert 1971 Bruxelles - Theatre 140 (AKT VIII)
Mekanik Kommandoh (AKT X)
M.D.K. Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
Simples
"Sons" Document 1973 at Le Manor (AKT II)
Kohntarkosz
BBC 1974 Londres (AKT XIII)
Wurdah Itah
"Inedits"
Magma Hhai - Kohntark
Concert 1975 at Theatre du Taur in Toulouse (AKT IV)
Concert 1976 at Opera de Reims (AKT IX)
Udu Wudu
Attahk
Retrospektiw I - II
Retrospektiw III
Kompila
Concert 1981 in Bobino (AKT V)
Merci
"Les Voix" Concert 1992 (AKT I)
Les Voyages de Christophe Colomb in Reims 1992 (AKT III)
Baba Yaga - La Sorciere
(an EP) Floe Essi and Ektah
(Collectif Mu) Don Quichotte
Ka
Theusz Hamtaahk - Trilogie au Trianon - Concerts des 13 & 14 Mai 2000
(Christian Vander) Les Cygnes et les Corbeaux
(Offering) I-II
(Offering) III-IV
(Offering) Paris Theatre Dejazet 1987 (AKT XI)
(Offering) A Fiieh
Emehntehtt-Re
Felicite Thosz
Christian Vander - Korusz - A La Recherche du Chorus Supreme
 
DVDs
 
Concert 1981 in Bobino (AKT VI - AKT Kamera)
Theusz Hamtaahk - Trilogie au Trianon - Concert - XXXe Anniversaire - Mai 2000
Mythes et Legendes - 35 Ans de Musique - Epok 1 (du Mardi 10 au Samedi 14 Mai 2005 au Triton)
Mythes et Legendes - 35 Ans de Musique - Epok 2 (du Mardi 17 au Samedi 21 Mai 2005 au Triton)
Mythes et Legendes - 35 Ans de Musique - Epok 3 (du Mardi 24 au Samedi 28 Mai 2005 au Triton)
Mythes et Legendes - 35 Ans de Musique - Epok 4 (du Mardi 31 Mai au Samedi 4 Juin 2005 au Triton)
Mythes et Legendes - 35 Ans de Musique - Epok 5 (du 30 Juin au 2 Juillet 2011 au Triton)
 
 
All of my LPs were lost in a flood (ex #1) and all of my VHS tapes were accidentally left behind (ex #2). Stuff happens.

craigb
WAY more than me!  (This time.  )
 
I "only" have ten Magma albums (although one has two CD's and another has three).
 
But I should have you beat on Tangerine Dream albums (155, 180 discs in total). 

Only 10.