The Golden Moments.

[Sox]

Bonzo and Neil Peart another couple of masters.

A golden moment from John.



Whoooooo....

 

[Tommy Walker]

Moment that I wish was caught on film: Pete Townshend hitting Abbie Hoffman with his guitar and knocking him off the stage at Woodstock.

 

[Sox]

^^ Nice .. Tommy didn't Keith Richards belt an overzelous fan with his guitar as well ?

 

[joe]

Sox, I see I misunderstood the thread. I amaze myself sometimes.

Here's a couple places I would of liked to been:

To be at the gig at the Canterbury College in 1967 to see Soft machine and Pink Floyd jam.

Livin' in the same house with Yes when they were recording The Yes Album with Eddie Offord for two months in the Devon country side.

To be at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester in '64 when the Groundhogs replaced John Mayall's Bluesbreakers to back up John Lee Hooker.

 

[Sox]

^^^ No you were right Joe any personel experiences as well .. just those great times you know !

Man any first hand experience of the Canterbury scene at the beginning would do for me.

Joe Wasn't Tony, Hooker's favourite British guitar player or at least one of 'em ??

 

[joe]

^^^The Groundhogs are named after a John Lee Hooker song Sox. Also he played skittle way back so Alexis Korner and Cyril Davis would be some of his influences as well as other electric bluesmen.

 

[Tommy Walker]

To be at the gig at the Canterbury College in 1967 to see Soft machine and Pink Floyd jam.

Interesting story: I used to work with a guy who was in college at Rose-Hulman back in the 60s. He claimed that Pink Floyd played at one of their homecoming events before they got big. As it is an engineering school, some students apparently built a floating barge with plasma speakers (Plasma speaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) on it for them to play on. So that means Pink Floyd was playing on a floating stage in the middle of a lake with torches on both sides of the stage actually amplifying the sound by completely non-electromechanical means. If true, pretty ridiculous.

 

[Sox]

Talking of Pink Floyd Tommy I guess the release of DSOTM has to be their golden moment ...

 

[Hardnecker]

In person. Getting tear gassed in the parking lot before my first Rush show, Moving Pictures tour. A few bad apples got us all choking. Stanley Jordan live at the Carefree Theater 1984. Literally brought tears to my eyes seeing someone with that much talent on my favorite instrument. Still, easily the most talented guitarist I have ever seen or heard. Watching Steve Vai dedicate his song "Sisters" to his sister sitting three seats to my right at the Sunrise musical theater and then playing the most heartfelt, passionate, emotional guitar I have ever seen. Picking my seats with my wife at the 2000 Sunfest in WPB on the intercoastal for Joe Satriani right in front of his pedalboard. Another musical religious experience for me. I love Joe and his tunes. Seeing Rush again on the Vapor Trails tour in 2003. Another show that got me emotionally because I thought they were done after what Neil went through losing his daughter and wife. What a triumphant return for them as evident by the Rush In Rio dvd. There's many more but I don't want to bore you, lol.

 

[Prime]

Here's another one of my favorites: