if you could see just ONE band live in their prime..........

by **mikemarrs** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:56 pm

if you could see just ONE band live in their prime who would it be and what year?

me i'd see kiss live in 1977 on the love gun tour.

by **L~L~L** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:13 pm

The Doors

by **StoneCold** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:16 pm

Saw Journey starting '83.

Saw Kiss '79,

by **frostbite** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:39 pm

KISS on the Dressed to Kill and Dynasty Tours would have been cool. Didn't see them live until Animalize in '84.

by **Matthew** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:57 pm

frostbite wrote:KISS on the Dressed to Kill and Dynasty Tours would have been cool. Didn't see them live until Animalize in '84.

The Dynasty tour is an interesting choice, Frostbite....

I didn't see them until Animalize either. I remember Bon Jovi were supporting them and they were soulless and over-professional even then. KISS on the other hand came on and did an encore in their dressing gowns...

The concert I wish I'd seen most of alll.... It has to be any show with Perry, Schon and Cain on the same stage together - with the exception of that Bill Graham concert in 1991.

by **Talisma** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:57 pm

frostbite wrote:KISS on the Dressed to Kill and Dynasty Tours would have been cool. Didn't see them live until Animalize in '84.

I actually saw Kiss on their Dynasty in Europe (I'm an old bastard you know) Kind of cool gig.
There was also an umknown band who was warming up the audience before Kiss entered.
A bunch of young kids from London in a band called ........IRON MAIDEN !!!

JSS ROCKS !!!

by **Aaron** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:28 pm

Journey from 79-80.

by **ScarabGator** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:20 pm

Well, I saw Journey in 1983 in Miami and it was a classic and one I would love to see again and again!!

by **Ratgirl** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:21 pm

Journey
Def Leppard
Queensryche
and the list goes on and on.

oh wait.. you said only ONE.. ok Journey

by **Todd H** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:25 pm

Tried to narrow it down to just one but I can't.

Queen (w/Freddie)
Journey (Escape era)
Van Halen (Fair Warning era)

by **froy** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:32 pm

Aaron wrote:Journey from 79-80.

Saw that
Many Times
Perry's voice was soaring

by **froy** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:33 pm

mikemarrs wrote:if you could see just ONE band live in their prime who would it be and what year?

me i'd see kiss live in 1977 on the love gun tour.

Queen
Led Zepllin
The Beatles

by **Lady Luck** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:44 pm

Led Zeppelin

by **mistiejourney** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:53 pm

mikemarrs wrote:if you could see just ONE band live in their prime who would it be and what year?

me i'd see kiss live in 1977 on the love gun tour.

Queen with Freddie. I saw Journey during ROR twice, but second runner up would have been an early Departure or Evolution tour.

by **Matthew** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:02 pm

mikemarrs wrote:
me i'd see kiss live in 1977 on the love gun tour.

Did you see the first KISS reunion tour in 1996/97? They pretty much replicated that 1977 show and then uppped the ante still further. Great concert.

by **Saint John** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:05 pm

Journey on the Frontiers tour.

by **X factor** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:10 pm

mistiejourney wrote:
mikemarrs wrote:if you could see just ONE band live in their prime who would it be and what year?

me i'd see kiss live in 1977 on the love gun tour.

Queen with Freddie. I saw Journey during ROR twice, but second runner up would have been an early Departure or Evolution tour.

Agreed in regards to QUEEN. Any tour would have been dynamite.

Saw KISS on the DYNASTY tour. My brothers and I took in two shows on that tour. As good as it seemed to us young kids back then, recently we were discussing how odd it was that, as much as we loved KISS as kids, and were old enough to be around in their prime, we didn't get to see them till they were on the decline (which the DYNASTY tour certainly was - read some excerpts sometime from the KISS ALIVE FOREVER book, and you'll see what I mean. Particularly Peter's playing...)

That may be the worst run on sentence I've ever written. Oh well...I haven't had my coffee yet!

by **Red13JoePa** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:50 pm

Besides the obvious, of course, Journey

It'd be the Stones.

Period.

by **Matthew** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:51 pm

Red13JoePa wrote:Besides the obvious, of course, Journey

It'd be the Stones.

Period.

What's stopping you, Red? Those guys are always on tour.....

by **nikki** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:54 pm

Todd H wrote:Tried to narrow it down to just one but I can't.

Queen (w/Freddie)
Journey (Escape era)
Van Halen (Fair Warning era)

Same here.

by **(Crazy)Dulce Lady** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:57 pm

Journey-INFINITY

The Doors or Cream

by **Red13JoePa** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:59 pm

Matthew wrote:
Red13JoePa wrote:Besides the obvious, of course, Journey

It'd be the Stones.

Period.

What's stopping you, Red? Those guys are always on tour.....

Overpriced and not their prime anymore. I do have The Biggest Bang DVD boxset though, which @ under $30 for not one but 3 concerts in your living room is better than being 200 yards away for $200 and hearing Keith play It's Only RockNRoll (But I Like It) for 53 seconds while the rest of the band is playing Satisfaction.

by **chf34jmac** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:04 am

This is gonna sound ridiculous but I would really have wanted to see Elvis in his prime. Not fat bloated dead on the shitter Elvis, but the Ed Sullivan Elvis. Dude had some serious stage presence when he was young.

by **nikki** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:12 am

chf34jmac wrote:This is gonna sound ridiculous but I would really have wanted to see Elvis in his prime. Not fat bloated dead on the shitter Elvis, but the Ed Sullivan Elvis. Dude had some serious stage presence when he was young.

Not ridiculous in the least. Did you ever watch that '68 comeback special he did? That's one show I wish I could've seen live. Great acoustic sets...it had to be a major influence for MTV Unplugged. He was a great musician and entertainer before the drugs took hold of him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGRtnvp7 ... ed&search=

by **Red13JoePa** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:15 am

nikkib703 wrote:
chf34jmac wrote:This is gonna sound ridiculous but I would really have wanted to see Elvis in his prime.

Not ridiculous in the least.

Agreed, that would really be something.