HoosierDaddy

Squeeze in a few weeks at The Vic in Chicago.
Can't wait! =)

excpomea

Not quite, 1980 The wall. On Summer leave from the Royal Navy.

SultanOfSwing

Still good, of course. Earl's Court plus Pink Floyd for me always leads to PULSE

Had they started doing Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety live back then, or was that a post-Waters thing?

Lion in Winter

Despite my eternal love being Dark Side of the Moon, being in Mexico City and hearing them do Shine on you Crazy Diamond in 1994 was pretty fantastic. At least I think it was 94.

SultanOfSwing

Shine On was the opening song for that tour (as it was for the 1987 tour after Momentary Lapse of Reason came out I think). What a way to start a show.

Lion in Winter

And I was so far away, in every possible sense, from where I first heard that song and yet here were all these people in that very different place who had listened to the same music I had growing up and been moved by it. Music is like that.

Giantaxe

I saw both the '87 tour and '94 Pulse tour in the US. Plus in England in.... 76! '94 was amazing, seats on the grass of the baseball stadium in Oakland close to the stage. Best rendition of Comfortably Numb I've heard.

Giantaxe

It is. I was in a bar in Nicaragua a couple of years ago. There was a band playing Spanish songs and then as an encore they played Wish You Were Here. The whole flippin' bar was singing it. It was really quite moving and brought tears to my eyes.

SultanOfSwing

It really is. Nigh on impossible to explain why as well, but it is.

It was outstanding. David Gilmour is an expert at crafting a solo that is as much about the notes he doesn't play as the ones he does.

becks_r

So slightly changing the subject of Pulse etc, I went to see Nik Turners Hawkwind the other day - found out he was playing by accident. Very bizarre and a great trip down memory lane. Although he wasn't as loud as the Hawkwind concerts I went to in UK and much smaller venue.

Nutmegger

Was Stacia there?

becks_r

No - and I found out afterwards that Nik Turner isn't supposed to use the name Hawkwind! I think if Stacia has let herself go as much as Nik has, it wouldn't be a pretty sight if she got up and did the types of dance she used to do!

Boomhauer

Saw Guns-N-Roses last night. I had a pit ticket, so was right up there , bout 9 feet from Axl. Show was bloody terrific; a lot of it having to do with how close I was. 3½ hour show.

Pulaski

I am already regretting not going to see them when they were down here in August.

Boomhauer

As I got my PIt ticket on the day of the concert, I paid less than face-value. The guy standing next to me paid over $650 and the couple in front paid about $880 for 2 tickets. I bought mine through a 3rd party reselling service; ticket was $235 and fees were $90.

I saw them in Milwaukee last night. Saw in Chicago in 2016. Truly the best concert Ive been too. Sound and energy was terrific. The gunners were really trying to give their best. $325 bucks for a 3 1/2 show standing within a few feet of them is truly worth it.

By the way folks: be very very wary of buying tickets on Craigslist. Last year a guy on Chicago's Craigslist advertised a floor ticket. So I call him up, head over and wait for him in the designated parking lot, and wait for him, and wait for him , and wait some more. He keeps texting me he will come soon, but after over an hour of waiting I said eff it and head to Solider Field to buy a ticket from a scalper. The lady standing next to me yesterday, said she lost about $600 on a Craigslist scammer selling GNR tickets. Which is why I decided to pay extra and go with a reputable national reseller that has a storefront in Milwaukee.

I want to see AC/DC but they aren't touring Kicking myself for not seeing Linkin Park and Tom Petty when they were close-by.

For those of you who can make it, go see GnR in Houston on the 10th. Not too late for tickets, and in my expereince you get the best deals in the last minute because people not able to make and it and online scalpers with unsold tickets will tryto cut their losses