Neck and Neck is a great album: Atkins along with Merle Travis and Doc Watson is on the Mount Rushmore of country guitarists.
I spent a half hour BS'ing with Sammy Hagar in the Cabo airport many years ago. Great guy - I asked for a picture and he said "sit down, let's talk". My ex#2 has the picture of her and him. This couple from Minnesota came over and wanted a picture, so they got one of Sammy - and my wife who they assumed was his chick!
Schenker's older brother Rudolph is the founder of the Scorpions, and is still with them to this day. Michael was only with them for a bit before UFO snagged him.
Jerry Reed was another of Atkin's favorites. Modern day...Vince Gill who's a great guitarist and maybe the best voice of his kind in pop music. Speaking of terrible single concerts was Nirvana the second time I saw them. Then they came out with In Utero...so I gave it another shot thinking Kurt was doing well and that was an excellent set. You know what happened 3 or 4 months later. Really thought he was in a good space.
Too many songs to list a favorite. 'Story of my life', I was wrong', bad luck', prison bound, mommy's little monster', when the angels sing', 'ring of fire' cover, 'cold feelings', 'drug train', she's a knockout', 'sick boys', 'let it be me', making believe', 'it could of been me', when she begins', 'the creeps',' it wasn't a pretty picture'.....it just goes on.
Saw him once - 1980 in the Spokane Opera House about 10 rows back and dead center - I thought I was going to die when the bass kicked in - felt like my esophagus was getting ripped out of my chest. Obviously I survived but don’t think my hearing has been the same since.
Mike Ness had some great songs but I’ll always laugh over the irony of him calling Brian Setzer a “hair farmer”.
Don’t know if loud is what Beck was known for back then but it was easily the loudest concert I’ve been to.
If you saw them in 1980 and they were loud can you imagine hearing something that loud 43 years later?! I was at a HS basketball game last night and the band seemed too loud.
You know hearing aids can be turned down, right?
What? Sorry had mine turned off.
Mike was a tough guy and his abrasiveness was real. You might get the kids out of the house before having him over. We can all relate to him and have an excellent time, but not for all ears. How you might relate to him...you don't want everyone to know about. 'Ball and Chain' is a very dark tune. Mike and someone like Zack Wyld would get along until the drinks set in and then it would be a fist fight. 👊
I’ve only seen a few in NQ but it’s a pretty fun venue.
Speaking of nirvana...(maybe another thread topic about the terrible bona-fides of the ridiculous Rock and Roll hall of "fame") Yeah, they shouldn't be there. That's all I have to say about that!
He was a badass alright but for as much time as he spent in front of a mirror he had no business making fun of anyone’s hair.
I hear you, but would you want him to tell him he wears eyeliner?
Huey was in Beasley twice circa '84 and '85.
Only 7 yrs active, just 3 albums. My comment actually was also dismissive of the RRHF which inducted Chicago four years AFTER Nirvana.
THAT is great!!! Thanks much. 'Some changes made' was awesome. Like an adopted son/father. Never heard that before.
I think Chet Atkins should be in the RRHF for his influence on Mark Knopfler !!!
What was that like?? As a child...I always like him the best as Sean Lennon did as well.
Second row seats for Stevie Wonder, how great was that?! That was about the middle of his best work, IMO. Innervisions, Talking Book, and a third one that escapes me right now. Opening act was Chaka Khan.
If I may quote Lloyd Bridges in the movie Airplane, I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue, but unless I am having flashbacks that are inaccurate, I remember seeing George in Todd Hall in I think 1980. But as I said I picked a bad time to stop sniffing glue.
Beasley was such a horrible place for concerts. Acoustics were awful…especially when they were small shows and they tried to have them at one end. The rest of the place just turned into an echo chamber. I saw several shows there - Candlebox, Def Lep, Garth brooks, George strait (I sold shirts at the last 2, and a George strait show is the most boring concert you’ll ever see.). One venue that was worse was the CUB ballroom. Saw a 3-band set there in the early 90s - the Screaming Trees, Mother’s Tongue, and the 3rd may have been early Alice In Chains, I can’t remember.
I talked to the Manager of Paul Revere who owned a body shop in Aloha, OR. The Sound Manager for Candlebox, me and a double of friends were talking before a concert about the sound..and he was asking "how it sounds" ?We said it was great just before they blew the sound system.
Maybe in 80 he was in Todd.
Saw Paul Revere and the Raiders at the gorge the second year of it's operation, when it was just the Champes deBrian Winery. Great show, really enjoyed the vibe.
Like I said I could be having flashbacks. “I picked a bad week to quit drinking “ RIP Lloyd Bridges
When you said you saw George in Todd I thought maybe you both were taking BA 305 Real Estate.
Not me but my wife saw Lynyrd Skinner play a small church in a strip mall when she was growing up. It was after their plane crash and the surviving members had found Jesus and were on church tour singing religious songs. Of course one of the members of the congregation kept begging them to play Free Bird.When you said you saw George in Todd I thought maybe you both were taking BA 305 Real Estate.
Seeing some of the odd places y'all have seen concerts, how about this one? June 1967, Fairbanks AK, saw the Grass Roots at some kind of a state anniversary celebration. It was free and outdoors.
Their wine was complete ass - worse than Franzia.
