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Post by sirrastus on Apr 10, 2021 19:29:36 GMT
Got to see Fairport in '75 or '76 on the Rising For The Moon tour .With Sandy of course. Saw them again at The Bottom Line in the 90's oh and saw them in '89 as opener for Tull as 2 or 3 members were in Tull at the time. Fairport along with BOC and Supertramp were my fave bands back then. Meet on the ledge, my friends Saw the Counting Crows do that when they opened for The Stones at Giants Stadium.
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Post by mary on Apr 11, 2021 0:37:16 GMT
I like their version of Tam Lin.
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Post by sirrastus on Apr 11, 2021 4:30:31 GMT
Awesome.Voted the greatest folk-rock album in history.
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Post by Alessandro on Apr 11, 2021 8:01:06 GMT
Unhalfbricking and Liege And Lief are undisputed masterpieces. if you listen to Autopsy and Sandy's voice doesn't make you cry, then you haven't got a heart. plain and simple.
While Simon Nicol is cordial but a bit distant, Dave Pegg really is a nice and funny chap. Got my Cropredy 30th anniversary box set signed.
Fairport, BOC and the Stranglers have this in common, aside for the different musical style: their fans are really dedicated
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Post by duckbarman on Apr 11, 2021 14:54:59 GMT
the only bands that performed 54 years straight without even a year-break were BOC and Fairports. But like Gerard said, I think you're stretching it with BOC... their hiatus wasn't a 9 month "break" - they actually disbanded... a "break" is more descriptive of say, the nearly 6 months BOC had off the road in 2008-2009 when Buck hurt his shoulder or maybe what's been happening for the past year or so, albeit with the occasional gig-shaped interruption... Realistically, BOC's touring history only started in Nov 1971 - I don't think anyone could describe what SWU and SFG did as "touring" - although maybe you could say SFG did a "tour" of Pennsylvania's industrial heartland - but that too was 1971. I mean, take 1970, for example - that was almost a gig desert - I reckon their covers band New Life played more gigs than the actual SFG that year... I think Fairport's crown remains uncontested...
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Post by Alessandro on Apr 11, 2021 15:49:59 GMT
like we say in Italy, I have a "good mouth" (which means that my standards are not so high)
I was just pointing out that these two bands are the only ones that performed at least once in a year every year through their career. as simple as it is, all other bands had year-long touring hiatuses. and that's a remarkable -to me, at least- fact (and a fact that few people know about). I can see your point regarding actual touring and (short-time) disbanding but then also FC performed only a single Cropredy reunion event from 1980 to 1985.
I mean, also my band performed at least once a year, keeping the flame alive, at my birthday parties. but we actually started in 1979... (and yes, my bass player used to tease me "you know you're calling it "a live performance" only in your mind, don't you?")
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Post by agent on Apr 11, 2021 16:00:20 GMT
Beach Boys?
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Post by eastmark on Apr 11, 2021 17:34:10 GMT
The Who have had quite a run. Not sure if it was continual.....
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Post by zenman on Apr 11, 2021 18:28:04 GMT
The Stones.
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Post by duckbarman on Apr 11, 2021 19:03:01 GMT
I wondered about that, but I'm thinking that there are probably some multi-yearlong gappages (?) in their gig history...
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Post by Alessandro on Apr 11, 2021 19:09:35 GMT
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Post by Alessandro on Apr 11, 2021 19:14:38 GMT
The Who have had quite a run. Not sure if it was continual..... Detours/High Numbers/Who performed continuously from 1962 up to their first split in 1982 (although they performed only a single -private- gig in both 1977 and 1978) their reunion tours since then were intertwined with long hiatuses
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Post by zenman on Apr 11, 2021 19:37:03 GMT
There's a bit of a difference, I think, between being 'between tours' or being 'on hiatus.'
The Stones have always been omni-present.
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Post by Alessandro on Apr 11, 2021 19:43:38 GMT
There's a bit of a difference, I think, between being 'between tours' or being 'on hiatus.' The Stones have always been omni-present. Zenman, my thread was not focused on "years active" (the Stones are by far the oldest band in activity 1962-now) but on "year-per-year live performances". The Stones have been off the road during 1968, 1974, 1977, and for many years in their late history
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Post by The Ocean on Apr 11, 2021 20:06:19 GMT
There's a bit of a difference, I think, between being 'between tours' or being 'on hiatus.' The Stones have always been omni-present. Zenman, my thread was not focused on "years active" (the Stones are by far the oldest band in activity 1962-now) but on "year-per-year live performances". The Stones have been off the road during 1968, 1974, 1977, and for many years in their late history If they hadn't disbanded a few months ago I'd have said Golden Earring were the oldest still active since they formed in 1961, but if you go by first album the Stones got there first for sure.
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