|
Post by Espo on May 11, 2022 16:32:32 GMT
I remember the Phoenix. You could check out the upcoming shows, pick the ones you wanted see then go to the last two pages and find a date!
|
|
|
Post by eastmark on May 11, 2022 19:18:06 GMT
Ha. Yup. The Newpaper had... ahem... ads for "dates" too. 😂
|
|
|
Post by joe on May 14, 2022 1:30:27 GMT
The video/audio is an incredible capture of an era. In digging into it (mostly YouTube comments), the local radio station, WPLR, hosted simulcast concerts.. this being one of them. This was the 80's version of "live streaming", right to your over-the-air TV antenna! Major hats off to whoever was doing the mix back then, the sound is great! There are many many awesome things about this show and this era and I could make a long list about this performance.. but I'd bore you.. So, only first impressions-- the percussion, the drummer, Ron Riddle, is out front and driving the rhythm. Took a bit of digging to find out who Ron was only to find out then that Eric introduces him during the show, ha. The energy of the in-fills and the hammering of the toms that he does and the impact of his playing style put the needle a little further into the "hard rock" realm. Without watching any of it, just listen and compare it to other drummers on either end of this era and, to me, the vibe and the energy driving the songs is more serious and upbeat in this show. The sound is probably SO good because this wasn't the radio station's first rodeo broadcasting concerts. They likely had a more than ample equipment budget and used people who had done this before - and learned from their mistakes. Plus there was probably some sponsor pitching in $ one way or another. If you had the $ my recollection is that there was lots of good equipment available IF you knew what to use and how to use it. Plus it HAD to sound really good coming out on the listener's radios or they would punch the button to the next station. Still hats off to everyone involved in this. Band included, of course.
|
|
|
Post by mcamp on Jun 15, 2022 19:40:55 GMT
One show in particular that I remember from Toads....2001. During the beginning of Subhuman Buck broke a string, and switched to his natural finish SG. It was an unfortunate moment due to the fact that I never heard the song live, and it was marred by an instrument change. 21 years later I will get to hear it again in NYC in September.
|
|
javan
Full Member
Posts: 177
|
Post by javan on Jun 17, 2022 18:45:12 GMT
When I was doing the 2-mile run in the reserves on a 1/4 mile track, I would jog the first lap w/o music and then on the 2nd lap I would play Subhuman from OYF. Buck's outro solo kicked in just in time for me to hit the afterburners on the last lap. I ran it that way so often that when we were tested (sans audio devices), I could play it in my head and still get the same effect. At my Signal Officer Basic Course as a new 2LT, I won the PT competition by 6 seconds thanks to that song and the flow-state inducing capacity of Buck Dharma.
|
|
|
Post by sirrastus on Jun 21, 2022 16:15:07 GMT
Astronomy '88 live was great I saw it I think Jan 2.1989 in Manhattan at the Ritz we were driving by and saw Buck and Eric get out of a cab(I think-Limo??).And I have a few live versions that were excellent.My own 50th anniv fantasy show would have The Buck Dharma Band opening with Astronomy '88 as the closer and BOC dong both the acoustic and classic versions. No doubt the best Astronomy night EVAH!!! LOL.
|
|
|
Post by sirrastus on Jun 21, 2022 18:09:52 GMT
One show in particular that I remember from Toads....2001. During the beginning of Subhuman Buck broke a string, and switched to his natural finish SG. It was an unfortunate moment due to the fact that I never heard the song live, and it was marred by an instrument change. 21 years later I will get to hear it again in NYC in September. That happened at B.B.Kings in 2001.At first he tried playing thru it but you know that doesn't work.Can't believe it happened on the same song at Toads too.Weird.
|
|