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Name: pluto
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Most surprising live show for you?
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2014
Time: 1:56:20 PM
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RE: RE: RE: RE: Most surprising live show for you?

I've never been to a gig when someone whom you didn't expect turned up and played, like that Ray thing you experienced Keno.

If you went to festivals in the 70's you'll remember all the rumours that used to circulate about who was going to turn up unannounced. 'Guy over at the macrobiotic stall has it on good authority that the Stones are going to play'! 'Aye right'! 'Seriously, no shit man, he hangs out with their roadies'. Never ever happened.

There was also always some incredible metaphysical type thing going to happen if we all put our minds to it, and willed it to happen. Tell you what though, we made the stage at Bickershaw raise a good six inches right before Hawkwind came on. No shit man, I kid you not!

I think the surprises at gigs for me have been little things, like Ray Davies coming on stage before a Kinks gig with only his electro-acoustic, the house lights up,and leading the crowd in a sing-a-long on all the stuff they weren't going to play later on.

Sometimes it's been the way a band get the show underway. I remember a Beefheart gig in the early seventies when Rockette Morton came on by himself and started pounding away at this riff on bass, and one by one the band came on and joined in, really building the whole thing up. That was a night that strange things were happening, people including the Captain were seeing all sorts. I remember reading in one of the underground papers I.T. or OZ, that the Captain had witnessed golden ghostly figures moving about while he was on stage.

Sometimes for me it's the support act that's the surprise. Quite often they are shite, and that's not a surprise, it's the norm, some tortured spotty yoof with an acoustic giving it twenty five minutes of angst. However sometimes it's good, and it was at Chuck Prophet's gig this year, so another shout out for Jonah Tolchin young Americano who made another brilliant Chuck gig even better,if such a thing is possible.

Nearly forgot. Went to see Tony Joe White at King Tut's a number of years ago, and he sat down for the whole gig, that was a surprise. It shouldn't really have been given he was knocking on a bit. Anyway as the show went on it just seemed right, a totally laid back 'Rainy Night in Georgia' being done as if it was in your front room. Doesn't get better than that!

Talking about knocking on a bit and surprises, has anyone been to one of those package revival type shows? I went to one with 'Georgie Fame and the Blueflames', 'Cliff Bennett and the Rebelrousers', 'The Animals', and a couple of other bands. So I'm sitting there before the show, and for some reason it's in my head that these guys will come out, and it will be just like Top of The Pops 1967. Of course first band comes on and it's all these old geezers, and I'm like 'who the fuck is this'?, then the penny drops! I then realise if that's what they look like now, then I must look the same. That was a surprise, and not in a nice way. Another illusion shattered!

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