March 2025 Challenge Thread - Live Music (Really) Is Better!

Day 30: Liam Gallagher / Mary Wallopers, July 2024, Thomond Park Ireland – Liams show happened to coincide with an already planned trip to Ireland, the tour was focused on the 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe. Play an album you’d love to hear played in full.

Miles Davis -Live in Europe 1967

Slightly cheating but this is probably my favourite jazz album ever so I'd love to hear this played. Plus, Astral Weeks by Van Morriston for a warm-up.

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Day 27: Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Tracy Chapman, Youssou N’Dour September 1988, LA Coliseum – This stop of the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour also featured Bono & The Edge, and Joan Baez, and was meant to raise awareness of Amensty Internationals work. Play something by an artist that has stood up for people who struggle to find a voice themselves.

Fela Ransome Kuti & The Arika 70 "Gentleman" (1973 EMI; 2023 50th reissue)

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Day 28: Neil Young / Death Cab For Cutie / Everest October 2008, Cox Arena – Neil played a number of extended cuts this show – Love and Only Love, Cortez the Killer, Cowgirl in the Sand, and closed with a blistering cover of the Beatles A Day in the Life. At the end I think there were only 2 strings left unbroken on Old Black. Play a cover song.

Juliana Hatfield "Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO" (2023 American Laundromat)
I'll take this opportunity to play this blast of a cover album.

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Day 29: Play something by an artist who focuses more on music than touring.

Saw fellow shoegazers:

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Slowdive Setlist at Primavera Sound Buenos Aires 2023

Get the Slowdive Setlist of the concert at C Complejo Art Media, Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 28, 2023 from the 2023 World Tour and other Slowdive Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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Maybe one day I’ll get lucky and catch one their shows:

My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything

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Day 29: Fiona Apple September 2017, Ohana Festival – Was a surprise to see Fiona on the lineup at all, and she really hasn’t done many shows since then. Play something by an artist who focuses more on music than touring.

Harry Nilsson "Nilson Schmilsson" (1971 RCA; 2021 MOFI)
Known to never have toured iirc. Almost never played in public either.

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Day 30: Liam Gallagher / Mary Wallopers, July 2024, Thomond Park Ireland – Liams show happened to coincide with an already planned trip to Ireland, the tour was focused on the 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe. Play an album you’d love to hear played in full.

Recorded P-Funk on the down low back in 2019. Blackbyrd McKnight threw down on this one. Eddie Hazel smiled...

Parliament/Funkadelic - Maggot Brain - White Oak Amphitheatre, Greensboro, NC 7 - 27 - 19

A searing Maggot Brain I recorded in Greensboro with George Clinton delivering the message and Blackbyrd McKnight delivering the guitar goods.
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I'll take this record. What an experience it would be...

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

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Day 30: Liam Gallagher / Mary Wallopers, July 2024, Thomond Park Ireland – Liams show happened to coincide with an already planned trip to Ireland, the tour was focused on the 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe. Play an album you’d love to hear played in full.

Cindy Lee "Diamond Jubilee" (2024 W. 25th)
Let's go epic.

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Day 30: Liam Gallagher / Mary Wallopers, July 2024, Thomond Park Ireland – Liams show happened to coincide with an already planned trip to Ireland, the tour was focused on the 30th anniversary of Definitely Maybe. Play an album you’d love to hear played in full.

This would be amazing in a small club.

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Day 31: Fare Thee Well, June 2015, Levi’s Stadium – As we bid goodbye to March and this challenge, play something that references a goodbye or farewell.

Good times @imtheocean.

Here's one of my Bowie recordings from the Sound + Vision tour. For anyone who was around at the time, you may recall this was billed as the tour where Bowie would play his classic songs for the very last time and say goodbye to them forever. Didn't quite pan out that way, but it's far from the first fib told in rock and roll.

Interesting thing happened while I was listening to this recording for the first time in probably 20 years. Initially, I was thinking of all the reasons I despise megastar shows in big arenas and my recordings from those gigs - the sound - especially arena shows in 1990 - wasn't the best, visibility generally stinks, intimacy is pretty non-existent, and somehow I always seemed to be seated next to "the jerk". About the time I was adding up all this collective woe, "Heroes" came on. This song stops me cold each time I hear it. It's one of those tunes that somehow reduces a room full of 25,000 people to me and the artist and makes all the grief worthwhile. It's a great song and, at the end of the day, I guess that's what keeps us all coming back.

David Bowie - Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill, NC 5-9-1990 - "Heroes"...



Closing out the month with a nicely done bootleg...

David Bowie - Serious Moonlight In Gothenburg

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Day 31: Fare Thee Well, June 2015, Levi’s Stadium – As we bid goodbye to March and this challenge, play something that references a goodbye or farewell.

Leonard Cohen - Live in London

So Long Marianne - for a long time, I thought this album was from the Cohen concert I went to in London that year. But on pulling the ticket I see I've been mistaken the whole time. Still, happy memories.

Thanks @imtheocean for a fabulous month, really proving that live music is better, and for indulging in my trips down nostalgia lane.

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Day 31: Play something that references a goodbye or farewell.

Not really a fan, but it was their last tour so I decided to go. It was a spectacle for sure.

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KISS Setlist at Pedreira Paulo Leminski, Curitiba

Get the KISS Setlist of the concert at Pedreira Paulo Leminski, Curitiba, Brazil on April 28, 2022 from the End of the Road World Tour and other KISS Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
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No KISS in my collection, so I’m playing this one for “Metal Gods”

Judas Priest - British Steel

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Thanks for hosting @imtheocean! The trip down memory lane was a blast!
 
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Day 24: The Beat Farmers November 1990, The Barn at UC Riverside - The Beat Farmers were led by the late, great Country Dick Montana who died onstage in 1995. One of the best bar bands I’ve seen. Play something by someone who leaves it all on stage.

Martha Wainwright – Come Home To Mama
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The most powerful single-person-and-a-guitar set I've ever seen was Martha headlining the Brandon Folk, Music and Art Festival in Manitoba around the time of this album's release. I'd been looking forward to seeing her, but I never expected just how full on she would be. I saw a lot of really cool shit on that stage over the decade I was involved with the festival, but nothing else blinded me with ferocity like her set did. "Proserpina," in particular, brought me to tears; and still does more often than not.
 
Day 25: Steve Burns / Starlight Mints July 2004, The Casbah – Steve Burns (of Blues Clues fame) released an excellent album with Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips called Songs For Dustmites, and did a short tour with it. Was a little odd to see him sitting at the bar nursing a beer before the show to be honest. Lots of musicians have been on kids shows from Sesame Street to Yo Gabba Gabba, play something by someone that has appeared on a kids tv show.

Buffy Sainte-Marie – Coincidence And Likley Stories
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Day 26: Pearl Jam / Sonic Youth July 2006, Viejas Arena – This particular show was memorable for a number of reasons, getting Sonic Youth as an opener was a big one. PJ played the Mother Love Bone track Crown Of Thorns and the rarely played Satan’s Bed, but the high point for me was the dedication of Long Road to Ed’s late teacher Clayton Liggett, and how hearing of his passing inspired the song. Play something for a teacher or person that has inspired you.

evalyn parry – SPIN


Going digital again because my CD copy is in storage at the moment. evalyn parry has been both an inspiration AND a teacher. She was working on this project as part of the cohort during my first residency at The Bangf Center for the Arts, and she was a guest instructor during my second residency a couple of years later. The full theatrical show she put together for this is fantastic—I've seen it 4 times in 3 cities. I would love to one day have a limited run of this pressed onto vinyl if I could.
 
Day 31: Fare Thee Well, June 2015, Levi’s Stadium – This set of shows in Santa Clara and Chicago was last time the “Core Four” of the Grateful dead played together. As we bid goodbye to March and this challenge, play something that references a goodbye or farewell.

I saw Sir Elton in 2022 at Comerica Park in Detroit. He came on promptly at 8:15, no opener, and played a great set.

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Thanks for running March @imtheocean
It was a fun month of looking at ticket stubs and thinking about the shows I've been to, as well as seeing others' stories.

See you in the April thread!
 
Day 27: Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Tracy Chapman, Youssou N’Dour September 1988, LA Coliseum – This stop of the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour also featured Bono & The Edge, and Joan Baez, and was meant to raise awareness of Amensty Internationals work. Play something by an artist that has stood up for people who struggle to find a voice themselves.

Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature
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Kidjo has long been a passionate campaigner for children's rights, climate change, and girls' education.
 
Day 30: Liam Gallagher / Mary Wallopers, July 2024, Thomond Park Ireland Play an album you’d love to hear played in full.

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
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I have actually been to a few of these type of shows where the artist plays an album in it’s entirety. I saw Sonic Youth play Daydream Nation and Gza play Liquid Sword both at Pitchfork. I also saw Weezer play Pinkerton, Why? play Alopecia and most recently Animal Collective play Sung Tongs.
 
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