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Re: Concerts and Live Music
« Reply #100 on: October 21, 2014, 09:30:06 PM »
Somehow, I fell off the fence ---and when I picked myself up I found myself on the carnatic side. That fall shaped the future direction of my life, because, when it happened, I would have found moving house tough enough, let alone emigrating and moving continent! It was the seed that determined what I was to do fifteen or twenty years later

Still, though, despite what must be over a thousand concerts now, I am not a real rasika. I can't name ragas, write song lists, and all that  :-[.

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Re: Concerts and Live Music
« Reply #101 on: October 22, 2014, 02:49:22 PM »
Thad,

I hear you. Fortunately for me, my mother and aunt were professionally trained Carnatic singers. My mom would sing Carnatic songs to put me to sleep ! I was once very proficient in naming ragas and thalams. Went to the US for 22 years and everything has been erased from the memory bank; replaced with rock. I'm not complaining but I am very choosy about the concerts I want to attend due to sheer lack of knowledge and style of the singer.
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Re: Concerts and Live Music
« Reply #102 on: October 22, 2014, 03:23:33 PM »
Luckily  for me, not even a thousand carnatic concerts have erased The Grateful Dead from my memory banks!

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Re: Concerts and Live Music
« Reply #103 on: November 24, 2014, 01:29:19 PM »
It's been quiet here lately! 

My buddy just slipped me two tickets to the Smashing Pumpkins show at KOKO's in London next week.  Super stoked...   headbang
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Re: Concerts and Live Music
« Reply #104 on: November 24, 2014, 07:49:40 PM »
Saw Slayer/Suicidal Tendencies/Exodus this past weekend. All three acts were outstanding. Been listening to ST since I was a kid, but have never seen them live, they really put on a great show. This was my third Slayer show and they always deliver.
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Re: Concerts and Live Music
« Reply #105 on: November 24, 2014, 11:35:52 PM »
ST! I'm jelly!
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Re: Concerts and Live Music
« Reply #106 on: November 25, 2014, 12:16:25 AM »
Quote from: shipsupt on November 24, 2014, 01:29:19 PM
My buddy just slipped me two tickets to the Smashing Pumpkins show at KOKO's in London next week.  Super stoked...   

Oh man. Very jealous. I saw SP back in the 90's, and it changed me. I avoided shows during the whole zwan/zeitgeist cycle, but the new stuff is back to being weird and not a piece of shit, which is nice.
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Re: Concerts and Live Music
« Reply #107 on: November 25, 2014, 10:51:52 AM »
A number of carnatic concerts this past week or two, but two of them were absolutely outstanding. No video, I'm afraid!

Suguna Varadachary, in a scruffy hall with bad acoustics. awful not-even-stereo PA,  and a sparse audience, sang a neraval (a form of improvisation that might be vaguely and probably inaccurately compared to scat in jazz) that was just mind, heart and soul blowing. 

R Vedavalli, after a rather long memorial function, squeezed so much into the hour and a half that was left that, again, I was knocked off my feet and left glowing.
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Re: Concerts and Live Music
« Reply #108 on: December 06, 2014, 11:04:54 PM »
My son backed out at the last minute due to a school commitment and I actually considered giving my Smashing Pumpkins tickets away.  That would be silly, right... I found a buddy who was up for it and we grabbed the tube to Camden Town.

When Billy Corgan pulls together Rage Against the Machine drummer Brad Wilk and The Killers’ bassist Mark Stoermer with regular guitarist Jeff Schroeder you know you've got potential for a good show.  Make the venue Koko's in London,read very intimate, and there is potential for great.

Billy and crew put out a rather upbeat set of 15 or so hits and new stuff, including a cool cover of Bowie's Fame.  Great show.

Then Marilyn Manson shows up for the encore!!  This sh_t just got real.



I'm putting this show in my once in a lifetime bag!    headbang




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Re: Concerts and Live Music
« Reply #109 on: December 07, 2014, 06:31:42 PM »
Wall-to-wall music in my home city of Chennai, India.

It's called The December Music Season, starting vaguely in December and ending sometime in ...January.

There are dozens of organisations presenting concerts, lecture demonstrations, dance, mostly of the Southern Indian classical persuasion. 9.00am to 9pm. Some even earlier.

It is completely unco-ordinated; there is no central "authority," so nobody can be really sure, but 3,000 has been mentioned as the possible number of events. Is there anything this big anywhere else in the world?

Hey-Ho, hanging up the headphones, turning off the net, and getting out there on the street and into the concert halls 

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