What Band?

The Cardinals 

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

>>The Kinks 

Yes.   Ape Man!

Talking Heads

Dead Kennedys

Modern Lovers

Heart (the original line-up)

Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin

Tom Waits

REM

None the music should be for the people anything over $100 and I’m out.. should be $50. Last time I shelled out big bucks for 9 nights of my favorite band at my favorite venue. The artist Didn’t Evan have the decency to stay sober enough to stand.. that was it for me 

Heart tours this summer again- with Joanie Jett opening...- that will be cool.

No fair mentioning bands that are long GONE.

The Heart that is touring is a pale facsimile of the original line-up.

R.E.M., for sure.

Derek Bostrum is playing drums with the Meat. Puppets again.  Hope to see that.

Rush

I saw the original line up in 1981- they still sound great - probably better  IMO

Neil Peart, I'm told, cannot tour any more. He's physically shot to hell.

Opal

Mazzy Star

Pogues

Norman Blake & Tony Rice

The Johnson Mountain Boys

Pavement

Sonic Youth

Original:

Genesis

Kinks

Dire Straits

Tom waits

The Police

The Discipline era King Crimson (Bill Bruford has retired, so nice pipe dream)

 Burning Spear

The retirements of Neil Peart and Bill Bruford make me appreciate Charlie Watts and Bill Kreutzmann even more.  Drumming seems to break a lot of folks down.

Talking Heads

nobody,

i'm quitting concerts.

Talking Heads

Dire Strait

Byrds

Emmylou hot band w James burton or Albert lee

El Rayo X

Talking Heads

R.E.M.

Rage Against The Machine

Television

Rockpile

The Kinks

NYCH with Danny Whitten

BST with Al Kooper

Chopin

nobody,

i'm quitting concerts.<<<<<<<

I'm there Turtish

Every time I check- ticket prices are off the scale. Simply not worth it.

Neil Pearl just hates touring, hates everything about it, and would rather chill read and chill

talking heads

phil and friends

kinks would be cool especially if you are at the show where dave clocks ray

stills and young 

Every time I check- ticket prices are off the scale. Simply not worth it.

What is the price point that it is worth it? Break it down to top tier acts with full lighting rigs/and or high production values, mid range and those with a buzz on the way up. 

>>>The retirements of Neil Peart and Bill Bruford make me appreciate Charlie Watts and Bill Kreutzmann even more.  Drumming seems to break a lot of folks down.

i don't think it's really fair to compare what watts and kreutzman's current projects require of them with what peart and bruford's would

The Village People

Television is still active.  Saw them just last year.

i don't think it's really fair to compare what watts and kreutzman's current projects require of them with what peart and bruford's would<<<<

I think it's more than fair, they're all drummers.  Watts and BK are just the type that still perform.

So does Nick Mason he's 74 and he's touring

Television is still active

While Jimmy Ripp is a fine guitar player and I enjoy seeing them with him, he's no Richard Lloyd, I would like to see the original , no not the Richard Hell version

Teresa 

King

Jeff 

Paul 

Gibby

Wiki:

Peart announced his retirement in an interview in December 2015:

Lately Olivia has been introducing me to new friends at school as 'My dad—He's a retired drummer.' True to say—funny to hear. And it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to ... take yourself out of the game. I would rather set it aside than face the predicament described in our song 'Losing It' ...[6]

Peart had been suffering from chronic tendonitis and shoulder problems.[30] In January 2018, Alex Lifeson confirmed that Rush is "basically done".[8] Peart remains friends with his former bandmates.[31]

Maybe he should try a Drumitar

http://anewdomain.net/percussion-master-neil-peart-hates-touring-and-so-...

this is from 15 when he first talked of retiring but was talked back out to the road

Neil also lost his first daughter in 1998, I would think it is a combination of age,separation,parenting, pain, a lot of other interests. 

Talking Heads

Uncle Tupelo

>>>I think it's more than fair, they're all drummers

lol, more than fair?

>>>Watts and BK are just the type that still perform.

yes, ones that perform much less physically and mentally demanding music.

do u think it's fair to compare a geriatric mall walker to a retired Olympic sprinter?

Peart and Bruford, the retired ones, are the mall walkers?

Do u play drums at all, Dave?

cause unless u suffer from some severe type of Caucasian related rhythm deficiency, I'm pretty sure you'd b almost good enough to play for the stones with just a few lessons. 

And Kreutzmann, you'll just throw him to the sharks?

Cmon we all know Mickey does all of the heavy lifting

ducks

 >u suffer from some severe type of Caucasian related rhythm deficiency<

We prefer the term "rhythmically impaired."

>>>And Kreutzmann, you'll just throw him to the sharks?

not without a mallet wielding life preserver.

i'm certainly not gonna put his current work in the same league as 2 of the most widely regarded technically proficient drummers Rock has ever known though.

Peart has always been extremely fit and he had to be for his style of drumming.  I would compare him more to someone like Bozzio (who once tore a biceps drumming).

I love Kreutzmann, especially his work in the 70's (without Mickey), but he doesn't play in that style, nor are the songs/shows he plays demanding of super frenetic, high energy drumming start to finish, so it's not really a fair comparison.

>>>Who once tore a biceps drumming

I still have never seen bozzio drum in person cause that injury happened right before the show where I would have.

The latter day Zappa drummers scare the shit out of me, their work doesn't even seem human, ZPZ guys included.

I was lucky enough to see Bozzio a number of times with Jeff Beck (hate that I can't just call him Beck anymore), and with missing persons once (lol)... dude's a beast!

I think Frank Zappa had Wackerman on the tour I saw in the '80s, but I was young and had a head full, so I wasn't paying close attention.  I did see Wackerman a few times with Holdsworth, and those two were taylor made for each other.

Speaking of old drummers, did you pull the trigger on Nick Mason tix?  hoping to you see ya there...

Vinnie Colaiuta tore it up pretty good with Jeff last summer.

Also with Zappa & others

(my shoulder hurts)

Genesis and Gentle Giant

>>>Speaking of old drummers, did you pull the trigger on Nick Mason tix?  hoping to you see ya there...

oy, I don't know if I'll b down for that walk.

when is that again?

this does look like it's finally gonna b the year I see Hackett though

Mason plays at the Masonic on the Ides of March...

>>>the year I see Hackett

Sacto or Oaktown?

Saturday sacto, bro.

i've grown kinda fond of that crest theater.

much more convenient than the bay for me and 'selling England by the pound' might b my favorite Genesis album overall so everything's coming up E.

i was just in oaktown last weekend though seeing mazzy star at the fox.

take that, herbaldave!

I would love an early Sabbath set!!!!!!

Soooooooooooooooo great 

Selling England by the pound was always a spinning when tripping with my one friend (where have the decades gone?).

He always had to have it on when we were coming down and smoking.

It might b their most solid album

^^the Lamb has often been my come-down go-to.

"Carpet crawlers" is pretty lysergic

Genesis and Yes talk make me miss Teejay.

That's cool that Mazzy Star are active again.  Hopefully they will roll out a more extensive U.S. tour.  Hope Sandoval is good solo too, but Mazzy Star is better.  An Opal reunion would be incredible, but as far as I know, Kendra Smith is still retired from the music industry and living off the grid somewhere in the Northern California woods.

just scored a single for Oaktown... Pit, Row E

We got to get in to get out~

After seeing hope solo a couple years ago and having just seen mazzy star, I consider them on about equal footing as live acts cause u can see solo hope at smaller venues.

i'm just stoked to see her on the road in any capacity at this point.

The Idea that Kendra smith is lurking somewhere in the nor Cal backwoods like some kind of musical Sasquatch makes me want put an expedition together to go in search of her.

didn't dream syndicate twist her arm to sing some back up on one of their songs from their last album?

an opal reunion does seem highly unlikely.

any other projects loosely affiliated with the paisley underground scene you'd recommend I might not b familiar with?

I've been trying to get into green on red but so far much prefer chuck prophet's solo stuff.

Yeah, Kendra is on the last song of the last Dream Syndicate record.  Her solo records from the 90's on 4AD are gems.

A friend of mine told me that the last time Hope Sandoval was in town at the Crocodile, she was very drunk and didn't ingratiate herself to the crowd.

As far as other Paisley Underground bands, I like the Three O'Clock a lot, with True Believers and Rain Parade also pretty good.  A little later on, Giant Sand tapped into a lot of that scene's mix of Americana and Punk.

Rhino put out an excellent 4 cd set called The Son Of Nuggets that is a pretty definitive chronicle of the Paisley Underground scene.

As far as other Paisley Underground band

you guys are leaving out the fathers of the movement, the long ryders, who just released their first album in 40 years about 2 weeks ago

>>>A friend of mine told me that the last time Hope Sandoval was in town at the Crocodile, she was very drunk and didn't ingratiate herself to the crowd.

interesting, but ingratiating herself to the crowd has never seemed her style.

she seems to maintain a real distant, aloof ambience.

along with Maynard James Keenan, she incorporates the least amount of stage lighting on any lead singer I've ever seen.

is that some sort of coven thing?

anyhow, thanks for the recommendations.

Furious

I just discovered a cd released in January; 3 x 4 The Bangels, Dream Syndicate, Three O'Clock and Rain Parade, each band covers a song by the other three , if that makes sense. I haven't heard it yet, waiting for my family to wake (it's early here on the right coast) and then will explore on spotify. 

I was checking that out a little bit yesterday, kinda weird

I was checking that out a little bit yesterday, kinda weird

kinda weird? the record or that we both found it yesterday?, what little i heard so far I liked

>>>kinda weird? the record or that we both found it yesterday?

both

Wow, E's swingin' like Kingman in this thread.

Not his usual style.

They may not be "ooh-ahh" technical wizards, but one should NEVER under-estimate what Charlie Watts & Bill Kreutzmann have done and are doing on stage these days, especially at 77 and 72 respectively.

They are two of the three best (on my list) rock 'n roll drummers of all time and they're still ROCKING the main stages in 2019 while Peart at 66 & Bruford at 69, who I love but have always been lower on my list than the two older dudes (heart & soul over technical mastery always wins in my book) have had to shut it down.

Once again and as always, Watts & Kreutzmann win.

Just a little rock 'n roll, that's all we ask.

(Bruford is also higher on my list than Peart, FWIW)

Ahh hush now, lance.

u been hittin' dem skins lately, brah?

i think I'm finally ready for a kit.

wife ain't to jazzed bout it none but I think I got the fever.

even bought a pair of vater 5 b's, wood tips of course, and been watching instructional rudiments on YouTube so I can rotate at multi-instrumentalist free jams and such.

I make noise almost every day, you bet.

After well over 13 years I'm still paying for my 24/7 noise room, and in fact I'm thinking of going over there right now and blasting the walls.

BOOM!!!!

And remember... NEVER diss the great Charlie Watts.

Or BK for that matter.

Peart & Bruford wish they were either of those guys.

And BTW, watch Tommy Igoe instructional videos.

They'll help.

>>>Peart & Bruford wish they were either of those guys

do they though?

i'd imagine they're pretty satisfied with their own accomplishments, but we r our own worse critics.

>>And BTW, watch Tommy Igoe instructional videos

cool, I'll look it up.

god bless the youtubes, it's never been easier to become self taught on an instrument

Well, one can argue the aesthetics of skill, but I bet they at least wish they had Watts or Kreuztmann's bank accounts.

(Which has nothing to do with their individual greatness, but dough is dough, and is usually earned)

And I'm certain they're completely satisfied with their own accomplishments, as of course they should be as they're both all-time brilliant, but in their deepest subconscious........

(The greatness of Charlie Watts & Billy Kreutzmann)

??????

I'm just sayin', don't be so quick to underestimate the ongoing greatness of Charlie Watts and Billy Kreutzmann.

Cobham still bringeth . . . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNFqrpSgueg

Cobham is an all time great Fo sho.

that clip is from a couple years ago, is he still on the road?

never seen him

Ill take Carl Palmer any day of the week...

Cobham is touring -this summer

Europe & NYC only  --unfortunately

http://www.billycobham.com/html/calendar.php

Monks Of Doom

but we'll only have to pay $8 each and drive 5 minutes to see them in april.

we'll also be seeing them in athens and either nashville or savannah in the same week.

so, we are pretty psyched

and on the current thread sub-topic, their drummer, Chris Peterson (Crispy Dearson)  is pretty fucking incredible.

you can check out his work on these tracks from their album 'Meridian' (headphones recommended):

Hieroglyphics ~  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQj5rUgSuQ0

Circassian Beauty ~  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiJbIPOb_Ss