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ELO at LCA in Detroit 2018. Just sooo good. Went back for more in 2019 and took some young, impressionable, relatives for a rock and roll brain cleansing.
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Rammstein, 12 years ago.
Imagine what you saw, but in an indoor arena.
Foo Fighters the other year was good, but more for 3 hour, loads of songs I knew.
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Springsteen in Paris in 1988; it was the time that he began a relationship with backup singer Patti Scialfa and they where so in love that we felt it also in the audience.
Tunnel of Love Express Tour - Wikipedia[^]
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Crash Worship at a small venue in Los Angeles, circa 1995. A real, honest-to-god experience. Not a single bit of chemistry or herbs in my system, but high as a kite on the experience.
U2 at the Meadowlands Arena in NJ, circa 1986. Bono knows how to work an audience!
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Mary Chapin Carpenter re-wrote several of her iconic songs with orchestral music. Saw her sing them with the Seattle Symphony. Hands down the most mesmerizing musical experience of my life.
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Not a great gig per se, but a fun story about a gig I enjoyed. Due to the tag line in the email, seems to fit.
A few years back, I happened to be in Las Vegas for a few days. Staying at Luxor, I wandered up to Mirage the first day to get tickets for the next night's performance of Love. Afterward, I went into MGM Grand and saw that Rush was playing the next night.
While wandering around, I heard a voice over by the horse-racing game laughingly say, "What a rip-off", as if his horse had just gotten nosed out.
Playing the machine were Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and their manager. Don't remember if Neil Peart was around too.
Being a person who values privacy myself (Limelight my favorite song), I didn't bother them, although I'm sure they would've been gracious about it.
The next morning, back to Mirage to switch Love to the night after, then to MGM to get tickets for Rush.
Both very enjoyable shows, that was a pretty good couple of days.
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I saw Billy Gibbons in Vegas. Same thing, left him alone
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On April 7, 1968, the last day of their East Coast tour<br>
Janis Joplin and others Went to visit a Army buddy in New York City he<br>
arranged a date with his cousin a girl who had never been out of New York City<br>
She asked where I lived? Ohio my rural upbringing and description of the surroundings<br>
prompted the question if we had cows seems she had never seen a cow<br>
Janis was great and this Peter Paul and Mary die hard fan had a new music hero<br>
If anyone is counting the other great gig was seeing Peter Paul and Mary while in the Army<br>
And at Kent State many years latter with my kids front row seats Being Old has advantages when it comes to enjoyable memories
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I could have seen the Justice tour and didn't go 
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ZZ Top, 1984.
First they played four old songs in the most boring unexciting way on a very plain stage, and failing to get people excited they simply went off the stage.
Everyone was like WTF!
About two minutes later the whole place was almost boiling with wtf.
That's when people started pointing to the opposite side from the stage.
On a big screen they were doing the first laser show I had ever seen in my life.
After more than five minutes of drawing different patterns on that screen, they started drawing legs!
That's when the show started! On a completely rebuilt stage.
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I've never seen ZZ Top. Last time I tried, they were opening for Jimmy Buffet. I bought expensive scalped tickets to be close. This fat dude walks out, yells 'its good to be in Republican country' (this was Dallas) and play some awful country music. As it ended, it dawned on me. ZZ Top had cancelled
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Pink Floyd in Aus - Delicate Sound of Thunder, about 1984.
Was amazed by how much gear they brought. Gilmour stated in the press that they brought the whole show, even though that meant they weren't going to make any money.
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That's a tough one!
I've been to quite a few great gigs, but I'd say the most rewarding was Nightwish in 2005.
They kicked butt and it turned out to be the one and only chance to see them with Tarja Turunen in my country.
The very first Stratovarius gig I saw in 1997 and the Gods of Metal festival in 1998 in Milan were also great.
Latest but not least, in 2018 I saw Epica during the Unicorn Festival in Vinci, and the location was simply awesome! Just out of the medieval city centre, on a clearing with small hills on the sides. We went there by motorbike and both the whole experience and the concert were super!!!
Awesome metal trip you had btw!!!
I always skipped Wacken cause camping is not really my thing, but I kinda regret it (I'm also 50 and won't probably go, like ever)! 
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but not in practice. - Anonymous
A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match. - B. Bryson
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Sunn0))), at The Asylum, Birmingham, UK, 10th December 2009. There are clips on YouTube, but they can't do justice to a) the atmosphere (full of dry ice), b) the volume, or c) the overall spectacle that can be achieved by a few blokes dressed up in robes with one playing guitar, one playing bass and one vocalist - that's right, no drums. This clip does highlight the alarms being set off, either by the smoke machines or the subsonic vibrations, but can't convey coming home from a gig being able to hear, but unable to stop shaking, for some reason...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Led Zeppelin, May 1973 at Dallas Memorial Auditorium.
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Grateful Dead concert one hot summer day in 1981 at the Cal Expo fairgrounds in Sacramento Ca. I especially liked the wet T-shirts in back at the free showers. A lot to see.
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Time for an oil change.
This engine wants Full_Synthetic 0W-20
This is the oil I used last time (i.e., Mobil 1)
I welcome...
- Opinions
- Advice
- Suggestions
- [[Referrals / Links]] to other knowledgeable sources
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Buy a bicycle.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Too cold.
Bad weather this time of year.
Significant slip and fall Hazard.
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It's available in 0W-20, so it'll be fine.
I don't scrimp on oil changes: I always do them with a filter change at the recommended mileage interval or or earlier. Oil is what keeps wear down, and that extends the life of the engine. Cheap oil is cheap for a reason - and that ain't compatible with long engine life!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My old girl is approaching 50. She's got an old B-Series block and I haven't moved her onto multigrade yet. she has a 15W in now, and [I can't remember exactly] a 15 or 20 in the summer.
It's not such a hardship as the oil's normally leaked out before it's time to change 
veni bibi saltavi
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The tolerances were lower in those days - particularly in British car and motorcycle manufacturing ... "close enough to get it out of the showroom" would do.
I've had a few "self changing" motorcycles over the years as well! (Mind you, I had one Honda where the gearbox dogs were so worn it changed down when you closed the throttle.)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Oil is the cheapest thing you can put into your vehicle.
Did a little mechanic work today.
Put a rear end in a recliner!
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