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Re: What Musical Experiences Are You Most Thankful For In 2019?
« Reply #35 on: November 27, 2019, 05:59:10 PM »
I'm thankful for having the luxury of going to around 25 or so concerts this year.  Most of them were pretty good and some of them were the best shows I have seen ever, but I like to point out a certain week in September that I've deemed the greatest week of my life.

September 14th - Saw Iron Maiden at the sold-out Banc of California Stadium in LA where they delivered a tremendous show in front of 23,000 fans.
September 16th - Went on a plane for the first time in 18 years for the Alter Bridge Walk The Sky album listening party.
September 17th - Landed in Orlando and saw said event with 500 of the most passionate Alter Bridge fans ever.  Met the band up close, got a picture with them, heard their newest album (which to me is, of course, my favorite album of the year) a month before it was officially out, and saw them play their first live set in almost two years.
September 18th - Incidentally ran into Myles Kennedy at the airport in Orlando and was in the same plane with him as we were flying from Orlando to Raleigh for Alter Bridge's first official show of their new tour and got a picture with him at the airport in Raleigh.



September 19th - Saw Alter Bridge in Raleigh and I landed a rail spot to see them up close.

Hard to see me top that week, but we'll see next year as I will see them in four shows in four different cities in the West Coast.

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« Reply #36 on: November 27, 2019, 06:05:11 PM »
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« Reply #37 on: November 28, 2019, 06:55:53 AM »
Mine is a little bit different...my band dissolved in 2014 as the bass player relocated to Pittsburgh and things fizzled out. I went from playing my drums at least one night a week to playing once a year when my bass player would come back for Thanksgiving. In 2017 I got hit with a cancer diagnosis and the radiation and chemo kicked my ass. As I was going through it I just kept doing what I had to do but as I look back now, I was pretty sick with stage 3 cancer. I had  a lot of residual physical problems with my neck and arm, extreme fatigue and muscle and weight loss and thought I would never play again. Music was so far away. Every so often I would go down in the basement studio, turn on the light and just shake my head at all my gear, get really sad, turn off the light and come back upstairs. My musical mojo was gone forever. I didn't even listen to much music, let alone write lyrics or play my drums. I was happy to be alive but one of my favorite passions was gone.
Fast forward to last fall. Haken was touring Vector and I decided to reach out and reconnect with my guitarist and invited him to join me and and our keyboardist for the show. We hadn't seen each other for 4 or 5 years. That simple act started things in motion. He was really appreciative of me reaching out as he had gone through some health issues as well. Looking death in the face has a way of changing perspective. Since we had fun reconnecting at the show i asked him if he was interested in a jam on Black Friday when bass player was back in town.  He enthusiastically accepted and we had a great time. In a twist of fate, Tom , the bass player ended up relocating back to the area and we have gotten the band back together and written some great music this past year. While that is a big thing, it's also just great to get together, jam ,talk and have the fellas back in my life. My musical mojo, that I thought was gone forever is back better than ever!
That is what I am musically most thankful for.

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« Reply #38 on: November 28, 2019, 06:59:37 AM »
That's fantastic Froggy!

Congrats on your battle and stay healthy.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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« Reply #39 on: November 28, 2019, 07:00:09 AM »
Anguyen92: You met Kevin Bacon? :P
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« Reply #40 on: November 28, 2019, 07:01:26 AM »
Anguyen92: You met Kevin Bacon? :P

One degree!
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #41 on: November 28, 2019, 07:17:55 AM »
Thanks Brother TAC!

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« Reply #42 on: November 28, 2019, 07:21:22 AM »
Anguyen92: You met Kevin Bacon? :P

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Re: What Musical Experiences Are You Most Thankful For In 2019?
« Reply #43 on: November 28, 2019, 07:45:48 AM »
I guess I’ll mention my top 5 in no particular order:

Coheed and Cambria with Mastodon: 2 of my favorite bands sharing the stage!
Dream Theater playing SFAM
Attending NAMM for the first time was a great experience.
Seeing Pineapple Thief for the first time
Seeing Enrique Bunbury for the first time. Been trying to see him live since 2007 and never had a chance to.
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« Reply #44 on: November 30, 2019, 02:46:59 PM »
I'm most thankful for LudwigVan posting again on DTF.

Thanks TAC! 

I’ll also add that I’m thankful for the last Alter Bridge album Walk the Sky. While I liked Fortress and Last Hero, I didn’t love them the way I love Blackbird and ABIII. Walk the Sky is meeting the old AB standard for me.
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« Reply #45 on: November 30, 2019, 02:52:06 PM »
I still struggle with them.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #46 on: November 30, 2019, 02:54:30 PM »
I know you do. And I’m not quite sure why.

But then again, I struggle with Tesla and Alice Cooper.
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« Reply #47 on: December 01, 2019, 12:29:11 PM »
I share TACs struggles.  I really like Walk The Sky, but so much of their material is underwhelming to me, and I should LOVE them.

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« Reply #48 on: December 01, 2019, 04:07:19 PM »
Seeing Uli Jon Roth a few nights ago. Absolutely incredible night. What a musician.


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« Reply #49 on: December 07, 2019, 07:17:33 PM »
King Crimson
Flying Colors
Dream Theater
Carl Palmer Band
Tempest
Neal Morse Band

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« Reply #50 on: December 08, 2019, 03:00:43 AM »
Everyone else, except Wolfking is wrong.

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« Reply #51 on: December 21, 2019, 05:46:35 AM »
My roulette, it was a hoot to host, I was sent lots of interesting new music and I just enjoyed bantering with you lot.  :) Thanks again for everyone involved.

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« Reply #52 on: December 21, 2019, 05:59:44 AM »
- ProgPower in general tbh, hanging with cram and jingle was a total blast

 :metal :metal

:2metal:  + meeting Lethean

Despite the 3.5 hour drive (each way) in the only snowstorm we've had this season so far, seeing SFAM - and James being 'on' for the entirety of it - was my next highlight.  Relative to other years, this was a fairly weak one quantity-wise.
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« Reply #53 on: December 21, 2019, 01:50:47 PM »
Seeing Uli Roth a few weeks ag. Masterclass of guitar.

Chatting with Joe Stump after the Alcatrazz gig.

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« Reply #54 on: December 21, 2019, 02:06:32 PM »
Last year, I went through my concert videos/memory and put my top 10 concert moments in a video where I was also testing my green screen set up.  I kind of enjoyed putting that together and reminiscing to myself about those moments.

This year I started keeping a document of potential top moments as I experienced them.  Being the end of the year and only one more concert on the slate (which will mark #60 of the year), it's time I start working on my top 10 concert moments of 2019 video.  It's pretty much strictly things I recorded so it's not about "progpower with Jingle and Kat" which I wrote about here and is obviously a top experience of the year, but something like building a head banging wall during Demons and Wizards set at Progpower would potentially be on the list (sadly, it won't be although I think it would land in my top 5 moments but I have no video of it as I was in the dead center and started the whole thing).  I won't list what'll be on it or what my top moment was, except this one, I absolutely loved this moment https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1140347010735849472 and it will for sure make my list.  I''m looking forward to working on this next week while I'm home from work.

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« Reply #55 on: January 16, 2020, 06:19:06 PM »
Well, I finished my top concert moments of 2019 video

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

It's 30 minutes long, not a short one, but I think it came out fairly well and I definitely caught some really cool moments.

The description has timestamps to jump forward to each moment and I included 5 honorable mentions

I'm not bothering adding the hyperlinks, just copy pasta what is in the youtube description with actual links, but so if anyone is remotely interested, here's the top 10 and honorable mentions:

00:00 Top 10 Concert Moments Intro
00:35 #10. The Rules of the Pit - https://youtu.be/IrKnXwQzrTI
01:58 #9. If Any of You Say We Were Lame - https://youtu.be/oj3GLC2j5pQ
03:52 #8. Jerry Only Enjoys a Concert - https://youtu.be/Oj4jURly-k8
05:01 #7. Lzzy and Nita - https://youtu.be/FJYeqPYaXe4
06:45 #6. Rain Delays - https://youtu.be/Vr4u8umtEIU & https://youtu.be/Giyo0ykRK2Y
08:47 #5. Billy Corgan Giving the Look - https://youtu.be/fzmBcf_kDHY
11:46 #4. Passing Out in the Circle Pit - https://youtu.be/BW33foTiWX0
15:14 #3. Gavin Rossdale Back Pat - https://youtu.be/0bkvcuccoY0
16:54 #2. Surfing the Crowd Surfers - https://youtu.be/Vr4u8umtEIU

**** Honorable Mentions ****
18:27 - Galneryus - https://youtu.be/LZj0u6JiFYU
19:30 - Seafood - https://youtu.be/IrKnXwQzrTI
20:04 - Aerosmith - https://youtu.be/LB_zpn1zoCA
20:55 - Kamelot - https://youtu.be/H9RGh2YhQBY
21:35 - Babymetal - https://youtu.be/d36OfIP0Em4

22:43 #1. Hubert the Ghost - https://youtu.be/bAmEr3rtlAY

I don't know if this is my favorite part of this video, but as much as this hurt, I'm kind of glad I captured my scream of pain as my pinky got bent backwards from the crowdsurfers during babymetal.  I crack up just listening to this scream of pain  :rollin https://youtu.be/THqF_w_UynQ?t=1324  "the pit was fire"