Watched AC/DC, Kiss, and Led Zepplin yesterday

[Tman]

Worked yesterday morning with a hurt back and when I finished I went home and became a couch potato (no e Mr. Quail). Back to back concerts on a cable channel. I was in heaven, watching rock n roll being played with essentially a front row seat. I have a decent sound bar with the TV so it sounded great.

 

AC/DC: Knocked my socks off. Beautiful SG and I couldn't help but head bang the whole time. Couldn't move my back though. He had about 20 Marshall stacks. I have never seen an entire audience of about 30,000 people (looked like) all move in unison like that. Simply awesome. Wife and I had a disagreement though. She is the daughter of 2 christian missionaries and said she was taught in church that AC/DC meant After Christ, Devil Child. I said that's hooey, it mean's Alternating Current Direct Current, as in electricity. Then Angus put on some demon horns and they played Hiway to hell. My argument lost ground at that moment. Malcom plays that guitar where there are holes (routing) for the neck and bridge pick-ups and I've never seen him with anything else. Sounds great.

 

Kiss: Packed audience and they rocked the house. Detroit Rock City especially got me going. Even "I wanna rock and roll...", a song I used to detest, was fantastic. Well played, well written. Gene Simmons delivered. Paul Stanley (I think it was him, please correct me) had 3 different Firebirds. Killer guitars! I was loving Kiss until he became a John Hiatt character and smashed that perfectly good guitar - the black Firebird. I gasped. Awful. Before I'd never liked them and thought they were simplistic, gimmicky, and over-rated. Now I'm a fan, thought it would never happen.

 

LZ - I'm a huge Jimmy Page fan. Had his LP's and double neck and even played an L5 (I think it's what it was - had P-90's) on "In my time of Dying". He was a little too distorted on some songs. Had mostly Marshalls and an Orange. To address the plagiarism issue, Robert Plant announced songs by saying who they took the riff from including Robert Johnson for Trampled under foot (from memory). There were at least 3 songs introduced that way. Not Stairway though! Huge audience and I think they sounded like the old Zep. Even Robert Plant's voice. Spot on.

 

 

 

These were all fairly recent concerts (maybe AC/DC was a bit older cause Angus looked like he had more hair than now). Anybody seen any of them lately and if so, what did you think?

[Rabs]

 

 

 

These were all fairly recent concerts (maybe AC/DC was a bit older cause Angus looked like he had more hair than now). Anybody seen any of them lately and if so, what did you think?

It depends on what gigs your talking about..

 

Hmm, certainly not seen the Kiss one.. But im assuming the Led Zep gig was the 2009 reunion which I have seen and really enjoyed.. I thought they took 3-4 tunes to get going but I really enjoyed the whole thing...

 

And for the AC/DC one, from your description I assuming it was the Donnington gig? Just a sea of people moshing :).. when the beat kicks in it just looks mad... And if it is that gig, yes ive seen it several times .. love it, and it makes a great live album too. I already miss Malcolm :(

[Riffster]

I saw AC/DC in their latest tour and they sounded incredibly tight, fascinating.

 

Their sound would pound through my chest yet it was very comfortable to my ears.

[Frances50]

Actually, I'm a KISS fan. I go on their annual KISS Kruise out of Miami every year. I didn't care much for them in the 80's. Was never a Ace Frehley or Peter Criss fan, didn't care for the drugs and all the antics. I actually think KISS is better now than in the 80's. Probably due to the current line up with Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer. Bought one of Thayer's autographed Epiphone Les Pauls when they were available. He's one of the reasons I wanted to learn guitar. The group seems more wholesome, if you could ever use that word to define KISS. You see every generation at their concerts. And they devote a lot of effort into projects such as Wounded Warrior and other endeavors. Maybe I'm just older.

[Tman]

It depends on what gigs your talking about..

 

Hmm, certainly not seen the Kiss one.. But im assuming the Led Zep gig was the 2009 reunion which I have seen and really enjoyed.. I thought they took 3-4 tunes to get going but I really enjoyed the whole thing...

 

And for the AC/DC one, from your description I assuming it was the Donnington gig? Just a sea of people moshing :).. when the beat kicks in it just looks mad... And if it is that gig, yes ive seen it several times .. love it, and it makes a great live album too. I already miss Malcolm :(

 

 

That certainly kicks it. It wasn't that one because there was a very long center walk way that Angus kept traveling down. Looked indoors also. The entire crowd moving in unison was like a single organism, like an aspen tree, with all parts moving at the same time. It was absolutely amazing. It was on AXS TV. I'll try to figure it out. Great way to be a potato for hours.

 

 

Edit: Live at the River Plate, Buenos Aires 2009. Absolutely killer concert.

[Rabs]

That certainly kicks it. It wasn't that one because there was a very long center walk way that Angus kept traveling down. Looked indoors also. The entire crowd moving in unison was like a single organism, like an aspen tree, with all parts moving at the same time. It was absolutely amazing. It was on AXS TV. I'll try to figure it out. Great way to be a potato for hours.

 

 

Edit: Live at the River Plate, Buenos Aires 2009. Absolutely killer concert.

Ahh yes.. another great gig... Im not sure ACDC have ever done a bad gig ;)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwwRtXqM5IE

[RainboGuy]

I saw Led Zepplin live shortly after they came out with their first album and were doing their first american tour. This was at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago in 1969 and I was in US Navy Bootcamp at great Lakes Naval Training Center.....LZ was on the same show with John Mayall (right after they released the USA UNION album).

 

The most increbily amazing thing to me was that Led Zepplin LIVE sounded EXACTLY like their album......it was UNREAL!!!

['Scales]

Interesting Rabs, I actually liked the first 7 songs on Celebration day (i.e the first half) best though I’ve read the sound quality wasn't great at the start for those at the venue, certainly the DVD had no such problems. In my time of dying, For your life, and Nobody's fault but mine I thought were epic.

 

Good point you note re AC/DC too. Particularly after they got huge and out of the pubs I cannot imagine them playing anything less than a totally awesome show. That’s pretty amazing over say 35 years!