| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Crabby
Power Groupie
Joined: 26 Feb 2024
Posts: 257
Location: Belfast
|
 Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:13 am Post subject: |
 |
|
| Wow Kaelmael, l think the highlight of any concert should be hanging onto the guitarists ankle! I bought their last cd which l really like but l shall listen in future with a whole new appreciation of your bravery.. Well done for surviving! |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
KaelMael
Sparks Guru
Joined: 15 Sep 2018
Posts: 2697
Location: Hello Kitty Heaven
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Crabby wrote: | | Wow Kaelmael, l think the highlight of any concert should be hanging onto the guitarists ankle! I bought their last cd which l really like but l shall listen in future with a whole new appreciation of your bravery.. Well done for surviving! |
Thanks, Crabby. I was slightly regretting about attending the show tbh, but your comment made me feel a whole lot better about it. TANGK is a great album!
_________________
My resume is dull and it's gray |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Buckeye Randy
Sparks Guru
Joined: 21 Aug 2013
Posts: 5371
Location: North Coast of America
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| KaelMael wrote: | | I thought I was fully aware of, or I had been warned, the danger of being in the front row when you are seeing punk bands. Well, I had had a similar experience at Morrissey concert but anyway, I cursed myself for being foolish. As soon as the first song started, I was pushed and shoved like a punchbag. For about an hour or so I had to go through a thousand elbows in my ribs and occasional boots in the head. At one point, I was holding guitarist Lee Kiernan's ankle. A pure chaos I wasn't prepared for. Yet, I survived to tell the tale. But not without heavy bruises. |
That is not foolish, all good stories involve a couple bruises!
_________________
Billy, Don't Be A Porter |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
J. Prufrock
Sparks Guru
Joined: 12 Aug 2018
Posts: 3424
Location: Very northeastern US
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:25 pm Post subject: |
|
|
My worst (and last) mosh pit experience was actually at a They Might Be Giants concert. Good show from the band, but security really should have tossed that one probably drunk and definitely disorderly guy. It was decades ago and I suspect security's more proactive nowadays; nonetheless, by now I'm Too Old For The Pit.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Crabby
Power Groupie
Joined: 26 Feb 2024
Posts: 257
Location: Belfast
|
| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:41 am Post subject: |
|
|
| How times have changed.... I was at a They Might be Giants concert in November and it was all rather genteel (great gig though).... 😂 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
KaelMael
Sparks Guru
Joined: 15 Sep 2018
Posts: 2697
Location: Hello Kitty Heaven
|
| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 7:46 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Buckeye Randy wrote: | | That is not foolish, all good stories involve a couple bruises! |
Maybe it was worth the bruises. I could even grab the hem of the lead guitarist Marc Bowen's pink dress. I'm 100% sure that this will be my last mosh pit story though!
_________________
My resume is dull and it's gray |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Crabby
Power Groupie
Joined: 26 Feb 2024
Posts: 257
Location: Belfast
|
| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:11 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I wonder how unruly a Sparks gig gets????? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Buckeye Randy
Sparks Guru
Joined: 21 Aug 2013
Posts: 5371
Location: North Coast of America
|
| Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:55 am Post subject: |
|
|
The 2022 show at Royal Oak (outside Detroit) had GA standing in front of the stage. Other than some rude people trying to muscle their way up front without paying the premium for early admission or waiting in line in frigid conditions for a few hours...it was pretty well behaved.
There was no moshing per say, just bopping.
_________________
Billy, Don't Be A Porter |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
KaelMael
Sparks Guru
Joined: 15 Sep 2018
Posts: 2697
Location: Hello Kitty Heaven
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:33 am Post subject: |
|
|
What Buckeye Randy said applies to all the Sparks concerts I attended. I always have a good time dancing and singing along. No rowdy crowd.
I guess the most unruly audience they ever had were those girls trying to pull Russell off the stage.
_________________
My resume is dull and it's gray |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Alex Robertson
Sparks Guru
Joined: 11 Jan 2002
Posts: 42368
Location: Crawley,West Sussex
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:48 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Crabby wrote: | | I wonder how unruly a Sparks gig gets????? |
Every gig I’ve ever been at has been so full of camaraderie and bonhomie that there’s been no room for unruliness.
There was one brief bit of an incident at an FFS gig, an over exuberant drunk , instead of apologising to the lady he almost sent flying he decided to confront her husband. He was very swiftly dealt with and without recourse to fisticuffs or an escalation of the situation.
So to put your mind at rest everyone is friendly and welcoming with fans old and new mingling like they’d known each other forever! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
J. Prufrock
Sparks Guru
Joined: 12 Aug 2018
Posts: 3424
Location: Very northeastern US
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 12:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Crabby wrote: | | I wonder how unruly a Sparks gig gets????? |
The person who accompanied me to see Sparks in 2022 called it a bit reminiscent of the classical music concerts I also like to attend; that may have partly been inspired by the theater that hosted Sparks' Boston show, but also shows further concurrence that unruliness at Sparks shows is apparently a thing of the past (but friendly chat among fans before the show whether we've met before or not, as Alex noted, is present.) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Crabby
Power Groupie
Joined: 26 Feb 2024
Posts: 257
Location: Belfast
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:19 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Oh no,now I'm sorry l asked.....l had a feeling a Sparks concert would ooze friendliness and good humour so now I'm even more sad that l probably won't make it to any of the 2025 concerts.......
Never mind..love the single and waiting for the summer! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Toughest Girl In Town
Sparks Guru
Joined: 15 Feb 2022
Posts: 4936
|
| Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 3:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Alex Robertson wrote: | | So to put your mind at rest everyone is friendly and welcoming with fans old and new mingling like they’d known each other forever! |
It's true, it's exactly the way I felt the first time I saw Sparks live. I came by myself and yet I had so many friendly conversations with different people during and after the show.
Maybe next time I'll consider organizing some kind of meetup with other French fans beforehand, though. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Buckeye Randy
Sparks Guru
Joined: 21 Aug 2013
Posts: 5371
Location: North Coast of America
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Buckeye Randy
Sparks Guru
Joined: 21 Aug 2013
Posts: 5371
Location: North Coast of America
|
| Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 10:33 am Post subject: |
|
|
Record Store Day 2025, April 12.
Here is a list of releases for Record Store Day.
https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases
Several of interest for me; The Dictators, Jethro Tull, Nick Lowe, Queen, Todd Rundgren, Teenage Bottlerocket, Sweet.
_________________
Billy, Don't Be A Porter |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Buckeye Randy
Sparks Guru
Joined: 21 Aug 2013
Posts: 5371
Location: North Coast of America
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Toughest Girl In Town
Sparks Guru
Joined: 15 Feb 2022
Posts: 4936
|
| Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 4:14 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Buckeye Randy wrote: | I scored 7th row tickets for Alice Cooper's 'Too Close for Comfort!' tour which passes through my neck of the woods in May. Glad to hear that guitar goddess Nita Strauss will be back in the fold by then. Woohoo!
|
They're not even playing in France for this tour! Ok he was there last October... but still! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Buckeye Randy
Sparks Guru
Joined: 21 Aug 2013
Posts: 5371
Location: North Coast of America
|
| Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:35 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Toughest Girl In Town wrote: | | Buckeye Randy wrote: | I scored 7th row tickets for Alice Cooper's 'Too Close for Comfort!' tour which passes through my neck of the woods in May. Glad to hear that guitar goddess Nita Strauss will be back in the fold by then. Woohoo!
|
They're not even playing in France for this tour! Ok he was there last October... but still! |
That's just about enough out of you, Miss I've Got Tix for Sparks. You had your chance for Alice!
The setlist he's played so far on this tour (including Paris) follows the usual recipe. As always, he mixes in some seldom heard chestnuts along with an assortment of his classic work from the '70's. The typical setlist this tour; 14 tracks from the '70's, four each from the 80's and 90's along with one from his last album in 2023. A quick count tells me eight songs different from last seeing him in 2022. This is so different than say Grand Funk Railroad whom I've seen play essentially the same setlist three times spanning 25 years.
Alice will be taking a two month break starting in a few days before resuming the tour in May. Who knows if the setlist will resemble what he's been playing so far on the 'Too Close for Comfort!' tour but I'm hoping it is.
_________________
Billy, Don't Be A Porter |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Toughest Girl In Town
Sparks Guru
Joined: 15 Feb 2022
Posts: 4936
|
| Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:38 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Buckeye Randy wrote: | | That's just about enough out of you, Miss I've Got Tix for Sparks. You had your chance for Alice! |
YAY That's right, I've got my ticket for Sparks and I wouldn't trade it with any other one woohoo  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
