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Top Five Shows

With the Foo Fighters in town this week and really putting on a great rock show, Linda and I were discussing our top five shows all time and it is a hard list to break into, but here mine.

My Top Five Shows--All time:

1-- J Geils Band in the late 70's, some small opera house in Ohio.  Absolutely no doubt the best ever
2--Foo Fighters at the Bridgestone this week--  a lot of energy in the joint
3-Devo at a tent outside the casino in Green Bay.  Just too much fun.
4- Heart at the Oshkosh County Fair, standing on the dirt track.  They rocked away while I had the red sauce from a fiery hot Greek sandwich running down my arm. Beer would not calm this stuff down.   It was the county fair.... dust, beer, food, screaming guitars.
5--Bruno Mars at the Bridgestone.  A lot of screaming for that one. There was a lot of talent on the stage that night.

Not making the top 5 were-- Eagles, Train, Bob Seger, AC DC, Tom Jones, Brad Paisley, Kiss, Aerosmith, Buddy Guy, Johnny Lang, B 52's, Kid Rock, Elton John, Meat Loaf, Jimmy Buffet, Doobie Brothers, Def Leppard, Ted Nugent, Scorpions,Kelly Clarkson, Molly Hatchett, Tower of Power, Daughtry, Lyle Lovett, Jethro Tull, Alice Cooper, John Prine, Martina McBride, Sturgill Simpson. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

As you can see, the top five is brutally hard to crack.  Some of these groups are my all time favorites, but I do not play favorites, you got to earn the trophy for this one. I  have been  to a lot of shows and enjoyed most of the them and the top five is all about energy in the place.  The more energy the band gets from the crowd the better the experience and vice a versa.

For those who are not familiar with J Geils.  They were popular in the 70 and 80's.  Jerome Geils was the leader of the group and played guitar and did no vocals.  Magic Dick played the harmonica and he was amazing with the sound he could make.  Seth Justman was on  organ--the cheesy sounding one to boot. Peter Wolf was the front man and he liked to jump around a lot and was the show.  Of course they had some other stuff like guitars and bass and drums.  I think it was a 6 or 7 man group. Classic songs like--"First I Look at the Purse", "Whammer Jammer", "Must Have Got Lost" , "Looking for a Love", "Dead Presidents" (money not anything political) , "Houseparty"  all played really loud with gusto.. I still work out to this stuff, it hops.

 The night we saw them for my number 1, I was still in college and I think four of my group went to the show--think the 4 male  characters in the "Big Bang Show" .  I do not recall what town, I think it was cold and the town was dead as the trees that time of year.   We had seats in the middle of the floor about a dozen rows back.   We got there in plenty of time to get some alcohol and have some left handed smokes.  The first act came on the stage to total indifference from the crowd, they were basically ignored.  After a couple of songs, the entire crowd  started to boo and the only time I have ever seen this, basically were booed off the stage.  They played 4 or 5 quick songs and left the stage as they flipped us off.  We cheered like you just announced free beer.  I have no idea who they were.  What were we in for that night?? That sequence was pretty bazaar.  But the place was electric, you could sense something big coming.

After what seemed like 45 minutes, J Geils came out and the place just exploded.  It was on...  We jumped up and down and danced  and absolutely went nuts for the entire show.  I have never experienced that much energy in a venue, ever.  When we left, we were hoarse and completely wet from the sweat  from the jumping around.   I get fired up just writing about it, I hope to see that much fun in the future.  

That was my top five all time shows, and I am always looking for someone to push their way into this list.  Bring it on,  I am an impartial judge, but you gotta bring hard to get on this list.

Comments

  1. Great entry, Honey! Glad I was at 4/5 with you! I missed you rocking ou to Jerome...I think I was cheering at a JV BB game that night ;)

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