I distinctly remember rocking up to the Empire in Liverpool on November 29, 1974 - full of expectation - to watch Pink Floyd perform The Dark Side of the Moon. I was 16.
Brings back a few memories! Like you, at the tender age of 16 (I think I'm a few months younger!), one of the advantages of an older brother who could drive - I could cadge a lift to gigs!
I saw that tour - Trentham Gardens, just outside of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Seem to remember we weren't that far from the front (close enough to feel the cold from the dry-ice vapour pouring off the stage!), pretty much directly in front of David Gilmour. The encore of Echoes was, well, mind-blowing!
Agree with your choice of their 3 best albums.
Oh for the days when bands played something other than stadiums and arenas! (I saw The Who, Deep Purple, Sabbath and Yes in the same venue).
Great memories Keith. I remember seeing Yes and Queen in Stafford Bingley Hall, affectionately known as the cowshed, Genesis with Peter Gabriel and ELP at the Empire in Liverpool and countless others at the Apollo in Manchester. These are great venues where you feel connected with the band. Stadium gigs generally suck. Many thanks for your comment!
Blimey. I saw Queen three times, not a huge fan of their later stuff but my ex wife loved them. Never saw Mott but we do have a tenuous link to Overend Watts, their late bass player.
Brings back a few memories! Like you, at the tender age of 16 (I think I'm a few months younger!), one of the advantages of an older brother who could drive - I could cadge a lift to gigs!
I saw that tour - Trentham Gardens, just outside of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Seem to remember we weren't that far from the front (close enough to feel the cold from the dry-ice vapour pouring off the stage!), pretty much directly in front of David Gilmour. The encore of Echoes was, well, mind-blowing!
Agree with your choice of their 3 best albums.
Oh for the days when bands played something other than stadiums and arenas! (I saw The Who, Deep Purple, Sabbath and Yes in the same venue).
Great memories Keith. I remember seeing Yes and Queen in Stafford Bingley Hall, affectionately known as the cowshed, Genesis with Peter Gabriel and ELP at the Empire in Liverpool and countless others at the Apollo in Manchester. These are great venues where you feel connected with the band. Stadium gigs generally suck. Many thanks for your comment!
Now Queen were support to Mott the Hoople when I saw them, at the! Victoria Hall, Hanley!
Only trip to Bingley was to see The Who.
Blimey. I saw Queen three times, not a huge fan of their later stuff but my ex wife loved them. Never saw Mott but we do have a tenuous link to Overend Watts, their late bass player.
Likewise, not a fan of the later stuff. This was the Queen1/Queen2 album era. Think they'd just released 7 Seas of Rye as a single
Seven seas. Fuck yeah. ‘Now I’m Here’ one awesome mofo of a riff.