which major acts have you seen

this is easy list the acts you have seen and if more than one of us has seen the same act compare thoughts on it.

major acts:
Metallica
Kiss
R.H.C.P.
Alice Cooper
Rammstein
Opeth
Blink 182
Green Day
Robbie Williams
Pink
The Corrs
The Police
Eric Clapton
Elton John
David Bowie
Bon Jovi
lesser acts but no less important
Steve Vai (G3)
Paul Gilbert
Shihad

ok this list is getting way to long...
anyone else???

maybe even put acts you would like to see

 

In order of favourites-


1.) John McLaughlin
2.) Herbie Hancock
3.) Joe Satriani
4.) Wayne Shorter

 

strings(lol...........wen dey came to delhi lyk 8yrs back or sumthing)
akon
Aurora Jane.

hell!! nobody eva comes to Delhi..............

 

I haven't even gone to one
I was going to go to bangalore for megadeth but then we suddenly postponed our exams to 2 hours before the concert. Shucks.

 

Bastard. Where did you see him?

I have seen Remember Shakti, Zakir Hussain, Roger Waters, Mark Knopfler

 

well, I was just being an arse and not saying Remember Shakti. I saw him with Remember Shakti too...he came to calcutta in 2006 (I think).


I also played a guitar that he used on stage. I got people to shake my hand for weeks after that. It was crazy ass....it had two high strings after the lows and plus a lot of strings like the sitar that give you the root (i forget the technical term for it).

and the next person who calls Paul Gilbert a lesser act gets skinned.

 

You're a even bigger bastard for this. I got the new cd.. Floating point. Not too impressed.

 

well he is a lesser act...
(my ratings were on international combined record sales)
but im not getting into a debate over how to rate acts...
personally he is my all time fav guitarest
and if i ever got a chance to play one of his guitars i think i would be to scared to touch it...

 

hah, yes! sympathetic strings.

It's a complicated story.


When Remember Shakti played in Cal, they invited Debashis Bhattacharya to play with them. Debashis is supposed to be the best slide guitarist in the world and a good friend of John's who stayed with him while he was in Calcutta. A friend of mine from guitar class also learns from Debashis Bhattacharya and since my guitar teacher(Amyt Dutta) is a huge McLaughlin worshipper and one of the bigger names in rock music in India, my friend managed to persuade his teacher to let him take the guitar to show to Amyt sir.

I've always wondered...are their album recordings one shot?

You kinda already did by rating him. Anyway, my point was that it'd be a lot better not to rate if you're going to go by record sales.

 

i've seen bruce sprinsteen and rahat fateh ali khan at triveni auditorium@2005
and beyonce at mumbai

 

I really doubt it. I have the "making of" dvd which came alongwith it. I'll watch it one of these days.

 

do it. and tell me. I saw a snippet of a making of dvd of theirs....I wonder if it was the same. In that one, Zakir calls John his musical soulmate or something to that effect.

 

Zakir Hussain is awesome. I've never seen anyone have that much fun on stage.

 

hah, in the calcutta show there was this point in a jugalbandi with John where he was making jaws drop and this guy in the audience shouted out aloud "Wah, Ustaad WAH" Taj Mahal chai ad style and he stopped, took a bow the way he does in the ad without adding the corny line and then continued without missing a beat.

I think we stole this thread.

 

When he plays he reminds me of a 6 year old kid. A 6 year old with fcking talent.

 

shit i forgot Within Temptation, Gunners, Ozzy, poison, europe, white snake, and a personal fav. Kiwi act the Warratahs

 

u can call me an ignorant fool........bt i hve neva heard of John McLaughlin.........what has he gotta do wid Zakhir Hussain??

 

That's nothing to be ashamed of. Just make sure you check him out though and see if you like what you hear. I'd reccomend starting off with the 60s.



sorry, I'm lying. You need to shoot yourself. Now.

 

yea well......thanx for giving me a complex...........
newayz i searched for him on ares all i could find was a song wid mahavishnu orchestra or sumthing..........

 

well, that's as good a start as any...he was with them in the 60s afaik.