The Friday Five

[Kenneth R.]

1. A broken record player.
2. A working record player.
3. My laptop, my camera, two mugs of rum & coke.
4. A wall.
5. A throw pillow.

 

[Marwen]

1. What is directly to your right?
My electric guitar.
2. What is directly to your left?
My classical guitar / Bed / Open window
3. What is right in front of you?
A cup of coffe / A pen and some papers / Keyboard and monitor
4. What's behind you?
A desk with another computer, a midi keyboard, a mixer, and a tv screen hooked to the computer
5. What is the item closest to you that's blue?
A pen.

 

[mawdyson]

1. What is directly to your right?
Camera, MP3 player, table, etc.

2. What is directly to your left?
The arm of the chair I'm sitting in. Beyond that there is the fire and a few cloths horses.

3. What is right in front of you?
My laptop?

4. What's behind you?
An organ

5. What is the item closest to you that's blue?
Footrest

 

[Jax]

Show time!
1. Your first concert?
2. Your most recent concert?
3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
5. Your all time favorite concert?

 

[DoomsdayZach]

Relevant to my interests!


1. Your first concert?
Other than locals in Oly, my first real show was Iced Earth, In Flames and Jag Panzer. That show owned.

2. Your most recent concert?
Amon Amarth, Ensiferum, Belphegor and The Absence. Amon Amarth ruled.

3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
Probably the hundred bucks for maiden, or over a hundred for Wacken.

4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
Wacken, Germany from Seattle.

5. Your all time favorite concert?
Oh shit, too many. I mean this year alone, you got Paganfest (Ensiferum, Turisas, Tyr, Eluveitie, Suidakra, Oakhelm), Iron Maiden and Hellish Rock (Helloween and Gamma Ray). I'd say gamma ray was my high point this year, but then there's the wacken festivals (I'd say 2002 or 2005 were my highlights there)... there's just far too many amazing tracks.

 

[noble savage]

Show time!
1. Your first concert?
2. Your most recent concert?
3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
5. Your all time favorite concert?

1) *Sigh* Matchbox 20 when I was about 13. I did get a bunch of free condoms, though.

2) The Flower Kings' Pittsburgh show in 2006.

3) $30 for TFK's ticket and about $135.00 on merchandise, CDs and posters etc.

4) 10 miles or so

5) Matchbox 20... Just kidding, TFK show. On that note, When I set up the On the Virg myspace account, I put in an add request for The Flower Kings. The next day, I received a message from Roine Stolt saying how much he loved Virgil Donati/PX/OTV. I sent him back a reply saying how TFK's are one of my favorite bands and their Pittsburgh show was the best show I had ever seen. Roine was pretty sick that day and he replied it was one of their worst shows. I replied that they could have played Abba covers and it would have still been my favorite show ever.

 

[ABQShredHead]

1. Your first concert?
Iron Maiden/Fastway/Saxon... 1986?

2. Your most recent concert?
Kamelot, last year

3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
Two tix for Yanni - $98

4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
Albuquerque to Dallas - 647 miles

5. Your all time favorite concert?
Hmmm... back-to-back nights of Howe II in 1989, or DLR's Skyscraper tour. Nah, Blue Murder/King's X, Lubbock, 1994. Ah, I remember now....

 

[Swabs]

1. Your first concert?
Probably Dragonforce or something, about 3 or 4 years ago.

2. Your most recent concert?
Wacken Open Air Festival.

3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
Not including a Wacken festival ticket: Iron Maiden must have been about £25-30ish

4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
Wokingham to Leeds - 215 miles

5. Your all time favorite concert?
Blind Guardian at Wacken. Or Dream Theater being supported by Symphony X, and then seeing SX's headlining tour was great too.

 

[Kenneth R.]

1. Joe Satriani at Crissy Field, SF. I was 2 yrs old.
2. Can't remember. It has been too long.
3. $250ish for two tickets front row at 3eb on the 10th anniversary show DVD nights.
4. Oxford UK? SF? Driving... 5 hours to Philadelphia.
5. Too hard to say. So many good ones.

 

[symphonyXjapan]

This "Friday Five" only reminds me that I have yet to even see my FIRST concert yet...

I feel like such a loser because I truly got into music ala prog/power metal 6 or 7 years ago and have yet to be able to attend a concert. The closest to where I live that any worthwhile shows are held is Atlanta; however, that is still a 5-6 hour drive for me. I have missed at least 2, if not more, SyX shows in Atlanta because of other things that got in the way. The last couple of Prog Power's have had somewhat lackluster lineups and weren't worth my time or money. There was the one that SyX headlined some years back that had tons of other bands I wanted to see but you have to buy tickets almost a year before the festival because they always sell out in a couple of months or less.

Err...now I am depressed...

 

[Phanto]

Show time!
1. Your first concert?
2. Your most recent concert?
3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
5. Your all time favorite concert?

1. Probably Dia Psalma when I was a kid (Gröna lund, Stockholm)
2. AT THE GATES!!! And it was also the best one ever (Trädgår'n, Gothenburg)
3. Probably whatever I payed for Iron Maiden in '00 (Stockholm Stadium, Stockholm)
4. Not far.
5. AT THE GATES!!!

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Show time!
1. Your first concert?
2. Your most recent concert?
3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
5. Your all time favorite concert?

1)AC/DC with Pat Travers Band for openers 1979 Highway To Hell w/Bon
2) Prog Power 9 - 17 bands (+Midnight- ) over 4 days
3) The Prog Power ticket is probably the most, but I did see Van Halen from the front'ish row for face value in 1984...for a cheapest/best seat ticket. I still remember being able to get great seats if you camped out for tix the nighth before. Those days are LONG gone...
4) Atlanta, GA - 617 air miles, iirc most recently, but I did fly out to LA & SD for Keneally shows back in the day, those I guess would win....
5) This is a REAL tough one. Lots of people who aren't with us anymore (Bon, Randy Rhoads, etc) but I think for overall "fun"+historical signifigance, it would have to be the first time I saw Maiden at Chicagofest, a huge Chicago downtown music & food festival. That was in 1982, NotB tour... Super honorable mention goes to both Freak Kitchen sets I've witnessed at Prog Power....

1) *Sigh* Matchbox 20 when I was about 13. I did get a bunch of free condoms, though.

Still have them too, I'd bet! :Smokedev:

 

[ABQShredHead]

Zing!

 

[Meedleyx10]

1. Your first concert?
KISS on the "farewell" rolleyes tour in 2000 with Ted Nugent and Skid Row

2. Your most recent concert?
3 two weeks ago in Minneapolis

3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
40-ish

4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
Hour and a half

5. Your all time favorite concert?[/QUOTE]
Tough one...either my first dream theater show or the 3 show mentioned above.

 

[noble savage]

Still have them too, I'd bet! :Smokedev:

Well, I did run out of Kleenex a few times since then...

 

[J-Dubya 777]

Well, I did run out of Kleenex a few times since then...

TMI! TMI! Hehehehehehehehe

 

[progmetaldan]

Show time!
1. Your first concert?
2. Your most recent concert?
3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
5. Your all time favorite concert?

1. Joe Satriani- 2004
2. Opeth at Thebarton Theatre back in September
3. Dream Theater 'Meet n greet' package ticket earlier this year as pretty expensive...
4. Wayville showgrounds... (about 20 minutes) Though I would fly to Melbourne (couple of hours flight) to see certain bands if they missed Adelaide.
5. Have to go with Dream Theater in January this year, that was just a dream come true.


@Noble: That's awesome that Roine likes OTV/PX etc. and he seems a top guy as well! I'd looooooove to see them live, hopefully one day they get down to Australia, I'd travel anywhere within Australia to see them, you're heaps lucky!

 

[Beelzebub]

1. Your first concert?
Roger Waters doing a solo act, I think it was 1999.

2. Your most recent concert?
Suffocation

3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
$36, for Kreator/Napalm Death

4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
Brooklyn to see Sabbat (JP) (NYC is the best concert city, for real.)

5. Your all time favorite concert?
Seeing Symphony X with my lovely fellow forumers of course.

 

[schenkadere]

1. Your first concert?
UFO 1981

2. Your most recent concert?
Uli Jon Roth & Friends

3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
Any recent concert at a major venue...maybe this last Metal Master Tour(Priest,Heaven&Hell,Motorhead,Testament)...like 75 bucks a seat...a big disappointment...tailgating was the highlight.

4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
Same PNC Arts Center...been to a few shows there...takes me about 2 hours without traffic...yuck!

5. Your all time favorite concert?
Too many...standouts...Alcatrazz with Yngwie 1983...Symphony X at the beginning of the Paradise Lost tour at the Chance in NY...same venue, UFO with Vinnie Moore this year...Steve Morse at The World Stage in NY.

 

[EyeballKid]

1. Your first concert?
Metallica - 2000

2. Your most recent concert?
William Elliott Whitmore

3. The most you ever paid for a concert?
Upwards of $100 - Tom Waits

4. The farthest you ever traveled for a concert?
5 hours to St. Louis, also Tom Waits

5. Your all time favorite concert?
This is tough...I'll list a couple

- Tom Waits: both in Chicago & St. Louis. Can't choose, they were equally as mindblowing.
- Megadeth/Iced Earth in Rockford in an old movie theater with a 2 foot-high stage and no guard rail. I say damn was that awesome.
- Joe Satriani "evening with" show at HOB Chicago
- Iron Maiden/Dio/Motorhead at Madison Square Garden