Saw Progressive Rock band Pavlov's Dog last night at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. They are on their 50th Anniversary tour.
The band were in good form playing to a capacity audience and the average age of those there must have been somewhere between 60 and 80!
A review of the concert said as follows "After half a century of myth and missed opportunities, Pavlov’s Dog finally took to the stage in Melbourne, and the payoff was magnificent. The Corner Hotel was full to capacity, every inch of floor space heaving with long-time fans, and a few young’uns curious to see why this band has inspired such lasting devotion. The headline read “50th Anniversary Tour”, and the sense in the room was that history had finally arrived."
Last night went to see “… And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead” at Max Watts in Melbourne, Australia. An excellent concert focusing on their most highly regarded album "Source Tags & Codes".
Saw Christone "Kingfish" Ingram at the Forum Melbourne last night. He played for two hours in one of the best concerts I have seen in the last few years. He is undoubtedly one of the best, if not the best, blues guitarist of his generation.
Last weekend I got to see Ryosuke Kiyasu twice! Saturday in Buffalo, Sunday in Rochester. If you’re not familiar there are lots of YouTube videos, but basically he brings a snare drum and microphone, and asks the venue to provide a folding table, and then he just plays… everything.
Both nights were amazing but I think I liked Rochester better. It’s a viral video thing so people tend to watch through their phones, and that was definitely more in Buffalo than Rochester. I took a couple pictures before and after and resisted the urge, but I did bring my digital audio recorder the second night.
The one time I was most tempted to film was when the person in front of me was filming the screen of the person in front of him…
Saw Bob Dylan last night for the first time. Good show - my wife is the real fan and told me it was excellent. I would have liked a bit more volume on his microphones - he’s frail, and his voice does not have a lot of force, so at times it was hard to heard what he was singing. They changed up the arrangements of the songs from the recent album quite a bit, and closing with Every Grain of Sand was great.
Best of the three Rough and Rowdy Ways shows I have seen (DeVos October 2023, KZoo, April 2025). Using two acoustic guitars was a good change (normally only one and an electric, or both electric), and Dylan went back to a keyboard rather than a baby grand piano, which helps (he tends to bang on the piano too loudly).
Best of the three Rough and Rowdy Ways shows I have seen (DeVos October 2023, KZoo, April 2025). Using two acoustic guitars was a good change (normally only one and an electric, or both electric), and Dylan went back to a keyboard rather than a baby grand piano, which helps (he tends to bang on the piano too loudly).
Ha, did you have a good seat? We were about 8 rows back from the stage. He certainly banged the piano.
Ditto. I can't help wondering what the statistical chances are of two people unknown to one another outside a small internet discussion board that has zero geographical or genre-preference basis for membership getting adjacent seats at a concert.
AI says: "The chances of
meeting a specific, pre-determined random human being out of the8
billion people on Earth are extraordinarily low, often estimated around 1 in 10 million to 1 in 100 million in a lifetime."
Emusers is not quite random (shared inclination to go to concerts), but still. Amazing.
I have marveled that two Grand Rapids people are both on this very small website (and both college professors at that). If I ever ran into PeterFrederics, that would be really something.
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The band were in good form playing to a capacity audience and the average age of those there must have been somewhere between 60 and 80!
A review of the concert said as follows "After half a century of myth and missed opportunities, Pavlov’s Dog finally took to the stage in Melbourne, and the payoff was magnificent. The Corner Hotel was full to capacity, every inch of floor space heaving with long-time fans, and a few young’uns curious to see why this band has inspired such lasting devotion. The headline read “50th Anniversary Tour”, and the sense in the room was that history had finally arrived."
You can see from the second photo that there is good reason why the venue is called the Forum with its pseudo Roman construction!
Both nights were amazing but I think I liked Rochester better. It’s a viral video thing so people tend to watch through their phones, and that was definitely more in Buffalo than Rochester. I took a couple pictures before and after and resisted the urge, but I did bring my digital audio recorder the second night.
The one time I was most tempted to film was when the person in front of me was filming the screen of the person in front of him…
I was at the same show (although that was #30 for me).