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DeBarge
Luther Vandross
Anita Baker (3x)
Prince (10x)
Kenna
Fischerspooner (barf)
Jill Scott
Patti LaBelle (3x)
The Dells
Bloodstone
Enchantment
The Emotions
B.B. King (2x)
Rachelle Ferrell (2x)
Al Jarreau
George Duke
St. Etienne
The Cure
Interpol
George Thorogood
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Liquid Soul
Buddy Guy (2x)
Edgar Winter
Mavis Staples
Bo Diddley
The Time
Faith Evans
Gap Band (2x)
Femi Kuti

Romera said:

Tell me ALL about the Gap Band shows!! (please)

badujunkie said:

They both were free concerts here in Chicago. At the first, almost ten years ago, they did all the regulars: Yearnin' For Your Love, You Dropped A Bomb On Me, Early In The Mornin', etc.

I saw them last year and it was a much better show that back then. They performed their classics but they also did Gash, Gash, Gash, Humpin', Party Lites, Shake and No Hiding Place. I was blown away and Charlie's voice was crystal clear. One of the best shows I've been to.

Oh, people I really REALLY want to see but NEVER fucking tour the UK:

Barenaked Ladies
Aerosmith (nearly saw them in 99 but everyone pulled out)
Stevie Wonder
Terence Trent D'Arby

Had tickets to see Janet Jackson once but she cancelled and never re-scheduled due to low ticket sales.

theAudience said:

I remember that tour. I like seeing Alicia Keys live (obviously), but I skipped that tour because of those other two.

Prince
Madonna
Michael Jackson
Janet Jackson
Aerosmith
Mariah Carey
Sheila E
Teena Marie
Lenny Kravitz
Roy Ayers
Andre Cymone
Sade
David Bowie
Lionel Richie
Annie Lennox
Aretha Franklin
Cyndi Lauper
Brand New Heavies
N'Dea Davenport
Common
The Roots
Sting
NERD
OAR
India Arie
Erykah Badu
Jill Scott
MeShell Ndegeocello
Christina Aguilera
Patti LaBelle
Take 6
Grace Jones
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Diana Ross
Chris Isaak
Zapp
Brandy
EnVogue
Betty Carter
Tony Toni Tone
Queen Latifah
Robert Randolph
Vanessa Williams
Seal
Des'ree
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paligap said:

Hey that's great Pali

U remember any personal highlights , like show-elements , stage-fx or different & extended played versions?
And who played along in Nard's band ? ... awesome that he did shows from his Mr. Wright album .

Thanx again P-gap

Janet Jackson (1814 tour...awesome!)
Hammer
Bobby Brown
Midnight Oil/Ziggy Marley
Boyz II Men
Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds (2X)
Prince (3X)

janet jackson 5 times
prince 3 times
tina turner 3 times
sarah mclachlan 3 times
bonnie raitt
britney spears
deborah cox
chaka khan
cher
cyndi lauper twice
christina aguilera
destiny's child
erykah badu
india arie
justin timberlake
lionel richie
madonna
mariah carey
mary j. blige
monica
natalie merchant
sade
sheryl crow
usher

100MPH said:

With Slave, I loved getting a chance to see Mr. Mark Adams playing bass live-- He and Mark King (level 42) are responsible for me wanting to pick up the instrument...

I remember 'Nard doing some extended Jams with bassist Victor Bailey and electric violinist Michal Urbaniak (I don't remember the drummer...), but that was pretty wild...


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paligap said:

Did Slave play " Steal Your Heart " " Stone Jam " " Sizzlin Hot " by any chance too ?

Aw yeah , i think Nard played around that year here at a Dutch Jazzfestival with the Wayne Shorter Band , including Victor & Michael ... the only year i didn't go to the fest

100MPH said:

Specific years are not my forte.

Brick is an interesting story. They showed up at a club I was playing at and asked to sit in.
The band I was with agreed. This had to be around late 75/ early 76 (before their 1st album was released).
We didn't know who they were but after Jimmy Brown threw down on sax, flute, trumpet & trombone we did.

The Controllers was a show in Georgia around the early to mid 70s.

The Brides/Bootsy's Rubber Band/Rufus were a packaged show for FAMU's Homecoming Concert (mid/late 70s).

I saw Tease a few times here in L.A. (BRE convention, Club Lingerie) during the mid-80s.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

prince
the Cult
New Order
Tribe Called Quest
Lauryn Hill
De la Soul
REM
Billy Idol
Arcadia
Siouxie and the Banshees
Gene Loves Jezebel
Madonna
Technotronic
Jody Watley
Soul 2 Soul
Lenny Kravitz
Cree Summer
Guy
New Edition
Erykah Badu
Outkast
Sade
Doodlebug(digable Planets)
Tina Turner
Antibalas
Bad Brains
Victor Wooten
Salt n Peppa
David Bowie
Meshell Ndegeocello
THe Roots
Big Daddy Kane
P-Funk
Corosion of Conformity
Gil Scott Heron


Theres more, but this is taking way too much thought ( at work, no less)


peace.

Prince
P-Funk
Dangelo
Maxwell
Janet
The Jackson 5
Michael Jackson
James Brown
Bootsy
Rapheal Saddiq
Meshell NDegechello
Mint Condition
Martin Luther
Cody Chestnutt
Kill Hill
Floetry
Frank McComb
RUN DMC
LL
Roger
Zapp
Ohio Players
EWF
The Time
Jonz
.....many others

Part 2:
The Roots
Luther
Sade
TTD
Seal
TLC
New Edition
.....I can't even remember them all.

theAudience said:

Whoa ... cool story

theAudience said:

Would've been cool too to see them in the 80's ... there are some gems on their albums from 1984 and 1986 .

theAudience said:

absolutely a treat of a package deal

theAudience said:

Tease , d@# ... that band was TIGHT !... i think i would've flipped if i heard them do Tingle , The Note , Better Wild Than Mild , Body Heat & Baby Be Mine .... HIT ME !!!

Thanx 4 sharing TA
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100MPH said:

NP.

The weird thing about Tease is that, at the time, their set consisted of more Prince songs than originals.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

Afghan Whigs
Air
Alanis Morrisette
B.B. King
Beck
Ben Harper
Built to Spill
Chaka Khan
David Bowie
David Byrne
Death Cab for Cutie
Depeche Mode
Dire Straits
Duran Duran
Echo & the Bunnymen
El Vez
Elvis Costello
Etta James
Flaming Lips
Flesh For Lulu
Flogging Molly
Frank Black
Gene Loves Jezebel
George Clinton / Parliament
George Michael
Goodness
Imperial Teen
INXS
Isaac Hayes
John Wesley Harding
Jurassic 5
Kristen Hersh
Level 42
Lindsey Buckingham
Liz Phair
Looper
Madonna
Midnight Oil
Minus 5
Mission U.K.
Modest Mouse
Morphine
Neil Young
Neko Case
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Nine Inch Nails
NRBQ
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
PJ Harvey
Posies
Pretenders
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Prince
Quasi
R.E.M.
Radiohead
Rilo Kiley
Robyn Hitchcock
Roger Waters
Sleater Kinney
Smashing Pumpkins
Soudgarden
Stephen Malkamus & the Jicks
The Amps
The Cure
The Drop
Throwing Muses
Tin Machine
Tom Waits
Twighlight Singers
Warren Zevon
Young Fresh Fellows
Joni Mitchell
Van Morrison
Bob Dylan

Including 'repeats' would be too much work...but Bowie, Black & Harding would top the list.

Adam & The Ants
Billy Joel
The Jacksons
Prince X 9
Larry Graham
Chaka Kahn
Paul McCartney
The Rolling Stones w/Guns 'n' Roses & Living Colour
The Rolling Stones w/Red Hot Chili Peppers
Luther Vandross
Morris Day w/The Fat Boys
De La Soul
Dread Zeppelin
The Bangles w/Red Hot Chili Peppers
Santana w/Al Green & Buddy Guy
Danzig
Beck
P-Funk All Stars
Badu
The Grateful Dead
Jack Johnson
Phish
Elvis Costello
Johnny Cash w/Beck
Dramarama
Max Roach
Mel Torme
Dave Sanborn
Midori
Jeffrey Osborne w/Kenny G.--they can't all be winners
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NDRU said:

I wanna go back in time and see these shows!

u2prnce said:

Guns 'n' Roses was better than the Stones at that show. Amazing energy, one of the best shows I've seen. The crowd for them was pretty much equal to the one for the Stones. They had "broken up" just days before, when Slash walked offstage because of his feuding with Axl, if I remember right.

Living Colour was really good, but it was still daylight when they played, plus it was raining, and the stadium was mostly empty.

I didn't know who the Red Hots were at the time. We thought they were total freaks. But I was only about 14. Little did I know that I'd grow to love them and pretty much forget about the Bangles. Too bad, though, Prince had been showing up to Bangles shows around this time, but not the one I was at.

Beck did a one man show for the most part. Loser was a huge hit at the time and he didn't sing it. It was all acoustic folk (keeping in mind that he was opening for Johnny, who was also in top form). He kept telling these long, long stories, and just when you'd think he'd completely lost his mind, he'd bring the whole thing full circle and it would make perfect sense.
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Romera said:

JackieBlue said:

HOLD UP , WAIT A MINUTE ! .....

..... details ?

Prince (3 times)
Earth Wind & Fire
George Clinton & All Stars (2 times)
Stevie Wonder
Curtis Mayfield
Commodores
Maze & Frankie Beverly
James Brown (2 times)
Maceo Parker + Fred Wesley + Pee Wee Ellis
Bobby Byrd & co (2 times)
Johnny Guitar Watson
Bobby Womack
Public Enemy
Ice Cube / Da Lench Mob
Melvin Gibbs
Chaka Khan (3 times)
Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers
Kool & The Gang (2 times)
Cameo
Gil Scott Heron
Michael Jackson (3 times)
Sly & Robbie + Taxi Gang
Dizzy Heights
Johnny Copeland
Airto + Flora Purim
Al Jarreau
Zawinul Syndicate
Connexion Latina
Irakere
Beach Boys
Kurtis Blow
Mothers Finest
Manu Dibangu
Gil Scott Heron (2 times))
Maynard Fergusson
Michael Brecker
Blood Sweat & Tears feat. David Clayton Thomas
James Taylor Quartett
MC 900 feet Jesus
Candy Dulfer (3 times)
Jamiroquai (2 times)
Naughty By Nature
Jazzkantine
Galliano
Boo-Yaa-Tribe
Neneh Cherry
Depeche Mode

Dancelot said:

I'm really interested how their Tours were from 1980 to 1984 .
Did you attend any of them ?

Dancelot said:

Awride ! Samoan funkrap .
I dig their version of Lakeside's "Raid"

100MPH said:

nope, sorry. I saw them in late 1987, after their commercialy most successful period, and half the audience was probably only there to hear "Word Up" being unfamiliar with their back catalouge. still it was a tight show




okay, someone else knows about them! so where have you been on my thread a couples of weeks back?
http://www.prince.org/msg/8/183909

I was at their show in 1996 and well, it was not anything like I expected.. not hard heavy Funk & Rap but rather straight forward Metal ALL the way through.... Armageeddon... probably the loudest gig I've ever witnessed... I left the show a bit confused... but still I bought that T-shirt on my way out

Prince (5 times)
Madonna (6 times,plus two shows coming up later this month)
Santana (numerous times)
Earth Wind and Fire (numerous times)
The O'Jays
Teena Marie
Larry Graham
The Isley Brothers
Lauryn Hill
The Brothers Johnson

plus I go to alot of multi-artist "Old School" R&B shows,where I have seen artists and bands like...

War
Tierra
Evelyn Champagne King
The Mary Jane Girls
The Stylistics
The Dramatics
Blue Magic
Rose Royce
Midnight Star,etc

DavidEye said:

You like Madonna???

Cheek said:

Yeah,I like a few of her songs

DavidEye said:

Oh, I remember! You mentioned earlier that songs like 'Jimmy Jimmy' changed your life forever!

How cute!