Gigs - Comments by Excello-2101

Gigs - Comments by Excello-2101

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Excello-2101 SUBS 30th Mar 2015		Live Music Collective Soul @ Ziggy's (1999)	Caught this show with my son. The old Ziggy's was a very intimate place. No seats on the main levels, just at the bars, and anywhere in the place was great for viewing the stage. I remember that we got right up to the stage, and during the Collective Soul segment, I was maybe 4 feet from the guitarist, on his left, my right side of the stage. Enjoyed the show. Collective Soul was in support of their "Dosage" album, which would be released just a few days after this gig, with their hit "Heavy" coming from that album. The band was really tight musically. This was just a few months prior to their appearance at Woodstock '99. John
Excello-2101 SUBS 25th Mar 2015		Live Music Sevendust @ Ziggy's (2004)	As the address says on the ticket, this was at the old Ziggy's on Baity Street. Caught this show with my then 20 year old son, who was a Sevendust fan. The highlight for me though, was Nonpoint. I wasn't familiar with the band until this show, but either at the show, or a day or two later, I don't remember which, I bought a couple of Nonpoint CD's, which I still have. Between Nonpoint and Sevendust, I went up to the bar, and someone asked me how I liked the set. I turned around and it was the drummer for Nonpoint. I told him it was great, and it was. John
Excello-2101 SUBS 23rd Mar 2015		Live Music Yes @ Greensboro Coliseum Complex (1974)	My main memory of this show was of it being my first Yes show, my first concert with my new wife of less than a year, and the problem with festival seating. There was regular layered seating as you would expect from a coliseum, and they also had hundreds of folding chairs lined up many rows deep on the floor in front of the stage. We decided that since we could pick whichever seat we wanted, we would sit in the floor section, on folding chairs. Graphon came on but, I'm sorry to say, I don't remember much about their part of the show, except that everyone was respectful and appreciative and sat there listening to their set. There was a fairly long wait before Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite" began, softly at first and building in intensity. Then Yes started playing "Sound Chaser", and as soon as it started, everyone stood up, which means there were row after row of people in front of us on their feet. It wasn't a big problem for me, I'm a pretty tall guy, but my poor wife, who is vertically challenged, couldn't see a thing. After waiting a while and realizing that they weren't going to sit back down for the whole show, we started working our way toward the stage, trying to get to a spot where she could see. We ended up directly in front of the stage, right under Chris Squire. So close, in fact, we could see the spittle coming out of his mouth as he sang backup to Jon Anderson. But, that means we were also just in front of, and slightly below a bank of speakers. It was LOUD!! We couldn't hear right for days after the concert, but she could see, at least the Chris Squire part of the stage. Lesson learned about festival seating. John