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Live shows of your favorite band

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I just LOVE watching bands playing live on DVD or the old TV. It brings an honest approach on how to play a particular song live, without all the comforts that a guitar player has in the studio, not to mention the tricks that are at his or her disposal there!

In the studio you can overdub like crazy, not to mention the retakes as well. If your not a musician and your reading this, there are MANY times/songs in ones musical career, that they wish that they had a second chance to play a certain song again, while performing live!

While just sitting back and chilli’n after work, I happened to come across this site that had great live shows from bands that I love to figure out some of their tunes! The site is called Wolfgangsvault and just check out who they have there!

Here, I found a couple of real nice classic tunes. Some of them I have been looking for ages and were only too happy to find them. On a few of them, the camera angles that they used, are not the best for what I need of them. I get the odd little view of what the guitarist is doing and that is great, but it always leaves you wanting more!

The site seems to have it all, in regards to band memorabilia. Posters, copies of back stag passes and GREAT pic’s! I wish that my finances were a bit better because they certainly have some real nice things that I’d LOVE to have.

If your a musician, have you attempted to lift ways of playing a particular song from watching the band in a live performance? Has anyone else been to this site? Have you ever used this site and what do yo think of it!?

Keep on Jammin’





Catching Neil Young in Toronto

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I went to see Neil Young the other day at the ACC (Air Canada Centre) in Toronto and I was not disappointed! Neither was anyone else that attended.

My brother in-law Steve won the tickets when he was in Toronto a week ago visiting a dear friend having open heart surgery. He was there as moral support for her husband who just hates being in Hospitals.

The night he was down, Steve and the patients husband went to a bar across the street from the hotel that he was staying at for a beer, a laugh and a bit of a distraction.

There was a draw for some Neil Young 2 tickets (way up in the nose bleeds) and he won them! He needed someone to go with, so he choose me!

The tickets are not as bad, as one would think. They to the right of the stage and we were around 20-30 seats away from the roof of ACC. With vantage point that we had, we could see the side of the stage, the ramp that Neil and boys came in on and we could see his equipment and his foot pedals. The position of our seats were also more in front of the stage then behind. There was some big screens to show the more intimate close ups of him and his band which was a nice touch.

The set that night was a nice collection of his classics and some from his latest album! Of coarse his early stuff was fabulous that goes without saying, but to tell you the truth, his new tunes were just about as good! The best song of the night was his encore. He played, with his wife on stage the whole night, A Day in the Life by the Beatles and the place went BANANAS!!! I never in a zillion years would think that he would do this classic tune, but only great ones always keep you thinking … and he didn’t disappoint us this night!

So overall I give the show two big thumbs up!

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