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Jack Tarlin
06-18-2008, 20:18
I haven't started a fun thread for awhile, so here goes. I'm presently holding down the fort at Casa Bfitz in northern VA, while he and a lady friend have gone off to Maryland to catch an Iron Maiden show.

Those of you who know me will not be surprised to learn that I declined his kind invitation to join them. The idea of four hours of live Iron Maiden......well, this will have to serve as my feelings on this: :eek:

So here's my question: What's the furthest any of you have gone off the Trail while hiking to see a musical event; what was the event, and was it worth it?

For me, it was getting off at Crawford Notch back in September 2003 and killing myself to get to Fenway Park in Boston in order to see Bruce Springsteen.

Oh, and yeah, it was worth it.

hopefulhiker
06-18-2008, 21:26
I did not get off the trail to see a concert although I did see a good jazz concert at that church in Deleware water gap, Crazy Horse performing with a little guitar on the trail, and that blue grass band at the store in Monson..

I saw Springsteen I think in 1980, with about 300 other people before he was big in a small auditorium in Chapel Hill. Excellent!

warraghiyagey
06-18-2008, 21:36
This may be a stretch but I'm going to add it anyways. I got a ride from Stratton back to Monson last summer to catch up with my friend Brit and got to see the Friday Night Jam at Tim's General Store which I had missed by a day on my way through a week earlier.
It was Fanfrickintastic.:sun

rafe
06-18-2008, 21:42
I did not get off the trail to see a concert although I did see a good jazz concert at that church in Deleware water gap, Crazy Horse performing with a little guitar on the trail, and that blue grass band at the store in Monson..

I saw Springsteen I think in 1980, with about 300 other people before he was big in a small auditorium in Chapel Hill. Excellent!


Funny about that Jazz festival in DWG -- I hiked right into it, unknowingly, in 2006. And you know, since the festival is literally on the AT, they couldn't not let me in. ;)

http://www.terrapinphoto.com/cpg143/albums/userpics/10001/normal_IMG_0215.jpg

Here's Crazy Horse and his guitar at Priest shelter:

http://www.terrapinphoto.com/cpg143/albums/userpics/10001/normal_IMG_0844_ann.jpg

Tin Man
06-18-2008, 21:42
I did not get off the trail to see a concert although I did see a good jazz concert at that church in Deleware water gap, Crazy Horse performing with a little guitar on the trail, and that blue grass band at the store in Monson..

I saw Springsteen I think in 1980, with about 300 other people before he was big in a small auditorium in Chapel Hill. Excellent!

I was 10 rows back in a small auditorium at Penn State around the same time. Awesome show. The last time I saw him, just a few years ago, he got all whiny and political and I will not be going again.

rafe
06-18-2008, 21:47
I was 10 rows back in a small auditorium at Penn State around the same time. Awesome show. The last time I saw him, just a few years ago, he got all whiny and political and I will not be going again.

Damn those artists and musicians for giving a sch!tt. :rolleyes:

Tin Man
06-18-2008, 21:52
Damn those artists and musicians for giving a sch!tt. :rolleyes:

They can give a sch!tt all they want on their own time. When they is on my time, not to mention dime, I want music, not bs. How about you? :rolleyes:

Jack Tarlin
06-18-2008, 21:55
Um, Hopeful, while I'm glad you were lucky enough to see Springsteen in such a small venue as late as that, he was pretty big by 1980!

Bulldawg
06-18-2008, 21:55
He might would pay more for the political whining than the music.

rafe
06-18-2008, 21:57
Great shows narrowly missed: Springsteen, several shows at U of Rochester campus, early 1970s. Grateful Dead, Atlanta, two nights running -- two days before I departed nobo from Springer. :datzGreat shows caught, on trail: Levi Long, Bastian VA, on fiddle. Sue Grace at the Doyle. Jazz fest at DWG. Bluegrass at (White Mtn?) Ramp Festival near Damascus.

Lone Wolf
06-18-2008, 21:58
They can give a sch!tt all they want on their own time. When they is on my time, not to mention dime, I want music, not bs. How about you? :rolleyes:

yeah really. S T F up and sing already. tired of hearing some dreadheaded jerk talk politics tween tunes. so cliche'

Tin Man
06-18-2008, 22:03
Um, Hopeful, while I'm glad you were lucky enough to see Springsteen in such a small venue as late as that, he was pretty big by 1980!

Maybe his dates are off. I just realized I first saw him before Born to Run came out. Yikes, I must be getting old. :eek:

Bulldawg
06-18-2008, 22:04
Maybe his dates are off. I just realized I first saw him before Born to Run came out. Yikes, I must be getting old. :eek:

I'm sitting here watching some show on VH1 I think about 80s music. All these songs are my songs I grew up with. When I see it on TV that the song is over 25 years old, I'm like, DAMN I am getting old.

JAK
06-18-2008, 22:05
Well yeah, but they do kinda have a tradition to uphold also, as bards or trobadours or whatever. They should work into the act though, and if isn't entertaining or inspiring then their just not doing it. If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark they can't stop them, and they should know that as much as anyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiJ4vFZhxQI

rafe
06-18-2008, 22:06
They can give a sch!tt all they want on their own time. When they is on my time, not to mention dime, I want music, not bs. How about you? :rolleyes:

Hard to say. The GD never pontificated, which I did appreciate. And some folkies annoy me with all their yapping (Peggy Seeger drove me nutz at a coffeehouse in Marblehead MA.) You're the consumer; your choice is to buy a ticket or not. The artist gets to choose, as well. That's how it works. ;) Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger or Utah Phillips -- without politics -- would be nobodies.

rafe
06-18-2008, 22:08
I'm sitting here watching some show on VH1 I think about 80s music. All these songs are my songs I grew up with. When I see it on TV that the song is over 25 years old, I'm like, DAMN I am getting old.

Musta sucked growing up in the Reagan years. ;)

JAK
06-18-2008, 22:10
Sorry I got that wrong - that song's meant to be played live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sI7NTZpKok

Bulldawg
06-18-2008, 22:11
Musta sucked growing up in the Reagan years. ;)

It was fabulous. Reagan was the greatest President this country has ever had. He didn't take any ***** off anybody. GWB could take some lessons.

Tin Man
06-18-2008, 22:11
yeah really. S T F up and sing already. tired of hearing some dreadheaded jerk talk politics tween tunes. so cliche'

I see Ted is on tour. Maybe we could have a WB gathering at one of his gigs and see how people feel about what he might have to say. Betcha terrapin would enjoy that. :D

http://www.coasttocoasttickets.com/buy/tednugent_tickets.htm

JAK
06-18-2008, 22:11
I think it's meant to be heard live also. Ah well.

Bulldawg
06-18-2008, 22:17
I see Ted is on tour. Maybe we could have a WB gathering at one of his gigs and see how people feel about what he might have to say. Betcha terrapin would enjoy that. :D

http://www.coasttocoasttickets.com/buy/tednugent_tickets.htm

Ted is the MAN!!!!

JAK
06-18-2008, 22:17
Maybe if the audience left the politics at home that would be a good start also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVhb4KFO6nk

JAK
06-18-2008, 22:26
***? LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HlWrb7hZgY

hopefulhiker
06-18-2008, 22:28
Actually Jack it might have been in the late 70's.. It was so long ago. but I started listening to Bruce back in 75 or 76....

JAK
06-18-2008, 23:38
Here is Bruce Growin' up in '72, age 25.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dy7RTicVr0

JAK
06-18-2008, 23:51
This originated with The Boss also...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDOkXxl_KWY

JAK
06-19-2008, 00:11
Actually, that song originated with the other boss, and their might be an AT connection...

Acts 22:6-11 (KJV)
6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts%2022:6-22:11&version=9

funkcicle
06-19-2008, 01:53
Answering the original post.. I'll be sectioning SOBO through SNP and then some in the two weeks between AllGood music festival (Masontown WV) and Floydfest (Floyd VA), then another two weeks south for a small gathering in Boone NC. Not sure where to hike and where to hitch yet(a little bit of hitching will be required to keep my schedule), will probably post a thread for planning advice in the next few weeks.

Any other hikers hitting either of these fests?

fiddlehead
06-19-2008, 05:29
I was in Bolivia in '95 when i decided to come home and hike the AT again.
Five days later, i was on springer.
It was already May so i knew i couldn't lollygag too much.
In the 2 days that i was at home in PA buying and packing drop boxes, Pink Floyd was in Phila. I didn't go and it was one of the most regrettable things i didn't do.

I don't think they've toured since and as those of you who know me can relate: i love this band and even spent 5 years of my life listening to nothing else.
Even now when i'm playing here in Vacationland to rich Europeans, i always fit one floyd song in early to see if there are any die-hard fans out there. (Often an old obscure one)
As far as muso's getting political. They have pretty much always been the soul of the people and are free minded people. Very unlike the sheep of the world and often should be at least listened to. However, i believe they should say it in their music and not between songs. U2 is a good example as are many or your Irish bands. They have a real musical freedom society over there and it's why many great musos and poets come from there.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents. I did see Grism (without Garcia) on a hike once in CA.

mrc237
06-19-2008, 05:32
Once took the train into NYC from AT station outside Pawling. When I arrived in Grand Central Carly Simon was giving a free concert in the Grand Lobby it televised that night on A&E.

max patch
06-19-2008, 06:56
Tanglewood in MA.

Great facility.

Learned I don't like classical music even when its done by the Boston Pops.

rafe
06-19-2008, 08:45
I did see Grism (without Garcia) on a hike once in CA.

Dave Grisman? Dawg?

Garcia didn't hike I guess, but he took up scuba late in life. Seems to be a favorite sport for fat people. ;)

Bare Bear
06-19-2008, 09:06
Not sure if this counts: 1989? (long time ago) I took a week off and flew back to FL, drove to the Keys for a friends wedding. After the wedding we went to Islamorada Tiki Bar to hang out and Beach Boys Mike Love was there with jamming that night with the band. It was just a fluke that he was there, not paid or planned.

rafe
06-19-2008, 09:11
Learned I don't like classical music even when its done by the Boston Pops.

da man ain't got no culcha...

hint: they call it 'pops' for a reason. you want classical, you've got the wrong orchestra; that would be the boston symphony.

max patch
06-19-2008, 09:20
da man ain't got no culcha...



You're probably right, I won't argue the point. Although next week I'm eating at Richard Blais's restaurant so that oughta count for something.

But Itzhak Perlman played with them. I figured that was about as classical as one can get.

MOWGLI
06-19-2008, 09:22
Dave Grisman? Dawg?

Garcia didn't hike I guess, but he took up scuba late in life. Seems to be a favorite sport for fat people. ;)

Friend of mine who saw the Dead over 500 times (really) met Garcia on the island of Bonaire in a bookstore just before he died. My buddy thanked him for a Rex Foundation grant that he had received. Garcia was there to dive.

http://www.t-shirt-art.com/images/airg.jpg

warraghiyagey
06-19-2008, 09:24
hint: they call it 'pops' for a reason. you want classical, you've got the wrong orchestra; that would be the boston symphony.

Maybe he should have sought the Boston Lagers.

McPick
06-19-2008, 17:51
Interesting timing, Jack, given the PM I sent you earlier today!

In the beginning of June '06 I was stuck in Pearisburg, VA with painful shin splints (dang those down hills!) on both legs. I was contemplating leaving the trail when friends from Missouri called to say they had tickets to the Riverbend Music Festival in Chattanooga, TN. They had an extra ticket... Would I like to go? I got to the Interstate and a bus depot, with my pack, my poles and two bags of ice for my legs, realizing that I had a ride home if I couldn't get back on the trail.

http://www.riverbendfestival.com/front.htm (http://www.riverbendfestival.com/front.htm)

The festival has 6 stages, with musicians from everywhere playing much of the day. Let me assure you that one must walk very carefully in the midst of 150,000 people who are all drinking lots of beer and are jambed into a very small area. Friday night's big show was Trisha Yearwood. I'm not much of a country/western music fan, but I must say she was terrific!

The big show on Saturday night was the Allman Brothers Band. My friends had tickets in the VIP section (stage right), and in the reserved seating area just in front of the stage. They gave me their reserved seating ticket so I could sit away from the enormous (tens of thousands) masses of people. I actually never went down to my assigned seat. I sat at the top of the reserved seating section, just off center at stage level. (The stage is something like 3 or 4 stories high, off the river, so sitting higher was spectacular.) There are huge video screens all around so there were plenty of close-up shots of the musicians.

That night the band included Gregg Allman, original drummer Johnny "Jaimoe" Johnson, original drummer Butch Trucks, returning lead guitarist Warren Haynes (of Gov't Mule who is an amazing guitar player in his own right), percussionist Marc Quinones, bassist Oteil Burbridge and slide/lead guitarist Derek Trucks.

Derek Trucks is Butch Trucks' nephew, What a lead guitar player!! He never uses a pick. He warmed the crowd up with a fabulous performance on another stage with his own band, before joining Gregg Allman on the main stage for the final show. http://www.derektrucks.com/index.html (http://www.derektrucks.com/index.html) He and Warren playing some of the great old leads together was astonishing. (Dickey Betts might have even been proud... Naaaaa.)

The world knows Oteil Burbridge as the Allman Bros.' bassist who also warmed up with his own band, on another stage prior to taking the stage with Gregg Allman. http://www.oteilburbridge.com/ (http://www.oteilburbridge.com/).

The show was just fantastic. Even old Gregg Allman was in top condition. At one point he left his keyboards and took center stage with his acoustic guitar to belt out "Sweet Melissa." They came back for an encore and played "Whipping Post."

The entire festival ended with an unbelievable fireworks display over the river that went on and on and on... WHOA!!

P.S. The next day my friends asked if I was going home with them to Missouri or back to the trail. I grabbed two more bags of ice and asked them to drop me at the bus station... :)

trailangelmary
06-19-2008, 20:22
Great shows narrowly missed: Springsteen, several shows at U of Rochester campus, early 1970s. Grateful Dead, Atlanta, two nights running -- two days before I departed nobo from Springer. Great shows caught, on trail: Levi Long, Bastian VA, on fiddle. Sue Grace at the Doyle. Jazz fest at DWG. Bluegrass at (White Mtn?) Ramp Festival near Damascus.

And Sue Grace is still enjoyed by many hikers at the Doyle Hotel in Duncannon.


I was in Bolivia in '95 when i decided to come home and hike the AT again.
Five days later, i was on springer.
It was already May so i knew i couldn't lollygag too much.
In the 2 days that i was at home in PA buying and packing drop boxes, Pink Floyd was in Phila. I didn't go and it was one of the most regrettable things i didn't do.

I was there. It was awesome. Went with Peace Frog, his something like 9th Pink Floyd concert. My first. I had a blast!

trailangelmary
06-19-2008, 20:23
Hey, Jack. Great thread. I rated it EXCELLENT!

Jason of the Woods
06-19-2008, 20:29
I got off of the trail from eighteen until about twenty-seven. I saw many concerts and they were all worth it, even the ones that I don't remember that well.

Oh yeah, my friend's second cousin's friend's sister's uncle didn't know anyone or party with them before they died. Who cares? What does that have to do with anything?;)

Jason of the Woods
06-19-2008, 20:31
That's great! Trail music is the bestest!
Funny about that Jazz festival in DWG -- I hiked right into it, unknowingly, in 2006. And you know, since the festival is literally on the AT, they couldn't not let me in. ;)

http://www.terrapinphoto.com/cpg143/albums/userpics/10001/normal_IMG_0215.jpg

Here's Crazy Horse and his guitar at Priest shelter:

http://www.terrapinphoto.com/cpg143/albums/userpics/10001/normal_IMG_0844_ann.jpg

smokymtnsteve
06-19-2008, 20:32
FOODSTOCK, is happening this weekend at the HOWLING DOG SALON in Fox,Alaska

Jaybird62
06-19-2008, 22:30
Maybe he should have sought the Boston Lagers.

Heeeeeeheeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeee:D:D:D

ATSeamstress
06-20-2008, 01:02
Being a section hiker, I'm usually not on the trail long enough to take a break for a concert, although I love live music.

While hiking in Grayson Highlands, I came upon a hiker sitting at the side of the trail playing a flute! Being a flutist myself it was pure trail magic. I'd never bring my flute though, too heavy, although I have been known to bring my harmonica.

Another fond memory was at Bear's Den Hostel, where there is a piano and a guitar available for guests to play. When I was there, someone did play that guitar and it was sweet music to my ears. There was some easy music available at the piano so I played a few tunes myself while another lady sang. That was a fun evening.