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Post by Medazzatrash on Sept 5, 2015 8:45:55 GMT -5
1993 with my soon to be wife, in Phoenix, Arizona. They opened up with 5 acoustic songs including an acoustic Planet Earth. I remember them doing White Lines and I was completely confused....lol 2003 in New Orleans, 5th row. In this kind of warehouse club. The band was gritty. I remember them doing Beautiful Colours. Sound like awesome shows to seem pretty remarkable moments in the band's career. Wanted to bump this. I know others are holding back!
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Post by math on Sept 5, 2015 9:10:24 GMT -5
1989 electric theatre april nottingham UK. Was a powerhouse of a show. remember them being out of fashion at the time but the whole place rocked.
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Post by Mor Duran from Iceland on Sept 5, 2015 9:36:59 GMT -5
thoursday june 30, Egilshöll, Iceland.
had been waiting for 5 months since finding out about the show. went with a group of girlfreinds but I was the only one who had ticket for the front area. found my way to the front, in fornt of Jt´s mike. when the intro music started I got goosebumps all over and some how grabbed on the guy next to me; "it´s beginning"
the show ofcorse was a blast and because I got my good camera inn with me I have some great photos from that night. saw them again that year in Glasgow and won a M&G after the show and now I have a set of photos signed by all members hanging in my kitchenwall.
Since that night I´ve seen 4 show, Denmark 2008 and Sheffield and Manchester 2011. and now I´ve got tickets for Manchester and Leeds this november.
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Post by crimeandpassion on Sept 5, 2015 20:20:59 GMT -5
I saw Duran Duran for the first time the night of July 7th, 1987 at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana (On an aside that was the same arena where Elvis gave his last concert in 1977).
I had just turned 18. That evening I did my best to get my hairstyle to look the same as Roger's, put on my pastel blue t-shirt & white Member's Only-looking jacket (complete with epaulets) & did my best to show up looking like my favorite band member...even though, much to my chagrin, he departed the band more than a year prior. Erasure opened up the show. The crowd initially booed them yelling, "Bring on Duran Duran!" I'd never heard of them before, enjoyed their act, & ended up buying their album on cassette the next weekend.
Anyway, this concert was obviously during the "Strange Behaviour Tour" to promote the Notorious album. Nick was wearing the ostentatious Spanish matador suit, John was wearing the current 1987 tour t-shirt (red with the 3 black bars & gold star) saying the line, "This is something I think we all need right now; a New Religion." For two decades I thought that was a one off original line until Youtube came along & I saw JT repeat that line at every concert during the tour. Simon made several outfit changes throughout the show, wore a black beret & a gold cloak while singing The Chauffeur, & had that very cool spiky bleach blonde hairstyle. I heard of & saw Warren for the first time, his hair teased out with possibly an entire can of Aqua Net hairspray. The boys were backed up by the Borneo Horns during that tour & I thought their addition & arrangements were incredible, especially on New Religion, which forevermore became my favorite version of said song.
I recall being happily surprised when Duran played both a Power Station tune & an Arcadia number... Some Like It Hot & Election Day respectively. Of course if anyone remembers attending concerts back in those days cameras & recorders were absolutely prohibited & that rule was strictly enforced so I have no photos from the night... But, hey, I bought my ticket at face value at a SEARS box office for $13.50!!!! I still have that ticket taped to the inside of the tour book I bought that night by the way. To top the evening off the local pop radio station (WZPL) had a concert replay of the show later that night.
I've seen the guys in concert many times since, including seeing all 5 of 'em in Chicago in '03 during the reunion tour, but nothing could top the excitement I had during first show!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2015 6:13:26 GMT -5
The Latest & Greatest Tour (December 21, 1998 Wembley Arena, London), was the first time I saw them, and it was great when the concert was televised on VH-1.
Overnight Sensation (December 8, 1999 Earl’s Court, London), another excellent night.
The Pop Trash Tour (December 17, 2000 Wembley Arena, London), Hallucinating Elvis was cool at the time with the cgi Elvis. This concert was also shown on tv, ITV2.
The Reunion Tour (April 2004 Wembley Arena, London), this was the last concert I went too and my favourite as it featured all the five members and just rocked the night. I was to the right side of the stage and closer than the previous 3 concerts. I was there at the night when it wasn't filmed for dvd.
In recent years I have wanted to get a decent seat to see them, but they sell out very quick, which proves they are still a popular band!
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Post by aftertherain on Sept 6, 2015 6:30:28 GMT -5
I first saw DD in 1983 during the Australian Sing Blue Silver tour in Adelaide. I will never forget it and in fact it changed my life to an extent! (some say, 'It's never as good as the first time'). It was one massive open air show and their only open air gig down under. I had just turned 14 and went with a mate from my year 9 class.
Late November 1983 on one warm Friday summers night. DD played the open air Memorial Drive tennis centre, at the time there was no indoor 10 - 12,000 seater indoor arena in town. This was so major for me because it was my first major rock concert and this was at the venue where previously Led Zepplin, The Police, The Rolling Stones, Elton John and AC/DC had played. Basically anyone who had made it on a huge scale played here. Many years later U2 and INXS would play here too. Yet for one night in late November 83 DD was here to rock the place after only having only released 2 albums. (That could well be a record for this venue). What an achievement! Well OK after 3 albums, however 7&TRT had only been released 5 days prior to this show. If my memory serves me correctly the tickets for the show went on sale in August of that year.
We got there at about 5pm and sunset wasn't until 8.30pm, a little wait but so bloody worth it. The Little Heroes were supporting DD and I recall the B-side to Jacksons Thriller blasting thru the sound system sometime before showtime.
I'll never forget SLB looking to the stars for the moon prior to playing NMOM and asking the thousands where was is it? coz he couldn't find it considering the stage was facing west. Those monumental gigantic Corinthian columns were part of a massive stage set like a mini one sided Acropolis and I could see them from the car while being driven down War Memorial Drive as I was dropped off at the entrance gate. I remember the smell grass (trampled on grass that is) and every time I attend an outdoor rock show boy does it take me back. Every track from the S&TRT album was played live except for TT which was a recording as the band walked on. That JT/RT rhythm section was amazing. I remember AT and his ponytail swinging his guitar all dressed in white, Le Bon in black cargo pants with many zips and colourful yellow, blue and pink t-shirt.
The show rocked.......period ! And it was LOUD, this was way before curfews and outdoor sound restrictions were put in place. This was also the time when 70% (or thereabouts) of the audience were females making a lot of noise, so the sound had to rise above and be louder than the screams in order for anyone to hear it.
They opened with ITSISK and closed with GOF. I remember the middle chill out section which consisted of TSS, TC and SAP. One after the other. In between TSS and TC Nick played a snippet of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. How appropriate under a starry night. No laptop or iPad but a massive computer and screen which sat behind Nick which was the size of a family room TV. How innovative for back then. The intro to New Religion and the atmospheric smoke from the stage smoke machine blowing over the crowd on the grassed area like a blanket and then to the sky was something I'd never seen. They played The Reflex in its original form and RTs throbbing drum intro was truly something else. Who would have thought at the time that the reflex would do what it was to do in 5 months time. There was a percussionist, the girls from CHIC on backing vocals and Andy Hamilton on sax.
Unfortunately I have no photos, I guess I couldn't be trusted taking the family Minolta to a rock concert. They say "sometimes great moments are best captured in a memory which hold the true feeling that's so hard to convey". Regardless, it would have been great to chronicle for the sake of cherish-ing.
To date I have only seen DD x5 and the 20 year wait was way too long and totally unfair for those down under. My next show was at the Enmore in Sydney 2003 and to be honest it WAS as good as the first time in a totally different manner. I couldn't believe I scored a ticket to that intimate 2000 seater show, they actually opened with 'friends of mine'.
More about that gig another time.
Bring on Aussie Paper Gods tour 2016 !
Snapped this city north photo while taking a business flight, if you look bottom left you can see the outdoor tennis centre where DD played in 83 and a pic of what they wore.
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Post by arcadia1 on Sept 6, 2015 6:35:35 GMT -5
30 March 1987, Brussels. I was 16, got my mother to write a note for my absence at school. She just wrote that I wasn't able to attend because I was going to a concert. No lame excuse hahaha. I went in the afternoon, stood in line in the rain the rest of the day. When the doors opened we rushed to the stage. The concert was wild. I remember we were so packed in front that the girl who stood behind me just climbed up and stayed up just by being pressed by other audience members. Haha what a coincidence, same concert and same age. However I had seating tickets so I didn't have to skip school :-) Concert was indeed wild, big fan ever since.
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Post by suchawfulmanners on Sept 6, 2015 18:32:24 GMT -5
Mine is going to be the worst experience EVER!!! Went to see the Notorious tour in '86 at Merriweather Post Pavillion in MD.My girlfriend at the the suprised me with 2 nd row tickets.We got there about 30 minutes before the opening act which was Eurasure.2 of my friends went with us and he asked if he could sit in my seat for Eurasure.I said no problem.Let me go down there with my girlfriend and when it starts we will switch seats. 5 minutes into Eurasure my friend is walking up the isle with 2 security goons.They ask to see my ticket and kick us both out onto the lawn. I ask why and the Richard flips over the ticket and in small print says tickets non transferable . I said ok didn't see it let me back to my seat.They grabbed me by the arm and escorted me out.Needless to say I was pissed. This was my first concert sb1000. I went with a friend and her mom. We were in the 10th row, left aisle, the last row of the section. Who knows, maybe I saw your friend being escorted down the aisle?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2015 18:46:55 GMT -5
Sorry this has taken me so long. Life gets busy sometimes!
Anyway...
I was WAY too young to see the Fab 5 originals play live and Notorious, followed by Big Thing (before I got older and discovered Palomino & The Edge of America/Lake Shore Driving) had turned me off the band as I entered my teenage years. In fact, despite the fact that Ordinary World & Come Undone were huge hits I was aware of, I was busy going to see other bands and listening to other music between 1987 and 1997. Also, a factor was that I was mostly living in Portugal between 1986 and 1997, so I never really got a chance to see them. The last time they played in Portugal before the Astronaut tour was on the RIO tour in 1982!
I was in my early 20s when I moved to Boston in 1997. Per chance I happened to see an advertisement for an upcoming duran duran show at the Orpheum Theatre. Even though I hadn't really listened to them in years, the thought of seeing the band of my youth live was really appealing. Plus this was a relatively small room. Smaller than the Hammersmith Odeon (I know the name has changed), so it was especially exciting. My girlfriend at the time and I decided to line up for tickets, like in the olden days for the moment they went on sale.
Our experience in the line would alter both how I bought tickets in the future and how I felt about duran duran for the rest of time. First the bad: By 1997 the problem with lining up for tickets was that they took phone purchases at the same time (now it is all online) and so many of the tickets got sold so quickly that even being 10th in the physical line would result in crappy tickets. We weren't really that close to the front of the line and ended up in row Q! However bad that was ended up not mattering because the guy in front of us in line started up a conversation about the band while we waited for the ticket booth to open. He asked me about how much of a fan I was, and I embarrassingly said that I was a huge fan of the first 3 albums, but hadn't listened to much of the newer stuff; even Ordinary World & Come Undone, which I knew of. I told him I was more of a fan of alternative rock bands like Placebo.
Rather than chastise me for being a crappy fan, he chose to connect with me. He told me that I should really check out Medazzaland because, based on what I was telling him, I would really like it. He described it as an inspired link between RIO and new edgier alternative rock. What he said really resonated with me and described exactly what I was interested in. I wasn't skeptical either because I remembered really liking both Ordinary World & Come Undone and could see how that could progress to even more interesting alt inspired rock. So we got our not so awesome tickets and I made the walk from the Orpheum box office to Tower Records.
I bought the US Electric Barbarella single and Medazzaland which went on sale a mere 4 days prior. I didn't want to spoil the order of things so I listened to the single first. Not only was the lead track an amazing fusion between driving alt rock and electronica, but the Perfecto Mix of Out Of My Mind (which I hadn't heard previously) and Sinner or Saint just blew me away. The heaviness of Sinner or Saint especially left me floored and wanting more. Then it was time for Medazzaland proper and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Except for the title track (sorry Nick) it was one amazing song after another. I kept waiting for 1 song I did not like and it never appeared. How was this happening?!?!? Every song was incredible! I couldn't believe it. It was like we had broken up many years ago and then when we saw each other again we had both changed radically, but only to arrive at the exact same point. Medazzaland was the perfect duran duran album. I was in love all over again!
It was with great anticipation that my girlfriend and I made our way down to the Orpheum Theatre on Thursday November 13th 1997 and despite some weird power issues that had the crowd listen to a straight from the band's monitors version of Rio and some extra special mood lighting, it was a set I would never forget. Duran Duran were a living breathing entity back then; not a greatest hits tour machine and the set list reflected that. After the rendition of Medazzaland that only served as an intro we got the amazing new songs Big Bang Generation, Who Do You Think You Are?, Electric Barbarella, Out Of My Mind, Michael You've Got A Lot To Answer For, Be My Icon, and Buried in the Sand interspaced with classic hits Hungry Like The Wolf, A View To A Kill, and Save A Prayer. The guy in line with us couldn't have been more right. THIS WAS RIO MEETS ALT ROCK AND IT WAS AMAZING!!!
If that wasn't enough the coup-de-grâce was about to be put into effect in a way I could not have imagined. It was a two-headed monster that left me as happy as I had ever been at any show of any band. As a little kid I had the first four albums on cassette (Arena as the 4th) and the two I listened to the most were Rio and the 1st album rerelease (with Is There Something I Should Know). On the 1st album the one song I played over and over again and could never get enough of was Friends Of Mine. On November 13th in Boston duran duran broke into the most awesome rendition of Friends Of Mine I had ever heard! I couldn't believe it. How were they playing this song?!?!? Did other people like it as much as I did?!?! Did the band?!?!? It wasn't a hit and yet there it was in the set...
...but WAIT There's MORE!!! As a little kid, barely old enough to operate a turntable, one of my favourite records to spin was a single I had, but not for the A side of that single, which was amazing but I had on a cassette that was easier for me at the time. That single was Union Of The Snake and that B-Side (as we all know) was Secret Oktober. Just as I was picking myself off the floor from Friends of Mine and enjoying Careless Memories & Girls on Film, there was this eerie keyboard sound, heavy drums and a brilliant guitar solo I didn't recognize. What was this beautiful mystery??? Then the plucking guitar chords start and I got chills... could this be... no... I don't believe it... then Simon chimes in "Wise on a birthday party, in a world full of surprising fireworks, and sudden silence..." and I am ALL goose-pimples! I could have died happy at that moment. I turned to my girlfriend to try to explain what song they were playing and why it meant so much to me, but I think I was too overwhelmed to make much sense. That rendition of Secret Oktober alone was worth the price of admission. I'm still actually looking for a perfect soundboard version of Secret Oktober Live from the Warren era in lossless quality, so if you have that a PM would be greatly appreciated.
Medazzaland coupled with that show started me on a rediscovery of duran duran that would continue to this day. I went and bought all the albums released up until then on CD. I revitalized my vinyl duran duran collection by filling in missing pieces like singles and albums I only had on cassette previously. I actually listened to The Wedding Album, Thank You, and Liberty for the first time. I managed to get past Drug (It's Just a State of Mind) (a song I hated and kept me from going further on that album) and discovered some real gems on side 2 of Big Thing. My love affair was renewed. Growing up I was a big fan of Andy and loved Thunder, but it was Warren and his AMAZING songwriting and arrangements of duran duran classics that made me fall in love all over again. I didn't need Andy. I was more than happy that duran duran had reinvented themselves in such an awesome and inspirational way. I would never leave again.
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Post by SilverSungBlueBoy on Feb 24, 2016 18:39:47 GMT -5
I first saw DD in 1983 during the Australian Sing Blue Silver tour in Adelaide. I will never forget it and in fact it changed my life to an extent! (some say, 'It's never as good as the first time'). It was one massive open air show and their only open air gig down under. I had just turned 14 and went with a mate from my year 9 class. Late November 1983 on one warm Friday summers night. DD played the open air Memorial Drive tennis stadium, at the time there was no indoor 10 - 12,000 seater indoor arena in town. This was so major for me because it was my first major rock concert and this was at the venue where previously Led Zepplin, The Police, The Rolling Stones, Elton John and AC/DC had played. Basically anyone who had made it on a huge scale played here. Many years later U2 and INXS would play here too. Yet for one night in late November 83 DD was here to rock the place after only having only released 2 albums. (That could well be a record for this venue). What an achievement! Well OK after 3 albums, however 7&TRT had only been released 5 days prior to this show. If my memory serves me correctly the tickets for the show went on sale in August of that year. We got there at about 5pm and sunset wasn't until 8.30pm, a little wait but so bloody worth it. The Little Heroes were supporting DD and I recall the B-side to Jacksons Thriller blasting thru the sound system sometime before showtime. I'll never forget SLB looking to the stars for the moon prior to playing NMOM and asking the thousands where was is it? coz he couldn't find it considering the stage was facing west. Those monumental gigantic Corinthian columns were part of a massive stage set like a mini one sided Acropolis and I could see them from the car while being driven down War Memorial Drive as I was dropped off at the entrance gate. I remember the smell grass (trampled on grass that is) and every time I attend an outdoor rock show boy does it take me back. Every track from the S&TRT album was played live except for TT which was a recording as the band walked on. That JT/RT rhythm section was amazing. I remember AT and his ponytail swinging his guitar all dressed in white, Le Bon in black cargo pants with many zips and colourful yellow, blue and pink t-shirt. The show rocked.......period ! And it was LOUD, this was way before curfews and outdoor sound restrictions were put in place. This was also the time when 70% (or thereabouts) of the audience were females making a lot of noise, so the sound had to rise above and be louder than the screams in order for anyone to hear it. They opened with ITSISK and closed with GOF. I remember the middle chill out section which consisted of TSS, TC and SAP. One after the other. In between TSS and TC Nick played a snippet of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. How appropriate under a starry night. No laptop or iPad but a massive computer and screen which sat behind Nick which was the size of a family room TV. How innovative for back then. The intro to New Religion and the atmospheric smoke from the stage smoke machine blowing over the crowd on the grassed area like a blanket and then to the sky was something I'd never seen. They played The Reflex in its original form and RTs throbbing drum intro was truly something else. Who would have thought at the time that the reflex would do what it was to do in 5 months time. There was a percussionist, the girls from CHIC on backing vocals and Andy Hamilton on sax. Unfortunately I have no photos, I guess I couldn't be trusted taking the family Minolta to a rock concert. They say "sometimes great moments are best captured in a memory which hold the true feeling that's so hard to convey". Regardless, it would have been great to chronicle for the sake of cherish-ing. To date I have only seen DD x5 and the 20 year wait was way too long and totally unfair for those down under. My next show was at the Enmore in Sydney 2003 and to be honest it WAS as good as the first time in a totally different manner. I couldn't believe I scored a ticket to that intimate 2000 seater show, they actually opened with 'friends of mine'. More about that gig another time. Bring on Aussie Paper Gods tour 2016 ! Hey Aftertherain Great Review Dude! There are lots of memories I've of D2 that I remember so vividly I can recall where I was, what room I was in, what car I was in when I first heard Big Thing, etc. Events associated with D2 so vivid that they imprint on us in a sensory sort of way are way cool. That you can recall the smell of the grass is killer! You remember the temperature. The weather. The roar of the crowd. That concert had to be a highlight as expressed via your perspective. I wasn't fortunate enough to catch that tour in person. I watched As the Lights Go Down SO many times in my youth, Arena and SBS as well, that I feel like I was there. Your post reminded me that i wasn't! That's cool though 'cause I feel like I got to see it again through your eyes. Much obliged!
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