Faith No More

[Johnny Mac]

Went again in 1990
# Whitesnake
# Aerosmith
# Poison
# Quireboys
# Thunder

I went to that one. I drank so much beer that when Aerosmith flew in on Concord and landed at East Midlands Airport I was still unconscious and my mates woke me up about 10 mis before they came on stage. I got quite near the front after plenty of 'Argy Bargy'! It was a great day I managed to watch Whitesnake with Steve Vai and we left two songs before the end and saved ourselves about 5 hours queuing to get out of the car park.
I think the ticket price was around 20 quid.

The 1984 one sounds good!

Off Topic Jonathon, you're welcome to join us next Saturday. We're all going to be showing each other our toys in a studio in N1.  :D

[shobet]

I can remember Whitesnake and Poison for the 1990 one, but I'm buggered if I can remember the rest of the bands that day. The joys of alchomohol! 

[Afghan Dave]

Went again in 1990
# Whitesnake
# Aerosmith
# Poison
# Quireboys
# Thunder

I went to that one. I drank so much beer that when Aerosmith flew in on Concord and landed at East Midlands Airport I was still unconscious and my mates woke me up about 10 mis before they came on stage. I got quite near the front after plenty of 'Argy Bargy'! It was a great day I managed to watch Whitesnake with Steve Vai and we left two songs before the end and saved ourselves about 5 hours queuing to get out of the car park.
I think the ticket price was around 20 quid.

The 1984 one sounds good!

Off Topic Jonathon, you're welcome to join us next Saturday. We're all going to be showing each other our toys in a studio in N1.  :D

I was there too!

Great lineup and a f**king sensible ticket price.

Had a brilliant day with the best girlfriend I've ever had... Oh happy days.  (She's married to a German now :( )

[MrBump]

Went again in 1990
# Whitesnake
# Aerosmith
# Poison
# Quireboys
# Thunder

I went to that one. I drank so much beer that when Aerosmith flew in on Concord and landed at East Midlands Airport I was still unconscious and my mates woke me up about 10 mis before they came on stage. I got quite near the front after plenty of 'Argy Bargy'! It was a great day I managed to watch Whitesnake with Steve Vai and we left two songs before the end and saved ourselves about 5 hours queuing to get out of the car park.
I think the ticket price was around 20 quid.

The 1984 one sounds good!

Off Topic Jonathon, you're welcome to join us next Saturday. We're all going to be showing each other our toys in a studio in N1.  :D

I was there too!

Great lineup and a f**king sensible ticket price.

Had a brilliant day with the best girlfriend I've ever had... Oh happy days.  (She's married to a German now :( )

Me too.  I seem to remember lots of noise at the time about Whitesnake topping Aerosmith, but I was more into Vai than Perry...

Remember that Vai solo spot where the stage went dark with one spotlight on his Ibanez ringing out a single note as it floated up into the air..?

Priceless!

Girlfriend at the time made me stand at the front with her on my shoulders while Poison were on...  Damn, that was hard work...

Mark.

[Afghan Dave]

Yup Vai's solo spot was classic. A consummate showman.

The guitar was covered like a mirror ball and the effect as it spun into the rig was spectacular.

[gingataff]

Me too.  I seem to remember lots of noise at the time about Whitesnake topping Aerosmith, but I was more into Vai than Perry...

Remember that Vai solo spot where the stage went dark with one spotlight on his Ibanez ringing out a single note as it floated up into the air..?

Priceless!

Girlfriend at the time made me stand at the front with her on my shoulders while Poison were on...  Damn, that was hard work...

Mark.

I wish I'd gone to that one (and the 1987 lineup was great too), but Tommy Vance played Whitesnake's performance on the Friday Rockshow and I taped it and listened to it over and over again...

[psy]

FNM are fantastic.  King For A Day is favourite album by them by a long shot.  I seen them headline at the Phoenix festival in 1995 & can't wait to see them again.  :)

[Johnny Mac]

Gingataff that Tommy Vance broadcast is out there in cyberspace as a rather large mp3. Its on my ipod. Can put it on a cd for you!

Do you know i can't even remember Poison being there I was so pissed up. The beer tent had a super efficient system to keep down queuing. So i ended up skulling around 10 pints in 2 hours and fell asleep  :lol: Even the sound of Concords engines were not loud enough to wake me up! That was one of the Whitesnake V Aerosmith one-up-man-ships between the bands. A ffing Concord! Fantastic.  :D

[gingataff]

Gingataff that Tommy Vance broadcast is out there in cyberspace as a rather large mp3. Its on my ipod. Can put it on a cd for you!

Cheers Johnny. I might see if I can track it down first, if not I'll get in touch! He also played a live show that WASP did at Hammersmith that I listened to over and over again for years. I wish I could find that one on the web.

[Johnny Mac]

Gingataff that Tommy Vance broadcast is out there in cyberspace as a rather large mp3. Its on my ipod. Can put it on a cd for you!

Cheers Johnny. I might see if I can track it down first, if not I'll get in touch! He also played a live show that WASP did at Hammersmith that I listened to over and over again for years. I wish I could find that one on the web.

Try looking in the newsgroup k.b.music.mp3 for the Whitesnake live at Donninton

No luck with the WASP one though.It may turn up one day.

[Nadz1lla]

Agreed, Chuck Moseley was a godawful vocalist, but I do find those first two albums uncannily addictive to listen to...it's odd. I think it's just because his style and lyrics and the whole sound remind me of the "good" 80's, hehe. Patton's vocals on The Real Thing were good but I think his vocals improved with each album. My faves by far are Angel Dust and King For A Day, although I used to hate the latter on the basis that Jim Martin had left.  :)

I would go to download but it's way too much money just to go and see one band. Can't say many of the others on the bill really interest me.

[nfe]

I'm going to Download purely off the back of Faith No More, I had no intention of ever going to a mainstream rock festival in the UK ever again until that announcement.

Wonderful, wonderful band.

[noodleplugerine]

I'm a massive mike patton fan, and think that Faith No More coming back is an absolute godsend. Real shame that I can't go to download this year. Hoping they play at another festival I'm going to.

[nfe]

I'm a massive mike patton fan, and think that Faith No More coming back is an absolute godsend. Real shame that I can't go to download this year. Hoping they play at another festival I'm going to.

They're not playing anything else in the UK at all. There will be European dates though, and I'd wager there'll be more stuff next year.

[gwEm]

have throughly enjoyed reading this thread :)

nu metal would have happened anyway, there are other bands which clearly influenced that genre, for example pantera, or even zeppelin.

i don't like faith no more 'per se', but they are a massive band, and also in retrospect quite innovative.

naturally i'd rather see 'high and dry' period def leppard, but i'll pick faith no more as headliners over their current line up.

to the older guys - music moves on, i'm enjoying the nostalgia, but the kids do stuff differently now, doesn't mean its bad.

more controversy from crazy joe! Not everyone is younger than 25 mate :) but some interesting points in your posts i think.

i'd love to see rammstein, rage against the machine, system of a down, or the prodigy headline :) now thats showing /my/ age!

agree that Download is a sort of Monster Of Rock remix. I doubt I'll ever attend either - I have a dislike of festivals.