Yma Sumac with Les Baxter at the Hollywood Bowl. Louis and Keely at the Desert Inn. Charlie Parker with Jackie Paris.
So many, especially folks that can no longer be seen. 60s - 70s Pink Floyd Grateful Dead Alice In Chains Johnny Cash Michael Hedges Soundgarden Beatles on the roof Jimi Hendrix The Doors CCR Maybe skip forward to see the gigs I was supposed to see in 2020.
Take it up to 88, send me back to 8/27/72, strip off my clothes, stick an Owsley tab in my mouth and put me on top of a pole.
The Doors one of the Roundhouse shows 1968 The Stooges Kings Cross 1972 Lou Reed Kings Cross 1972 New York Dolls with Billy Murcia opening for the Faces Empire Pool 1972 Jimi Hendrix any but that night when he got onstage with Cream not long after coming to the UK preferably Sex Pistols any will do The Velvet Underground with Cale (first time round) on a night when they do What Goes On The Fall North West Arts basement 23 May 1977 Public Image Limited any gig with Levene and Wobble Joy Division Derby Hall Bury 8th April 1980 John Cale a gig with him performing Sabotage Television any will do, probably CBGBs The Rolling Stones was going to say any 1969 show but I was at a 1969 show, Hyde Park. But I was only 2. How about one of their early gigs at the Crawdaddy as they always sound great in books.
Fairport Convention Nick Drake John & Beverly Martyn @ Royal Festival Hall, London, 24 September 1969
But knowing what you know now, you'd already know to bring raingear, avoid the brown acid, what sets to skip, etc.
For a whopping $6.50! What still blows me away are the fact that the Stones (among others back then) would play two shows a day....one matinee and an evening show!
Isle of Wight Festival 1970 seemed like a great festival. Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Chicago, John Sebastian, etc. (Also Tony Joe White doing “Polk Salad Annie” with Cozy Powell on the drums!!) What a great venue too. A huge farm with an amazing hillside view. Celebrating its 50th anniversary soon although the anniversary concert was postponed to 2021. Also: Watkins Glen Summer Jam (1973) Another great festival and venue. Grateful Dead, The Band and Allman Brothers Band.
Rush - Toronto Massey Hall 1976 Van Halen Whiskey A go g0 New years eve 1977 Dead -Cornell 1977 Any of Led Zeppelin's Earls Court shows 1975 Stones/King Crimson Hyde Park 1969 The Police Picnic shows here in Ontario would have been cool. I was a touch young for those.. Going further back, any live Art Blakey dates.
at places like the fillmore east it was common to have an early and late show usually 8 pm and 11:30 pm. of course the late shows usually went longer so it was better if you could make those. I saw zappa at the fillmore for a late show and walked out about 5 am I think.
Another I was at I would like to revisit, specifically for Pink Floyd, doing Atom Heart Mother at 2am in the morning and Led Zeppelin Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music - Wikipedia Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England on 27–29 June 1970 Michael Eavis was attendant at the festival and was inspired to hold later that year the first event of what would become the Glastonbury festival of contemporary performing arts.
It's gigs you don't remember right, not ones that you loved and want to see again. There are way more that I don't recall that I am so curious about how they sounded
I notice @hangwire13 etcetera'd the most critical considerations: clean room & board and an hygenic bathroom. Not even for Woodstock, my friend. Plus, in my creeping misanthropic agoraphobia I'd be screaming "social distancing" through my tears by the second day and no would understand. Moreover, if I attempted to the tell the pandemic tale I suspect they'd be less surprised than by the fact the whole kaboodle would sell on little plastic discs for $800 in 50 years.
Elvis, Scotty and Bill at Hobart Arena in Troy, OH Nov. 24, 1956 Ten Years After anywhere, anytime. Django & Stefan anywhere in France in the 30's. Beatles at the Star Club or the Cavern.
