Which gigs would you travel back in time for ?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by MikeMusic, Jul 27, 2020.

  1. Kassonica

    Kassonica Forum Resident

    Hendrix woodstock and all BOG shows

    any joy division show

    any Smiths 1986 show

    Coltrane Village vanguard

    any Miltons playhouse show after hours in 1940, specially with Charlie Christian

    Any can show in 74

    Last Talk Talk Show
     
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  2. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

    Location:
    Central PA
    Only the "Woodstock" of Time Travel gigs:
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    Don't forget to pack my AK-47, and a spray-bottle of COVID.

    Also, some Gummy Bears for a snack (although not Haribo, those are dangerous...!)
     
  3. Moonbeam Skies

    Moonbeam Skies Forum Resident

    Location:
    Phoenix, Arizona
    You can imagine what it would have been like to be there. But to imagine a scenario where you go back in time is absolutely impossible.
     
  4. john lennonist

    john lennonist There ONCE was a NOTE, PURE and EASY...

    Beatles in Hamburg.

    The Monterey Pop Festival (1967).

    One of Ken Kesey's "Acid Test" multi-media shows, with the Grateful Dead supplying the music.

    The Doors as the Whiskey, with Jim in at least semi-sober shape.

    Howlin' Wolf in a Chicago dive.

    The Rat Pack in Vegas -- on an evening where both Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford either were out of town with other commitments, or had the flu... leaving us with the trio of Dino, Frank and Sammy.

    Charlie Parker in Paris.

    Jimi at the London club gig that made the Beatles' jaws drop and made Clapton consider to stop playing guitar.


    ... and I would like to re-attend three shows I saw:

    "Thick as a Brick" tour show -- Best Concert I've ever seen

    "Who's Next" tour show -- 2nd Best Concert I've ever seen

    DiVinyls "Desperate" tour show in the band's hard-rockin' days... -- in the same location where I was -- about 12 feet from Chrissy
     
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  5. BroJB

    BroJB Large Marge sent me.

    Location:
    New Orleans
    I'd go back and settle in for a weekend at Newport Jazz in 1958, where I'd see

    Mahalia Jackson
    Miles Davis
    Duke Ellington
    Chuck Berry
    Ray Charles
    Benny Goodman
    Thelonious Monk
    Louis Armstrong
    Max Roach
    Anita O'Day
    Dave Brubeck... and many others.

    Apart from being an astonishing collection of giants, just to put Ellington, Davis, Berry, Armstrong and Charles in the same place makes this essentially a summit meeting of the most important musicians in the history of popular music up to that date.

    I can't think of any other musical gathering that delivered that much undisputable genius and significance in one shot.
     
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  6. fenderesq

    fenderesq In Brooklyn It's The Blues / Heavy Bass 7-7

    Location:
    Brooklyn - NY
    I've been lucky; blessed really at the number of monumental concerts I've been at... many historic. But a few I wished I'd seen are:

    Dylan at Gerde's Folk City on April 11, 1961, at The Finjan Club on July 2, 1962, and on July 25th 1965 at Newport.

    The Beatles at The Cavern.

    Billie Holiday at a Cotton Club gig.

    The John Hammond Sr. produced Spirituals to Swing concert at Carnegie Hall.

    A performance of Louis Armstrong's Hot 5s and Hot 7s.

    The Carnegie Hall premier of Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue.

    The premier of Stravinsky's Rites of Spring on May 29th 1913.

    Robert Johnson pre and post the revelatory transformation so I could see the work of The devil for myself.

    Where's Mr. Peabody & Sherman's WABAC machine when we really need it?
     
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  7. fenderesq

    fenderesq In Brooklyn It's The Blues / Heavy Bass 7-7

    Location:
    Brooklyn - NY
    Nice wishlist all the way through... particularly The Rat Pack in Vegas and a Ken Kesey Acid test trip.
     
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  8. fenderesq

    fenderesq In Brooklyn It's The Blues / Heavy Bass 7-7

    Location:
    Brooklyn - NY
    A number of Right Ons! on you wishlist... particular Bessie Smith, Sam Cooke and the Don Giovanni Premiere.
     
  9. fenderesq

    fenderesq In Brooklyn It's The Blues / Heavy Bass 7-7

    Location:
    Brooklyn - NY
    Buddy Holly and The Crickets with The Big Bopper and Dion and The Belmonts on February 2, 1959. The Winter Dance Party... Dancing from 8-12pm.
     
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  10. MikeMusic

    MikeMusic Forum Resident Thread Starter

    Location:
    Surrey, England
    Pink Floyd at Shepton Mallet, 2am in the morning with Atom Heart Mother
    Pink Floyd at the Rainbow - watching in almost total darkness except for the light coming up from under Rick Wright's organ
    Wembley - Dark Side of the Moon tour - where I was in the middle, perfect for quadraphonic
     
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  11. 007james

    007james Forum Resident

    Location:
    nyc
    Stones, Floyd, Zeppelin
     
  12. daveidmarx

    daveidmarx Forem Residunt

    Location:
    Astoria, NY USA
    One of the Beatles 8-hour marathon Hamburg gigs. Next to that, Springsteen at the Main Point 2/5/75.
     
  13. EndorphinMachine

    EndorphinMachine Forum Resident

    Location:
    Brussels
    Top five:
    Prince - First Avenue'83 (making of the Rain)
    Prince - a SOTT-tour gig
    Springsteen - Passaic 78
    Judas Priest - Stained Class tour
    Black Sabbath - Sabotage tour
    Iron Maiden - Killers / Beast on the Road tour

    Yes that's six, I'll negotiate when the time machine's ready.
     
  14. Chemically altered

    Chemically altered Forum Resident

    Location:
    Ukraine in Spirit
    Woodstock. Though I doubt I'd remember it. :oops:
     
  15. sekaer

    sekaer Forum Resident

    Location:
    United States
    Velvet Underground, End of Cole Avenue, Dallas, October 14-19, 1969--any of those shows
    Roxy Music, Wembley Empire Pool, October 18, 1975
    Steely Dan, Rainbow Theatre, London, May 20, 1974
     
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  16. adam_777

    adam_777 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Duncan BC, Canada
    Loving people's picks here. As someone born in 1987 more than 90% of what I listen to was created, recorded and performed long before I was born, so naturally the hypothetical time machine scenario has entered my thought process often. I wrote out a list of about 70 shows that would really be ones I would be excited to travel back too and whittled it down into one long post detailing 25 shows I would travel back for and reasons why, but as you can imagine it is lengthy and I know that kind of thing isn't everyones cup of tea, especially those who are scrolling on phones, so before I post it would any one, especially the OP have an objection with such a long winded post clogging up the thread?
     
  17. boggs

    boggs Multichannel Machiavellian

    I say go for it, but I' m not the OP.
     
  18. danasgoodstuff

    danasgoodstuff Forum Resident

    Location:
    Portland, OR
    I'm imagining Nico intoning "Do U Vant to Dance" over droning viola.
     
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  19. ralphb

    ralphb "First they came for..."

    Location:
    Brooklyn, New York
    :laugh:
     
  20. Jeff449

    Jeff449 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Silver Spring, MD
    A tribute band did a re-enactment of the show at the venue on its 50th anniversary. I got to see that one. Fun, but not quite the same I'm sure.
     
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  21. davpel

    davpel Forum Resident

    Location:
    Detroit
    This one's easy for me.

    Springsteen. Los Angeles. The Roxy. July 7, 1978.
     
  22. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member

    Location:
    Michigan
    Tons!

    The Residents at Rather Ripped
    Records in Berkeley in 1976 being
    a short lister.

    Third Ear Band, Nick Drake in '69-'70

    Beefheart, Amon Duul II early -mid '70s

    Psy-Free

    Charlie Patton, Blind Blake, Robert Johnson
     
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  23. Zack

    Zack Senior Member

    Location:
    Easton, MD
    This was my answer for the last thread on this subject (though I didn't have the date!) Especially the moment at the end where the players turn the maestro around so he can see the standing ovation.
     
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  24. johnnybrum

    johnnybrum Forum Resident

    Heck, right now, in the craziness of 2020, I'd travel back in time for a Milli Vanilli gig :crazy:
     
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  25. pinkrudy

    pinkrudy Senior Member

    pink floyd - quebec july 6 1977 (last show of the tour 3 encores best pigs performance and the spit incident)

    led zeppelin april 24 1969 (best performance of 1 of my favourite zeppelin songs "as long as i have you" everyone young and raw and full of energy. one of my favourite bootlegs.

    the doors - dec 11 1970 dallas jim morrison performs la woman and riders on the storm.
     
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