You can go back in time , for only 1 concert - which one !

Springsteen. Hammersmith Odeon 75

 

I'd vote to see The Jimi Hendrix Experience at Royal Albert Hall in London on Feb. 24, 1969. It was the last show of that tour, and boy is a gem! (At least from the gray-market recordings I may have heard.) Unfortunately, I wasn't born until the 7th of March, 1969, so this would be worthy on that one wish.

 

I'd probably opt for a show from Leonard Cohen's 2008-2009 tour.

 

Others:

Cream - March 1968

Monk with Coltrane at 5 Spot 1957

Peter Brotzmann Large Band Playing Machine Gun material in 1969-70

Can in 1970-72 any show

King Crimson December 1969 at Fillmore East

King Crimson 6/28/74 in Asbury Park, NJ

Grateful Dead:

11/10/67 @ Shrine
Anything from the January 68 Northwest tour
2/14/68 @ Carousel Ballroom
8/23 & 8/24/68 @ Shrine
2/27 - 3/2/69 @ Fillmore West
11/8/69 @ Fillmore West
12/11 & 12/12/69 @ Thelma
5/2/70 @ Harpur College
5/6/70 @ MIT
6/24/79 @ Capital Theatre
9/19 & 9/20/70 @ Fillmore East
11/5 - 11/7/70 @ Capital Theatre

That’s just pre-1971 Dead but we could add many more shows / these are some of the truly great ones

 

OMG!!! Really? I am so happy to learn this here at a music forum on-line of all places!

Seriously, you would have to also travel in space as well as time... if you were booped back in time but not space right this moment you would died in the cold vacuum of space, floating, quickly frozen, barely time to think 'WTF'. Time travel forward has always been possible, we're doing it right now... and stories about some caveman (and woolly mammoths) being revived from a freak flash-frozen state in the ice age are probably a hundred years old now.

 

Any Spanky and Our Gang concert between Dec. 1967 and Oct. 1968 where Malcolm Hale was presenmt

 

Can't say when but I have a list.

Stones
Zeppelin
Floyd
Zappa
Queen
Bowie

 

Springsteen LA Vietnam vets show in 1981.

 

One that leaps out at me is Cream's farewell concert at The Royal Albert Hall...… Stone Roses at Spike Island...…..that's just for starters!

 

Rolling Stones | 1972 American Tour | One of the Fort Worth or Houston shows
or
The Band and Guests | The Last Waltz

 

Springsteen, opening show of the Darkness tour in Buffalo, 1978. Or at the Bottom Line in 1975.

 

Black Sabbath -Heaven and Hell tour

 

I think I’d go with Genesis in Zurich 1977.

 

With recording equipment in tow I’d set the time machine to early 1962 and head to NYC to catch Dylan for a while. I’d also like to see LA & The Eldorado’s play in Long Island in 1963.

- then onto Belfast in spring of 1964 to catch Them at The Maritime.
- second half of ‘64 I’d fly to Winnipeg and follow The Squires around to Churchill and Thunder Bay etc.
-1965 I’d hang around Toronto and New York catch Neil as a solo and hear The Velvet Underground perform soundtracks to movies as well as their first gigs in December.
- May of 1966 I’d make my way to LA and hang around the Whiskey for the month of June to see stands by Buffalo Springfield, Them, Captain Beefheart and The Doors etc. And of course The Velvets at the Trip.
-1966 then off to London to see some early Pink Floyd and some seriously under the radar solo Van Morrison shows.
-then I’d finish off by catching every Velvet Underground concert through to 1968, and Van the Man in NYC and Boston.
- I’d also catch and record the birth of Crazy Horse at the Whiskey in November 1968, and their first gigs at the beginning of 1969

-August 1st 1969, I set the time machine to 2019 and go home.

 

One Love Peace Concert 1978
Tension, politics, spirituality - Marley bringing the two politicians together on stage. Just Wow. Peter Tosh lighting a spliff during his set, and ranting to the officials that were present. He got beaten half to death a few months later for this.
Pretty sizzling stuff.

 

If the 14 Hour Techincolour thing at Alexandra Palace could count as one show I'd go with that for sure, slight edge over Monterey as we at least have a lot of that on film/DVD. I thought we had to limit things to one artist though.

 

A POLICE Concert in the very early '80's @ the Sydney Sports ground.
The only downside was that they didn't sing "Roxanne" like the original...
A 'plus' was that a complete stranger (female) in a mini-skirt climbed up my back and sat on my shoulders for half the concert for a better view.

......at the end of the concert she disappeared.

 

Zeppelin 2/27/73 at the Garden.

 

1966 - Beatles at Shea, with the Ronettes!

I'd spend some time in the city before and after the show, the sights and sounds, maybe catch Hendrix if he's around in a club. See Times Square before it got completely seedy. Yeah, that's the ticket...

 

Allmans - Fillmore East 1971 - You know the one!!!

 

I don't know whether to applaud or be appalled.

 

I saw all the following live in concert (among many others, multiple times in some cases and generally in their prime): Zeppelin (and Robert Plant solo and with Alison Krauss), Who, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath, Janis Joplin, Cream, Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Yes, Humble Pie, Jeff Beck, Jethro Tull, Grand Funk Railroad, Mott the Hoople, Bad Company, J Geils Band, Joe Cocker, Blood Sweat & Tears, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Phish et al.

But I never saw Jimi Hendrix! Please sign me up for the Band of Gypsys, New Years Eve Jan 1, 1970.

 

You’d get the chance to slug jimmy Savile in the face. I like it!

 

I'd go back to the Led Zeppelin show at Madison Square Garden I attended on June 8, 1977. I was a completely overwhelmed 13-year old who had no idea what he was in for in terms of the intensity and volume of the music. I would love to experience it again now even though I'd have to use ear plugs of some kind to handle it.

If I was allowed to stick around for a few months, I'd also go see Pink Floyd, CS&N, Bad Company, Fleetwood Mac and Yes at MSG. What a summer of music that was.

Love,
Billy

 

I wouldn’t mind seeing Bon Scott era AC/DC