time travel

[tomaraya]

there have been many significant/legengary concerts performed over the years. my question is: if you could time travel back to attend any ONE concert,which would it be and why.
just a few examples that i can think of:
the beatles - candlestick park(last ever concert)
iron maiden - live after death tour hammersmith odeon
cliff burton's last gig with metallica
roger waters/pink floyd "the wall" tour
live aid
woodstock
etc etc
btw your choice need not come from the few e.g's that i have given.

 

[Stevo]

The first public performance of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring". Wild stuff.

 

[Pantsless]

Led Zeppelin - anywhere!

 

[PeteLX]

Maybe the Stones at Altamont Speedway in 69!

I'd love to see the Syd Barrett Pink Floyd.

Any of the Sex Pistols (no reformation!) shows.

Stooges in 1970.

If I could take a date with me I'd see Jeff Buckley at the Prince Patrick.

Bowie in the Ziggy Stardust era.

Joy Division (with Ian, not Bernard singing)

Elvis in his 68 comeback.

Beatles at Yankee Stadium.

Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burns (you said time travel!)

That's all I can think of at the moment.

 

[moistie]

The Beatles when they were playing in Hamburg, prior to them being big, or when they were just breaking and playing the Cavern Club.

Otherwise, Beethoven on the first production of his Fifth Symphony.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

The night 4 nerdy looking kids took the stage at CBGB's "er, our name is Talking Heads"

 

[GhostofJimJess]

Zappa at the Filimore East or West.

Stones at Altamont.

Stooges wherever (CBGBs?)

Spinal Tap's Japan Tour

That first ever BDO (the one only in Sydney with Rollins, Nirvana etc.., and the only one I've missed ... hey, I'm a completist, ok)

 

[bragg]

The Clash - "London Calling" circa 1980

Bill Hicks - anywhere
KYUSS - Anywhere

 

[Ned]

Originally posted by PeteLX


Joy Division (with Ian, not Bernard singing)

thats my choice.....

 

[marcuz]

Normie Rowe at the leopold sportsman's club in '95 apparantly had the pensioners going nutz.

 

[materamagic]

Paul McCartney playing to 184 000 at Maracana Stadium in 1990
and anywhere on his 2002/2003 world tour

George Harrison's Concert For Bangladesh 1971

Live At The Hollywood Bowl - The Beatles

Rolling Stones Steel Wheels Tour

Bruce Springsteen in the early eighties

Black Sabbath 1998 reunion tour

Bon Jovi in the late eighties

 

[lioness]

Knebworth 1980, to see the Beach Boys.

 

[Tank]

Originally posted by tomaraya
iron maiden - live after death tour hammersmith odeon

That's the one

 

[Pantsless]

Originally posted by bragg

KYUSS - Anywhere

Saw them support Metallica in '93 at Melbourne Park. They were awesome from what i remember. I only knew Thumb and Green Machine.

John Garcia stage dived into the Snake Pit. John tries to climb back onto the stage and gets thumped by the security guards. The bass player (not sure if Nick O had left the band by that stage) puts his bas down and starts punching the guards.

In the end they both get back on stage and keep playing.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

The Stooges, with Blue Oyster Cult and the Dictators (this gig happened around 1973).

MC5 - recording of Kick Out the Jams

The Who - Live at Leeds recordings around 1970

The Ramones anytime at CBGBs

Motorhead with the classic 3 piece lineup (Lemmy, Philthy Phil, Fast Eddie Clarke)

The Eastern Dark anytime

The Saints before they went to England

Television, Patti Smith, Heartbreakers etc anytime at CBGBs

The New York Dolls at Mercer St Arts Centre

Blue Cheer around 1967

Sex Pistols before Matlock was kicked out

Black Sabbath at the California Jam

Muddy Waters anytime in the 1950s

Parliament or Funkadelic in the early 1970s

The Rolling Stones with Brian Jones

Thirteenth Floor Elevators at one of those psychedelic freak out gigs

 

[Magpira]

What a great topic! I have always wished I had been born in the 40's (although i'd probably wish I wasn't now) so I could have lived through the 60's!

I would loved to have lived in London in the early 60's and then the USA in the late 60's. My hippie dreams are nothing to do with Politics whatsoever....It's all about Sex, Drugs & Rock N Roll for me. If anyone has ever read a book called "I'm With The Band" by Pamela Des Barres, then they'll know what I mean.

Apart from seeing bands such as:

The Doors, The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds etc

the main events I wish I were present at are:

Rolling Stones at Altamont in 68
and then in 69 at Hyde Park for the Brian Jones memorial. Also travelling to South of France for the recording of Exile on Main Street, which was apparently one hell of a time!

The Beatles early perfomances at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, then travelling to India with them plus the roof top performance for Let It Be.

Any of The Doors gigs at the famous Whiskey Au GoGo.

 

[sawf]

Originally posted by PeteLX
Maybe the Stones at Altamont Speedway in 69!

don't wear your green suit

 

[Portia]

Nirvana before Kurt Cobain topped himself. I had a ticket, and then a month before or so he goes and does that - prick.

 

[Stevo]

Originally posted by Porthos
Nirvana before Kurt Cobain topped himself. I had a ticket, and then a month before or so he goes and does that - prick.

Serves you right for wasting your money in the first place.

 

[Ray Nolan]

Oasis @ Knebworth 1996 - both nights.

 

[CharlieG]

Slight variation on this...

Go back to October 1980, find John Lennon, and, in return for telling him how to avoid Mark Chapman, get him to get the Beatles back together to tour the world, playing all the greatest Beatles songs that never got performed live... Hey Jude, Something, Let It Be, Revolution, Strawberry Fields Forever, the Sgt Pepper songs... now THAT would be worth staying in the early 1980s for!

Whenever I ran out of money for my tickets, I'd just zip back to 1999 and sell some of my Microsoft shares that I acquired back in 1980...

While I'm there I'd probably find time to see Queen and Bruce Springsteen in concert too... and if I can't find the time, I'll just go back and live it all again!

 

[Darky]

Donington, 1988

Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Guns'N'Roses
David Lee Roth

 

[SydneyBomber]

Grindcrusher tour early 90's in the UK with:
Morbid Angel
Napalm Death
Carcass
Bolt Thrower.


Just about every year I make half-hearted plans to finally get to the Dynamo festival in Holland, so just about any of those would do too I guess....

 

[Darky]

Originally posted by SydneyBomber


Just about every year I make half-hearted plans to finally get to the Dynamo festival in Holland, so just about any of those would do too I guess....

My "Power Metal Tour of Europe, 2005" is still on track.