If you could go Back in Time and See a Concert [Archive]

Documad

04-22-2005, 05:35 PM

If you could go back in time and see any rock-era artist live, who would it be, and when?

I wish I had seen Earth Wind and Fire in the late 70s with the huge band and all the crazy clothes. I went to one of their concerts when they were good but past their prime. And man, the audience would dress up!

I wished I had seen Nirvana. I figured there was no hurry and I'd have plenty of time for that. Of course, I also heard they often sucked.

beastiegirl18

04-22-2005, 05:51 PM

I wish i had seen a Sex pistols' concert in the 70's when they were just starting, or a Nirvana's concert, in 1994, i would like to see Kurt Cobain (R.I.P) in a concert. Or maybe a Duran duran's concert in the 80's. I wish I had seen a Beastie boys' concert in 1981 or 82, in their hardcore times. And the last one a Run Dmc concert in the 80s. I would like to see Jam master jay (R.I.P) scratching and see Run and Dmc rapping too.

checkyourprez

04-22-2005, 06:14 PM

gee id say it would be to be about 98 or so to a concert which i had tickets for in fact.

it involved the beastie boys and rage against the machine.

FUCK A MOPED

Documad

04-22-2005, 06:32 PM

I was aiming for a concert that actually happened, not a fantasy concert. :p

Bobtwi

04-22-2005, 08:09 PM

Tzar

04-22-2005, 08:11 PM

i wish i didn't waste my money on shit but yet went to BDO '04 and saw metallica.

i wish i could've seen RATM at any concert.

i wish i saw metallica during their 'black album w/ snake pit' tour
OR day on the green '85
OR at the tushino airfield show at moscow (apparently more 750,000 peeps there). ACDC was also there.

likeOMG!

04-22-2005, 08:19 PM

I wish I could go back and see the Beatles first US concert...I think it was in Dallas

DeLaO

04-22-2005, 08:59 PM

The '67 Monterey Pop Music Festival....Jimi Hendrix, nuff said.

Freedom Toast

04-22-2005, 09:03 PM

I wish I could party at the Dixie club with Busy Bee (Wild Style).

The Notorious LOL

04-23-2005, 12:40 AM

beatles at shea stadium circa 1965
led zeppelin circa 1975

Documad

04-23-2005, 12:47 AM

Yeah, I would definitely pick a Zeppelin show, but I couldn't decide when. Not too early, and not too late. '75 is probably just about right.

It would also be cool to see a Stones show but I'm torn between really early before they were famous, or sometime in the early 70s. For the MSG show featured in Gimme Shelter, I think they went on in the middle of the night because of Keith. That would have pissed me off.

PaddyBoy

04-23-2005, 05:04 AM

Good thread. I'd like to go back in time and see:

Stevie Wonder live in '76
The Beatles live at the Cavern, early 60's
Beastie Boys on the Rasing Hell tour w/ Run DMC in '87
The Jam live sometime in '78 or '79, I hear their gigs were mental.

RobMoney

04-23-2005, 09:50 AM

Believe it or not, I hear that Prince shows are incredible.

I was just having this conversation today. I would travel back in time to 1969. Woodstock baby!!

I woulda loved to have been at Monterey, Altamont, and Woodstock, soo many awesome shows back then. Zeppelin, Stones, The Who, Floyd, The Dead, Sabbath,......I'd love to see anyone of them in their prime.

enree erzweglle

04-23-2005, 09:53 AM

Shoot, I'd do just a mini roll-back to this past autumn and get myself to one of the east coast BB shows for sure. It was a busy time work-wise and I hate to drive and I let those two things get in the way of seeing them. Bad me bad.

Now, I'd walk there if I had to (but I'd probably take one of the offers of friends to drive me :) ).

Failing that, maybe the Beatles rooftop concert would be cool, although I don't know if that really counts.

abcdefz

04-23-2005, 10:13 AM

Elvis Costello's Spinning Songbook tour

Springsteen and the E Street Band circa 1978

Steel Mill circa 1970 (because I want to hear what Springsteen sounded like doing heavy metal)

Any Buddy Holly and the Crickets show. Just to touch the dude's hem.

...and I'd like to be in the audience for one of my band's shows and see if we were actually as good as I thought we were. :D

Concert albums released I would've liked to have seen live:

Jerry Lee Lewis Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
The Who - Live at Leeds
Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire

Mr.Right

04-23-2005, 12:19 PM

Most definitely the BB concert on December 16th 2004...:mad:

€ Too many...

Documad

04-23-2005, 01:45 PM

Believe it or not, I hear that Prince shows are incredible.

They certainly can be. If I were going to relive a concert I actually went to, it would be an early Prince one when he was very sexual. He got goofy when he found religion and all. His last tour was great again -- but not as raw and sweaty as the small early shows.

Another fantasy: Seeing Hendrix when he opened for the Monkees. Oh, to have been in that crowd!!! Or didn't The Who open for Herman's Hermits? :D

DroppinScience

04-23-2005, 01:57 PM

A Clash concert. For sure! (y)

Actually I'd love to have gone to any concert during the late-70s/early-80s punk era. Be it in the London scene, the New York scene or the L.A. scene. Would've been great! :D

DroppinScience

04-23-2005, 01:59 PM

beatles at shea stadium circa 1965

You probably wouldn't have been able to hear them play due to all the screaming girls. :p

But hey, I'm sure you could've met some lovely '60s girls in that concert. (y)

b-grrrlie

04-24-2005, 03:33 AM

I wish I'd seen the Beastie Boys on any of their European gigs last December.

Going back in time; I've seen most of the icons I've wanted to (Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub in the early days, as Orange Juice, JAMC, U2 (first time October 1980), Clash, Jam etc), but I really would've wanted to see Bowie back in '72-'73 and T.Rex.
Beatles in Hamburg in '61-'62
Beasties in '92
and I wish I'd gone to Debaser's first birthday party. because bob hund made a secret gig there. Also I wish I'd stayed at the same place on my birthday after the Janitors had played, cause the Hives made a secret gig afterwards (I thought it was only the Janitors record release party, hence the amount of "rock stars" at locale. Not even the queue outside after I left gave me any hints...)

Lex Diamonds

04-24-2005, 06:19 AM

I'd love to have seen Beethoven composing.

Old skool.

Rancid_Beasties

04-24-2005, 07:00 AM

I was just having this conversation today. I would travel back in time to 1969. Woodstock baby!!

I woulda loved to have been at Monterey, Altamont, and Woodstock, soo many awesome shows back then. Zeppelin, Stones, The Who, Floyd, The Dead, Sabbath,......I'd love to see anyone of them in their prime.

It's all about seeing Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock for me (y). Ohh and the rest of course :). Also the clash circa london calling, and the sex pistols or the ramones in their early shows. Also the beastie boys circa Paul's Boutique or the CBGB's show with the young and the useless and Sonic Youth, 11 Apr 1983 (y)

Tompz

04-24-2005, 07:26 AM

Beatles on the roof

or zeppelin

alexandra

04-24-2005, 07:48 AM

the Beastie Boys first gig ever, at John Berry's house, in '81. and about one month later Simon & Garfunkel's concert in Central Park.
and like mentioned; Hendrix and the Clash.

scotty

04-24-2005, 07:50 AM

Hmmm....

I would have loved to have seen 'Horse's' era Patti Smith, 'Daydream Nation' era Sonic Youth, AC/DC with Bon Scott. The Birthday Party when they played the Crystal Ballroom. Any Beatles, Led Zep, Hendrix, Cream gig would have been sweet. A P-Funk gig would have been pretty neat. I would love to have seen Bob Marley. Radio Birdman in their earlier would have rocked as well. The Pogues during 'Rum, Sodomy and the Lash' days. Beasties 'Paul's Boutique' shows would have been awesome, too.

Rancid_Beasties

04-24-2005, 09:09 AM

Mcmac

04-24-2005, 10:02 AM

but all my mates were like "why would you want to see some former president of the US"

im thinking the same thing :confused:

abcdefz

04-24-2005, 10:50 AM

YoungRemy

04-24-2005, 10:58 AM

Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden - 1974

Bob Marley's last concert - Pittsburgh 1980

Bob Dylan at Royal Albert Hall -1966

paul jones

04-24-2005, 01:08 PM

Joy Division

adam_f

04-24-2005, 01:35 PM

Run DMC in their prime.

yeahwho

04-24-2005, 03:08 PM

Elvis Costello's Spinning Songbook tour

Springsteen and the E Street Band circa 1978

Steel Mill circa 1970 (because I want to hear what Springsteen sounded like doing heavy metal)

Any Buddy Holly and the Crickets show. Just to touch the dude's hem.

...and I'd like to be in the audience for one of my band's shows and see if we were actually as good as I thought we were. :D

That is so close to my choices it's actually scary, one of the first shows that popped into my head was the Springsteen/E Street Band '75 Bottomline shows in NYC.

Otis Redding is the other performer I would of loved to seen live, All indicators and personal experiences I've read say he was amazing live.

Then Elvis.

DroppinScience

04-24-2005, 03:10 PM

Then Elvis.

I'd go for late '70s Costello. (y)

For Presley, I'd go for the '50s era. MAYBE '60s, but nothing later than that.

P.S. - I saw Springsteen when he came to Edmonton in 2003 and he was amazing! I could only imagine what it'd be like in '75.

yeahwho

04-24-2005, 03:23 PM

Believe it or not, I hear that Prince shows are incredible.

TrueDat. Seen the Prince 3 times, once about 6 or so years ago in Portland OR. with 2nd row centerstage seats. Mind Blowingly Good. One of the highlights, of which there were many, was his cover of "What if God was One of Us" all funked up to the MAX! The place was hopping to the last rafter, out to the popcorn stands and into the parking lot! :D I've seen Springsteen do that a few times too.

yeahwho

04-24-2005, 03:34 PM

P.S. - I saw Springsteen when he came to Edmonton in 2003 and he was amazing! I could only imagine what it'd be like in '75.

Streets, Cars, Chicks and Full Tilt Onslaught! Pic (http://www.brucebase.shetland.co.uk/livebl1975.jpg) from Bottom Line.

Sandinista!

04-24-2005, 05:18 PM

New Order, when they were pissy and refused to do encores :D

scotty

04-25-2005, 04:36 AM

George Clinton was in Australia recently for some festival in Byron, I was so tempted to see him when he came down to melbourne but all my mates were like "why would you want to see some former president of the US" :rolleyes:

He played the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival in Byron. People I know who went said he was awesome. I almost went just to see him as I live really close, but couldn't afford it. I really wanted to see Bootsy and those funky star shades. REM and Muse also played (blues and roots??) and Michael Franti is always there.

Tom Waits in the late 70's would have been pretty special.

tdot04

04-25-2005, 02:09 PM

I seen Run Dmc, Public Enemy and EPMD.

in Toronto at Varsity arena in 87'

I'm old school.

:D

I'd die (or in this case, be born at least 15 years earlier) to see that show.

Documad

04-26-2005, 04:12 PM

I regret missing Live Aid in 1985. I was backpacking through Europe that summer. I was totally unaware of current events and met an English guy at the Gard du Nord in Paris who asked me if I was heading to the big show. I was like, "What show?"

Damn, I missed an historical event.
The London one would have been great. They had a near flawless lineup.

The US one would have sucked like crazy. I accidentally bought the Live Aid DVD at xmas and finally watched a little. It's just not the same without the vapid MTV VJs. I kept waiting for Nina Blackwell to interrupt and tell me why The Who were important. (I can still remember their stupid comments re Paul McCartney and Led Zeppelin. I can also still remember Zeppelin's horrific performance that was omitted from the DVD on account of its suckiness.)

I want to add Talking Heads at CBGBs and I think maybe Chic or someone similar at Studio 54. For historical purposes.