If you could have been at any musical gig in history, what would it be?

[Stat Brother]

Dinosaur JR / Nirvana / Sonic Youth playing at Reading in 1991.

I was there.

 

[Stat Brother]

The Pistols at Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1976. Created the big bang which made Manchester one of the centre points of great music for the next two decades.

Is the right answer.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

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I loved a Guardian journo's comment when one of this lot said he needed some 'me time' to spend on his art. He wrote that as far as he could tell SHM's art is "three sweaty pot-bellied blokes punching the air to an electro remix of Sweet Dreams."

 

[Silk]

Ooh...I was at that one. Sorry to rub it in but it was excellent (Talking Heads were support).

I'm amazed at the number of people who have said Woodstock. As TLO says, you wouldn't have seen or heard much. Woodstock was really only good for people who wanted to take a lot of drugs or wander round looking at topless women.

I'm not a big fan of any stadium gig: my choices would have been small venues: Sex Pistols at the 100 Club, Television at CBGBs and most of all The Velvet Underground at any New York venue.

I think most of all, I'd have loved to be in the audience for Le Sacre du Printemps' premiere in 1913 - marvellous scenes.

Stravinsky?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I'd loved to have seen The Rolling Stones at their peak. There's a few to choose from though.

 

[kevtherev]

The Beatles at Shea Stadium, Live Aid, Woodstock, Steps at the Brighton Centre...your ultimate gig, even if you wouldn't have been alive to see it originally?

Reckon I'd go for Madonna, Wembley, the sort of Blonde Ambition, late 80s, early 90s tours. All the great music, an awesome live show, and before she got all wrinkly & stringy. I was too young to have appreciated it at the time.

Any advances?

I was at Blonde Ambition at Wembley the night it was live on radio one and she was asked not to use the f word lol....It was fantastic, as was Genesis at Knebworth when it went out live on Sky...Both great days that I will never forget.

 

[Buzzer]

Elvis - Vegas '68

 

[wallyback]

Is the right answer.

seconded!

plus any Ziggy period Bowie

Sinatra playing Las Vegas

Oh and Bob Dylan in Sheffield 1966 , which I think is tie 1st with the pistols:guitar:

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

I never managed to see The Clash live so it would have to be them.

 

[Twizzle]

Beatles at The Cavern or Star Club
Jimi the second show, the evening that MLK was assassinated.
Robert Johnson when he recorded in a hotel room
One of the R'n B tour nights early 60's, with Rosetta Tharpe, Mama Thornton, Fred McDowell, and Muddy Waters and others

 

[Hotchilidog]

I definitely would have given Woodstock a swerve.

500,000 people, a sound system that couldn't be heard 100 yards back, no toilets, mud, shit, dysentry, death, hippies...

Woodstock for me.

For an indoor gig The Band's Last Waltz in San Francisco would be top of my list.

 

[Dave the OAP]

isle of white festival for me...hendrix, free, etc

also not politically correct, but Paul Simon's concert in South Africa would have been something special

 

[The Merry Prankster]

This - or Joy Division at the height of their powers.

Saw them supported by the Buzzcocks at the Rainbow.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

This one



Got to see them at the Top Rank in 86 but this always looks immense to me.

Saw them earlier that year (1977) at the Roundhouse supported by the Talking Heads.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Bowie - Ziggy is a good call.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

The Who at The Valley

Did that as well (the one with Little Feat and SAHB) l. I seem to have been to a few peoples favourites.

 

[Dave the OAP]

one of the best was Floyd at Earls Court ( Pulse tour)

There are lots of youtube videos of that tour.....a incredible one of Comfortably Numb!

 

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The jam, last concert brighton centre 1982.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Lesser free trade hall Manchester 4th June 1976, reportedly there were only 42 people at the gig,
People including in the audience were those that went on to form Joy Division/New Order, the Fall, the Smiths, Simply Red, Buzzcocks, Magazine.

 

[Icy Gull]

also not politically correct, but Paul Simon's concert in South Africa would have been something special

Wasn't that in Zimbabwe or are you talking about the recent concerts? I don't get the not politically correct row tbh. He was playing with black musicians to a mixed audience and heightening the band members profile and music worldwide. The fact that he didn't get permission from ANC seemed to be the big problem, rather than the fact he was playing with black musicians? Or was it that he was making money from the album using musicians from a country with embargos?