Archie
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 | | 15 Dec 2004 6:12 PM |
| I feel like starting a new topic today. Hmm...
If Dr. X Tremelybraney (your good friend from lab 101884.4and a half) invented a special musical timetravelling type device which could only be used once, and (being such a good friend) gave you the use of it, which concert of any time in the past would you go to? You don't have to have been there the first time, by the way.
part 2: Given that the journey takes 20.6 mins, what would you listen to on the way?
Deciding what to listen to on the way to a gig is always tricky... | | | |
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gordon67
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| | 15 Dec 2004 8:17 PM |
| | has to be Grateful Dead Philadelphia in 1996 and when I get there I'd meet my self stoned off my tits buy a bootleg cut of the show ,,,Give it to myself( I would be part of the space time contineum then) so I'd have something to listen to on the way...Since I had this unknwn bootleg in my possesion for 8 years...Work that one out | | | |
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Optimus
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| | 16 Dec 2004 8:21 AM |
| | There's only 2 bands i've ever wanted to see live and will probably never get the chance to anyway...so i offer 2, YES 2, possibilities...
ANY Blue Oyster Cult gig.
OR, yes OR,
Guns N Roses live at the Tokyo Bowl in the early nineties.
On the way? I'd probably listen to Aint Life Grand by Slash's Snakepit. | | | |
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Binokular
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| | 16 Dec 2004 2:46 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by gordon67
,,,Give it to myself( I would be part of the space time contineum then)
No because the tangent universe would have already collapsed. Sorry, watched Donnie Darko too many times. 
I'd probably go back and see The Breeders play in the Ambassador again because it was a great gig and with all this Pixies getting back together lark, I'll probably never see The Breeders play live again. God knows it takes them years to get round to finishing an album.
Or go back about three years ago when I unexpectedly found myself stuck in London for work about three weeks longer than I expected, about two weeks before the Chemical Brothers played Brixton and made sure I actually had tickets!
In terms of really classic gigs that I would have been too young at the time, perhaps one of New Orders' gigs in the Hacienda during the 80s? all though I'm pretty sure the Hacienda has been over-romanticised.
Joy Division circa 1979.
any Velvet Underground gig, possibly at Maxs' Kansas City
Not so much a single concert, I think I would like to see what Detroit was like in the early 60s when Motown label was as vibrant as the city itself.
The problem is of course that we over-romanticise these things. Every music fan would have loved to have been at a gig in CBGBs in New York between 1976 and 1979, but most people who were actually there would probably tell you that the place was a dump.
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spurtacus
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| | 16 Dec 2004 2:51 PM |
| | all of the above! apart from the breeders........... | | | |
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Optimus
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| | 16 Dec 2004 3:10 PM |
| | Actually, i'd go back in time to a few years ago. When I first moved here, Jeff Wayne did a live version of the War of the Worlds in the Apollo. That'd have been something special. | | | |
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Rev Jules
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| | 16 Dec 2004 3:11 PM |
| | Bruce Springsteen's first live date with The E Street Band when he began those 4 hour shows and wore a flat coalminers cap/beret. | | | |
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Gar
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| | 16 Dec 2004 3:44 PM |
| | Any of the shows that The Doors played just as they were starting to get recognised around the LA area.
I'd also love to sit in on John Lennon recording an album. Maybe the Instant Karma album. | | | |
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bonzo
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| | 16 Dec 2004 4:32 PM |
| | The Doors
G N'R
Metallica with Cliff Burton
70's Stones
last but not least, Elvis | | | |
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spurtacus
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| | 16 Dec 2004 4:53 PM |
| | 13th floor elevators, the Small Faces, early Pink Floyd, early Suicide when no-one got them, Sly and the Family Stone, Funkadelic with Eddie Hazel, the list goes on and on! | | | |
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Optimus
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| | 16 Dec 2004 5:31 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by bonzo
The Doors
G N'R
Metallica with Cliff Burton
70's Stones
last but not least, Elvis
With cliff burton? Why so specific? He was over-rated at best. | | | |
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Archie
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| | 16 Dec 2004 9:26 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Optimus
Actually, i'd go back in time to a few years ago. When I first moved here, Jeff Wayne did a live version of the War of the Worlds in the Apollo. That'd have been something special.
No way! Cool!
Either that or the Who, or the gig Gov't Mule played in New Yr 1999 somewhere (presumably in America) that was recorded for their Live...With A Little Help From My Friends cd. On the way...........................................................................................................................................................hmmm that'll leave you guessing | | | |
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vandala
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| | 17 Dec 2004 10:13 AM |
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I have a few Talking Heads CBGBs bootlegs circa 1976/1997 and they sound like a riot.
Also, bizarrely, a band called Kenickie. | | | |
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Unicron
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| | 17 Dec 2004 10:45 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Rev Jules
Bruce Springsteen's first live date with The E Street Band when he began those 4 hour shows and wore a flat coalminers cap/beret.
Holy s**t, he's half assing it these days, last time I saw him he only did 3 hours.
Kenickie? As in the one that Lauren Laverne was in? | | | |
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Optimus
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| | 17 Dec 2004 11:32 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by vandala
Also, bizarrely, a band called Kenickie.
you are joking right?
Sure why dont we just petition for The Chicks to come back while we're at it. | | | |
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Rev Jules
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| | 17 Dec 2004 11:40 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Unicron
Holy s**t, he's half assing it these days, last time I saw him he only did 3 hours.
Last time I saw him, he did 4 and a half hours, half an hour of which was 'twist and shout'. Just think, another few years and he'll be eligible for a bus pass. | | | |
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Karlito
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| | 17 Dec 2004 11:49 AM |
| | I think the Who Live at Leeds in 1970.
Elliot Smith at any of his gigs.
George Harrison at the start of the 70's | | | |
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John Doe
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| | 17 Dec 2004 12:48 PM |
| | For Christ's sake, do none of you people watch Star Trek ? Messing around with time travel is a really bad idea.
Anyway for what it's worth....
1) Those supposedly legendary U2 Dandelion Market gigs.
2) The Police, any time but 1979 would have been cool.
3) Nirvana, anywhere, any time.
I was in CBGBs in October. It's a dump alright, but in a cool way. They don't serve any draught beers though which sucks. | | | |
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