If you could go back in time to see only one live show who will you choose to watch?

Beatles Rooftop Show, 1969 (only if I could be on the roof)

Genesis between "Trespass" and "Nursery Cryme". I'd be wanting to take some recording gear as well.

"Beatles Rooftop Show, 1969 (only if I could be on the roof)"
...or at the near building , looking from a window horizontal to the roof.
i thought about the beatles as well, but except from saying to everybody :"hey,you know,i've seen a beatles concert", i don't have any other urge to see them

http://www.deadlists.com/posters/1970s/19770508.jpg

December 31, 1966 at the Roundhouse in London. The Who with Pink Floyd and The Move opening up. The Move ended their set by smashing up television sets with fire axes. Floyd played a shifting 75 minute version of "Interstellar Overdrive." Townshend was particularly unhappy at playing a psychedelic event with strobe lights in his face and the art house crowd so by the time of "My Generation" he reduced his Rickenbacker to his component atoms.

or perhaps

http://www.phishposterarchive.com/phish-ann-arbor-lansing-94.jpg

i couldn't pick one show. yeah, early floyd, jeezus. elevators. stooges. VU early on. too many. for a time the rubber city rebels ran a club in ohio and even a show like that with them and bizarros and devo and maybe dead boys or pere ubu playing on the same night (which happened more than once!). i mean, any one of these would be fine with me.

Believe it or not, this has been covered.

actually, come to think of it, this just might be the one "show", if you can call it that, that i would pick:

http://makemyday.free.fr/70/70poster8.jpg

I was gonna say one of the Clash/Sex Pistols bills, but Elvis T wins.

this

Ramones and Groovies at the Roundhouse

Actually, what I'd rather do is go and see this 1929 film, which is a musical, so maybe I can get away with including it in this thread.

I'd probably go to Japan and see the 2/1/75 Miles Davis concerts (afternoon and evening sets) that were recorded for Agharta and Pangaea.

Mayhem, live in Leipzig, 1990.

I play this time machine game a lot, and have a lot of different answers, but today it's the premiere of Le Sacré du Printemps in 1913.

Any Robert Johnson performance would do me.

I'd like to attend all the tapings of New Wave Theatre in LA.

dylan, '66

Billie Holiday

It's tempting to go for something ancient, but actually the one I regret missing the most is one that didn't happen: Unwound and the Clinic in NYC on 9/12/2001. Unwound touring Leaves Turn Inside You, Clinic touring Internal Wrangler.

Cab Calloway and his Orchestra

Kate Bush, on her one and only tour in '79.

Louis Armstrong's Hot Five or better yet Buddy Bolden.

Sex Pistols at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1976.

Another big wish would be the Mothers of Invention residency at the Garrick Theater in NYC, 1967.

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, May 29, 1913: Ballet Russes premieres Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring, thus beginning the rock era. Either that or the aforementioned Zep.

boston tea party december 12/13/14 1968

http://makemyday.free.fr/68/68poster2.gif

Sex Pistols at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1976.

-- leavethecapital, Saturday, June 30, 2007 9:33 PM

otm + those shows in France with Bambaataa, Rock Steady Crew, Futura, Grandmixer DST, Fab 5 Freddy, etc

"I tour around the world, to make the people dance
And here's a little message for the ladies in France..."

I discovered the Birthday Party about six months after they played their sole Edinburgh gig. Apparently, it wasn't that special, but . . I've always wished I'd been there. Probably better to have been part of the regular crew at their London gigs in the early 80s.

Apart from that, Cramps at Napa hospital, or any one of the times Thin Lizzy played the local Odeon in my mid teens.

I've seen them in 1995, but I'd really like to see another Morphine show. :-(

i'm trying to come up with the most obnoxious answer i can, but the best i can do is charley patton.

Cocteau Twins/Felt/Dif Juz, Royal Albert Hall 1984. Ive got a bootleg of the gig and it was awesomely good.

Or was it 1985? I forget now. And I have the tour poster and everything, yeesh.

Elvis, 1968, the comeback special.

my equally obnoxious, but also equally valid, answer is international harvester in a meadow somewhere in sweden.

Toss-up between Monterey and Rock Hardy's answer.

Wouldn't you want to see "Supper's Ready," Pashmina?

velvets/mc5 @ boston tea party for me, too. or the birthday party's "stooges covers" show from 1981.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P07Di283vfw

(no irony)

Stones, Altamont Speedway, 1969.

I'd be Meredith Hunter's backup, and I wouldn't be waving my gun around like an idiot to get noticed by security.

Hendrix at Montreux

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9gnMiUnrohGqhsAFzOjzbkF/SIG=12d2fjbcr/EXP=1183448999/**http%3A//www.visimag.com/starburst/images/272_cont_bttf.jpg

What i SAY....88 Miles Per Hours!!

I'm...losing my edge...

I think it would have been pretty cool to have been in that Seattle club where Coltrane, Sanders, et al recorded "Live in Seattle" in '66. The version they played of "Out of this world" is mind-blowing.

Or any Coltrane show from '65-67.

I'd also like to see Fripp in the late 70s/early 80s -- solo Frippertronics, League of Gentlemen, earliest Discipline/KC mark IV.

Howlin' Wolf

The Who at Leeds, 2/14/70

Flipper, the Jimi Hendrix Experience or Pussy Galore.

The Chameleons ;_;

I would liked to have been at Monterey Pop, just so I could have given Laura Nyro some encouragement...

The Smiths on the Queen is Dead tour or Kate Bush's one and only 1979 tour.

any late 60s/early 70s Detroit bill with Funkadelic, Sun Ra, and the MC5

Pussy Galore

I saw them on their final U.S. tour in L.A. in 1989. They were down to a trio by that point - Spencer, Hagerty and Bert. They were just okay.

A lot of people say The Beatles "Let It Be" set on the rooftop, but I kinda think it would be outstanding to see them in Germany in 1962, or any pre-Beatlemania show after they started to tighten as a group. However any show during Beatlemania I'm sure would have been annoying as shit.

So yeah, this is the lamest choice ever, but honestly I'd like to have see that Chili Peppers/Nirvana/Pearl Jam show that happened New Years 1991/92. I feel like all 3 bands were all in top form at that point.

either Magma circa 1975, or Miles Davis @ Cellar Door in 12/70

I would have loved to see one of those early '70s shows where Yes opened for Black Sabbath.

Jonathan Richman busking in Cambridge, without knowing in advance who he was.

The Velvet Underground at Rutgers' Scott Hall (same place I used to take classes and see hardcore shows).

Daniel Johnston at Pier Platters.

Obviously a bunch of early Rough Trade bands as well.

Velvet's Boston Tea Party gig thirded.

Birthday Party, Junkyard era.

If I can cheat and do a festival, then it would have to be Reading '89:

My Bloody Valentine
New Order
The House of Love
Loop
The Sugarcubes
Spacemen 3

I really really wanted to go...

Yeah I think MBV's gig in Melbourne in 92 is another one I'd pick. AND I COULD HAVE GONE TO IT which makes it all the more annoying.

The Shaggs, Fremont Town Hall.

whoa, even more come to mind:

* The recording sessions for the Langley Schools Music Project CDs.
* Nick Drake - preferably at his Cambridge dorm room rather than one of his big festival appearances

Apparently I only want to see tiny shows where I'm one of the few attendees. Given the choice between Woodstock and Nick Drake in a dorm room, I'd have to pick Nick Drake in a dorm room.

Mozart, Bach, etc, nonwithstanding only one modern show jumps out at me. I have a Doc Watson recording that was no doubt created at some folk or bluegrass festival in (quite possibly) the autoharp tent. His set includes a version of "Ommie Wise" that's as well-rendered as any other i've heard -- and the audience can't number more than just a few dozen.

any late 60s/early 70s Detroit bill with Funkadelic, Sun Ra, and the MC5

-- Shakey Mo Collier

I was going to say Monterey Pop, but Shakey's choice trumps it! (Even tho the Monterey acid would presumably be better)

Apparently I only want to see tiny shows where I'm one of the few attendees. Given the choice between Woodstock and Nick Drake in a dorm room, I'd have to pick Nick Drake in a dorm room.

God yes. Similarly, I'd love to sit in a livingroom listening to Mark Kozelek singing with an acoustic guitar. That'd be heavenly.

Professor Longhair in 1950.

Circa 1920's, on a night when Son Souse was happy, and filled with the spirit of rock & roll,
I would want to walk to the roadhouse with him. I would want to drink from the same drink.

I'd like to have seen these:

Nirvana in 1989
Stone Roses in 1989
Beatles in 1962
Joy Division in 1978 (even though I hate Joy Division)
Redd Kross in 1982
Black Flag in early 80s sometime
Neutral Milk Hotel in 1997 (I could have gone but didn't!)
Slowdive in 1994
REM in 1983

and of course, Ghosts of Pasha in 1995! (if you don't know about this, YOU MUST read about it here: ( http://media.www.vermontcynic.com/media/storage/paper308/news/2005/05/15/Arts/Ghosts.Of.Pasha.Rock.Out.For.A.Bunch.Of.Tricksters-954342.shtml )

Joy Division in 1978 (even though I hate Joy Division)

Then why Joy Division in 1978?

"Sultry Sondra: A Musical Fantasy" October 16, 1992. Details here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondra_Prill

faith no more, anytime
jesus lizard, early 90s
carcass, late 80s
swans, early 80s
arcturus, their last tour in 2006
boredoms, late 80s
siouxsie and the banshees, late 70s

pavement, either '90 or '94

The last Smiths show.

Genesis during the "Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" tour.

any disco inferno show

also would've loved to have seen blur's disastrous 1992 "Rollercoaster" North American tour that almost broke up the band

Can I change my age as well travel in time? Being a 16 or so yearold dude at the Beatles Shea Stadium show could've led to a lot of fun

yeah, or i'd be 1 at a pavement show

have you ever seen the support for the shea stadium show? the remains, the ronettes and bobby hebb. yaow.

i used to pick my bloody valentine, and i have gladly and multiply fulfilled that now. i'd like to have seen sly stone at one of the kind of woodstock-era shows, or john hurt whenever you could see him, like playing new york attics with dylan in sixty three or so.

Kevin, I hate to sully your dreams, but Pavement were kind of a crap live band (& I am very much a fan of their records). I saw them three times touring for CR, WZ, & BTC respectively & each time they were sort of sloppy and apathetic (which you'd kind of expect, but still..). I was always willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, though, b/c of the strength of their material, and I wouldn't say the shows weren't worth the price of admission, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I was at least slightly underwhelmed each time. I do really wish I could have seen a Gary Young-era show though, however shambolic, just to have witnessed the spectacle and all.

also would've loved to have seen blur's disastrous 1992 "Rollercoaster" North American tour that almost broke up the band

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, November 9, 2008 9:18 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Actually, I believe Blur were on the European version of that tour. The N. American lineup consisted of JAMC, Curve & Spiritualized (oh sweet baby Jesus what a show that was). Blur did tour the states around the time "Popscene" came out, so maybe you are recalling that tour?

Oh, I'm aware they were rather sloppy. They're just my favorite ever, so seeing them in their early days (or in 94-95, after the first two records and they started playing Wowee songs) would be my dream.

This is kind of a sad answer, but Lollapalooza '93 :/

Cocteau Twins, the only band who IMO sounded better live than on the studio. I'm pretty sure they toured with Moose sometime around '93 - '94. I'd go see one of those shows.

Oh yeah, Klaus Nomi, duh.

Also, the proto-Melt-Banana show where Yako was throwing chairs at the audience.

Joy Division. Not fussed when.

I would've liked to witness the only time Coltrane played the whole of A Love Supreme live, can't remember the place or date.

Other alternatives:

1) Yello live at The Roxy, mid-80s.

2) http://image.maniadb.com/images/album/179/179412_1_f.jpg

3) The gig that produced the B side of this album:
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Hendrix and the Soft Machine 1968 or one of the Hawkwind shows used for Space Ritual or Black Sabbath, Paris, 12/20/70.

The October Revolution in Jazz.

1) Yello live at The Roxy, mid-80s.

if you mean the roxy roller rink in new york I was at this gig. 1983 or 1984. can't say I remember much of anything about yello's performance. sorry. the djs and the dancers were the thing there.

to 20s California for a Sol Hoopii show

Hrmm, yeah, the Hawkwind Space Ritual shows... or probably better the Exploding Plastic Inevitable live at The Dom on St. Marks Place.

I'd pick one I actually was at: the PJ Harvey/Tricky show at the Shelter in Detroit in '94, if only so that I could grab my 31-year old self by the lapels and tell him NOT to follow that girl Christiane to Vienna...

3) The gig that produced the B side of this album: [volunteered slavery]

oh my, that's a way better answer than mine.
and i'll also revise to make mine being at one night stand, sam cooke live at the harlem sq club in miami, twistin' the night away.

Maybe one of those 70's Kraftwerk gigs.

The Grateful Dead, 8/27/1972 at the Veneta Fairgrounds, Oregon. "Dark Star" > "El Paso" > "Sing Me Back Home" = redemption

I would like to be in the Milk Bar Toilets when Bjork recorded "There's More To Life Than This" - maybe swing by the '30s and catch Billie Holiday in a Harlem club - back to New York in the 70s to see what Yoko Ono was doing and then to the 90s to catch Blur's night at the Budokan. Wouldn't mind catching Joni Mitchell around the time Blue came out, either..

Ooh, being at Coltrane's "Live at Birdland" concert would be remarkable too, I'm certain. Great live recording.

Oh, and to answer the question about why I'd want to see Joy Division even though I dislike their music: I don't know why, but I have a weird fascination with them and their narrative, even though their music sucks eggs (except the two songs that sound least like everything else they recorded).

Out of interest, those songs would be ... Atmosphere and Love Will Tear Us Apart? (/guess)

(Me: I want to see Joy Division because I fucking love them to pieces. That's all.)

are you the same guy who said "here" was his favorite pavement song? not that there's anything wrong with that, i just remember the wording was similar

I assume you're addressing that to res, not me? Only Here is my favourite Pavement song, too ;)

yeah, that was to res.
it's actually one of my favorites too. i can never make my mind up though...too many that are too good.

Out of interest, those songs would be ... Atmosphere and Love Will Tear Us Apart? (/guess)

Good call.

are you the same guy who said "here" was his favorite pavement song?

yes. if only pavement could recapture that brilliance elsewhere.

Coltrane at the Village Vanguard. This has always been my choice.

I think I remember there being a story in the boxed set liner notes about a waitress suddenly covering her ears and saying "STOP IT! STOP IT!" -- so I'd want to be there on that night probably.

you don't like some of malkmus' solo work or perhaps a song like "spit on a stranger" from the later pavement days? not the same, i know, but similar in tone/tempo a bit.

xp res

haven't heard that stuff, really. gave up after CRCR, which I hated

aw. :(
try Heaven is a Truck(second one) or "Strings of Nashville"

for songs somewhat in the vein of "Here". Spit on a Stranger isn't all that similar actually, now that I think of it.

Leeds Futurama festival 1979.

The Fall, PIL, Echo and the Bunnymen, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire,A certain Ratio, Teardrop explodes, Punishment of Luxury, Hawkwind, Scritti Polliti, The only ones, etc....

I was going to say Futurama as well. There were several. The Lines played at the third.

I've always thought: Boston theatrical rock troupe Orchestra Luna. My favorite band that I never saw.

Or B-52's, early Athens. I've read accounts of their second gig ever, a house party, that sound amazing.

Wasn't Futurama a kind of proto-ATP, in a hotel or something? Remember reading about it in Sounds around the time, and wanting to go.

Nirvana in 1989

saw 'em in hoboken, interviewed 'em too. they were okay. they were a 4 piece, cobain wasn't doing his kamikaze act yet.

"December 31, 1966 at the Roundhouse in London. The Who with Pink Floyd and The Move opening up."

after a year from my previous post, thats my upgraded and final answer.
you can't get a better deal than that in rock history

Joy Division obviously. And I might add that I went to Futurama but didn't go until the saturday and thus missed them. Terrible error. Along with my decision not to go and see them support The Buzzcocks because I wanted to see them headline. D'oh.

But also I would have loved to have seen the Talking Heads/B52s tour in, I think, 1979.

hahaha

"joy division and buzzcocks are playing together, think I'll skip that"

back in the 80s my wife's best friend invited her to go see the smiths. she said, "nah, I'll just catch them next time". unfortunately for her it was the queen is dead tour.

if you mean the roxy roller rink in new york I was at this gig. 1983 or 1984. can't say I remember much of anything about yello's performance. sorry. the djs and the dancers were the thing there.

Wow, I'm a bit jealous. All I know about that gig is that it produced this record, which is awesome.

not surprised at the brevity of that record; performances at the roxy tended to be disco-style "track dates" at 4AM

I would've liked to witness the only time Coltrane played the whole of A Love Supreme live, can't remember the place or date.

good call. paris, 1965, I think. or perhaps antibes...can't be arsed to google. the olatunji concert would be pretty amazing too.

otherwise, the rite of spring debut, as already mentioned; boredoms circa chocolate synthesizer; slayer on the reign in blood tour; faith no more at phoenix '95; van halen's first UK tour, supporting sabbath; dead kennedys at any point in their original lifespan; ditto sly stone; king crimson circa larks' tongues.

Edith Piaf, Paris Olympia, 1961.

back in the 80s my wife's best friend invited her to go see the smiths. she said, "nah, I'll just catch them next time". unfortunately for her it was the queen is dead tour.

― Edward III, Monday, 10 November 2008 21:19

Haha I did exactly the same with Nirvana at Reading 1992. "Oh, we can see them next year when they come back - it's too busy anyway, let's go snog in your tent..." Turns out it was their final UK show.

Cream's Goodbye Concert

Also: Gila Monster Jamboree

http://janesaddiction.org/img/tour/19850105_psicom_ticket_3.jpg

One of those desert gigs in the mid eighties with Meat Pups, Neubauten, Swans, Sonic etc:

Either that or any Bark Psychosis gig, they were truly incredible live.

Sorry that was meant to be an x-post with above...!

Actually, I believe Blur were on the European version of that tour. The N. American lineup consisted of JAMC, Curve & Spiritualized (oh sweet baby Jesus what a show that was). Blur did tour the states around the time "Popscene" came out, so maybe you are recalling that tour?

― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Monday, November 10, 2008 4:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ummmm. It might've been earlier than "Popscene". The band has said in interviews that the whole reason they began writing British songs was because they hated this tour so much and they hated America, so they made a conscious effort to write something a little more British-sounding, and the rest is history. I would love to have been there to see exactly what pissed them off so much.

Electric Miles + Crazy Horse = there can be no other show:

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yeah, pretty sure Blur toured supporting Leisure, there was a breakdown over Christmas, Damon had the Cool Brittania epiphany, started writing MLIR (& Popscene)

David Sylvian's Blemish tour would have been a....painful but fabulous thing to attend. Other than that, Talk Talk obviously.

oh forgive me, they WERE touring Leisure but it WAS the rollercoaster tour, and my memories of that Christmas break were skewed apparently:

After discovering they were £60,000 in debt, Blur journeyed to the United States in 1992 as part of the Rollercoaster tour in order to recoup their financial losses.[10] The group released the single "Popscene" to coincide with the start of the tour. Featuring "a rush of punk guitars, '60s pop hooks, blaring British horns, controlled fury, and postmodern humor",[11] "Popscene" was a turning point for the band musically.[12] However, upon its release it only charted at number 32. "We felt 'Popscene' was a big departure; a very, very English record," Albarn told the NME in 1993, "But that annoyed a lot of people . . . We put ourselves out on a limb to pursue this English ideal and no-one was interested."[13] As a result of the single's lacklustre performance, plans to release a single named "Never Clever" were scrapped and work on Blur's second album was pushed back.[14]

During the two-month American tour, the band became increasingly unhappy, often venting frustrations on each other, leading to several physical confrontations.[15] The band members were homesick; Albarn said, "I just started to miss really simple things . . . I missed everything about England so I started writing songs which created an English atmosphere."[13] Upon the group's return to the United Kingdom, Blur (Albarn in particular) were upset by the success rival group Suede had achieved while they were gone.[16] After a poor performance at a 1992 gig that featured a well-received performance by Suede on the same bill, Blur were in danger of being dropped by Food.[17] By that time, Blur had undergone an ideological and image shift intended to celebrate their British heritage in contrast to the popularity of American grunge bands like Nirvana.[18] Although skeptical of Albarn's new manifesto for the band, Balfe gave assent for the band's choice of Andy Partridge of the band XTC to produce their follow-up to Leisure. The sessions with Partridge proved unsatisfactory, but a chance reunion with Stephen Street resulted in him returning to produce the group.[19]

Roxy Music around 1972. The sound of the future that never was.

I still stand by my New Year's Eve The Who/Pink Floyd/The Move pick upthread.

From http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/books/chronology.htm

Saturday 31 New Year's Party, Cambridge Technical College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Psychedelicamania, New Year's Eve All Night Rave, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London, UK.

The Pink Floyd supported The Who and The Move. A large and interesting advert was placed in Melody Maker on the 24th and the 31st to promote the event, which was scheduled from '10.00 pm till dawn'. The Daily Mail newspaper attended both gigs, and published an article warning of 'pop above the danger level'.

Teenagers celebrating the New Year at two psychedelic pop music sessions in London were risking permanent damage to the ears. The music and light were arranged to create the psychedelic sensations similar to those experienced by taking the drug LSD. The lowest sound level in both clubs was 90 decibels on the edge of the dance floor. The highest was a steady 110 near the loudspeaker, where 20 to 30 young people were clustered in dazed immobility. The Pink Floyd group occasionally reached 120 at the 'Freak-out'. Nick Jones reviewed the gig in detail for Melody Maker on 7 January of the following year. Of the Floyd he wrote how 'on stage the Pink Floyd, The Who, and The Move each attempted to excite the audience into some positive action. The Pink Floyd have a promising sound, and some very groovy picture slides which attract far more attention than the group, as they merge, blossom, burst, grow, divide and die.'

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/pinkfloyd-12-31-66.html

Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, New Year's Eve 1966-67.

By MIke Godwin

Well, it's quite a while ago. Do you remember the Roundhouse at all? It's a former LNWR locomotive shed (Code 1B) which was converted into an "arts centre" by some people including Arnold Wesker IIRC. Just a big round hall basically. I'd only seen the Floyd once before, doing a short set at an Albert Hall Oxfam fundraiser, where they were billed very oddly alongside Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Bernard Braden, The Alan Price Set and so forth. They were very noisy and very freaky and I was immediately hooked.

At the Roundhouse, they had set up their mark 1 light show, which I think must have been devised and operated by that tech college lecturer who was interviewed on the recent Syd Barrett programme. The light show was all gloopy oil wheels in red, blue etc, and the overall illumination level was extremely low. The group were virtually invisible apart from when their shadows were cast on the wall against the light show. Then you could see that the bass player was very tall and the others weren't.

Bear in mind that I knew nothing about them and they hadn't released any records at the time. The bass player appeared to be the leader, but that may just have been because he was the tallest. They played very long, free form numbers which used things like the 'Candy and a Currant Bun' (i.e. 'Smokestack Lightning') riff. I remember the sound as deafening, but all the technical people assure me that nobody had the technology to make very much noise in those days. All I can say is I think that those old speaker
cabs could be wound up to quite a level.

They definitely played 'Pow R Toc H' and 'Interstellar Overdrive'. During 'Pow R Toc H' it passed midnight, and instead of the usual "ch ch" lyric they started chanting "Happy NEW Year" in a spectral sort of way. Otherwise there were next to no vocals.The organist was picking out those full-of-Eastern-promise licks, the bass player did the ostinato bit, and the drums were pounding out a stoned Bo Diddley beat. I have no idea what the guitarist was doing, but in retrospect I guess he was using all kinds of tape loop effects and possibly playing some slide guitar too.

They played for an hour fifteen or so, and then the Who came on at about 1 a.m. and I had to go home. The Floyd definitely weren't playing any of the Syd type dippy hippy trippy songs. The only time I ever saw them performed was at the 1967 'Games for May' concert at the QEH, where they played 'See Emily Play', 'Bike' and 'Scarecrow'.

- - Mike Godwin

http://books.google.com/books?id=b03CYc9UWSIC&pg=PA74

The public saw yet another episode of Pete Townshend's explosive temper at the New Year's Eve Psychedelicamania (reportedly billed as a 'Giant Freak-Out All Night Rave') show at the Roundhouse, in London. After three consecutive power outages, Pete lost it and commenced to destroy his equipment in a rage. "Pop stars are renowned for their moody temperament, but Pete Townshend went too far at the excessively violent climax to The Who's act," wrote onlooker Bill Montgomery in a letter to Melody Maker. "He went into an unparalleled frenzy and using the guitar as a sledge hammer sent amplifiers toppling across the stage amidst clouds of smoke, sending hangers-on scurrying for cover. The whole audience reared back from the stage in absolute terror. =

http://www.floydian.de/images/konzerte/allnightrave1.gif

Finally found a flyer for the show. If I'm reading it correctly, also on the bill were the Mothers Of Invention, The Fugs, and the Radiophonic Workshop

Roxy Music around 1972. The sound of the future that never was.

― leavethecapital, Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:28 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

I gotta say, the OTM-ness of this post rather took my by surpise. First Roxy album was a future that never was, indeed.