What one concert would you attend if you could travel back in time?

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Neil's Tonight's The Night tour

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The Dead in Europe, 72 (any date)

I don't think Ian Curtis did that at that Joy Division show.

What about the premiere of the Rite of Spring? It would be weird to experience firsthand a riot you know will become an ironic piece of music history.

Maybe a LaMonte Young dream house in the 60s?

John Coltrane at Olatunji?

That Eindhoven show is pretty great, as live tapes go, though.

Coltrane, Young, Stravinsky, Monterey festival, sure; but I wouldn't want to go to Woodstock, even forewarned about the brown acid. John Cage, maybe. No, fuck it. Eindhoven.

Wait, both of them played at Woodstock too.

But you're right, it was kind of a muddy chaotic mess, wasn't it?

Hmmm, now that you bring up Cage, there's something to be said for a 60s happening - I just don't think it would beat out the other options.

I have Eindhoven and Amsterdam on the same tape - Which one is it where they do the sped-up proto-hardcore version of "Interzone".

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(Throbbing Gristle. Now there's a thought. But I'm on this massive Joy Division trip at the moment, like you couldn't tell. Eindhoven.)

"Eindhoven Holland Sunday 18 Jan 1980:
During the end of 'Ice Age' a group of English in the audience were jeering Joy Division by chanting 'One, two three, four. Get them off and out the door'. [sic] Peter, not always known for massive under-reaction, quieted the boisterous ones perfectly by playing the bass line from 'Dead Souls', [sic] their next song, in time with the shouts."

Now, how did this thread manage to accomplish making me pull this book out where other threads so similar didn't? Dunno.

Also, Pylon or the B-52's back when they were playing college parties.

You are so so right.

This is totally the turning point of the gig. Up until then, they were a bit flat, but the jeering seemed to get them good and pissed off because from that point on they were astounding.

See also the Preston gig from April of that year -- compare before and after the technical difficulties (this is the JD gig I would have seen).

B.B. King
Tina Turner
Rolling Stones

Wow!

Hate to brag but I did see Paul McCartney here in 1999. It was in Real Video over a dial-up modem and through my CPU's mono speaker, but he totally rocked the house.

Duran concerts I'd have loved to attend:

March 12, 1979. Gig at the Rum Runner, featuring Andy Wickett on vocals and Roger Taylor as the "new drummer".
Sometime in January 1980. Duran opens for Fashion in Birmingham, UK.
December 12, 1980. Gig at The Venue, London. Sponsored by Rusty Egan (Rich Kids/Visage).
Sometime in May 1981. Duran play for the first time in the U.S., in Poughkeepsie, NY. According to the DD Timeline, the band "played to about eleven people". It would've been SO cool to have been one of those eleven.

March 5, 1984. Sing Blue Silver tour stop in Toronto, ON. Openers: The Payola$.
March 30, 1984. Sing Blue Silver tour stop in Greensboro, NC. Special guests INXS.

August 12, 1987. As part of David Bowie's North American Glass Spider tour. Believe it or not, The Outfield also took part in this concert. That actually makes it even MORE watchable.
August 31, 1987. Duran perform at the Beacon Theater in NYC. Special guests: Lou Reed and Nile Rodgers.

November 19, 1988. A concert at La Locomotive in Paris, billed as "The Krush Brothers".

Yeah, that should pretty much do it.

My favourite live recording ever, and the most exciting record ever made, is Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club, in Hamburg, so that is very tempting (and there were shows featuring him, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and other stars!), but I think one of the big Stax revue tours, one with Otis, Sam & Dave and Booker T & the MGs, plus some others(I think there was at least one that also had Arthur Conley and Eddie Floyd, so that would be great), would get my vote. Were there any Hi package shows in the early '70s, with Al Green, Ann Peebles, O.V. Wright and Otis Clay? That might be even more appealing, perhaps.

Failing that, Shudder To Think circa Pony Express Record.

Also - and this won't be universally popular here - like to go and see Melanie doing her concert in Carnegie Hall that was recorded and used for her album 'Leftover Wine'.

the aforementioned Depeche Mode one in '88

808 State and Happy Mondays at the G-Mex '90

Orbital at Glasto '94

Prodigy in London '92 and at Glasto '95

Stereolab in London '96

Daft Punk and Basement Jaxx at the Astoria (again) '97

Portishead in NYC '98

1979 would have been the first Futurama, surely? I went to several Futurama's, the first time being in 1980 which I'm sure was Futurama 2....

ryan you r aware that 'gig' is featured on the fabs' anthology dvd? yeah thought so. that for me was the bit that made that tv show worthwhile when originally broadcast. i literally couldn't believe what i was seeing. orchestra in clown masks? check.
keef and mick and marianne sitting stoned on the studio floor ? check.
macca swanning about in a cool coat like 'this is my idea and it's going to rock'? check. fckng hell it's ace isn't it?

johnny yeah u missed a show and a half there. saw it aged 16 in birmingham (the penultimate show) but if you go here :

http://archives.depechemode.com/video/concertseries/900804_losangeles.html

you can see bits of a gig from the tour shot (not as amateurishly as you'd expect) in l.a.

you've probably seen this already!

I saw Portishead in NYC at the Supper Club in `95. I still have the official coffee mug to prove it. They were absolutely amazing live, which quite surprised me, as Massive Attack live were, well, shit.

Really? Benylin? We used to prefer Actifed; which had some extremely interesting side-effects when consumed by the bottle and washed down with a bottle of Merrydown!