Poll: Which concert would you attend from the listings in the 8-29-77 Village Voice I found at my mom's house?

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Village Gate

I'd probably go with Mingus, but that AC/DC show is real tempting.

aztec two step all the way

Blondie w/Screaming Jay Hawkins

^wow, our city sucks pretty hard now

Definitely Dictators and AC/DC, but Blondie/Screamin' Jay Hawkins is a close second.

clearly Sic Fux w/ Nervous Eaters

tough choice between Talking Heads, Blondie and the last 2.

Teenage Jesus & the Jerks with the Fleshtones (weird double-bill) looks pretty tempting also. And Richard Hell and all those jazz cats and Joia Gilberto...Tough choices

There's a Lester Bangs piece on the front page about Elvis Presley. Stephen Holden reviews Alan Parsons. Dan Oppenheimer reviews the Jam's "In the City."

I don't want to get all "things were better then," but things definitely seem less monochromatic then.

This is tough, Bon Scott era AC/DC, Talking Heads or Debbie Harry in her prime. Depends on how much of a letch I would be in '77.

I guess as AC/DC are support the slot they get would be pretty short. Talking Heads looks good but the chance to see Screaming Jay as well as Blondie is too good to miss.

I'd probably go with Mingus, but that AC/DC show is real tempting.

― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, January 25, 2009 4:45 PM (35 minutes ago)

exactly.

Was Mingus even able to play in '77? I'm sure his band would have been great, but I don't think I'd want to see him near the end.

Mingus. And I would take your mom.

Talking Heads

I mean, I'd love to be all contrarian in go for Sic Fux or Victims or whatev, but seeing Talking Heads in 77 is like a no-brainer.

Gilberto or NRPS.

usually i abstain due to complete suck, but i think i might have to abstain due to too many options

who am i fooling.

which is free?

Blondie. or Talking Heads

The choice of newave/punk in the flush of youth vs. last and only chance for jazz legend is impossible. I'm boycotting.

Dictators!

seeing Talking Heads in 77 is like a no-brainer.

OTM!

The choice of newave/punk in the flush of youth vs. last and only chance for jazz legend is impossible.

New wave/punk is going to win handily. You should vote jazz to boost the results a bit.

Especially since I just gave Talking Heads another well deserved vote.

Oh wait, I might actually vote for Melanie

Mingus. And I would take your mom.

Haha! I'm not sure she'd have enjoyed it, though. Although I found the paper at my mom's house, it was originally my paper, not hers. Her tastes run more to Frank Sinatra.

who am i fooling.

which is free?

The Dictators, Michael Stanley, AC/DC ad lists a price of $3.50.

Those Central Park Music Festival shows were only a few bucks.

voted Mingus

Was Mingus even able to play in '77? I'm sure his band would have been great, but I don't think I'd want to see him near the end.

― WmC, Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Yeah, I was gonna say. Mingus '77 is not the ideal time to see Mingus.

I'll bet if I went to Chuck Mangione my mom would be there.

Mingus still had a great band in '77, though, and was making some monster records. Cumbia and Jazz Fusion!

Definitely Blondie/Screamin' Jay, even though Blondie became much a better live band later on in their career.

Blondie/Screamin' Jay and the fact that I never made it to CBGB = trifecta.

ANDY GIBB.

Blondie/SCreamin Jay almost wins for sheer WTF-ness but the only person on this list I really am sorry I never got to see play live is Rahsaan Roland Kirk

unless '77 is post-stroke...? can't remember

I voted for the Dead: it's Dick's Pick #15! They were hot in 1977.

1. eddie rabbit
2. roland kirk

Either Mingus or Blondie, probably the latter. Parenthetically, as a Clevelander it blows my mind that the fucking Michael Stanley Band is on that AC/DC & Dictators bill.

Who is Michael Stanley Band?

I had a tale about going to New York about 11 years ago.

Peoeple would ask "Did you go to CBGBs?" and I;d say no.

Because it's like if I had gone in 1978 or something, braved the scene to go down to CBGB's to see some proper punk band, and it was something polite like Talking Heads, got all disappointed and left early, but then TH became a great band and one I liked a lot. And I'd tell the tale about how I saw them at CBGB's, and they'd ask "Wow, what was it like?" and I'd go "bit disappointed really" because that's how reality runs.

Dareesay that the same thing might well have happened in 1996 or whenever it was.

So, I'll vote Richard Hell.

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

All through junior high and high school, they were like the biggest thing on the planet if you were from Cleveland, but nobody anywhere else had ever heard of them, despite a career spanning four major labels and the input of some fairly big-time producers. They were sort of Cleveland's answer Southside Johnny and the Jukes or something like that.

Larry Coryell & Alphonse Mouzon w/Pat Metheny, My Father's Place

99% chance that i was actually at this show as a small child.

not because of my awesome fusion cred, but pretty sure that this was the tour my dad was on.

Torn between Gilberto and Richard Hell.

Go to both and then you too can be Arto Lindsay.

nicely done

holy fuckin shit! that's it, i'm moving to new york in the late 70's.

compare with this coming friday:

Andy Friedman & the Other Failures
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Beat Circus
Blood
Steve Cardenas Quartet
Cold War Kids
Dysrhythmia+Tombs
Kings of Leon
Lykke Li+Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Lil' Dusty
The Pretenders
John Scofield
Slipknot
The Sword
The Thermals
Simone White
Maddy Wyatt's Sagebrush Valentine
Christine Ebersole
Joey Calderazzo Trio
Que Bajo?!
Rose Live Music

looks pretty eh to me, but perhaps i'm just not looking hard enough?

Antibalas rules that list

actually further digging through the VV website reveals Talib Kweli at S.O.B.'s, John Legend at madison square, Metallica at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Nightmares on Wax at Music Hall of Williamsbur, Kevin Saunderson at Webster Hall, They Might Be Giants@ (le) poisson rouge, not to mention random stuff like Punk Rock Heavy Metal Karaoke at Fontana's,or 'Ashford & Simpson's Legendary Open Mic Night' at Sugar Bar so maybe no need to invest in a time machine just yet.

i wonder if parlaiment, kool and the gang and sabbath were all also playing 8-29-77 and the voice just didn't bother listing them at the top?

I saw John Legend a couple years back and he was absolutely great. I would definitely see him again if I wasn't so worried about his poor new material dragging him down.

Factcheckr I would like to live in your skull for a while.

i saw john legend a couple of months ago and he bored me to death

Re "Charlie" Mingus: I was just curious about this. It's funny. I don't know if one of the 30 or so albums I own by him is credited this way.

Saw Mingus @ the Tyee Motor Lodge Tumwater Wa in about '77. He stopped the band in the middle of the set and tore Danny a new asshole for getting lost. Mingus made off with my housemate Michaels' girlfriend and we has to retrieve her from his room, so I've seen Mingus, pissed off and naked except for a towel on the middle of the night. Danny subsequently stole my friend Manny (who's band opened)'s tenor and they had to get a search warrant for his hotel room in Seattle the next day, to get it back.

!!!

An impossible list to choose from. I'd love to have been able to see new wave in the 70s but Kirk or Mingus would've been pretty mindblowing too...

Kirk died before the end of 1977.

I thought I'd seen it before. East Coasting by Charlie Mingus. 1957, but I'm looking at a 2000 cd.

I would see Richard Hell, for the Robert Quine especially.

the idea of Dictators, Michael Stanley Band and AC/DC on the same bill makes sense if you think low level major label hard rock signings playing together to help their careers with the hard rock fans and programmers. None of them ever amounted to anything unfortunately.

voted foreigner

cos I don't want to bump into all you douches at the blondie/screamin jay gig

whoa, Stumblebunny?

"No Show Jones." just for the fuck of it.

I think Mingus's widow rants about if you see records that say "Charlie" Mingus rather than Charles, it's a bootleg or something.

hey, maybe it was a Bootleg Charlie Mingus show?

Maybe they were taping it for a future bootleg LP?

Richard Hell, that minx

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LP 1 is himself going "(sigh) not again.."

I thought this Charles/Charlie controversy was the same as the "Louie"/"Louis" Armstrong controversy.
(xxpost ha)

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Andrew/Andy Cole

Walter/Wendy Carlos

Richard Hell and Mars

From http://www.mingusmingusmingus.com/Mingus/unauthorized.html
"Other signs of unauthorized copies include misspelled song titles, Danny instead of Dannie Richmond, misspellings of Jaki Byard, Cliff instead of Clifford Jordan, and especially Charlie rather than Charles Mingus. Many live recordings are also bootlegs."
So ... yeah, funny that a concert so late in Mingus's life would still have him listed as Charlie.

Joey Calderazzo Trio

Har, do you think in 30 years, there'll be people saying, "Dang, I would've loved to see that Kings of Leon show in '09!"

George Jones, just to see if he showed up.

(xpost)
Maybe. Who knows? Of course those people probably won't be posting on the Rolling 2039 Country thread.

My new calling shall be posting lists of gigs to annoy Ned. When I run out, I'll post stories my mom told me about going to the Apollo in '35. THAT's old school.

I voted for the Roy Buchanan gig... 50,000 English guitar players can't be wrong.

"Har, do you think in 30 years, there'll be people saying, "Dang, I would've loved to see that Kings of Leon show in '09!""

honestly no, but talib, legend, metallica or the pretenders quite possibly

also there may be some obscure "radio broker" kinda stuff buried in the listings that i wouldn't know about if i didn't live there but will maybe blow up to talking heads/richard hell level fame one day...

I would be at the front row of that Andy Gibb show.

I saw Andy Gibb at Chicagofest, if not summer of 77 then sometime in the few years after. At one point he jumped through a hoop of fire. (Top THAT, factcheckr!)

I voted Talking Heads, with Mars and Mingus close behind.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Can't touch that...

i couldnt decide on this if you paid me.

Joao Gilberto, Bottom Line
Mongo Santa Maria, Bottom Line
Charlie Mingus, Village Gate
Dizzy Gillespie, Village Gate
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Village Gate
Talking Heads w/Laughing Dogs, CBGB
Blondie w/Screaming Jay Hawkins, CBGB
Richard Hell & the Voidoids w/Helen Wheels & Mars, Village Gate

those all sound like so much fun. i really don't think it's hard to say things were much better back then.

fwiw most of the good shows are probably unlisted in the VV these days because of shadiness of shows and venues combined with VV = worthless. This inc. the Baltimore/Brooklyn set w/ Dan Deacon et al. Those are the ones that ppl will be polling in 2039...

Also went Blondie SJH because one person's weird is another person's appropriate...

Dizzy
(Wonder how far I would have to travel to see Gilberto still playing though)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I voted for George Jones, but I think I probably would have enjoyed the Eddie Rabbit show more.

this was ridiculously hard - even the godawful mainstream stuff sounds great! i mean, if richard hell AND mingus AND the talking heads AND blondie weren't playing, i'd totally go see foreigner. except then i'd miss ac/dc. cripes!

Since we're nitpicking names, Santamaria is one word.

The no-votes are always interesting on these threads. Buzzy Linhart might have been a good show. He played on a Jimi Hendrix album.

No love for Belzer???

Since we're nitpicking names, Santamaria is one word.

I was being overly faithful to the way they were listed in the paper. In Mongo's case, they may have just listed it that way because the Bottom Line ad was too skinny to fit "Santamaria."

Chuck Mangione was robbed.

Did he get mugged or did someone break into his house?

I'm back to say that I was recently tortured by being reminded of one gig from probably the fall of 1978 which I did not attend which I really would have liked to have gone to which I read about in the school newspaper the Monday after it happened which took place in a space that I was in more or less every day of my life for three years, which was The Speedies playing in the Bronx High School of Science cafeteria and throwing Captain Crunch at the audience.

(The previous post eerily prescient of recent Daptone related events)

Ten years later: http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/12/arts/critics-choices-pop-music.html

Just became aware of a 1971 double bill at The Bitter End featuring Herbie Hancock and Jackie Lomax and thought of this thread.