Have you ever watched a video or heard a live recording of a rock concert and wished you could've been there to see it? Which one would you most want to travel time to see? I think a lot of people would first think of Woodstock, but I think if I could pick one I would go back and see Pink Floyd around 1970 or so. Maybe around the time they did the Live at Pompeii movie.

Monterrey Pop Festival '67.

Grateful Dead Europe '72
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Stones at Altamont. Can't get enough stabbing.

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Those Doors shows (New Haven, Miami) where Morisson got arrested.

The Sex Pistols only US tour, where they mostly played at shitty country bars in Bible Belt towns.

Not just the past 50 years but I'd take the time machine all over time to listen to all music.


Just think to hear real classical music before it was deemed classical.

Beetoven live! I wonder how long the lines were to hear him when he was just a teen.

Then I would zip further back to the 1400 when the very first opra was sung.

Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert in NY, 1992.

notjusthat Wrote:
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> Beetoven live! I wonder how long the lines were
> to hear him when he was just a teen.

I'd be more interested in seeing if the signs to his shows spelled his name correctly.

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> Those Doors shows (New Haven, Miami) where
> Morisson got arrested.

+1 on the Doors shows.


Would have loved to see the original 1980 Wall show in London. Just missed getting tickets for the NY show.

Also would have given my left nut to see Purple with the Philharmonic orch back in 69.

I travelled back in time to see REM's first show in that church they used to live in. Yeah I admit it, I STOLE THE BEER TAPS so you guys had to feel guilty and play more shows to pay back the chick who threw the part THUS kicking of your long and illustrious career. Your Welcome.

Great White at the Station night club in RI.

OR most def the night Mili Vanilli's tape machine started skipping. THat'd be a night to remember!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woodstock, definitely. (Gotta kick myself over that one. I was attending college in upstate New York from the fall of 1968 to the spring of 1970, so there's not much excuse for me missing it.)

Beatles at Uline Arena February 11, 1964. (I was 12 at the time and we lived in Northern Virginia. My dad even had an office in downtown D.C. If I'd know and had asked him . . . )

1967 Monterey Pop Festival with The Mamas & the Papas, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Canned Heat, Laura Nyro, Buffalo, Springfield, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ravi Shankar, Booker T. & the MG's, Hugh Masakela, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, The Association, The Electric Flag, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Blues Project, Country Joe & The Fish.

Nearly any of the Alan Freed shows in the 1950s. See http://www.alanfreed.com/wp/archives/archives-rocknroll-1951-1959/brooklyn-paramount/

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> Great White at the Station night club in RI.


I know what you did there
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The Last Waltz, final show of The Band at the Winterland Ballroom in SF.

In the early early 60s, The Beatles played a bunch of shows in Hamburg, Germany. This was pre-Ringo, before they had any record releases. I'm not big on their early stuff, but it would be cool to see them in their formative years. Their experience in Hamburg is where they learned how to be "The Beatles".

I've also read some cool stuff about the first Ramones shows at the CBGB. A bunch of unwholesome looking ne'er-do-wells who'd get up on stage and unleash a barrage of loud, nonstop rock. Arguably the first punk rock.

I'd have to put these two on my list.

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> In the early early 60s, The Beatles played a bunch
> of shows in Hamburg, Germany. This was pre-Ringo,
> before they had any record releases. I'm not big
> on their early stuff, but it would be cool to see
> them in their formative years. Their experience
> in Hamburg is where they learned how to be "The
> Beatles".
>
> I've also read some cool stuff about the first
> Ramones shows at the CBGB. A bunch of unwholesome
> looking ne'er-do-wells who'd get up on stage and
> unleash a barrage of loud, nonstop rock. Arguably
> the first punk rock.
>
> I'd have to put these two on my list.


Wow, someone actually watched Backbeat.

I've never seen it and only vaguely remember it from commercials. Is that what it's about? I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to movies.

Not the kind of film that would interest me anyway.

Led Zeppelin prior to 1974.

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I would go back to the 1980's and attend every "Doktors for Bob" concert.

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> In the early early 60s, The Beatles played a bunch
> of shows in Hamburg, Germany. This was pre-Ringo,
> before they had any record releases. I'm not big
> on their early stuff, but it would be cool to see
> them in their formative years. Their experience
> in Hamburg is where they learned how to be "The
> Beatles".

IIRC I read that the Beatles were playing like 2 or 3 shows a night for weeks on end, basically a working bar band, and they starting doing drugs to stay awake because they were working such long hours. It's be interesting to see them then, but I prefer the later psychadelic Beatles stuff, which they never played live anyway.

> I've also read some cool stuff about the first
> Ramones shows at the CBGB. A bunch of unwholesome
> looking ne'er-do-wells who'd get up on stage and
> unleash a barrage of loud, nonstop rock. Arguably
> the first punk rock.
>
> I'd have to put these two on my list.

Yeah. Also, Patti Smith in the old days.

(1)Knebworth 1976,,,

Rolling Stones (when they were great)

Lynyrd Skynyrd (when they were alive)


(2)Black Sabbath / Blue Oyster Cult "Black and Blue tour"


(3)Misfits (w/ Danzig) / Black Flag



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I'm not a big Who fan, but it would've been cool to see them during this era. They had a real stage presence.
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I seem to recall seeing a concert on ABC TV back in the dark ages that had the original Pretenders line up. I thought it was fucking great rock and roll. I wish I'd see one of them early shows.

And yes, I think Chrissie Hynde is a Black Widow

Can't believe no-ones mentioned this yet, but the infamous Meade performance at Virginia Beach, 10/31/2006. Classic, supposedly there's some bootlegs floating around.

Pretenders Wrote:
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> the original Pretenders
> line up. I thought it was fucking great rock and
> roll. I wish I'd see one of them early shows.

I wasn't a fan, but I can remember watching this video as a kid on early MTV and thinking they really looked & sounded like some badass rock & roll. It's fuckin great actually.

RUSH
June 11-13, 1976
Massey Hall
Toronto, Ontario CANADA

These concerts became the material for "All The World's A Stage", although they would not play the entire "2112" suite live until 1996-1997's "Test For Echo Tour" so, I'll also add...

November 7, 1996
Capital Centre errrrrrrrrrrr...US Air Arena
Landover, Maryland USA

I had a major crush on Chrissie Hynde growing up. She's the perfect rock chick, the look, the voice, the hair, plays guitar, is a badass.

> RUSH
> June 11-13, 1976

Seeing any Rush show back in the day when Geddy could scream to peel paint from the walls would've been the tits.

@ Hatemotor- I saw BOC/Sabbath Black and Blue tour in 1980 or 81.. Cult was great, much better than I expected, Sabbath didn't come onstage until midnite. Dio showed a lot of us for the first time the devils horn hand sign and even explained it to the crowd. The show from the Nassau Colesium is on bootleg videos. Great version of "Heaven and Hell".

@Tomahawk- I have a neighbor who saw Rush at the Lisner in the late 70's, I've seen them a few times, but they were probably really good as a young hungry band touring on Farewell to Kings or Hemispheres in a ~2000 seat theater.

Saw the Who in 1979 as a 13 year old, one of my first shows. Cap Center just a few weeks after the Cincinnati stampede killed a few. NO Keith Moon but memorable. Great version of "The Real Me".

Tired of hippies but I wish I was at Woodstock for Ten Years After and Mountain.

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