Top 5 Concerts To Time Travel To
Unherd
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Ok, Doc Brown shows up with an offer to hit 5 concerts tonight before dropping you back off at your dreary work-a-day life. What shows you hitting?btw, this was inspired by the Bill Withers Carnegie Hall talk..Mine, quickly off the top:Bill @ Carnegie HallJames @ the ApolloWattstaxBig and Pac @ MSG Otis @ Monterey
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THAT Donny Hath show
RunDMC at the Apollo
Any tropicalia night
Fania All-stars in africa
any show on the P-Funk earth tour
koyaanisqatsi live
Jimmy @ Isle Of Wight
Beatles @ Cavern
And any Small Faces gig where they performed Toy Soldier
many more I suppose but those are off the dome...
Jimi at Woodstock
Sun Ra in Egypt
Pink Floyd at UFO
James at the Apollo
Some Nigerian rock circa '74 in Lagos.
Jimi at Pali Gap.
Ditto the Tropicalia.
Xenakis's Persepolis performed at Darius ruins in Iran. The description on the back of the album is mind-boggling.
Funkadelic '70/'71
The Treacherous Three Anniverasry w/ Opening Act The Cold Crush Bros.
Whatever show wher Krs-One throws Prince B off stage.
Earth,Wind & Fire taping for Gratitude
Cold Crush Brothers vs. Doctor Rock & The Force MC's
Fania All-Stars @ Yankee Stadium
too many to mention.....
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers circa 61 (Hubbard and Shorter)
Hawkwind on the Space Ritual Tour
Clash London Calling tour
AC/DC 78 or 79
Mozart in Vienna
Buddy Bolden in NO
Robert Johnson
...
james brown who i have seen 3 times but i am talking some heyday shit,
caz/bambaata/cold crush battle at the police athletic league 1978
bob marley whom i saw as a 9 month old baby and have pics but like duh i was mad young can't remember
zeppelin
metallica with cliff
bill withers - carnagie
jimi hendrix playing with otis redding - pick one
velvet underground - 1967 gymnasium show
miles davis - at the cellar door 12-19-1970 (part of live evil)
Robert Johnson West Memphis, Arkansas
Kenny & The Kasuals Studio Club, Dallas
Jimi Hendrix, Cafe Wha NYC
Steve Parks Anywhere
Wattstax
Monk's residency at the Five Spot - ideally when Thelonious In Action was recorded
King Jammy-Black Scorpio sound clash when they unleashed Sleng Teng on the world
Zaire 74
Joy Division the night they played Sister Ray from the "Still" LP
(Jimmy's last show ever, headlining over the famed NYC punk band whose first LP had just come out)
- Swamp Dogg at the Fillmore, 1970
- any of the Flamin' Groovies' Fillmore gigs
- Charlie Feathers in some southern roadhouse in the seventies
- the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band, any of their live gigs in 1969-71
glad to say I saw this
Eddie Palmieri Live at the University of Puerto Rico 1971
Curtis Live
Grant Green Live At The Lighthouse
Kraftwerk - Bremen Radio 1971
and the Who @ Rock n Roll Circus and Isle of Wight
Led Zeppelin @ Royal Albert Hall 1970
Curtis Mayfield @ the Bitter End 1971 (Sounds like 30 people in that room)
Devo @ the Old Waldorf in SF 1978
The Band's Thanksgiving show at the Winterland in SF 1978
This Heat @ Scala Cinema London 1979
Shellac's Sex Pistols set Halloween 1998 @ The Lounge Ax in Chicago with David Yow as Rotten
i can't pick 5
I was having this conversation just the other night.
I forget my responses; I was faded.
I was fully on acid bro.
shit was epic.
fully epic.
Nirvana circa Nevermind AKA already blowed up: opened for Mudhoney at Western Washington University. That was sicc. I was only underage drunk off beer for that one.
I'd take a time machine to those right now, and I was AT those! Mid-major in-state college tour scene ON_LOCK! What!
Curtis Donny Monsters of Rock Zep Beatles um Concert in The Park Hollywood Bowl Swiss Movement Misfits SIGN ME UP I'LL SIMONYI THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW LET'S GO!
Curtis Donny