Pick one band to go back in time and see live...
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Kool & The Gang, circa "Live at the Sex Machine".
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sidenote: who produced/played on the Harlem World Crew records?
John Coltrane quintet. Village Vanguard 1961.
GET BACK IN THE TIME MACHINE, SON.
This was my first thought.
duh
My twelves say "Jack Taylor & Dave"
Sayin' man if I could go back in time and be around to see Spoonie do some shit live - man oh man. Oh wait, what about being there for Flash to the beat. MAN!
Word, that's what the internet was telling me but I didn't trust it.
Just being around NYC from about '78 to '89 would have been amazing.
I just watched that Lord Finesse vs. Percee P battle and had my head cracked open.
too many to choose from.
Maurice White
Verdine White
Philip Bailey
Larry Dunn
Al McKay
Fred White
Ralph Johnson
Johnny Graham
Andrew Woolfolk
Donald Myrick
Louis Satterfield
Michael Harris
Ramsey Lewis
Deniece Williams
Now THAT would have been a show to see!!!!!!
I'd love to see them CREATING Ege Bamyasi and the Future Days album. Getting blunted with some germans at Innerspace studios. Where do I sign up?
- spidey
Fela Kuti & The Africa 70 @ The Shrine, Kalakuta Republic.
And James Brown with any incarnation of the JBs between 1965-1975.
"My Funny Valentine is a 1964 live album by Miles Davis. It was recorded at a concert at the Lincoln Center, New York, on February 12, 1964.
The concert was part of a series of benefits staged at the recently-built Philharmonic Hall (now known as the Avery Fisher Hall), co-sponsored by the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Davis's set that night was ostensibly in support of voter registration in Mississippi and Louisiana, but he also mentioned in a Melody Maker interview that one of the concerts was in memory of John F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated the previous year. Kennedy's death had struck at the hopes of many in the Civil Rights movement, a cause dear to Miles, who had expressed his admiration for the President in 1962: "I like the Kennedy brothers; they're swinging people."[1]
Two albums were assembled from the concert recording. The up-tempo pieces were issued as Four & More, while My Funny Valentine consists of the slow and medium-tempo numbers. Davis biographer Ian Carr notes that the former were "taken too fast and played scrappily," [in SS terms =
The hurried nature of the faster pieces that night has been partially attributed to the sheer importance of the event weighing on Davis's young rhythm section, who were playing their biggest date yet. Tensions were only worsened by their anger on finding out they would not be paid for the performance. Pianist Herbie Hancock, twenty-three years old at the time, later described the psychological pressure on the quintet:
"That was my first time playing at the Philharmonic Hall and that was, like, a big deal, because the new Carnegie Hall was the Philharmonic Hall. Just from the prestige standpoint i really wanted to play good ??? the whole band really wanted to play good because that was the whole band's first time playing there ??? although Miles had played at Carnegie Hall before ??? but it was really a special concert. Only the New York Philharmonic plays there ??? and I tell you something ??? it was really funny ??? when we walked away from that concert, we were all dejected and disappointed. We thought we had really bombed ??? but then we listened to the record - it sounded fantastic!"
or something similar
or one similar from that 76/77 era
and a close second:
Parliaments and the gbh studio,
James Brown & Friends in Vietnam,
Isaac Hayes at the Sahara Tahoe show,
Wattstax, etc., etc.
But I'd also give a toe or something to see Can or Fela.