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Rolling Stones, Roundhay Park, Leeds 1982
I saw them in Newcastle on that tour, for some reason. Though as above, there are a few tickets I should have said yes to before this one. Actually as memory returns, vaguely (we were completely out of it by eleven in the morning), it was quite a laugh and I do have an enduring memory of getting pretty much to the front at one point, seeing Keith (taking splifs off the crowd) singing lead - on is it sweet little T&A from some girls? These were no enlightened times - head thrown back mouth on the mike full on rock star mode "she's my little rock and roll..." and thinking yeah, I have now seen a proper rock star. (Dancing **** (ah don't asterisk a word very similar to twit) was probably doing aerobics in the background somewhere.)
Good shout about Sex Pistols. Perhaps not the most amazing band in the world ever, but just to *BE* there when it all started.
Plus of course it would have been fascinating to see how they apparently squeezed 20,000 people into such a small venue.
I saw Talking Heads at Hammersmith Palais when they toured Remain In Light with the extended T-Funk lineup. U2 were the support. I've still got the poster somewhere.
If I could turn back time? Cher on that ship.
(I assume that joke has been made a few pages ago, but I can't be bothered to read back to check)
Lollapalooza 1992.
I was hoping to get to see Gang Of Four this year. Always seemed to miss them, there's not chance since Andy Gibb has passed.
GoF
Andy Gill mate. This year? wouldn’t have been the Gang of Four in your video!
So many and share so many with all of you who’ve posted before!
- Otis Redding. Live at the Whiskey A Go Go
- Stax/Volt Revue. Live in Europe.
- WattStax
- The Doors. Same venue as above
- Nirvana. The Unplugged gig
- U2. London. speedy edit - Hammersmith Palau’s 81
- Public Enemy / Beastie Boys. Brixton Academy
- Rolling Stones . Pretty much any pre-71 gig
- The Beatles - any period, but I wouldn’t be able to hear them...
- Jimi Hendrix - Woodstock
- Jeff Buckley, probably at Sin-E
- So many more...
@DEZB For the life of me I don't know why I wrote Andy Gibb... I'm going mad
@frankconway
That Feelgood clip never ceases to impress me,thanks for that!
Lee Brilleux suit makes me feel like I need a shower and he is a scary presence but what a performer!
I'd like to re-visit the Tears for Fears gig I went to in 1985 at the Apollo in Manchester. They put on a brilliant show considering their age and experience. Also memorable were the backdrop projections. Although passé now, the blue sky / fast moving clouds thing was new to me and worked so welll with Mothers Talk
– Stax/Volt Revue. Live in Europe.
I was lucky enough to have gone to that back in 1967 at the good old Hammersmith Odeon. A fabulous show.
There's a fantastic video of Fugazi doing Waiting Room live in the 90s. That gig.
I was lucky enough to have gone to that back in 1967 at the good old Hammersmith Odeon. A fabulous show.
That must have been so, so good!!!
Nobody seems to have mentioned Coldplay yet...? 😉
A friend of mine was at Woodstock and he says it was good... But kind of more in retrospect. A cousin of mine was in 'the' IoW gig but I am not sure his memory of it is very good. He says he was glad he went and made it home.
Anyway, I would have to say the usual. Marley, Hendrix, old ACDC, etc. But I'd also like to have been in the Frampton Comes Alive gig,
Jethro Tull at every tour until Heavy Horses: I saw them several times after that and they were brilliant- but I recon they would have been better around SFTW or TAAB.
Pink Floyd the wall. The last big one in Hammersmith. A load of mates went but I didn't have the cash... I wish I had gone.
Sabbath before Ozzy lost it.
Dylan when he first played like a rolling stone...
I know I'm very boring...
1933 Bayreuth festival so I could blow Hitler and his goons away Inglorious Bastards style?
The stones back in the day would have been cool though.
I was lucky enough to have gone to that back in 1967 at the good old Hammersmith Odeon. A fabulous show.
That must have been so, so good!!!
Just amazing, the atmosphere, so friendly and everyone dancing standing on the seats. And what a line up.....
Otis Redding (who sadly died later that year), Arthur Conley, Sam and Dave, Eddie Floyd ( I just love Knock on wood), Carla Thomas, Booker T and the MGs, Mar Keys
53 years ago, where has the time gone!
Has anyone mentioned Howard & Pete’s Sex Pistols gig at the free trade hall yet? That one.
The ‘judas’ Dylan gig (Liverpool?) In 66 (I think).
Both were at the Free Trade Hall
Glasgow, 1999, I was at it, but I would go back just to go again, the energy was just immense. Never been to another gig like it
Hundreds at least! How to choose one? a few off the top:
Black Sabbath, Paris Olympia December 20th 1970
Magma, Paris Trianon 13th and 14th May 2000
Killing Joke, Birmingham, Digbeth Institute 30 January 1991*
Can, Cologne Sporthalle on February 3 1972
Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, Konserthuset, Stockholm, September 30th, 1967
Frank Zappa, New York City Palladium, 31st October 1977
Fela Kuti, nightclub in Calabar, Nigeria, 1971
Stereolab, Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, November 2001
Julian Cope, Phoenix Festival, Long Marston Airfield 🐵1993*
Motorhead, Nottingham Theatre Royal, 20th Aug 1980
Cardiacs, Salisbury Arts Centre 30 June 1990.
* Was there, would dearly love to go again in a time machine as long as it rewound my physical years to match 🤘🏼
James Brown, Paris Olympia 1971
Some Wagner, in 1930s Germany, giving the opportunity for some culture and pre-holocaust Hitler assassination.
Isn't that a prerequisite for time travel anyway though?
Just amazing, the atmosphere, so friendly and everyone dancing standing on the seats. And what a line up…..
Otis Redding (who sadly died later that year), Arthur Conley, Sam and Dave, Eddie Floyd ( I just love Knock on wood), Carla Thomas, Booker T and the MGs, Mar Keys
53 years ago, where has the time gone!
Th atmosphere sounds amazing on the Album - a long-term favourite of mine! Let alone in person!
On a side note, one of my sons has the middle name ‘Otis’... Not because he was conceived as n a lift.
Both were at the Free Trade Hall
Well, that’s a weird coincidence!
I’d liked to have been at the London Neil Young gig where he played Tonight's the Night album (before it was released). The crowd were restless (because they were expecting his acoustic hits) so he said if they stick with it they’d hear something they’d heard before. Then played the same songs again... 🤣
I’d also like to have seen some of the seminal US ‘punk’ CBGBs gigs, television (with richard hell), ramones, talking heads, even blondie. I kick myself for not going to see Elvis Costello coz the Void-Oids were support (even though it was his shit junkie phase).
Just amazing, the atmosphere, so friendly and everyone dancing standing on the seats. And what a line up…..Otis Redding (who sadly died later that year), Arthur Conley, Sam and Dave, Eddie Floyd ( I just love Knock on wood), Carla Thomas, Booker T and the MGs, Mar Keys
53 years ago, where has the time gone!
Th atmosphere sounds amazing on the Album – a long-term favourite of mine! Let alone in person!On a side note, one of my sons has the middle name ‘Otis’… Not because he was conceived as n a lift.
Just to follow on this theme, then I'll shut up.....
Later in 1967 I saw the Four Tops at the Royal Albert Hall.... again, everybody dancing, great atmosphere.
Then, 9 years later in 1976, I was at a business meeting where we taken off for a show in the evening at the Batley Variety Club...never knew who were going to see but a wonderful surprise to see it was the Four Tops.... still going great and putting on a terrific performance.
Slightly different but my son has been the sound engineer for the last few years for the Stylistics on their UK tour.
Gateway 404 weird timeout double post thing...
Mine would have to be Queen’s Live Aid set.
Also Audioslave on their first album tour. Man, I wish I’d gone to that gig. Always assumed there’d be another ☹️