#4494830 - 10/27/19 02:01 PM
If You Could Attend Any 5 Concerts in History
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I was just wondering, if I could attend any five musical performances in history, what would I choose?
Not in any particular order:
1. Beethoven conducts the premiere of his 9th Symphony while totally deaf and the orchestra has to indicate to him to turn around at the end to see the audience's rapturous reaction.
2. Buddy Holly, the Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake, Iowa the night of his death.
3. The Beatles, the roof top performance atop Abbey Road Studios or their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Not sure which one.
4. Jimi Hendrix, Monterrey Pop Festival 1967
5. Mozart's last public performance, whatever it may have been, possibly his Piano Concerto No. 27.
Last edited by Docjonel; 10/27/19 02:05 PM. Reason: Changed my mind on #5.
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#4494851 - 10/27/19 05:08 PM
Re: If You Could Attend Any 5 Concerts in History
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I was just wondering, if I could attend any five musical performances in history, what would I choose?
3. The Beatles, the roof top performance atop Abbey Road Studios or their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Not sure which one.
4. Jimi Hendrix, Monterrey Pop Festival 1967 No3. You would be standing there wondering where everybody was! The performance I think you were referring to took place on the roof of their 'Apple Corps' in Savile Row. I didn't witness it being at some distance away, but staff of the printers we used near Carnaby Street did and got reprimanded for leaving the works without permission. Many establishment types huffed, puffed and tutted over the disruption to 'normal business.' As to 4. I'd want to return to Isle of White festival where I was cold, wet and too poorly with a cold to leave the tent and slept through Jimi's set! Additional ones I'd like to attend: Any Glenn Miller concert AC/DC at the River Plate Lynrd Skynard 7/2/1977 - Oakland Coliseum Stadium - Oakland, CA
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#4494897 - 10/27/19 11:57 PM
Re: If You Could Attend Any 5 Concerts in History
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I'd love to see one of those cool old jazz bands in their heyday at a speak easy. So mid 1920's, preferably a higher class affair Did Astaire and Rogers ever do a concert in their prime? That'd be cool. Any Bon Scott fronted gig circa '77-'78 Metallica Tushino airfield in Moscoow '91. Free concert, a million plus Russians, what could go wrong? Marty McFly, Hill Valley High School, 1955.
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#4494998 - 10/28/19 05:10 PM
Re: If You Could Attend Any 5 Concerts in History
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I absolutely despise the atmosphere at rock concerts. I'm also very claustrophobic so the whole crush of people thing is a no go. Having said that I wish I had been able to see Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
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#4495071 - 10/29/19 12:58 PM
Re: If You Could Attend Any 5 Concerts in History
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Off the top of my head:
RevCo and Ministry New Year's Eve 1989....to this day I regret I had to work that night.
Depeche Mode Music for the Masses Tour 1987
Any Cure concert prior to 1989 (and would gladly go to a Prayer Tour show again in 1989)
Any Joy Division show in the 70s
Johnny Cash in San Quentin Prison...simply because you probably couldn't ever see that show unless you were incarcerated there, haha.
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#4495160 - 10/30/19 02:08 AM
Re: If You Could Attend Any 5 Concerts in History
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No3. You would be standing there wondering where everybody was! The performance I think you were referring to took place on the roof of their 'Apple Corps' in Savile Row. I didn't witness it being at some distance away, but staff of the printers we used near Carnaby Street did and got reprimanded for leaving the works without permission. Many establishment types huffed, puffed and tutted over the disruption to 'normal business.'
Thanks for the correction! The Befuddled Time Traveller- wonder if Abbey Road Studios is close enough for me to have heard them off in the distance. "You gotta be kidding me!"
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" -- Mark 8:36
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#4495810 - 11/03/19 06:12 AM
Re: If You Could Attend Any 5 Concerts in History
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The Who any concert between 70-73 (they were on fire)
Humble Pie.. 72-73 (the hottest blues band in the early 70's)
Rolling Stones at Altamont.. (just to see the carnage)
Peter Frampton on his 75 tour..
Zep anything in 73-74 (they were on fire)
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#4495891 - 11/03/19 11:16 PM
Re: If You Could Attend Any 5 Concerts in History
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I just had one top my list - Metallica at Oakridge Mall in San Jose, California, in 1996.
They just showed up practically unannounced with a stage in a huge semi-truck trailer and did a free show.
Here's where it gets crazy - my house was literally a 60 second walk from this parking lot at the time.
My JOB was 20 miles away in Palo Alto.
So I'm in my work truck going somewhere right by this place, right by my house, and there's this unannounced Metallica show going on, I could totally hear it and see the crowd...
And I had to get my butt back to Palo Alto...
I was so tempted to stop, but I pressed on with my job...
Man, that sucks big time! I've managed to catch them 5 times now but would kill to see a non stadium type affair. Best gig i went to was their Poor Retouring me tour in the late '90's. No stage theatrics, just the band on a massive straight stage with a big black curtain backdrop. So good.
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