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If you could go back in time and go to a gig, which one would you chose, and why?
I would like to go back to Dylan's gig at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, and watch the people in the duffel coats getting more and more worked up at his electric guitar set. I would be on tenterhooks waiting for the famous "Judas" comment, and would like to be the first to explain that they had used Dylan, just as much as he used them.
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Thread: Gigs You Wish You Had Been At
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18-07-2019 06:54 PM #1
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Gigs You Wish You Had Been At
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18-07-2019 08:19 PM #2
Live Aid.
Still remember sitting in on a roasting day watching it on my wee black and white porty telly.
Never really realised how iconic it was but knew it was a one-off. (I was only 16 and not really musically sophisticated)
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18-07-2019 08:33 PM #3
Probably one of the Sun Records tours, Elvis, Johnny Cash, carl Perkins, Jerry Lee etc.
Many many more gigs as well
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18-07-2019 08:35 PM #4
I was supposed to go and see Lower than Atlantis at the end of the 17/18 season, I got a ticket for the Tynecastle derby, forgetting that I had a ticket to their gig, I went to the game instead, nae joy on that front, but suspect that the gig may have proved to be more enjoyable.
Of course, now they've decided to call it a day, and I never got to see them properly.
Failing that, any Queen gig at any point in time prior to the passing of Freddie Mercury - course that would mean going back to a time before I was born, so if we're talking within your own lifetime, that one's not gonna fly.
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19-07-2019 12:01 AM #5
Spike Island.
By all accounts it was terrible in just about every way, but it was era defining and it was an era I wish I had been part of.
And most folk were so mangled they didn't notice the terribleness.
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19-07-2019 03:06 AM #6
Oasis at Knebworth or Maine Road in 96.
Hibs.nets negative posting legend and unofficial ticket agent.
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19-07-2019 09:48 AM #8
Depeche Mode at The Rose Bowl, Pasadena 1989 that was filmed as part of their 101 documentary. Iconic gig and film.
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19-07-2019 10:19 AM #10
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Simple Minds at Le Zenith Paris 1986.
Live in the City of Light tour.
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19-07-2019 10:24 AM #11
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Peter Frampton at Winterland, San Francisco 1975
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19-07-2019 11:09 AM #12
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Second choice: any concert by Jacques Brel, firstly to hear and see him, but also to discuss how significant his music would be after his death.
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19-07-2019 12:25 PM #14
Any gig by The Jam but particularly their farewell gig at Brighton.
Got to add The Beatles & The Who in there as well with the full band.
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19-07-2019 12:53 PM #15
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Jean Michele Jarre in Moscow 1997...firstly the guy is a true pioneer of electro and being in a crowd of 3.5 million - I couldn't even imagine!
Oh and AC/DC doing Rio looked incredible as well"You opened the box....and your soul belongs to me...."
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19-07-2019 03:36 PM #17
Beatles gig anywhere.
Led Zeppelin, seen Page & Plant but would have loved to see the whole band
Rolling Stones Hyde Park.
Woodstock
AC/DC at the Apollo in 1978 for when "If you want blood" was recorded.
California Jam '74
Good question and there are probably hundreds more great rock concerts that I'd loved to have been at.
True story - one of my mates was at Knebworth in 79 where led Zeppelin played their last ever concert. Slept through the whole thing as he was so stoned!!!
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19-07-2019 03:46 PM #18
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19-07-2019 08:22 PM #19
Green Day on their 2005 tour, they played to 120,000 people over two nights at the MK bowl and it looked incredible.
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19-07-2019 08:35 PM #20
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Saw them at titp that year and wasn't hugely impressed, though tbf, I felt the same about placebo and now I'm kicking myself I didn't pay more attention to them.
For me, Eminem at Hampden.
Wasn't bothered about Eminem but cypress hill and Xzibit wee supporting and all my mates were there, whilst I was in France.
Would have been c. 2005/06
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19-07-2019 08:41 PM #21
Another gig I’d love to go back to was one I was actually at.....Prince at the O2 in 2007. I missed Scotland winning in France to attend the gig. Only Scotland game I missed that campaign. It was worth it, incredible gig.
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I think seeing bands at festivals sometimes dilutes the atmosphere - a lot of people would go and see them because they’re the headliner or whatever, but a individual band doing a gig is a different level.
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20-07-2019 07:46 PM #23
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Bootleg Beatles
Chemical Brothers (who not many had heard of at the time)
Ocean Colour Scene
Manic Street Preachers
Prodigy (who were amazing and really got the place going)
Oasis
I remember bits and bobs but to me it was he height of the Britpop movement and the top for Oasis, it was downhill for them after that. Noel Gallagher described it as the last great gathering of young people before the age of the internet, I like that and bore my friends to this day with the story of how I was there.
The film Supersonic is a great documentary that leads up to Knebworth.Last edited by James310; 21-07-2019 at 08:43 AM.
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21-07-2019 08:39 AM #24
The Sex Pistols gig at Manchester's Lesser Free Trade Hall in June 1976:
Only about 40 people there but loads went on to form their own bands (Joy Division, Buzzcocks etc)
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21-07-2019 08:55 AM #25
Bob Marley at Smile Jamaica. The Natty Dread tour had been very well received and he was on an upwards trajectory with Rastaman Vibration. All the events that are associated with Smile Jamaica encapsulate for me , the essence of protest music. That concert changed a country.
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No regrets either, bloody love the Manic Street Preachers
Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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01-08-2019 05:02 PM #28
February 2nd 1959, Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake. I would have organised a gang to stop Buddy getting on that plane at any cost!
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Besides, if Buddy had lived, the Beatles would never ha r happened.Last edited by Cataplana; 05-08-2019 at 04:00 PM.
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