Mine is probably an obvious choice, but I choose the Last Waltz. If you're unfamiliar, familiarize yourself, you'll thank me.
Love hearing Richard sing this song and watching Garth's solo. You can tell the whole band gets a kick out of watching him play. -Definitely one of the best bands ever at their peak with some fantastic performers jointing them throughout. It's always nice when artists/groups exit on top.
So, what's your pick?
I realize tng's question is about our dream concert that we didn't see, but how can we help mentioning a real concert. (Probably another hubski discussion already exists on this topic.) I was at my dream concert: this concert. I still don't believe the line-up. Event: Toronto Rock and Roll Revival
Date: September 13, 1969
Location: Varsity Stadium
Attendance: 20,000
Concert Promoters: John Brower and Ken Walker
Concert duration: 13 hours featuring:
The Doors
Plastic Ono Band John Lennon, Yoko, Eric Clapton +
Bo Diddley
Chicago Transit Authority
Tony Joe White
Alice Cooper
Jerry-Lee Lewis
Chuck Berry
Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys
Gene Vincent
Junior Walker & The All-Stars
Little Richard
Doug Kershaw
Screaming Lord Sutch
Nucleus
Milkwood
Tony Joe White
Whiskey Howl http://beatles.ncf.ca/live_peace_in_toronto_p1.html And the most amazing thing was that I was wandering in Queen's Park - a big park behind the Parliament Buildings in Toronto - with two friends when a man asked us if we wanted tickets to a concert. He was giving them away.
"Sure," we said. We hadn't even heard it was happening.
Eight months later, the Beatles officially broke up.
A year and a half later, Jim Morrison would be dead.
you saw Screaming Lord Sutch !?
he is my political hero.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/1999/jun/19/guardianobituarie...
That is an awesome story Lill! This is why when someone offers you concert tickets you say "yes." Do you recall the performances? Any standouts?
This whole post got me checking YouTube and the web for documentation and articles on it. I see there's quite a few, so that should help the memory. There's a YouTube video of John and Yoko together doing "Give Peace a Chance" at this concert Original experienced memories? Here's some:
It was an all-day thing in an outdoor downtown stadium. There was lots of comraderie. When night fell, I made my way to the front and was there when John and Yoko came on.
I most of all remember Yoko in a bag howling through two songs.
I remember someone arriving in a helicopter - maybe the Doors. This was towards the end of the evening. When they began "Light My Fire" - there was that kind of 2000-people-oneness that the great concerts create. Now if I had kept a notebook, I'd have more to share. To the Hubski majority of 18-25 year olds. Keep a notebook with you when you are experiencing extreme life. You will appreciate it in forty years. When you are wondering what you did and not sure how to navigate the masses of tweets, texts, and data; you might still be able to pull out a notebook. Number and date your notebooks.
(ha ha, like that's going to happen.) Luckily BLOB_CASTLE is helping people remember how to handwrite with his penpal project!
Heyo! I actually do keep a journal on me at all times. I don't write too much in it unless I'm feeling inspired. In fact, the other day I woke up and had two stanzas of a poem in my mind. Instead of doing the homework I woke up early to finish I ended up writing a poem. I regret nothing.
One of Mozart's solo piano concertos at the Trattnerhof in Vienna, 1784.
Jimi Hendrix. Woodstock. 1969. The Star Spangled Banner.
FYI. Richie Havens the opener at woodstock died yesterday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA51wyl-9IE
Woodstock. The Last Waltz. The concert for George. Paul Simon in Central Park. None of which are remotely feasible, but here's one I actually could have been at, so that's my answer. Two guys wearing helmets, thousands of fans and not a single one of them was standing still. You can't stand still and listen to Daft Punk. Of course, back then I was young and stupid, so I probably would have rolled, gotten dehydrated, and died. EDIT: forgot the rooftop concert, somehow. That above all others. Here's some Cyrillic website with an excerpt Douglas Adams wrote about that show, and McCartney in general.
Okay. So. I can't do "last concert" but I can do bands I wish I could have seen (either in a different way or before they broke up): * The Minutemen. (RIP D. Boone. I keep meaning to see Mike Watt when he comes to town, but I keep not realizing when he is here.)
* The Butthole Surfers. Back when they shot shotguns over crowds and had two standing dummers.
* At the Drive-In. Was so excited for their reunion, but it never really became a tour. (Sidenote, I was checking them out while making this list and found out that Mars Volta fell apart, Cedric and Omar are over, this is...crushing).
* Bob Dylan in the 60s. Saw him about 10 years ago, was fun, but almost sad because he is so old. This is it for now. Godspeed You! Black Emperor used to be on here, but then they reunited and I was able to see them and it was everything I wanted it to be.
I know there was a gig where RHCP, Pearl Jam and Nirvana all played together. That would be high up on my list.
I have played at the blind pig a bunch of times and every single one of them I thought about the fact that I was playing on the same stage as bands like Nirvana. It's pretty cool to be able to play at a place where you grew up seeing some of your favorites playing at. My favorite "green room" we ever had. Lots of fun up there.
I saw Nirvana in a small club in Phoenix they were with Crash Worship and Sun City Girls I love Sun City Girls
Makes me wonder: if I were at any of these historic concerts as they happened, would I appreciate them as such? Or would I just think of it as a good concert and move on? A lot of the "legendary" bands gain that status postmortem, what bands am I seeing or passing up that will have that status 20 years from now?
Guns N' Roses in St. Louis July 2, 1991 aka the Riverport Riot. Axl Rose started a riot after playing through 15 songs. No better encore than a riot. Seeing Guns N Roses in their prime would have been amazing in the first place, but watching a riot happen at the end of a metal concert would been crazy.
I had never heard of this: "fuck you st. louis" embedded in the album art. "Thanks to the lame ass security, I'm going home". Good pick on a concert. Axl was quite the diva but they were bad ass in their prime.