Top 10 Bands you would see (Time Machine Required)

[olllllo]

A buddy of mine were talking about dream concerts and the Beatles inevitably came up. This is a classic be careful what you wish for scenario.

My argument is that if they "got back together" the last time it was possible, you'ld have to suffer through all of their side projects and you'ld get a really watered down Beatles set or you'ld get "Daytripper" with horns and a gospel chorus. There is an argument for this kind of show of course (others may really enjoy it), but that's not the show I'd want to see.

I was reminded of this while reading a different thread:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=20812 ,
specifically Rhoobarb's post.

What are the Top 10 bands you would see and the era that you would see them.

Bands can be living or dead, however an incarnation of that band must have existed. (eg. You can't say AC/DC with Bon Scott AND Brian Johnson)
It's really important that you nail down the timeframe and perhaps the location, because as we know, there is a difference in seeing the Stones now vs 1975. Bear in mind this will also affect what the playlist will be.

The order to me is unimportant. It may help to explain your answer.

I'm still thinking of mine, he're a partial list. Kind of moving forward in time.

1) Louis Armstrong C. 1930's - because he was equally adept at singing as well as playing at that point.
2) Robert Johnson - at the Mississippi Crossroads, with the Devil, if it infact occurred.
3) Hank Williams Sr. - 1950's Grand Ole Opry
4) Beatles - In Germany, pre- Ed Sullivan.
5) Stones - Pre-Altamont, Tour with Mick Taylor playing Exile on Mainstreet set.
6) Clash - London Calling Tour


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Still thinking. Got to get Elvis in there.

 

[Desert_Sky]

I really wish I had made it to see the Guns n Roses / Metallica tour.

 

[the_bird]

I really wish I had made it to see the Guns n Roses / Metallica tour.

I saw GNR when they opened for Aerosmith in '87, but I was just a kid tagging along with my big brother and his friends, didn't know GNR at all, and so I didn't really pay any attention to them. That's one show that I would *love* to see again; GNR on the ascension, and Aerosmith when they were just on their way back.

 

[rdwj]

1. The Beatles
2. Grateful Dead
3. Pink Floyd
4. Sublime
5. Bob Marley
6. The Doors
7. Led Zeplin
8. Leonard Skynard
9. Jimmy Hendrix
10. Kiss

 

[Cheesefood]

Sex Pistols w/Sid
Mozart - Anything
Thelonius Monk w/ Sonny Rollins
Metallica w/Cliff Burton
The Beatles, circa 1968-71
Woodstock
Phish, when they did Gamehendge in Virginia (can't recall the date).
Monterey Pop Music Festival

 

[olllllo]

Monterey Pop Music Festival

Hendrix? I think that Wham also played under that show billing in the 80's

 

[Fiery Sword]

1. Led Zeppelin - any time
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Stevie Ray Vaughn
4. Mountain (most underrated classic/blues rock ever!)
5. Velvet Underground
6. early Nirvana
7. Neil Young/Crazy Horse (Live Rust/Rust Never Sleeps era)
8. Guns N Roses (Appetite tour)
9. Bob Dylan (Highway 61 era)
10. Beatles

 

[todd_k]

1. Pink Floyd
2. The Who
3. Soundgarden
4. CCR
5. Hendrix
6. Beatles
7. Springsteen
8. Sinatra
9. Ramones
10. Simon & Garfunkel

 

[MriswitH]

1. Alice in Chains
2. Death
3. Stevie Ray Vaughn
4. Metallica pre-Black Album
5. At The Gates
6. Dissection
7. Big Band Era

... having a brainfart on the rest.

 

[Cheesefood]

Hendrix? I think that Wham also played under that show billing in the 80's

Yeah, the 60's version.

 

[Hopfan]

1. The Who-Who Are You era
2. CCR
3. Stones-Pre 1975
4. AC/DC w/Bon Scott in London
5. Rush - Anytime before "Moving Pictures"
6. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
7. The Dead in the "street" band days
8. Ozzy w/Randy Rhoads
9. Spyro Gyra-pre 1976
10. Dean Martin - Any time in Vegas-he was a hoot.

 

[2nd Street Brewery]

1) The Who (with Moon)
2) Pink Floyd
3) Alice Cooper
4) The Kinks
5) Beatles
6) The Doors
7) George Thorogood & the Destroyers
8) Alan Parsons Project
9) Cream
10) The Yardbirds

I did see the Kinks but it was in 1982. I've seen alot of great shows but these are the one's I missed.

 

[ryser2k]

1. Lep Zeppelin 1973
2. Neil Young & Crazy Horse 1979
3. Pink Floyd 1973
4. Cream 1967
5. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 1978
6. Derek and the Dominoes 1970
7. Allman Brothers Band 1973
8. Grateful Dead 1971
9. Jimi Hendrix Experience 1968
10. Alice in Chains 1996 (During the recording of their Unplugged album)

As much as I like the Beatles, Stones, Who, etc... I don't think I can put them on my top ten.

 

[Desert_Sky]

....and Pink Floyd

however I don't think I would ever come back down after it was over

 

[user 574]

Kind of in a date order.

Mozart
Johnny Cash (as long as I wasn't in prison at the time)
Hendrix
Who
Black Sabbath
Zep
Original Clash (saw em at the end without Topper and Mic )
Stevie Ray
Early Chili Peppers pre-commercialization
Janes Addiction

 

[Ivan Lendl]

This is more of a 'Best Live album' thread but anywho...

Band of Gypsies : (Hendrix) Live at the Filmore west
Cream : Royal Albert Hall (whatever show Live Cream is from)
The Who: Live at Leeds
Wes Montgomery: Tsubo, Berkeley CA 1969 (Full House album)
The Ramones at CBGB sometime in the early 80's
The Ventures Live in Japan 1965
AC/DC w/ Bon Scott
Siouxsie and the Banshees (Robert Smith on guitar-Nocturne album?)
Iron Maiden Live after Death Tour circa 85?
Black Sabbath- 1969

 

[ryser2k]

I forgot one:

 

[Wolf]

Lot of people mentioned most of mine already

1. The Beatles
2. AC/DC with Bon Scott
3. Queen (with Freddie Mercury, obviously)
4. Sublime
All I can think of right now.

Luckily I got to a Ramones show more or less in the nick of time, sometime around 1995 I think.

 

[Rhoobarb]

...The Beatles, circa 1968-71...

Okay, a nit-pick here: Actually, they split in '70 and stopped touring in '66! But it would have been cool to have been one of the lucky people down on the street that saw them perform on the rooftop of their Apple HQ building in London in 1969 for the film "Let It Be"!

I saw Elvis in 1972, before he came completely unglued, so that's off my list. That said, mine would be:

1. Creedence Clearwater Revival, anywhere in 1970. Or, maybe !
2.
3. Buddy Holly, The Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake, IA, February 2, 1959
4. The Who, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, February 14, 1970
5.
7.
8. , anywhere in 1972
10. , anywhere in 1962

 

[ryser2k]

Man that Grand Funk video is goooooooood

 

[knipknup]

1. Led Zeppelin - any time
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Stevie Ray Vaughn
4. Mountain (most underrated classic/blues rock ever!)
5. Velvet Underground
6. early Nirvana
7. Neil Young/Crazy Horse (Live Rust/Rust Never Sleeps era)
8. Guns N Roses (Appetite tour)
9. Bob Dylan (Highway 61 era)
10. Beatles

Yeah, these. Except not the Beatles, Deep Purple instead...
Oh, and ELP - Brain Salad Surgery!

 

[knipknup]

There was another band. They were called Dust and sounded alot like Kansas. My vinyl is at my mom's but I have never heard of them aside from that one record. Good stuff.

 

[knipknup]

Damn it, I forgot the Eagles!

 

[rdwj]

I want to add one to my list - the Rat Pack. I would have killed to see one of their shows in Vegas back when they were big. From what I understand those shows were pretty much sold out as long as they ran - you couldn't get tickets

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

1. Phish NYE 95
2. Phish any 80's show - vermont
3. Zeppelin - any 70's show
4. The Grateful Dead early 80's - California
5. Zappa - mid 80's Chicago
6. Talking Heads - mid 80's
7. Paul Simon - early 90's
8. Frank Sinatra - and I'd want to be in a suit and drinking champagne with some fine ladies in some souped up NYC club.
9. Jelly Roll Morton, 30's, some underground jazz club
10. The Band

I don't think I'd have enjoyed a beatles concert as much as I do listening to them on the ipod. Too many ridiculous screaming girls.

 

[AleHole]

1. Slayer early eighties
2. Metallica w/Cliff
3. Minor Threat
4. Pink Floyd The Wall Tour
5. Jimi Hendrix
6. Pre MTV Nirvana
7. Stevie Ray Vaughn
8. Johnny Cash Circa 1960's
9. Black Sabbath late 70's early eighties w/Ozzy
10. Early eighties Bad Religion

Of course all these shows would have to be at some small venue like CBGB's because Stadium/Arena tours suck with the exception of Pink Floyd The Wall Tour.

 

[Klainmeister]

1. Gene Krupa vs. Buddy Rich
2. Mozart's opening of Don Giovanni
3. Beatles Germany
4. Hendrix at Woodstock
5. Ramones at CBGB's
6. Iron Maiden's the Trooper Tour
7. Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK
8. Sinatra and the Rat Pack
9. Elvis Presley's TV explosion
10. Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison show (though that would require me to be an inmate)

 

[olllllo]

1. Gene Krupa vs. Buddy Rich
2. Mozart's opening of Don Giovanni
3. Beatles Germany
4. Hendrix at Woodstock
5. Ramones at CBGB's
6. Iron Maiden's the Trooper Tour
7. Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK
8. Sinatra and the Rat Pack
9. Elvis Presley's TV explosion
10. Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison show (though that would require me to be an inmate)

2/5/7 inTexas 8/9/10 are now being reformulated in my list.
As long as the time space continuum is being aborgated may have to make this a top 25.

EDIT: Not considering 4 b/c of likely bad stench.

 

[TxBrew]

All mine are listed already except early Misfits with Glenn.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

1. Jimmy Buffett
2. Jimmy Buffett
3. Jimmy Buffett
4. Jimmy Buffett
5. Jimmy Buffett
6. Jimmy Buffett
7. Jimmy Buffett
8. Jimmy Buffett
9. Jimmy Buffett
10. Whoever's playing at the County Fair this year, if they're any good.