What gig would you go to

escobar

If you could go back in time to any era what band would you like to see most live at their hayday...

Personally I'd love to have seen U2 in the Dandelion Market busking .would be amazing. It was approx where the Dandelion Cafe is now.

Stone Roses live at Spike Island probably their best moment..

Love to have been at this one too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omJZcrnjQ_Q&feature=related good vid

Oink

There s many gigs I wish I'd gone to.
But one of them would be that gig back in the day when Dylan went electric. People started shouting abuse and calling him a traitor. Even though there must have been thousands of people in front of him, he turned to the band and said : PLAY LOUDER!

That's cojones. :cool:

ZakAttak

I watched the Woodstock live tape, and to be fair- the only acts that were any good were Jimi Hendrix and The Who.

I mean 'Sha-Na-Na?'

I would liked to been able to have seen it so that I could say to all those woodstock enthusiasts: "yeah I was there, it was sh1t".

Captain Darling

Probably Hendrix in Monterey. Saw clips of it on youtube. Very cool.

Monkey61

Tough to pick, but probably any Ramones or Television gig in CBGBs.

Failing that any Manics gig in The Holy Bible era.

Pacifico

Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) at the King's Arms in Auckland

Great recording of it around as well!

djScarey

I would like to see New Order at the Rose Hill Hotel, Kilkenny again, this time sober, as I can only remember waking up on a table when the show was over.

Bugg

Would love to have seen The Smashing Pumpkins anytime between 92 - 96 on the Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie tours. Saw them this year and it was amazing.

redmosquito

Pearl Jam
July 11th 1995
Soldier Field
Chicago!

deaddonkey

hate to bring out the cliche here, but i'm gonna go with zeppelin circa 73.

Or Gram Parsons shortly before he died.

orestes

Tool when Bill Hicks was opening for them in 93

Must have been awesome

Xavi6

Stone Roses in some small venue would have been super, though I think top of my wish list would have to be Queen at Wembley.

KnifeWRENCH

During the mid 90's Smashing Pumpkins, when their support act was Garbage!
2 of my top 3 bands playin' would have been sweet!

KnifeWRENCH

Bugg wrote: »

Would love to have seen The Smashing Pumpkins anytime between 92 - 96 on the Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie tours. Saw them this year and it was amazing.

Me too!! 'Twas amazing alright! :cool:

Bubs101

KISS in Cleveland Ohio for Al!ve 1

slingshotninja.

I don't listen to them at home much but I went to the Guns and Roses gig two years ago in the RDS. It was amazing. I would love to have seen them in an LA gig when they started up.

Creature

Either Pearl Jam at Pinkpop in 1992, Nine Inch Nails at Woodstock New York in 1994 or any Soundgarden gig on their Superunknown tour circa 1994.

Punchbowl

I'd love to of seen John Lennon at this gig

Or back to the final A House gig in the Olympia in 97

Zaph

Talking Heads around 1980-81 when they had the full 10 piece line-up.

Captain Darling

Bugg wrote: »

Would love to have seen The Smashing Pumpkins anytime between 92 - 96 on the Siamese Dream or Mellon Collie tours. Saw them this year and it was amazing.

Saw them in the SFX about 95/96ish. Brilliant.

CliffHuxtabel

Nirvana, Unplugged, 1993, New York


To a lesser extent The Wall tour by Pink Floyd.

Also maybe U2 at Red rocks, denver 1983....an amazing venue for a concert

Fuzzy_Dunlop

redmosquito wrote: »

Pearl Jam
July 11th 1995
Soldier Field
Chicago!

Just wondering, why that one redmosquito?

I was gonna say 'The Experiment' in Mansfield in 2003 when they opened for themselves, woulda been amazing. The fact that they played like 45 songs without repeating themselves. Epic.

degausserxo

Pacifico wrote: »

Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) at the King's Arms in Auckland

I second that

wezzopalooza

Zaph wrote: »

Talking Heads around 1980-81 when they had the full 10 piece line-up.

Me too..Around that time they could whip a crowd into a frenzy like no other band..There's a great Milan gig on youtube for proof of this.

SteveSleeve

CliffHuxtabel wrote: »

Nirvana, Unplugged, 1993, New York


To a lesser extent The Wall tour by Pink Floyd.

Also maybe U2 at Red rocks, denver 1983....an amazing venue for a concert

Yeh Nirvana unplugged all the way

John

The Velvet Underground back when John Cale was in the band and they were playing Andy Warhol's parties.

Einstuerzende Neubauten when they tried to destroy the ICA in London.

Throbbing Gristle at any point during 1978-1980.

Coil in Dublin 2004. Even though I was there, I would love to go back and see it again considering Jhonn Balance's departure from this world shortly after.

Tool on the Aenema tour.

My Bloody Valentine when Loveless came out (although I do get to see them soon).

Predhead

A lot of cool bands. The Velvet Underground would defo be up there for me. But I'm gonna be really really boring and say the Beatles, probably in around '64.

Also Buddy Holly would've been awesome.

redmosquito

playa3 wrote: »

Just wondering, why that one redmosquito?

I was gonna say 'The Experiment' in Mansfield in 2003 when they opened for themselves, woulda been amazing. The fact that they played like 45 songs without repeating themselves. Epic.

I liked the 'experiment' but I prefer other shows from that tour alone over it, it was still a mammoth show and with the two previous shows at that venue the ended up playing over 90 different songs with only YL repeating on night 2 and 3.

To answer your question, I think Soldier Field was beyond special, the band finishing up the first part of an akward tour, sold out stadium, they were at their peak of popularity then and the pressure was on. Eddie sounds rough but the band is absolutely on fire, setlist is great, some great covers (especially the rather obscure Sly and the Family Stone cover!).

You can feel how special a show it was from just listening to the boot.
Concert wise it would be in my top 10 Pearl Jam shows of all time, but just to have been there would have been amazing.

Have you ever heard it??

Hoping I get a special show at MSG this summer!

meditraitor

The doors (69 - 71)
Nirvana ( 91 )
Beatles (66 anywere)
Nick Drake (alive)

And metallica (with the stiff b playing)

Death or Glory

Manics circa 91/92 (Generation Terrorists tour)

Blackpitts

Jeff Buckley @ Whelan's on Monday the 14th of March 1994
or @ Tivoli theatre on August 23rd 1994 :(

Kold

Radiohead - Glastonbury 93 where the lights blew.

quarryman

Arcade Fire - Electric Picnic 2005.

Just to stand in a different position and experience it all over again.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

redmosquito wrote: »

Have you ever heard it??

Hoping I get a special show at MSG this summer!

Nope can't say i have, might see if i can get a hold of it now. I've got a good few random boots from over the years, kinda just end up pickin them randomly or based on the set lists.The variety in set lists is one of the things which makes them so amazing live imo, so I'd say you're bound to be in for a treat from one of those shows at least... lucky bastard:pac:

redmosquito

playa3 wrote: »

Nope can't say i have, might see if i can get a hold of it now. I've got a good few random boots from over the years, kinda just end up pickin them randomly or based on the set lists.The variety in set lists is one of the things which makes them so amazing live imo, so I'd say you're bound to be in for a treat from one of those shows at least... lucky bastard:pac:

Ive already got some gems behind me in the 4 shows ive gone to and now I just cant wait to get on the plane at the end of june for 5 amazing shows!!

You really need to hear soldier field, its one of the defining shows in the history of the band, especially the early years, if you want me to recommend some more just let me know!

If you go here you'll find a place to start downloading some shows:
http://inthepresenttense.blogspot.com/
or some here:
http://thearmyreserve.blogspot.com/

Get on over and get downloading Soldier Field first!
I can help you out with some shows too if you want, i has got about 350 or more shows if you wanna get some, just ask!!

Hardrain

Any Dylan 1966 gig

gary the great

Placebo - Olympia 2000 - I was there and still nothing ive ever been to made me feel like i did after that....

Glassheart

The Band at the their Last Waltz show.

The Who at The Isle of Wight 1970.

Hendrix at Monterey or Woodstock.

U2 at Zoo TV or Popmart.

One of those early Doors gigs at the Whiskey...

Any gig by the Cocteau Twins

I'd also like to add that Jeff Buckley at Whelans gig to my list!

Some of those early Lollapolooza shows would have been amazing too.

I could go on...

SligoBrewer

For me, Springsteen in Slane '85.

The Boss in the biggest Slane ever.:(

Notorious

Oink wrote: »

There s many gigs I wish I'd gone to.
But one of them would be that gig back in the day when Dylan went electric. People started shouting abuse and calling him a traitor. Even though there must have been thousands of people in front of him, he turned to the band and said : PLAY LOUDER!

That's cojones. :cool:

Some whack-job even tried to cut the power cords with an axe...
I'd love to have been at that gig. Also one of the Sex Pistols gigs, after Sid joined the band. One of The Doors concerts around mid-1970s. One of Johnny Cash's Folsom gigs. Any Joy Division and Nick Drake concert. Seeing Beck after the release of Mellow Gold. Seeing NWA would've been cool too. Theres just so many....

I'm delighted I get the chance to see a Rage Against The Machine concert. The only reason I'm going to ****** on Sunday!

Bren_M.Records

No one gig that I can think of, the band above all others I would have liked to have seen live are The Jam.

Spicy Lauren

Led Zeppelin

... when John Bonham was still alive ...

Miguel_Sanchez

Would loved to have seen Talking Heads on their Stop Making Sense tour - I don't think they played Ireland though (and plus I was only about 4 at the time!)

Smashing Pumpkins supported by Whipping Boy in the SFX in 1995. I didn't have the money for a ticket. Boo!!!!!!

Sonic Youth supported by Nirvana in the Top Hat (think that was the venue) in Dublin - 1991.

Godspeed You Black Emperor in the Roisin Dubh in Galway (2000/2001 I believe it was)

Smog - Roisin Dubh Galway - November 2001. Just to see it again and meet the girl I met that night for the first time all over again!

And since we're time travelling - I hear that Mozart lad had some mental gigs in his day.

youcancallmeal

Kold wrote: »

Radiohead - Glastonbury 93 where the lights blew.

It was 97 and I too would of loved to have been there

Mushy

If I had to choose some QOTSA ones alone, Big Day Out 2001, Eurockeenes 2005, or 100 Club 2007. Everything on those vids just look so good, everything sounded tight, seemed brilliant.

For others, Smashing Pumpkins in SFX(Ash supported them). The Who @ Isle of Wight, RHCP in Slane(just wish I'd actually gone, not necessarily brilliant but hey), and i'm sure there are many other out there.

Monkey61

gary the great wrote: »

Placebo - Olympia 2000 - I was there and still nothing ive ever been to made me feel like i did after that....

Thanks for reminding me how important music can be in life. 1999 was pretty special too.

Miguel_Sanchez

Mushy wrote: »

For others, Smashing Pumpkins in SFX(Ash supported them)

Jaysus - would you not prefer to have gone on the night Whipping Boy supported them?

Mushy

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Jaysus - would you not prefer to have gone on the night Whipping Boy supported them?

Maybe Whipping Boy supported them too. I only know of one night, maybe SP played more. I was only a wee chap back then. Tim, the singer from Ash told me about it, he never mentioned Whipping Boy. Plus I dont know any WB either!

Miguel_Sanchez

Mushy wrote: »

Maybe Whipping Boy supported them too. I only know of one night, maybe SP played more. I was only a wee chap back then. Tim, the singer from Ash told me about it, he never mentioned Whipping Boy. Plus I dont know any WB either!

Fair enough. They played two nights in a row (one night supported by Ash, the other by Whipping Boy) - this was the summer before Mellon Collie was released so they weren't huge in Ireland yet.

ibuprofen

Blackpitts wrote: »

Jeff Buckley @ Whelan's on Monday the 14th of March 1994
or @ Tivoli theatre on August 23rd 1994 :(

+ 1 , or maybe in sin e new york

Mushy

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Fair enough. They played two nights in a row (one night supported by Ash, the other by Whipping Boy) - this was the summer before Mellon Collie was released so they weren't huge in Ireland yet.

Oh right, I knew what the gigs were for(previewing MC&tIS), but didnt know they did two nights. So think for now I'll stick to my one of Ash supporting.