Time and Place?: Time Travel Concert

Mine: I'd be at the Top 10 club in Hamburg in 1961, watching the Beatles (post Stu, Pete still warming Ringo's seat). The Beatles--decked out in leather and denim (no suits)--are wired on Preludin and German pilsner and ripping through Sun Records covers and a 45-minute rave up of "Money (That's What I Want)" and "What'd I Say." It's about a six hour set with breaks.

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You know the closing scene in Dance Craze when The Specials are playing Nite Klub?
That gig.

Okay, this is probably a gimme but,

David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars, July 3rd 1973, Hamersmith Odeon

David Bowie, Mick Ronson, music and all the makeup... perfection!

the dolls don kirshner rock concert cir '73

Heartbreakers in '76-'77

Faces circa '71 / "A Nod...." era

The recurrence is Twoninefourtwelve. I am at the Offlimits Club in your system's capital, Columbirie Complex, watching Ordinal Indicator play their quinquagenary gig! They've been performing for 8x3 centidays and are just getting started!

The opening act was the 3rd-splice Beatles[Arklow format/starstarnine] recreating the '61 Hamburg gig.

And the Spiders From Mars warmed up for them. The real Spiders From Mars!



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Clever, very clever.

Devo - `82

San Francisco mid-80's any bands off the Subterranean or Alternative Tentacles labels

Dictators - DC `91 - I was there but it was such a great show, I would like to see it again.

- Velvets Exploding Plastic Inevitable show
- Eno/Fripp '74-'75
- James Brown @ the Apollo

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Devo - `82

I was there! Seated all the way back of the Universal Ampitheatre but still saw/heard enough - like Mark Mothersbaugh rapelling down a rope from the balcony to the floor with a cordless mic singing "Are we not men" and shoving it into audience members' faces to get the response as he made his way back to the stage.

Funkadelic Late 60's early 70's

> I was there! Seated all the way back of the Universal
> Ampitheatre but still saw/heard enough - like Mark Mothersbaugh
> rapelling down a rope from the balcony to the floor with a
> cordless mic singing "Are we not men" and shoving it into
> audience members' faces to get the response as he made his way
> back to the stage.

I'm very jealous. I only got to see them in the latter part of their career and they came off way too packaged.

On that boat floating down the Thames with the Sex Pistols.

Devo '82 ... would that have been the New Traditionalists Tour? Because I had the pleasure of seeing them on that one, in Boulder. Awesome show!

Ned is right: this is a cool thread. Others I'd add:

The Beatles (Red Rocks, 26 August 1964 -- seems as good a place as any to see 'em)
Jimi Hendrix (Red Rocks, 1 September 1968 -- ditto)
The Who (Leeds University, 14 February 1970 -- actually, any show while Moon was alive)
Kiss (any show pre-1978)
Sex Pistols (San Francisco, 14 January 1978)
Talking Heads (New Orleans 1978)
Roxy Music (any time probably would do, but the Denver show on 12 April 1979 works for me)
XTC (any show on the Black Sea tour)
Magazine (Denver show 1981)
Queen (any show 1982 or earlier)
Dead Kennedys (Denver 1982)
Black Flag (they played Denver at least twice a year, from '81 through '86, but I always had a prior commitment. Twice, it was my own band's gig on the same night; once, it was my father's college graduation. I'd say late '84, the Slip It In tour)
Nirvana (Denver 1993)

And finally ...

U2 (Red Rocks, 5 June 1983 -- so many people have asked me over the years if I was at that U2 show, so perhaps I should've been)

Jeff Buckley in '93. Or anytime. I always had conflicts or was just too lazy to go out on a weeknight whenever he came through Austin (which was several times - twice before Grace came out, the first time with no bad) and never got to see him play in person.

I'd've loved to have seen Husker Du sometime in the latter half of their career.

Also:
the Small Faces in the latter part of their career (did they ever tour America?)
the Faces when Ronnie Lane was still alive
the Who circa early 70s (though there's so much video of them now it's almost like being there)
Black Sabbath around the time of Master of Reality
the Only Ones in the late 70s
the Chameleons on the Strange Times tour
Fairport Convention in the very early 70s, when Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny were both still in the group
the New York Dolls in 1973
the MC5 around the time of High Time
Sly & the Family Stone in the late 60s, before coke had taken its tole on Sly
Parliament/Funkadelic in the 70s
Elvis Costello on the King of America tour
Chrome when Helios Creed and Damon Edge were in the band at the same time
the Rolling Stones at the time of Exile
Miles Davis in the early 70s
Rockpile
the David Sylvian/Robert Fripp tour of, what was it, '93?
the Jacobites in the 80s (did they even tour?)
T. Rex in the late 60s, when Bolan was still in his acid folk phase
the Dogs D'amour at any time when Tyla and Jo Dog were both in the band
the Faith No More/Soundgarden/Voivod tour around '88/'89 that I foolishly passed up at the time
BB King in the early 70s
Otis Redding in 1967
Aretha in the 60s

I'm sure there are many, many more.