(I posted this on another [non-music] forum I frequent, and was interested as to what responses I'd get from everyone on here.)


If you suddenly had the financial wherewithawl to see any current band, artist, singer, DJ, etc. at any venue you can think of (on Earth, I guess, to narrow it down a bit), who and where would that be?

Second, if you also had the ability to, say, travel time, and check out any act of the 20th and early 21st century, who and where would you choose? (You can pick an actual gig that the artist performed at or you could pick a hypothetical venue for your group from the past: ie. The Beatles at Hadrian's Wall or something off-beat like that).

I haven't put more than a minute or two's thought into this but, off the top of my head: currently, I'd like to see the Chemical Brothers perform their current tour set at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Colorado Springs, a venue they've performed at once before. Seeing Radiohead at Glastonbury would be a highlight as well.

If I could go back, to be at an actual gig I would have loved to see the Smashing Pumpkins final show at the Metro in Chicago, a 4 hour show spanning + summarizing their entire career. (A shame Corgan ruined the legacy by reforming the band and putting out absolute shit). For a hypothetical, I'd like to see Pink Floyd (post-Barrett) perform at Stonehenge or at Joshua Tree National Park in California.




What would you choose?

I'd travel back to the 60 and then take my chance to see all those brilliant beat/garage/R'N/andsoon bands and being in the 60s I would just let time flow for 70s (pink floyd with barrett or bowie), 80s (joy division until madchester), 90s (early shows of all britpop heroes, of the chems of course, underworld, orbital and so much more plus all c86/twee/shoegaze/indie scene plus glasgow/scotland scene). no special venues, it's the bands, their music, the gigs.

also wish I could've seen the pumpkins in stockholm in 2000 (I think) when a lovely swedish girl invited me there but couldn't make it for I was too young.

still need to see pulp and primal scream to kinda die happy.

hmmmmmmmmm

Too tough, will figure it out later.

Off the top of my head I'd have to say one of Daft Punk's 1997 sets (like the one we got a mere 45 minutes of on Alive 1997), one of the 6 shows where Underworld were known to have played Cups in full, and one of the Chems' 2008-era sets that there are inexplicably no quality bootlegs of. I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of right now.

Led Zeppelin at the Royal Albert Hall
Daft Punk in 1996/1997
Fatboy Slim when he was not playing shit

If I had a time machine, off the top of my head -I'd like to visit the Woodstock festival, the US Festival, Pink Floyd when they were performing The Wall way back when in it's entirety, Glastonbury 2000 (to witness the Chems set and experience the crowd). Also Live Aid - not the US one but the wembley stadium Live Aid. That would have been awesome! I still remember waking up at 4am to watch it on MTV when it aired live, and wishing so badly I could have seen it. I would also like to go back in time to finish out my stay at the Organic Festival 1996 here in California *sigh* I also would like to have seen Johnny Cash perform at Folsom Prison... Yeah, that would have been pretty cool. Going to see Fatboy for the Brighton Beach party would have been pretty cool to be a part of too. Prince playing his hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota during the Purple Reign days (one of my childhood BFF's went, and it was wicked!) Would love to have seen David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust days. And to top this all off, I know there were a bunch of raves and parties I missed in late 1991 when I spent 3 months in the UK! And for good measure and to throw a club in the mix, I'd like to have gone to the last dance at Turnmills...

There is a lot more but I will have to give this some more thought and come back!

Just remembered another one!
Mike Pickering and Graeme Park at the Hacienda! Good stuff.

Ooh, I also would have liked to have been at Ibiza in 1988-89 and come back to the UK to watch acid house unfold.

Time travel would take me to.....

Nirvana @Munich in 1994! It was the very last show the band would ever have before Cobains death.

Portishead - Roseland NYC Live in 1998! Nuff said!

Queen - Live Aid @ Wembley Stadium in 85! Watch and BE amazed for a day of music, and a day for a good cause!

Darkstarexodus, on 25 April 2011 - 5:43 AM, said:

Yeah! I'm currently reading "Altered State: The story of ecstasy culture and acid house" by Matthew Collin.
I'm pretty amazed what was going on back there. A good read for everyone here:

- Sepultura 1991 or 1993
- Faith No More 1998
- Alice In Chains Unplugged
- Chemical Brothers back when their set starts with Intro noises & Synth raping / Brothers Gonna Work It Out / Dust Up Beats / Best Part Of Breaking Up
- Queen 1986 (Wembley, the one they've released as DVD)
- Kraftwerk early 80s
- late Beatles (maybe one without so much screaming girls)
- Prodigy (pre-TFOL)
- american recordings Johnny Cash
- i would kill to see Pantera again (rip dimebag)
- like INCHEMWETRUST the Portishead Roseland NYC (forum meetup anyone?)
- Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man (Berlin, Universität der Künste 2003)
- Bad Religion late 80s / early 90s

- Chemical Brothers Unplugged

chems@any clastonbury

underworld

pink floyd performing dark side of the moon

led zeppelin and late beatles of course

cypress hill once again (during temples of boom era)

wu tang clan (36 chambers ghetto tour)

biggie vs tupac in nyc

the rat pack together in las vegas

mozart and/or beethoven live

Chems@Fuji Rocks/Glasto

Daft Punk when recording their first Alive, (I haven´t given up on the hope of seeing them some day...)

Deep Purple when recording Made in Japan

U2 @ Santiago Bernabeu

Pink Floyd playing at Pompeii

First gig of AC/DC at Las Ventas plaza in Madrid

I´ll add Tangerine Dream/Vangelis in Ibiza (pure magic), the first Oldfield, Yellow Magic Orchestra...

And from the new acts THE KNIFE/FEVER RAY. their live sets look amazing.

or Youssou N´Dour, Kate Bush...

I´m forgetting a lot.

How could I have forgotten Deee-Lite at the 1991 Montreaux Jazz Festival?

I mean damn.

Velvet Underground & Nico (Live In the 60's)

Underworld at Roseland Nyc (I was actually there and would love to relive again)

Chem's live at Brixton Academy 2005! ( WOTD and Problem/Question)

Good choices everyone!

Damn I missed so much!

If college tuition wasn't so much back then, I would've better attempted to see some shows in my time!

Good to see Alice in Chains/Smashing Pumpkins/Wu-Tang posted in here!

Props to Ging for the Tupac/Biggie! That's a top one to beat!

Let's fire up that Delorean!

Kosek, on 25 April 2011 - 11:07 AM, said:

I've read the older version, the second cover you posted. Excellent read. Have you read the newer edition and, if so, how are the new sections?

ThePumisher, on 25 April 2011 - 6:05 PM, said:

haha, that is what every single beatles fan has been waiting for

jamalchang, on 26 April 2011 - 12:51 AM, said:

oh yeah. at warhol's factory, on those 24hours parties with all those warhol films being screened all over the stage.

Darkstarexodus, on 26 April 2011 - 8:47 AM, said:

Actually, I have no idea whether there are any differences between them. I'm reading the only polish translation of this book, so I wouldn't even know. It even has different cover than those two.

Do you know any other electronic music history books?
Found something like this on amazon, but I don't know if it's good: