Urban Bassman Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 There's quite a few gigs that people wished they'd seen that I have, Rush, Lizzy, Floyd and several others but I wish I'd seen Zeppelin at Earl's Court and Pink Floyd when they debuted Dark Side in Brighton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikon F Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 (edited) the one I would like to have been to 1973 ,,,,,,Friday night in Birmingham,,,,,,ive got some chewing gum on my boot and I keep sticking to the stage ,,,,, englands own URIAH HEEP Edited February 4, 2018 by nikon F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 10 hours ago, Urban Bassman said: There's quite a few gigs that people wished they'd seen that I have, Rush, Lizzy, Floyd and several others but I wish I'd seen Zeppelin at Earl's Court and Pink Floyd when they debuted Dark Side in Brighton. Dammit - you just reminded about 2 bands i forgot i saw ! Blame the jazz woodbines of my youth Floyd at Wish You Were Here tour - Knebworth , '75 i think Led Zep London Ally Pally - maybe the same year. Brain cells have departed en masse, so not sure of the year. Early / mid 70's fo sho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Metallica on the Shattered Justice tour Cave In, pretty much any era, but the Jupiter tour would be best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Michel Petrucciani Trio at the Gaume Jazz Festival in Rossignol on the 16th of August 1992. The place is 15 kilometers from home, and I usually go and see every concert of the festival. That year, I decided not to go even if Michel Petrucciani was playing because the other bands playing didn't catch my attention at all. I heard an interview of Michel Petrucciani saying that his disease wasn't lethal, and thought I'd go elsewhere to hear him play. I waited so long that I never saw him as he died in 1999... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumperbob 2002 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 (edited) Manchester Apollo 1977. Elvis costello and the attractions richard helll and the voidoids john cooper clarke what a great gig and for a boy from the back streets of hull very eye opening to be sure. Edited February 3, 2018 by thumperbob 2002 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurhenry Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Duke of Edinburgh, Barrow in Furness, 2002. I left a really good extension lead there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 3 hours ago, arthurhenry said: Duke of Edinburgh, Barrow in Furness, 2002. I left a really good extension lead there. That reminds me - The Rock Garden in Covent Garden, where the Apple store is now, sometime in 1989 when my favourite 'glow in the dark' curly cable went missing. I think someone in one of the other bands must have purloined it when my back was turned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 The Birthday Party at the Electric Ballroom 26/04/83 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartelby Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 5 minutes ago, Frank Blank said: The Birthday Party at the Electric Ballroom 26/04/83 Birthday Party and SPK? Bloody hell! that must have been one hell of a gig! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Saw SPK in the 80's, was a sort of unaudible heavy electro destroy trash metallic music with a cute yelling "singer" , but as I was young I liked it. Einstürzende Neubauten and even Laibach were way more musical but absolutely non communicating with the audience. Saw Fad Gadget during the same period, was a strange concert with Frank Tovey making crowd surfing all along the show. I feel strangely old yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJpullchord Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Sermon on the mount-Jesus what a gig. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartelby Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 10 minutes ago, Hellzero said: Saw SPK in the 80's, was a sort of unaudible heavy electro destroy trash metallic music with a cute yelling "singer" , but as I was young I liked it. Einstürzende Neubauten and even Laibach were way more musical but absolutely non communicating with the audience. I've seen Neubauten about 10 times since the early 90s. There's a fair amount of communication these days. Blixa has mellowed out massively. Laibach are still the same as they ever were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 1 hour ago, bartelby said: Birthday Party and SPK? Bloody hell! that must have been one hell of a gig! It was terrifying and great too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 47 minutes ago, Hellzero said: Saw SPK in the 80's, was a sort of unaudible heavy electro destroy trash metallic music with a cute yelling "singer" , but as I was young I liked it. Einstürzende Neubauten and even Laibach were way more musical but absolutely non communicating with the audience. Saw Fad Gadget during the same period, was a strange concert with Frank Tovey making crowd surfing all along the show. I feel strangely old yet... They didn’t have the ‘cute’ singer initially, but they did have sheep skulls on sticks, some of which still had their eyes in. I saw Fad Gadget a few times, a much underestimated musician imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Agreed for Fad Gadget : underestimated is the word. Just listened to one track of few minutes ago on the radio (Belgian broadcast called "Generation 80"). I've seen SPK just after their massive hit "Metal Dance" and it was the beginning of the end. Still can't find my original 12 inches with this hit nor their first LP I bought called "Leichenschrei". A more than predictive title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 20 hours ago, Mickyk said: One particular gig that really stands out for me is..Thin Lizzy 1979 spa royal hall Bridlington,right at the front watching Phils very closely trying to work out what he was doing actually playing a Bass with a pick and i'm still useless now nearly 40 years on....... I saw them at Wembley in '78. Kind of set the bar - enjoyed many gigs as much but not sure I have enjoyed any more. Be nice to go back and see if it was as good as the rose tinted specs recall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digestive10 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 The gig at London Poly when Hendrix sat in with Cream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urban Bassman Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 34 minutes ago, Paul S said: I saw them at Wembley in '78. Kind of set the bar - enjoyed many gigs as much but not sure I have enjoyed any more. Be nice to go back and see if it was as good as the rose tinted specs recall Yep, I was there too! A great gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyctes Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 One of the gigs which Talking Heads turned into Stop Making Sense. The movie is staggering. What it must have been like live... !! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles'tone Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/beastie-boys/1994/paradiso-amsterdam-netherlands-23dd302f.html Beastie Boys at the Amsterdam Paradiso 1994. Ill Communication tour. I was living there at the time. Coulda gone, shoulda gone but didn't.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Sly & The Family Stone December 10th, 1969 Madison Square Garden. Band Of Gypsys, 1969 NYE Filmore East NYC. Blue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkandrew Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 I always regret never seeing The Cure. My favourite period of theirs was around the release of Disintegration and Wish, and it was just around then that they did a gig at Crystal Palace Bowl in South-East London which was just down the road from me at the time; to this day, I've got no idea why I didn't go and see them and regret not doing so. I know they still do the occasional festival here and there but I've got the feeling that if I see them now, I'm going to leave disappointed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK Jale Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 13 hours ago, thumperbob 2002 said: Manchester Apollo 1977. Elvis costello and the attractions richard helll and the voidoids john cooper clarke what a great gig and for a boy from the back streets of hull very eye opening to be sure. Sure you don't mean the Free Trade Hall on Jan 8th, 1979...? . http://www.elviscostello.info/gigography/concert_69-79.php Amazing line up, I saw a show on the same tour, in Bath on 29th Dec 1978. The Attractions were amazing, completely lethal, played at 90mph... and I was NOT expecting the Voidoids, a straight shot of CBGB's with Robert Quine on guitar... great. Others I'd love to see again... Bowie at Shepherds Bush circa 1997, a wild greatest hits set nobody was expecting; Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham at the Borderline, the most pin-drop music I think I ever witnessed; and Elliott Smith at Glastonbury, with a full band, playing his new Figure 8 album in a far-flung tent to about 100 people... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmccombe7 Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 Pink Floyd at Earls Court 1980. Overnight train with a few beers on the way, glorious day in Hyde Park with a few beers then the gig. Astounding performance from Pink Floyd with so many famous musicians supporting or involved with the show. Slept in Euston station and train back home in morning. Oh to be 20 again. Locally it would have been Rush Farewell to Kings tour in Glasgow Apollo Feb 1978. What a show from a band that was only on their 2nd hit album after the success of 2112. Not hugely known in UK at that time but they gave it everything and just seemed to be enjoying themselves so much on stage. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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