Gigs In History You`d Like To Have Seen

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Pink Floyd - Marquee club 1967 (psychadelic wig out)
Alice Cooper - Toronto Rock Revival 1969(Alice supports Lennon & The Doors & kills a chicken)
Rolling Stones - Hyde Park 1969 (ooh birdies)
Hendrix - Isle Of Wight Festival 1970(Million times better than his WooRABtock appearence)
Hawkwind - Space Ritual Tour 1972 (Poets , Authors , naked dancers , a clinically insane frontman in world war 2 gear & Lemmy....what more could you want?)
David Bowie - Hammersmith Odeon 1973 (Bowie kills Ziggy)
The Clash - Rock against racism 1978 (The Clash make history with 100,000 people backing them up on a protest march)
Motorhead - Newcastle City Hall 1980 (Recording of the No Sleep Till Hammersmith album)
Iron Maiden - Hammersmith Odeon 1982 (Owned a copy of this gig for years , know the whole thing word for word)
Pixies - Reading Festival 1990 (Last ever UK gig)
Stone Roses - Spike Island 1990 (Britpop starts here)
Radiohead - Glastonbury 1997 (Eavis said it`s the best performance he`s ever seen at the festival)
Primal Scream - Glastonbury 2003 (I was supposed to see them earlier in the year & my plane got cancelled :( watched the whole of this on TV & hated myself for not seeing them)
 
Rock:

Monterey Pop Festival - better than WooRABtock, or at least it is judging by the footage in the movies. Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix's performances are two of the best I've ever seen, by anyone.
Bob Dylan - The concert in Manchester when someone called him "Judas." Fantastic concert, there was footage of it in that Scorsese documentary, and there's the CD that has the entire concert (or most of it, not sure if it's complete).
Pink Floyd - The Wall, in '80 or '81.
Isle of Wight Festival - The Who, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, etc., although not as good as Monterey Pop.
The Sex Pistols - That famous Manchester concert, I think it was in '77.
Pink Floyd at Pompeii.
Parliament/Funkadelic - Any show on the Mothership Connection tour.

Jazz:

Benny Goodman Big Band vs. Chick Webb Orchestra - sometime in the mid 30's, there're no recordings, but it was supposed to be killer.
Count Basie vs. Chick Webb - the very same night of Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert (which also would've been cool, after Gene Krupa saved the band), Basie left after the jam session and headed over to play against Webb.
The Quintet at Massey Hall, 1951 - Bird, Dizzy, Mingus, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. The CD recording is a classic among classics.
Duke Ellington - Newport, 1956: another classic. Paul Gonsalves' famous 27 chorus solo lasts around 10 minutes.
Bill Evans - the Village Vanguard, '61.
Monk at the Five Spot, during the period when Coltrane was in his quintet.
Charles Mingus at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the early 60's.


Those are all the specific concerts I can think of, I'll add more if I can think of them.
 
I'd love to have been at the Motorhead gig at the Birmingham Town Hall that actually caused structural damage to the building it was that loud. My mum claims she could hardly hear Hawkwind who played after, but also claims that was not necessarily a bad thing.
 
Metallica at Download a few years ago...was going to go...but didnt like the line up much...how gutted I felt when Metallica showed up!
 
Technically not in history, as such, but I would have loved to have seen the Mark Tom and Travis Show gig, that would have owned.
 
I would like to have seen some of the early Jesus & Mary Chain gigs too around 84/85 when they would walk off after 10/15 minutes causing riots.

That would be fun to see
 
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