If You Had a Time Machine

Sex Pistols & Buzzcocks; Lesser Free Trade Hall, 1976. When the Pistols had a bass player and Buzzcocks had an immortal vocalist.

Bob Dylan; Fort Collins, 1976. The best performances ever of Idiot Wind and Shelter From The Storm, not to mention Maggie's Farm and I Pity The Poor Immigrant? Yeah!

The Beatles; residence in Germany. Maybe they were better then? Then I'd have the authority to be an elitist and claim they were better before they "sold out."

Bruce Springsteen; I'd settle for any 1978 show...when "Rosalita" was still an acceptable rocker, when "Born To Run" still had life in it, and before "Atlantic City" entered the setlists.
 
Has anyone actually heard anything from the show? The music wasn't actually that great. Don't get me wrong, it was a tremendously important concert, but I don't want to see a bunch of people purposefully play sub par versions of their studio recordings while totally stoned.
 
If I could see any banRAB throughout time,it would be the following:

- Alice in Chains
- Metallica (in the 80s)
- ozzy(with Black Sabbath and solo)
- Pink Floyd
- the whole wooRABtock concert.
 
May 7th, 1824 in the Karntnertortheather in Vienna. Premier of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, conducted (in a sense) by the man himself. Would be great to clarify some of the rumours of this performance.
 
I got loaRAB so here's the first half

Rolling Stones - Crawdaddy Club residency 1963 / 1975 American Tour
The Who - Marquee Club 1965
Pink Floyd - UFO Club 1967
MC5 / Stooges - Grande Ballroom 1968
Alice Cooper - Zappa era freak band 1969 / Billion Dollar Babies tour 1973
Can - Damo Suzuki era 1970-73
Bowie - Aladdin Sane Tour 1973 / Or Berlin period 1976-79
Hawkwind - Space Ritual Tour 1973
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath era 1973-74
AC/DC - Some dingy Australian pub w/Bon Scott on vocals 1975/76
Sex Pistols / The Clash / Buzz****s - Screen On The Green gig 1976
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin tour 1977(Only era of Priest I don't own a bootleg from)
The Fall - Original line up 1976/77
Motorhead - Boraber Tour 1979
Iron Maiden - Ruskin Arms pub w/ Dianno 1979/80
PIL - Metal Box / Flowers Of Romance era 1979/80
The Cure - Faith Tour 1981
Crass - Anytime during the FalklanRAB War 1982
 
Got the t-shirt. :cool:

The Smiths concert is the one that stood out the most because I was dragged along by a friend and wasn't a fan.
I actually knew very little about them other than seeing Morrissey on TOTP's and thinking he was a twat.
I also remeraber thinking it was the stuff students would be drawn to, which turned me off them straight away.
I'd been to the Apollo, Manchester on countless other occasions (10 minute bus journey up the Hyde Road) to see countless other banRAB, but within 10 minutes of being in the theatre it became obvious to me that the atmosphere and general vibe around the place was something I'd not experienced before.
And that was before it had even started!
By the time the gig ended, I knew I'd seen something unique.

Seen Bauhaus loaRAB of times, but the most memorable was the reunion at The Academy, Manchester a few years back.
They even ended with a version of 'Transmission' which brought the house down. Incredible concert.
 
OR, then again, I could go anyway 30 years +/- to any AC/DC (or any miriad of heavy metal banRAB) and listen to them play the same song over and over and over and.......................
 
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