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If you could travel back in time what would be the dream gig you would check out?

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Led Zeppelin, Madison Square Garden - 1974
Beatles' Rooftop Farewell, Apple Studios - Jan. 30, 1969

I would have loved to see any nirvana gig.

And I would also want to see any 'kate in the lemon tree' gig before they broke up.

yeah? Why 'Kate and the lemon tree'?
I went to school with these guys when I was a 3rd former and they were 7th formers, they used to put on gigs for us during the weekends (it was a bording school), they won the Smoke free rock quest I think in 1995-96? I cant remember, anyway they had a crazy song called 'Blue Black Doggy' we thought they were gods.

why kate in the lemon tree you ask........

Because i like the music and i stupidly never went to any of their gigs when they were around.

They were very fUNK with a capital 'UNK'

I wouldn't want to see any Nirvana gig, because from what I heard they did some bad shows, especially towards the end. Nirvana's only Auckland show (in 1992, I believe) was, from all the reviews and accounts of it I've read, not all that good.

If I could pick a Nirvana show to go back in time to see I'd see then playing some small club in Seattle, maybe the time they debuted "Smells like teen spirit".

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I've got 6 videos filled of Nirvana concerts.
91-92 were the best, 93-94 it looked like Kurt was getting depressed, not even smashing his guitar

I only saw one 'kate' gig.

it was in auckland,

peter fernando thought he was a god also.

Any shows from these
Nirvana
Led Zeppelin
SoundGarden
MetallicA with Cliff Burton on bass

Most of the above.
Soul Coughing.
At the Drive-in.
The Kinks.
The Beach Boys.
Refused.
Bob Marley.
Jimi Hendrix.
Guns N Roses (with Slash).
Crowded House - last concert in Sydney
Neil Finn with special guests
...

I kinda mean more specific, like:

The Doors, Miami-1969, the concert at which Jim Morrison was arrested and charged with lewd conduct (showing his dick), the crowd then went on to destory the stage and the venue

or

The Rollingstones, Altamont Speedway, 1969, The free concert which signed the end of flower power and the start of '70s excess. Where a young black man was murdered in the midst of a white crowd by 'The Hells Angels'. (not a dream gig, but definatly a 'man I was there' gig)

Nirvana, New York, November 19, 1993 - The famous "MTV Unplugged" gig, overshadowed by Kurts suicide 4 months later.

ok I know I showing my hippy leanings but come on...... WOODSTOCK.
and the pink floyds proformance of the wall.. the one used for the live vid.

yeah i would of liked to go to woodstock

DSuper, The Datsusns + Starfactory early 2001 - Valve

It wasn't a dream gig but it was fucken cool to be there.
‘Starfactory’ are the only band that I have seen that actually managed to ‘show up’ 'The Datsuns' live concert, and on this night ‘show up’ they did. They played sooo well that ‘The Datsuns’ then went on to play their best set ever (obviously pushed on by the challenge), Phil Datsun climbed into the rafters of Valve and precede to play until one of the bouncers pulled him down, Dolf d Datsun turned into a veritable sweaty weed waker, windmilling until it looked like his arm was going to fall off, Matt played half the set standing on his drum stool and Christian was just plain electric.
Too bad Mr ‘Fabulous’ then had to go on and join ‘The Blackseeds’, damn that ‘Dub’ they coulda taken that dirty dirty rock shit to the world

Radiohead - Glastonbury Festival '97

Newport Folk Festival, 1966 (or was it '65?). Coming along with an experience of Bob Dylan as an acoustic folk musician and then, half way through his set, The Band suddenly switches to electric guitars, he becomes a rocker: that would be one hell of an experience.

nine inch nails fragility tour 2000.... the show where robin finck hit his head and started gushing blood on the 3rd song.

Sounds like a Rammstein trick to me, is Robin the guitarist or something?
Did you see them at BDO 2000?

yeah i saw them at the bdo and also the night before. i met the singer while he was on his smoke break :)

robin is the guitarist from nin. he is god - i mean, GOOD.
*sigh* okay... i did mean god.

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Thats one BDO I wish I went to - Foo Fighters, RHCP & NIN at one show!!
Damn it I was too poor back then!!

aggghh... thats the one i had a ticket to, but didnt end up going (for various reasons).
i still kick myself.

I've got FF & RHCP Sydeny BDO on video its pretty good.
In a interview with the Foos they talk about Shihad & little bit about Trent Reznor (the interview is in Auckland) you can hear Shihad performing in the background too.

Opps I'm a dumb ass, I spelt Sydney wrong

I'd loved to have seen the Skeptics perform live, maybe the show at the Glue Pot that ended up on the "I can if I will" EP.

And the Pixies performing in London.

Straitjacket Fits in a grotty student pub in Dunedin.

Damn, when's someone going to invent a time machine?

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i'd like to see television play the first CBGBs gig ever. (well i think it was). apparently they helped build the stage there themselves.

I would have loved to have seen Nick Drake play one of the handful of shows he performed after the '5 leaves left' record was released, about 1970 I think. Apparently the guy who orders for Borders in Auckland saw Nick Drake play.

Nick Drake, yes! how could I forget? grrr.

The Doors
Led Zepplin
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Jimi Hendrix
The Beatles
The Pixies
Janis Jopplin

Yeah, any of the above would have been phat!

Ohhh...and the stones and pink floyd

this is fun ...

miles davis - any club in new york 1959
grateful dead - golden gate park - any sunday in 1967
james brown - apollo theatre in 1968
bob dylan and the band - before the flood tour - 76 ( i think)
sonic youth - bowery ballroom 1985

um ... that'll do for now ...

// grateful dead - golden gate park - any sunday in 1967

Grateful Dead at one of the early Acid Tests :)

AC/DC ~ Oakland Auditorium, California November, 1979
Queen ~ Wembley Stadium 1986
Ohhhhh Freddie why did you have to go :'(

Led Zep - madison square garden
Smashing pumpkins - farewell gig in chicago
Lollapalooza '94 - Beastie boys, Smashing Pumpkins, L7, Flaming Lips, Green Day, Breeders, The Verve, Nick Cave and Lucious Jackson
Nirvana - anywhere around the time of bleach or nevermind when it was just released.
Shellac and HDU - on that mississippi riverboat 2001
The Doors and Jefferson Aeroplane - Amsterdam
woodstock - the original but only if I could bring my buddies
and if I could use that time machine to go back and do a gig all over again it would be BDO #1 with Sound garden, urge overkill, smashing pumpkins and the breeders.

Kiss, Cobo Hall, Detroit, 1975

Hallelujah Picassos/Supergroove, Otago Uni Orientation, 1994 - best gig ever

That legendary Lambs gig I missed out on earlier this year

The recording of Hot August Night

Olly Olsen, Ozbo Day either 83 or 84. Just to hear him sing "Fangface". I'd also go on the giant blowup castle again

Kiss, Cobo Hall, Detroit-------1978--------is the gig immortalized in the movie "Detroit Rock City"

any early Frank Zappa gig
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band circa '77 in Glasgow
That HDU gig in the observatory a few years back

top call with that observatory gig, that sounded incredible. i'll also add - any bailter space gig, anywhere.

// That HDU gig in the observatory a few years back

That would have been COOL. They should do another one.

'On A Friday' ~ '89 - '90, Christchurch (anyone know the actual date?)

P.S. 'On A Friday' A.K.A 'Radiohead' :)

JEFF BUCKLEY, anywhere.

i heard him on bFM and consdiered going to the gig, then thought, nah, i'll see him mext time round.

doh.

Any Skeptics gig, anywhere.
A fucked up and debauched Solid Gold Hell gig (in other words, any of them)
Any King Loser gig
Any Children's Hour gig
Any Headless Chickens gig circa Stunt Clown
Aw, hell. I would've liked to see that Nirvana gig at the Powerstation!