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Show you wished you never missed
Posted: Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 10:02
I was thinking about posting this question yesterday, after I dug out my Simon and Garfunkel Live in Central Park. Then when I saw the 2nd favorite band question, I thought it kind of tied in. If you could be granted one magical musical wish to go to one performance, which would you pick? Yes folks, just one concert that you wish you hadn't missed or maybe would like to relive.
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Johny Cash before he died or U2 maybe The Avetts in Charlotte last August
Woodstock
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"Technology to wipe out truth is now available, not everyone can afford it but it's available." B. Dylan
Rejoice always, Mark
A chance to see TAB in 2002 so I could know about them and go to many many many shows thereafter.
**Edit** After thinking about it, I was 15 in 2002. I don't think I was musically developed then and probably wouldn't like TAB (think Country Was). Strange to think about, but true. So I'll say I'd like to be at the show that Death Cab for Cutie played in California on 4th of July. The YouTube video looked amazing.
Radiohead during Bonnaroo 2006. Everyone says it was their best show.
I agree. any show of johnny cash's
and any show of the avetts since they were so close. DX
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The Beatles on the rooftop of Apple Studios in NYC.
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To give the love you find until it's gone
If it were a time traveling type thing, for many years I have said it would have been The Last Waltz, but after I read "This Wheel's on Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of the Band" I am rethinking. It sounds from Levon's perspective that it was anything but joyful, and not a celebration for him and perhaps other members of The Band.
As far as a show that I could have attended but was too silly and passed it up, it would be Stevie Ray Vaughn in the spring of 1990. Was a poor college kid and thought I would have the chance to catch that show down the road... sadly that chance was not to come. Changed my outlook on attending shows at that point.
My husband feels your pain. His mom refused to let him see the Grateful Dead while he was still in high school and by the time he was set to hit the road it was the summer of 1994 and Jerry was gone shortly thereafter. When I asked him this question he said Cornell 1977, which is a Dead classic.
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any john hartford show (circa late 1970s)
The Avetts where minutes from me twice in a pretty small venues before I discovered them... Still pisses me off!!!
any avett show over the past couple of years that was within a 4 hour drive
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"But I can't go back, and I don't want to,
'cause all my mistakes, they brought me to you"
I almost want to say any of the Avett European shows, but I know I made the right choice not to go, given money and other priorities. But I still wish I could have made it work.
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i would have to say the original woodstock, mainly to see hendrix
TAB NYE shows at the Neighborhood theater...sigh Oh and this tour in Europe... sigh upon sigh...
Might make you feel better to know the NYE shows at the Neighborhood were not their best. Great, great fun for sure, but a lot of very drunk and sometimes rude people. Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't trade them, but I've seen many shows that were better for many reasons.
Got to see John Hartford solo at some summer celebration in downtown Springfield, Ill. Just stumbled upon him playing fiddle and banjo and stomping on a amplified plywood platform. So very, very awesome. Can't remember how many people in the crowd, but it was small. Man, maybe we need a new thread. Shows I wish I could re-experience.
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"Technology to wipe out truth is now available, not everyone can afford it but it's available." B. Dylan
Rejoice always, Mark
Hendrix in '67, one of early Cafe Wha? shows...
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The concert for Bangladesh. I love the Leon Russell parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZIi188Cakk
I would go to Dylan's Isle of Wight Concert sitting between John and Paul.
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When I first moved to Pinehurst / So Pines in 2004, a friend of mine asked if I was going to the Jam for Sam in downtown Southern Pines. A guy affiliated with River Jack's (outdoor gear store) was in need of some funds for medical reasons. I was going to go but then got caught up in work and got home a little later then usual and just blew it off.
Cut to this past Christmas. I'm in River Jack's looking at hiking packs for my son. I look up on the wall behind the counter and see the original poster from this event. "Jam for Sam - featuring the Avett Brothers"...huh...what...the Avett's? There's a big signed photo of them jamming next to the poster. How I never noticed those items before, I don't know, but I didn't discover TAB until 2008. And that was just casually until last year. Huge missed opportunity!
Grateful Dead @ Red Rocks in ' 78 or 12-31-78, Bob Marley's One Love Peace Show in Kingston Jamaica would be a hard one to pass up as well.
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@davethebuilder
I was at the Jam for Sam. We had mutual friends and I was going to support his kids. Sam had passed away a few days/weeks earlier. That is where I discovered The Avett's. A few months before that show they played the Sunrise Theatre and a few months later they played a private party at the Fair Barn in Pinehurst. Including the noon to moon at 5 points in 06(?), I believe that is every show in our area since they formed. Pretty sure those days are long gone now.
Dispatch the All Points Bulletin concerts
Jimi Hendrix.
Janis Joplin.
Woodie Guthrie.
Leadbelly.
Your Mom.
def. have to agree with leedle on this one!!!!! also dave with tim rinnolds on vH1 storytellers!
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Wow - thanks Wyson. Looks like I just missed a lot of opportunities. FYI, it's not up on their tour page yet but Holy Ghost Tent Revival will be playing the Sunrise in October (they'll also be at The Rooster's Wife in May). Those are opportunities that I definitely won't miss.
Broman - last year in Va Beach I rode the elevator down in the hotel with Tim Reynolds before the show. All I could think to say was, "Kick ass tonight Timmy!" I think he was impressed with my extensive vocabulary
That's great news about the Sunrise. I caught them last year with The New Familiars when they played in Aberdeen.
Huh...I was in that HOT old hardware store listening too. Next time they play (May) I'll buy you a beer. Also, it may be a First Friday that they're playing in Oct so that would technically be "next to" the Sunrise.
This is one of the video's I took that day. God, that place was HOT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qdUGcL8TLU
Video is poor but I figured it's better than nothing
it would have been good, to discover avett music sooner.
Dave & Wyson, I took that jam for Sam photo that is in River Jack’s. Hester enlarged it and I sent it down to one of the organizers. That party at the Fair Barn was amazing. Paleface was also there and the brothers did two sets full of unlikely songs. They had it catered with an open bar. I will always feel lucky to have been invited to that one. Here is a couple of photos from that night as well as the set list.
http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2573408520078693903rldVZr
http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/1462281103078693903vASICF
http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/1462286603078693903xJZVPY
1 Pretty Girl From Annapolis 05:35
2 Left On Laura Left On Lisa 04:37
3 Till The End Of The World Goes Round 01:55
4 Just Because 02:42
5 Can You Not See 02:24
6 Walking For You 05:01
7 Old Joe Clark 03:03
8 Please Pardon Yourself 05:30
9 The Dying Song Writer's Blues 04:01
10 Pretty Girl From Raleigh 02:59
11 Instrumental 02:37
12 Car Car 01:51
13 Pretty Girl From Ceder Lane 03:32
14 Pretty Girl From Feltre 04:30
15 Colorshow 03:11
16 Was Oblivious 05:01
17 Tender Ways 04:26
18 Girl From Mexico 05:20
19 The Fall 03:50
20 Will The Circle Be Unbroken 02:45
21 Dancing Days 03:20
22 Swept Away 04:58
23 Liar 06:13
24 Just About To Burn 04:03
25 November Blue 06:22
26 Salvation Song 06:08
27 Pretty Girl From Matthews 03:52
As for shows I hate I missed I’ll just mention ones that I was planning to attend but events conspired to keep it from happening.
1 Janis Joplin at the Park Center in Charlotte I was too young for a drivers license and my brother (my ride) lost his glasses that day and could not drive without them.
2 Bob Marley at the Fox in Atlanta I had tickets and my wife and I drove to Atlanta only to see "Show Canceled" on the Fox’s marquee.
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OMFGosh! That is a set list and a half!!!!!! Salute....
The Dead in Atlanta Spring 95...had an opportunity to go and missed it! Jerry died that August and I never got to see them. The what if's of that day still haunt me...why didn't I jump in that car?!
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Whitness,
That 4 day run in Atlanta brings back a lot of memories.
The last show of that run was the last time I saw Jerry live and I am sad to say it was kinda depressing.
It would not be a show that would make a good first one to see.
I heard the night before he was outstanding and the band was roaring, the bus was going to never ever land.
The first two nights were 'watchable' according to some seasoned Dead Heads I know that were there but far from great.
The third night must have taken every last ounce of energy out of him because the fourth he had nothing. Couldn't even hold his head up to read the teleprompter. Yes, teleprompter, as if that wasn't depressing enough. He was nodding out in between notes of Space, very heavily Persianed and exhausted. His body was a Brokedown Palace, he was Black Peter just wanting to have "a little peace to die" and ,of course, "a friend or two he loved at hand."
My buddy and I had been on the bus with the Dead since Workingman's.That night we left the Omni with a tear in our eye because we knew the bus wasn't going too much Furthur, the engine was sputtering. August 9 we got the news that Jerry had died of heart failure in a rehab at 53 years old. Very sad , what a beautiful soul he was.
Wish you could have made the third night or even the first two but I am glad you didn't make the fourth night. It was a very troubling night.
Welcome to the board. Glad to see someone so passionate about the Grateful Dead
" So many roads to ease my soul."
Jimi Hendrix at the Denver Pop Festival in 1969. (It turned out to be the very last concert for the Experience.)
I had my choice of the 3 nights, and chose Three Dog Night/Iron Butterfly/Mothers of Invention instead.
I was only 14, but still regret that mistake to this day.
Cilicious----seeing Zappa at 14 must have made quite an impression.
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It's answering what's asked of you
To give the love you find until it's gone
the avett bros show in my hometown of savannah in june that i can't make!!! damnit!!!!
Back in 2004 I had tickets to see DMB, Ben Harper, and Jurassic 5 in their Vote for Change tour in Florida. At the time I was living in Greenville, SC, which is quite a drive. My friend backed out the day before and I couldn't find anyone on such short notice to go with me, and I didn't want to go alone. I was really bummed about that for quite a while. As far as concerts before my time, I'd have to say Woodstock.
Back in 2004 I had tickets to see DMB, Ben Harper, and Jurassic 5 in their Vote for Change tour in Florida. At the time I was living in Greenville, SC, which is quite a drive. My friend backed out the day before and I couldn't find anyone on such short notice to go with me, and I didn't want to go alone. I was really bummed about that for quite a while. As far as concerts before my time, I'd have to say Woodstock.
Ideally: Newport Folk Festival '59-'65
It'd be pretty cool to listen to Bob Dylan evolve and go electric for the first time. I'd drop in on Pete Seeger's, Johnny Cash's, Peter, Paul & Mary's, Mississippi John Hurt's, Mother Maybelle's,and Joan Baez's sets too probably.
Actually: An early hometown Josh Ritter show in Moscow, Idaho
The Avetts- in Melbourne Aus last night.
Pink Floyd- any show and Foo Fighters '07.
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