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Several events from this Wikipedia list of unruly classical concerts are candidates for my personal list. The Rite of Spring is what prompted me to look up the list, although the crowd’s reaction turns out to have been embellished over the years.

I’d also like to have seen the premiere of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians; it’s possibly my favorite piece of music. Watching J.S. Bach improvise a fugue on the spot seems worth checking out too, especially since there’s no recording or transcription of what he did on those occasions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_classical_music_conc...

I always say church organs are the original heavy metal. Who needs amplification? Just open up the big pipes! The debut of the Rite of Spring is also an excellent choice.

I'd love to go back to 1974 to experience the Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_of_Sound_(Grateful_Dead)

I've only been to 3 or 4 rock/pop concerts in my lifetime, but my older brother brought me to the 1973 (?) Steely Dan concert at the Santa Monica Civic.

I loved (and still love) Steely Dan, but what I mostly remember was the thick cloud of smoke in the room, and the fact that the music was way too loud.

I met a group of peopled who claimed to be time travelers once. They were homeless, and I was a bored teen. Anyway, they claimed they miscalculated the destination, ended up out in the ocean and it sank to the bottom while they swam to shore.

Sounded like a load of rubbish to me, but they did seem pissed about this while venting to me over a beer. So, if you do happen to time travel, please remember this story and plan accordingly.

Amateurs always fail to properly account for the Earth’s wobble when projecting the temporal coordinates on to our oblong spheroid of a planet.

Contrary to popular belief, this kind of miscalculation is the leading cause of death among time travelers, not paradoxes.

Obviously fake time traveler.

Only references proir current history. Future concerts were better.

My list would include Pink Floyd's 1994 Pulse concert.

Knebworth 90 was also amazing.

DSOTM in 72 to 74, please. With Echoes for the encore.

My mother was at one of the Division Bell concerts. She showed me the newspaper clipping and way up in the sea of thousands of people, there's two sticking out, standing. That was her and her friend. "I wasn't going to go to a Pink Floyd show and sit!"

I'd love to see Rory Gallagher in Cork, 1974. They band made a live album and there's a documentary about the tour which took place in Ireland and Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles. I want to see it but I had a lot of trouble finding it online previously. In any case, that live album is one of my favourite things to run to as it's long and bounces between calm and energetic. There's one guitar solo where I always sprint nearly as fast as I can, and the rush I get from it is an indescribable runner's high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Tour_%2774

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Tour_%2774_(film)

All this articles insisting on the Beatles stuff are repetitive. There is life out of the 60's and concerts have evolved a lot since that.

Would not pay a dime for that crappy Beatles concert. Would pay for Pink Floyd pulse, U2 hanging car-lamps in Zooropa, the Michael Jackson anti-gravity boots, Ziggy and the Spiders of Mars, Alice Cooper or Marylin Manson ruling over the outrage rock theater, A-ha's Rock In Rio, Pink doing circus antics, Genesis, Dire Straits, Madonna, Radiohead, Chemical Brothers, Nirvana, Coldplay, Gaga, Swift, Robbie Williams, Parliament Funkadelic, Depeche mode ...

Any of those had astounding new original effects for its time, better lights, electronics and hardware and often very skilled musicians. I will not discuss that the Beatles songs are hugely popular but as musicians, they were average, and frankly a little boring on scene.

And this is just a western-centric and limited point of view of course. Can't talk about B'z or Glay concerts, for example.

My mom saw Hendrix and the Beatles in Seattle… she said both shows were awful because you couldn’t hear a thing due to subpar sound systems and, in the case of the Beatles, screaming young women. For the type of music they were playing the venues just didn’t have the tech yet to accommodate their respective sounds and crowds.

Not sure I'd care to experience Beatles @ Shea, but would liked to have seen some Cavern and Hamburg shows. Would liked to have gone to some early AC/DC shows too...

I actually stood in line for Achtung Baby tickets ('92 IIRC) as a favor for a friend who couldn't get time off work. But he ended up selling my ticket to someone for double what I was able to pay him (he fronted the money for me to stand in line with). Fun times. Last summer over dinner he said "yeah, that was kind of an asshole move of me..." - so, he still remembered...

Mine would be

- Vans Warped Tour 1998

- Hellfest 2003

- Ozzfest 1996

- Nirvana Live at Paramount Seattle

- In Effect 91 New York Hardcore

Why do you think Woodstock had so many more attendees than expected? At least 90% of the crowd were time travelers.

Better feel bad about yourself if you don't go to any

Not everyone likes concerts and that's okay. They are allowed not to like going to them.

Bad Luck 13, Hellfest 2004.

Metallica - Seattle 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caznxOmRByU

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