please log in to view this image You have a time machine.... £100.... and three gigs to go see. Who do you go see?
Already seen Prodigy and Radiohead, soooo Nirvana, Stereophonics and Chemical Brothers. Are Nirvana guna be playing with Kurt Cobain's re-animated corpse?
If it’s just from that list. 1. Oasis 2. Oasis - second half of concert 3. Oasis - last song and 2 encore songs. Now if we had 1960’s or 1970’s...
Who the **** would want to watch Blur unless it's a live suicide? The Verve Prodigy Alanis Morisette stand there with a load of anti-feminism stuff and watch her head pop.
Blur James Cast Away from the list. Carter USM Ramones final gig on Aug. 6, 1996 at the Palace in Hollywood, Calif.
The only band from those listed that would make it into my top 20 is Manic Street Preachers. So I'm going to choose 3 others performing in the 1990s. Kicking things off would be newcomers Tindersticks. Next up probably my favourite 80s band, a mellow China Crisis. To finish, Deep Purple with the Mark 2 line-up.
Would pay to see most of those. Has also reminded me of this song - would make a good anthem for Ashley owned NUFC (or to accompany reading/wading through a Pouchy narrative thread hi-jack):
That line up, which I suppose would be the Mark V, was alright for the first few gigs and then it fell apart rather quickly. Unless one had a super powered time machine and then one could go back to the early 70s when they were simply the best band on the planet and haven't really been surpassed since. 90s gigs. I don't think that I saw much in that decade but the concert that does stand out for me was seeing Thunder in a small venue in the bowels of somewhere in Ludwigsburg, just near Stuttgart. The place was low ceilinged, about twelve or fifteen feet from floor to the ceiling and it was one one of the more intimate and excellent gigs that I have ever been to. Similar to when I saw Whitesnake in '78 in the Jazz Garden* in Redcar. But as Blacker Than Night has pointed out: any Rush gig will do for me. (*name of venue may have been distorted due to Jon Lord's keyboard tearing a hole through time, space and my brain)
Did see DP in the 1970’s. Can’t remember exactly when but was in Newcastle and don’t think it was the City Hall (just checked through Google and it was) with Nazareth as support (they were really good) and it was the end of the Mark II version. https://vintagerock.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/deep-purple-newcastle-city-hall-1973/ Was actually quite disappointed with them as with hindsight there were splits in the band and far too many for far too long solos. Was only 15 at the time.
Nirvana, Stereophonics, Supergrass I've seen a fair few of those various bands at gigs, festivals. Nirvana at the Mayfair, Charlatans at Newcastle Uni standout. I've been listening to loads of Supergrass and Bluetones recently, rekindled a bit of love for them. You forget how many bands have just one or two really good album (s) too. I just keep drifting through the 60's-90's bands and not much further bar the odd one. I had a spell recently loving Thin Lizzy again. I ****ing love Waiting for an Alibi. I do like Kaleo though of the new breed. There are not enough good bands now. I keep arguing with my mate about this as he thinks there are loads and I just haven't moved on, but not many stir anything in me. The good thing is there is so much great music in the past, there is plenty for me to keep rotating through.
Captain Jack. In the 70s we had solo artists or small groups which were either joke bands or just wallpaper pap. We, thankfully, tend to forget those and remember the better stuff. However, looking around at the fare on offer today and it's, on the whole, ruddy appalling. If it's not manufactured bands, it's singer songwriters who sing with a nasal tone because they think that's the way that things ought to be sung these days. It's not. That's because people think that the nasal tone, an side effect of autoTune, is the proper way to sing.
