Off Topic Fantasy Gig Line-up

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Saints_Alive

Saints_Alive

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Ok, I've shamelessly lifted this from the QPR board...
This is for the musicheads on here while we have little Saints news to talk about.

The Ageas Bowl on a Saturday night. Three bands/acts maximum, half hour for the first support, one hour for the second and a two hour slot for the headliners. As this is fantasy you can pick anyone alive or dead from any era.

What bands would you have and in what order?

I'll restrict it to artists that I haven't already seen seeing as it is fantasy!..

1)The Clash circa 1982 Half hour
2) The Beatles circa 1969 ( I know they stopped touring in '66 but hey) One hour
3) Hüsker Dü circa 1987 2 Hours
 
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First up, The New York Dolls. Doubt they'd last more than 1/2 hour without disaster befalling one or more of the line up.

Next up, (as in Up, Get On Up)...The Godfather, James Brown

The headliners, and still the greatest rock n roll band in the history of the universe. Ladies and gentleman, from Los Angeles California...The Doors
 
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Jimi Hendrix
Rory Gallagher
Led Zeppelin

Hendrix I never saw live. Isle of Wight would have been the only chance.
Rory Gallagher was the best gig I have even seen in my life. I still have a limited RG musical knowledge [Blueprint only on vinyl], and half the songs were unknown to me yet he blew me and everyone else away.
Led Zeppelin were good. Not astounding, just damn good. The least you'd expect from them really. Several others got close. Moody Blues, Yes, etc... The Groundhogs were good and dirty. Ziggy era David Bowie. Simple Minds. ;)

Bands who were crap: The Who - way under rehearsed and too loud. REM - just massively too loud Others - generally too loud. The Who were just **** though. Mainly rather stay at home and listen on vinyl though. At least they play the bloody music better.
 
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Start with The Hollies, that will get most people singing.
Carry on with... the late great John Martyn,
Top of the bill Mr Dylan with Hendrix guesting on 'All along Watchtower'
 
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TheSecondStain said:
Jimi Hendrix
Rory Gallagher
Led Zeppelin

Hendrix I never saw live. Isle of Wight would have been the only chance.
Rory Gallagher was the best gig I have even seen in my life. I still have a limited RG musical knowledge [Blueprint only on vinyl], and half the songs were unknown to me yet he blew me and everyone else away.
Led Zeppelin were good. Not astounding, just damn good. The least you'd expect from them really. Several others got close. Moody Blues, Yes, etc... The Groundhogs were good and dirty. Ziggy era David Bowie. Simple Minds. ;)

Bands who were crap: The Who - way under rehearsed and too loud. REM - just massively too loud Others - generally too loud. The Who were just **** though. Mainly rather stay at home and listen on vinyl though. At least they play the bloody music better.
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No XTC, TSS?...I was certain that they would be your Bill Toppers...

Saw Rory Galagher on Whistle Test once....the man played some mean guitar!

Jimi Hendrix was asked after his \m/ performance at Woodstock, 1969, by some unknown reporter:

“How does it feel to be the best guitarist in the world?”

Jim Hendrix replied “Umm, I don’t know… Ask Rory Gallagher”
 
Saints_Alive said:
No XTC, TSS?...I was certain that they would be your Bill Toppers...

Saw Rory Gallagher on Whistle Test once....the man played some mean guitar!

Jimi Hendrix was asked after his \m/ performance at Woodstock, 1969, by some unknown reporter:

“How does it feel to be the best guitarist in the world?”

Jim Hendrix replied “Umm, I don’t know… Ask Rory Gallagher”
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You might think so, but no. XTC are gorgeous on vinyl, and I wouldn't have wanted to put Andy Partridge through the stage fright anyway. You might think Beach Boys also, but I can't imagine them getting anywhere sounding as good as they do on vinyl, and videos of gigs show that they don't. I'm very critical of pitch, timing and overall sound, I'm afraid. I fall in love with sound, not bands, so if a group play a song badly then I don't like it, whoever they are. My previous example, The Who. God, they were so ****. An average tribute band would have been better.
Rory Gallagher had the unique distinction [to me] of actually playing better live than he did in the studio. I think it's a general small criticism that his studio recordings sounded a bit flat and lifeless, whereas live he was brilliant. But significantly, he played accurately too. Of course, the studio lifelessness may have been down to the engineer and producer.
 
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I'm going to cheat shamelessly and pick 3 from each decade I've been a music fan:

50's
Chuck Berry
Miles Davis
Buddy Holly and the Crickets

60's:
Kinks
Stones
Yardbirds

70's
Hendrix
Grateful Dead
Zeppelin

80's
Queen
REM
Talking Heads

90's
Radiohead
Nirvana
The Verve

00's
Chemical Brothers
Bon Iver
Muse

10's
The Temperance Movement
Royal Blood
Fable

I could have done another 50 lists!
 
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Saints_Alive said:
Ha , you worry about me moaning and you moan about a petty thing like starting a thread!
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You and I were talking about football. I'm just making the point that some people get battered for starting non-football threads and clogging up the board.

One rule for one....
 
fatletiss said:
You and I were talking about football. I'm just making the point that some people get battered for starting non-football threads and clogging up the board.

One rule for one....
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Yes, but the forum is particularly quiet at the moment and we still have posts from Friday morning on page one, the board is hardly being "clogged up". Plus a lot of other forums have a dedicated music thread and if I had posted this question in The Off Topic Thread not many would've seen it.
 
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