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if there was one gig you could have gone to

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? by Jamie_Summers

in your wildest dreams, but didnt, what was it?

mine:
http://www.gbvdb.com/images/guided_by_voices_gig_poster_990704_large.jpg
and
http://www.gbvdb.com/images/guided_by_voices_gig_poster_990702_large.jpg

oh my god.

Jamie_Summers | 28 Oct '06, 18:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

and lets just list

the bands on that first one for good measure

Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney, Superchunk, Sunny Day Real Estate, Rocket From The Crypt, The Boredoms, Will Oldham, Mike Watt, Apples In Stereo, Get Up Kids, Guided By Voices, Looper, At The Drive-In

:-(

Jamie_Summers | 28 Oct '06, 18:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

:(

rapscalion-jones | 28 Oct '06, 19:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

ridiculous

dan_thw | 28 Oct '06, 19:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Holy FUCK

HO-LY

FUCK

I bet everyone who went has since been in a joy-induced coma. Lucky fuckers.

Pigfoot | 28 Oct '06, 19:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

final fantasy

anywhere ever, please.

Kid_A | 28 Oct '06, 21:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT

last Halloween. :(

shucks | 28 Oct '06, 22:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Easy for me.

Reading 1992, Nirvana.

Non-specific gigs of bands I would lose an arm (okay well maybe a finger) to have seen live are Drive Like Jehu or Husker Du.

I got into Pixies a few month before they split up and I was only 12 so couldn't have gone to one of the last shows. I went through 12 more years of a pitiful existence thinking that I would never see them live, and no joke seeing them finally at Brixton was one of the happiest days of my life.

FrancescoNoir | 28 Oct '06, 23:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

THIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pToAs-l5VSs

Devo, Live in France 1978 - this gig looks amazing x 100

brian_international | 28 Oct '06, 23:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Jimmy Hendrix

and The Monkees!

best double bill ever

Jesus_Quintana | 29 Oct '06, 00:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

.

Jimi

Jesus_Quintana | 29 Oct '06, 00:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

the international pop underground convention

the international pop underground convention

JonWood | 30 Oct '06, 03:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Metallica in Glasgow in 1990

purely because I chose not to go and ended up getting bottled outside my house and arrested for it. Or was this a better choice ?

cadd | 30 Oct '06, 03:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Bloc Party

... next year!!!

Vincent Twice.

vampire_nights | 30 Oct '06, 12:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I should have

gone to see Circle Takes the Square, The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg, and Trencher. Argh.

danger | 30 Oct '06, 12:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

pretty much

oh and explosions in the sky/four tet.

bobj | 30 Oct '06, 17:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

U2 in dublin on my 18th birthday.

missed it. pissed off. still bitter.

sarkyfox | 30 Oct '06, 13:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Any

Minutemen gig and any Husker Du gig.
Plus "the international pop underground convention".

JungleKing | 30 Oct '06, 13:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Yes

Yes and Yes.

colonol_k | 30 Oct '06, 13:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

The Beatles, Shea Stadium, 1966

But seeing as I wouldn't arrive on this planet for a good 12 years afterwards I didn't have a chance.

MartinSFP | 30 Oct '06, 13:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

The pedant in me says it was 1965...

...but i totally agree with your choice having recemtly seen the footage. You can see why they jacked the live shows in though...

Reckoning | 30 Oct '06, 17:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Jeff Buckley

at any of his live shows.

Darcy | 30 Oct '06, 13:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

the wrens

1st march(or was it may?) 2006 @ birmingham bar academy. i listened to the album about three days after this gig. :(

Smigs | 30 Oct '06, 13:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Best live band

I've ever seen. Hopefully they'll come back soon, make sure you go then!

colonol_k | 30 Oct '06, 13:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

.

yes sir!
although given i now live in hull i'll probably have to book them myself :| (although they DID play here on their last tour... day after birmingham)

Smigs | 30 Oct '06, 13:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

loads

but radiohead south parks 2000 and ratm/atd-i the same year spring to mind

darkpigeon | 30 Oct '06, 13:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Laura Nyro

anywhere anytime.

and the Rollercoaster Tour with:

Dinosaur Jr, The Jesus & Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Blur.

Filip | 30 Oct '06, 13:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

yes

that rollercoaster tour was ace

I went to the cardiff one

Nirvana at Reading 92 was rubbish though

Anschul | 30 Oct '06, 13:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

My Bloody Valentine.

In 1991, please.

homesick_alien | 30 Oct '06, 13:21 | Send note | Report this | Reply

gah!

nirvana at reading 92 were as good as they could have been, justified the hype to me anyway, and even if they were a bit ropey then the rest of the day was grunge heaven anyway :) Still wish I had gone the day before to see smashing pumkins in their prime, but while I'm wishing it would've been awesome to see them and the boredoms playing together at LOLapalooza 94, they only did it once!

I would have maimed to see the Trail of Dead/At The Drive in co headliner before their Reading performances, I also missed the Swirlies backing The Microphones/Phil Elvrum in London (had to leave before he started) and was heartbroken, I'd have loved to have seen one of the Flaming Lips' Zaireeka performances, and Elliott Smith live anywhere, preferably with the London Philharmonic Orchestra if that gig had actually happened...

oh and just for good measure, Frances McKee at the arts cafe a couple of years ago, had tickets and was too ill to go :/

amyblue | 30 Oct '06, 13:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Swindon Oasis Centre!

Fucking hell. That's easily the coolest thing that Swindon's ever seen.

Not too sure about the support though...

joeymahone | 31 Oct '06, 11:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

my bloody valentine, anywhere

Manics - Holy Bible-era
Kenickie's last ever gig. I went to a Tony fucking Adams book signing instead. True story.

roastthemonaspit | 30 Oct '06, 15:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i'd rather go and see

big Tone in the flesh to be honest. legend.

team_cooper | 30 Oct '06, 16:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

nirvana

reading 1991.i was blowing up an airbed at the time having just arrived.damn that airbed!! otherwise touch and go 25 in august:-
big black
scratch acid
jesus lizard
killdozer
and on and on and on

chasingabee | 30 Oct '06, 17:07 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Good question!

Verve in 1993 would have been amazing

Godspeed, Sigur Ros and Fly Pan Am, Cockpit, Leeds

Jeff Buckley - Sin é

Tim Buckley + Jimi Hendrix (that one I seem to remember from Dream Brother)

The Doors + Van Morrison, Whiskey A Go Go - an extended Gloria Jam!

leyrbpw | 30 Oct '06, 17:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

YEs

Any Alice in Chains gig.......

wecuucus | 30 Oct '06, 17:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I could've gone to see

Guns N Roses, Faith No More and Soundgarden at Wembley Stadium in Summer 1992. But I was too scared to ask my boss for the day off. It would've been my first gig.

My job was selling lampshades on Bury market.

SeymourMBA | 30 Oct '06, 19:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i am still horribly pissed off

that i changed my mind about going to truck this year :( ALL MY FAVOURITE BANDS! IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY!

klaire | 30 Oct '06, 23:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

way to make you feel better

but it was ACTUALLY THE BEST THING EVER.

come next year!

That first gig poster you've linked to j_s, that looks absolutely AMAZING.

when was that?????

pretty_vacant | 31 Oct '06, 01:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I'm not sure about this

I'm more of a 'live for the now' and don't look back kinda guy.

Although I would muchly liked to have seen Sunny Day Real Estate, I think.

bamos | 31 Oct '06, 10:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

.

Black Sabbath at the Royal Albert Hall, 1971.

CHAIRMAN_LMAO | 31 Oct '06, 11:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

There was

A Suede/Manics double header at Huxley's in Berlin in 1992. That would have been worth seeing.

And Tom Waits :(

Teepee_uk | 31 Oct '06, 11:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply


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