perfect show, current or no, who would open, etc....Interested in the combination.

Joy Division reunion but w/ the Flaming Lips' stage show and Chris Cornell as Ian Curtis. Openers are Salem and Roger Waters performing Radio K.A.O.S. (!!!)

/thread

I feel like you've thought about this before

Opener: Led Zeppelin

Second Act: The Grateful Dead

Third Act: Pink Floyd

Closer: The Beatles

Super special guest appearances by Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman.

In all seriousness, though. This Heat co-headlining with the original trio lineup of Grand Funk Railroad. Opener is late '70s Alex Chilton. After show featuring the Velvet Underground.

Montana's show looks okay, too, though, I gotta say.

Since it's impossible to not simply do a list of your favorite bands, here's a couple actual shows I saw with near perfect four band lineups (and fests don't count):

Clash of the Titans ('91):

(1) Alice In Chains
(2) Megadeth
(3) Slayer
(4) Anthrax

New Titans On The Block (also '91):

(1) Sick Of It All
(2) Napalm Death
(3) Sacred Reich
(4) Sepultura

And that's all I can think of as far as non-fest shows that had four bands, where I was into every band I saw that night. I think as I got out of high school, I'd usually skip at least one opener...so it's pretty rare for me to see four sets.

blondie circa 1979

the jam

the smiths

new order circa 1985

i'd pay for that

would be hard to argue going to another show over this, though I'm not a huge dead fan. Side note I was hammered when I made this thread

Iggy Pop / Brian Eno / Kraftwerk / David Bowie in Berlin in 1977

Lame.




Shouldn't you pick good live bands?

I love all these and still think it sounds like the worst show ever.

Elvis headlines - fat or skinny, who cares, his band was always amazing - and then it's some combo of Ray Charles, Otis Redding and either Chuck Berry or Johnny Cash. Wouldn't really matter.

Act 1- The Jam (1982-ish)
Act II- Pearl Jam (1994-ish)
Act III- The Clash (1980-ish)
Act IV- The Who (1969-ish)

This probably already happened at CBGB in 1977

Television
Blondie
Talking Heads
Ramones

I was at that here in Chicago -- Layne Staley got booed offstage...looks like he never really got over it, huh. I remember he was wearing white jeans that afternoon.

edit: sorry, and to play the game:

- The Beach Boys
- Archers of Loaf
- The Clash
- The Stone Roses

Alright, I'll play the fantasy version:

(1) Faith No More
(2) Meatloaf*
(3) Andrew WK
(4) Municipal Waste

but the show would conclude with Meatloaf leading all bands through a rousing rendition of Bat Out Of Hell.

Deerhoof
Boredoms (late '90s)
Can (circa '72 w/ Damo)

after show: Aphex Twin (late '90s)

You picked a fashion show.

Iggy Pop's sartorial resume includes little aside from jeans & a bare chest...maybe some peanut butter or glitter every few years but I'd hardly peg him as a runway candidate.

Woody Guthrie
Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
The Band

Uncle Tupelo
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Replacements
Big Star

1989

Public Enemy (opener)
Neil Young
Prince
R.E.M.

That's just cruel to the Dead. Unless the audience was 100% deadheads, people would be booing the shit out of them and getting bored with them after Zeppelin. You don't have the bombastic band go on before the laid-back guys who want to jam.

The Dead blow most bands out of the water in a live setting. Don't confuse "mellow" with a boring live show. The Dead produced one of the largest and most powerful live audio systems in rock history called "The Wall of Sound" (by Bear Stanley, also an alleged LSD dealer who went to jail) .

One pluck from Jerry's guitar would render any asshat cookie monster vocals from some lame folk-metal club gnat-like. That's not even including the intricate drum and keyboard work which run off in their own directions throughout the show in bewildering fashion.

It really surprises me that you aren't a right-wing, religious nutjob sometimes. Because you 'argue' like one.

Or a group of some of the most forward thinking artists of the 1970s.....

I would probably have (in this order):

Pink Floyd (circa 1967 with a bunch of acid)
Joy Division
The Clash
The Beatles

Floyd aren't even one of my fav bands, but I have always been impressed by the things I have read about their live shows from that period. Also Piper At The Gates of Dawn is pretty awesome.

basically every single lineup that's been suggested here sounds awesome.

this is more like a festival


Opener: Notorious BIG (w/ special guest: Mase)

First Act: Elvis

Second Act: Allman Brothers

Third Act: Led Zeppelin (Performing Zep I)

Fourth Act: Stooges, performing Fun House in full (w/ select songs from Raw Power)

Fifth Act: Joy Division/New Order. (Song-for-song)

Sixth Act: Beatles performing Hard Day's Night (and other early-Beatles records)

Main Act: The Smiths

you appear to have quoted me in error

neither of the bands there i've not seen are seen as anything other than excellent live, of the other two (if you'll excuse the pun) i can testify from experience that one of them can do the most amazing gigs or can misfire, but rarely occupy the safe middle ground & that's part of the charm to me, the other i saw at the end of their career & want to see an early show & how can you argue against wanting to see debbie harry in the late 70's?

if it helps i go to gigs for the excitement, the electricity, the anger, the unexpected; gigs where they are prepared to make the odd mistake & try out new material. i don't go to them for a perfect recreation of the album
i don't go to gigs that need a fortune spent on light shows or props to make them good

(i also didnt just list my favourite 4 bands)

Fairly sure this show happened in 1979/80 - in which case, this is the 'real' show I'd go back for:

The Specials
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Madness
The [English] Beat

I'd take that over the Cash/Presley/Orbison/Lee Lewis in 1956 cos they'd only have done 10 minutes each and it'd have been all women screaming and that. As it happens I can only think of 4 acts I could have seen, should have seen, but didn't - for reasons of bad luck or stupidity:

Fela Kuti
Tom Waits
Black Flag
Big Black

That'd work.

The NME used to do some amazing 3-or-4-fers at New Year, not that long ago but before it became a slightly ridiculous "media platform"
Best one I saw was probably:
Trail of dead/Rocket from the crypt/The Strokes/Peaches in 2000 (?)
Others that come to mind are SFA/Mogwai/Arab Strap (1997) and Mercury Rev/Shack/Clinic (1999).
Both times I arrived late and missed the first act, now forgotten.

Neautral Milk Hotel - Opener
Nirvana - Bosnian Rape Beneifit Show ( they were perfect)
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pagent Tour
The Smiths - Any Show...

Eric B and Rakim
Notorious BIG
Public Enemy
Kanye West

Sam Cooke, 12/01/1963 at the Harlem Square Club. That's the real gig I'd love to have seen most.

Otherwise, idk, something canon like The Smiths, the Beatles, Bowie, New Order.

I'd swipe a show poster off the wall at this gig. I'm not above that.

Yes, inconsistency and a lack of professionalism are the mark of a great live band.

That's "part of the charm" of inde too; a lazy and unfocused sensibility. No one goes to see those bands for a very good reason.



How can you want to? They were a fashion band with little focus on music and have aged as well as a batch of cheese curds in an abandoned Wisconsin cottage.






You should have gone to see the Wall this year. All that in spades. The tension at the beginning of that thing....wow.






Too bad. There are acts out there who are good enough to handle all aspects of a performance due to an excellent work ethic and a proven track record for live brilliance.

Posts on this page made me think of great concerts I wasn't at:

Living Colour - November 1990 - Cabaret Metro
Nirvana - December 1993 - Pier 93

I guess that would be a start.

I'd need a five day festival to even start to think about this

i'd like to see a 1983 metallica open for a 1970 black sabbath the first night.
second night i'd like to see a 1967 james brown open for a 1987 prince.
the third night i'd like to see a 2005 sleater-kinney open for a 1970 jimi hendrix.

that'd be swell.

I was at that concert and hated it.

Surprised only TJENZ has mentioned Talking Heads.

Waits and Cooke nods OTM.

Neil Young
Stevie Wonder ~1973
Prince
Extol

edit: with special guests Steely Dan

its 1972, and here is the bill.


7:30-8:15 - Neil Young w/ an acoustic guitar and upright piano
8:15-9:45 - Wings
10:00 - 11:00 - Pink Floyd playing Darkside in its entirety
11:30 - 1:00 - The Rolling Stones

Looks pretty good. I'd move Floyd to 6:30 and throw in a Crazy Horse set for Neil, though.

Neil wasnt doing live shows with Crazy Horse in 1972. just trying to be historically accurate here.

Why are Pink Floyd playing an album they haven't finished recording then?

because they played it live for a full year before it was released.....come on Mitchy.

A typical 1972 set list included:
First Set:
The Dark Side of the Moon
"Speak to Me"
"Breathe"
"The Travel Sequence"
"Time"
"Breathe Reprise"
"The Mortality Sequence"
"Money"
"The Violent Sequence"
"Scat"
"Lunatic"
"Eclipse"
Second Set:
"One of These Days"
"Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (or as an encore)
"Careful with that Axe, Eugene" (or as an encore)
"Echoes" (or as an encore)
"Atom Heart Mother" (rarely, last performance on 22 May 1972)
"A Saucerful of Secrets" (rarely in second set, usually as an encore)
"Childhood's End" (rarely, introduced in November 1972)

unless they are playing A Piece for Assorted Lunatics but that's not quite the same.

Ha yeah, I was just thinking that but lost my connection before I could edit it. Not sure I would to hear it without Clare Torry tbh.

I'm down w/ Obscured By Clouds deep cuts. Floyd can keep their time slot.

Wings setlist would likely look like this

"Bip Bop"
"Smile Away"
"Mumbo"
"Give Ireland Back to the Irish"
"1882"
"I Would Only Smile"
"Blue Moon of Kentucky"
"The Mess"
"Best Friend"
"Soily"
"I Am Your Singer"
"Henry's Blues"
"Say You Don't Mind"
"Seaside Woman"
"Wild Life"
"My Love"
"Mary Had a Little Lamb"
"Maybe I'm Amazed"
"Hi, Hi, Hi"
"Long Tall Sally"