But...screw prog...I'd have him take me far into the future.  But if he would only take me back into progland, I'd have him take me to an early Genesis concert...very early, before Phillips left, where they were still playing some songs that were never released.  That'd be cool.

To provoke some discussion, rather than just a list of places and times, maybe you could explain why that particular gig above all others.

 

yeah, as a lover of what i view as progressive music, i'd go 50 or 100 years in the future... id love to hear what rock music sounds like then, or if it even if it exists. then i might go 5000 years or something and see what music sounds like. that would be incredible.

 

then id probably go to the rainbow in 1975 to see Hatfield and the north. if i didnt, id always be thinking 'what if?'

 

There was plenty of prog at the Isle of Wight in 1970 - Supertramp, The Who, Procol Harum, Fairfield Parlour, ELP, Family, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull

 

There were a few other decent acts there too so I would ask the good doctor to take me there.  I suspect William Hartnell wouldn't be too impressed though.

 

IMO the Lamb is  the best studio album of all time. 

 

I saw it presented live in 1975 and was rather disappointed.  I had seen Genesis on numerous occasions prior to that and, like most people found their live act quite brilliant.  The Lamb did not work so well on stage however.  The complexity of the concepts didn't translate visually and Gabriel overdid the costume thing with too many changes and too much running around the stage.  His vocal suffered a bit as a result (i think it the recent box set he actually re-sang some bits).  This could have been just the concert i saw of course but i have read similar opinions from other sources.

 

The Genesis performance at the Reading Festival in 1972 would be a good one to go back to (especially as Curved Air played a little later on).

 

Better still, and later that same year, was the concert at The Oval.  This contained not only a brilliant performance by Genesis but also Focus, ELP and Wishbone Ash (plus an improvised jam by Jan Akkerman and Jack Bruce)

 

 

 

I think there is only one concert I really want to see ... maybe 2 ... 3 if I get really lucky!

 

1. I would love to be able to see MIke Oldfield in the EXPOSED concert ... which is by far one of the best orchestrated events ever recorded ... and it's a shame that many folks here are too smug on their keiths and organs to accept other musics that are also progressive.

 

2. Vangelis. I don't care if he has to bring 15 of him or not ... I know that Irene Pappas won't make it ... and Jon Anderson is not necessary (don't want the new age audience please!) ...

 

3. Klaus Schulze. Unffortunately he never will make it to America and I'm not sure his manager even cares to come here unless someone floats a million bux in front of his ...  sad too ... this is the kind of stuff that new age'rs never heard because of advertising and they don't know what they are missing!

 

Lastly ... AD2 ... I would love to see a concert of this band around the time of Wolf City ... and include Mozambique and the show needs to end with Apocalyptic Bore ...  this because Mozambique would help the band understand and KNOW how important they were to some ... and Mozambique got its independence a couple of months later too!!!! ... and then Apocalyptic Bore with an extended duet at the end ... to tell Scorpions where to stick it!

 

There are many clips of AD2 out there, and some of them are so sad ... that they hurt, even though these are done more recently ... but the quality is not there. One could suppose/hope that a band would have enough "within" to realize that and do more to ensure they can do a good version of what they did before ... and do it justice ... but I think the sails are tired, the sails are ripped ... and they are not clean ... that time has taken a hard toll on it. Specially with today's equipment and Midi keyboards and sampling all around, there is a lot less to worry about and not redo ... that can be done ... we don't have to sound the same and antiseptic btw ...

 

When Gong toured in 95 and 97 here in the West Coast, the 95 show was nice ... but they were really missing the keyboard edge ... and it took away from their ethereal glow ... and I felt that I had to create that for myself to enjoy the show ... when they toured 2 years later they had Pierre with them and his bottom end made it sound stronger and the lack of a strong keyboard sound was not as tough ... and they had a magnificent rock sound and bottom end during that show ... but in the end, when looking at it from a bit of a distance, all of a sudden the band looked "smaller" ... and did not mean as much ... still lovely people and stuff ... but ... not enough ... and my worry is that stuff like this needs to shine in presentation or it's not gonna go anywhere except to the grave.

 

Any other show? ... Only one ... I wanna lock up Egberto Gismonti with Edgar Froese and David Darling ... and record it a la Manfred Eicher ... you don't even have to release it since these proggies here would not appreciate it as much as I will! (ECM) !!! I'll foot this bill!

 

Okay good Doctor, take me back to 1967. I wanna see Hendrix at the Marquee first and then Floyd at Games for May.

 

RE the post about the "supergroup of the future"etc. Perhaps we could resurrect Brian Epstein to manage them.

 

It's funny ... I look back at the many concerts I saw and ... there aren't any I want to go see again ... at all ... that is not to say that Hawkwind at the Santa Monica Civic doing the Space Ritual, or Tangerine Dream at the Greek Theater amidst all the lazers and trees on fire (check the live album picture) ... and 500 people getting busted at the Pink floyd concert for just a flippin' joint in their hands ... you could see a hundred cops with binoculers all over the place ... or Roger getting mad at people at Anaheim Stadium ... or ... it took a lot out of it for me, personally.

 

I learned there was a human side to it all, but in many ways those people were no different than me .. it was never good enough and there always was one little thing that bothered them here or there ... and in this sense I would much rather see something that I have not seen, but wanted to see ...

 

There is one show I wanted to catch and live through ... and it is Gong and the Floating Anarchy show ... there is no better acid rock assault in my book and that one is the top classic ... that is not to say that I would not enjoy seeing Can, Banco, Grobbshnitt, Guru Guru (with Kraan on the double bill of course!), Kayak and Focus, Terje Rypdal and AshRa Tempel in the same bill and playing together maybe, and definitly catching Egberto Gismonti doing No Caipira !!! And if time allows, I would love to catch Carmen ... showing Jethro Tull and David Bowie that they were lazy and going through the fame motions!

 

And if it is not 5 AM yet, find sometime to catch Mississipi Charles Bevel just take you away ... not progressive in our sense here, but one of the finest voices and musicians I have ever had the pleasure of seeing in person.

 

Exoeriencing the best ... out there ... is not too hard ... but it does take a few sacrifices here and there. For some reason, and I do not regret it, I do not harbor fantasies of seeing the likes of Zeppelin, Who (saw them early on before Tommy), Beatles, Rolling Stones and such ... while a lot of their music was important to me, in many ways, the public frenzy turned me off ... I will tell you though that the best bootleg I ever enjoyed was Led Zeppelin ... Live on Blueberry Hill ... and the power, strength and beauty of that show has never showed up in ANY of the redos and material that Jimmy did later on.

 

Speaking of that ... I want to catch Roy Harper in a band with one lead guitarist that is his close friend ... his name is Jimmy! That would be fun to catch dueling accoustic guitars!

 

I've heard that too and I agree - it's one of the best "live albums" of all time, IMO

 

There was a time when I was hurting and I had to let go of some bootlegs ... and letting that one go, was a huge mistake ... I have never found it again, or any listing of it anywhere ... I just love that opening and you can tell that they are "on it" and then some ... that show never lets up.

 

I don't care if it is prog, or sh*t ... stuff like that deserves credit ... for what it is ... excellent music and performance to boot! And for the time, it was progressive as heck ... compared to the top of the progressive pops that is always discussed here.

 

No chance pal - she's mine

 

I missed one ... there was a concert at the Hollywood Bowl once where Herbie Flowers pretty much made Jean Pierre Rampal look like an idiot ... the tape of that show had him running circles ... and having fun while at it ... and I really thought that it really showed the flatulence and the stuffiness of a lot of classical music corporate artists ... not too different than top ten music.

 

I really would love that show to be shown around a heck of a lot ... so people can finally learn that there are some jazz and rock artists that are miles up and ahead than many "classical" musicians. And this includes many operatic stars.

Its not prog but the one concert I would die to have attended is The Last Waltz...The movie is just enough to spark my imagination. So its The Band November 25, 1976 @  Winterland.