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[Music] If you could be front row at any gig in history, which would it be?



BRIGHT ON Q

BRIGHT ON Q

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Jul 5, 2003
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ozzygull said:
Genesis Wembley 1987
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I nearly was, just a few rows back! Great concert, lovely summers evening as well. I think they did 4 nights in a row there.

Would loved to have seen the Marillion gig at Loreley in 1987.
 




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maffew

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Dec 10, 2003
8,870
Worcester England
Go on then, going generally against my normal music taste, these would be good front row tickets and a palatable crowd I am sure, dont really care on the date or venue

Shakira Shakira Shakira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUT5rEU6pqM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wFwYBPvYu8

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Little Mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGvj0D42zjs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbima7kvnf0

Or if they arent free, this gig looks amazing, amazing crowd, god those Irish girls can sing! :)

Snow Patrol Oxygen 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AlSnTcet4U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bh1kBbk0io
 
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FamilyGuy

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Jul 8, 2003
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Crawley
DFL JCL said:
Just Monterey Pop Festival in general.... The Who, Janis, hendrix & Otis. what a weekend.
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Absolutely this! (Or the Faces final gig)
 


ozzygull

ozzygull

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BRIGHT ON Q said:
I nearly was, just a few rows back! Great concert, lovely summers evening as well. I think they did 4 nights in a row there..
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Lucky fella, I was too young at the time, but had the vhs tape of it, I think they film over the four nights. I Completly wore it out. Had to wait until 1992 and went to knebworth, still the best concert I ever been to, but the Wembley one looks better.
 




jonnyrovers

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Grombleton

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Dec 31, 2011
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Pink Floyd, PULSE tour 1994. I was sadly only 9 and a little young to be into them.

Tried everything to be there for their Live 8 performance, but couldn't do it. I'll stick to speaking to Gilmour when he pops into work on occasions instead.
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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Oct 8, 2003
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Faversham
I'd like to have seen Prefab Sprout around the time of their third album.
And Tood Rundgren around 74
And Steely Dan when they released Pretzel Logic
And Van Morrison when he did Veedon Fleece
And NIN before they attracted a crowd of numpties who screamed non stop during the gig

The smaller the venue the better.

But I am more than happy with what I have seen and hanker for nothing.

I am told that Hawkwind, with Stacia, circa 73, in Worthing, was something a 14 year old boy will never forget.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un76wAEaYAM
 




LamieRobertson

LamieRobertson

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Feb 3, 2008
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SHOREHAM BY SEA
Harry Wilson's tackle said:
I'd like to have seen Prefab Sprout around the time of their third album.
And Tood Rundgren around 74
And Steely Dan when they released Pretzel Logic
And Van Morrison when he did Veedon Fleece
And NIN before they attracted a crowd of numpties who screamed non stop during the gig

The smaller the venue the better.

But I am more than happy with what I have seen and hanker for nothing.

I am told that Hawkwind, with Stacia, circa 73, in Worthing, was something a 14 year old boy will never forget.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un76wAEaYAM
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<The very age ...and yes!
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
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AmexRuislip said:
The Jams final gig, at the Brighton Centre, 1982.
Tried everything legal to get tickets :(
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mmmm....their first gig in Brighton (at the Embassy Cinema, circa 77) was pretty epic, but not entirely for the right reasons. I was there.
 






maltaseagull

maltaseagull

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Feb 25, 2009
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Grombleton said:
Pink Floyd, PULSE tour 1994. I was sadly only 9 and a little young to be into them.

Tried everything to be there for their Live 8 performance, but couldn't do it. I'll stick to speaking to Gilmour when he pops into work on occasions instead.
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Not front row but I bought a ticket outside the arena and when I got inside, found out that it was one of the seats that had collapsed earlier.
Was told to wait and just after they started was moved into private box a few metres from the stage! Wow!! Had also seen them that summer at Hockenheim but was about half a mile from the stage!!
 


GT49er

GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
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Gloucester
Can think of a few - like Pink Floyd doing a world premier of Atom Heart Mother in a field at dawn with a full orchestra and choir; Pink Floyd playing unplugged because the lorry with their gear had broken down; a young Jethro Tull as a supporting act (to The Searchers) and blowing the main band away); Jefferson Airplane waiting for a thunderstorm to end, but Jorma and Jack (their guitarist and bassist) doing a gig as Hot Tuna standing on rubber mats in the rain and lightning anyway; The Who in their final warm up gig before recording Live at Leeds; Leonard Cohen in his pomp; Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny and Ian Matthews.......then I think, yeh, done all that, I was there!

Would have liked to have seen The Beatles, the Pretty Things and The Small Faces though. Oh, and the original Velvet Underground.
 
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grubbyhands

grubbyhands

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Dec 8, 2011
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Godalming
Status Quo, The Dome, 1974 I think. I just need to work out why my eardrums still hurt. Obscenely and unnecessessarily (sp) bloody loud.
 






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METALMICKY

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Jan 30, 2004
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Iron Maiden - Any one of the Long Beach Arena gigs in 1985

Metallica - 1991 Tushino airfield gig ( Moscow)
 




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