If you had a Tardis

[MarkRae]

I don't normally start threads, but I'm just watching "The History of Rock 'n' Roll" and realising how much of it I missed because I was born too late...

So, if you had a Tardis, which gig would be the first one you'd travel back to see?

For me, it would be Edith Piaf at The Carnegie Hall in the late 50s...

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Sammy Davis Jr at the Coconut Grove - got the double LP but would love to have seen it "live"

[karenmac60]

Wouldn't be music - it'd be the time my ex wanted to go and see Bill Hicks and we were skint. I said we'd go next time, but there wasn't one...

[Buenchico]

Hmmm . . .

The first performance of Handel's Messiah, perhaps?

Or one of Jacques Brel's performances?

[mike11111]

Edith Piaf? Rock and Roll? Je pense que non!

[MarkRae]

Obviously, I would soon get around to seeing Genesis do The Lamb, Hendrix at Moneterey, Woodstock, The Beatles in The Cavern etc...

But Edith would be first...

[MarkRae]

> Edith Piaf? Rock and Roll? Je pense que non!

Quelle réponse bizarre!

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Queued for 9 hours for tickets for "The Lamb" and then gave my ticket to my brother so he went with my OH instead. That's what you call sisterly love.

[Caran]

Saw Sammy Davis in Liverpool in the 60's. He was fantastic, at the end of the show he said he didn't feel he had done his best and would do the show again, he was just as good the second time round, who else would or has done the same thing. Did any other ABers see this same show?

[Buenchico]

I'd like to have at the original Buena Vista Social Club, in the 1940s.

[mike11111]

Must have misunderstood your post. Thought that you were suggesting that Edith was a Rock'nRoll star.

[Buenchico]

'have'?
'have been'
(And I've only had one can!)

[MarkRae]

Oh no, BD! How annoying in hindsight... :-(

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Buenchico - seen Ry Cooder several times and got his cd with the Buena Vista Social Club - superb. Hubby also says Dusty Springfield anywhere anytime - never did get to see her live.

[WuTang]

Would park my Tardis in Chicago,then accept any job that allowed me to wander around Chess Records Studios in the 50s and 60s.Then...whoosh..fly off,with a bunch of beautiful Girls to the Hot Club de Paris to take in the delights of Django Reinhardt and Stephan Grappelli

[tamborine]

We didn't do gigs we did concerts; my most enjoyable was Johnny Dankworth & Cleo Lane in the 80s

[WuTang]

oops,forgot your e there Stephane

[Caran]

My Dad was a Django & Staphane fan, he left loads of their records.

[Lore]

Can I just come along and press the buttons in the Tardis?

I would have liked to see the Beatles in the Cavern too. I often wonder what it was like back then when I pass it - whilst mooching around the shops.

[sg]

I would go back to revisit The Pixies at Brixton, '98. Then I think some Pink Floyd happenings at the Roundhouse.

[dotty.]

Garth's 1994 UK tour, I only discovered Garth the month he was here on tour as one of his live concerts from the year before was shown on TV late one night to coincide with the live shows and I happened to catch it and was hooked! I had never heard of him, I went into Woolworths the next day and the same concert was for sale on video and I bought it, still have it, well, 2 copies actually, he had just done his tour and never came back. : (