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Posted: 5/25/2020 11:35:45 AM EDT

If you could go back in time and attend one Concert or festival, which one would it be? You get to be young and single and attend the entire event if it's a festival like Woodstock.

Even though it's an iconic event, the weather would rule out Woodstock for me.

I'm going with the 1970 Atlanta International Pop festival in Byron Ga, due to it's local significance and the Allman Brothers and Jimi Hendrix in their prime. And Hippi chicks.

Close second would be the 1967 Montery Pop festival.

So where would go? The Beatles, Evis, 1969 Altamont, Nirvana, Prince, Live Aid in NY?

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:36:58 AM EDT

[#1]

Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge - Seattle 1989 [60fps]

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

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:37:30 AM EDT

[#2]

Woodstock.

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:37:33 AM EDT

[#3]

I guess Woodstock 2. I was just a little to young to try to go to it. I think I was like 15 or so at the time.

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:39:02 AM EDT

[#4]

VH1 used to replay Woodstock late at night. It was a long show, but worth the watch.

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:42:03 AM EDT

[#5]

Monteray pop festival

Better weather than Woodstock
And a line up of all time greats
Wtf The Who, Joplin, and Hendrix?
Lou Rawls and Otis Redding holy crap

Check the band members out for Buffalo Springfield and the byrds

Out of those two you get Crosby stills Nash and Young
And Gram Parsons
Chris Hillman binds with Furay to form Souther Hillman Furay band
Messina hooks up with Furay to form Poco with Timothy B Schmidt then he goes to the Eagles

Messina finds Kenny Loggins

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:44:36 AM EDT

[#6]

Any Tool show that came to town that I missed (not many).

Any Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd shows that came to town.

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:45:01 AM EDT

[#7]

Geez, too many to mention.

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:45:32 AM EDT

[#8]

Mozart.

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:46:09 AM EDT

[#9]

World Slavery Tour by Iron Maiden.

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:54:49 AM EDT

[#10]

Damageplan at the Alrosa Villa club in Columbus, Ohio. December 8, 2004.

Take out a deranged shitbag before he shoots and kills Dimebag and 4 other people.

Posted: 5/25/2020 11:58:06 AM EDT

[#11]

Probably "The Summer Jam" at Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway outside of Watkins Glen, NY on June 28, 1973. The Band, Allman Brothers and Grateful Dead performed and there was some legendary jamming. By backup would be any of the Fillmore East Grateful Dead runs in 1970, preferably 09-19-1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Jam_at_Watkins_Glen

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:00:43 PM EDT

[#12]

Dave Chappelle’s Block Party

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:02:46 PM EDT

[#13]

Freaknik

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:04:14 PM EDT

[#14]

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Monteray pop festival

Better weather than Woodstock
And a line up of all time greats
Wtf The Who, Joplin, and Hendrix?
Lou Rawls and Otis Redding holy crap
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/monterey-full-poster.jpg

Check the band members out for Buffalo Springfield and the byrds

Out of those two you get Crosby stills Nash and Young
And Gram Parsons
Chris Hillman binds with Furay to form Souther Hillman Furay band
Messina hooks up with Furay to form Poco with Timothy B Schmidt then he goes to the Eagles

Messina finds Kenny Loggins

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Likely the best festival ever.

I also enjoyed the Ozark Music Festival in Sedalia, MO in 1974.

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:06:11 PM EDT

[#15]

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Probably "The Summer Jam" at Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway outside of Watkins Glen, NY on June 28, 1973. The Band, Allman Brothers and Grateful Dead performed and there was some legendary jamming. By backup would be any of the Fillmore East Grateful Dead runs in 1970, preferably 09-19-1970.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Jam_at_Watkins_Glen

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Already ,, was fun.,,also 10 yr old with family living in Woodstock,, NY.

For me,,this would be great.,.

https://www.veojam.com/watch/1329968063

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:09:12 PM EDT

[#16]

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nope.

someone said monterey. that is the right answer.

i might have gone to woodstock. i went to the first atlanta pop festival in july of 69 and would have probably gone to woodstock but was in europe at the time.

i knew folks who went to woodstock.

it was cold and it rained and it was muddy and uncomfortable and you could get stuck there an not leave because of the mud, traffic and stuck, abandoned cars.

the one to avoid was altamont 69.

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:17:01 PM EDT

[#17]

The first Miami Pop Festival in May of '68 - I was there and would love to relive that one.

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:21:10 PM EDT

[#18]

Any live performance by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven.
Absolute pure, raw, celestial musical genius, right there a few feet away from me.

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:23:12 PM EDT

[#19]

I dont care if i get flamed; but one of my regrets is not going to a Linkin Park concert. I loved their stuff in high school, and i love their later stuff now; definitely wish Chester was still around.

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:23:54 PM EDT

[#20]

Fyre Festival !

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:25:29 PM EDT

[#21]

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:39:11 PM EDT

[#22]

I was at the 69 & 70 Atlanta Pop Festival & the 69 one I was the idiot in charge of the Stage Door (who came up the back steps) & then 71 had different plans for me in another warm climate Far Far Away.

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:41:32 PM EDT

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Did you smoke it?

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:41:45 PM EDT

[#24]

If you could only pick one, Woodstock is clearly the only choice.

If for no other reason, there's little festivals that can claim the same level of significance then or now in history. It was a historical event that far exceeded the tunes that were played.

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:49:30 PM EDT

[#25]

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World Slavery Tour by Iron Maiden.

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I saw that show. It was one of their best.

For me, I'd want to go back and see the first concert I've ever seen and that was Black Sabbath and Van Halen back in 1978. I was only 9, but my dad was awesome and took me. Being older, I would have appreciated it more musically.

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:54:47 PM EDT

[#26]

Warped tour or family values late 90s

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:55:05 PM EDT

[#27]

The first 10 or so Burning Mans.

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:55:11 PM EDT

[#28]

The Mayhem Fest from about 2012?

slipknot

slayer

megadeth

anthrax

motorhead

just to name a few

Posted: 5/25/2020 12:58:21 PM EDT

[#29]

I had a really, really great time at Elton John's free Central Park concert in 1980. I think I'll go again. Maybe ponder a simpler time, before the wildings and subsequent end of those concerts.

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:09:19 PM EDT

[#30]

Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas.

I would bring a 308 bolt action with me.

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:14:05 PM EDT

[#31]

Slayer with Dave Lombardo and Jeff Hanneman.

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:15:18 PM EDT

[#32]

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Posted: 5/25/2020 1:15:46 PM EDT

[#33]

Altamont ( would spend the time to find George Lucas on the film crew and tell him to nevr sell his movie company to Disney

US Festival

California Jam at Ontario speedway

On of the early Willy Nelson picnics at his ranch

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:17:18 PM EDT

[#34]

The Cure Disintegration Tour in 1989

ETA: or maybe the first Lollapalooza tour: Jane's Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails, Ice-T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band,

or the second one: Main Stage: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush.

Side Stage: Rage Against the Machine (Irvine Meadows), Tool (Waterloo Village, NJ, Englewood, C0)), Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, Sharkbait, Archie Bell dancers, Porno for Pyros, Basehead, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Sweaty Nipples, Arson Garden, Seaweed, Seam, Green Magnet School, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., The Look People, Stone Temple Pilots, The Vulgar Boatmen, Skrew, Tribe, The Authority, Samba Hell, Café Tacuba, Groovement, Gary Heffern with Ivan Kral, Treponem Pal, Luscious Jackson, Shrunken Head, Sometime Sweet Susan, Temple of the Dog, Gun Cult Prophets, Doo Rag, Billyclub and Sweet Lizard Illtet.

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:21:24 PM EDT

[#35]

Led Zeppelin, Tampa, Florida, May 5, 1973.

Not because of the show. No, no. I'm hanging around the parking lot, looking for my dad's gray 1970 Camaro. When I see it bumping around, I'm going to pound on the steamed-up windows and yell "knock it off you two", thus negating my entire existence.

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:23:06 PM EDT

[#36]

1992 Glastonbury

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:23:57 PM EDT

[#37]

Sermon on the Mount

Because I am still trying to figure out the cheese maker thing.

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:25:52 PM EDT

[#38]

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If you could go back in time and attend one Concert or festival, which one would it be? You get to be young and single and attend the entire event if it's a festival like Woodstock.

Even though it's an iconic event, the weather would rule out Woodstock for me.

I'm going with the 1970 Atlanta International Pop festival in Byron Ga, due to it's local significance and the Allman Brothers and Jimi Hendrix in their prime. And Hippi chicks.

Close second would be the 1967 Montery Pop festival.

So where would go? The Beatles, Evis, 1969 Altamont, Nirvana, Prince, Live Aid in NY?

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Hippie chicks? No thanks, they had hairy armpits and didn’t look like they bathed regularly.
I remember my dad and his friends talking about hanging out at a large gift shop/ gas station near our house on 1-75 just to watch/make fun of the hippies coming through going to Byron during that concert.
One of his friends was a deputy sheriff at the time and went to help Peach county and Byron PD with the crowds. He said it was an eye opening experience for an old country boy to see all that.
The concert I wish I could go back to was Guns n Roses and Motley Crue. I was the only one in the group I went with who had heard of GnR at the time. We had a blast.
One afternoon about 5:00 I was in the yard washing my car when my crazy, somewhat cocaine addled cousin drove up and asked if I wanted free front row tickets to see ZZTop at the Omni. Me- hell yeah! When is it? Him- tonight at 8:00. I knew I couldn’t get there by then so I turned them down. I wish I had taken them and just got there a little late. I’ve been kicking myself for that ever since.

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:26:38 PM EDT

[#39]

Chris Cagle in the beer tent at the Winnebago county fair

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:30:27 PM EDT

[#40]

Skynyrd concert on Youtube. 1977? Bay area CA. Thousands of CA young people in Oakland? Cheering for Southern Rock band playing in front of a Battle flag. No fatties in the crowd. Possibly the highwater mark of youth/pop culture before the slide into the sewer that we're currently treading water in now.

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:31:39 PM EDT

[#41]

1983 US festival?
(any) AC/DC with Bon Scott?
Iron Maiden (Live After Death)
Dio (Holy Diver)
Blackmore's Rainbow (Dio)
Early Black Sabbath

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:34:36 PM EDT

[#42]

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Posted: 5/25/2020 1:37:09 PM EDT

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Hippie chicks? No thanks, they had hairy armpits and didn’t look like they bathed regularly.
I remember my dad and his friends talking about hanging out at a large gift shop/ gas station near our house on 1-75 just to watch/make fun of the hippies coming through going to Byron during that concert.
One of his friends was a deputy sheriff at the time and went to help Peach county and Byron PD with the crowds. He said it was an eye opening experience for an old country boy to see all that.
The concert I wish I could go back to was Guns n Roses and Motley Crue. I was the only one in the group I went with who had heard of GnR at the time. We had a blast.
One afternoon about 5:00 I was in the yard washing my car when my crazy, somewhat cocaine addled cousin drove up and asked if I wanted free front row tickets to see ZZTop at the Omni. Me- hell yeah! When is it? Him- tonight at 8:00. I knew I couldn’t get there by then so I turned them down. I wish I had taken them and just got there a little late. I’ve been kicking myself for that ever since.

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i went to that concert. hendrix played there. the one takeaway about that festival was it was very hot.

i had a cooler filled with budweiser tall boys. it was packed with dry ice which is colder than normal ice. it froze the cans solid. were at the concert and some guy is tripping and asked if we had anything to drink. so we opened the cooler and handed him a solid frozen beer. reaction was fun to watch. i mean its like 110 degrees, 110% humidity. most folks have nothing to drink and if they do its hot. and here we were with frozen solid beers...

Posted: 5/25/2020 1:43:53 PM EDT

[#44]

Frozen beer? I hate when that happens lol
Deputy sheriff guy said the first thing he saw when he got there was a hippie couple in the ditch beside the road getting their freak on. No blanket or anything just laid out on the grass. He said people were walking all around and not even being surprised, he said he knew then that he would have an interesting experience. It was hilarious listening to him tell the story.