Sheffield Spur
Øyvind Leonhardsen
Just for a moment, you are H.G. Wells, and you have a really nice time machine. You are able to go back to see five separate artistes/bands live on stage who you never saw, but really wish you did. You missed it, couldn't go, couldn't get a ticket or just plain were too young..... or not even born! Plus you have unrestricted access.
These could be the artist/band generally, live, but more interesting would be on a particular tour or one off gig. And why?
Who? Five, remember. Not fifty!
To set the ball rolling, I would have loved to have been to these. Oh, if only!
1. James Marshall Hendrix. Any time around 1967/1968. A genius. GHod! Changed music forever. Greatest electric guitar player of all time, and the most inventive. Live at that time he was meant to be out of this world.
Something like this....
http://novdec1967.blogspot.co.uk/
2. The Beatles. A Cavern gig must be a hell of a memory. They may have stopped touring in the mid 1960's so to go back to be an extra in Magical Mystery Tour would have to do. I went with parents to see Help at the cinema in 1965, aged 6. Kids screamed throughout. The nearest I ever got.
If you have time, watch....
https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;...tery+tour+film&fr2=sa-gp&fr=yfp-t-306-s&rd=r1
Zany. Alternative. Wierd. Absorbing. Surreal. But the music..... timeless. They changed the world.
3. David Bowie. 1974. The Diamond Dogs Tour. I went ticketless to try and 'crash' the local city hall gig. It was one of the few I didn't get in. It was the talk of school the next day. When Bowie really was a creative force to be reckoned with.
http://www.youtube.com/user/DiamondDogsChannel
4. The Sex Pistols. Anarchy in the UK tour. 1976. We went to get tickets and were told it had been banned. They played Doncaster later as The Tax Exiles. I found out the following day. Never did see them live. Raw raw raw! They changed world musically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkLkZxztsck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWb2T4gQyZw
5. Blue Oyster Cult. 'Spectres' Tour. 1978. Sheffield City Hall. I missed it! One of my favourite bands, and one I had never seen, then. I would take the Agents of Fortune album to the grave. The next morning was my first A Level. Enough said. Apparently it was brilliant said friends, apart from the laser show being banned. Listen out for Death Valley Nights in the following on Spectres. Truly brilliant track. And A polyphonic version of Godzilla is my mobile ringtone. Sad, huh!
I did see them live 3 or 4 times later. But it isn't that simple. Its when, as well. A point in time.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeGLTrdzr6E
Death Valley Nights. Give it a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTkmpRtBu0U
Or to epitomise the BOC 'sound'. Take Me Away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1NYhbiiiFw
Or Dancing in the Ruins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlVWprYozR8
Wonderful band.
Yours?
These could be the artist/band generally, live, but more interesting would be on a particular tour or one off gig. And why?
Who? Five, remember. Not fifty!
To set the ball rolling, I would have loved to have been to these. Oh, if only!
1. James Marshall Hendrix. Any time around 1967/1968. A genius. GHod! Changed music forever. Greatest electric guitar player of all time, and the most inventive. Live at that time he was meant to be out of this world.
Something like this....
http://novdec1967.blogspot.co.uk/
2. The Beatles. A Cavern gig must be a hell of a memory. They may have stopped touring in the mid 1960's so to go back to be an extra in Magical Mystery Tour would have to do. I went with parents to see Help at the cinema in 1965, aged 6. Kids screamed throughout. The nearest I ever got.
If you have time, watch....
https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;...tery+tour+film&fr2=sa-gp&fr=yfp-t-306-s&rd=r1
Zany. Alternative. Wierd. Absorbing. Surreal. But the music..... timeless. They changed the world.
3. David Bowie. 1974. The Diamond Dogs Tour. I went ticketless to try and 'crash' the local city hall gig. It was one of the few I didn't get in. It was the talk of school the next day. When Bowie really was a creative force to be reckoned with.
http://www.youtube.com/user/DiamondDogsChannel
4. The Sex Pistols. Anarchy in the UK tour. 1976. We went to get tickets and were told it had been banned. They played Doncaster later as The Tax Exiles. I found out the following day. Never did see them live. Raw raw raw! They changed world musically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkLkZxztsck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWb2T4gQyZw
5. Blue Oyster Cult. 'Spectres' Tour. 1978. Sheffield City Hall. I missed it! One of my favourite bands, and one I had never seen, then. I would take the Agents of Fortune album to the grave. The next morning was my first A Level. Enough said. Apparently it was brilliant said friends, apart from the laser show being banned. Listen out for Death Valley Nights in the following on Spectres. Truly brilliant track. And A polyphonic version of Godzilla is my mobile ringtone. Sad, huh!
I did see them live 3 or 4 times later. But it isn't that simple. Its when, as well. A point in time.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeGLTrdzr6E
Death Valley Nights. Give it a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTkmpRtBu0U
Or to epitomise the BOC 'sound'. Take Me Away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1NYhbiiiFw
Or Dancing in the Ruins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlVWprYozR8
Wonderful band.
Yours?