What bands/artists, dead or alive would you most want to see? What tickets would you KILL for?

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2000

Answers

I'd have to fill a weekend of pamiepalooza.

First night: Rock On-- Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam (only allowed to play from Ten), Stone Temple Pilots, Beck, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, RHCP, Ministry, Pulp, Nirvana (dead or alive, right?), Sleater-Kinney, Pixies, No Doubt, Prodigy, The Clash, Guns 'N Roses

Second Night: Jam and Dance-- Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys (by demand), Dr. Dre and Snoop (and even Eminem, why the hell not?), TLC, Missy Elliot, Salt 'n Pepa, Fatboy Slim, Moby, Deee-lite, B-52's, Madonna, Prince, The Shangrilas, The Shirells, U2, REM, Violent Femmes, Lauryn Hill, the Fugees, Digital Underground, Chemical Brothers, The Cure, Tones on Tail, Britney Spears (for one song and for the show that comes with it), The Specials, James Brown.

Third Night: I Cry: Carole King, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Radiohead, The Sundays, Fiona Apple, Sinead O' Connor, and then The Beatles until they can't sing anymore.

Who's signing up?

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2000

Oh, God. Weezer. I totally forgot Weezer. I'd do anything to see Weezer. seriously.

man.

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2000

Let's see One time I almost, ALMOST won tickets to see REM, it was a radio contest thing and I got into the final cut and then you had to listen for your name on the radio on this specific day and I remember smuggling my walkman into my 9th grade classes and putting my head down on my backpack all coy like I was sleepin so I could hear my name called, which NEVER Happened. I would STILL listen to bad radio all day for just a CHANCE to see them!

I'd also love to see WEEZER! TMBG and the Rugburns.

The beatles, the Mama's and the Papa's Nirvana The beastie Boys I'd love to see Guster AGAIN, as well as the Barenaked Ladies

Patsy Cline Louie Armstrong The clash I'm tired

The foo fighters came to my college town and I couldn't go even though my best friend said he'd buy the tickets. Instead we stayed home while his 13 yr old sister went with her friends! The Indigo Girls The cure.

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2000

well i am going to pamie's concert!
catilyn

-- Anonymous, May 04, 2000

I'm going too - as long as I can bring The Living End and Grinspoon with me.

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

I've always thought in terms of going back in time to see concerts. Like the Beatles rooftop concert, or seeing U2 in a bar in Ireland in 1980. In fact I'd love to go back and see a lot of bands in small clubs before they became superstars.

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

Can we have this as a private concert? As in at my house, or in my mom's kick-ass yard? And only people who I like or who have been nice to me get to come!

Let's see we'll make it a festival...in no particular order...

Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, Peter Gabriel, Bacon Brothers, Jonny Lang, Beatles, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines, Patsy Cline, Buddy Holly, Marc Anthony, CSN&Y, MeatLoaf (for Tony), Van Morrison, The Police, Sting, Genesis, Santana, Matchbox 20, Sawyer Brown (also for Tony), Cake, Will Smith (for Gage), Danni Leigh.

Oh and I get to choose the playlists too!!!!

(I'm not a control freak or anything!!)

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

Oh, I forgot The Eagles and Don Henley!!! Can't forget THOSE boys!!

:) love.sarah

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

I've seen a lot of shows (shameless plug - http://murphy59.tripod.com/concerts.html), but the one band that I would give just about anything to see live would be Nirvana. They played a really small club, which is now a strip bar, in my town a long, long time ago. I missed that one, 'cause... well, basically because I didn't know it was happening and/or I didn't know who Nirvana was because they weren't very big yet. Then when I went to Lollapalooza '94, they were supposed to headline, but Kurt did his little take-downers-with-wine thing over in Europe, so I got to see the Smashing Pumpkins instead. Nirvana is one of the all time greatest bands and Kurt was a genius. I really regret not getting to see them live.

And as for a big festival type thing, I'd like to have the Warped Tour line up from '96 tour again. I went but didn't know many of the bands, and now I know and love them all. That lineup plus probably quite a few others would be my dream concert.

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

I know that most of you guys don't listen to this stuff, but here it goes... bands still around would be - Widespread Panic, Ratdog (Bob Weir from the Dead's band), Phil and Friends (Phil Lesh from the Dead), Gov't Mule, Bob Dylan, Neil Young,Santana (cool 60's and 70's Santana, not Santana with whoever is popular like on Supernatural!) Leftover Salmon, Galactic, David Grisman Quintet and Rusted Root. Bands/artists not around anymore would be the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Janis Joplin.

-- Anonymous, May 05, 2000

I'd have to fill a weekend of pamiepalooza.

I came to a realization today, Pamie. You are SO going to hate this mix CD...

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2000

I must say I'd love to see radiohead, smashing pumpkins, tori amos [I hear she's amazing live!], depeche mode, ummm tupac [dead...aww..yes, after tupac was the end of rap for me], and well, I'd say the cure, but I have tickets for them now..may 24. dunno if I'm going or not but it would be a damn shame if I didn't go.

I'd go to pamiepalooza though..hehe. wow!

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2000

Pamiepalooza sounds cool (B-52s! yes!!)

I've seen Tori Amos twice and she IS AMAZING LIVE!!!

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2000

i'll have to go the festival route too...

day one: guided by voices, sonic youth(for my boyfriend), tobin sprout, rem, folk implosion. day two: portishead, massive attack, tricky (bristal day?), radiohead, lamb, beth orton. ahhhhhhhhh.......

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2000

I have tickets to the Cure too, for June 12th. If I don't get to go my head will implode, because I've missed them three times in three years and this may be the last shot.

Pamiepalooza does sound great.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000

Weezer opening up for the Pixies. Need I say more? No I think not. Or maybe Barry White and James Brown doing Elvis covers. Or maybe not

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000

I would be at Pamiepalooza in a heartbeat, and would have the tissues there for the last night, I love Carole King.

What I want to see is Henry Rollins playing in my backyard, naked. Sorry, its the one celebrity fantasy I have, and that back tattoo, umm.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000

I've got this list in my head, a list of people who I'd sell my soul to see, a list that in some cases, yeah, I have a small chance, maybe * insert band here* is going to come within 300 miles of little ol Gainesville (FL) but it sure ain't likely... For the man at the top, #1 spot... I would cut off all my limbs, sell my mother into slavery, and swear to prop my torso on a bed of nails listening to Brittany Spears while watching Alicia Silverstone movies for the rest of my life. I'd do all that and more if I could just spend 2 hours or so watching Tom Waits perform.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000

I never got to see the Pixies. I would kill or maim to see that.

Also, sadly, born too late to see my Favorite Band of All Time, Talking Heads, live.

Boo hoo!

---m.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000

i hate all of you people with CURE TICKETS!
can i come kill you?
steal your tickets?
will you pay my airfair, because i live in *calgary* and the cure would never even dream of coming here and that makes me cry and ohmygoth i'm going to hyperventilate.
i would do anything to see the cure.
i've loved the cure since before i was goth, all during the gothness, and even after i lost the black lipstick. that's musical staying power, man.


-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000

No contest: WEEZER!

Only them. I don't care about anyone else. Just give me Weezer.

Please.

I love love love them. Aaaah, Weezer.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000

They Might Be Giants anywhere, and Moxy Fr|vous at a private concert in my living room, with drinks on me afterwards. Mmmmmyes.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000

Oh, and I completely forgot what I originally intended to say - apparently, one or more members of Weezer graduated from my high school. Sweet.

-- Anonymous, May 09, 2000

I've always liked the time travel idea.

1967, The Doors 1970, The Who 1977, Blondie 1978, Elvis Costello & the Attractions 1984, Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians 1986, REM

But what I'd really like to see is the semi-famous/regional bands, the hard working ones that never quite made it. That would be the adventure, to see what the atmosphere of the time was like from an adult perspective. I've always wished that I had been born a few years earlier so that I could have experienced the 60s.

I'm so addicted to VH-1 Behind the Music. Just shoot me now.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

Oh boy. I never got to see Skinny Puppy, which sort of kills me. I'd like to see Depeche Mode in a small club, as opposed to the arena tour in 1998 (which was fine but not loud enough, among other things). Um... it's early in the morning for me. Madonna, Prince (Dear VH1, you have made me functionally useless for the week), Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, little misses Britney, Christina and Mandy (seriously, the teenybops might need a festival to themselves to avoid dissolving anyone's teeth). Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Jefferson Airplane, there has to be more. Oh, Savage Garden, because that man is beautiful. I can't be the only one who finds the sweet voice and syrupy lyrics irresistable.

But anyway, I'm also going to Pamie's festival.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

I forgot the Magnetic Fields. Sorry about that. :)

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

Mine would have to be a festival of sorts, too....

Stage one: ska: Toots and the Maytals, the Skatalies, the Slackers, Jump With Joey, Unsteady, the Skeletones (doing soul covers only), Mobtown, the Scofflaws, Monkey and shocks of Mighty.

Stage two: punk: Screeching Weasel, Operation Ivy, the Lunachicks, DOA, the Process, Rancid (sorry for making tim and matt work overtime), the Clash (even if they don't know shit about fuck), and the Ramones, of course.

Stage 3: annoying/odd: Atom and His Package, Wesley Willis and They Might Be Giants.

Allison

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

I just realized something really cool while looking over my post. I'm going to see the Slackers on Thursday and Atom and His Package on Saturday. I'm pretty lucky.

Allison

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

Weezer-all the way. At the old Liberty Lunch. I missed my chance. Now I'm sad.

-- Anonymous, May 10, 2000

My dream concert would start with NIN (gotta get stoked with "Somewhat Damaged" first), followed by R.E.M. (to cleanse the palate), Oleander, Daft Punk (I gotta have a little techno), Bloodhound Gang, BB King & Eric Clapton, Chris Cornell & Filter, OLP, The Doors, Pearl Jam, and last, but best of them all, Radiohead.

It'd have to be a 3 day concert, of course.

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2000