Dream live show?

Stampy

Stampy

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If you given the opportunity to see five '60s garage/freakbeat groups at their peak of powers at the same time, which combos would you choose?

Mine would be; The Sonics, The Sorrows, The Purple Hearts, 13th Floor Elevators & The Fairies.

Your choices?
 
greenfuzz said:
Take me back to the Sunset Strip circa 1966: Love, Limey & The Yanks, Sloths, Yellow Payges and the Knack (or Leaves, Palace Guard, Byrds, Turtles, and countless others...).
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A trip to The Strip would be my choice too, with a stop off at the Sea Witch to catch the Brain Train.

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Interesting question.

1. Velvet Underground 1966 with fullblast lightshow, whips and all
2. The Charlatans 1965 at the Red Dog Saloon
3. Love 1965/1966 on the Strip
4. The Remains
5. and then: Jimmy & the Offbeats?
... Swamp Rats (I actually met somebody from Pittsburgh years ago who had seen them in 1967 or so, and said they had been the best rockin band around)

My head is starting to swirl. There are hundreds...
 
Oh, on a second read: "at the same time" means on the same bill, correct?
Then put all the above bands together and let them play at some remote spot up in the Rockies and make sure that all the real cool people are there (and I'm NOT talking about the "in-crowd"). The South would not have been an option for this kind of gathering I suppose...
 
axel said:
Oh, on a second read: "at the same time" means on the same bill, correct?
Then put all the above bands together and let them play at some remote spot up in the Rockies and make sure that all the real cool people are there (and I'm NOT talking about the "in-crowd"). The South would not have been an option for this kind of gathering I suppose...
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Yes.
 
This would be the line-up:

1. Jimmy & the Offbeats (or Better Half-Dozen or The Playgue) 2. The Swamp Rats 3. Love 4. The Remains 5. Velvet Underground

The Charlatans on LSD as special guests at 4 o'clock in the morning for some spaced-out country-rock jam (a 40-minute version of "Alabama Bound" would be just fine) to conclude the evening.
 
I would never be able to sit through five bands in a row - no matter how great. My attention span just doesn't work that way.
That said - if I had a time machine I'd definitely go to Austin to catch the 13th Floor Elevators in '66. Other bands that woulda been amazing (probably) to see would of course be Moby Grape (the recent Sundazed double LP with all their 60's live recordings is GREAT - and I usually don't care about live records), Stones in their prime, The Pretty Things in '67 - '68, The Remains, Love... and probably a lot more.
I have a real nice orig 60's gig poster from Jim Salzer's Showgrounds, with The Seeds, Chocolate Watchband, West Coast Experimental Band and Thee Midnighters on the same bill (with a picture of The Seeds, psychedelic lettering etc) and that's a pretty damn cool line for one evening up IMO.
 
Five bands on one bill, eh:

The Sons of Adam to kick off the show, followed by the Purple Hearts; at the end of the Hearts' set, Randy Holden comes back out on stage and he and Lobby Lloyde push each other to take it as far out both men can possibly take it.

After that, you'd need a bit of a breather. What better band than Love, taking advantage of the opportunity to break in some new material: Side One of Da Capo. Of course, they'd still find time to perform most of the stuff from the first LP.

Then, our very special guests from Amsterdam: The Outsiders, who proceed to blow away the crowd, making the lack of availablity of their records all the more frustrating.

Finally, the Velvet Underground, just as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable is reaching its peak. I think it's safe to say that after a show such as this one, your ears would be buzzing for weeks and nothing you heard afterward could ever hope to come close to what you heard at this concert.
 
If Caretakers of Deception ever played "Cuttin' Grass" live, that's where I would love to be.

Would've loved to see Electric Prunes do "Smokestack Lightning" and "You Never Had It Better" in Stockholm.

Otherwise, The Butterfield Blues Band, playing "East-West" would be AMAZING to see.
 
I'd be sorely tempted to stay here in my hometown of Sydney and see The Easybeats, supported by The Morloch, The Black Diamonds, The Missing Links and The Creatures.

Or travel to London to see The Beatles supported by the Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things, The Kinks and The Who

But I'd probably end up in Texas, watching The Bad Seeds, The Zakary Thaks, The Gentlemen and The Outcasts, supporting The 13th Floor Elevators.
 
"Murphy's Law" of '60s garage-dom: bands that made the best records probably sucked live, and those who made the worst records (or just average) were outstanding live. Unscientific, but that's the impression I've gotten from my years of research and observation. It doesn't make sense, but the alchemy of the universe works in ways only Quetzalcoatl understands.

There's a reason why so many bands mentioned so far have never had panegyrics dedicated to their awesomeness written by contemporaries. They made no lasting impression on anybody. They were semi-competent, generic cover bands who played the Top 40 hits of the day so the boys of the time could dance with girls and pretend they were interested in something besides sex. The bands blended into the background. Rare was the '60s band that actually drew the boy's attention away from the girl for more than 5 minutes.

That said, the Sonics circa 1964 must have been as good live as their records, especially since their records are live-in-studio duplications of their live set. So I vote for the Sonics.
 
I'd go for a Sonics, Wailers, Don & Goodtimes, Dynamics and Ventures bill, say early 1965, that'd be pretty good. Maybe throw in Little Daddy & Bachelors as unannounced guests or whatever band Tommy Chong was in just then.
 
I'd go for a non-static-singer band ; some frontman mimicking mick jagger mimicking james brown would be fine (by the way, did Mitch Ryder know how to dance?)
hard to tell if all those garage bands were great performers according to those TV shows on YT; they were surely told not to move a hair because of the cameras...
 
bosshoss said:
I'd be sorely tempted to stay here in my hometown of Sydney and see The Easybeats, supported by The Morloch, The Black Diamonds, The Missing Links and The Creatures.

Or travel to London to see The Beatles supported by the Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things, The Kinks and The Who

But I'd probably end up in Texas, watching The Bad Seeds, The Zakary Thaks, The Gentlemen and The Outcasts, supporting The 13th Floor Elevators.
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The Sunsets, would you consider them?
 
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