# Your Own Personal Concert **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2000, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259 "2000-02-20T08:42:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/21 "2000-03-02T10:11:00Z")
(Told you we had a time machine.) Any other takers of this prize ? * * * “And we are the sum of these parts : broken promises and hearts.” ---
**Author:** ![Moonshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Moonshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonshine)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/22 "2000-03-02T13:11:00Z")
Easy, the place is Wembley stadium; John Lee Hooker to start it up, Eric Clapton to speed it up, Janice Joplin to soul it up and the Stones to rock it up. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/23 "2000-03-02T14:43:00Z")
Hmmm well based on my current tastes and all time faves: Playing at The Gorge in Washington (an amphitheater carved into a canyon by the columbia river) ## Oingo Boingo Fishbone (with all the original members) The Smiths The Misfits (with both Glen and Michael trading off lyrical duties depending on the song) Voted Biggest Smartass by all you beautiful people! * * * You always use violence. I should’ve ordered glutinous rice chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Totilhate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9d8465/32.png) [@Totilhate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totilhate)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/24 "2000-03-02T15:26:00Z")
LOCATION: The Abyss (an intimate club that holds about 900 people. 19Th St@the beach Virginia Beach, VA DATE: Friday April 7, 2000 (My 21st birthday) Opening band: Powerman5000 followed by : Insane Clown Posse followed by : Pantera Closing : No Doubt (I know, I know) Hey, the good thing is on April 5th I do get to see No Doubt in Washington, DC (close enough) so that’s pretty cool…and yes, the list is odd so please spare me the ridicule… 🙂 -Christina ---
**Author:** ![Treycal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Treycal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treycal)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/25 "2000-03-02T15:33:00Z")
Hmmmmm…let’s mix up a couple more musical genres. Oscar Peterson - serving up some cool jazz (just really starting to love jazz thanks to the wife) R.E.M. - mostly old stuff please Hoodoo Guru’s Blue Rodeo ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/26 "2000-03-02T15:36:00Z")
My Venue would have to be a big double ended concert hall…with a small stage and little tables on one end, and a big open floor on the other end. Tortoise (tables) Pixies (‘Bossanova’ era) (open floor) Jesus Lizard (‘Liar’ era) (open floor) And Tom Waits Closing with a 4 hour set, with me at a little table with a 2 gallon jug of Johnnie Walker Black Label and a carton of Luckies. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/27 "2000-03-02T15:37:00Z")
Okay, we need someplace small, yet enough room to jump around in… I think that a small club in Ithaca, NY called The Haunt would be good enough. The line-up: Counting Crows Radiohead Nirvana (with Cobain intact, naturally) Rage Against the Machine I honestly cannot imagine anything better than this. I could die. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/28 "2000-03-02T15:51:00Z")
My musical tastes are pretty damn eclectic, even _within_ genres, so I’ve been avoiding this thread since it started, because the guys I’d pick would sound pretty damn odd together. But what the hell. The venue would be my living room. It’s comfy enough, and there’s easy access to beer and whiskey (Lester Young will insist on refreshment) and I think I still have some dope someplace (Louis Armstrong and Jerry Garcia will insist on refreshment). No acts. Everyone has to play _together._ So figure on a few hours of totally entertaining practicing. Let’s have Satchmo on cornet, and J.C. Higgenbotham on trombone. On reeds, Charlie Parker (alto), Lester Young (tenor), and Pepper Adams (baritone), plus Buddy DeFranco on clarinet and Pan on the flute. Keyboards: Johann Sebastian Bach. Niccolo Paganini on the fiddle. Jerry Garcia on lead guitar, and Charlie Christian on rhythm (they can switch off). Jimmy Blanton on bass, Keith Moon and Chano Pozo on drums. Dinah Washington, Cab Calloway, and Rudy Vallee on vocals. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/29 "2000-03-02T17:21:00Z")
Sooooooooo many to choose from! This is really hard. **Pink Floyd** (circa 1967 or 68 with Syd Barrett) **The Band** (circa 1973 or 74) **The Who** (circa 1971 or so, preferably during the “Who’s Next” tour) **The Grateful Dead** (circa 1969, 70 or 71, when Pigpen was still around) This would take place at the old **Fillmore West** or at **Winterland** in San Francisco. And yes, I want Bill Graham running the whole damn show. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/30 "2000-03-02T19:11:00Z")
One venue? I don’t think so - let’s really work that time machine… Venue #1: Bourbon St., New Orleans, Louisiana Louie Armstrong begins this musical extravaganza with some red hot jazz; Mardi Gras serves as the backdrop Venue #2: Red Square, Moscow, Russia The odyssey continues. “Welcome Party leaders! Now please give a nice, hard line welcome America’s hard line rockers - Ted Nugent and the Motor City Madmen!” Venue #3 - High in the Sierra Nevadas, at night. Let’s back it down just a little, and mix in some smoother stuff. Bring on Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band! Venue #4 - Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetary Sure, it’s a little different than most concert venues, but the residents won’t mind. Besides, half the band will feel right at home, 'cause we’re going to see the original incarnation of Lynyrd Skynyrd! Wow, if I win this concert another 967 times, I’ll be able to live out all my musical fantasies. * * * The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Masterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@Michael\_Masterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Masterson)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/31 "2000-03-02T19:34:00Z")
1)Eric Johnson 2)Van Halen 3)Grateful Dead 4)Metallica 5)Pink Floyd 6)Elvis 7)Hendrix 8)Me! The concert would be in Berkeley the drugs are free! * * * ~-MCM-~ ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/32 "2000-03-02T19:40:00Z")
I think I want the concert to be held at a place called Sinking Creek, which is a rather remote natural amphitheater no one much knows about. That’s OK, though since I am not interested in gate reciepts, and am only inviting a thousand or so folks to be there. (not counting roadies, groupies, and of course Wavy Gravy, and the Hog Farm folks.) Bob Dylan Jimi Hendrix Frank Zappa Ray Charles I am assuming the artists get the backup musicians/band members of their choice. The show is gonna have to provide its own finale, with everyone on stage providing back up for each other. Can I invite other musicians to be in the audience? **Tris** * * * Imagine my signature begins five spaces to the right of center. ---
**Author:** ![Breckinshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/33 "2000-03-02T23:16:00Z")
Location: The basement of the CIA (Just because I want to see what it looks like) Hootie and the Blowfish Dave Matthew’s Band Cranberries John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra * * * _A hush fell over the courtroom, killing six._ ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2000, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/34 "2000-03-03T00:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by mouthbreather: > **And Tom Waits Closing with a 4 hour set, with me at a little table with a 2 gallon jug of Johnnie Walker Black Label and a carton of Luckies.** I love you… * * * I am a redhead, you see, and I do not tempt. I insist. -Cristi ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2000, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/35 "2000-03-03T05:14:00Z")
My dream concert would be held at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC, to the locals) because I love outdoor venues. 1. Barenaked Ladies 2. Tragically Hip 3. Ben Folds Five 4. Billy Joel Then I could die happy. * * * Mt. Dew habit kicked since 2/21/00! ---
**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259/36 "2000-03-03T15:19:00Z")
I would like to have the following perform in my apartment or back yard, Men Without Hats, followed by Ministry (around the time of TWITCH), then the Chameleons with headliner… the Art of Noise [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-concert/14259.md?page=1)