Friday OT - Do I Have To Pick One?

[cyclones500]

Definitely would want to see "classic" festivals -- Woodstock (original) - but I might even trade that for Monterrey Pop Festival (if I were forced to choose). Woodstock might be higher impact as "an experience" but as for a more typical festival MPop had a bunch of big acts (some which also performed at 'Stock) and is possibly underrated.

 

[Gonzo]

Definitely would want to see "classic" festivals -- Woodstock (original) - but I might even trade that for Monterrey Pop Festival (if I were forced to choose). Woodstock might be higher impact as "an experience" but as for a more typical festival MPop had a bunch of big acts (some which also performed at 'Stock) and is possibly underrated.

I'm a Gen-Xer and while the music/artists who played Woodstock were obviously legendary, I've always thought the actual experience of being there had to have just been muddy and smelly and poopy and sweaty and stinky and just kind of all around gross.

 

[matclone]

Definitely would want to see "classic" festivals -- Woodstock (original) - but I might even trade that for Monterrey Pop Festival (if I were forced to choose). Woodstock might be higher impact as "an experience" but as for a more typical festival MPop had a bunch of big acts (some which also performed at 'Stock) and is possibly underrated.

Monterey Pop all the way for me. If you haven't seen the film, I highly recommend. Janis Joplin tears the house down.

 

[Turn2]

I'm a Gen-Xer and while the music/artists who played Woodstock were obviously legendary, I've always thought the actual experience of being there had to have just been muddy and smelly and poopy and sweaty and stinky and just kind of all around gross.

So just like walking beans, which is what I was ACTUALLY doing in August '69.

 

[cyclones500]

So just like walking beans, which is what I was ACTUALLY doing in August '69.

I wanted to give this multi-emojis ... torn among big laugh, winner, "love" and "Agree."

 

[drlove]

I regret not seeing The Replacements live during the band's prime.

Toward end of the band's original run --- Orpheum Theatre, February 1991 (opening act Gear Daddies)… Something didn’t mesh with my schedule. Also I might have assumed I’d catch a show “another time,” not anticipating the group would break up a few months later.

Also I think Mats had a show at The Maintenance Shop (or some other venue in Ames??), maybe late-'84 (?), some of my friends attended, I must have had something going on “academically” that week, so I didn't go (show was not on a weekend, IIRC).

I did get to see Westerberg in his early solo years, mid-‘90s, in Madison, Wis. Fantastic show, small theater venue, tight set. For some reason haven’t found my way to one of his gigs since then (but my live performance attendance has dwindled gradually in recent years).

Ah the Mats. Was lucky to see one of the last shows in the 90s in Davenport. The show was abruptly halted when Slim nearly got hit by a beer bottle.
I did get to see PW solo later on. He commented that he nearly had to cancel the show after he was trying to iron his pants while wearing them and had to go to the emergency room. he dropped his pants to show everyone the bandage on his leg. The Riot festival at May Farms in Colorado might have been the best of all the shows. the stage next to the Mats had Iggy Pop on stage. at one point 50 people were having a mosh pit on stage. I heard on the radio the next morning some DJ lost a tooth.

 

[Joe4Cy]

Whoa, they played there?!

...{shrug} I don't think so, but how could would've it been? In Peoples or some bar like that?