Your favorite band..playing one album live...

[Philpug]

What band and what album would you want them to play?

 

[Bad Bob]

The Band, Last Waltz. They would have LOTS of company for that one.

 

[surfsnowgirl]

Can't decide

Buckcherry -15
Disturbed -indestructible

 

[Michael Kane]

The Clash: The Album for Mike

 

[Don in Morrison]

I got to see Brian Wilson perform SMiLE. It wuz my all-time favorite concert.

 

[dbostedo]

Pearl Jam... Ten

 

[Philpug]

Steely Dan has done this on tour, they would play a city for a few nights and each show was an album in it's entirety. I would like to have been at the Aja show.

 

[Freaq]

The Clash
London Calling

 

[Ken_R]

What band and what album would you want them to play?

Band: Van Halen

Album: Van Halen (1978)

It was their very first album and I think its a masterpiece.

 

[Mike Thomas]

We are talking about the band at the time the album was released, not the band today (if possible), correct?

So many great options... for me it would be about 'a moment in time', not just the band or album. I don't have a favorite, so I'm not picking one. My picks are based on the show as I assume it would be:

Operation Ivy/ Operation Ivy
The Replacements/ Tim
Public Enemy/ It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
Bob Marley/ Legend (which would be a tough show... 'cause he was dead when it was released)
Miles Davis/ Kind of Blue
Nirvana/ Nevermind
The Clash/ London Calling
The Police/ Outlandos D'Amour or Reggatta de Blanc
'Stones/ Exile
Beastie Boys/ Paul's Boutique

 

[Beartown]

I saw the Pixies do Doolittle a few years ago. One of the best shows I've been to!

 

[Jim Kenney]

There is a good two-part documentary on HBO right now about Elvis Presley. It features a lot of clips of his 1968 "comeback" TV concert. I would loved to have been at some of the tapings for that broadcast. Thing is, in 1974 I had a chance to see him for free at a concert at Univ of MD as an usher. I had been a fan since I was very young kid, but by then he was really out of style compared to hard rockers like Led Zep, etc, so I declined usher job and went home for the weekend instead. Always regretted not seeing him, even if he was the over the hill Elvis by then.

 

[Scruffy]

Random thoughts: ( of course I'd prefer the artist/band be in the moment of the time the album was produced, (with the exception of maybe Steely Dan) rather than 20-50 years later, so a time transport is necessary )

Bob Dylan - Blond on Blond
Joni Mitchell - Hejria
Grateful Dead - Europe 72
John Coltrane - Blue Train
David Bromberg - How Late'll ya Play
Van Morrison - Moodance Album
The Doors - LA Woman or Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine
Stones - Sticky Fingers
Billie Holiday - Lady Sings the Blues
Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs and Englishman
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Elton John - Caribou
Emmylou Harris - Spyboy Album

Gee, there's so many, I could be here all day

 

[surfsnowgirl]

Steely Dan has done this on tour, they would play a city for a few nights and each show was an album in it's entirety. I would like to have been at the Aja show.

Thought I saw something about Steely dan touring this year playing this record plus a few other hits.

 

[surfsnowgirl]

I saw the Pixies do Doolittle a few years ago. One of the best shows I've been to!

My SO dragged me to that show and it was a good show.

 

[Fishbowl]

The Wall

 

[Jim McDonald]

E Street Band, Born to Run
or
Queen, Innuendo
or
Harold Lopez-Nussa Trio, whatever they want to play
or
The Funk Brothers, whatever they want to play

 

[surfsnowgirl]

Ok a few others

Tupac - All Eyez on Me
Snoop Dog - Doggystyle
Def Leppard Hysteria
Metallica The Black Album
Prince Purple Rain
Wham UK Fantastic
Antigone Rising - from the ground up
The Cult - Love
Culture Club - Colour by Numbers
Duran Duran - Seven & the Ragged Tiger
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Grandmaster Flash - the Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
Katastrophe - Let's F%$k and talk about our problems
Kid Rock - Devil without a cause
Lyrics Born - everywhere at once
Melissa Etheridge - Yes I am
Missing Persons - Spring Session M
Notorious BIG - Hypnotize
Queensryche - Operation Mind Crime
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood sugar sex magic
Rupaul - Champion
TLC - Crazysexycool
Volbeat - Rock the Rebel/Metal the devil
Erasure - The Innocents

 

[Philpug]

Stones - Sticky Fingers

Gee, there's so many, I could be here all day

I'd go Let it Bleed ot Some Girls.

Led Zeppelin-Physical Graffiti
Queen-Night at the Opera

 

[Marker]

Yes - Close to the Edge (I did see them do all of Relayer)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
King Crimson - Lark's Tongue in Aspic
Stevie Ray Vaughn - any album!