Tune TARDIS

I saw this concept over at The Hot Pepper and liked it. So I'm stealing it.

If you could go back in time to see any band, who would they be? And why?

I would have liked to have got in on some of the early jazz and blues. But the biggie for me was Pigpen. The Dead were two different bands before and after he died.

Of course Janis.

SRV

too larry said:

If you could go back in time to see any band, who would they be? And why?

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Who? The incomparable first lineup of Captain Beyond.
Why? Because I had no idea they played live at all. I completely freaked when I saw this on YouTube in great quality
Why? Because drummer Bobby Caldwell is the greatest drummer hardly anyone's ever heard of, and this trio plus vocalist kicks butt, Hardly a month goes by that I don't visit this vid.

Amos Otis said:

Who? The incomparable first lineup of Captain Beyond.
Why? Because I had no idea they played live at all. I completely freaked when I saw this on YouTube in great quality
Why? Because drummer Bobby Caldwell is the greatest drummer hardly anyone's ever heard of, and this trio plus vocalist kicks butt, Hardly a month goes by that I don't visit this vid.

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Great tune.

I hadn't thought of those guys in a long time. They were a kick ass band.

My #1 time machine band would be Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. When Stevie died, I was too young to even know who he was, I was just a couple months past my 6th birthday at the time. To get specific, I'd like to go back and see the performance from the El Mocambo theatre in July of 1983.

socaljoe said:

My #1 time machine band would be Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. When Stevie died, I was too young to even know who he was, I was just a couple months past my 6th birthday at the time. To get specific, I'd like to go back and see the performance from the El Mocambo theatre in July of 1983.

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Good choice.

My daddy was a stevedore. It was a union job, but when the job called for more men than were in a gang, you could "catch on". The pay was the same as the union men, $17 an hour in 1983-84. So lots of days I rode to the docks in Panama City with him, and didn't always catch on. My choices at that point was to try to hitchhike 50 miles or wait around all day. I got to be friends with another fellow who was trying to catch on, and would go back to his tiny house on the beach until time to head home. His roommate sold skinny dime bags, but we would go through 10-12 bags and pinch enough for a joint, then sit around and listen to music all day. The little house was basically two rooms. There were albums on the floor all the way around the living-room/kitchen. At this time, it was the largest collection I had ever seen. And this guy was a Ronnie Wood freak. He talked me through The Birds years {64-65 when Ronnie was playing bass} without an actual album, but for all the other stops, he brought out vinyl to make his points.

Jeff Beck Group: Jeff Beck, Rod Stewert, Ronnie Woods and an assortment of guys on drums and bass.

Sorry, bad info. Ronnie played bass early on in the Jeff Beck Group. I also forgot to mention a short lived stint in a mod band called The Creation.

When the Jeff Beck Group split in 1969, Wood and Rod Stewart joined former Small Faces members Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones in a new group named Faces.

But shoehorned in between the breakup of the Jeff Beck Group and the formation of Faces, Ronnie worked on a couple of Rod Stewart albums. He co-wrote Gasoline Alley, one of my favorite Rod Stewart songs.

In December 1973, Wood collaborated with Mick Jagger on the song "It's Only Rock'n Roll (But I Like It)".

Mick Taylor left the Rolling Stones in December 1974, Wood played on the album Black and Blue. Although still a member of the Faces, he toured North America with the Rolling Stones in 1975; the Faces announced its break-up in December of that year, and Wood was officially declared a member of the Rolling Stones in February 1976.