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Andres's avatar

There are three concerts/live events I wish I could time-travel back to:

1. 1970 Isle of Wight Festival: Jimi Hendrix's last live performance. Jethro Tull, The Doors, Joni Mitchell and other great ones performed too.

2. 1986 Queen live at Wembley: I would have killed to see this live, for its musical as well as its cultural significance. And INXS as opening act? Yes, please!

3. 1995 Mariah Carey live at Madison Square Guarden: the most technically brilliant singer (arguably the best of her generation) at the absolute prime of her career. A vocal masterclass throughout. And the audience was euphoric!

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Steve Goldberg's avatar

Yeah, a million people is insane. I can't even handle 50,000 people. Maybe it's the influence of COVID but my first thought was, "super-spreader event!" 🧐

By the way, I wrote about (tangentially) that concert in Moscow last October, when I featured Scorpions' "Winds of Change." There's an excellent podcast (by the same name) about that song (one episode is about the concert) that I highly recommend.

https://earworm.substack.com/p/scorpions-wind-of-change

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