Poll: Which concert would you attend from the listings in the 8-29-77 Village Voice I found at my mom's house?

That Dead show at Englishtown turned out to be pretty iconic-the tape of that show is great. AC/DC was probably on stage for a really short time, so I pick the Dead.

George Jones

(saw Dizzy Gillespie in '80, then twice more)

coryell/mouzon/metheny could have been pretty crazy in '77

voted George Jones just narrowly over Talking Heads

Gilberto.

I think Mars is what pushes that one into the winner column for me, although Blondie and TH are close seconds. Plus, Richard Hell hadn't gotten quite as junked out in '77 yet.

I will be so happy if Roland Kirk wins this

hell + mars, but it wasn't easy

Mingus, though that certainly is an impressive list. At least a dozen other shows I would've died to go see. Weird. Do you think that in 30 years you could do a list of shows from one week in 2008 and be so amazed?

Kirk or Mingus.

With gillespie, richard Hell and Gilberto right behiind.

I think I'd just be hanging outside the back door of the Village Gate all week.

Andy Gibb in his prime!
Foreigner in their cooze-hunting prime!

mongo santamaria would be a trip, but i always hated the bottom line.

tough to choose. probably anything at the village gate!

or the grateful dead at raceway park.

anyway, weird time in nyc history. this was the same summer as the big blackout and son of sam. i was just a baby (in brooklyn) so none of this was really on my radar yet.

Yeah, the Bottom Line was like sitting at high school cafeteria tables with people you didn't know & looking sideways at the stage (at least it was when I went there). I was thinking of that factor too.

Boy, all of these options & you could also have gone disco dancing...

Am I the only one who enjoyed the Bottom Line? Great sitelines, a GREAT sound system, shows started when they were supposed to, you could sit, there was no minimum, the bar food wasn't too expensive, you could actually exchange or return tickets at the box office, the personal pizzas weren't totally horrible. What was not to like? Yeah, they reserved the best seats for industry people, but sometimes it was fun to ogle.

Holy shit - I would HANDCUFF myself to a supporting pillar somewhere inside the Village Gate and stay there for a month! Mingus, Kirk, and Dizzy, not to mention the Voidoids and the no-wave guys - wow...Other than that, I'd probably enjoy seeing the Dictators and AC/DC rock the Palladium.

Marbles w/Avenger - in a heartbeat. The Marbles are like the great lost punk band - not that they were that punk. And then the Avengers too.

Althoust the Teenage Jesus/Fleshtones show would have been a blast.

Holy shit - I would HANDCUFF myself to a supporting pillar somewhere inside the Village Gate and stay there for a month!

Lady, if you have to ask...

Still weighing the NWave vs Jazz. Think I should vote for departed jazz guys, but Quine is gone too.

Don't know why jbr and others hated Bottom Line. The neutral red-checked tablecloth atmosphere turned out to be appropriate to accommodate the great variety of acts that appeared there.

if I had time machine I would go back and have sets at all these shows.

change my vote to this

i chose Hell & Mars

Does the listing actually say "Charlie" Mingus?

anyway, weird time in nyc history. this was the same summer as the big blackout and son of sam. i was just a baby (in brooklyn) so none of this was really on my radar yet.

Same except I was a fetus in Manhattan. That said it would have to have been Talking Heads then Blondie for me.

George Jones

My second choice, not by a long way.

But I'd be worried that he would be too drunk to show.

Does the listing actually say "Charlie" Mingus?

Yup. I calls 'em like I sees 'em.

I left stuff out, too, in the interest of brevity. Now I regret it. McCoy Tyner. Charlie Rouse. Stumblebunny. What was I thinking?

Holy crap -- I think AC/DC were a "special guest" on that Marbles/Avenger bill at CBGB:

http://www.acdc-bootlegs.com/concerthistory/?gig=354

Hey Ned. This bud's for you, in the order of the list.

I grew up in the Bay Area so I saw the Dead a bunch of times, including NY's eve '73 @ Winterland (I think, or maybe '72) and subsequently in Jersey City, outdoors (don't ask) w/The Band just after the big Watkins Glen gig (we went to a big disco too, but no one would talk to me 'cause I saw stoned out of my mind, wearing aviator shades, with hair down to my ass). I saw probably anytime they played @ Winterland from '72-74.

Saw Mingus @ the Tyee Motor Lodge Tumwater Wa in about '77. He stopped the band in the middle of the set and tore Danny a new asshole for getting lost. Mingus made off with my housemate Michaels' girlfriend and we has to retrieve her from his room, so I've seen Mingus, pissed off and naked except for a towel on the middle of the night. Danny subsequently stole my friend Manny (who's band opened)'s tenor and they had to get a search warrant for his hotel room in Seattle the next day, to get it back.

My folks took me to see Mongo Santamaria @ the Checkmate Inn (owned by one of the guys in the Checkmates) in East Palo Alto when I was in Jr high. I took a date. We danced. It was a bar and I don't know how they let us in there. That would be in '68 or '69.

I saw the New Riders a few times, when Garcia was still in the band. The two times I remember were when Garcia had the flu and was high on cold medicine, very psychedelic solos with lots of echoplex, and the other supported by Miles (On the Corner band) @ Frost Ampitheater (Stanford U... outdoors in the daytime, I shot color slides which I still have). This gig is how I always win the "what's the weirdest double bill you ever saw" game.

I made my cousin take me to see the Newport Jazz Festival @ Madison Square Garden when I was about 12, so that'd be about '68: Cecil Taylor, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dizzy Gillespie. I remember Cecil, all fists and elbows, Roland Kirk with 3 horns in his mouth and banging his chair on the stage floor, and Dizzy seeming kind of passe, doing the Afro-Cuban thing. My cousin was bored silly. I guess I was kinda a weird kid.

My ex-roommate/ex-girlfriend took me to CB's to see T Heads supporting Television 2 nights in a row in the Summer of '76. We smoked a joint in the club, and I made eye contact with Lou Reed.

I saw Screaming Jay Hawkins @ Biddy Mulligan's in Chicago around '86, which held, dunno, 100 people? 200? He talked a lot about furburgers. I also saw Ra there around then. The band didn't fit on the stage.

I saw Richard Hell @ the Berkeley Square (I think) in '82 or '83 fronting some suburban rock band. The band was obnoxious, and not in a good way, whereas Hell was obnoxious, but not in a bad way. I think I saw Iggy there too, later...

Dunno what that leaves me with... I would have loved to see Larry Coryell, though maybe not with Alphonse Mouzon, but I was a fusion-head back then, so maybe. I probably wouldn't have been ready for Teenage Jesus & the Jerks yet in '77, not til a couple of years later. The older (today) me wishes to have seen Joao Gilberto (he still touring?), or maybe Mars. Mmmm Robert Quine... maybe I'll come back later and vote. Nice options to have though.

holy fuckin shit! that's it, i'm moving to new york in the late 70's.

compare with this coming friday:

Andy Friedman & the Other Failures
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Beat Circus
Blood
Steve Cardenas Quartet
Cold War Kids
Dysrhythmia+Tombs
Kings of Leon
Lykke Li+Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Lil' Dusty
The Pretenders
John Scofield
Slipknot
The Sword
The Thermals
Simone White
Maddy Wyatt's Sagebrush Valentine
Christine Ebersole
Joey Calderazzo Trio
Que Bajo?!
Rose Live Music

looks pretty eh to me, but perhaps i'm just not looking hard enough?

Antibalas rules that list

actually further digging through the VV website reveals Talib Kweli at S.O.B.'s, John Legend at madison square, Metallica at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Nightmares on Wax at Music Hall of Williamsbur, Kevin Saunderson at Webster Hall, They Might Be Giants@ (le) poisson rouge, not to mention random stuff like Punk Rock Heavy Metal Karaoke at Fontana's,or 'Ashford & Simpson's Legendary Open Mic Night' at Sugar Bar so maybe no need to invest in a time machine just yet.

i wonder if parlaiment, kool and the gang and sabbath were all also playing 8-29-77 and the voice just didn't bother listing them at the top?

I saw John Legend a couple years back and he was absolutely great. I would definitely see him again if I wasn't so worried about his poor new material dragging him down.

Factcheckr I would like to live in your skull for a while.

i saw john legend a couple of months ago and he bored me to death

Re "Charlie" Mingus: I was just curious about this. It's funny. I don't know if one of the 30 or so albums I own by him is credited this way.

Saw Mingus @ the Tyee Motor Lodge Tumwater Wa in about '77. He stopped the band in the middle of the set and tore Danny a new asshole for getting lost. Mingus made off with my housemate Michaels' girlfriend and we has to retrieve her from his room, so I've seen Mingus, pissed off and naked except for a towel on the middle of the night. Danny subsequently stole my friend Manny (who's band opened)'s tenor and they had to get a search warrant for his hotel room in Seattle the next day, to get it back.

!!!

An impossible list to choose from. I'd love to have been able to see new wave in the 70s but Kirk or Mingus would've been pretty mindblowing too...

Kirk died before the end of 1977.

I thought I'd seen it before. East Coasting by Charlie Mingus. 1957, but I'm looking at a 2000 cd.

I would see Richard Hell, for the Robert Quine especially.

the idea of Dictators, Michael Stanley Band and AC/DC on the same bill makes sense if you think low level major label hard rock signings playing together to help their careers with the hard rock fans and programmers. None of them ever amounted to anything unfortunately.

voted foreigner

cos I don't want to bump into all you douches at the blondie/screamin jay gig

whoa, Stumblebunny?

"No Show Jones." just for the fuck of it.

I think Mingus's widow rants about if you see records that say "Charlie" Mingus rather than Charles, it's a bootleg or something.