Historical Concerts

if you want SOME specifics, get thee immediately to a copy of when the shit hits the fans, documenting one gloriously drunken night on that tour. presumably they weren't that drunk every night of the tour, and presumably they didn't play bachman-turner overdrive, lynyrd skynyrd and black sabbath covers every night of the tour either. but it's one of the greatest live records ever made. and they do manage to sneak in a few of their own. and and and, it's the only place you can hear the title song from let it be, or at least a few seconds of the title track, which, not so shockingly, it turns they didn't write either.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003ZZB.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

If not that, then Public Image at the Ritz, 1981:
http://www.furious.com/perfect/pil.html

taking this thread in a different direction - what shows, historically, featured a band breaking up on stage? whether temporarily or permanent? or just one or two band members who left, never to return?

I'm aware of the infamous nu-Misfits break-up on stage in 2001 because it happened in my backyard (though I wasn't there). and there was that infamous debacle with Five Finger Death Punch (which was just temporary). and Black Flag firing Reyes in the middle of a set.

what other famous "I'm done, fuck it, and fuck you audience" shows exist in the annals of human history? I'm googling I swear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Dfs6tBzBY

Hanley, Burns and Crooks split, Smith got arrested, Nagle stayed with the band despite being assaulted by Smith in their hotel room afterwards.

Thought this was gonna be about performances of music in historical tunings or something.

lol thread delivers. thanks Deflator.

hysterical tunings maybe. like funny tunings.

hysterical tunings maybe. like funny tunings.

would go to that concert tbh

Eh, I saw Zappa once. It was pretty good but I wouldn’t call it hydterical.

Soundgarden:

At the tour's last stop in Honolulu, Hawaii on February 9, 1997, Shepherd threw his bass into the air in frustration after suffering equipment failure, and then stormed off the stage.[64] The band retreated, with Cornell returning to end the show with a solo encore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundgarden#Down_on_the_Upside_and_breakup_(1996–1997)

oh and the Everly Brothers

omg good one!

https://groovyhistory.com/everly-brothers-break-up-on-stage-knotts-berry-farm

Ryan Adams fired everyone in Whiskeytown not named Caitlin Cary during a show, and saw out the rest of the tour as a duo act with her.

Haven't The Fall done that on like 7 different occasions

xtc didn't break up, but Partridge walked off stage in the middle of their 3/18/82 set and then they stopped playing live shows (other than in 1989 it looks like)

Sex Pistols at Winterland

Not quite as famous but I saw Opal (David Roback's pre-Mazzy Star band) break up onstage in London, 1988 I think. Kind of a tense atmosphere all through the show, then Roback hurled his guitar to the ground and stormed off. Fun times!

I guess Talking Heads kinda broke up from being a touring band onstage in New Zealand? I remember reading an account where David Byrne was cranky about his lamp not working, so walked offstage and never came back. I think the rest of them played Genius of Love then called it a night/day.

I saw Levitation split with Terry Bickers on stage at the Dome in Tufnell Park in '93, although his habit of making mad stage pronouncements cloaked the fact he was serious.

On July 31, 1980, in Long Beach, California, tempers boiled over into what has been described as the "Long Night at Wrong Beach". The animosity between Felder and Frey boiled over before the show began, when Felder said, "You're welcome – I guess" to California Senator Alan Cranston's wife as the politician was thanking the band backstage for performing a benefit for his reelection. Frey and Felder spent the entire show telling each other about the beating each planned to administer backstage. "Only three more songs until I kick your ass, pal," Frey recalled Felder telling him near the end of the band's set. Felder recalls Frey telling him during "Best of My Love", "I'm gonna kick your ass when we get off the stage."

I love that detail of the Eagles - there are some articles that expand on the events of that night, and they're pretty amusing (or pathetic, depending on POV)

poison at the vmas

lol I finally saw that video last year. CeCe playing the wrong song pretty inspired, as is starting the song before you're back from commercial break and the song falling apart.

i saw a couple of shows of the richard and linda thompson tour where their marital dispute sort of bled onto the stage. at one, before the show, i saw them arguing outside the venue. i interrupted them and asked them to sign my copy of "shoot out the lights" which they did, very courteously. then they went right back to arguing.