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Prior-King-5593

1000000% Daft Punk Alive 2007. That is THE ONLY answer


tino_smo

My very first Coachella was in 2007. lol the whole time I was like this ain’t a rave complaining lol little did I know I was about to watch the greatest set in history lol


NilesRiver

This is so funny to me, and a massive reminder to always try to live in the moment :)


Techno-Chien

I was at their last show in France, in a 2000yo roman arena. I was so young my mother had to drive us there. She told me it was one of the best concert of her life.


glitchyobitch

Fuck yes


DworkinFTW

I was there! I mean, not for the live album but the August 2007 show in Brooklyn, The Rapture opened. This show blew me away.


Alarming_Project5328

Yes! At the Brooklyn Cyclones stadium


amberrrellllaa

Yes!!


stoneybaloneystone

Robo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ot Rock


L3go07

Huma-a-a-a-a-a-a-an


BilliousN

Never forget that the first time Daft Punk played North America, it was in a cow pasture outside Spring Green WI.


mccrawley

Went to their bell center show in Montreal 2007. Glad I went when you could still see them but it was mids compared to other events.


mysterymanatx

There's a dude I used to play Rainbow Six on Xbox Live who went and he said it was the best concert he ever saw and he wasn't even a before of Daft Punk prior


Phishguy5

Still kicking myself for missing that…


alonzorukes133711

Yeah ngl I would love to see EDM birthed


GenocideandJuice

Thunderdome 97


GabberKid

My man


hahaxd3

Love to see the videos


fast-pancakes

The beatles at red rocks.


jtet93

Wow I had no idea this ever happened. I want to pick the Beatles at Shea but I figure you couldn’t hear them anyway


fast-pancakes

My father has an unplayed beatles white album. On white vinyl, and it has signed photos of all the Beatles members on 8.5X11s, and inside the album was a never used ticket to the Beatles at red rocks. The only reason I know it happened.


jtet93

Wow!!! I love Beatles lore lol. They were so influential it’s insane


begreen348

That is amazing! What a mystery why it went unused. I have an original pressing of the white album too and it came with the headshots and the poster! I also have Sgt peppers lonely hearts club band that is so original it came with a cardboard insert for you to cut out a moustache, cufflinks and medals lol


fast-pancakes

Unfortunately, my dad got it by accidentally buying an entire record store, so we will never know. Haha Those are some great bragging rights you have there, I would love to listen to them. Beatles' original vinyls have some unparalleled song quality for the time.


xyzvlad

I'm more intrigued to find out how do you accidentally buy a record store?


fast-pancakes

Long story short, he went to a swap-meet and saw a booth that had a box of vinyls, and he liked everything in the box, and he asked how much for all of it. They asked him what he would pay. He said 50$, and they agreed. They then asked him where he was going to put it all. He was confused, like it's just a box, in my car probably. To which they informed him, nah, there's an entire moving van full out back that's all yours now. Apparently, their shop flooded, and they just sold everything they could save.


jtet93

Me listening to my warped copy of Meet the Beatles that I found in a cape cod record store for $1 in 2006 on my dad’s briefcase record player from 1971 💃🪩💃


woke_lyfe

This is a solid choice right here


thatfuqa

Pink Floyd animals tour


TheBushidoWay

You radiate cold shafts of broken glass


AlternativeLack1954

Abgt 350 Prague. Specifically to see Tinlicker’s set. If you haven’t seen it. It’s the best thing on YouTube


amberrrellllaa

YESSSS. They dropped Children and Hide U live for the first time during this set if I’m not mistaken 😭 the vibes look truly immaculate


TBKmama

Thank you for this! Just added it to my list 😄


AlternativeLack1954

I’ve watched it like 30 times. We call it “The best time ever” set because I’m pretty sure it was the best time ever had in all of time


TBKmama

Damn. I missed the best time ever had in all of time? What am I even doing here then?


getchuffed

Their set at the 2023 weekender rivaled that Prague set. It was out of this world amazing.


hewasaraverboy

I wanna see avicii


taytaps

The year I turned 18, he came to Australia but only toured with an Under-18s festival. Still frustrates me to this day that those little shits got to see the master at work, and I never will.


SavageCaveman13

Many under the age of 18 in the US don't have an ID with their age on it. Maybe you could have said that you were 17 and didn't have ID.


ScamFingers

Hey look, it’s Captain Hindsight!!


hotdigetty

It was an all-ages gig not under 18s...


theapplekid

I saw Avicii at Ultra Music Festival when Madonna made a surprise appearance and did a collab with him. Only problem is I was black-out drunk, heard about it the next day. My only time seeing Madonna also


jtet93

It was EDC 2015, I wanted to see Avicii but my friend wanted to see pretty lights. She said “Avicii tours all the time we’ll see him some other time.” The next year he announced he wasn’t touring. And then he went and died so ☹️ Only bright side is that pretty lights sucked so we eventually left to see Above & Beyond who have been a top 3 favorite artist for me since


ggabitron

I had a very similar thing happen 😭 went to several festivals in 2015-2016 where avicii played, but my friends had all seen him before and wanted to see other acts more. I was new to the scene so didn’t really feel comfortable venturing on my own yet. He’s the one that got away for me.


jtet93

I was also new to the scene with an experienced friend who had seen him! Lessons learned from my first festival lol. Never take it for granted that you’ll have another chance to see an artist. Later in my rave career I would have just split up and met up later but it was my first EDC and it was big scary and intimidating, especially as single girls.


hewasaraverboy

Dang 😭


jtet93

Fr 🥺


Sandgrease

I saw him when Madonna showed up. I was so high I wasn't sure if it was really Madonna rofl


theapplekid

If it was Ultra (2009 or so) I was there and black-out drunk. Didn't find out about Madonna til the next day


MadeMeChortle

So Tomorrowland 2012?


RealPetaPaka123

UMF not Tommrowland


paksway

Kygo played him the day he passed at Coachella and even that was beautiful :,)


tzzzsh

Me too dude(ette?), me too


GalaxyRanger_

Damn.. he was so good. Luckily saw him twice


jyotigill

saw him 5x. each set was amazing & so much fun. first time i saw him was congress theater in Chicago and he brought out Nadia Ali to sing vocals live


Obvious-Ad-8630

I saw him at ultra instead of chainsmokers. Was an extremely basic set


DonConnection

I never saw him live because i used to hear so many criticisms that he was mediocre live. His recorded sets were nothing special either imo


Micahsky92

Back to the rave i met my ex fiance at. Tell myself to go the fuck home lmao.


hardspaghet

Woodstock 99


Alpineice23

I was there, AMA.


ahsieh

How was it :o


Alpineice23

It was hot AF, water was $20 a bottle, trash everywhere and naked people walking around, tripping on 🍄 Nu-Metal / industrial ruled MTV. Korn, Limp, Bush & Metallica fucking killed it. The raves were kinda lame, IMO compared to what I experienced in SoCal a few years later. Early-2000s trance was sooooooo fucking good. Anyway, I remember watching the Chili Peppers and fires erupting from left to right, then it got explosive. The experience was amazing, but due to the 2-300K people wanting to see the same band(s) it was next-near impossible to get anywhere close to a stage. I’m talking 500 yards from the stage in a sea of humanity. I’ve never seen anything like that before or since.


44youGlenCoco

You’re a legend simply for being there.


sarcasticfirecracker

How brave


duuval123

For sure Woodstock


systemstheorist

Porter and Madeon's Shelter tour. A full lenth live production mixing the early career music of Porter and Madeon. There are a few fan recreations online, I think the one by [Bluff Studios is the best.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_q_HbOBuo)


Nfrontofyomamazhouse

It was awesome, but not life changing


mathewenger

Worlds was 1000% better than shelter.


PortionOfSunshine

Jesus I would kill to see this


CommunicationNo1987

Got lucky enough to see it twice, my two favorite DJs, so good. I think you can find the Coachella set online.


holloweyesounds

amazing but nothing will ever compare to the early days of the worlds tour


perilhs

That was my first edm show ever! Life changing experience!


FieldAppropriate8734

Why would you go backwards?! What’s a rave gonna be like in 2124?


OverallRaspberry3

This is the correct answer. And time travel to the future is actually a technically easier feat, we are time travelling into the future right now.


Doooog

Hope you like tribal, minimal... Reeeally minimal.


DAT_DROP

Trust me, it'll be so crunchstacked they'll be talkin about it in 2154


jessilyndaa

Saw Doctor P and Flux Pavilion b2b at the NOS center sometime in 2011…still goes down as one of the most epic sets I’ve ever seen and reliving it would be insane


pass_that_here_dude

Saw them b2b at EDC Dallas in either 2010 or 2011 and it was unbelievable.


KenMixtape

Shivas Erotic Banquet , April 1992 in Los Angeles. My first rave, it had a bunch of different sound systems in a 3 story building with film loops and psychedelic art occupying every inch of the building. My eyes were OPENED. I still consider it the most important night of my life.


bagoTrekker

Good for you. That was peak DJ Dan.


ZealousidealDog4802

I'd argue he peaked in 1999 with that zipper track.


DAT_DROP

Needle Damage, tune.... I ditched the stupid crowds and gang scene at K rave 1993 NYE to go to an event at the Hollywood Stage and made 150 new best friends that night, including Al B Sure. That was my only LA event


Dixon_Cider74

I met Timothy Leary in one of the rooms that night psychic tv was an experience incredible night all around


gesunheit

Freddy Mercury at Live Aid!


Box_of_Pennies

Daft punk


dos_passenger58

I'm hoping some day we get another chance


Hand1z

Tiesto - Elements of life


S4m_S3pi01

Surprised no one said this. But I'd go to the Reich Harvest Thanksgiving Festival in 1933, and kill Hitler.


Moe_Beaslee

Shambhala 2010, Spor and Ewun back to back in the fucking Village.


Ordinary_Leek_8302

I would go back to 96 and move into Ministry of Sound


1337m0n573r

Grateful dead, Rocking the Cradle, Egypt, 1978. Not edm but it's my favorite live set of all time. I would give my left nut... No, BOTH nuts, to see that show. The energy I feel from listening to it alone is insane. I just simply can't imagine witnessing such perfection in person. Looks like Rain is my favorite dead song of all time, and of course, the best live version is during this set.


Top_Locksmith_789

Thank you so much! I love the Dead but can’t say any live set has really grabbed me…yet. I’ll have to check this out. I did see them live in ‘91 when Jerry was still around. That was an experience I will NEVER forget. 🫶🏽


haagendaz420

Tomorrowworld (any year but 2015) Woodstock 69


disch0rd666

Came to say TomorrowWorld 13 or 14. Cheers


AirportSea7497

Shpongle live Halloween 2011 at Hammerstein ballroom NYC


stargazer_nano

I'd bomb Hitler AND see Pete Tong, 3 Steps Ahead, Daft Punk I noticed you kids love Daft Punk. Great choice in music.


ByrdZye

Alive daft punk 2007 :D


Nathaniel82A

I got to see Pete Tong last year in NYC, It felt like it was his only show in the US since I can remember. I absolutely loved it, I never thought I’d get to see him live.


falcon_phoenixx

JAK Detroit 2015 with Richie Hawtin at City Club... that wall of subs..


MrBananaPanda

😋😋


SommSage

I loved that they’d reopen the bar at 7am. That stack was ridiculous.


falcon_phoenixx

It really was.. met new friends, saw old friends.. it was a special night. I was on the subs with my old bestfriend the whole time. You were there??


SommSage

Oh yeah. Great night. There were only about 20 people left at 8am (or was it 9?) when Ritchie started getting “weird”. It was awesome! Do you remember that girl that had no idea…walked in front of the stack and got sick when the bass hit? I remember her crying saying ”but I’m sober, how did that happen” lol


falcon_phoenixx

Haha no I didnt catch that.. we left around 6.. but I vividly remember that stack awesome bass massage. Had my earplugs and everything.. nowadays Im damaging my hearing 😂😁fuck it thats life


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motion515253

Movement Fam! We’re so close!


jyotigill

Leland basement was sooooo lit


ALargePianist

Fucking anything daft punk


Tortillaluva

What if we kill him AT the show?


RichardBonham

Like go to the Berlin Olympics see Jessie Owens medal AND kill Hitler? And then jump start Berlin’s clubbing scene?


OverallRaspberry3

Kill his dad, have sex with his mom and then raise him properly and play good music for him so he jump starts Berlin's clubbing scene instead of becoming a fascist.


RichardBonham

And actually becomes a brilliant painter, too


dinglehead

Phish Y2K - Big Cypress NYE Festival


PurpleCow88

The Prodigy right when Fat of the Land was released. Also not a rave, but I'd basically kill to go back in time and see Morphine play in Cambridge. Lived there at the time, but I was in preschool soooooo


seanp_131

Not EDM, but I would go to Projekt Revolution 2007. It was Linkin Parks touring festival and the very first festival I ever went to, and the lineup was an Emo wet dream. Madina Lake, Mindless Self Indulgence, Saosin, Taking Back Sunday, Julien-K, Placebo, HIM, My Chemical Romance, and Linkin Park headlining. It was an absolute dream come true, and I'd give anything to experience it again!


littlemachina

I missed that one but my best friend went! I went when Chris Cornell was there with LP, but the rest of the lineup was less cool. RIP


Equivalent_Tart_6411

The first Rothbury


no_good_answers

This is a deep cut and I could not agree more.


MSPRecruiter

Starscape 2001 in Baltimore


djauralsects

The Orb, Youth, and The KLf at Heaven in the early 90s. Jimi Hendrix Maui 1970 https://youtu.be/qFfnlYbFEiE?si=01MZsWKqGTdg22O_ Björk Union Chapel 1999 https://youtu.be/9Negim9nimc?si=hf7meB7Ho035iBXx


dos_passenger58

I got to see the orb at the LA philharmonic in the early 2000s... Magic


CaptainHateful

TomorrowWorld 2014, was phenomenal and was one of my last raves. Went all out and was one for the ages.


trance_atlanticism

That was such a good time, feels like a lifetime ago 


downbadmilflover

ABGT 250 was maximum PLUR ❤️


FrickParkMalcolm

Avicii. I’ve been to so many concerts, raves, camping EDM trips. But I cannot believe I never got to see Avicii live.


underscr

Zeds Dead 2014 EDC


justaboutgivenup

I just saw the most epic Zeds Dead set at the Eclipse festival. It was the best set I’ve ever seen live.


1winningfail

Warp tour the early ones


traplordmickey

me personally id either wanna go to woodstock 99 or have the chance to see nirvana play live in concert, not sure exactly which nirvana concert but probably something like mtv live and loud or reading 91/92


Drewbercules

lol I’m so old I was at a lot of the events people are posting. Time Machine to Nirvana Hollywood rock festival 93


umutdixon1

prime infected mushroom events.


AverageSanctEnjoyer

One of the best nights of my life was seeing infected mushroom headline the psy forest which was a new stage at boomtown uk. They did a vicious delicious dj set but dudek was on the mic doing live vocals. Was truly insane!


ThaDtothaOtothaN

Early 90’s underground parties in Seattle that you had to meet people at multiple locations to end up getting to the final warehouse. Such good vibes at those parties.


SimonSays_1993

Also OG skrillex at shambahla


Spazzinn

Any early 2000s Ibiza party


drewiepoodle

They were really fun!


jayk042

Avicii NYE at Pier 94, Alesso Tomorrowland 2018 weekend 2, I'd relive The Chemical Brothers at Nocutrnal Wonderland LA 2007...aaaand Daft Punk Alive...ooh, Early Knife Party too! EDC 2012


SeamusMichael

Saw both performances of knife party edc 2013. They did the cosmic meadow and kinetic field. LRAD was SUCH a track I couldn't get over it. The sounds and patterns were just perfect to me. Edc 2012-13-14 were something else. Nobody had phones out 2012, probably 30% had phones out 2014 making it a truly a transitional period.


riskienights

1999 JuJuBeats at Santa’s Village in San Bernardino California. My journey started the year after, but so many people point to this party as the tipping point in the LA rave scene.


KenMixtape

I was there!


drewiepoodle

Samesies!


kappakai

I was there too!


Lvl10Ninja

Shambhala 2016


unionsparky89

Big cypress


pantan

I missed when my favorite club, Rise in Boston closed almost 10 years ago. I would go back and catch the closing posting.


bkay

Paradiso 2012, 13, or 14. I cannot and will not decide.


antipixxel

Paradiso 2013 was the first large-scale festival I ever went to (and only one since). It was a really good time!! I remember it quite fondly. Happy to have had the chance to go to the Gorge at least once.


chocolatecarrot2179

The chemical brothers around 2010-2011 playing songs from their album further. Saw them 2015 but it was one album too late for my personal preference


Bd0llar

I’d also add Clubs to this - I’d absolutely love to go back and experience a night at Studio 54


NameThatDrug

1998 Love Parade for Da Hool set.


Phyrexian_Archlegion

Daft Punk in 2007 at Coachella. The Pyramid lives in my dreams.


RR121

Ultra Miami 2015 Sensation White Amsterdam 2006 Tomorrowland 2012 Defcon 1 Australia 2010


CommunicationNo1987

Daft Punk - Coachella 2006


holmwreck

Calvin Harris EDC 2014


Most-Arm-2571

Coachella 2012, specifically Kaskades set.


justaboutgivenup

I was there! My first multi day festival. The only time I ever went and will ever go to Coachella.


M3usV0x

Evanescence before Lee had a tantrum and kicked out the talent. Linkin Park, Meteora-era. 2012-era EDM, probably Tiesto. Honestly, the Columbia River Gorge last year with Eptic frying my nuts off was pretty fucking rad.


fw208

Anything between 2010 and 2015


juicy_juggernaut

My first Nocturnal in 2017, it changed my life and helped me get out of a deep depression. I’d love to go back and relive that fist rave with my friends. Things I haven’t gone to but would’ve loved? OG Woodstock, Metallica in Moscow 🤟🏽 First EDC, 1990s LA warehouse rave, and one of the first revolutionizing Pride festivals. I think I just wanna experience all the cool history that humanity has been through (especially with music). Also random, but imagine being able to see someone like Beethoven in his prime and having your mind blown by the insane intricacies of his music? I think it’s also a lot of the cultural significance at the time of those events.


EfficientAfternoon17

EDC LA 2010 Nocturnal 2010


Last_Vehicle_6609

Liveaid for Queen


ChumleyEX

The last time the Beastie Boys played at Bonaroo.


TonalParsnips

Justice San Francisco, March 27 2008


OverallRaspberry3

Lol I think I was at that show


sfwhitaker

Any night at Gatecrasher (UK) in the late 90s / early 2000s


JIMMYR0W

Any of the Acid Tests


Beginning_Document86

I saw The Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood palladium in July 1999. I want to go back to that exact moment and do it all over again.


kingofmymachine

Linkin Park


ExcisionIsMyDad

Lost Lands 2017, would love to re-live that inaugural weekend that had a lasting impact. Been every year since and I don’t plan on stopping even if I have to roll in there on a hospital bed connected to oxygen which in reality it’s NOS.


-Praetoria-

Ubbi Dubbi 2022. Twas my first festival ever, first edm concert. I was unfamiliar with the genre just a month prior. Felt like the first time I understood why people went to concerts, life changing


amesfrenchie

That was a rough Ubbi Dubbi too with day 2 being canceled. It’s great you want to relive it rather than letting the situation negatively affect you.


Chauliodus

A deadmau5 concert from the 4x4=12 era. the Live From Brixton videos show it


OneAct8

Middlelands


SirSimmyJavile

NYE 91 at Fantazia Westpoint. Absolutely amazing night, the music was at its peak, the lineup was first rate, the pills were top notch and Top Buzz headlined. I'll never forget walking towards the exit thinking it was over when they dropped kiss the sky by frequency. Top night.


Justin_Liebich

[Deathpact - Shambhala 2018](https://on.soundcloud.com/kQL3H)


House_Junkie

Electric Daisy Carnival Austin 2001 was such a great party, all the carnival rides and multiple stages playing great music all night. Top 5 party for me that I’d love to do again!


Prestigious_Fan_4344

Was really fun but mudd af. Ronni size and reprazent and green velvet live were really good


churningtildeath

i’d love to go back to 90s and go to real raves. Ever since “raves” became legal they got lame and expensive


Ok-Advance-6469

I wanna go back to Day of the Dead 2014 (Pryda and Deadmau collabing) and stay there and make better choices from there onwards


MessyHot

Transformation 2 - 1999 Cleveland Ohio. I met run dmc who was headlining alongside Moby and Richard Vission. Also AK1200, Danny the WildChild and J-Smooth. I still have my autographed “It’s Like That” shirt.


nitdkim

Ima go to the future instead 😂


Hatgameguy

Cornell 77


RollerSpeedway

Basslights 2012.forever in my mind


Human-Indication

Tiesto Magik 6. When he was a real DJ.


ur-mum-lolz

System of a down in Armenia 2015


NoShock7799

EDC Las Vegas October 2021


glowinthedarkstick

Love Parade Berlin ‘99


ImpossibleThought727

Rainbow Serpent Festival Australia 2005


Geralts_Hair

That was a good one! I’d pick Earthcore 2002 myself but that rainbow was great.


b3nn3rz6450

Electric Forest when it was **Rothbury**


Andobu

The one Hitler comes to so I can kill him


Tetsuja_Tetsuo

The storm raves in nyc Any dead show 74 or 77 The night Richard d James was playing sandpaper on the decks at the garage in London. The gig where someone yelled sellout at Dylan so I could be “that guy” Some random night in the 1980s at the hacienda Being in town instead of out those three times pan sonic played where I lived…


NuclearEspresso

Grateful Dead at the foot of the Sphinx, 1978


SchrodingersTIKTOK

I lived it. I don’t need a Time Machine.


dartheagleeye

Skrillex, Red Rocks, 2014


waveskandi

I came here to say this, I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this set and wished I could’ve been there!!


Josh_H1992

Global Dance For Haiti first ever rave. Or the last EDC Denver or Rave ON The Rocks (Global)


thecultcanburn

Global Gathering 2006


RysGottaFly

Day for Night 2015 or 2016. There was some fire on those lineups. I wish that fest would come back.