Here's your question for the night: You're hired to create a music festival and, thanks to time travel, you can have anyone you want (in their prime) preform at it, who are the first 5 acts you sign on?
I would probably sign The Clash, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, Queen and, just for a real curveball, Poison Idea.
I love this question, so I had to think it through. My first thought was The Beatles, but their full greatness was as much in the studio as it was live in concert. And for a festival you need something big, so more intimate acts like Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris or the original Bill Evans Trio (Bill Evans, Scott LeFaro, Paul Motian) might get lost. So my lineup would be:
Elvis -1956. No explanation necessary.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, late 1970's-early 1980's. Bruce at his peak IMO, and we get to reunite him with the now departed Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons.
The Miles Davis Sextet, 1959, the lineup that recorded "Kind Of Blue": Miles on trumpet, John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly - saxophone, Bill Evans - piano, Paul Chambers - bass, Jimmy Cobb - drums.
Bob Dylan & The Band, 1965-66, the Dylan Goes Electric tour.
Marvin Gaye - anytime. Marvin was never not great.
