Post the best concert you Never attended

[progressoid]

I wish I could have seen the Talking Heads' during their Stop Making Sense tour.

How 'bout you?

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. Woodstock...

it would have rocked if I could have gone or was even alive at the time

[progressoid]

6. Oh yeah, that would have been a good one

- except I was about 6 at the time -

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. lol I was negative 15

[tyedyeto]

12. Same here

I was in high school but since I was in CA and the concert was in NY, I couldn't get there.

I watch the movie every few years just as a reminder of what I missed.

[kwassa]

42. been there, done that, had my picture in Life magazine

[Lannes]

2. Hendrix at the Filmore East

[annabanana]

39. ooo I was there

Band of Gypsies, New Year's Eve
(with Nina Simone and... aw hell .. Oh yeah, Ritchie Havens

clickers on the seats

[Lannes]

Very lucky!

Im jealous!

[bballny]

45. had tickets

form the next night and decided not to go. Remember it was a snowstorm the next night. Also the original Jethro Tull at the Schaefr music fstival in '69

[Jersey Devil]

3. How about - best concert my son never attended?

He had measles so I wound up with his tix for Paul McCartney at Giants Stadium. It was the best of the best for me.

[deutsey]

4. Any Zappa and the Mothers show at Filmore

[jonnyblitz]

15. i saw zappa in portland ,maine when i was 14 or 15..

it wasn't the fillmore but it was a damn good show. i wasnt really even in to him but was totally awed..

[deutsey]

19. I met him in the '80s and was totally awed by him

Spent about 40 minutes with him.

Cool guy and very intelligent.

[Initech]

36. I would have liked to have seen Zappa live, period!

[Dudley_DUright]

5. SRV's second appearance at the Montreux jazz festival

(after getting booed at his first appearance).

[progressoid]

10. Excellent choice!

[jonnyblitz]

7. NIN, Marilyn Manson, Jim Rose Sideshow Circus tour circa "94 ?

i think it was around 1994/95. I would have loved to have seen that one. :(

[AllegroRondo]

77. I saw that one in El Paso

Reznor ROCKED, Jim Rose was friggen AWESOME, but Manson was a big let down.

[SmileyBoy]

9. If I was born 32 years earlier, I would've gone to Woodstock.

But if you count the concerts that I could've gone to when I was alive, I'd say Woodstock '99.

[givemebackmycountry]

11. Two

Woodstock. I was 16 and I was 40 miles away in Catskill, New York.
Allman Bros. Live at Fillmore East.

[bballny]

48. went to both

I was at Woodstock and the closing weekend at the Fillmore with the Allmans-backup was J Geils and Albert King

[0007]

13. "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Woodstock runs a close second IMHO.

[unsavedtrash]

35. right there with you

[kwassa]

47. I performed with Carl Anderson and Ben Vereen, both played Judas

I belonged to a church choir where both Carl and Ben were church members. They both did solos with the choir. Both are great performers, but ...

Carl is the best live singer I have ever heard. He had trouble remembering the lyrics, but his voice! Amazing.


He died last year from leukemia. A great tragedy.

[bbernardini]

14. Zappa's 1988 tour, ANY Kevin Gilbert show, ANY Porcupine Tree show

[Initech]

38. I'm going to see Porcupine Tree next week!

Twice!

[bballny]

49. saw the Zappa tour

He played Whippin Post

[Bridget Burke]

75. I saw Zappa in 1968 at the Catacombs in Houston.

Opening acts: Moving Sidewalks (Billy Gibbons pre-ZZ Topp), Canned Heat & Country Joe & the Fish. I sat on the front row; one reason I've got a bit of tinnitis.

The date was 9/31/68--thanks to madmen on the web who keep track of this stuff!

[Bridget Burke]

78. Correction....

The date of the show was 8/31/68.

Also saw the Grateful Dead at the Catacombs--Owsley Stanley was their sound guy. He probably supplied other needs, but I was young & innocent. Saw the Dead a handful of other times; never a Dead Head, but I can see the appeal.

[LeftyMom]

16. Altamont

Well, the constituent bits that would one day be me were there, but my parents hadn't met and put them together yet.

[iconoclastic cat]

17. Real conversation in '90: "Hey, Icon, you wanna go to the Cubby Bear?"

Me: "What? Why the hell would I want to go there? Stupid bunch of jockos."
Friend: "Well, I heard this band was really good."
Me: "Forget that. You'll never see me in that hellhole. Who are they, anyway?"
Friend: "Nirvana."
Me: "Phhhhht! Stupid hippie name. Fuck that!"

[progressoid]

20. Ha!

Well, as a consolation, maybe they sucked that night.

[iconoclastic cat]

22. I really wasn't into grunge right then. I was very deeply goth/punk,

and I considered grunge to be crap. But seeing them would've been fantastic as a memory.

[Bob3]

18. Pink Floyd doing the Wall at Nassau Coliseum

They did four or five shows there and then four or five shows in LA and that was it.

[progressoid]

21. Another good one!!!

[Dudley_DUright]

25. I saw them at Milwaukee county stadium

during the "Animals" tour, but I would loved to have seen them do "The Wall" live.

[DemExpat]

23. A tie for me - The Who/Led Zeppelin....1969/1970

:hippie:

DemEx

[bballny]

51. saw them

both- Led Zep's second tour. The Who before Tommy at the Fillmore and 4 times doing Tommy

[kwassa]

73. saw both, too, Led Zep's first tour, and the Who doing "Tommy"

The Who was a lot better.

[Zuni]

24. I would have loved to see Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters

and those other Chicago bluesmen in the 1950s, when they were in their prime

[kwassa]

74. I saw Muddy Waters opening for B.B. King in 1971?

Muddy was ailing then, walking slowly to the microphone.

[mcscajun]

26. The legendary 8-27-72 performance of the Grateful Dead

at the Old Renaissance Fairgrounds in Veneta, Oregon.

A taper's delight.

Setlist:

Promised Land
Sugaree
Me & My Uncle
Deal
Black Throated Wind
China Cat Sunflower->I Know You Rider
Mexicali Blues
Bertha
Playin' In The Band
He's Gone
Jack Straw
Bird Song
Greatest Story Ever Told
Dark Star->El Paso
Sing Me Back Home
Sugar Magnolia
Casey Jones
One More Saturday Night

[ronnykmarshall]

27. Never mind

I read the title wrong

[sakabatou]

28. The Seatbelts / Earth-girls are Easy tour

[YellowRubberDuckie]

29. Bush(No, not that one!) concert. Oklahoma City 1996.

I was junior, and everyone but me went. I didn't give a shit. But damn, how I loved that band!!
Duckie

[gmoney]

30. Got shafted out of seeing The English Beat/R.E.M.

They were playing the freakin' chapel at Oberlin College... it turned out to be the final Beat tour, and the first R.E.M. tour (Chronic Town was just out). I didn't get to go because my friend and I both had shifts on our campus radio station, and ONE of us had to stay and cover both shifts. Grrr...

And I would have loved to see XTC play live before they quit doing that sort of thing...

[crimson333]

31. Kiss 1976

[4_Legs_Good]

32. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour

Way behind that are:

Pink Floyd - The Wall tour
Woodstock
Any other pre-1976 Genesis tour
Blind Faith in Hyde Park

I'm sure I could think of a few more. Curse being born in 1971!!!

david

[sinkingfeeling]

33. Beatles - 1964

[Left Is Write]

34. Stevie Ray Vaughan.

[kwassa]

44. very sorry I never saw him .... brilliant guitarist and performer

[Left Is Write]

50. I'm sorry too.

My brother and I had a chance to see him a few weeks before he died, but finances prevented us from going. I now wish we'd just gone ahead and spent the money.

[Initech]

37. X Japan - 11.31.97

Their final concert in Tokyo Dome. They broke up immediately afterwards and a few months later, their guitarist killed himself.

I have the live album of that show, it's quite awesome.

[Roland99]

40. Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder

[kwassa]

41. I saw the Talking Heads, and went to art school with them, too ...

I was in the same audience at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in 1983 as Jonathan Demme, which made him decide to make a movie about it. The best live concert I have ever seen, and better than the resulting movie by far, far, far.

I went to RISD with David, Chris, and Tina. David and Chris were in a band called the Artistics at school. I thought David was doing the worst imitation of Neil Young ...

[progressoid]

56. Oh, sure. Rub it in.

I'm not too jealous.

Oh, wait.

YES I AM!!!

If you tell me that you also saw the Clash or Peter Gabriel, I'll have to start living vicariously through you.

[kwassa]

72. I would have liked to have seen the Clash, too.

[kwassa]

43. Any concert by Cream or Hendrix,

I passed up a chance to see each, which considering their early demise was a huge mistake.

I did see Led Zep on their first tour, Janis Joplin 3 times.

I saw Bonnie Raitt when she was 18 and had no band, just her and her guitar.

[bballny]

53. I saw Cream's

farewell tour. Did you see that Cream played at Royal Albert Hall last month. Good bootlegs on the internets.

[ucmike]

46. sublime came around and played some local clubs.

i heard about it on the radio and thought about getting tix, then said "i'll catch them next time around". needless to say, there was no next time around.

i also missed a nirvana tour because i was broke. ouch. never got to
see them live, either.

[Ophelia Rising]

68. I'm listening to Sublime right now!

I was gonna start a Sublime thread earlier just for shits and giggles.....everytime I hear them, I always think about what they were like in concert....I'll never know! :( Same with Led Zepplin, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Bob Marley, Queen, and Smashing Pumpkins. And, like many other, I too would've loved to be at Woodstock (maybe I was there in my past life?)

[Lannes]

52. Had tickets for two Police tours

But had to sell them because of unavoidable change of plans.

[sir_captain]

54. Velvet Underground -- anytime in NYC in the 1960s

[Elidor]

55. Roger Waters in Nashville for the Amused to Death Tour

Around 2000. I've seen the DVD and it is a stupendous concert.

[AntiCoup2K4]

57. US Festival 1983

Check out this fucking lineup....

Saturday May 28th:
Divinyls <11:20 - 11:50 am>
INXS <12:20 - 12:55 pm>
Wall of Voodoo <1:25 -2:40>
Oingo Boingo <2:40 - 3:40>
The English Beat <4:10 - 5:10>
Flock of Seagulls <5:40 - 6:40>
Stray Cats <7:10 - 8:20>
Men At Work <8:50 -10:00>
The Clash <10:30 - midnight>

Sunday May 29th:
Quiet Riot <12:10 - 12:50 pm>
Motley Crue <1:20 - 2:20>
Ozzy Osbourne <2:50 - 4:00>
Judas Priest <4:30 - 5:40>
Triumph <6:10 - 7:20>
Scorpions <7:55 - 9:10>
Van Halen <10:00 - midnight>

Monday May 30th:
Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul <9:15 - 9:50 am>
Berlin <10:15 -10:50 am>
Quarterflash <11:15 - 11:50 am>
U2 <12:20 - 1:10 pm>
Missing Persons <1:40 - 2:40>
Pretenders <3:10 - 4:10>
Joe Walsh <4:40 - 5:50>
Stevie Nicks <6:20 - 7:30>
David Bowie <8:00 - 10:00 pm>

And the ticket price for such an event?

Yes, that's right. $20 a day. Even if you went all three days, that's $60. Unbelievable.

[progressoid]

59. Holy shit - - $60!!!!

:banghead:

[kwassa]

76. Woodstock was only $18 for three days, and no ticket collectors

and many thousands simply crashed the event.

[SoCalifer]

58. Woodstock

definitely woodstock. :smoke:





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[Skittles]

60. QUEEN

missed them in England AND America. :(

[CanuckAmok]

61. Missed the Clash's final tour because I was grounded.

D'oh!

But I'm getting even... I hide my 70-year-old mom's car-keys whenever I'm at her place. Sometimes they're in the freezer, sometimes they're in the trash.

[graywarrior]

62. I've been at concerts that I don't remember being at.

People told me they were great.

[chaska]

63. the original Mahavishnu Orchestra

[kwassa]

80. My friends went thinking John McLaughlin was a folksinger!

The Mahavishnu Orchestra played at the college next to us for $1.00.

All my folkie friends went, I didn't because I wasn't into folk. I said "Isn't the same name as the guy who played with Miles Davis? but he is no folk singer."

They came back and told me it was the loudest concert they had ever heard. Another one I missed! This was before their first album.

[chaska]

64. Return to Forever I and II (with Bill Connors and with Al DiMeola)

[chaska]

65. Deep Purple (with Hughes and Coverdale on vocals)

[chaska]

66. Robin Trower (with James Dewar on vocals)

[jpgray]

67. Hendrix's '67 tour with the Soft Machine opening

Either that or a show of the three-original-member Kinks--never got the chance to see the brothers Davies and Mick Avory on stage.

[Shrubhater]

69. Any one of the Bee Gees concerts.

Man, I wish I could've been born before the 70's. Oh well....

[Kire]

70. Biohazard, Sick of it All, Fear Factory -- City Gardens, Trenon, NJ - '92

I heard it was a big old mosh pit.

[katinmn]

71. Tom Petty

After all these years. He's on tour this summer and not one stop near here. Guess I'm out of luck again. Drat.

[kick-ass-bob]

83. You should get to a Petty concert.

You don't even have to bring any cannibus - there will be plenty wafting around for everyone!

:D

[katinmn]

85. Maybe I will drive or fly to a concert this summer

I think I've waited long enough.
:hi:

[Bridget Burke]

79. The Allmans before Duane died....

I heard many good things about the show but I was not yet "into" the Allmans.

They dropped by The Old Quarter--a little folk/blues bar downtown-- afterwards. They jammed.

[otohara]

81. The Who - Mammoth Gardens

in 69 or 70 - they did Tommy from start to finish -

[dajoki]

82. has to be woodstock

saw many great ones, but woodstock was an event.

[kwolf68]

84. Cream's

Last show in the UK....

[movie_girl99]

86. Madonna's Blonde Ambition tour n/t

[JohnnyBoots]

87. Springsteen at Fenway

[livetohike]

88. Too many but Woodstock, any Hendrix concert

or Janis Joplin, or the Doors are up there.

I have seen many good concerts though :-), but I think I missed the best ones.