Concerts you wish you'd been old/young enough to witness live?

[Phillycat]

My favorite live concert recording is Aretha Franklin Live at Fillmore West. She is in top form, just starting to get the soulful raspiness in her voice after a lifetime of smoking, backed by King Curtis' horn section and the Sweethearts of Soul, and joined onstage by Ray Charles. It's just a perfect concert and I wish with all my might that I'd been there to witness it. Unfortunately, it was recorded in 1971, the year before I was born.

Any concert events you wish you could have attended when they happened?

[Archae]

1. Woodstock.

:headbang:

[Inchworm]

44. I woulda so scored!

:headbang:

:hi:

[meegbear]

2. Pink Floyd The Wall 1980 ...

I own "Is There Anybody Out There: The Wall Live" and seen pix and clips from the show on YouTube.

I saw the subsequent Waters/Floyd shows and I think the Pros and Cons show was probably to closet to that aura.

To experience that space cadet glow ....

[DS1]

3. this

[Ekirh]

20. Me too . . .

My Dad saw them in the seventies. . . . he said it was great!

I said "damn you" :)

My Dad also took my younger brothers (My Dad lives another state away) to see Bob Dylan... they didn't appreciate it to his dismay.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

4. Mozart's production of

The Magic Flute

[cobalt1999]

36. Mozart is a great pick.

To see the genius in person would be great.

[datasuspect]

5. the jimi hendrix experience

london, 1967.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN2DLZSVgvE

[Wapsie B]

6. Wadena Rock Fesitval

Right in my back yard no less. If I was just a little bit older and able to drive that would've been so cool.

[Phillycat]

7. Who played? I'm not familiar with that.

[Wapsie B]

9. Poco for one....

Flying Burrito Brothers, Everly Brothers, Sons of Champlin, Joan Baez, REO Speedwagon, Lightning also were there.

It was thrown together fairly quickly I think, only about 30k there. Otherwise if it were planned better I think there'd have been a lot more attend.

[Beausoir]

31. Wadena, MN??

[Wapsie B]

37. Wadena, Iowa

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Wadena,+IA,+United+States+of+America&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title

[Beausoir]

38. Ah! I live near Wadena, MN and was wondering how I had missed that.

[Akoto]

8. This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6vtHIXzF8

Too young, in my case. Only 22. :)

[regnaD kciN]

10. December 22, 1808...

...at Theater-an-der-Wien in Vienna. The world premieres of Beethoven's 5th and Pastorale Symphonies, his 4th Piano Concierto (with Beethoven himself as the soloist) and Choral Fantasia, the work that served as a "rough draft" for the finale of his 9th Symphony.

:wow:

Putting it simply -- a sizable chunk of the classical "basic repertoire" was heard by an audience for the first time that night.

[AllegroRondo]

19. what a night!

was that the "Missa Solemnis" that debuted?
Our local symphony did that 2 years ago, I was blown away.

[AwakeAtLast]

63. Great choice!

That would have been one awesome performance!

[evlbstrd]

11. Dylan and The Band, Royal Albert Hall, 1966.

And Hendrix at Monterey Pop Festival, 1967.
And Zappa and the Mothers, Garrick Theare shows, New York, also 1967

[Morrisons Ghost]

12. The Doors

In 1968 at Cobo Arena,I was either not born or maybe just a few months old depending on what month they played here.

[Aristus]

49. Any of The Doors' landmark concerts:

Their first at Whiskey-A-Go-Go
Their last at Whiskey-A-Go-Go
The New Haven Concert
The Singer Bowl
Any of their gigs at The Scene
Fillmore West
The Hollywood Bowl
Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami (just to find the truth out for myself B-) )

[EstimatedProphet]

13. I would have liked to go to a Benny Goodman show

Sing Sing Sing live must've been an experience!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

14. Any Smiths concert

I was old enough, but didn't even know of their existence while they were together. Where the heck was I in the 80s??

[Phillycat]

15. Buried under Dayglo?

[Beer Snob-50]

16. you may want to take away my 70's-80's credientals

but is that adam ant? saw him with the romantics back in the 80's. good show, however the teenage girl crowd was annoying with every squeal when one of the artists took off their shirts (and more than one did that)

[Phillycat]

18. I believe so...possibly a member of Duran Duran...but I think you're right.

In fact, I think it's an Adam Ant album cover. I don't know, I just Google-Imaged "80's" and that came up. :D

[Book Lover]

25. Oh, that's Adam alright

Of the "Prince Charming" years.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

17. Given Morrissey's love of glam rock, I'd think I'd still be aware of them!

But you may be on to something...

[HuskerDU]

54. I knew who the Smiths were... and I hated them back then!

But because of Moz's love of glam rock, I have grown to greatly admire the man. At one time, I may have had the opinion that Morrissey was the complete opposite of all that is rock-n-roll. But he has done more good for my fave band, the New York Dolls, than they ever did for themselves. The man is a saint.

[EstimatedProphet]

21. 6/22/1978: Grateful Dead, Huntington WV

The concert where they played the version I took my name from.

[Bennyboy]

22. Woodstock, Grateful Dead 5-08-77,Jimi plays Berkeley

Saw jimi a couple of days before at Cal Expo. 5-08-77 is the consensus all time GD concert...and I was not there. And Woodstock would have been sweet.

[Cabcere]

23. The Who, with Keith Moon and John Entwistle

Unfortunately, Keith died several years before I was born, and John passed away about two years before I really got into the band. :( I love Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, but it would've been amazing to see all four of them together in concert - just watching some of the concerts on "The Kids Are Alright" gives me chills. :) I also would've liked to see Pink Floyd's The Wall show - I have the live album, but I think it would've been great to actually be there and see how it all came together. And of course The Beatles - any concert, any time, any place. :loveya: Woodstock would've been pretty sweet, I think, and there are tons of others I'm sure I would've loved to see and am just not thinking about right now...I do feel like I was born about thirty years too late. :shrug:

[WCGreen]

47. They were awesome...

I saw them when they still smashed up the guitars and amps...

[Cabcere]

48. Oh, wow - I am so jealous!

:D I can't even imagine how cool that must have been. :headbang: Long live rock!

[WCGreen]

53. It was right before Quadrophenia was released...

But they played songs from the album...

[Cabcere]

68. That's so awesome.

:) Quadrophenia is a brilliant album, IMO. :hi:

[WCGreen]

69. It's one of my faorites...

I saw them three more times and although they were better each time, they lacked the energy of that first concert...

[Book Lover]

24. The first performance of Beethoven's Ninth (nm)

[Roon]

40. If I remeber correctly

from what I read, people used to cry and faint because during his concerts. That would have been pretty wild!!

[Book Lover]

42. What you say reminds me of the story of the first performance of "The Rite of Spring"

http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/milestones/991110.motm.riteofspring.html

...

Harvard University professor Thomas Kelly suggests that one of the reasons that the Paris premiere of "The Rite of Spring" created such a furor was that it shattered everyone's expectations. The evening's program began innocently with a performance of “Les Sylphides.” However, as the follow-up piece, “The Rite of Spring” turned out to be anything but spring-like. One of the dancers recalled that Vaslav Nijinsky's shocking choreography was physically unnatural to perform. "With every leap we landed heavily enough to jar every organ in us." The music itself was angular, dissonant and totally unpredictable. In the introduction, Stravinksy called for a bassoon to play higher in its range than anyone else had ever done. In fact, the instrument was virtually unrecognizable as a bassoon. When the curtain rose and the dancing began, there appeared a musical theme without a melody, only a loud, pulsating, dissonant chord with jarring, irregular accents. The audience responded to the ballet with such a din of hisses and catcalls that the performers could barely hear each other.

...

[Tikki]

26. We always wanted to see....

The Sir Douglas Quintet during the 1960's....we were old and or young enough... just
didn't happen....but, in the early 1980's we had the chance to see the Sir Douglas Quintet together at a
show in Hollywood. AMAZING...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rokfn_134mI


The Tikkis

Doug Sahm RIP

[carly denise pt deux]

27. woodstock and monterrey pop fest

I was a very young child when those were going on
Carly

[Lucinda]

58. These are my top two as well

[begin_within]

28. Aeolian Hall, New York, Feb. 12, 1924

World premiere of "Rhapsody in Blue"

[begin_within]

29. My mother went to see the Glenn Miller Orchestra at Pacific Square in San Diego,

and says she just stood at the edge of the stage enraptured by the music, instead of dancing. She says she knew at that time that the music would last forever. I wish I had been to that concert.

[momophile]

30. U2 at Redrocks

the one from the Sunday Bloody Sunday video.

[Beausoir]

32. Sinatra and Basie at the Sands. Wow.

[conscious evolution]

33. Electric cool-aid acid tests

[kwassa]

34. Savoy Ballroom, 1937 Chick Webb vs. Benny Goodman Battle of the Bands

Legendary.

edit to add: Chick hired Ella Fitzgerald as his band's singer.




read more.
http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/HKSDC/Battle.html

[MonkeyFunk]

35. Ella in Berlin

Feb. 13, 1960

[Roon]

39. Pink Floyd the wall 1980

Pink Floyd Animals 1977

[meegbear]

59. Animals - the meltdown show in Montreal

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. No question — Monterey Pop

I was almost right fucking there, too — I lived about 20 miles from the Monterey County Fairgrounds, and I've since been there many times for the Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey Blues Festival and other events. I saw my first concert — Rare Earth, Bonnie Bramlett and Snail — on the same stage, six years later.

But I was only 11 during Monterey Pop, and I wasn't even aware of it. x(

[Cabcere]

46. Oh yeah, I think that would've been awesome.

:hi:

[mark414]

43. Sam Cooke at Harlem Square

The Clash in the late 70's/early 80's

Charlie Parker on 52nd Street

San Francisco Acid Tests

Monterey Pop Festival (I'd be happy with just seeing Hendrix, period)

Dylan at Newport

[Mr. Blonde]

45. About 1975 era Zeppelin

Before the drugs really began to send them downhill.

Hendrix anywhere

And I'm old enough, but haven't been in the right place at the right time to see Eddie Vedder come on stage with Kings of Leon.

Or the Bob Dylan/Jack White combo a few weeks ago.

[Maccagirl]

50. The Beatles at Shea , August 1965

Just to say I was there. They must have looked like little specks out there at secnd base, not to mention you couldn't hear them anyway. Thank God it was taped for posterity.

[jgraz]

51. Newport Jazz Festival, 1955. Miles Davis plays 'Round Midnight.

[unsavedtrash]

52. Jimi Hendrix played my hometown six days before I was born.

Janis Joplin played here around the same. Wish I could have been there.
Wish I could have been at Woodstock, followed the Dead, and experienced the Wall.

[dembotoz]

67. hendrix was my first concert

yep, it was good

[HuskerDU]

55. Just beam me to NYC and let me spend the 70s at Max's

Kansas City and CBGBs.

[Mythsaje]

56. I just wish I could remember some of the concerts I've actually SEEN...

My dad took me to a lot of open-air shows at Stanford when I was very little...in the early seventies.

On the other hand, I would've loved to have seen Zeppelin.

[DarkTirade]

57. I would say Woodstock... except that my mom and her sisters were there

and I wouldn't want to risk seeing them stoned and/or naked. :) Just too much mental scarring potential there.

[backwoodsbob]

60. to highjack :)

would love to have been at this concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bI5oc7MSuI

[Tripper11]

61. I got a good one...having just seen the movie on IFC

To be on the Festival Express Train that ran across Canada with the Grateful Dead, Janis, The Band, Janis and Ian, Buddy Guy, Flying Burrito Bros et al.

Talk about the fucking ultimate jam/party session!!! Holy shit! The booze, the drugs aside...from watching the movie it looked like it was one of the most rewarding experiences for that group of musicians. To have these constant jams all over the train, and being able to slide in somewhere and groove.

I know there wasn't an audience for the on train stuff, but to be a porter or something....fuck yeah! I think had I been there it would have been one of those jobs that you choose to get fired from because there was no way you could work!

[ironflange]

62. New York, 1909

Rachmaninoff playing his Third Piano Concerto, with Mahler conducting.

[Ava]

64. wish i could've seen the beatles live

among others.

unfortunately most(if not all) of the best music ever made was made before i was born. :(

[Cabcere]

71. I feel the same way, Ava.

:hi: Sometimes I think I was born about thirty years too late...

[SoxFan]

65. REM at the 40 Watt Club

Athens, GA, circa 1982

[GOPisEvil]

66. Any show at Armadillo World Headquarters.

:)

[dembotoz]

70. kate bush

anytime anywhere

I actually know someone who saw here in England years ago...

jealous is my name

[fortyfeetunder]

72. I'd say opera, pre-electricity

I am fascinated by opera sets and would have loved to see how it was done before light bulbs...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

73. First Rolling Stones American concert in 1964... Oh wait a minute...

I was there. San Bernardino, Swing Auditorium. Never mind.

[WinkyDink]

74. Monterey Pop 1968. Old enough, but not on West Coast!

ANY Beatles, but especially The Cavern ones.
Streisand, Central Park.
Pavarotti and Friends, Concert for Guatemala & Kosovo (Ricky Martin, B.B. King, Boyzone, Mariah, Gloria Estefan, Joe Cocker, Lionel Richie)!!

[graywarrior]

75. Dylan at Newport Folk Festival 1964

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XRbeUnn-AUA

[Mendocino]

76. Allman Brothers/Fillmore East

The Who/Live at Leeds

The Rock and Roll Circus

The Last Waltz

And Edvard Grieg/Piano Concerto or Peer Gynt