You can go back in time and see just one concert....

[DWB1960]

Choose the one concert that you would have loved to be in attendance for.

Any artist, any year, any country, but only one show.

For me it's way too easy:

June 21, 1977 - LA Forum - Led Zeppelin

I've listened to the bootleg from this show a lot of times and it never ceases to blow me away how incredibly great the band played that night and how much the group and the audience fed off of one another.

[ACfixer]

No question for me either.

The Wall.

[Jimmy James]

Earth Wind & Fire

['70 RS]

Rooftop.

[DrSax]

Woodstock.

[Terry McInturff]

Whatever would have ranked as Mozart at his finest. Other than that the night The Who recorded Live At Leeds.

[Butterfly]

The obvious answer for me would be Woodstock.

edit: I see that is just one artist, and festivals don't count. Tough one. Maybe Rolling Stones MSG November 1969.

[Cee Flatt]

Beatles, rooftop

[Lucidology]

Early Tower of Power & Earth Wind & Fire when they were bascially head arrangement Jam bands ...

& Dreams band with the Brecker Brothers, Billy Cobham, Will Lee & John Amercrombie

(to name a few..)
All before they were famous ..

[kevinhifi]

The Who at Leeds.

[a1briz]

Easy...Beatles.

[Scott Auld]

Hendrix Monterey

[Scott Auld]

Still working on the time machine, guys. All I need is a little more ... time.

[MRCHILL4]

Allman bros. Fillmore east

[zztomato]

The debut of Beethoven's 9th. That would have been something to see.

[kevinhifi]

Still working on the time machine, guys. All I need is a little more ... time.

You need to get your hands on a Flux Capacitor. They pop up on Ebay every so often.

[Crimson Queen]

Band of Gypsys – The whole New Year's day weekend

Any King Crimson concert in 1973 or 1974

[metropolis74]

The Beatles circa 1961/62 in Hamburg or the Cavern.

[gtrplayer23]

zeppelins first show when they were billed as the new yardbirds

[kevinhifi]

Band of Gypsys – The whole New Year's day weekend

Any King Crimson concert in 1973 or 1974

Just listened to Machine Gun from the Band of Gypsys concert this morning. Good stuff!

[jtm622]

Yes - Beethoven's first performance of his ninth symphony in Vienna - he was stone deaf, but shared the stage as a "co-conductor" of the orchestra... :)

[alexanderplatz]

The Beatles circa 1961/62 in Hamburg or the Cavern.

^^^^ This is the concert I'd want to see too. ^^^^

[strat56]

Hendrix Monterey

+1.....

[thisisajs]

My buddy and I were just talking about this last night actually...

Rooftop
The Dead at the Fillmore, American Beauty era
Zeppelin, ZOSO tour
Any JS Bach performance
Nirvana right as Nevermind was coming out
Early 80s VH

All good selections I think, but I have to go with Hendrix in a small London club when he first arrived on the scene.. It'd be cool to look over and see Clapton and Townsend etc with their jaws on the floor..

[DGDGBD]

One of the early JHE club shows in England, late 1966.

[73171]

I actually did go.....I saw the Allman Bros with Duane Allman at the Fillmore East....(3 times!)

(yes, I'm old!) :rotflmao

[zhivago]

this is a tough one, but for me, it'll have to be The Band's last concert, which became The Last Waltz :)

[Hand of Doom]

I would like to revisit The Firm concert, that was a great show. But for a before my time show, I would like to see Hendrix take over the world at the Monterey Pop fest.

[Craig Walker]

Never got to see Randy Rhoads play live...

[zestystrat]

Early Tower of Power & Earth Wind & Fire when they were bascially head arrangement Jam bands ...

Love both bands but +1 on TOP. Plus there really aren't that many HQ TOP boots out there.

Oh and how can I not echo Rooftop....tho I'd like to go back to some of the Robben Ford or Scott Henderson shows I saw...mainly b/c I think I'd understand more of it now.

[dverna]

U2 at The Paradise, Boston March 6th, 1981.

[TwoTubMan]

I wouldn't mind being on this roof...
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(In case you ever wondered where those 4 British lads got the idea)

[mc5nrg]

Hendrix and MC5 Pioneer High School A2 MI

I've seen a "Grande Card" for this event with Soft Machine also on the bill...don't know if it actually happened as it isn't on lists of Hendrix shows.

[Jack Gilvey]

Easy. Rooftop.

[Dumo]

Probably a Ken Kesey Acid Test.:JAM On some good stuff dancing with some hippie chick.

[RL in Fla]

Saw Hendrix/Atlanta Pop (among other greats) , the Band , Original ABB (numerous) , Tull , etc. in the 70's

but Rory in Dublin (Irish Tour) gets my vote .

[hellbender]

^^^^ This is the concert I'd want to see too. ^^^^

I think the OP should have made the stipulation.."knowing what you know now" or "seeing the concert through the eyes of a 21st century guitar player"

In my case it's highly debatable whether seeing the Beatles at the Cavern would have made any lasting effect on me.

[Don P.]

The Winterland on Thanksgiving 1976 for The Band and The Last Waltz.

[oldschoolguy]

Altamont. Would be cool to be that age again knowing what I know now.

[funkycam]

I saw a documentary where they said that the concert that hendrix played the day after MLK died was moving beyond all words & it was never recorded.
that is what i would like to see.

[DWB1960]

I think the OP should have made the stipulation.."knowing what you know now" or "seeing the concert through the eyes of a 21st century guitar player"

Nah. Just any old show you'd want to see. The Zep show I noted was recorded from the 6th row and the buzz of the crowd is amazing all night. And the band plays incredibly for over 3.25 hours. Wish I'd been there.

[jb70]

miles davis quintet with wayne shorter, herbie hancock, tony williams, and ron carter. any concert between '64 and '67

[Aaron Smith]

Since this is sort of a fantasy question- James Brown, 1966. Probably Detroit or Chicago. And I'm black.

[DrSax]

What does it mean that almost every single response deals with shows that are over 30, 40 years old?

[esoteric pete]

any grant green.

[TNJ]

What does it mean that almost every single response deals with shows that are over 30, 40 years old?


To me, it reeks of taste.

My choice would probably be the Fillmore East for THE ABB shows.

Rooftop, London is my 2nd choice.

S>
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[shredtrash]

VH in Albuquerque on June 7th and 8th in 1984. Not as glamorous as some others but my mom wouldn't let me go at the time because I was only 13. They broke up shortly after that and I was never able to see them with Roth. I still think about that all the time.

[Twangmaster]

I've actually given this a bit of thought... Sure, the Beatles, Zep, Hendrix, Woodstock, are all up on top. I think I've narrowed it down to three possibles...

First, SRV in the Valley

Hendrix, at Monterey

Finally, although I'm not too sure i'd like the circumstances involved unless I was on the crew, Johnny Cash at Folsum.

There are just way too many classic concerts to even think about!

[ACfixer]

What does it mean that almost every single response deals with shows that are over 30, 40 years old?

I think that because anything newer than that is still possible for most bands. I saw five or six of the bands we consider to be classic (ZZ, BadCo, Heart, Nugent....) over the summer and for the most part they are as good as they ever were. We can't see classic Floyd, Zep, Beatles... So that's what we would like to go back in time and see.

[DrSax]

To me, it reeks of taste.

My choice would probably be the Fillmore East for THE ABB shows.

Rooftop, London is my 2nd choice.

S>
j

Taste, no doubt. But I would argue something else, too. Concerts are no longer mass cultural identifiers. Woodstock? Altamont? All the great Fillmore shows? Everything now is so fragmented, each band has their devotees saying which was the best show for that band, but no more than that. Maybe there are other mass cultural events, but rock concerts ain't one of them.

[rhinocaster]

I'd want to go back and see SRV play the show that was taped for "Live at the El Mocambo".

[Zimi]

Jimi at Berkeley May 30, 1970

[Plaid Sabbath]

Last performance of the Beatles at the Cavern Club. Right before they conquered the planet.:bow

[Redlined]

Buddy Guy 1965
P-Funk '70-71 (any show with Eddie Hazel would do)
Small Faces 1968
Any Zep show from '68-'73
Doors at the Whiskey
Hendrix Monterey (any Jimi really)
Free
Mike Bloomfield

[merman]

VH in Albuquerque on June 7th and 8th in 1984. Not as glamorous as some others but my mom wouldn't let me go at the time because I was only 13. They broke up shortly after that and I was never able to see them with Roth. I still think about that all the time.

I went , they were great, but the fair warning tour at tingley was better.

wish I could have seen randy rhoads and also zappa with vai when they played at UNM, I think that was '83 or '84

I can't really complain though, I did see SRV 4 times before i was 22..

[frank62]

The Beatles.

[freedom's door]

Ramones- LIve at The Rainbow, London- New Year's Eve, 1977
The show that would become the "It's Alive" album.

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[jcbaxe]

How about Cream's farewell show at Royal Albert Hall.
Lots of other great ones already mentioned, and I was able to see one that was on the list--
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a69/jbaxe/Rock%20stuff/Clipboard01.jpg

[chucke99]

Jimi at Berkley
Beatles on the roof
Zappa's "The Helsinki Concert"
Scorpions with Ulrich Roth, I don't care, anywhere, circa 1976
Woodstock

[thanagar]

Rooftop, but I'd have to bring the thermal underwear.

[stratus]

The Beatles.

[mdog114]

Band of Gypsys

[NashVox]

Phish 1999

Big Cypress

[wareagle]

Woodstock? Or does that not count?

Maybe Pink Floyd during their '75 or '77 tour... Or the Grateful dead... Too many

[wareagle]

Never got to see Randy Rhoads play live...

Your my new favorite person. I totally forgot him. He was the best... and live. Ozzy shows are insane regardless... But with randy... wow.

[theactor19]

For me, definitly Hendrix but which concert? Tough call. It would be between:

winterland 1968
Berkeley 1970
isle of wight 1970
la forum 1970
San diago 1970
Atlanta pop 1970
and a few others from 1970

[Lucidology]

The debut of Beethoven's 9th. That would have been something to see.

How about Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" if we go back before electric guitars ...

[Flinx]

Elvis...opening night of his first Vegas show...they say it was legendary...no film or sound from it.

[amoodymule]

"seeing the concert through the eyes of a 21st century guitar player"


Jeff Beck - There and Back tour - Detroit Cobo Arena :D

[pickaguitar]

October 31st 1605 'The Merchant of Venice'

[Tony]

Alpine Valley. And while we're dreaming... I'd try like hell to talk him out of the helicopter.

[TopDog]

Jeff Beck - There and Back tour, The Palladium NYC. I wanted to get laid instead, my friend had my ticket.

Frank Zappa, same venue turned out to the the Live in NYC album. The reason for passing on it alludes me, might have been to get laid also.

[changeling]

band of gypsies,fillmore east.

[FredW]

Zappa, Halloween NYC sometime in the late 70's

[A-Bone]

Joy Division: Manchester UK circa late '79 early '80 (numerous gigs-- maybe April '80, which I'm pretty sure was the time of the last show they played).

[hank57]

I think Summer Jam at Watkins Glen 1973. Grateful Dead, The Band and the Allman Brothers Band. This is the largest gathering of people in United States history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Jam_at_Watkins_Glen

TopDog - I saw the Jeff Beck There and Back show at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. WOW!! He played slide several times and each time he flung the slide off his hand to the ground. I was fifteen? and I thought that was cool.

[SpaceFlunky]

i would have loved to have seen this live.

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[davess23]

Lots of great stuff there. Aside from the more obvious must-see's, I've always wished I'd been there for the Blues Project's gigs at Cafe Au Go Go.

Or maybe the Bloomfield/Cooper Live Adventures concert(s).

[Franklin]

Too many choices!

But I'd love to be able to go back.

[Neer]

I would have loved to have seen Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. I had tickets for one of his shows and had to cancel because of a gig. He never made it back again.

[chrisr777]

June 21, 1977 - LA Forum - Led Zeppelin
.


I was at the Forum four days later and they sounded amazing that night too.

My choice would be The Who 11/20/73 at the Cow Palace in Daly City. Standing next to the stage and waiting to jump when Townshend asks if anybody can play the drums.

[Jimmy P]

Maybe the TSRTS concert.

[SybianRiot]

Grateful Dead, Veneta, Oregon, 8/27/72. With all the accoutrements of the day...

[Josh O]

Van Halen opening for Black Sabbath

[fenderball]

This one's easy for me....

June 26, 1971...night before the closing of the fillmore east...allman brothers play til the sun comes up...often described as their greatest night

[Ricardo P]

Easy one for me:

Jan 18, 1974 at Royal Festival Hall in London for the live record (and only one) of Journey to the Centre of the Earth with Rick Wakeman, band, London Symphony Orchestra and the English Chamber Chord

[Jerry Shaw]

Skynyrd live at the Fox Theater 1976. All three nights, of course!

[blueman61]

John Coltrane Quartet with Eric Dolphy @ Village Vanguard

Little Feat Waiting for Colummus tour the night they did that incredible version of Mercenary Territory w/ TOP Horns.

Little Feat, Paul's Mall Boston spring 1975 (saw this one) Lowell and Co. on fire.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Jazz Workshop Boston, summer 1974, Burned like the center of the sun!

BB King, T-Bone Walker, Big Loe Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Leon Thomas, Carnegie Hall NYC MAy 1969 (saw this one as well....... whew!)

Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield , Johnny Winter, MSG ,NYC, May, 1969 (saw it)

CCR, Booker T and the MGs, MSG, NYC MAy 1969 (saw it. What can I say, it was a good month).

Like most of us I could go on and on.

[Rob Martinez]

Since The Beatles are covered, I'll say Cheap Trick at Budokan, April 1978!!!

[dmczern]

Band of Gypsys – The whole New Year's day weekend

ditto brutha

[jwny72]

The Monterey Pop Festival, or the BOG shows at the Fillmore 69-70.

[dmczern]

i would have loved to have seen this live.

zZANxW4iFnk

Got a kick out of him tuning while his Univbe is engaged :bow

[kevin hart]

Any concert by Free. I would have loved to see Kossoff.

[wstsidela]

Choose the one concert that you would have loved to be in attendance for.

Any artist, any year, any country, but only one show.

For me it's way too easy:

June 21, 1977 - LA Forum - Led Zeppelin

I've listened to the bootleg from this show a lot of times and it never ceases to blow me away how incredibly great the band played that night and how much the group and the audience fed off of one another.

Haaaaa!! That was my choice too. All my friends went to that concert. I stayed in Berdoo and saw ZZ Top.

[screamtone]

http://jazzbluesclub.com/uploads/posts/thumbs/1232744326_cover.jpg

[Red Suede]

I missed Holdsworth after he quit Tony Williams in the 70s and after he quit Bruford in the 80s. Finally saw Tony Williams with Bunny Brunel and Alan Pasqua at The Keystone Korner in the 80s. Would have loved to see RTF with Bill Connors at The Keystone Korner in the 70s. I have friends here in the bay area that tell me about those shows and I have friends that saw Hendrix at the San Jose Fairgrounds! I was living in Lancaster California back then. My parents probably wouldn't have let me go had I lived here anyway...........

[kevzep]

Thats easy.......
Led Zeppelin July '73 at Madison Square Garden.............
My favourite era of live Zeppelin.............

[Gargloic]

I would have liked to be there on the recording of Made in Japan, by Deep Purple...

Gargloic

[fyrwyr]

The Call has been one of my fav live bands for a long time, unreal stage presence and passion the singer (the late Michael Been 1950-2010) had.

In 1987 they were really on top of their game...

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[Jerry Shaw]

I would have liked to be there on the recording of Made in Japan, by Deep Purple...

Gargloic

Good call! My brother was there, I was too young. BTW, Led Zep played the Budokon just a month or so later!

[Rob Martinez]

Thats easy.......
Led Zeppelin July '73 at Madison Square Garden.............
My favourite era of live Zeppelin.............

My older brother saw this show in Albuquerque at the UNM Arena, said it was mind-blowing!! I was 9 years old, so didn't go.

[The Last Rebel]

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/scionrockfest.jpg

That one. Damn that was a great lineup.

[Pietro]

The debut of Beethoven's 9th. That would have been something to see.

:agree

[BassProCamaro97]

I'd go to see SRV at Alpine valley. Given the chance though I'd take any SRV show.


~Jim~

[mmcquain]

That Zep show and the Allmans at the Fillmore are both tempting choices (as is any SRV show) but I'd say Skynyrd at the Fox with Steve Gaines when they recorded the live album would be my top choice.

[Goldstrat]

The Doors in Miami when Jim went a little too far.

[jbert]

it happened. i had that card as my next door neighbor worked for the grande ballroom handing out handbills. i remember the card well. i wasn't 17 as that was the age limit to get in. hendrix also played the masonic temple first time around. once again a 17 yr old limit. i did get to see led zep their first time around though on a sunday night(no age limit) at the grande ballroom. it was $2.00 to get in with russ gibb(producer) threatening a $4 charge the next time they toured. they went by the name new yardbirds but played the entire first album. i'n not kidding when i say there wasn't more than 40 stoned out hippies in the audience. i stood there with my elbows on the stage wondering why no one else was paying attention. the guy who drove me(no driver's license) wanted to leave half way through their set. geez! to the OP i say i'd like to see that show again. oh yeah, golden earring was the opening act.


Hendrix and MC5 Pioneer High School A2 MI

I've seen a "Grande Card" for this event with Soft Machine also on the bill...don't know if it actually happened as it isn't on lists of Hendrix shows.

[vintage66]

Early Zeppelin for sure-before Plant blew his voice out.
Honerable mentions-Jimi at Monerey, Badlands after the second album (gotta play Soul Stealer), Free, SRV pre-keyboards.

[Brian D]

This one:

...The dinner over, and the gentlemen gathered to wine and discourse, there entered one who whispered something to Mr. Delahide; whereupon, addressing his Excellency, he told him that an old Irish harper stayed without, and would he allow him to come in, and give the company a specimen of his quality.

This his Excellency permitting, they brought in the harper, who was in truth a man very old and venerable to look on; having a long white beard which fell to his breast. His clothes were of green flannel, made after this country's manner, belted in at the waist, and falling below the knee. His legs bare, only for short hose of wool, and his feet shod with shoes or buskins of wolf skin; the hair outside, tied with two thongs across the instep, the toes and heels flat, and the name of them, as I understand, in the Irish tongue "pampooties" or "pampooters”. His head was also bare, the hair on it of a snowy whiteness, falling heavily over his forehead in a "glibbe". For his face it was well writ over with the map of his age, only the eyes still dark and fiery; and the look of them very strange, being both fierce and timorous at once.

His harp was larger than any harp I had yet seen in this country, Standing some four feet from the ground, and painted a lively green colour with sundry devices, and traceries of curious significance; also leaves and other ornaments, but all much bleached and defaced, doubtless by rough weather and the evil usage it had met with.

He -- coming forward in a lull of the discourse -- bowed himself low to the company, especially to his Excellency, who sat at the head of the table. And immediately he began to stray his fingers lightly over the strings, running from one to the other, and looking about him, fearfully yet confidently, as if to ask what was wished. And that strain he played reminded me of the song that I had heard sung by the wild woman in the hollow place of the wood, the morning that I rode forth from Kilkenny with the Butler kerne, and lost my way in the forest. And, having come to an end of it, he paused, and looked round from one to another, as it were from under the pent-house of his brows, which for all his age were black and still very thick.

Then certain airs were commanded, which he played; and afterwards Mr. Delahide said some words to him in the Irish tongue, urging him to play or sing something; at which he shook his head, yet it seemed to me reluctantly, as if he would fain have done that which was required of him, only durst not.

"What asked you of him?" enquired his Excellency, who like myself had observed this commerce between them.

"I desired him" replied Mr. Delahide "to sing a dirge, which he himself had composed, and which in times past I have often heard him sing, in honour of one Rory Oge O'More, whose harper or "Sennachie" -- that being the Irish word -- he formerly was, which of all pieces writ in the Irish tongue seemed ever to me the most moving, both for the words and the air thereof."

"And who or what was this Rory Oge O'More?" asked his Excellency "for meseems his name is familiar to me."

"As vile, dangerous, and pestilent a Rebel as ever this land, which is rich in little else, hath bred!" cried the President of Munster. "And I wonder that Mr. Delahide would even name him in this presence, still less desire songs in his honour to be sung before one who stands as our Queen's Viceregent, and before whom the countenancing of such songs is a clear insolence to her greatness."

"Yet, methinks, as the song in question is in the Irish tongue, and that none here save myself, and possibly you, my lord President, know ought of that language, it were scarce perilous to the loyalty even of the least wary to sit and listen to what they could by no means understand!' Mr. Delahide said mockingly, and with a smile upon his lips.

"Mary, that is true!" cried his Excellency. "Therefore, Mr. Delahide, I charge you to command him to sing this song, about which you have moved my curiosity, and, if danger there be in his singing, I myself will be his surety that no harm shall happen to him for the said cause."

His Lordship having so spoken, Mr. Delahide spake a few words again in Irish to the harper; who thereat straightened himself, flinging suddenly off that bowed and dejected aspect he had hitherto worn, and looking a full score of years younger, so brightly did his eyes flash and his whole face alter. And he looked about him now, no longer scared and timorous, but with a fierce defiant air; and especially I noted that he so looked at the President of Munster, as much as to say that he understood his animosity, yet feared it not, having the sanction of one that was greater than he.

So, having turned his harp about, he lifted it a little, and set it upon a stool or trestle that stood there; and placing himself beside it, struck his hands across the strings with a careless gesture. Then, having played awhile, he suddenly broke out into a sort of singing, which yet was hardly singing, but rather a chant or crooning noise, which swelled and swelled so that at times it seemed to rise to the very rafters, rolling and beating about like thunder within our ears, and again to sink till it was no louder than the whisper of a summer stream over grass and small stones; his harp the while seeming to follow and take part, more like a thing of separate life joining in at its own pleasure, than an instrument played by the hands. Stranger singing and playing I never heard before, nor expect to ever hear again.

It chanced that, being next to the window, I saw what was not, I think, seen of others in the company. For when that strange song or chant first began all the kernes, gallowglasses, and other wild Irish mustered without started and stared, seeming to prick their ears, as a horse does at the sound of the trumpet. Presently, as it went on, they began to draw nearer and nearer; yea the very bearers of burdens and churls -- creatures seemingly scarce human -- gathered, till a score or more were below the window. And I marked that they looked one at the other with eyes wide open, as if asking how such a song came to be heard in such a place and before such company. Then -- that wild singing still continuing, and rising ever louder and louder -- they began to grip at one another with their hands, and to move to and fro with their feet, as if they would fain have broken into wild dancing and leaping. Only, whenever anyone came out of the castle, they all dispersed suddenly; or fell flat upon the ground, hoping to escape notice in the dark, but so soon as that person had passed on, they rose up again, and crept nearer and nearer, as if their very souls fed upon what they heard!

The evening growing late, as soon as this strange song or dirge was over, and my Lord had dismissed the old man with a fair gift of money, the company broke up....

~ Emily Lawless, "With Essex in Ireland (Being extracts from a Journal Kept in Ireland during the year 1599 by Mr. Henry Harvey, Sometime Secretary to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex)”, London, 1902. pps 156-161

[mrmuzikhead]

Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues tour

[Dr. Jimmy]

Any show from the P-Funk "Mothership" tour
The Who @ Swansea in '76 (or really any show from that tour)

[russiancrowe]

Rolling Stones Belgium 1973. The bootleg is amazing, maybe the best Stones show I've heard, would've loved to have been there.

[73171]

Shawn Lane

:bow

[beckerman]

It would be eerie to see the Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens show the day the music died.

I would have loved to see a Genesis Lamb Lies Down on Broadway show or The Who Tommy

[eddie101]

Yes - Beethoven's first performance of his ninth symphony in Vienna - he was stone deaf, but shared the stage as a "co-conductor" of the orchestra... :)


This would be my pick as well. My favorite composer of ALL TIME. :bow

[ericjohnschwab]

The US Festival, day two. That was the heavy metal day :-)

[oxtone]

Hendrix - Monterey Pop.

[KungFuLio]

Mark Isham - Miles Remembered: The Silent Way Project (baked Potato)

[arfalax]

It's already been mentioned but it's easy for me, December 31, 1969 at the Fillmore East, the Band of Gypsies.

[Dawg76]

The Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake, IA; Feb 1959.

[doomedfuzz]

In the early 90s, Voivod/Soundgarden/Kyuss all toured together. I would have loved to see that show.

I mean of course The Doors, Hendrix, Zeppelin would have all been cool. But I have seen The Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, and even SLEEP! So I'm pretty satisfied with the bands I've seen.

[ericjohnschwab]

The Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake, IA; Feb 1959.

Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens?

[traptortooth]

The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970

who played...the following:

Andy Roberts (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/andy-roberts.aspx) Arrival (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/arrival.aspx) Black Widow (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/black-widow.aspx) Cactus (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/cactus.aspx) Chicago (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/chicago.aspx) David Bromberg (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/david-bromberg.aspx) Donovan (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/donovan.aspx) Emerson Lake and Palmer (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/emerson-lake-and-palmer.aspx) Everyone (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/everyone.aspx) Fairfield Parlour (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/fairfield-parlour.aspx) Family (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/family.aspx) Gary Farr (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/gary-farr.aspx) GilbertoGil (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/gilbertogil.aspx) Good News (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/good-news.aspx) Groundhogs (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/groundhogs.aspx) Hawkwind (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/hawkwind.aspx) Heaven (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/heaven.aspx) Howl (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/howl.aspx) Jethro Tull (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/jethro-tull.aspx) Jimi Hendrix (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/jimi-hendrix.aspx) Joan Baez (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/joan-baez.aspx) John Sebastian (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/john-sebastian.aspx) Joni Mitchell (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/joni-mitchell.aspx) Judas Jump (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/judas-jump.aspx) Kathysmith (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/kathysmith.aspx) Kris Kristofferson (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/kris-kristofferson.aspx) Leonard Cohen (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/leonard-cohen.aspx) Lighthouse (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/lighthouse.aspx) Melanie (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/melanie.aspx) Mighty Baby (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/mighty-baby.aspx) Miles Davis (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/miles-davis.aspx) Pentangle (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/pentangle.aspx) Procol Harum (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/procol-harum.aspx) Ralph McTell (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/ralph-mctell.aspx) Redbone (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/redbone.aspx) Richie Havens (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/richie-havens.aspx) Rosalie Sorrels (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/rosalie-sorrels.aspx) Shawn Phillips (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/shawn-phillips.aspx) Sly and the Family Stone (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/sly-and-the-family-stone.aspx) Supertramp (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/supertramp.aspx) Taste (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/taste.aspx) Ten Years After (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/ten-years-after.aspx) Terry Reid (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/terry-reid.aspx) The Doors (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/the-doors.aspx) The Moody Blues (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/the-moody-blues.aspx) The Voices of East Harlem (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/the-voices-of-east-harlem.aspx) The Who (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/the-who.aspx) Tiny Tim (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/tiny-tim.aspx) Tony Joe White (http://www.isleofwightfestival.com/bands/tony-joe-white.aspx)

[bearbike137]

Bob Marley, London, 1975

5th row, center (if anyone is buying tickets)

[SteveGaines]

Lynyrd Skynyrd . October 19, 1977 Greenville South Carolina, War Memorial Auditorium....Last show ever....Who would have ever knew?....

[phisher422]

Grateful Dead
05/08/77
Barton Hall (Cornell University) - Ithaca, NY

Set 1:
New Minglewood Blues
Loser
El Paso
They Love Each Other
Jack Straw
Deal
Lazy Lightnin'
Supplication
Brown-Eyed Women
Mama Tried
Row Jimmy
Dancin' In The Streets

Set 2:
Scarlet Begonias
Fire On The Mountain
Estimated Prophet
St. Stephen
Not Fade Away
St. Stephen
Morning Dew
Encore:
One More Saturday Night

[AtomEve]

The debut of Beethoven's 9th. That would have been something to see.


Yep. Me too!

[louderock]

ABB - Fillmore East
Skynyrd - Fox Theater - Atl July 1976
Hendrix & Otis Redding @ Monterey Pop Festival
The Beatles rooftop concert

[Pags]

Phish 6/11/94

[razorbladeSD]

I had tickets to the LA show, but they never made it...

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[Rothbardian]

If there was ever a Bathory show, that's what I would have liked to see...or Mayhem in Leipzig.

[Steve_2020]

Early Tower of Power & Earth Wind & Fire when they were bascially head arrangement Jam bands ...

& Dreams band with the Brecker Brothers, Billy Cobham, Will Lee & John Amercrombie

(to name a few..)
All before they were famous ..

Wow, I saw EWF in early 1973 at Lincoln Center in NYC...they were the opening act on a three band bill. Is that early enough? They were definitely jamming stuff out.

I had no idea who they were. They were a great but different band that night than the one that began having the big hits a couple years later. They were funky and loose and jamming on long grooves, going where the music took them...rather than just playing tunes..

Definitely a Afro-funk thing going, kinda jazzy but more funky. I recall at least one female vocalist and probably a horn player, but no horn section- they were too loose for a horn section then, imoho. Looking back (with what I know now) Phillip was onboard, singing with Maurice and probably the girl.... and besides a dedicated percussionist or two, everyone not playing another instrument seemed to play percussion...iirc..lots of percussion..

About 40 mins into their set, Maurice began inviting people seated in the audience (theater seating) onstage to dance. Security fairly quickly stopped their set - after 20 or so people had jumped onstage. It was chaos, but everyone was laughing and smiling as the stage was cleared and the next band set up.

If I were as jaded then as I am now :) I might have thought that Maurice ending the set by inviting the audience up- and forcing security's hand- was the plan all along. Hey, it got my attention and I'm remembering it all over 40 years later :D...

In 1975 when I first heard "Shining Star" on the radio, I remembered the band's name and thought 'wow, I saw that group, they sound great but different now." :) Glad to have seen them early on, then later in the 70s when they were at their peak popularity.

And -yikes!- I also saw Dreams! I'm thinking on a bill at the Fillmore West- in 1970 or 71. Great, great band. I was just getting my feet wet with jazz and the beginnings of fusion -heck I was a rock kid still in high school :)- but really flat out enjoyed them. Even then I could figure out it was something way special, that they were taking things somewhere else. I picked up one of their records after seeing them. My rock guitar buddy had Les McCann and Eddie Harris's "Swiss Movement" for his (pop) jazz record. I had 'Dreams' :)

That was the great thing about the Fillmore. Bill Graham booked 4 bands every week for Thurs- Sun shows, nearly every weekend of the year for several years. That's a lot of bills, a lot of acts. He took the opportunity to expose his young patrons to a wide variety of music at a lot of those shows. I never would have sought out and saw artists like Roland Kirk on my own. Bill Graham snuck them in front of all of us at rock shows at the Fillmore. For which I'm forever grateful.

I missed early TOP before they got famous, but -like many- have caught them plenty of times after they made their name..

[Jerry Shaw]

Lynyrd Skynyrd . October 19, 1977 Greenville South Carolina, War Memorial Auditorium....Last show ever....Who would have ever knew?....

Good choice! You do realize that you posted this on the 33rd anniversary of the crash?

[mmcquain]

Lynyrd Skynyrd . October 19, 1977 Greenville South Carolina, War Memorial Auditorium....Last show ever....Who would have ever knew?....
Great call... but also so sad in hindsight

[Jim Jones]

I would love to have seen the Yardbirds at the Crawdaddy. I'm 39 so I guess that makes me a bit of a douche, but whatever. I would love to have been at the Humble Pie "Live At The Fillmore" show, too!

[Jason Carter]

I would love to have seen The Moving Sidewalks open for Hendrix. Van Halen in a dive in Pasadena before they hit it big would have been cool.

[Steve_2020]

For me it would be the March 1968 winterland concert that was recorded for the live side of Cream's "Wheels of Fire" - whatever night the got Crossroads and Spoonful on..

or

New Years Eve 1970 Band of Gypsies (sp): Jimi, Buddy and Billy at the Fillmore East

close runner up would be the one of the 1970 Who concerts at the Berkeley Community Theater...

Having made a few huge rock festivals back in the day, the legends sometimes exceed the actual experience of being there and dealing with too large crowds and traffic jams and everything else...and sometimes not having a very good musical experience.

But I wouldn't have minded attending Monterey Pop.

That one was a great multi-day, multi-headliner outdoor concert in a venue built for that type of event, alreadu used to doing a similar type of festival every year for jazz artists..

[3leggeddog]

Alice in Chains doing their MTV unplugged show