Tell me of a concert that you wish you were at.

[kentinmania]

woodstock stuff, of course

more "recently":

Mac Demarco "private" session. these guys are funny and i like their music


Socializing on an hipster rooftop aperitive Boiler Room session with Chet Faker


french legends rap band IAM, concert in front of egyptian pyramid, this is just a part of it, epic track if you can get the lyrics

[Jonathan]

Asa Payton at Junior Kimbroughs Juke Joint.

[Tom]

Levon Helm's Midnight Rambles. I am just up the road, thought there'd always be a chance. I am a dumb ass.

[Rick Stevens]

Stevie Ray Vaughan. A friend asked me if I wanted to go see him.....I said "next time". bad move.

[Corso]

The obvious answer would be Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1977 at the Ballroom in ATL. Show was cancelled along with my dreams of a "sweetie" at the time.

I had a girlfriend drag me to a Skynyrd show, june 77, Springfield MA civic center. Foreigner and I think 38 special back ups. I don’t recall why I didn’t want to go at the time, but man, I was so glad I did once I got there

I’ve seen many bands, Ranging from the Stones to Public Image LTD, but would have loved to see Led Zeo in their prime.

[oopfoo]

The obvious answer would be Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1977 at the Ballroom in ATL. Show was cancelled along with my dreams of a "sweetie" at the time.
Just this year saw "Get the Led Out" here in Newark, OH. Fan freakin tastic show that was so worth the time and money. Never saw Led or any of the famous 70's bands. Saw a zillion punk shows in ATL though. And yes did attend the first Lallapalooza in the Bay Area (Jane's content). Fishbone stole that one.

Atlanta! What would I have been without the Metroplex and the 688? And Fishbone generally stole EVERY show.

Mine are a little weird:

1. Mike Oldfield performing Tubular Bells II, live at Edinburgh in 1992. SO MUCH MUSIC, it just overwhelms the mind.
2. Jean Michel Jarre live in Monaco in 2011 for the wedding of Albert II. Holy crap.
3. KISS in 1977. Saw them for the reunion tour in 1996 and was third row in front of Gene Simmons. You don't have to like the music, you just go for the show. It's like a Vegas spectacular.
4. Beethoven in Vienna, December 22, 1808. Premier of the Sixth and Fifth Symphonies...in THAT order. Concert over 4 hours long, conducted by Beethoven himself. Was supposedly not a very good performance, and everyone was VERY ready to leave at the end, but going in with what we know NOW....

[davids]

Off the top of my head:

• Velvet Underground (although I would have been a little kid...)
• Sex Pistols at Winterland
• Elvis Costello at the Cleveland Agora, 1977
• The 'Mats at 7th Street Entry, 1981
• Hüsker Dü
• Pixies

I've seen most of the bands that mattered to me.
Entirely missing Hüsker Dü and the Pixies... What was I thinking?

[Bob Ross]

The premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" on May 29, 1913, when the audience, so enraged by the dissonant (sic) music and ungraceful (sic) ballet, started a riot.

[oopfoo]

The premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" on May 29, 1913, when the audience, so enraged by the dissonant (sic) music and ungraceful (sic) ballet, started a riot.

Oooo! I forgot that one! Even though it's brought up every time we play Rite of Spring.

[steve garro]

I went to damn near every concert I wanted to, but ones I was invited to but did not go to included.......

Husker Du

DK's

The final Minutemen show

Nirvana & Sonic Youth, Las Vegas

Shovels & Rope downtown before they hit it big - just saw them, wow......

Fantasy level:

Johnny Fucking Cash

The Clash

Leadbelly

The Staples

Texas Tornadoes, full lineup, ditto The Highwaymen

Sly & The Family Stone

Pink Floyd with Syd

Manu Chau "Radio Bemba" tour


I am so lucky to have seen so many concerts!
2015 so far: Shovels & Rope, Jonathan Richman & this week Sturgill Simpson

One of the ones I will most certainly never forget was Taj Mahal on the night of 9/11 - Garro.

[Noteddy]

My concert going days are long over. At the time I thought I really wanted to go to Wadena. Looking at the set list, I wish I could have.

Friday, July 31, 1970
Johnny Winter
Mason Proffit
Poco
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Chicken Shack
Joan Baez
Leon Russell
Little Richard
The Chambers Brothers
The Everly Brothers
Albert King
Luther Allison
REO Speedwagon
The Sons of Champlin

The language of the review is hilariously parochial to time and place.

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"Midway through his performance, he peeled off his white leather boots and flund them into the crowd, casting the boots like a spell that brought back the symbol of youth of a generation a generations ago."

Also, because of proximity and because the woman who was to become my wife was there 20 years before I met her, I wish I'd gone to hear the Stones in 1981 in Cedar Falls, IA.

[ron l edmiston]

--- from the above past/personal docket/s above listed.., we are a bro-hood of inbred..

ronnie with a smile

[Nierman]

I might have to travel to go see Sturgill Simpson if he doesn't make it through town. He's with OCMS a few shows which would be fantastic.

Saw OCMS with Carolina Chocolate Drops last year. Best show to date, even better than Charlie Daniels when I was drunk, dehydrated and 3 years removed from legally being so at the MO State Fair 25 years ago.

I second Shovels & Rope. They can't cut another album soon enough.

[Saab2000]

I've been a U2 fan since Boy was released. A buddy had a copy in vinyl and I was in awe. So I bought it and watched their career go crazy through the early '80s. I've seen them, I believe, either 3 or 4 times. It's blurry. The one I missed was a ticket my mother bought me for a show in Chicago and I don't remember the circumstances but I am really bummed I couldn't go, not because of the band but because she who knows nothing of pop music or pop culture, went out of her way to buy me something like that. Somewhere in a box is an unused ticket to a U2 concert.....

They're the only band I've really seen though I saw Peter Gabriel in about 1993 or 1994 in Zurich and I saw the first Lollapalooza concert in 1991. Or not the first concert, but the first year.

It was in a muddy field in St. Paul, MN in the rain. Here's the Wikipedia list of performers.

1991[edit]
Location: North America

Dates: July 18, 1991 – August 28, 1991

Main Stage: Jane's Addiction, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails, Fishbone, Ice T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers (occasionally billed as "BH Surfers,") Rollins Band, EBN, Violent Femmes[5]



But what I missed was early U2 concerts, including First Ave in Minneapolis, which I would have loved to have seen. My U2 buddy (they guy whom I only really see for U2 shows) saw some early shows in Minneapolis, at First Avenue and then the 'big' hall - The Orpheum.

Otherwise there's not much I can truly say I would like to have seen. Not a huge concert goer but some are fun. I'd like to see U2 again. I know they haven't produced anything really relevant in 20+ years and that Achtung Baby was their last great work (IMHO) but they really do give you a good concert. The show I saw in Minneapolis about 3 years ago was fantastic.

I am not ashamed to admit that I would love to have seen Simple Minds in the 1980s, when they made some really great music. It's a real shame that most people only know them for one song, a song totally unrepresentative of most of their music.

[steve garro]

I might have to travel to go see Sturgill Simpson if he doesn't make it through town. He's with OCMS a few shows which would be fantastic.


I second Shovels & Rope. They can't cut another album soon enough.

I just saw Sho-Ro with Willie Watson opening up - he's not with OCMS anymore.

- Garro.

[Nierman]

I just saw Sho-Ro with Willie Watson opening up - he's not with OCMS anymore.

- Garro.

His time with them they were their best - for sure. He's great with Rawlings/Welch stuff and his solo Folk Singer tracks are fantastic, too. But you already knew that!

Still need to buy myself a banjo.

[rec head]

Rites of Spring

[spopepro]

The premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" on May 29, 1913, when the audience, so enraged by the dissonant (sic) music and ungraceful (sic) ballet, started a riot.

This was going to be mine as well. Even though we now understand that the riot was set into action by a rival ballet company, and wasn't the result of tonality or choreography.

We are doing it this summer. To open the program. Second half is Carmina Burana. I might need O2 after this one...

[Bob Ross]

and while we're at it...

I used to see 'Til Tuesday regularly at The Rat, and Storyville, and Jack's, tiny little hole-in-the-wall clubs in Boston, long before they got signed and recorded their major label debut...but what was even cooler imho was Aimee Mann's pre-'Til Tuesday band, Young Snakes, a very punky, skronky, angular avant-rock trio that borrowed more from Gang Of Four than any of the slick techno-pop that 'Til Tuesday was clearly influenced by. That was a great band.

[spopepro]

Oh, and for other old western art music respondents here, you might enjoy this book:


It is a great historical read of the premieres of Monteverdi's Orfeo, Handel's Messiah, Beethoven 9, Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, and Le Sacre du printemps.