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If you had access to a time machine, what concerts would you go back to see?

2020 was the first year of my adult life that I did not attend any concerts. I'm sure that I'm not alone in this unfortunate situation. So, this got me thinking about both the concerts that I "missed" (could've gone, but something went wrong) or concerts I "wished I'd had the chance to see."

Plus, I thought this would be a good bookend to the ongoing (and excellent) thread about "the worst concert you ever saw."


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Assuming I was immune to any diseases of the times. (No yellow fever please.) Also, I would have the chance to go to the after concert parties or dos corresponding to the times!
  • Any concert with Corelli
  • Dietrich of Leipzig concerts
  • Von Bingen
  • The Ring at Bayreuth with Wagner and/or his son
  • The concert or incident that made Nietzsche Contra Wagner - there’s a decent movie about this
  • Being ’a dignitary’ on the King’s Barge on the Thames when His Majesty had The Water Music repeated several times
  • Debut of Beethoven Violin Concerto
  • Liszt, Locatelli and Paganini performances
  • The series of Siegfried Wagner operas/performances now lost
  • Any Charlie Parker performances/concert(s)
  • Any Procol Harum concert
  • Any Henry Cow, Soft Machine and 801
  • Those Cambridge Univ. fellows that did "The Rotter’s Club"
  • Any Brian Eno concert
  • Stones with Mick Taylor
  • Any Howlin Wolf after hours performances - I saw 2 concerts - with Hubert Sumlin.
  • The Killers
  • Another Capt. Beefheart concert
  • Hendrix/Hawaii/Rainbow Bridge
  • All the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals I missed

Of course I would want to have a magic audio video set up to capture all these events and bring them back whilst someone else can pay the artist’s royalties!
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