what concerts do you wish you attended?


Let me preface this by saying you can only pick single performances and not festivals ( sorry all you people that would put woodstock on your list). Also please feel free to pick performances before you were born.

That said the performances I wish I could have seen are:

1)Pink Floyd performing the Wall in 1980 in Madison Square Garden. I was not old enough to drive yet and I was not going to buy an airline ticket and then have to buy tickets off the street and then deal with my parents after all that.

2)Miles Davis with his first classic group. To hear Miles, Coltrane, Evans...all on one stage would have been an experience of a lifetime.

3)Tom Waits in his middle years before the voice went and he was doing a lot of work with jazz and just letting it flow. I have seen an old performance from PBS from the late 70's and it was wild.

4)Francis Albert Sinatra----Late 50's enough said.

I now realize I could be at this for quite a while so I just stop now.
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I would have liked to see a Sunn O))) concert a couple of years back. Or more concerts of My Dying Bride when they still had the violin player.
I have a long list of bands I wish I saw after they released their respective greatest albums. Too often I see them after they release the not-as-good material. Sometimes a guy gets lucky, though. In September I get to go to New York to see My Bloody Valentine pump out their classics.
More Ray Charles concerts. They didn't call him "the genius" without reason. Got to see him at the Hollywood Bowl in 2001. When Ray was led out on stage suddenly a crowd of eighteen thousand people were so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. I have never seen anyone command respect like that.
Woodstock the first one I was on vacation with My parents traveling through New York camping. We were caught in the traffic jam of people going to the show . I wanted to be dropped off to see the show and be picked up after the show. I was 16 at the time and My parents said no way I was so close always wondered what it would of been like to see such a culture changing event. So close but might as well of been a million miles away made up for that later with 93 Grateful Dead shows all across the country.
Pink Floyds Pulse Tour of the i want to say mid 90s. When the blimp showed up a few days before the show i should have found a way to get inside the arena. I have the vinyl and DVD of that concert and just love it. And of coarse everyone who went will say its the best concert they every went to. As they say my BAD.