Top Five Concerts You Wish You'd Been At?

[bluegrassbrian]

While there are certainly many concerts I would have enjoyed attending, both in my lifetime and before, there is one I bought a ticket for and didn’t see.

I live in Louisville, and this particular show was in Seattle- almost ten years later to the day!
I had planned to use some rewards points for my plane ticket, and to stay with a friend there.
When I went to purchase the plane ticket, I realized it wasn’t round trip!
So that put the kibosh on the whole thing.
I still have the ticket to remind me..

 

[plugugly]

Any Jimmy Buffett show. I sure miss him.

 

[Briarcutter]

I actually saw (unknowingly at the time) an historically significant concert.

ZZ Top's first appearance outside Texas, when they were the "pre-opener" for Ramatam (the opener) and Humble Pie (the main act).

At show time, without warning, the 10,000 seat auditorium went totally dark. After about ten seconds when the crowd had settled and gone dead quiet, a single, circular, super-bright spotlight came on that was pre-aimed at a tall, skinny, (beardless at the time) guy in a broad-shouldered sequin-covered jacket and 20-gallon cowboy hat, who was standing at a mic with a guitar over his shoulder.

But he didn't move or say a word.

After another ten seconds of silence, just when the crowd began murmuring a little wondering what was up, the guy said in a slow, growly, basso profundo voice "It's BLUES time!" , all the stage lights came on, and the band started playing at 50,000 watts.

They absolutely burned the place to the ground.

53 years later, I still remember saying to the girl I was with during the lull while Ramatam got set up: "Holy shit. That's gonna be impossible to follow... No band will ever invite those guys on their stage again."



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I seen ZZ in Toledo around 1976??? Our ears rang for a week. We weren't even that close to the stage.

 

[Alejo R.]

I was watching Nirvana's Live And Loud concert from 1993 and it got me thinking as to which 5 concerts do I wish i'd been at?

Here's mine in no particular order:

Nirvana - Reading 1992
Oasis - Maine Road 1996
The Beatles - Empire Theatre Liverpool 1963
Elvis - '68 Comeback Special
Sex Pistols - Lesser Free Trade Hall Manchester 1976

I saw Nirvana live at the legendary, yet disastrous, show in Buenos Aires.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I saw Nirvana live at the legendary, yet disastrous, show in Buenos Aires.

Even though they didn't play any of their big hits you still got to see Nirvana live and that's a very, very cool thing.

 

[Alejo R.]

I've been to many shows, and I'm starting to go back to them with my daughters.
I regret not having gone:

In 1992, Mano Negra at the Obras Sanitarias Stadium in Buenos Aires.

In 1995,
Rolling Stones at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires.

In 1997, Morphine at the Obras Sanitarias Stadium in Buenos Aires.

In 1995Beastie Boys at the Obras Sanitarias Stadium in Buenos Aires.

In 2009, AC-DC was at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires.

And of course, I deeply regret not having gone to see Luis Alberto Spinetta and the Bandas eternas at Vélez Sarlfield in 2009.

 

[44 S&W]

Wish I could have seen Jan& Dean at Valley Forge back in 79