Top Five Concerts You Wish You'd Been At?

[5star]

The premier in Vienna of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in Dec 1808

 

[johnbarleycorn]

Sex Pistols - Taliesyn Ballroom (Memphis) 1978. A month before I turned 14 so obviously my folks were not letting me go 100 miles to see this madness.

the Clash - at the Agora (Atlanta, GA) 1978. (Or any Clash show with Mick and Topper). Again no way for a 14 year old to pull this off. My all time favorite band and I never saw them.

Iggy Pop (the Idiot tour) with Bowie playing in his band. Again 13 years old. Couldn’t pull this off. Though I did go on to see Iggy 3 different times later.

Any Pink Floyd tour from the 70s. Especially DSOTM tour. Only saw Floyd once in 1993 on Division Bell tour. Amazing show. I can only imagine how great those early tours must have been.

Lou Reed (1973 tour). The tour that both Rock n Roll Animal and Lou Reed Live were taken from. Or really any Lou Reed tour. Never got to see him either.

Many others but I will play by the rules and keep it at 5.

 

[--dante--]

I don't have five, but I have this one:

Led Zeppelin 1977 Pittsburgh, because it didn't happen. I was in middle school, and saved up for it. I got lucky at the National Record Mart when I went to buy tickets, and randomly won back stage passes. While waiting for the day of the concert, I got a pocket camera for pictures, and (yeah perhaps because I had tickets and back stage pass) got a date with the one of the prettiest girls in school for the event. Days before the concert, Robert Plant's son died, and the remainder of the tour was cancelled. I received face value refund for my tickets, and never had the opportunity to see them live again. That's when I learned shit happens, lol.

 

[--dante--]

Sex Pistols - Taliesyn Ballroom (Memphis) 1978. A month before I turned 14 so obviously my folks were not letting me go 100 miles to see this madness.

the Clash - at the Agora (Atlanta, GA) 1978. (Or any Clash show with Mick and Topper). Again no way for a 14 year old to pull this off. My all time favorite band and I never saw them.

Iggy Pop (the Idiot tour) with Bowie playing in his band. Again 13 years old. Couldn’t pull this off. Though I did go on to see Iggy 3 different times later.

Any Pink Floyd tour from the 70s. Especially DSOTM tour. Only saw Floyd once in 1993 on Division Bell tour. Amazing show. I can only imagine how great those early tours must have been.

Lou Reed (1973 tour). The tour that both Rock n Roll Animal and Lou Reed Live were taken from. Or really any Lou Reed tour. Never got to see him either.

Many others but I will play by the rules and keep it at 5.

Oh man, these are some good ones

 

[gubbyduffer]

More than 5 but here goes,
The Prodigy (Phoenix Festival 96)
Portishead (Roseland Ballroom NYC 94)
Jay-Z and Linkin Park (Roxy Theatre 04)
Joy Division (Any gig when they were on it)
The Verve (Haigh Hall 98)
AC/DC (River Plate Stadium 09)
Muddy Waters (Newport Jazz Festival 1960)

 

[jpberg]

Renata Tebaldi in La boheme. 1946, at La Scala.

 

[gubbyduffer]

More than 5 but here goes,
The Prodigy (Phoenix Festival 96)
Portishead (Roseland Ballroom NYC 94)
Jay-Z and Linkin Park (Roxy Theatre 04)
Joy Division (Any gig when they were on it)
The Verve (Haigh Hall 98)
AC/DC (River Plate Stadium 09)
Muddy Waters (Newport Jazz Festival 1960)

The Portishead gig was actually in 97.

 

[OSOBUCO]

Pink floyd DSOTM 1972
Pink floyd Wish you were here 1975
Pink floyd In the flesh 1977
Pink floyd the wall 1980

anyone detecting a theme?

Boston 1978