The best gig you never went too

Bob Marley in de Kuip, 78 or 79. Just wasn't (or rather deemed to be) quite old enough.

Stevie Ray Vaughan at Red Rocks, outside Boulder. I was offered a ticket, but I wasn't in the mood. My wife went, and she said it was the best concert she'd ever been to.

A Portland FM station at 92 MHz was offering 92-cent tickets for a concert featuring three new bands--Elvis Costello, the B-52s and Talking Heads. Again, I wasn't in the mood....

Pretty much any Joy Division gig.

Jono

Sasha & DJ Digweed @Crobar.

Missed it.

Mine's not as exotic or serious, but I'd have loved to seen Elton John on his Yellow Brick Road Tour. A friend went with siblings as they'd begged his mom to take them all. Said she ended up doing the wave and singing along and making a fool of herself having such a great time. Maybe it was the blue haze that was drifting thru the auditorium. But Elton at his flaming showman's best would have been really hot.

I'd also have liked to seen the Who doing Pin ball wizard Tommy and/or Who's Next in my late teens.

I heard a guy talk about the Pink Floyd doing Meddle at Hollywood Bowl. The lights were off for the first half. And just a column of dry ice smoke rising from the pool in front of the stage that they played spot lights into. Damn, another one I missed.

Saw U2 last year, Fantastic! REM on the other hand were a big disappointment.

Paul

No regret's cause I was there.

Floyd the wall at Earls Court
Wishbone Ash at Hammersmith Odeon
Kraftwerk at Hammersmith Odeon
The Blues Band at the "Torrington" Public House in Finchley.
Bad Company at Olympia

Biggest regret, missed Led Zep everywhere even though I'm there greatest fan.

Spock

I saw The Who in Rome right after Who's Next came out. Good show--they did everything on the album and a lot else. The Italians, not knowing any better, stayed in their seats and clapped politely. I don't think the boys on stage found that very inspiring--the obligatory guitar destruction took place during a curtain call with what was obviously a different guitar from the one used during the show.

For sheer excitement, the warm-up band, a one-hit wonder called Golden Earring, blew The Who off the stage.

Apparently the New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert 1966 had performances by the Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones and Yardbirds, amongst others.

I would've been only 3 years old at the time, however, so there was never really much chance of my being there. Incidentally, it was fimed and shown on the BBC but the tapes were subsequently wiped!

Perhaps the most realsitic 'best gig I never went to' would be either Joy Division at London University in spring 1980 (just a few weeks before I discovered them and Ian Curtis killed himself) or Radiohead at Glastonbury 1997. Everyone says it was a classic performance and I was actually there but as it was a very wet year I didn't bother trudging through the mud to the pyramid stage.

Paul

The two I would wished most to see but age or lack thereof prevented would have to be Led Zep anywhere & Bob Marley in Ja.

As I managed to catch the Plant/Page tour I guess Bob just gets my vote.

Peter

I did see Floyd do The Wall here in LA. It was great. I get flash backs to it when I hear bits on teh radio.

i was 15. a carload of us drove to hartford connecticutt to see hendrix. some of us had tix; i couldn't get one and sat in the car for two hours.

did see the stones at the hollywood bowl in '65 (?), cream a couple years later, in l.a. (remember being deaf for about two days after that one). also captain beefheart, arthur lee and love at the whiskey on the strip.

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A Portland FM station at 92 MHz was offering 92-cent tickets for a concert featuring three new bands--Elvis Costello, the B-52s and Talking Heads. Again, I wasn't in the mood

That was a HUGE mistake, I'll would have loved to got to that. Seen David Byrne and Tom Tom Club live but never as the complete Talking Heads

Gig I would have liked to have gone to:
Down From The mountain
At Nashville's historic Ryman theatre as a sort of a musical wrap party for the Coen Brothers' 2000 film O Brother Where Art Thou,(including Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, the Whites, the Fairfield Four, and the Cox Family,Gillian Welch and David Rawlings,Emmylou Harris' among others)

Sex Pistols : Manchester Free Trade Hall
Beatles : any cavern club gig

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Originally posted by fidelio:
i was 15. a carload of us drove to hartford connecticutt to see hendrix. some of us had tix; i couldn't get one and sat in the car for two hours

Hendrix.............. I would have swapped the car for a ticket for that gig or any other Henrix gig for that matter.


Diccus

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Originally posted by whiteflyer:

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A Portland FM station at 92 MHz was offering 92-cent tickets for a concert featuring three new bands--Elvis Costello, the B-52s and Talking Heads. Again, I wasn't in the mood

That was a HUGE mistake, I'll would have loved to got to that. Seen David Byrne and Tom Tom Club live but never as the complete Talking Heads

Gig I would have liked to have gone to:
Down From The mountain
At Nashville's historic Ryman theatre as a sort of a musical wrap party for the Coen Brothers' 2000 film O Brother Where Art Thou,(including Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, the Whites, the Fairfield Four, and the Cox Family,Gillian Welch and David Rawlings,Emmylou Harris' among others)

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Saw Talking Heads at the City Hall, Newcastle (early 80's), supported by a non existent Human League who were so arty at the time they didnt play they put a film on (if I recall properly). Talking Heads were class, I was down at the front right in front of Jerry Harrison. Many years later saw David Byrne doing Rei Momo in Edinburgh which was pretty special too.

Gillian Welsh at the Ropery a pretty small pub in Sunderland was good too, she autographed cds at the end and was lovely as was DR.

Alison Krauss was ok at the Sage in Gateshead but nothing special IMO

A few things stick in my mind in terms of missing out:-

Tangerine Dream - Liverpool Cathedral 1975 (mates went, but missed out)
Marvyn Gaye - Southport 1980?(had to sell ticket)
Bob Marley - similar time period
Liverpool v St.Etienne (locked out)