Best concert you've NEVER been to.

[namtrak]

...continuing the theme...

What are the concerts that you wish you had seen but didn't


I would have loved to seen the Doors in the early days, when they were the house band at the Whiskey a Go Go?

I always kicked myself for not seeing Weddings Parties Anything, I reckon I could probably wait for a reunion gig somewhere.

I reckon Mozart would have been pretty cool, especially if you could have scored a backstage pass for the wrap party.

There's probably quite a few others, but those are a start.

And of course there used to be this great group that played a few gigs at the Tom Tom club - my greatest regret is that I missed them (can't remember their name but I am sure they were great live)

[jmk89]

Fairport Convention at the Troubadour in LA in 1974 when Led Zepplin and Linda Ronstadt were in the audience and Fairport got them up on stage - the version of Silver Threads and Golden Needles with Linda singing and two bands behind here (including two top bassists) was, apparently, amazing and wasn't recorded!!!!

The story goes that she asked if they knew it and they said just start it in the key you sang it on the album and we'll catch up. She started unaccompanied...after 2 bars, she was joined by Dave Swarbrick on fiddle (still my favourite fiddle player) and then when she got to the chorus, the expanded band joined in at 7 million decibels (a little exaggeration, but you get the message)!!!

[wheelinround]

To many to list

[namtrak]

My old man, used to play Fairport Convention and Hot Tuna ad nauseum as we were growing up, and then to top it off when David Swarbrick and Alistair Hulett were touring, he had them stay for a couple of nights!!

Funny thing is now I don't mind listening to them every now and then.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Woodstock 'd have to be top of my list...

[ss_11000]

red hot chili peppers...i've seen ( have ) the slane castle dvd and they are awesome live. wish i could have gone to the sydney show in april

guns and roses. again, i've heard their live cd and they're pretty cool, they came to sydney recently and i may have gone if i had known more thn the day before...it wasnt very well advertised

metallica..i hope they come to australia soon. i would have loved to be at the S & M concert

midnight oil...goat island in 1986 (?) seemed pretty cool...would be nice to see them live.

[Lignum]

Sheez so many. What i would give for a time capsual

I cannot split these 3.

Neil Young at Massey Hall. (Its the best live album i have ever heard.... STUNNING)
Johny Cash at Folsom Prison.(If you can call this a concert )
Ziggy Stardust at the Hammersmith Odeon (last concert)

Then a close un-splitable 2nd

James Brown at the Apollo
Jimmy Hendrix at Montery.

And any concert with Ella Fitzgerald, The Greatful Dead and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

[Sebastiaan56]

Any of The Hot Club of Paris, Hendrix, Paganini (especially as Diabolo), Yehudi Menhuin, and Chopin,

[Honorary Bloke]

Woodstock 'd have to be top of my list...

I'm with you Skew. I've got the DVD of the docu-movie and all the recordings, but to have been there (and I was the right age, too ). As it happens, I was in military service at the time and for some reason they thought I ought to stay where they'd put me.

[silentC]

Bit of a tough one. Any of the concert footage I've seen/heard from pre-80's concerts has been less than impressive. I don't know if that's the quality of the recording, or the sound, or both.

From the point of view of just being there, Ziggy Stardust would have to be right up there. One of the early Pink Floyd shows. Deep Purple would have been impressive.

Closer to home, I reckon Cold Chisel's last stand concert and Midnight Oil in the US Forces era. That Goat Island one would've been a goodie.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Closer to home, I reckon Cold Chisel's last stand concert and Midnight Oil in the US Forces era. That Goat Island one would've been a goodie.

Hate to boast but... I went to all three last stand concerts and I had all access passes..I thought they were a bit boring but then again I wasn't much into them then, they were a bit passed their use by date.

I would have liked to have seen Andy Warhol's The Exploding Plastic Inevitable.

[silentC]

Hate to boast ...

No you don't!

Yeah, it's not as if I'm a rabid Chisel fan or anything, but they were a bit of an icon of my teenage years, as were The Police and AC/DC. I'd like to have seen The Police too. Stewart Copeland is a drummer's drummer

[Ruddigar]

Midnight Oil in the US Forces era. That Goat Island one would've been a goodie.

Oils at the Capitol Theatre would've gone off.

The 'Best of Both Worlds' DVD is a corker, with the Goat Island gig as well as 'Saturday Night at the Capitol Theatre'. Amazing stuff.

[silentC]

Hands up if you've ever danced like Peter Garrett

[Bleedin Thumb]

Not me, I dance more like a cross between Joe Cocker and Ian Dury!