Concert you wish you’d have been at...

[Deleted member 1147]

I’m sitting at home with the family watching Queen live at Wembley 86. A concert I would have loved to be in attendance.
But I’d also have loved have seen Elvis in Vegas, any Prince concert or Led Zeppelin at Earls Court.

What concert didn’t you attend, but wish you had?

 

[Beezerk]

UK leg of the Genesis tour in 87. My brother said he'd get me a ticket for the Roundhay Park gig but he never did.
Never forgiven him ?

 

[Norrin Radd]

Elvis in Vegas for me
Sure there are many more but Elvis show is just so far above anything else

 

[fundy]

Queen at MK Bowl the amount of times Ive been to the bowl since, every time I was there even if just walking the dog made me wonder what it wouldve been like

 

[Hobbit]

Genesis, live at the Budokan March '87. She said yes but I couldn't reconcile myself with spending the money... it would have ticked 2 boxes, Tokyo and Genesis.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Live at the budokan just means rock to me, so many bands played there back in the day!

 

[bluewolf]

I was at the Stone Roses Spike Island gig but don’t remember an awful lot of it for various reasons. I’d like to remember more.

I’d also love to have been to a Nirvana gig.

 

[chrisd]

Isle of white with Jimi Hendrix - my brother went

Any Queen concert

 

[MegaSteve]

The Daddy of them all... Woodstock ✌...

 

[Robster59]

Kate Bush in 2014. I was lucky enough to see her life in 1979 and was gutted I couldn't get a ticket to this one.

 

[cliveb]

Kate Bush in 2014. I was lucky enough to see her life in 1979 and was gutted I couldn't get a ticket to this one.

I was fortunate to get tickets for that. It was very well done, but there was too much recent stuff for my liking. (IMHO her last truly great album was Hounds of Love). The Ninth Wave was terrific, but the rest didn't grab me so much.

And the uncritical adulation of the audience kind of spoiled it for me. Quite frankly she could have taken a dump on stage and they would have lapped it up. It was not the orgasmic experience the media made it out to be. Yes, she's a national treasure but she's not the second coming.

Not seeing her in 1979 is my big regret. The video of that is without doubt the best music video I've seen.

 

[Spear-Chucker]

Dylan at The Free Trade Hall, Manchester for the infamous ‘Judas’ heckle and an astonishing set

 

[Blue in Munich]

Good thread.

I'd like to have seen The Who as the original line up; when they were the only band with a lead singer, lead guitarist, lead bass player and a lead drummer! I wouldn't have minded seeing Jeff Healey or The Allman Brothers. Would have liked to have seen Joe Bonamassa at the Ryman Auditorium last year as I'd love to see a concert in that venue.

But what this thread did make me realise is how fortunate I've been in concert terms as I can honestly say that there's more concerts that I've been at and consequently wished I hadn't because of the artist's performance than there are concerts I wish I'd been at & wasn't; every artist that I really wanted to see in my lifetime I have.

Thanks James.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Good thread.

I'd like to have seen The Who as the original line up; when they were the only band with a lead singer, lead guitarist, lead bass player and a lead drummer! I wouldn't have minded seeing Jeff Healey or The Allman Brothers. Would have liked to have seen Joe Bonamassa at the Ryman Auditorium last year as I'd love to see a concert in that venue.

But what this thread did make me realise is how fortunate I've been in concert terms as I can honestly say that there's more concerts that I've been at and consequently wished I hadn't because of the artist's performance than there are concerts I wish I'd been at & wasn't; every artist that I really wanted to see in my lifetime I have.

Thanks James.

My pleasure ?

I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum, I’ve barely seen anyone I’d have really liked to have seen.
I applied for tickets to the Aerosmith Toxic Twin Towers ball, but was about 30 sections late. That’s the main one I really wanted to see but couldn’t.
All the others happened when I was a child or before I was born.
I did enjoy seeing LostAlone, a band from Derby whom I went to school with. That was special to me as we jammed together as kids.

 

[Rlburnside]

Two for me any Pink Floyd concert and Bruce Springsteen at St Luke’s when he toured the Seager sessions.

 

[Liverbirdie]

One I had tickets for, but one of the band was sick so it didnt happen was Fleetwood mac in Manchester the other year.

One I'm hoping will still go ahead in June is Roger Hodgson, lead singer of Supertramp, but overall....

Single band concert - Queen, Liverpool Empire (rather than a massive stadium like Wembley).

Multi band concert - I'm sure there was once a concert, possibly in Leeds and the line up had 2-3 of my favourite bands on it but not sure exactly which 3 - I think it was Simple Minds, the Cult and possibly the Black Crowes.I might have been at a match, so couldnt go.

Honourable mentions:-

"Other" - The Jam in Deeside, which probably had about 3,000 people at but every Mod and match-going lad in Manchester, Liverpool, North Wales claims to have been there, so fictionally there were 40,000 people at Deeside ice rink, that night. The fighting was legendary, I'm led to believe.

"Moment" - Genesis, not sure which year but Liverpool won the league that day, and Phil Collins came on stage in a Liverpool top with the famous no.7 for King Kenny on his back. It could have been any year in the late 70's early 80's.

"Moment in time" - the Beatles in the Cavern - My mam seen them loads of times, a real game changer in popular culture and music.

"Fun" - I've seen footage of a concert by Madness when they brought out a new album a few years ago called "The liberty of Norton Folgate" which was a brilliant concept album, mainly set in Victorian times, and it looked a concert put on for the long term fans, but they made it an event, in a music hall type atmosphere. The crowd looked like they had an absolute ball, and as well as some great new tracks on that album, they did the classics brilliantly as well.

 

[User62651]

Faith No More played The Venue in Aberdeen in 88 when I was a student, tiny venue but gig was by all accounts brilliant. Missed it. Regretted that badly.

Travelled through Seattle in July 91 and I had no idea about grunge until 6 months later, could've seen some great bands cheap I'm sure. Nirvana, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots etc.

 

[Imurg]

I cant think of any I missed out on that I wanted to go to at the time.
There are bands I've not seen that I now wish I had, or never had the chance to see...
Hendrix is one, Free and Bad Co and Boston as well
AC/DC with Bon Scott, the classic Deep Purple line up, Marillion with Fish, UFO with Schenker
Give me a few days and I can probably come up with a list as long as my arm....

 

[backwoodsman]

If you can only pick one, it would have be Talking Heads in Hollywood 1983 - when they filmed Stop Making Sense. The film of it is awesome.

But, a seriously close second would be The Band's final performance - The Last Waltz concert in 1976. And although much of the music was not "my scene", I guess it would have been good to be at Live Aid at Wembley

 

[PhilTheFragger]

I cant think of any I missed out on that I wanted to go to at the time.
There are bands I've not seen that I now wish I had, or never had the chance to see...
Hendrix is one, Free and Bad Co and Boston as well
AC/DC with Bon Scott, the classic Deep Purple line up, Marillion with Fish, UFO with Schenker
Give me a few days and I can probably come up with a list as long as my arm....

I saw Boston at The Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, must have been late 79,

It was flipping brilliant ??