Gigs In History You`d Like To Have Seen
 

My List....

Pink Floyd - Marquee club 1967 (psychadelic wig out)
Alice Cooper - Toronto Rock Revival 1969(Alice supports Lennon & The Doors & kills a chicken)
Rolling Stones - Hyde Park 1969 (ooh birdies)
Hendrix - Isle Of Wight Festival 1970(Million times better than his Woodstock appearence)
Hawkwind - Space Ritual Tour 1972 (Poets , Authors , naked dancers , a clinically insane frontman in world war 2 gear & Lemmy....what more could you want?)
David Bowie - Hammersmith Odeon 1973 (Bowie kills Ziggy)
The Clash - Rock against racism 1978 (The Clash make history with 100,000 people backing them up on a protest march)
Motorhead - Newcastle City Hall 1980 (Recording of the No Sleep Till Hammersmith album)
Iron Maiden - Hammersmith Odeon 1982 (Owned a copy of this gig for years , know the whole thing word for word)
Pixies - Reading Festival 1990 (Last ever UK gig)
Stone Roses - Spike Island 1990 (Britpop starts here)
Radiohead - Glastonbury 1997 (Eavis said it`s the best performance he`s ever seen at the festival)
Primal Scream - Glastonbury 2003 (I was supposed to see them earlier in the year & my plane got cancelled :( watched the whole of this on TV & hated myself for not seeing them)

Halloween 1968-MC5 records "Kick Out the Jams"

ooh good one

Metallica at Download a few years ago...was going to go...but didnt like the line up much...how gutted I felt when Metallica showed up!

Technically not in history, as such, but I would have loved to have seen the Mark Tom and Travis Show gig, that would have owned.

Any Nirvana concert

woodstock. nuff said.

white stripes- under blackpool lights.

Beatles last "show" on top of the Apple building.

hehehe... we need her to put her shirt back on... please. it just took away my boner, my boner just died... i had one and now its gone. =D One of the tom mark and travis shows and definetly the clash rock again racism 78' or the ramones in CBGB.

Rock:

Monterey Pop Festival - better than Woodstock, or at least it is judging by the footage in the movies. Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix's performances are two of the best I've ever seen, by anyone.
Bob Dylan - The concert in Manchester when someone called him "Judas." Fantastic concert, there was footage of it in that Scorsese documentary, and there's the CD that has the entire concert (or most of it, not sure if it's complete).
Pink Floyd - The Wall, in '80 or '81.
Isle of Wight Festival - The Who, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, etc., although not as good as Monterey Pop.
The Sex Pistols - That famous Manchester concert, I think it was in '77.
Pink Floyd at Pompeii.
Parliament/Funkadelic - Any show on the Mothership Connection tour.

Jazz:

Benny Goodman Big Band vs. Chick Webb Orchestra - sometime in the mid 30's, there're no recordings, but it was supposed to be killer.
Count Basie vs. Chick Webb - the very same night of Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert (which also would've been cool, after Gene Krupa saved the band), Basie left after the jam session and headed over to play against Webb.
The Quintet at Massey Hall, 1951 - Bird, Dizzy, Mingus, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. The CD recording is a classic among classics.
Duke Ellington - Newport, 1956: another classic. Paul Gonsalves' famous 27 chorus solo lasts around 10 minutes.
Bill Evans - the Village Vanguard, '61.
Monk at the Five Spot, during the period when Coltrane was in his quintet.
Charles Mingus at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the early 60's.


Those are all the specific concerts I can think of, I'll add more if I can think of them.

I'd love to have been at the Motorhead gig at the Birmingham Town Hall that actually caused structural damage to the building it was that loud. My mum claims she could hardly hear Hawkwind who played after, but also claims that was not necessarily a bad thing.

Lollapalooza '93. Tool and Rage Against the Machine and Alice in Chains... Mmm.

Deep Purple came to a city close to me, as did Pink Floyd, I wish I'd seen them then.

i'd have loved to have been at any so-cal punk shows in the early 80s. so many good bands sprung from there.

Ramones - CBGB's

Nirvana MTV Unplugged...

i would've liked to see their first show with television at CBGB's. that would have been awsome.

*dies*

Seriously?

Yes.
In all seriousness.

OH NOEZ. Shoot her. She likes blink. Poseur.

:)

Nah, I know they were utter shite live, and there was no technical skill at all to them, but dammit they were fun. I loved them to bits, and still like to listen to a lot of it.

"Ill be the first to admit that im not an accomplished bass player" - Mark


and i can't beleive i forgot nirvana unplugged :(

Nirvana Unplugged would've been cool.

I would like to have seen some of the early Jesus & Mary Chain gigs too around 84/85 when they would walk off after 10/15 minutes causing riots.

That would be fun to see

Joy Division at 'Les Bains Douches' in Paris.

The Stone Roses- Spike Island 1990
Radiohead- Glastonbury 1997
Pink Floyd- Any Concert around Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin- 1973 in New York

I was going to see The Coral in Manchester last year until I was told it was 18s only, after buying the tickets. I was well gutted, they are one of my favourite bands. I had to sell them back on eBay. :(

I'd have liked to have seen Iron Maiden, Priest and Metallica in their early days.

^ That's such a shame you had to miss the concert. Age limits suck, lol

Rush In Rio (seen the DVD is wishes he was there)