If you could turn back the wheel of time...

[beecee]

Not sure if the music was from only one show that they recorded for the album but it would have been fun to be in the audience for Frampton Comes Alive.

 

[jp]

Great question, ruedi. So many choices! Even though they're so well documented in the films, I would have to say Woodstock or Led Zeppelin's Song Remains the Same in Madison Square Garden. That way I could also get the maximum bang for the buck with multiple day shows.

 

[chazmo]

Ruedi, that really is a great question...

For me, the decision seems very emotional based on who has recently retired or passed on, not on which was concert was the most influential or important (many of which have already been covered).

E.g., I was at an Earth, Wind, and Fire concert several years ago just before Maurice White died. The Boston waterfront was rocking that day! All I can say was that that was the most fun i've had at a stadium-sized concert ever -- even with my ex-wife!

Since Prince passed away, I've always wished I'd attended one of his.

Even though John Denver's been gone a long time, I wish I could've seen a performance of his where he played Bells of Rhymney on his F-612.

But, for various reasons, including Richie Havens (whom I never saw live) kicking off the show; my answer to your question would categorically have to be Woodstock.

 

[Default]

Stevie Ray Vaughn - any of them
Chicago with Terry Kath
The Doors
Van Halen at the Whisky a Go-Go
Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick tour
The Blues Brothers

Lots, really

I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn open for the Moody Blues, if you can believe that. Nobody knew who he was, and the audience was pretty confused, initially, but he and Double Trouble were phenomenal.

 

[Tom O]

I was at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival in 1972 with Howlin' Wolf, Jr. Walker & the All-Stars and Sun Ra & His Arkestra; Muddy Waters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Koko Taylor and Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers; Bobby "Blue" Bland, Pharaoh Sanders, Dr. John and Little Sonny; Freddie King, Archie Shepp, Sippie Wallace, Bonnie Raitt and Luther Allison; Miles Davis, Otis Rush, Lightnin' Slim, Leo Smith & Marion Brown, Robert Lockwood and Johnny Shines. One of the Best blues concerts with great guitarists.

 

[tommym]

I can't pin down one specific concert but I could travel back in time it would have to be one of John Denver's concerts at the
Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado.

Tommy

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I was in line, ticket in hand, to see Nina Simone at The Village Gate, but she didn't show up. Apparently she was famous for that. Never did get to see her live.

=O[

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

The Kinks or the Animals most anywhere

The Kinks have been talking about another concert tour, so you might yet get your chance.

I ushered for them in '69 or '70. Happy memory! Ray Davies treated the whole audience like a bunch of old pub mates. And of course, the music was great.

Though the music is different, Gaelic Storm has a similar pub-mates vibe. In fact, at the ends of their shows, they announce which watering hole they're heading for so you can go hoist a few with them. If they swing your way, check 'em out.

 

[matsickma]

My choice is all the days and shows of 1970 Isle of Wight.
The bands listing who performed there in 1970 is incredible! I'm not going to even try listing them. See attachment. ( Woodstock would have been within 2 hours of where I grew up so a more realistic attendance but IofW 1970 was the show!)
M

 

[Elderguilder]

I'd go back and see Cream in Olympia Stadium, Detroit, October 12, 1968, just to refresh my memory. I'm sure the acoustics were lousy and I was too far away on the floor of Olympia for my plastic camera to do much good though the pictures are long gone anyway. But I loved the experience.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Woodstock. I would have been 2 and a half.

 

[GardMan]

28 May 1983 to see Stan Rogers at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. Stan was killed in an Air Canada airplane fire just 5 days later. I didn't discover Stan's music until early 1984...

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

28 May 1983 to see Stan Rogers at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica. Stan was killed in an Air Canada airplane fire just 5 days later. I didn't discover Stan's music until early 1984...

Great choice!

After work and dinner one night, my work buddies and I strolled into the Speakeasy on MacDougal Street in the Village and ordered beers. A huge guy with a huge guitar came out onstage and started belting out the biggest, boomingest tunes I've ever heard. "Rise again! Rise again!"

I'd never heard of Stan before then and have never forgotten him since.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I wouldn't have to turn it back very far. I am 72 and the first concert I attended was a Miriah Carey Christmas Special about 15 years ago.
Have been to five "The Earl's of Leicester" (bluegrass Flatt and Scruggs music, only) concerts and loved them.
Growing up without a family car (daddy owned and drove a school bus), on Saturday night we really did sit around the wood be stove in the kitchen and listen to the Grand Ole Opry on WSM (We Serve Millions - insurance). And sometimes we listened to Vanderbilt basketball games against Tennessee and Kentucky.
No concerts but wouldn't swap eating popcorn and homemade cookies with my family--nope wouldn't change a thing.

Good answer. Jerry Douglas is The Man.

 

[shredmechanic]

I feel like this might be an outlier here but for me it would be seeing Megadeth playing "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" for the first time in Ventura, CA in 1990. I would love to have seen that iteration of the band as I feel all the members were really playing at the top of their game during this period.

 

[GardMan]

...A huge guy with a huge guitar came out onstage and started belting out the biggest, boomingest tunes I've ever heard. "Rise again! Rise again!"

I would kill (just kidding!) to have Stan Roger's voice. I play and sing a few of his tunes, including Mary Ellen Carter, but there is NOOOO comparison. Stan's music was, and continues to be, a great inspiration in my music, and in my life...

 

[sailingshoes72]

I would like to have seen the original Allman Brothers Band, with Duane Allman, sometime during the 1970-71 period. I saw the band many times over the years, but never with the original lineup. I think that they were one of the most powerful, hard-hitting bands of the era.

 

[mushroom]

Bauhaus - London - Feb 1982
Probably not everyone’s cup of tea but some really interesting guitar work.

 

[FNG]

I would like to have seen the original Allman Brothers Band, with Duane Allman, sometime during the 1970-71 period. I saw the band many times over the years, but never with the original lineup. I think that they were one of the most powerful, hard-hitting bands of the era.

+1!