If you could go back in time to see one live concert what would it be?

[Yavin4]

For the purpose of this discussion, your time travel powers will be limited to attending a single concert. No going back and killing baby Hitler.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Pink Floyd on their Dark Side of the Moon tour in Providence RI

Back in the early 70s.

[MyOwnPeace]

9. THAT would be FANTASTIC!

If I could REALLY go WAY back:

Premier of Mozart's Magic Flute - with Mozart conducting!

[NRaleighLiberal]

22. Ah, well - I would go back to Mahler's conducting of the debut of his Symphony of 1000 (his 8th).

[MyOwnPeace]

39. Between the orchestra

and the choir, do you think there'd be room for a couple of time travelers?

[Kajun Gal]

36. YES! 1973. I coulda seen them for $3 at a bar! Lord how I regret not going.

[ariadne0614]

68. It was 04Sep, 1964. I was there.

We bought the tickets at Nick Toppings’ hole-in-the-wall shop downtown. The music was drowned out by ear-splitting screaming from beginning to end, and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
https://www.pbs.org/show/beatles-invade-milwaukee/

[teach1st]

52. Saw it in South Florida

Good choice!

[NRaleighLiberal]

54. I wish I remembered more - first half, "Be Careful with that Axe, Eugene" - the scream was

blood curdling (I was, let's say, a bit altered). Echoes - amazing. But - Dark Side - wow.

I was so young!

[teach1st]

57. I was dosed as well

My memories of the event are tinged with purple auras and plenty of almost neon trails.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Hendrix/Band of Gypsys Fillmore East

New Year's Eve 1969.

[Mr.Bill]

87. That would be my pick, too.

Second would be the night they recorded Cream Wheels of Fire at the Fillmore West. '67 I believe.

[jberryhill]

3. But what if baby Hitler is at the concert?

I'll go for the band on the deck of the Titanic.

Do I get to bring a wetsuit and a life jacket?

[rawtribe]

4. Frank Zappa

Halloween 1977

[lunasun]

104. Halloween 1973 saw Zappa at Chicago Auditorium (or amphitheater?) . Memorable for sure it started

very late I don't remember the details of why the late start. But I do remember the great concert
and after that he did halloweens in NYC , so assuming that is where you were ?

[lapucelle]

5. The Beatles at the Kaiserkeller Hamburg.

Any show.

[Boomerproud]

43. Yep, or at the Cavern Club.

That would have been the best day of my life.

[lapucelle]

45. I'm with you...

How about getting dragged to the Mike Douglas show in 1964 by your mother and aunt and watching this unfold... (Not Fade Away begins at 2:57)

[malthaussen]

88. Yep, the Cavern Club would be great.

Hellhole that it was, I wouldn't have noticed.

-- Mal

[lapfog_1]

6. The Beatles at Candlestick

or maybe Woodstock - just so I could say I was there.

[ghostsinthemachine]

67. My parents caught me, sneaking out my

Bedroom window. I was 9, but I knew how to get to SF via busses, and I was going. Was wearing my pegged pants, beatles boots and had a Beatle wig in my pocket.

My Dad was not happy.

[The Blue Flower]

7. Paul Simon and Bob Dylan at the Hollywood Bowl

Wow

[wcmagumba]

8. The Band and others...

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The Last Waltz at Winterland Ballroom SF 1976...

[ghostsinthemachine]

50. Be sure to find the Complete Last Waltz

On YouTube. Way better than the commercial product, which has serious editing issues, guests in the wrong order, verses of songs missing, solos switched, coke buggers removed.
I was there and the product is okay, but it just don't really show the Band as they were, which was a loosey goosey bunch.

[skylucy]

10. The Beatles at San Francisco Candlestick Park.

[Clarity2]

11. Neil Diamond

MSG NYC 2008, literally a hot august night. The one and only time Ive seen him. I was hoping to see him again in a much better seat, but am so grateful I was able to see him once. He recorded an album from that night, so Ive got that night memorialized.

[Stonepounder]

59. Got to see him once in Tucson, AZ (of all places).

He opened with a dark auditorium and then the orchestra started playing "Coming to America", softly then louder and louder, lights came up with a huge American flag as the background, then Neil came onto the stage singing. I still get chills 30 years later thinking about it.

[Clarity2]

61. I think thats what he opened with

in 2008 too. I adore him and his music. Chills here too. And that song is so appropriate right now.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

96. I stumbled across the TV show of that DVD a few years back.

What a great show. Previously at DU:

Favorite Neil Diamond song?

I think that is one of the ten best pop tunes from the '60s.

There will be lots and lots of competition for "favorite Neil Diamond song," but this gets my vote too. Neil Diamond is so great.

Not to be missed: "Hot August Night." I've got my eye out for that DVD.

Hot August Night/NYC: Live from Madison Square Garden

Hot August Night/NYC is a DVD release from Neil Diamond released on August 14, 2009. The DVD features songs from Diamond's four shows at Madison Square Garden during his 2008 tour. An accompanying 2-CD album was released at the same time.

An edited, hour-long special featuring songs from this DVD was shown on CBS on the night of the disc's release. The special was watched by 13 million viewers.

This is the third in a series of similarly titled live albums; it was preceded by Hot August Night (1972) and Hot August Night II (1987).

Back story:

Several years ago, on a hot Friday night in August, I was channel-surfing, looking for something, anything to watch. "Hot August Night" started up. "Well, it's better than nothing," I thought to myself. Oooooh, was I hooked, in nothing flat. Totally recommended. Great show.

Well, that dates that night. It was August 14, 2009.

[Clarity2]

109. Ive got to get my hands on that DVD too

I forgot there was one! Im really not sure if I caught the televised concert either...I dont think so. I think I might have searched for the dvd but couldnt locate one.

One of the first threads I responded to on here was a diamond thread - not the ones you posted though.

His music is some of the most soulful Ive ever experienced and he is a national treasure.

[Sedona]

12. Live Aid London 1985

[MyOwnPeace]

40. Ooh, ooh, ooh!!!!!!!!!!

O-M-G - the people that were there that we've already lost!

[blueinredohio]

13. Woodstock

[sharp_stick]

14. Cheap Trick

in Budokan. That show made that band. They were already a big deal in Japan but that live show got them noticed in the West.

[lark]

15. Beatles!!! Led Zeppelin!! Stevie Ray Vaughn!!!

Anytime, anywhere any of these 3 bands played a full set. I had tickets to see the Beatles in Jax. but they cancelled, don't remember why. Had tickets to see Led Zeppelin in Boston (I think, may have been Providence?), they cancelled due to sickness. Stevie Ray, sigh, Id just gotten into the blues and discovered him when I found out he was playing in Santa Cruz made plans to go but didn't get tickets. The bar was huge and never packed so I wasn't worried. I got there 30 min. ahead of time and was told it had been sold out for weeks, boo. Turned out lots of people recognized his genius. He died very shortly after that, Actually, I'd have picked seeing SRV at NO Jazz Fest in the Blues tent before he was so well known. That would have been one of the highlights of my life.

[OriginalGeek]

93. not trying to rub it in

but I saw him at a performing arts center here in Orlando in the mid-80s and damn glad I did. Helluvva show. I was talking to a DJ from a local radio station afterwards and he said he was backstage for most of the show and Stevie kept breaking strings and was mad as hell that he wasn't giving the audience his best. I told the DJ if he ever got to talk to SRV again please tell him if that was him NOT at his best then his best would likely have killed us all. My head was already about to explode lol.

His brother's Fabulous Thunderbirds were the opening act. Great, great night!

[lark]

98. Yep, I'm totally jealous!!!

SRV is DA MAN, I love watching his supple wrists, and of course love the sweet sounds pouring from his guitar. Too bad I've only ever gotten to see videos of him, but even those are soo awesome..

[Va Lefty]

16. The Monterey International Pop Music Festival

The Who, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Simon and Garfunkel

[exboyfil]

29. Sounds great

My favorite band, and several of my other favorites.

[TexasBushwhacker]

62. Janis Joplin and The Mamas & the Papas too n/t

[Dr Vegas]

17. A night you could have seen Springsteen, Little Steven in Red Bank for $6.50

Forty years ago, an ailing Southside Johnny Lyon received a boost from friends Bruce Springsteen and Little Steven Van Zandt, who joined with Ronette Ronnie Spector and several E Street Band members to fill in at three memorable shows in Red Bank.

[Dr Vegas]

20. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

[Tikki]

18. DEVO Starwood, West Hollywood CA 10/10/1978

Set
Wiggly World • Praying Hands • Uncontrollable Urge • Jocko Homo • Smart Patrol • Mr. DNA • Words Get Stuck In My Throat • Red Eye Express

Circulating Recordings
PRO #1 - professional video
Lowest Generation: Official VHS [The Men Who Make The Music]
Length / Quality: 15 min / 9.0
"Jocko Homo" & "Words Get Stuck In My Throat" are cut.

Other Performers
The Visitors

Tikki

[wcmagumba]

19. U2 at Red Rocks 1983...nt

[KT2000]

21. Laura Nyro n/t

[Ron Obvious]

23. Stravinski's Rite of Spring at its Paris opening

Apparently the music was so shocking, the audience rioted.

[jpak]

24. The Who Live at Leeds

yup

[PasadenaTrudy]

110. Same... n/t

[Ptah]

25. Carnegie Hall 1938

[BlueTsunami2018]

26. Led Zeppelin

Probably in 1973 at Madison Square Garden.

[mr_lebowski]

37. in between last we came and this time we managed to get an album out called ...

Houses of the Holy. And this uh something that we decided was an apt title ... for a thing that was called ... The Song Remains The Same.

[OilemFirchen]

27. Leonard Cohen, Austin, 1988.

Thank dawg PBS finally officially released the video of the show.

Also, Radiohead at Glastonbury, 1997.

And pretty much all of the above.

[Zoonart]

77. Oh yes... This. 👍

[Heartstrings]

28. The Beatles in Milwaukee

[ghostsinthemachine]

30. Grateful Dead

5-08-77. Considered the best show in their history. It is. I saw then 500 times, but not this one, or any of the shows in May of 77 which is considered the best month in the bands history.

[lapucelle]

48. I saw them that month at the Palladium and at the Hartford Civic Center.

Seven months later, it snowed so hard that the roof caved in.

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-1978-civic-center-collapse-pg-photogallery.html

[ghostsinthemachine]

49. Funny

Tumble down shack in bigfoot county.

[lapucelle]

63. And they sang it that night....

[ghostsinthemachine]

66. And tonight!

Almost when I posted! I looked it up as soon as I saw your original post.

[fierywoman]

31. The concert with Leonard Bernstein at the Berlin Wall right after it fell.

[brewens]

32. "The Dead" any of the 100 times I passed up thinking I'd go some day. I was never a huge fan but

with all the shows I have seen, I really should have went to one of theirs.

[DiverDave]

33. 100% Concert for Bangladesh

Yep, 100 percent

[Johnny Noshoes]

34. John Coltrane live at the Village Vanguard 1961

It wasn't a concert but four nights in 1961. I would love to be able to travel back to just one of those nights. I was 7 in 1961 so there is probably no possibility of running into my younger self. We all know how tricky time travel can be - paradoxes etc.

[pamdb]

35. Beatles

The Beatles. Anytime, anywhere.

[mr_lebowski]

38. Does it have to be one I DIDN'T go to? Is a rule?

Cause if it's not a rule, I pick The Cure on the Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me tour, 1987, Oakland Coliseum Arena ...

Otherwise I pick U2 at Slaine Castle, Dublin ... 2002 I think it was (and filmed before like 200,000 fans). It's the one memorialized in the U2 - Go Home video, happened right after Bono's dad passed ... which I've watched like 40 times.

Freaking AMAZING crowd, show and setlist that night. I'd have killed to be up in 'heart' at that show.

Absolutely f***ing AMAZING transition between these two songs man ... and both renditions are killer as well. Top of their game ...

If you love u2 and you've never watched this whole show, you absolutely must.

[Iggo]

95. Yeah, if it's not a rule, I'd like to go to the 1983 Us Festival again.

Sober, this time.

[whistler162]

41. 1938 Carneige Hall Jazz Concert

[First Speaker]

42. 1924--the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue...

...Aeolian Hall...Paul Whiteman, and George himself at the piano...1920s America at its height...then go up to the Stadium and see Babe hit one out the next afternoon...heaven.

[Quemado]

44. Steely Dan - May 27, 2017

Steely Dan‘s concert at Greenwich, Connecticut’s Roger Sherman Baldwin Park on May 27th, 2017. It was Steely Dan’s Final Concert With Walter Becker.

[lapucelle]

46. I'm picking again...any Kool Aid Test jam.

[lapucelle]

47. I'm picking again...Frank Sinatra at the Paramount.

[7wo7rees]

72. I thought about Sinatra/Basie at the Sands

But any Frank show woulda been tops.

[lapucelle]

73. I saw him at Carnegie Hall in the late 70's or early 80's with my mom.

She's the one who saw all the shows at the Paramount.

[Mr.Bill]

86. I saw Sammy Davis, Jr. with Basie

at Caesar's Palace at Lake Tahoe in the early 80s. Incredible show.

[RandySF]

51. Queen at Webley Stadium

[montana_hazeleyes]

53. Right there with you RandySF.

[Upthevibe]

55. The Beatles....

(as others have stated)......Any time....Any where......

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

56. Elvis in Las Vegas.

Not sure why, but, that one always comes up as one of the last of his shows when he was half-way together.

[Hoyt]

58. Monterey Pop Festival 1967

[cos dem]

60. Warren Zevon at the Roxy Theater

What became "Stand In The Fire".

Second place: any Fleetwood Mac show with Peter Green on guitar. Preferably Boston Tea Party shows.

[jmowreader]

64. Ozzy Osbourne in Knoxville, March 18, 1982

It was the last show Randy Rhoads ever played. He was killed that night.

[The Figment]

65. Ike and Tina Turner at the State Theater in Kalamazoo Mi.

1971, my first concert.

[retread]

69. Newport Jazz Festival 1958 -- Jazz on a Summer's Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=127&v=sHfdJyOb5qY

[bif]

70. John Coltrane. Any concert.

[Aristus]

71. The Doors at the Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, 1969.

After which, Jim Morrison was charged with indecent exposure for pulling out his wing-wang and waving it at the audience.

I'm not so much interested in seeing Morrison's ding-a-ling as I am in confirming that it didn't actually happen.

Over a hundred photos exist from the concert, and not one of them shows Morrison doing the deed.

[Mr.Bill]

85. Today is the 50th anniversary

of the Doors at the Hollywood Bowl. July5th 1968.

[7wo7rees]

74. Getz/Gilberto at Carnegie Hall

October 9, 1964 - ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto deliver their hits from the Grammy Award-winning album that started the bossa nova craze of the Sixties. This exclusive performance of some of the greatest songs by Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim, like The Girl From Ipanema, was devoured by the sold out audience in the only live performance ever recorded, including the ethereal voice of the wife of Joao, Astrud Gilberto.

This is the album my wife and I fell in love to.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

75. The premiere performance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"

in Paris in 1913. There was a riot.

[DBoon]

76. Sex Pistols USA tour

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-sex-pistols-break-up/

Their first and last

[PBC_Democrat]

78. Freddy Mercury & Queen in Montreal - 1981

Plenty of video on YouTube but it would have been amazing to be there live!

[GP6971]

79. Elton John

Tacoma Dome, September 1995

[JarOCats]

80. Judy Garland Live At Carnegie Hall.

I think I've seen 85% of the live acts (from Linda Ronstadt to The Go-Go's to Frank Sinatra to Elton John to Liza Minnelli) I had always wanted to see. And I'm getting way too old for live concerts now. If they're too loud, I must be too old. Besides, weed is way more expensive now.

[jrandom421]

81. Christmas 1989

Leonard Bernstein and the Berlin Philharmonic playing Beethoven Symphony No. 9 "Ode to Freedom"

[tinymontgomery]

82. Dylan on his 66' tour in England

Elston Gunn - Live in Sheffield, England, 1966

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[Coventina]

83. The Clash. Can't say a specific date or location.

One band I never got to see.

[OriginalGeek]

92. I may have mentioned this before

but my aunt told me that my uncle once took her to a Clash show at some little club in Chicago (I suspect - they lived there for a long time) but it was so loud she made him leave after about a song and a half. I was crushed for him lol.

[Coventina]

94. Oh man! The things we do for love!!

Now that's a strong marriage!

I wouldn't have done it!

[OriginalGeek]

99. this was actually before they got married

and he STILL married her!

lol, I'm still mad at my wife for getting sick during a Reverend Horton Heat show last year and making us leave about three songs in. Not as bad as leaving the Clash but still...Although, I guess I should go ahead and get over it - I had seen them twice before that and I did get to see the opening acts which included Junior Brown whom I love.

[Coventina]

100. I *heart* RevHo!

He always puts on a great show.

And Junior Brown as well!

Never seen him, but I enjoy his work also!

[lpbk2713]

84. A club appearance, not a concert as such ...

Roy Orbison Black and White Night.

Wish I could have been there.

[mac56]

89. Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert.

[malthaussen]

90. Massey Hall, 15 May 1953...

... the Bird blew a plastic sax and kicked it.

Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie Parker
Bud Powell
Charles Mingus
Max Roach

Since there was virtually nobody in the hall at that time, it would have been really cool to be one of them.

-- Mal

[OriginalGeek]

91. 6/23/77 Led Zeppelin at the LA Forum

For Badgeholders Only.


Edit to add: I used to be a pretty active bootleg collector and one of the standard goals of zep collectors was finding the earliest generation copy of any show. After a few generations the already iffy sound quality of a bootleg live show recording just goes to shit. The absolute best, lowest gen, cleanest sounding recording I ever got of the 6/23/77 show was sent to me (for free, out of the kindness of his heart) by Bartcop. We were both active on a Led Zep message board and he saw I loved that show and just sent it to me. Because he was into spreading the love.

[Iggo]

97. UFO...either Chicago '78 or Lousville '78.

Whichever one they recorded "Rock Bottom" at for Strangers In The Night.

[saidsimplesimon]

101. Yavin, thank you

for the walk down memory lane. Sorry, I can not, will not select a single concert. They all helped formed my liberal opinion of humanity.

[malchickiwick]

102. Vienna, May 7, 1824: The debut of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Ode to Joy, y'all!

[zipplewrath]

103. Mighty Day on Campus

It's cheatin' a little bit. Cause I know my future wife would be there.

[tonedevil]

105. Allman Brothers...

At Filmore East 1971

[ailsagirl]

106. Dire Straits anywhere!

[sellitman]

107. The Beatles, On The Roof

On The 30th of January 1969

Where is that time machine when you need it?

[backtoblue]

108. Prince at the Superbowl, in the rain.