Television, on their 1992 reunion tour. They played only three classic Marquee Moon tracks, the rest all came from the recent album. Never seen a show like it: silence from the crowd as they let the guitar interplay wash over them, then ecstatic response between each track.
As I was born in '73, I missed a lot of my faves first time around, including the entire first wave of punk. I did get to see The Ramones three times in the 90s. Never saw The Clash but I did get to see B.A.D. at the Viper Room, which is likely one of my top 5 shows ever. Saw Stiff Little Fingers at the Grog Shop in Cleveland in 2007, and the Buzzcocks are coming to town in about a month, so that’ll be one more checked off the Class of '76 bucket list.
I envy you for that, and though I was old enough then to could have seen one of these shows (though I don’t know if they played in Germany), that was before I discovered Television. People often forget that their “other” two albums were also very good, but they’re overshadowed by the brilliance of “Marquee Moon”.
Minor sidestory: after the gig I got both Richard Lloyd and Tom Verlaine to autograph a cigarette pack. I asked Tom why their cover of “Fire Engine” was called “The Blow-up” on the sleeve of their ROIR live album, and he said 'Because some asshole didn’t want to pay the publishing rights!" and then I swear to god his eyeballs vibrated.
seen Porter Waggoner at the Kokomo High School gym in 86 seen Mickey Gilley at the IU campus in the same town first time I’d seen panties tossed on a stage … he signed them and gave em back …seen Confederate Railroad in a tent at a Laughlin NV casino still mad I didn’t get to see boxcar willie tho … got the flu 2 days before the concert
I am pretty sure I’m not the only one here who has seen Son Seals. But have any of you had him come to your table and sit down while in the middle of playing an extended guitar solo? Because that was freakin’ awesome.
I’m having a hard time thinking of any concerts I saw where the artist later fell out of favor with me and my tastes, even if my fandom tapered off. Nor did I see anyone ironically that I regret (like I said above, I really enjoyed Mel C.). Though I do regret seeing Echo and the Bunnymen a few months back. I still like the band, but Ian McCulloch was drunk off his ass and out of tune all night, and the show sucked.