Led Zeppelin and Jeff Buckley. Didn’t get into Buckley until he was already dead, and Zep was before my time.
Ditto. I’d give a lot to get to see Queen perform live with Freddie Mercury out front. I’ve seen some live tapings and… damn. The atmosphere must have been incredible.
Beatles
Rolling Stones (60’s version)
Janis Joplin w/ Big Brother & the Holding Co.
Doors
Any rock act?
Hmmm. I guess I’d like to see the time the Puritans got a shock when they landed on Plymouth Rock.
Stevie Ray Vaughan’s concert on August 26, 1990. I’d make my way up to him and say “TAKE THE BUS!”
Gotta go with Pink Floyd. They have no equal.
The Clash or the Jam.
- Hendrix as the opening act for the Monkees. Two of my favorite groups on one bill!
The Monterey Festival has to be the all-time wish-for festival, though.
I don’t like a lot of rock from the sixties and seventies (most actually). I find the sound, for the most part, very unpleasant. It has to do with recording style, instruments, and vocals. I do like Queen a whole lot though and would have liked to see them.
Allman Brothers Band (Fillmore East group).
Chicago before Terry Kath’s death
The Beatles at the Cavern Club.
Definitely Woodstock.
Hüsker Dü. Was finally going to see them on their last tour, but something came up (probably to do with some girl I was interested in) and I didn’t end up going. I figured I’d see them next time around, but they broke up.
I’ve been lucky enough to see most of my favorite bands live, but I guess of the ones I didn’t I’d add The Clash, The Minutemen, XTC (even though they did most of my favorite material after they stopped touring), Talking Heads, Gang of Four, and, of course, The Beatles (Star Club/Hamburg era).
The Clash.
Oingo Boingo, circa 1982
Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Misfits, Nirvana.
In addition to a lot of the names mentioned already, I wish I had been able to see The Guess Who in 1971-72. I regret that I never got to see Kurt Winter play the guitar with my own eyes. I would have loved to hear performances from “Share The Land” and “So Long Bannatyne” by the group that made those albums (not later musicians in the group who learned the parts). Those were their best years. They were at their peak, and they weren’t too messed up on booze and drugs yet, and Domenic Troiano was still in Mandala, so TGW was safe for a couple more years.
Elvis, I would be happy with either the early years or with the crazy Vegas gig.
The people who mentioned The Doors reminded me of a woman I used to work for who had seen the Doors several times back in the day. Sometimes when we didn’t feel like doing work, someone in the office would casually bring up the Doors in conversation, as a set-up for another coworker to ask “Gee, what was it like to see the Doors in concert?” This resulted in hours of not-working.
Hendrix.
I have only seen a couple of the acts listed by others.
Saw them once in a club near Baltimore in the mid 70’s. They were good, lots of fun, but basically just a really good bar band. Lose the regret.
One of my favorite guitarists and I got to see them once with him (and once with his “replacement”).
Pink Floyd, either in the really early days when Syd was still relatively sane and dependable, or one of the first performances of Dark Side of the Moon. That way they don’t have as many casual, yet still manic, hangers-on as they did later on and they’d play the album in its entirety.
I don’t know if this has ever happened, but I’d like to see Coheed and Cambria play the entire In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 album in order. I saw them in concert but they only played 3 songs off of it.