Pink Floyd. From The Wall or earlier.
Since we’re in fantasyland already, I’d love to see a double billing of Nirvana and The Zombies.
But that’s the POINT!
And, based on this thread, I should brag about having seen Queen in 1982. Woot! I was 15.
Pink effin’ Floyd.
I’d give an arm and a leg to hear the second solo to Comfortably Numb live.
Bow wow wooooow…
Kate Bush, since she only ever did one limited tour of Europe and the UK in 1979, and has refused to tour since. I did get to see her sing in person once, at a fan convention, but that’s not the same as an actual tour show, since the tour shows were multi-media extravaganzas.
The Beatles, no question.
Hands down Pink Floyd before the split. I saw the Division Bell tour and it was one of the most amazing nights of entertainment I’ve ever experienced. I can only imagine what it would have been like to see the whole band together.
(I’m going in September to see the Roger Waters Dark Side of the Moon tour… that should be pretty amazing, too)
a small sample:
Santana around the time of “Lotus”
Pink Floyd after, “Dark Side”, before “The Wall”
Led Zeppelin (except the shows they made that horrible movie from)
Tommy Bolin
Return To Forever (DiMeola, Clarke, Corea and White)
Sea Level
Little Feat on the tour that gave us “Waiting For Columbus”
Weather Report during the Jaco era
Every version of the Allman Brothers, but the true fantasy would be a show with all the members (past and present, living and not) on the same night, like Gov’t Mule’s “Deepest End” project
Derek and the Dominos
(okay maybe it’s not such a small sample)
And, just because they are not eligible for the other thread (not on tour again this year until the fall): The Flower Kings
Lynyrd Skynyrd. Their music was just catching on up here in the northwest when the plane crashed.
Are we really this far in with only one vote for Woodstock? Count me in there.
And now I’ll go along with the majority more and say Queen and Led Zeppelin. Styx would be another big deal for me too.
I wanna see Jim Morrison’s dingding!! 
I would see Grandaddy. They broke up just months after I became completely obsessed with them.
I’m a little surprised to see the Beatles mentioned here. When they toured, their music was mostly “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, “Eight Days A Week”, and “I Saw Her Standing There”, etc. All fun, well made songs, but I think they did their best work after they stopped giving concerts.
Are the people who mentioned the Beatles here saying that they would have liked to have seen the Beatles perform their later songs (“I am The Walrus”, “Across The Universe”, “Hello Goodbye”, etc.) in concert?
I saw Led Zeppelin a few times. They were great concerts, but I thought Page strayed a little too far from the original song sometimes to the point where you weren’t sure what song they were playing. Give me studio Zeppelin.
The concert I would have liked to see was Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young doing their “4 Way Street” Album.
The Beatles. When they were playing shitty clubs in Germany. I would tip them, talk to them, and hang out with them a bit.
That would be cool.
I was going to say that I don’t understand people mentioning The Beatles either, since when I think (thought) of them in concert all I picture are thousands of subhuman, screaming, teenage girls. Could anyone actually HEAR MUSIC at a Beatles concert? And yes, the music was worth hearing. It’s damn fine pop. Then I read this:
Yeah, there we go. You’re right, that would be cool, AND you could hear the music. I’ll add that to my list.
I would NOT have wanted to be at Woodstock. I’m a total sissywimp. Too many people. Too wet. Too muddy. Too dirty. Too stinky. Too all-around miserable, and bad acid to boot. The music was all great, sure, but how many people REALLY enjoyed the whole thing from beginning to end. If you were close to the stage it must have been a nightmare just to get to the Portapotty or get something to eat. If you were close to the johns and the food tents, could you even HEAR any of the music?
Thank goodness for the movie, with its good sound and close-ups of bands. That’s how I like experiencing Woodstock.
A note to Floyd fans out there: the long-awaited PULSE DVD is coming out on Monday…finally!!!
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Live at the El Mocambo Toronto, Canada - July 11, 1983.
I just want to witness the moment where he blew the roof off that dump.
The Beatles stopped touring in '66. There was some magnificent music yet to come, but there was still an amazing body of work up until that point. Would I leap at the chance to hear the Beatles play “Day Tripper”? “I Feel Fine”? “Nowhere Man”? “Ticket to Ride”? “I’m Down”? And, yes, “All My Loving,” “Hard Day’s Night,” “Help,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” etc. That would be a pretty cool show, eh?
Would I jump at the chance to hear them on the roof of Apple Record during the Let It Be sessions? Yep. How about when they were playing in Hamburg or the The Cavern? That would be awesome, too. Any Beatles concert would still be mind-boggling. IMO, of course, but it’s the same reason my CD collection has Hard Day’s Night and the White Album. It’s all great. (Can’t understand why those guys never caught on 
)…
I’d love to have been at one of Johnny Cash’s prison shows, like when they recorded “Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.” Cept I wouldn’t want to have to be an inmate to see it.
I saw them during this period–in the spring of 1975, about five months before Wish You Were Here was released. And Ludovic’s point about the “casual, yet still manic, hangers-on” that appeared after Dark Side caught on is well taken. The audience at the show I saw was heavily weighted towards screaming, whistling, stoned-out imbeciles. “Raving and Drooling” indeed. The show itself was quite daring, with the first hour consisting entirely of then-unreleased material: “Raving and Drooling” (early version of “Sheep”), “You’ve Gotta Be Crazy” (early version of “Dogs”), and a lengthy version of “Shine On, You Crazy Diamond” with “Have a Cigar” inserted into the middle. Then there was a break, and the band returned to play Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. The encore was “Echoes.”