Bands/artists you never got to see live in their heyday, but would've liked to.

Beatles - without the screaming girls that made it impossible to hear them

Artie Shaw
Hendrix

saw most of the rock bands listed here, even remember a few of those shows.   50 + times, for Grateful Dead, SRV. 

I am grateful to have heard all the great bluesmen of the last generation.   No one could rock the house like John Lee Hooker.

jasonbourne had the hic-c-c-c-cups.

@schubert:

Woody Shaw --- far better than old-fashioned Artie !

Jimi with Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell (because I actually prefer his post-psychedelic phase)

Allmans with Duane 

Faces, when R. Wood was in his prime

Janis 

Mahavishnu Orchestra

Coltrane with Classic Quartet

Miles with 2nd Great Quartet

D. Gordon

Santana with Lotus band 

Wayne Shorter during his Blue Note phase 

Albert King (saw BB and Freddie) 

Pat Martino 

Lifetime

B. Marley (missed him when I lived in S. Barbara but there was just so much good music, there and then!) 

J. Beck with Rough and Ready line-up

McCoy Tyner in his prime 

M. Bloomfield with Butterfield 

Milton Nacimiento 

And, if the OP will indulge me, I'd like to step off the nostalgia train jut long enough to remind myself and everyone else that there are still excellent musicians performing. In this regard, I'd love to see Black Pumas !  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOKfK8y4_MQ

I now return you to regular scheduled program...


@lloydc:

   "No one could rock the house like John Lee Hooker"

Maybe... but SRV, after he'd gotten clean, wasn't too shabby !  !  !  

@stuartk: nice comeback! thanks!