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

Sly and the Family Stone

The Doors

Janis Joplin

But I did see:

Gram Parsons*

Bruce Springsteen*

Tim Buckley**

Jimi Hendrix**

Jefferson Airplane (many times)

Cesora Evora

Astor Piazzola

Gypsy Kings

Philip Glass (Einstein on the Beach, at Lincoln Center)

and a number of others

* at Max’s Kansas City

** at The Filmore East

@misterspooky - I saw the New York Dolls, I think at the Santa Monica Civic. They were awful. All posing. No talent to speak of. I actually sold my New York Dolls record soon after seeing them. I later saw David Johansen solo. Yeah he was actually good. I still enjoy his only(?) elpee.

Blue Cheer(1968) My curiosity wants to know were they really that loud and skilled live or is it just a baby boomer tale?

I would not have wanted to see the Beatles in concert - girls shrieking in my ears over a crap-sounding PA for 40 minutes would not be my idea of a good time; the band didn't even like it. So glad they went for studio magic instead. 

I do wish I'd seen Nirvana, though - it was always 'next time they're back'....