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what concerts do you wish you attended?

Let me preface this by saying you can only pick single performances and not festivals ( sorry all you people that would put woodstock on your list). Also please feel free to pick performances before you were born.

That said the performances I wish I could have seen are:

1)Pink Floyd performing the Wall in 1980 in Madison Square Garden. I was not old enough to drive yet and I was not going to buy an airline ticket and then have to buy tickets off the street and then deal with my parents after all that.

2)Miles Davis with his first classic group. To hear Miles, Coltrane, Evans...all on one stage would have been an experience of a lifetime.

3)Tom Waits in his middle years before the voice went and he was doing a lot of work with jazz and just letting it flow. I have seen an old performance from PBS from the late 70's and it was wild.

4)Francis Albert Sinatra----Late 50's enough said.

I now realize I could be at this for quite a while so I just stop now.
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chashmal
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1) The opening premier of Stravinsky's "Rites of Spring" and subsequent riot
2) Coltrane at the Vanguard 1961 and Seattle at the Penthouse 1965
3) Any Bird show with Max Roach in 1947 on 52d ST
4) J.S. Bach premier of St. John Passion
5) Karlheinz Stockhausen with David Tudor 1970
6) Jimi Hendrix, Fillmore East, New Years eve 1970 (my brother was there... lucky bastard)
7) The Electric Kool-aid Acid test in LA 1966 when Ken Kesey urinated on a flower to a completely incoherent Grateful Dead as back up
8) John Cage premier of '4:33' in Woodstock NY and subsequent riot
9) Marin Marais at Versailles around the time of his court appointment
chashmal
605 posts
 
Oh, and lest I forget: Morton Feldman conducting his work and playing piano at carnagie hall in the early 70's. Hell, any Morton Feldman appearing anywhere for that matter.

By the way, I was at the Wall concert. I didn't like it, and I was a HUGE Floyd fan. I thought it was a commercial sell-out move that wasn't interesting OR very psychedelic. Roger Waters whining about his school teachers? Give me a break!
vegasears
1,173 posts
 
The Allman Brothers Band at the Fillmore 1971 and Cream at the Royal Albert Hall, London 2005.
puerto
372 posts
 
Almost anything at the Fillmore West in the 1960's. I was there for a lot of them! Janis Joplin, Buffalo Springfield, Credence, You name it!
j_evege
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The Ahmad Jamal's Cross Country Tour Sessions.
The sound is life-like on the album I feel like I"m there when I listen, but also because I love this music so much. Some of the finest jazz percussion you'll ever hear and his piano playing twinkles like stars.

Judy Garland Live at Carnegie Hall.
Some said her career was over at this point but it doesn't sound like when I listen to this album. First off, she gives so much passion to every song. Next, the selection of songs is staggering not only for the quantity but also for the sophistication. Some of the greatest popular songs ever written by some of the greats like Noel Coward, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, and The Gershwins.
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