greatest live concert you saw and missed

[CgarDan]

What are some great concerts that you saw and regret missing

 

for me:  saw live.  

‘Guns and roses with Metallica, nine inch nails further down the spiral tour, more recently. The weekend. Star boy tour

a few I missed and regret as can never see them again

Leonard Cohen last tour, Pink Floyd pulse tour

[BrightonCorgi]

The best concerts I saw live would be George Michael, Bad Brains with Agnostic Front, or Barry White.

The one I missed, if I could see any band ever live would be ABBA.

[Bram Smoker]

Missed Prince at the Ogden Theater in Denver because money was tight. That was the last time he was in Denver if I recall.

Best show is harder to nail down. Ben Harper solo at an opera house was amazing. I'd have to say Eric Church at an old honky-tonk in Jacksonville back in 2008.

[Subcomandante]

At first I thought it meant best concert you went to but missed because you got high and passed out or spent the evening dry humping and sucking face with your future ex wife. Then I reread it.

For me my favorite concert was a festival in downtown Los Angeles with Rage Against the Machine and Cypress Hill headlining. I was around 13-14 at the time and was seeing these groups when they barely released their debut albums. Standing in the shadows of the high rises and in a mosh pit 20 feet away from the band as a 145lb/65kg kid was a pretty amazing experience. 

Concert I wish I went to was rage against the machine at the democratic national convention in downtown Los Angeles. Would’ve been a cool experience 

 

[mbflash80]

Saw Rob Halford front Black Sabbath at the Orange Pavillion in Costa Mesa back in 92? They were opening for Ozzy...and Sepultura were first up...great show.

I missed Merle Haggard in Oakland in 2016 because I was being lazy...and he passed away 3 weeks later...I will always regret not being able to say I saw the greatest country singer of all time live.

[SigmundChurchill]

The greatest:

The Warlocks

Hampton Coliseum, Hampton Virginia.  October 8-9 1989

The Grateful Dead were banned from playing the town of Hampton Virginia, so they booked the concerts under their original name, The Warlocks.  

We heard about it through the rumor mill, and they only sold tickets at the box office, so when they went on sale about a month before the show, my friends and I made the trip to Hampton Virginia to buy them.  Then we went back a month later for the shows.

Totally worth it!  Out of the roughly 150 Dead/Garcia shows I saw, these were the best by far!

 

The one that got away:

Queen

The original Queen, with Freddie Mercury, not this new version with Adam Lambert, which I did see for nostalgic purposes.  I always regretted never seeing Freddie Mercury perform.

[Meklown]

The greatest: Avicii, if anyone else is into that genre. IMO best mixer I've heard live and a pity he was gone so quickly

The one that got away: Micheal Jackson. Love him or hate him, he was a real character and a brilliant performer. Not to say he basically invented the modern music videos. Was absolutely set on getting myself tickets to his final performance planned in London and was devastated to hear of his demise

[JohnS]

The greatest concert I went to was at Enmore Theatre, Sydney to see Jeff Buckley in 1996. Sadly, he passed away tragically the year after so I am happy I had the chance to see him.

Led Zeppelin's only show in my hometown occurred 4 months prior to my birth. I wish I could have gone to it if I was older.

[joeypots]

I saw the Talking Heads at The Paradise in Boston right after they released the second album, More Songs about Buildings and Food.  ‘76? The Paradise was a very small club back then and we were two tables back from the stage. 

I wish I’d seen The Who do Quadrophenia at the Boston garden a few years ago.  She it, I wish I’d seen The Who anytime.

[lovethehaze]

Best was 6/25/92. My first dead show at soldier field. I remember vividly waking in and The Steve Miller Band was playing the stake and all I could see everywhere I looked was people smoking marijuana. Lol. I said to myself wow this is crazy everyone is smoking and no one cares.
The 2nd set was very memorable for me as I was new to the scene and many covers were played with James cotton accompanying them on harmonica. Also two from the vault was the only album I had and they played a few from this
Iko iko
Good morning little schoolgirl
St.
He’s gone
Wheel
Watchtower
Love light
Gloria encore to name a few.

Saw many more from there in but this had to have been the best. The atmosphere had me hooked.

Missed would be any Tom petty. Really would have liked to have seen him. Maybe Michael Jackson would have been Interesting as well. Can’t deny his musical genius.




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[FireMedic]

1 hour ago, Subcomandante said:

At first I thought it meant best concert you went to but missed because you got high and passed out or spent the evening dry humping and sucking face with your future ex wife. Then I reread it.

For me my favorite concert was a festival in downtown Los Angeles with Rage Against the Machine and Cypress Hill headlining. I was around 13-14 at the time and was seeing these groups when they barely released their debut albums. Standing in the shadows of the high rises and in a mosh pit 20 feet away from the band as a 145lb/65kg kid was a pretty amazing experience. 

Concert I wish I went to was rage against the machine at the democratic national convention in downtown Los Angeles. Would’ve been a cool experience 

 

So I was at the DNC show with Ozomatli, it got very intense, very fast. I would expect nothing less from RATM, by far one of my favorite bands. 

 

Show I regret missing was ACDC on the last tour with Brian, I thought they'll be back, dumbass. 

 

Best might be Phish in 2000, 20,000 fans going nuts, unbelievable jam sessions that went on for what feels like 30+ minutes. It is however hard to pick the best

[Hammer Smokin']

Best I attended:

Phish NYE 1999 at the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation, Florida Everglades

Played 3 sets on 12-30. A huge afternoon / early evening set on 12-31. Then to ring in the New Year in style, they got back on the stage at 11:59 and played 7.5 hours straight, without a set break, until sunrise.

First sunrise. January 1, 2000.

And yes, the midnight fire works was amazing. Ringing in the new millennium with 95K of my closest friends, priceless.

 

 

Greatest show I missed would have been Neil Young here in my hometown of Hamilton, playing Halloween 10-31-1996. I was 16, and my parents said I could go, if I bought the tickets myself. Instead I spent it on weed. To be young and stupid. The show went down as one of Neil's greatest of the 90's. All my buddies older brothers raved about how amazing it was...we were 16 and stupid.

 

[Mikeltee]

9 minutes ago, lovethehaze said:

Best was 6/25/92. My first dead show at soldier field. I remember vividly waking in and The Steve Miller Band was playing the stake and all I could see everywhere I looked was people smoking marijuana. Lol. I said to myself wow this is crazy everyone is smoking and no one cares.
The 2nd set was very memorable for me as I was new to the scene and many covers were played with James cotton accompanying them on harmonica. Also two from the vault was the only album I had and they played a few from this
Iko iko
Good morning little schoolgirl
St.
He’s gone
Wheel
Watchtower
Love light
Gloria encore to name a few.

Saw many more from there in but this had to have been the best. The atmosphere had me hooked.

Missed would be any Tom petty. Really would have liked to have seen him. Maybe Michael Jackson would have been Interesting as well. Can’t deny his musical genius.




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Soldier Field shows were the best. I turned 21 at the final show. The concrete campgrounds kinda sucked but I never did much sleeping on tour anyways. These new shows dont really don't for me. Thank goodness for the decades of HQ bootlegs!

[lovethehaze]

Soldier Field shows were the best. I turned 21 at the final show. The concrete campgrounds kinda sucked but I never did much sleeping on tour anyways. These new shows dont really don't for me. Thank goodness for the decades of HQ bootlegs!

I was at the last shows as well. Kinda crazy how it all needed so soon after this.
And I agree without jerry it just isn’t for me.


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[Markspring1978]

Saw Robert Plant in a small amphitheater on a river in Missoula a couple weeks ago. The guy at over 70 still has pipes. A DMB show at The Gorge in Washington was pretty memorable as well. But best was probably the Joshua Tree 30 year anniversary show in Seattle. U2 played the whole iconic album from top to bottom. 
 

The Eagles stopped in Billings Montana a few years back. Shortly thereafter Glen passed. That was my biggest miss. 

[tigger]

1 hour ago, SigmundChurchill said:

The greatest:

The Warlocks

Hampton Coliseum, Hampton Virginia.  October 8-9 1989

The Grateful Dead were banned from playing the town of Hampton Virginia, so they booked the concerts under their original name, The Warlocks.  

We heard about it through the rumor mill, and they only sold tickets at the box office, so when they went on sale about a month before the show, my friends and I made the trip to Hampton Virginia to buy them.  Then we went back a month later for the shows.

Totally worth it!  Out of the roughly 150 Dead/Garcia shows I saw, these were the best by far!

 

The one that got away:

Queen

The original Queen, with Freddie Mercury, not this new version with Adam Lambert, which I did see for nostalgic purposes.  I always regretted never seeing Freddie Mercury perform.

Don't really have an answer for the OP, but just stopping in to say those Hampton shows were a darn great time. ?

[Hammer Smokin']

If I was to take the way back machine, and get to see a single Dead show, I'd pick the July 7th/8th, 1978 Red Rocks Run.

Red Rocks is the best concert venue I've ever been to. Seeing my favourite band, the Grateful Dead, at my favourite venue, Red Rocks, would have been an ultimate thrill.

[DaBoot]

Greatest concert was very recent when I caught Metallica with the San Francisco Symphony!! Could feel the love for music all around 

 

The one I missed was Prince in Oakland. Last tour I believe. Had the tickets, decided to let the ( ex ) Old lady go with her Dad instead. 3rd row even. ?‍♂️

 

 

[Hammer Smokin']

Love Rock shows with Symphonies!!!

Saw The Who do Tommy with a full symphony orchestra. My favourite of the half dozen or so Who shows I saw.

[earthson]

Missed Bowie with NIN.  Regret it to this day.

I've seen a few great shows.  Recent MC5 tour was stupefying in how tight it was.  Both Rodriguez tours that came through were magic, though having backstage connects helped to augment that.  Both times I saw Midnite (reggae) were witchy, too.

[El Hoze]

1 hour ago, SigmundChurchill said:

The greatest:

The Warlocks

Hampton Coliseum, Hampton Virginia.  October 8-9 1989

The Grateful Dead were banned from playing the town of Hampton Virginia, so they booked the concerts under their original name, The Warlocks.  

We heard about it through the rumor mill, and they only sold tickets at the box office, so when they went on sale about a month before the show, my friends and I made the trip to Hampton Virginia to buy them.  Then we went back a month later for the shows.

Totally worth it!  Out of the roughly 150 Dead/Garcia shows I saw, these were the best by far!

Wow! I am 40. Missed the good Dead shows but saw what I could. That is great one.

[Hammer Smokin']

A gift from me to you.

Put together the lossless FLACs from that special Hampton Run. 6 dics both nights.

Enjoy

https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/apj4nw

[bpm32]

3 hours ago, mbflash80 said:

Saw Rob Halford front Black Sabbath at the Orange Pavillion in Costa Mesa back in 92? They were opening for Ozzy...and Sepultura were first up...great show.

I missed Merle Haggard in Oakland in 2016 because I was being lazy...and he passed away 3 weeks later...I will always regret not being able to say I saw the greatest country singer of all time live.

I saw Hag live at a show in an Indian casino. Drunkenly tried to get him to play “Ramblin’ Fever”, but he said he didn’t want to play “any of that old Branson shit”.

[CampDelta369]

Dire Straits Brothers in Arms Tour October 85 Boston Garden. They Just Nailed it!

Sorry i missed Led Zeppelin at MSG in 1973. Just to see live, one time, Jimmy Page Shred "Since Ive Been Loving You". Unfortunately i was only 6.

I did catch up with Page on "The Firm" first Tour with Paul Rogers in '85. Outstanding.

[Ken Gargett]

the feb '14 Brizzy concert of bruce, which i read somewhere is now considered one of his greats. a minute short of four hours. perfect. have seen him about ten times and that was the pick (misses - every other bruce concert?). others close but on this night, as well as all the usual brilliant stuff, they played the full album, start to finish, of 'the wild, the innocent and the E street shuffle'. said it was only the 2nd time the band had ever done that. it was as good as it gets. 

i was at the anz stadium in march 85 (i obviously was very young) which was apparently, despite what he says in his book, bruce's first massive outdoor stadium concert. he claims in his book that his first was june 85 in ireland. not sure what he was on three months earlier if he can't remember this one (and a few others he later played elsewhere on the same tour). 

i see someone mentioning neil young. saw him twice - once in brizzy which was at his peak. brilliant. a few years later in london when he was off his gourd. not so brilliant. another bloke i saw twice, again brilliant once and dismal the second time, was billy joel. brilliant in london, bog average out here. fleetwood mac out here in sydney, early 90s, was fabulous. saw jackson browne out here and in DC, (and london, i think), all excellent. 

saw dylan several times, once in london with tom petty which was terrific. but the first time i saw him (78 or 79 - i was extremely young, almost not born) in brizzy by far the best. based on the budokan album, my fave! not sure how true it is but we read later that it was the first time in his career that he had ever given a second encore. mind you, it took nearly fifteen minutes of the entire concert hall stomping and cheering and clapping and screaming to get him back. that was perhaps the 2nd best concert i've seen. 

clapton at the royal albert hall in the late 80s. extraordinary (had mark knopfler on guitar and phil collins on drums). 

for missed, i guess would have loved to have seen the stones at their peak. the old man saw the beatles - hated it. also, was all set to see warren zevon but illness took him before he could tour.

the most fun was actually at a huge casino/golf tour event when the organisers got the four tops. somehow i ended up at the front of stage, everyone dancing all night to those great old motown hits. not sure how but i got the job of handing them women up on the stage to dance with them. so much fun all night. and the women were lining up! they did their encore, said goodnight and finished up and left the stage. then the lead comes back on stage, just walks over, leans down, shakes my hand and thanks me and walks off again. i have always considered myself the fifth top ever since. very sad to hear that he passed away soon after.