What concert or performance would you like to see/have witnessed firsthand?

So many, but the first that came to mind was Monteray Pop Festival, 1967.
Seeing Jim Morrison & the Doors would be cool, too. And Led Zeppelin circa early 1970s. Seeing Miles Davis play when he was still playing small, smokey jazz clubs would also be nice. And there certainly is something appealing about seeing Mozart. And I would’ve loved to hear Heifetz play in person.

I would have loved to see Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Review in 1975

Janis Joplin at the Monterey Pop festival. Youtube link.

The original Woodstock. The music would’ve been great, but the experience would have been RIDICULOUS.

Monterey Pop in person would have been incredible, @tb ! To be up close enough to smell the smoke from Hendrix’s performance…...

I’d certain like to have seen:
– Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour
– The Last Waltz (The Band, Dylan, Joni, etc.)
– Charlie Parker in the Savoy studio
– Coltrane & Monk at the Five Spot
– Chopin in his living room
– Mozart at the court of Franz Josef
– Hamlet at the Globe theater
– The triumphal march of Julius Caesar
– David playing his harp (or lyre)

@steelmarket Exactly. I almost had to choose Woodstock just to be able to hear & see him play The Star Spangled Banner!

Wicked with the original Broadway cast. Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel are my heroes.

As Tits said: “The original Woodstock. The music would’ve been great, but the experience would have been RIDICULOUS.”

…and I’d like to have experienced it with Tits next to me too ;)

@steelmarket Great Answers!

I couldn’t name every show I wish I could have been present for, but off the top of my head Grateful Dead at Cornell Univ 1977 & any Muddy Waters show after 1948.

Or one of the early Dead performances (with the Merry Pranksters) as chronicled in Wolfe’s Electric Kool Aid Acid Test !

I’d probably choose Woodstock to see Hendrix do the star-spangled banner, but really I think i’d like to see the Beatles rooftop concert (I believe it was their last). To be honest, as gross as it sounds…I think I also would have loved to see Ozzy bite the head off that bat.

the elliott smith show where he dressed up in a fuzzy red elmo-like suit during a song.

there’s definitely dozens i’d like to have seen, but that came to me first. (and coincidentally, georgia, georgia just started playing on my shuffle as i was typing that :p)

I’d’ve loved to have gone to Monterrey Pop in ‘67. Woodstock, too, but I was only about a month old.
The church yard where Paul met John in 1957.

The Beatles at the Cavern Club, at the Star Club on the Reeperbahn, The Royal Variety Performance (”...And the rest of you, just rattle your jewelry.”), Ed Sullivan, Budokan, Shea Stadium, The All You Need Is Love TV special, the last live paid gig in San Francisco in 1966. And the very last one, Abbey Road Rooftop concert.

I’d go to any P-Funk show in their mid-70s heyday.
I’d like to have seen The Monkees first UK show.
James Brown at the Apollo.
Billie Holiday debuting Strange Fruit at Café Society
Bob Dylan going electric at Newport Jazz Festival
Robert Johnson at a juke joint. Any juke joint.
The minigig Stevie Wonder taped on Sesame Street in 1974.

Count me in for Woodstock. I would have avoided the brown acid and had a blast!

@Jack79: I couldn’t ask for better company, for sure :D

And I don’t drink, smoke or take drugs, so I’d be able to drive you back home safely after the concert. Problem is I also sing, so I’d probably have to spend most of the time on stage and leave you all alone with all them flower-smoking hippies. So perhaps I’m not such a great company after all…

i would love to see the doors & jim morrison live. i think that would be amazing.
also jimi hendrix, robbie williams, the hives (again), the kooks (again), led zep, acdc, guns n roses, underoath, tiesto.

Three words…Sinatra.

in the 50’s and in vegas

@Jack79: If you were to have driven me home, that would have been the best (most responsible) company ever, and I would’ve appreciated it endlessly.

@Blondesjon – yeah, to spend a week in Vegas during the Rat Pack days – that would be a cool experience. As long as we are dreaming, let’s include an invite to hang out at Frank’s pool.

true story: I once cut a concert short because there was a girl in the crowd that I’d promised to drive home by midnight. LOL

@steelmarket…Right on! How about sitting in on some of those marathon poker games they had as well?

@laureth
Janis Joplin’s a boy?!?! kidding