debm55's question gave my husband an idea for a related topic!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

Since deb posed the question 'what concerts did you see' my husband (who saw MANY more that me) said the one he would have LOVED to have seen is Paul McCartney.

How about you?

[livetohike]

1. So many. Hendrix, Janis, Doors,Led Zeppelin and

more. Oh well, I did see some good ones though .

[some_of_us_are_sane]

2. Wow!

Your list is very similar to his.
(I was a very uncool folk music fan. Joan Baez was my hero.).

[livetohike]

7. I did get to see her! n/t

[some_of_us_are_sane]

16. O WOW!!!

Besides her lovely vibrato, her values and choice of songs were soooooooo remarkable. I wish I'd been able to actually SEE her on stage. Good for you!

[Brother Buzz]

3. Bob Brozman

I saw him with R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders, playing to the music, but he had a tremendous one man show.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

5. I'd never heard of him, but BOY....

He knows his way around some STRINGS!!!

[ms liberty]

4. Genesis 1975 or earlier. David Bowie. Queen. Zepplin.

Peter Gabriel and Squeeze are still on my bucket list.

Not a complete list by any means, this is just off the top of my head.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

6. All great, but Bowie....

is King!

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Saw Him 5 Times

Twice in the 70s before I even met my wife.
She was very envious so we ended up seeing him 3 more times together.
Of course, I reminded her that as long as we were both going she was never going to catch up!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

25. LOL!!!

I envy that record!

[DBoon]

40. Did you see him on the Station to Station tour?

When the "warm up" was a screening of the Andalusian Dog?

[ProfessorGAC]

67. I Don't Think So

In fact, that may have been the tour that had no Chicago dates.
Pretty sure I saw Aladdin Sane & Heroes in the 70s.
In the 80s, we missed Serious Moonlight but saw Glass Spider & 2 other tours.

[justaprogressive]

8. Robin Trower

(saw Hendrix)

I had front row seats... they canceled the stop.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

10. WHAT A BUMMER, justaprogressive!

I can only imagine how gutted you must have felt!

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Happened To Us With Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson

Canceled it a day & a half before the show.
We did see Trower though. Aragon Ballroom 1975.

[debm55]

9. I would have liked to have seen, Queen

[some_of_us_are_sane]

11. That would have been a memory pressed into the heart forever!

Freddie Mercury was a LEGEND! WHAT A RANGE! He gave 1,000 percent.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. We Were Supposed To

They were on the bill to open for Mott The Hoople.
Brian May contracted hepatitis in the early part of the US tour, so Queen had to bail on all the dates.
They replaced them with Kansas. I think you can envision how that went over with the glam fans. (Disastrous after Kerry Livgren insulted the audience for not being more enthusiastic. It got BRUTAL after he did that.)
At least Mott put on a great show.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

18. I would have been SO disappointed!

Vivid memory for you though!

[debm55]

21. thank you ProfessorGAC. I saw Mott The Hoople back in the day. I wonder if Queen was on the bill

[Tikki]

15. We saw so many great bands between 1976 and 1983 but I wish..

we could have found a way to see The Screamers.

The Tikkis

[some_of_us_are_sane]

19. I'm embarrassed to say

I'm unfamiliar with both. I'll have to look them up!

[Tikki]

22. Different music developed during those years,,

I am a fanatic of the synth music genre.
The Screamers were early on the scene.

Interesting fact, the band had no guitars.

Tikki

[Figarosmom]

17. Had tickets for McCartney and Wings

Missed it. Same with the Pretenders but did see them later.

Concert I would have liked to have seen would be Iron Butterfly doing In A Godda Da Vida

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I've pretty much have seen all that I wanted to. During the days of my concert going tickets were rather cheap and my husband was off work every other week and my schedule was flexible. We also live right between Chicago and Milwaukee with Alpine Valley just down the highway so we were in prime area for it.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

20. You were VERY FORTUNATE!

Wow! SOME playbills! Good for you!

[OldBaldy1701E]

23. I know how this will sound, but bear with me.

My old bands.

I mean, I only ever saw videotapes and TV appearances, but I never got to experience the entire thing live.

It would have been nice to find out if we were worth a crap or not... ya know?

[some_of_us_are_sane]

26. Oh! You MUST have tapes!

We ALL need such great memories, saved in whatever way we can.

[OldBaldy1701E]

54. There are a few, but that is not the same as standing with the crowd and enjoying the vibe as well as the music.

I was wishing that I could attend the concert.

[Skittles]

24. I did see Paul McCartney, in San Antonio (great concert)

I wish I would have see Queen.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

27. YES!!!! DING DING DING!

tHE WINNER! (Can't wait to tell my husband!) GOOD FOR YOU!

[Srkdqltr]

28. Watched the Beatles on tv in a bowling ally bar in Livonia, Mi.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

30. TV is about all I managed, too Srkdqltr

Saw 'HARD DAY'S NIGHT' at the theater downtown in 1964 when I was 13, amidst the sea of screaming Beatles fans. LOL!!! Everyone was trying to buy Cuban heeled boots and 'mop top' wigs. ROFL!!!

[Srkdqltr]

32. Paul McCartney said he was 21 when they did the Sullivan show.

I realized I was the same age. Most of the people in the bowling alley came into the bar to watch. Interesting memory.

[CanonRay]

29. Simon and Garfunkle

[some_of_us_are_sane]

31. Ahhhhh! "Sounds of Silence'... my OTHER favorite singers!

They SURE WERE TALENTED! Loved them. Still do.

[Wiz Imp]

33. Harry Chapin

[some_of_us_are_sane]

35. "Cat's In The Cradle"....

Magnificent song! So poignant....sad..

[MIButterfly]

34. When I was 17 or so, I had a ticket for Blood, Sweat and Tears

that I had saved up for for weeks with my pittance of an allowance, which was more often than not withheld from me for some imagined infraction or another. On the night of the concert, the evil step-father refused to drive me because he was an asshole of gigantic proportions. I knew better than to ask my mother because there would be hell to pay from him and she wouldn't have done it anyway.

[LuckyCharms]

36. Around 1972 or so...

they played on my high school football field.

I snuck onto the field without a ticket and got thrown out.

I walked the two blocks home and sat in my bedroom with the window opened. I could hear the concert perfectly!

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[some_of_us_are_sane]

38. Loved their energy, Lucky...

but I ran right into David on my way to the washroom and I was flabberhasted and sputtered now much I loved his music.

He looked at me like I was a bug, kind of snickered and said, " F*ck off" and walked away. LOL!!

[MIButterfly]

42. What an asshole

Now I'm kind of glad I didn't see them.

Maybe the evil-stepfather knew something I didn't know. Nah, he was just being a jerk as always.

[LuckyCharms]

63. Sounds like he has a problem with his ego!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

64. I think he was drunk...lol

Looked sweaty and glassy-eyed.

[LuckyCharms]

65. I'm like that without being drunk.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

37. MIButterfly, I DID see them...

At the Holiday House in Pittsburgh In 1974. Electrifying, but David Clayton Thomas was a HUGE dick and probably high, though his performance was terrific.

[MIButterfly]

43. I don't think my 17-year-old self would've been able to handle that

My previous concerts were Herman's Hermits, The Cowsills and Paul Revere and the Raiders. BST was the first band I liked that wasn't geared toward the teenybopper crowd.

My first boyfriend's and my song was "More and More!" Ha!

Or was it "You've Made me so Very Happy"????? I don't remember "More and More" being a radio song. Whatever. It was one of the two.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

55. OMG!

My husband laughed when he heard I was a Cowsills fan and HAD THEIR ALBUM! i loved them. And Paul Revere and the Raiders too!

"Great minds think alike."

[MIButterfly]

71. Barry Cowsill was so cute and Mark Lindsay was gorgeous!

Great minds think alike indeed!

I had pictures of Mark Lindsay all over my bedroom walls. I got them from all those teenybopper magazines, Sixteen, Tiger Beat, etc.

Those were the days, my friend.....

[electric_blue68]

45. Damn thst sucks!

More sorry you had to live with such terrible cicumstances!

[MIButterfly]

46. You don't know the half of it!

Or are you being facetious? I don't know; it's late.

I survived, that's the main thing.

[electric_blue68]

48. Omg No!

I'm sorry if i gave that impression! 😔

[MIButterfly]

49. No, it's late and I'm just being silly

Thank you for your kind words. I appreciate it.

[electric_blue68]

50. Ah, ok. YW.

[DBoon]

39. Devo and Kraftwerk in the '70s

When they were new and influential.

I've seen both bands in this century, Kraftwerk several times.

Also Roxy Music would have been great to see, and Talking Heads in their heyday. I've seen David Byrne and Brian Ferry live in the last 20 years, but when they were new and influential would have been excellent.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

41. Sounds like we all

managed a great sampling of amazing 20th century music. I too love David Byrne.

Great selections!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

56. Talking Heads...

Were pure GENIUS!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

58. Devo! I remember those

weird hats! LOL!!

[TBF]

44. Before pandemic I bought tickets to see A-ha in LA at the Wiltern

but then the pandemic happened, shows postponed, and they finally had them in 2022 but the dates didn't work for me. Now Morten has Parkinson's so I'm sure that was the last chance to see him, even if the rest of the band performs. Really wish I could've seen him live.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

57. I have to confess, the 80's bands kind of slid by for me

but I do remeber TAKE ME ON..... LOVED that one!

[electric_blue68]

47. Sioux and The Bashees came right up! There was someone else I thought of...

since that was earlier yesterday I forgot...

Concert going was usually a lucky thing for me, seeing all my favorites and others. Helps being in one of the most major cities.

(if you didn't see my post my favorites, and a few others, out of another about 200 performers )
The Beatles, The Who, Bruce, U2, almost all the Original CBGBs bands, C;S,N&Y, Midnight Oil, S&G, The Stones, Bowie, Janis.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

59. That last line...

with all the bands' names........... that felt like my youth passing by in colorful flashes.

[electric_blue68]

72. Ah! Glad I could spark good memories! (I took 3 days off from news, so just returned)

[some_of_us_are_sane]

73. electric_blue68

It does help to take time off from all the bad news and mayhem! Glad you had GOOD memories here.

[electric_blue68]

79. Glad your husband thought of the question!

Yeah, I can't remember exactly sometime in April last year I realized after the awfulness of him being reelected; and bc I tend to keep up with news local, national, world - I had to give myself "days off". Even avoiding DU on the chance I accidentally see something.

But I think I might try it ondays off obviously going only to the Lounge, the science, or cultural type stuff and see if I can not accidently see the u-kmkw-who stuff. I will consider it an experiment!

[JBTaurus83]

51. Many

Stevie Nicks/Sheryl Crow
Madonna multiple times
Scott Weiland
Courtney Love
Smashing Pumpkins
Billy Corgan Solo
Beck
Lady GaGa
Tori Amos
Magdalena Bay
St Vincent
Nine Inch Nails
Yes

[some_of_us_are_sane]

60. So MANY GENIUS performers there!

TORI AMOS forever!

[JBTaurus83]

66. Boys for Pele

Is always battling in my mind as my favorite album.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

68. Everything that woman does....

is GOLDEN!

[TommieMommy]

52. Paul McCartney, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac 👍 would have loved to see them

[some_of_us_are_sane]

61. Yes, TommieMommy

that GOODNESS there are records, tapes.... "memory itself".

[love_katz]

53. Jefferson Airplane.

And the big festival at Monterey (before Woodstock). CSNY. Hendricks. And Fleetwood Mac.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

62. love_katz, I maintain that

GRACIE SLICK'S voice in "White Rabbit" is one of the most powerful and haunting female voices of all time!

[lark]

69. I've seen a lot but also missed on some important ones.

I had tickets to see Led Zepplin and they cancelled the show!

Groups/people I so wish I could have seen live -
Beatles
Paul McCartney and Wings
Led Zeppelin
Tom Petty
Stevie Ray Vaughn

[some_of_us_are_sane]

70. Stellar list, lark!

Music affords the background themes of our lives, doesn't it? Almost like watching a movie about our own life's journey.

[NNadir]

74. Joni Mitchell. I never saw her live. When I was playing in clubs...

...her songs made up about 20% of my set list.

Her open tuning always blew my mind and I riffed on a bunch of them.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

75. Joni

Was a genius.

[no_hypocrisy]

76. Y'know what? I saw John Prine twice, Johnny Cash once, and Arlo Guthrie 3 times,

up close and personal in small venues.

I couldn't wish for more or better.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

77. I envy that dance card, no hypocrisy!

What a spectacular group of artists!

[waterwatcher123]

78. I got to go to quite a few concerts (sister got free or very cheap tickets).

The Moody Blues would have been my choice for a concert extraordinaire.

[WestMichRad]

80. Jethro Tull

Always regretted my missed opportunity to see them on their Thick as a Brick tour. A friend offered me a ticket, but I (a nerdy teen) made the mistake of asking my parents if I could go and they adamantly refused permission. Should have gone and let them ground me afterward… by all accounts it was a fantastic show. F*k!!

Would also have loved to see the New York Dolls in their heyday… and the B-52s…
(And many others I’m not thinking of at present.)