I'd go back 2,000 years to a peaceful California tribe such as the Chumash and listen to a live concert around the campfire when the only music was live music. And when there was nothing in the sky but birds.

 buddy wrote: 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

hater.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
That is so wrong.

Every single Grateful Dead show.

 meower wrote: 
I missed out on that the night I got home from bootcamp. I wasn't sure what time I was getting home so told my buddies to give the ticket to a friend, who of course is dead now from a smack OD. Idiot. Loved him like a brother, but couldn't stand what he was doing to himself and he just laughed whenever I gave him shit about it.

 meower wrote:  Amen.

Also, Stevie Ray Vaughn at the old(ish) Antone's on Guadalupe.

 meower wrote: 
Take me with you, please.

little feat with lowell

 ditty wrote: 
I can imagine.

I only got to the Grande four times, as I was only 16 and didn't think I could bluff my way into the age-restricted concerts. Not only that, I had no idea who Wolf was back then, nor would any of my buddies have been interested in seeing him. Taking a date there was out of the question, as the Grande was in a seedy part of Detroit and suburban parents were wary. Others shows I missed that I'm certain would have been more than memorable in that venue:

• Jeff Beck
• Fleetwood Mac (Thu) - Pink Floyd (Fri) - Who (Sat) 
• Led Zeppelin
• Paul Butterfield Blues Band
• Steve Miller Band (WAY early)
• Blood, Sweat & Tears (w Al Kooper instead of that David Clayton Thomas interloper) 

 Proclivities wrote: 

Those kids don't know good music like when we were kids!

Duran Duran at the Rum Runner in Birmingham, UK anytime in 1979 - 1982
U2 at Red Rocks 1984 (ish) 
Styx during ANY tour before the release of Kilroy Was Here

I was supposed to go to the Texas Jam when I was 13, but the folks decided I was too young and my brother got to go with my sister instead.  The line up was (from Wikipedia):

• Styx (Kilroy Was Here tour)
• Sammy Hagar
• Triumph
• Ted Nugent
• Uriah Heep

Sammy came on right before Styx at the end. Trivia: Ted Nugent and Rik Emmett joined Sammy Hagar on stage in Dallas for their version of Led Zeppelin's "Rock "n Roll." Tommy Shaw recalls these shows as being some of the worst of his career. He claims to have feared for his life as his band was performing nothing but the (lame)ROCK OPERA "Killroy was here" after some of the best hard rock bands of the day had performed. (This was the tour that essentially ended Styx.) Not even RENEGADE?

That would have been totally awesome. 

 Proclivities wrote: 
What if they're all killed in a horrific plain crash in the Andes when they're 8 years old before they record any music. You won't be such a big fan then will you, Mr Listen. 

 Proclivities wrote: 
Win.

Something about fifty years in the future, by people who won't be born for another twenty-five years or so.

 hippiechick wrote: 



Jinx you owe me a Coke. :)

Duh. WOODSTOCK. The only real choice.

Woodstock, that's easy!

Dmitri Shostakovich conducting his "1st Symphony" in Berlin