I’ve seen most of the bands I care to see, but I would love to have seen Bad Religion in their prime in the early 90s.
The earliest I could find was a mesopotamian priestess named enheduanna, so that’s who I would want to see, just the chance to hear music no human since would ever get to hear
Points for imagination! That’s somebody’s next album cover.
Woodstock '69 at the age of 19.
YES. Woodstock is also my “where would you go first if you had a time machine” answer.
I dunno, Beatles in either the white album or Sgt pepper era would be amazing.
Specific performance, the nirvana mtv unplugged might be a better option.
Then again, there’s a dozen performances at Woodstock that were nuts. Hendrix at that show? Fuck me, that’s a peak music experience.
I dunno man, this one is hard.
Fuck! Robert Johnson! Any performance ever. The recordings from back then are not the best possible audio, and you know that man could tear up a room. That’s my final answer.
I might be wrong, but the Beatles weren’t performing live by those albums. The closest option would the famous rooftop jam they did at the Apple studio in 69
https://archive.org/details/thebeatlesapplerooftopconcert1969fullvideo
I’d take it!
- Pink Floyd c. 1979 during The Wall tour
- Portishead in '94 around the release of Dummy
- CCR at any point really
- Deftones in 2000 after the release of White Pony
- Jeff Buckley just performing Hallelujah
- Millencolin in 2000 right after release of Pennybridge Pioneers
- Bob Dylan at Newport in 1964, then again in 1965
- Nirvana at MTV Unplugged
- Hendrix at Woodstock
- AC/DC with Bon Scott in 1979
- Rage Against the Machine in 1999
This is an excellent list. I might add (just for fun) mid 70’s Deep Purple & mid 80’s Allan Holdsworth.
Ziggy Stardust
Queen, pre-80s
Right answer IMHO!
Frank Zappa’s Roxy band from the mid 70s
I got to see Kraftwerk perform Computerworld live a couple years ago and it was amazing. At this point I’ve seen the majority of my bucket list artists and I feel fortunate for this.
If I’m thinking time travel maybe an early Daft Punk show in France.
I’d like to see Zappa perform.
To be on the Festival Express train in 1970 and experience that rolling party/jam session with members of the Grateful Dead, The Band, Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company, New Riders of the Purple Sage and Buddy Guy to name a few.
I can’t decide between early Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath or Bal-Sagoth for something newer
The Rolling Stones back in 735BCE
Nirvana around '92 or '93
I got to see them in a club down here, and am so glad. They drove a tiny white van all the way across the country. There were like 30 people at that show.
Allman Brothers Band with Duane and Berry Oakley (I’m old).
Allman Brothers is a solid answer! 100%
Led Zeppelin.
A classmate of mine had tickets to see Zeppelin in, I think the fall of 1980. I wasn’t into Zep much then, but I remember how crushed he was hearing that Bonham had died and the tour was canceled.
