10 shows you would have like to have been at...

[Random Sample]

Some of them are specific, others are time periods that I would have liked to see groups play.

1. Jimi Hendrix - Montreaux 1967
2. Bad Brains - NY 1982
3. Nina Simone - Paris 1969
4. Black Flag - LA 1982
5. Miles Davis & Thelonius Monk- Newport 1958
6. Pink Floyd - Pompeii 1972
7. Black Sabbath - UK 1969
8. Herbie Mann - Live at the Village Gate 1961
9. Run DMC & Beastie Boys - Raising Hell Tour 1985
10. Wu Tang Clan - NY 1993

[b0mbs_of_death]

Black Flag - 1982
Minor Threat - 1981
Slayer - 1986
David Bowie - 70-73
the Misfits - anytime with Glen, shit, if they all got back together now with Glen
Led Zeppelin - 1975
T Rex - 1972
MC5- 1970
Stooges - 1973
The Clash - 1981

Being a little older, I did get to see a lot of bands in their prime. Metallica 88 and 89, Beastie Boys on the Licensed to Ill tour and a bunch of other bands you probably don't care about when they were relevant.

[axel foley]

just saw bad brains last month - was about five to seven rows back in the middle of the mosh pit with my gf who is about a buck ten; lemme tell you, shit was the most ill advised decision i've ever made. not only was i unfamiliar with bad brains prior to seeing them, i thought they were a laid back reggae band

wu tang came on after them - i managed to get to the 2nd row when they came out. between watching my girl who did pretty well to hold her own, breaking up fights b/w my girl and other girls, d-bags constantly rushing the front every 2 seconds, avoiding kicks to the face cuz of crowd surfers and of course threatening fanboy's that were putting everyone around them in danger b/c they were fighting over shit thrown into the crowd, shit was still a fucking blast.

bad brains + wu tang = a helluva work out

[Masked Terror #1]

9. Run DMC & Beastie Boys - Raising Hell Tour 1985
10. Wu Tang Clan - NY 1993

Slayer - 1986

Yeah, these were great.

Pretty sure it was the Together Forever tour though.

[b0mbs_of_death]

I saw the Beastie Boys with Fishbone and Murphy's Law the first time in 1986. The first time I saw Slayer was at the 1989 Florida State Fair and it blew my sock off. I got to see Metallica on the And Justice Tour and it still is one of my favorite shows ever.

Bad Brains I saw2 in 87, the first punk rock show I saw ever. Lots of burly Hammerskin types looking to be tough and kick Bad Brains ass. So Bad Brains starts out with a half hour of reggae. My friends brother was a few years older than us and refused to go without seeing the fast shit. Slowly, all the white power fuckers left because they only could heckle for so long. When the third reggae jam started, everybody left pretty much had hair. First fast song was the Big Take Over, HR did a somersault into the crowd and I was sold on the whole fuckin thing shortly there after.

[GM Dizzy Skillespie]

Monterray festival... i just butchered that spelling but
Jimi lights his guitar on fire
The Who go ass wild and destroy their instruments
Dylan
Joplin
etc.

anything at CBGB's in the 70s/80s

Stooges - in detroit
MC5 - haha in chicago

Sex Pistols in Texas

There's a dope book called "I Was There"
it has a long list of amazing concerts i'd love to have been at.

Velvet Underground at Warhol's factory or wherever those weird fuckers got down

[deepfriedjellol]

the portishead recording in ny wouldve been stellar
marley's first trip to the states
pink floyd during the cathedral acid tests
eric claptons benefit show for his rehab center that went on a few weeks back in bridgeview, il

and of course

santana/canned heat at woodstock

[Funk Docta Bombay]

Pink Floyd - Cambridge 1967
Public Enemy - London 1987
Stone Roses - London 1989
The Rolling Stones - Altamont California 1968 (umm...not in the front though)
The Sex Pistols - Texas (whenever that famous show was)
That Tribe/De La/Souls tour - NYC (1993)
Any early Wu-Tang Show
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - London 1967
The Beatles - Hamburg 1961
Led Zep - Just about any show.