Probably the beatles at Shea
Woodstock (the original)
One of pink floyds “Wall” shows
u2 on the boy tour.

I’d have to say any of the Weezer pre-equal length leg shows (i.e. 95-previous), or the upcoming Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show where Elizabeth Goodman dies of embarrassment when the emo kids she hates show up and start singing all the songs at the top of their lungs.

No question — The Beatles’ first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, just for the opportunity to see it in COLOR.

Pearl Jam – 07/11/03 – Tweeter Center: Mansfield (Boston), MA [preset 50m/main set 165m]…Epic Show, Eddie Promised the first night he wouldn’t repeat a single tune on the whole 3 night stint in Tweeter/MASS. Saw night one and they drained some classics that night….The third show – This one – they played acoustic for an hour before 2+ hours of live stuff. True to his word all they repeated was a Ledbetter as a *goodnight* to Boston…

Nirvana 05/13/90 – Duffy’s Tavern, Lincoln, NE…Probably one of the only Soundboard bootlegs I ever bought pre-Internet, Awesome set – All Bleach tunes – pre-Nevermind, And Nirvana live at a Tavern? Man, I wore that tape out. Oh and the obvious reason – Never get to see them again, ever.

Smashing Pumpkins – Live at the Metro December 2nd-2000…For all the obvious resons. Wicked Set List, last time the three of them will probably ever share the stage again, smaller venue…The big *Farewell and Goodnight*

Beatles doing “Let It Be” on the rooftop, Queen in Wembley or the Doors in New Haven

Jeff Buckley – Metldown festival 1995. Nah scratch that – any Jeff Buckley gig!

a show headlined by David Bowie and supported by a duo of Iggy Pop and the Stooges plus Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground….hey a guy can dream can’t he?

I’d probably go back and see the Flaming Lips at the Metro on the true Millenium New Year’s Eve (2000). That was one of the best and craziest shows I’ve ever seen.

Also any Clash show during their prime would be worth it.

Neil Young 1973, the tonight’s the night tour, at the Roxie

The Velvet Underground performing the Exploding Plastic Innevitable. End all, be all.

Guns n roses live at the roxy 1987

Bob Marley and the original Wailers…anywhere!

the little one off thing that mick jones and joe strummer did a few weeks before he died would have been cool. also, you guys prolly missed at the drive in’s shows. those were nice.

…tori amos…anywhere

The concert where Iggy Pop jumped into the crowd and smeared peanut butter on his chest.
I think it was in Detroit in 1969?

RADIOHEAD & SNOW PATROL

There are many people out there that have seen At the Drive in Play. They were decent.

Alice in Chains Unplugged.

any of the shows from the Fall 1991 Chili Peppers tour….Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins were the openers.

Ziggy-era David Bowie fellating Mick Ronson´s guitar.

Nirvana, anywhere small durning the Bleach tour.

Led Zepplin at Royal Albert Hall.

Or the Chili peppers tour in 91 that featured Pearl Jam/nirvana or pearl jam/smashing pumpkins.

The Rolling Stones in 72 @ MSG. The Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World at their best. I would go down with a big smile slapped across my face courtesy of Keef and Co.

Roots Time:

From Spirituals to Swing, 1938-1939 Carnegie Hall, produced by John Hammond Sr. and featuring… (Robert Johnson was booked, but was allegedly poisoned just weeks before.) Partial Lineup: Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Eubie Blake, Count Basie, Helen Humes, Hot Lips Page, Fats Waller, Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Turner, James P. Johnson, The Golden Gate Quartet, Ida Cox, Meade Lux Lewis, James P. Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry, Pete Johnson, Gene Ammons, James P. Johnson, Sydney Bechet, Charlie Christian, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Joe Jones, Fletcher Henderson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and many, many others.

Then:
The Yardbirds (w/Eric Clapton) at London/s Marquee Club in 1964.

Then:
Monterey Pop weekend in 1967. Partial Lineup: The Mamas and The Papas, The Association, Scott McKenzie, Canned Heat, Big Brother & The Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, The Byrds, Country Joe and The Fish, Lou Rawls, Laura Nyro, Otis Redding, Booker T. and The MG’s, Ravi Shankar, The Grateful Dead, Steve Miller Band, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Electric Flag, Hugh Masakela, Buffalo Springfield, Johnny Rivers, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Moby Grape, Simon and Garfunkel, Al Kooper, The Blues Project and others.

Then:
Muddy Waters at Newport 1960

The:
Mahalia Jackson singing Gospel at MLK Jr’s “March on Washington” 1963

Queen at Wembley Stadium, 1986, or Springsteen at Winterland 1978.

monterey pop, 1967, or the 1st and original woodstock, 1969

jesus giving his sermon on the mound

Hey rexpop… what mound? Did Jesus also get to throw out the first pitch?

Dylan in ‘66 with the Band in England…..Judas!

Springsteen at the Roxy, 1978

Nirvana, i forget where, but where Kurt was ticked off at the PA system and then he stage dove and the bouncer hit him. -Or- the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert when they were touring with Nirvana. Or any Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin or Sex Pistol concert.

Pink Floyd, Live at Pompeii

Jerry Garcia Band, Live at Shoreline

Any Stooges show right before they recorded Funhouse. I’d die happy if I could see those songs festering…

Any Peter Gabriel-era Genesis show from the Selling England By The Pound tour.

Night of the Hurricane
Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue
MSG 1975

Green Day at Milton Keynes.

The original Woodstock or the Allman Brothers last performance at the Fillmore East.

The Band at Winterland, November 25 1976
(The Last Waltz, if you will)
The lineup was incredible. Van Morrison’s performance of Caravan was great.

or…

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. The Dirty Mac’s performance is insane. A group of gods, they were.

Without a doubt, Pink Floyd – The Wall

The Who anywhere don’t matter as long as keith moon is there and im on the side of the stage.

I worked the door at a bar down the street from The Garden in Boston and before a Paul McCartney show that night I talked to a guy who was going and he said that seeing The Beatles live was unlike any other concert he’d ever been too, so I’d pick The Beatles at Shea Stadium.

PARIS HILTON

RATM outside the 2000 Democratic National Convention…
or their last shows at the Olympic Auditorium

12/91 Chili Peppers, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam at the Cow Palace, SF or The Replacements with Social Distortion at UC Davis ‘91 or U2 during the first U.S. leg of the Joshua Tree Tour or Led Zep opening for Iron Butterfly at the Boston Tea Party or Any of the Police’s first U.S. tours or The Clash opening for the Who at Shea

Guns N Roses, Donnington, England August 1988

The White Stripes playing in some old, dark club.

Billie Holiday, 1946, NYC, Town Hall

30 Seconds To Mars at the Metro in Chicago! oh yea!!! I would die happyyyyyyy

“d” got it right! Any Keith Moon-era Who; but Live at Leeds is the obvious choice.

For the best book on the Ramones read,
“On The Road With The Ramones”
http://www.ontheroad withtheramones.com

This is a MUST-HAVE book for all Ramones fans. It’s an inside look from the people who were actually there witnessing and experiencing all the extreme highs and lows of one of rock’s greatest bands. The Ramones’ music has influenced nearly every power pop, punk, alternative, and metal band. Monte A. Melnick served as The Ramones tour manager from their early New York club days at CBGB’s in the ’70s to their farewell gigs in 1996. Filled with memorabilia including photographs and interviews collected along the way, this is his view of life on the road with the band as “baby-sitter to psychiatrist, booking agent to travel agent, paymaster to van driver.” It’s such a fascinating read, you’ll have a hard time putting it down. Buy it, read it, and then revisit their albums. You’ll never look at the Ramones in the same light.

The Beatles on top of Abbey Road studios playing their last songs together live 1969

or

The Band’s first show, April 19, 1969 at Winterland

The Doors- whiskey a GO GO, the night jim got fired for singing ‘the end’.
led zeppelin in 1975.
AC/DC in 1977.
The rolling stones in 1978.
bruce springsteen anytime, anywhere

Nirvana – Unplugged In New York
Incubus – Alive At Red Rocks
RHCP – Live @ Slane Castle

the closing of winterland on new years eve when the grateful dead pulled an all nighter…suns almost up

ya but thats when their all coked out..sounds not as good prime was 72-75 but ill agree with that

listen here ass hole 1 concert alright

I’d probably choose any Metallica show… I’d be quite happy to die after suffering that

vanilla ice

Patty Smith at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1979

Hank William Sr.
or The Clash/ Joe Strummer

Hello,

I missed all of that Rage Against the Machine stuff as well so I would like to see them live in front of the Democratic Convention.

If I was going to die after the show, I would have liked to see the Lollapalusa show from this past summer in Chicago. That way, I could put my death off for three days.

Am I to pick from actual famous shows, or create a do-able fictional show? The latter is much more fun.

I’ll take Tool as the headliner from the Aenima era, with Kyuss and Corrosion of Conformity as the openers.

Danny,

I went to that RHCP, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins show in Lawrence, KS back in 91. I was 15 years old, it changed my life! Good pick!

John Lennon live in new york

the doors at the Whiskey, the “mother, i want to fukk you” concert, and the subsequent choas and firing of the Doors.

Any G.G. Allin show.

the beastie boys rage against hte machine tour that was cancelled cause mike d crashed his bike

tis a real tie between the second radiohead tour after ok computer (the start) or the shout out louds first show in new york

Jimi Hendrix at Monterey.
The Band’s first show at Winterland.
Any Beatles show.
if i have to choose one, please take me to Monterey!

Nirvana Unplugged

PINK FLOYD THE WALL,DARK SIDE.

Floyd 73
Radiohead 97/98
Beatles at Shea
and any MBV show

bod dylan 1966 free trade haal or the judas show. and do i have to explain.
either that or the beatles at she stadium
or woodstock
or montery pop festival
but dylan would be the number one choice

Dylan ‘66 would be phenomenal, but I’d have to go with the most intensely surreal of them all- Beatles at Shea. Shakin’ all over!

Dylan 66 would be cool, but all the booing would just depress me, and make me wanna punch everyone down, so I wouldnt be able to enjoy the music that much….

My choice: one of the four actual played dates of the Anarchy Tour 1977: Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Buzzcocks, all live in their prime….a punk’s dream

The Who:
1965 The Marquee Club (London)
1970 Live at Leeds
1969/70 New York Metropolitan Opera House
1979 The Rainbow Theatre (London)
1979 Madison Square Garden

Springsteen:
Darkne ss on the Edge of Town tour

Allman Brothers Fillmore
Grateful dead Closing @ winterland
no question-either would suffice.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned The Smiths yet!!!!
Hands down The Smiths right after The Queen is Dead came out. At Metro in Chicago. I don’t think it gets better than that

WOODSTOCK 1969!!!!

AGAIN! I was there…. and I would like to experience all of it all over again. It was a life-changing experience for me.

Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Tony Banks, Steve Hackett, and Michael Rutherford. The spectacle, the theatrics, the music!

Ziggy Stardust – Bowie

Pink Floyd – The Wall

guns n roses donnington 1988
guns n roses ritz 1988

or guns n roses chicago 1992 which is coming out on dvd next year

First off, Elizabeth, who is this “our” you refer to??? Does the entire staff at Rolling Stone all agree with your choice? If so, that’s kind of sad, but it does illustrate the lack of vision at Rolling Stone these days.

My choice would probably Glastonbury 1995.

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, promoting their major label debut “I Don’t Wanna Go Home” in Asbury Park, 1975. Crowds pouring out into hotdog stands. The whole show wired into a speaker by the counter for those who couldn’t make it in. Ferris wheels turning around, the Atlantic Ocean right there, girls on the boardwalk…New Jersey before heroine and strip malls. Springsteen and Clarence Clemons featured towards the end.

i would take Woodstock. yeah. a little crazy…Jeff Buckley hands down. before HE died.

my mother saw “little” stevie wonder open for the rolling stones… i’d settle for that one.

Alice Cooper million babies tour or Kiss at Cabo when they recorded alive, that’s excluding the massive woodstock’s or festival expresses’

Stone Roses- Spike Island
oasis-King Tuts

I saw so many great concerts that it is hard to pick the best, but of the ones I saw, here were the ones I’d love to see again:
1. Woodstock, without the rain.
2. Cream’s first visit to the USA at New York’s Cafe-A-Go-Go.
3. The Doors in Columbus just after Morrison was arrested in Florida.
4. Jimi Hendrix in Newark, NJ the night Dr. King was shot (only about 100 fans risked going)
5. Led Zepplin’s first USA tour when they filled in for the opening act of Jose Felliciano in Athens, Ohio

the smashing pumpkins last gig at the metro, the one that lasted like 4 hours and they played most of their songs!

Dying or not I’d like to see Guns N’ Roses around ‘85 or so, before the record deal.

Pearl Jam-7/11/03 Boston, MA
Best Pearl jam show EVA! Would love to see that one again. 50 min acoustic pre-set and 2 1/2 hours of kick ass rock n roll after Sleater Kinney opened.

EITHER:
Pink Floyd The Wall 1980
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 1975
Led Zeppelin Knebworth 1980
or The Beatles at Shea 1964?

Ramones first gig in CBGB’S

REMs first show. Birthday party at the church.

sitting beside John and Yoko in bed in Montreal doing “give peace a chance”

Bruce Springsteen/Bob Marley @ Max’s KC 1973!

Grateful Dead/NRPS/Marshall Tucker 1977 Raceway Park, Englishtown.

Jay-Z, Fade to Black Tour @ MSG

Jay-Z, Reasonable Doubt 10th Anniversay in NYC

Pink Floyd, Live at Pompeii

Bruce Springsteen, any early show at Asbury Park

Rolling Stones, the concert on “Give Me Shelter” with the Hell’s Angels incident

Radiohead, @ Bonaroo

Coldplay w/ Michael Stipe, @ Austin City Limits

Pearl Jam w/ Neil Young, @ MTV VMAs

New Kids on the Block

any dylan show – 1960 – 62.
springsteen @ bottom line ‘75

Janes Addiction 88 cotton club in atlanta.

The last Janes concert in Hawaii before the original band broke up.

Nirvana unplugged.

Tour closer for Lollapalooza 1, what a great lineup that was.

Rolling Stones and Zep in the early 70s.

Jim Hendrix Band Of Gypsies

The Band and Guests, Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976

Any Pink Floyd show on the In The Flesh tour.

Pearl Jam’s Mansfield Mass. show from their 2003 tour.

Led Zeppelin early 70’s

the first wood stock

altimad with the hells angels as security

Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense Tour.

Pan-fucking-tera, at any show, so long as dimebag is playing with them. Especially the Monsters of rock festival in Moscow in 91 when they played with Ozzy and Metallica

Beatles at shea no doubt.

Nirvana at the Paramount on Halloween, 1991. Crazy energy, fucked-up time, nothing was the same after. Blow up the prom.

The Who, Cincinatti, 1979. Only at my Prom, all the jocks would die instead of fans.

im gonna go with any concert on the stones tour on which they had skynyrd opening for them

Live Aid.. England side.. Bono jumping into the crowd..and Queen that day ruled the world! I saw Queen for A Day at the Races and A Night at the Opera tours and I would give anything to see those again..Bruce Sprinsteen in Jersey anytime 75-85..Also Cat Stevens anytime during the 70s..

I almost forgot Id loved to be at the Frampton comes Alive concerts

Nirvana – 40 Watt, Athens, GA…they trashed the dressing room afterwards and were told they’d never play there again

Woodstock

Pearl Jam & Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers from sometime in the early 90’s

Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion tour 1992-1993

Mmmm…

I’m dying?

Really?

Let me think…

Depends on what mood I’m dying on…

Nightwish, on the Wishmaster tour in Buenos Aires!

Yes, that has to be it.

Woodstock ‘69 greatest concert ever wish i coulda been alive then

Jimi Hendrix in the Band of Gypsys on new years day 1970 at the Fillmore East. Or Zep in the early 70s

Allman Brothers last show at Filmore East

Also Led Zepplin at Madison Square when they introduced a little known band as the first on the zep label…Bad Company

christ too many to name…rarity value…nick drake of course, neutral milk hotel, and jandek….my bloody valentine….any hendrix performance, and pink floyd 1st performance of darkside

the ramones again at the living room in providence ri
rip randy!!!!

The one concert I kick myself anytime anyone mentions it for missing (OK, I was in high School, didn’t have my own car and lived almost in the boonies, excuses, excuses), Janes Addiction’s 1990 tour with Pixies and Primus opening. I’m crying just typing that

Monkees and Weird Al–Rosenblatt Stadium Omaha, NE….my tear stains are still visible on the corrugated steps….unbelievably moving…when Mr. Yankovic played “Addicted to Spuds”…I can’t go on (I promised myself I wouldn’t do this)

Lollapalooza 91, hands down. Butthole Surfers before they “got normal,” Nine Inch Nails before they “got big,” and Jane’s Addiction before they “got out of hand” (put your shirt back on, Navarro!).

Sublime anytime in Long Beach!!!
Alice in Chains Anytime/anywhere

same as lowell, the last jane’s addiction show with avery

the grateful dead in 66 when they closed down the streets in the haight, and played in the streets!

or woodstock

or sublime in the LBC for like anyshow

or it woulda been sick to be in the audience when the beatles were on the ed sullivan show

grateful dead
6/27/1985 Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Its basically a legendary concert in my hometown. To sum it up, SPAC never limited there crowds, and allowed any number of fans to come. That is, when the grateful dead came this year, 40,000 people went. I’ve been to “sold out” shows there with 25,000, and it takes you 45 minutes to get from the food stand to your spot on the lawn or your seat in the ampitheatre.+15,000. yea that’s insane. i was born in 92 though so i wasn’t even alive then.
rip jerry

The Who at the Young Vic theatre in february of ‘71…i think thats where they tested “Lifehouse”

Bob Dylan and the Rolling Thunder Revue

Woodstock(’69)

Altamon t

The Last Waltz

Led Zeppelin at Knebworth in ‘79 (or ‘80) anywho i believe that was their last concert

Festival Express

Cream’s farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison(I woulda killed someone to be there for the concert…for sure)

oh and the Doors at the Whiskey-a-go-go…you know which concert

Original Woodstock
Monterey Pop Fest in 1967
Shea Stadium w/ The Beatles

The Who live at leeds and on the Smother bros comedy hour
Monterey ‘67
Woodstock ‘69
Rolling Stones goodbye to Brian Jones
But live at leeds would be top.

January 30, 1969. The Beatles on the roof of Apple studios, London.

id have to say the who at live at leeds, the Beatles on the roof at abbey road, pink floyd dark side of the moon, Rolling Stones ‘72, and finally Led Zeppelin, any time, any where.

HEY ELIZABETH…

LET’S SAY YOU’RE DYING…

PLEASE!!!!????

Cream or Yardbirds or Mayall’s Bluesbreakers w/ Clapton, in London, 1966-68

Pink Floyd’s ‘72 Tour

Bob Marley’s final show in Pittsburgh

Any Beatles Show

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band on the Born to Run tour

The show where John Lennon played with Elton John at Madison Square Garden !!!!!

Without a doubt, I’d see Elvis play the benefit show in Hawaii in the early sixties. Last live show he played before getting lost in Hollywood-last glimpse of the original king…

Beatles at the cavern. Prolly not as many screaming girls.

Or Talking Heads Stop Making Sense tour