Wayback machine: What band would you see?

[Scrotum Scissor]

I would have loved to hear Stevan Tickmayer, Chris Cutler, Bob Drake and Mike Johnson in concert(assuming they ever did live gigs).

I don't think they did. But you've got the first release A Mere Coincidence as well, right? It's possibly the better of the two, not least due to Amy Denio's vocal input.

[walt]

I don't think they did. But you've got the first release A Mere Coincidence as well, right? It's possibly the better of the two, not least due to Amy Denio's vocal input.

I do, and it's a first class session, but for me, Spoors is, by "orders of magnitude" the better recording.I keep returning to Spoors, and like all great,challenging music, it reveals more of itself to me with each listen.It scratches an itch(for me) unlike almost every other record of its ilk.

[mogrooves]

Hendrix at the Bag o' Nails

!!!!!!

[rapidfirerob]

Curved Air in their heyday is a big one for me as well. I'd love to see the group now though,
if they will come to the US as promised some years ago.

[Bake 1]

Unfortunately this list would be longer than the list of bands I have seen... a small piece of it off the top:
Hendrix
Henry Cow
Eric Dolphy
Captain Beefheart
The Move
Patto
Atomic Rooster (Death Walks Behind You period)
Darryl Way's Wolf
Groundhogs (Split - Hogwash period)
Soft Machine
Mahavishnu Orch. (IMF - Birds of Fire period)
Charles Mingus
Rory Gallagher 74'
Back Door
Patto
John Stevens Away
East of Eden (Mercator - Snafu period)
Tipographica
Embryo (early 70's)
Trettioariga Kriget (early 70's)
New Trolls (UT period)

[Digital_Man]

YES 71-85 ( didn't first see them until 87)

Genesis 71-80 (I could skip them in the eighties)

ELP 71-78

Gentle Giant

Led Zeppelin

The Beatles

VDGG 70-78

Just about any prog or classic rock band in the seventies or even earlier.

[GuitarGeek]

Oh crap how could I forget? I'd have liked to have seen P-Funk back in the 70's, preferably when Eddie Hazel was in the band, but the Michael Hampton era would have been cool too.

Also would have liked to have seen the mid 80's P-Funk All Stars, when Clinton had Eddie, Michael, Blackbyrd McKnight, Gary Shider, and Boogie Mosson ALL onstage together.

[squiz17]

Only one - King Crimson 72-74.
Didn't get to see Bruford play until 2000.

[Rogue Elephant]

Beethoven - 5th, 6th or 9th symphonies - Premier performances

[YeSFan Reese]

Samurai(the British one)-1971
Yes- 1972
Nektar- 1976
Web-1970
Genesis-1973
Greenslade-1973
Gentle Giant-1975

[Steve F.]

Didn't Floyd, Softs and Hendrix tour? The first RIO festival. Those would be mine.

Henry Cow, Crimson in 72-74, Hatfield in the 70s

Softs and Hendrix toured the USA twice in 1968. I was 11; I didn't see it.

[progeezer]

As a result of my chronology and geography from 1966-1971, I've seen almost every icon/legend out there, but my biggest regret would be 2 bands, 1 prog-1 not.

The Andy L./Peter B. "Moonmadness" tour with The Humps
Buffalo Springfield

As far as the band who I'm most grateful that I didn't miss, that's easy. Arthur,Johnny,Bryan,Ken & "Snoopy"

[JKL2000]

I forget what I posted further back in this thread (probably Genesis at a show where Gabriel wore the fox costume), but whatever was Kate Bush's first public show would have been very cool too.

[GuitarGeek]

Another one I just realized I left off my list:

Performances of Stockhausen's Mantra, Sternklang, the Mikrophonie pieces, Sirius, Kurzwellen, Harlekin (I'd like to have seen a young Suzanne Stephens perform this one), and a few others come to mind. Not necessarily the world premieres ( I know someone who did see the world premiere of Sirius at the planetarium in Washington DC, though it was still a "work-in-progress" at the time), just ones where the music was played the way Herr Karl intended to it sound.

And let's not forget Tangerine Dream, circa 1970-1977 (but especially the US tour in 1977)
Morton Subotnick circa 67-68 (hell, I'd have settled for 2013, but ya know how that goes)
Kraftwerk (Schneider/Dinger/Rother lineup)
Sun Ra Arkestra, circa 65-74

[markinottawa]

In Seattle I saw Gentle Giant open for the Strawbs in 1975. Well actually, the opener was a 3rd artist, (betty white?) that played piano and sang and was also quite good.

Yes her name was Betty White. Well presumably it is still her name. She opened for the Strawbs in Ottawa as well.

Mahavishnu played Ottawa in'74 or 75 and no one wanted to go. So I skipped it. Gimme that time machine

[walt]

While reading Jimmy Carl Black's memoirs JCB mentions a club date in LA in 1969 with Zappa/MoI,with Beefheart/Magic Band supporting,(this was right after they recorded TMR),and opening the show, on their first US tour..Jethro Tull.

Now THAT'S a triple header worth a trip in the wayback machine.

[GuitarGeek]

Mahavishnu played Ottawa in'74 or 75 and no one wanted to go. So I skipped it. Gimme that time machine

I'd have liked to have seen the tour where Aerosmith opened for them, just for the novelty of being able to say you saw both bands on the same bill.

[chavo6]

Miles Davis, the Pangaea/Agharta band

This. Plus:

'Lonesome Crow' era Scorpions
'Meddle' era Floyd
Jefferson Airplane 67
Led Zep 71

Plus many others.

[Trane]

I'd have liked to have seen the tour where Aerosmith opened for them, just for the novelty of being able to say you saw both bands on the same bill.

even if I like both bands... Possibly one of the worst mismatch of the times, IMHO

[Calabasas_Trafalgar]

Samurai(the British one)-1971
Yes- 1972
Nektar- 1976
Web-1970
Genesis-1973
Greenslade-1973
Gentle Giant-1975

Do I detect a big Dave Lawson fan here?

[Calabasas_Trafalgar]

even if I like both bands... Possibly one of the worst mismatch of the times, IMHO

How about B.W. Stevenson opening for ELP?

[happytheman]

Hendrix for sure..

[Trane]

How about B.W. Stevenson opening for ELP?

Who????

OK, I see your point!!!