Pink Floyd, Soldier Field, Chicago, 1993 (approx)
Any AC/DC or the Police show in the 80âs
U2, United Center, Chicago, canât remember the year (was released as a Ccncert video)
Joe Bonamassa, Red Rocks, Colorado, Three Kings tour
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David Bowie, final concert, Ziggy Stardust Tour, Hammersmith Odeon, 3 July 1973 
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November 17 1971 Kinetic circus Birmingham.
Led Zepplin
Yes I was there, the ticket price under ÂŁ1.00 I think it was 75p.
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Charlie Christianâs first performance with Benny Goodmanâs sextet in the Rose Room, August 1939. The story, perhaps apocraphyl, that it was unexpected and Goodman tried to make it difficult for him just adds to the historical moment that it was.
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Oasis at Knebworth 1996
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Iâll cheat and give two answers- one that I wasnât alive for and one that I was, but regretted missing.
I would have loved to see the Beatles rooftop concert, provided that I would have been allowed to watch it from up on the roof 
The one Iâve always regretted not going to was No Doubt and Garbage co-headlining together in November 2002. As a 90s teenager, both of these bands were huge at the time and I was (and still am) a massive fan of both. I really wanted to go, but I couldnât find anyone to go with me and I didnât want to go alone. Iâve seen No Doubt live a few times, but Iâve always wanted to see Garbage and I still kind of kick myself for not figuring out a way to go to that one I saw a couple videos of No Doubt playing Coachella this year and it really brought me back to that time! I miss when they used to play.
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So, so many of the blues greats who are no longer with us. Little Milton. Albert Collins. T-Bone Walker. Muddy Waters. Hound Dog Taylor. Lightnin Hopkins. Just too many to name.
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Interesting topic 
My initial thought was go see a Metallica gig whilst Cliff was still alive, perhaps around '85-86, when they were reaching their prime (imo). That time frame, and the mention of a time machine, made me think âwhat if this was tied to the main dates in Back to the Future movies?â 
So! With flagrant disregard for the rules 
hereâs what I have decidedâŚ
(I sourced the dates here)
26th October 1985
Unfortunately there was no concert by Metallica on this date, so looking at a few other bands, I came across this one from The Cure which I would have loved to been at! Three encores!! 
5th November 1955
Had a look for Elvis gigs on this date and found this one: Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport, LA. Couldnât find a recording from that concert but if it is anything like this one from the Hayride in August that year, would have been fun to see 
21 October 2015 (Back to the Future II)
Looking the (very large!) number of options on this date, Iâve decided to go with Megadeth in Brisbane, Australia, at Eatons Hill Hotel & Function Centre. Great looking set! 
2nd September 1885 (Back to the Future III)
Well, I found it impossible to find anything for this specific date, Iâm sure there were but my standard Google search couldnât come up with anything, and no luck using Gemini either. So I would head to New York and see if I could find something like this from the NY Philharmonic
But for the record, if I could get to a Metallic concert with Cliff Burton, then this one looked pretty flaming good! (along with Exodus, Megadeth & Metal Church) A few weeks before the Back to the Future 1985 date, so maybe Marty had just got back from this when the movie kicked off 
SEPTEMBER 14, 1985
ST. GOARSHAUSEN, GERMANY
METAL HAMMER FESTIVAL @ FREILICHTBĂHNE LORELEY
EXODUS, MEGADETH, METAL CHURCH
P.S. Sorry (not sorry) for the huge post! 
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Lol, I was going to say Elvisâ Louisiana Hayride. Itâs my wifeâs fault.
If she hadnât brainwashed me, Iâd say AC/DC at Castle Donington. Every time I watch the BluRay, I say âDamn, that wouldâve been awesome to see!â
And if the time machine could go back far enough, any performance by Mozart under his direction.
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Iâm glad to have been able to see the great Buddy Guy many times. His concert at Gruene Hall in Texas decades ago is my 2nd favorite of all the concerts Iâve been to. Now I donât go because he talks more than he plays. Of course he is older than dirt!
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Iâve seen Buddy several times. I used to live in the Chicago area, and went to his âLegendsâ club downtown fairly often. Iâve also seen him here in Minnesota.
That would be my choice as well Eddie. Iâll car share with you, if thatâs okay? 
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If we are talking Knebworth then Floyd in '75 and Genesis in '78 would be my preferences, although the Floyd show wasnât their best on that tour!
I heard them both from my back garden, and Floyd in 1990 from my car with the window open parked nearby.
Cheers,
Keith
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Hey guys and gals,
Theyâre are sooo many I wish I could go back and set in concert but SRV would be by first and only choice if U could only choose one. The original Skynyrd would be 2nd, the Bon Scott aka original AC/DC and right there with the original AC/DC is Brian Johnson debuting on Back In Black. UmmmâŚ
I could go on and on. Just grateful for all the awesome music all of my favorites created and still listening to today!
Tony.
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Absolutely has to be Rush in Rio 2002. 
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It only took three weeks, but Iâve finally decided I want to see the final live show that Queen played at Knebworth.
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Probably when the first human decided to bang out a groove with a stick on a skull, rock and/or stretched out animal hide. Most likely around the time that someone left some grain in a rain barrel and took a few sips.
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Was Woodstock just one long concert? There are alot and it would be hard to choose but I think Woodstock
I was there; It was an amazing day!
At the time, I lived in Knebworth village. My girlfriend drove over to my house at around lunchtime, and we walked to Knebworth Park, where the concert was being held, which was about an hourâs walk. On the way, we walked past Select Sound Studios, which was Marty Wildeâs recording studio that he set up in my GPâs old surgery building. What we didnât know at the time was that (apparently) Queen had spent the afternoon there and were probably there when we walked past.
We also crossed a bridge over the A1M road. This is a 2-lane motorway, and it was packed solid with cars trying to get to Knebworth Park, with traffic barely moving.
As with a lot of the concerts at Knebworth at the time, there were several support acts before the main act, so the venue opened early afternoon, and we were there shortly after opening to find a spot to sit and chill for the next several hours.
Unlike the Deep Purple gig we had gone to the previous year, which ended up with torrential rain and so many impromptu bonfires that you could hardly see the stage, the weather was glorious, and there was a great vibe with groups of people bursting out into various Queen songs on occasion which, of course, then spread. There were also occasional (plastic) bottle throwing fights between groups in the crowd which was a source of entertainment.
The opening act was a guy called Belouis Some who had a minor hit in the UK charts the previous year. It wasnât really a great opening act but, apparently, he was a mate of Freddyâs who wanted to help him out. It didnât go wellâŚ
By that point in the afternoon, lots of people had been there for a few hours already, and were, basically, sitting around on the ground in groups chatting, singing, sunbathing, getting drunk and waiting for the main event. Belouis was completely ignored, not out of malice, but out of disinterest. After a couple of songs no-one knew, he stormed off the stage, and an announcer came out and asked that the audience give him a chance.
He then came back on to a smattering of applause, and did a couple of songs to an unenthusiastic crowd before announcing his next song. This was the, unfortunately titled, song âTarget Practiceâ. Remember I said there were plastic bottle throwing fights? Well, a huge cheer went up, and Belouis Some became the focus of the bottle throwing, and the stage was engulfed to the point he had to leave the stage. He never returned.
There was quite a gap before the next act, which was Status Quo. Quo were, apparently, supposed to be the main support act but had a tour of their own going on, and had to fly off early to one of their own concerts, so they came on early. We were looking forward to them, but were a bit disappointed. Maybe thatâs because they came on so early when people were still in âpicnic modeâ, and the audience were still arriving, or maybe they were keeping some in the can for their own concert later that evening, but they felt quite flat.
The highlight was a couple of roadies who had made cartoonishly-large fake guitars cut out of cardboard attached to broom handles and who were standing on the roof of the stage about 50 ft above the band mimicking them, to the delight of the audience.
During the next gap, the crowd really started to get into the mood, and went from sitting around on the ground to trying to manoeuvre to a good place to watch the show. At that point it was starting to get really packed.
The official capacity for concerts at Knebworth Park is 120,000 and this is the official attendance for the concert based on ticket sales.
Note that this was an additional concert that Queen had added to their tour quite late due to the tour being sold out. When it was announced, the tickets for this concert also sold out quickly, but it was rumoured that some would be available on the gate on the day. Apparently tens of thousands turned up without tickets and, in order to prevent an angry mob, security eventually let them in for free. Apparently the actual crowd size was nearer 200,000.
Of course the bottle throwing continued and, I think, intensified as the crowd started getting excited. We had squirmed through the crowd and were around 40 feet from the stage and in the thick of it. During this point, Harvey Goldsmith came on stage and asked everyone to stop throwing bottles, with inevitable consequencesâŚ
The next act was Big Country, a Scottish band who had been in the charts recently, but seemed an odd choice for a Queen gig. They turned out to be awesome and really got the audience warmed up and singing along and actually ended up having a number of encores.
Then, after another gap and more bottle fights, it was time for Queen.
What can I say other than it was an incredible performance, starting off with One Vision and Tie Your Mother Down, which really got the crowd going, before conducting a singing competition with the audience.
The set list had a bunch of fan favourites including Bohemian Rhapsody, and some covers (Hello Mary Lou, Tutti Frutti). Radio Gaga was, of course, a huge crowd participation number but after it, for some reason John Deacon seemed angry and threw his bass guitar across the stage.
The show ended with We Are The Champions and God Save The Queen.
After the show, it took us a few hours just to get out of Knebworth Park. On the walk home we were part of a crowd who had parked at various places around the area because they couldnât get into the car park, or who had come by train and were heading back to Knebworth station. All the way back we sung Queen songs even though, by that point, we were quite hoarse from singing along with Freddy.
Sorry for the long post, but I think this has to have been the best gig I ever went to and itâs more memorable and poignant as it was Freddyâs last.
Cheers,
Keith
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