If you had to name only one (1) live concert that you could have gone to see anywhere, anytime but did not, what would it have been? (No list . . . No honorable mentions . . . Only one.)
My 50th birthday. Prince is in town playing a small venue The Showbox for $250 apiece. Had to miss it for dinner with the family. Apparently not only was the show fantastic; the after party was epic. Never got a chance to see him again
While in college, around 1985, I had the opportunity to see Sun Ra and his Arkestra in Philadelphia, and I chose to go to a party instead. Retrospectively, had I been exposed to the music then, I think I would have developed a taste for Jazz earlier, and would have chosen to see many more artists that were still performing up to the late 80s. So it would have had a "snowball" effect. Also, I could have seen John Gilmore on tenor saxophone...
Stevie Ray Vaughn headlined a Greenpeace organised festival in Auckland NZ 1989. The girl I was with at the time didn't fancy travelling the couple of hours on the back of my motorcycle, tempted to go in any case but didn't
