that guy was the coolest dude in metallica

Love Lost But Not Forgotten
As The Sun Sets
At The Drive In

Glad I saw:
At the Drive-In
Botch
Coalesce
Subhumans
Refused
Rosetta
Murder City Devils
Kreator
Dark Tranquility
Drop Dead
Assuck
Envy
The Jazz June
Kylesa
Unbroken
The Red Chord
The Sounds


Bands I want to see:
Bloc Party
Suicidal Tendencies
Metallica (only pre-'90's please)
The Cure
Modest Mouse
Forward Russia
3 Inches of Blood
Bury Your Dead
Martyr AD
Ghost Inside
Interpol
Minus the Bear
McRad
Torn Apart

Lewd Acts was amazing. My friends played with them in tiny little basement. Also saw my friends with Total Fury. They destroyed that little basement!

I got to see Cliff in Cardiff (Wales) about two weeks before he died . . . . it was a real shock when the accident happened !!

Metallica 1986 UK (WALES) by The Moog Image Dump, on Flickr

The bands i wish i had got off my arse to see are: Joy Division, Pixies, Nirvana & The White Stripes.

Wish I had gotten to see:
Capt Beefheart & The Magic Band (Would esp. loved to have seen any of the late seventies/early eighties line-ups.)
Mr. Bungle (They played Burlington on the California tour in '99... I was "too tired" to go out. I heard about that show from people who were there for years to come... )
The Stooges (Even the recent incarnation, with Watt.)
minutemen

Boris - NYE 2011 - TYO. missed that date by a few notches!

Nagisa Ni Te in Stirling, Scotland in 2007. I wonder if I'll ever get to see them, love their records. Same goes for Ai Aso and Kazuki Tomokawa.
I've seen quite a lot of excellent stuff across the years but these have been on top of my list for quite a long while.

Two of the best bands I've seen were Primus and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. I saw both multiple times, but I think the best Primus show I saw was the Pork Soda tour, and the best JSBX was the Acme tour. The musicianship was super tight, and they had great crowd banter/interaction.

Big Daddy Meat Straw's last ever re-union show at Satyricon a month before it was torn down was a hoot too. The audience was almost as interesting as the band!

wish I couldve seen:

OG Cannibal Corpse
Vital Remains (with Benton on vocals)

Glad to have seen:
Blood Brothers

call me old fashioned, but i would have loved to have seen Queen.

^^^ queen would have been sweet !!!
Saw the blood brothers many times and they were kick ass live and great guys all around
also Aaron how did you not see Bury your dead or Martyr AD i must have seen both of those bands like 2 or 3 times i feel like they used to tour like crazy but then again you saw unbroken and i would gladly trade both those bands for half an unbroken song live... Life. Love. Regret.

I would love to see Kazuki Tomokawa too!

Blood Brothers were pretty great live. Them with Orchid was one of the best shows I've seen that I forgot about.
I don't know how I've missed BYD for so long. I don't think they played my locale very often.
Martyr AD seemed like they only played big shows. Despite knowing all of them and being from my hometown, I was off HC for awhile and just never caught them. Now I regret it. I saw two Disembodied reunion shows though and that's even better.

The music scene here in Manila has been generally pathetic. And I mean, today, if we want to watch a good act, we had to fly out to Hong Kong, Singapore, or even as far as the US...

The Ventures, Frank Sinatra, Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Neil Young, Clapton, Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson are some of the more notable artists that we had. That's it, as far as I can remember. The Beatles came but it was surrounded by a controversy where they were allegedly "mugged", I wasn't born yet to confirm the accounts of people and the infos.

I wish I had the chance to experience....

The Doors
The Beatles
The Clash
Led Zeppelin
The Who
The Jam
Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Stray Cats
Sex Pistols
Velvet Underground
The Specials
Madness
The Beat
The Smiths
Joy Division
Traveling Wilburys
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Rolling Stones
Paul Weller
David Bowie

Somehow, I had the chance to experience....

Frank Sinatra
Pearl Jam
Mudhoney
China Crisis
Lotus Eaters
The Police (In LA during their reunion gig a few years ago)
Sting
Gene Loves Jezebel
Metallica
Frente

Yeah, unfortunately I don't think he tours outside of Japan. I recently checked Tokyo Gig Guide and he was playing. I'd love to see him sooner or later, the videos on youtube are pretty amazing.

These are the four best gigs I've seen so far:

Lightning Bolt (Cox18, Milan - probably 2002?)
Masayoshi Urabe (Instal Festival, Glasgow - 2004)
Loren Mazzacane Connors and Alan Licht (Instal Festival, Glasgow - 2005)
Corrupted (Luff Festival, Lausanne - 2008)

Edit: Just remembered Maher Shalal Hash Baz / Hair Stylistics @ Shinjuku Jam in Tokyo, summer of 2009. First time I got to see Tori Kudo with a large ensemble (if I remember well with at least other nine or ten musicians) and loved it! Sounded like a slowed down funeral brass band. Same night Hair Stylistics made my ears bleed, with a naked kabuki actor shaggin the amps! Awesome night!
AND Yure Yure Teikoku at The Liquid Room in Tokyo. This thread is making me bring back all the good times spent at gigs. Sad I haven't been to a decent one in a while.

The best bands I've seen are:

The White Stripes-2003 Wolverhampton civic hall
Corsano-Flower Duo-2008 Hare And Hounds Birmingham
Nissennenmondai- Supersonic Festival 2010 Birmingham
Lightning Bolt-ATP Release the bats 2008
Joanna Newsom- Glee club Birmingham 2005

Led Zepplin
Young Bob Dylan
Fugazi
Miles Davis

I wish I would have seen:
Nagisa Ni Te
Kazuki Tomokawa
Tenniscoats
Miles Davis
Charlie Parker
Animal Collective
Yo La Tengo
The Beach Boys
A Tribe Called Quest
J Dilla
Devo (in their prime)
Talking Heads
Django Reinhardt
Chemical Brothers
The Clash
Chuck Berry
Roy Orbison
Madvillain
Boredoms
The Skatalites
Roalnd Alphonso
Desmond Dekkar

Shows I have seen and loved:
Flaming Lips
Pavement
Afrirampo
Flying Lotus
Radiohead
Black Star
Erykah Badu
Deerhoof
Lightning Bolt
Daedelus

I know I am going to be the odd man out in this thread, but this brings to mind a conversation I am often having about choosing one band/musician (living or dead) you would want to see in a small or intimate venue. For me the choice has always been Johnny Cash. I know musically he is not everybody's thing, and that's just fine. The dude knew how to bring it and tell a story. Keep on rockin' the black Johnny.

others I would have loved to see in their heyday:
- The Band
- The Guess Who
- Neil Young
- James Brown
- Five Man Electrical Band
- Eric Burdon (with whomever)
- Parliament
- Hendrix

dude if you told me i could see johnny cash in a small venue i would be there so fast it would be a flash fact... and hell yeah i would have loved to have seen parliament!!

I'll try and narrow it down to 5. In no particular order

-Black Flag
-Neil Young
-David Bowie(ziggy stardust era)
-Sleep
-Black Sabbath

Wish:

Black Flag
The Misfits
Samhain
Danzig OG Line-up
Negative Approach
Minor Threat
Necros
Die Kreuzen
The Ramones
Mayhem w/ Dead on Vocals
Carpathian Forest
New Order
Joy Division
The Beatles
Miles Davis
Frank Sinatra
... probably so much more I just can't think of it

Glad:

Sleep
Danzig
Slayer
Daft Punk
Best Coast
Portishead
Salem
...

Blood Brothers was bananas, one of my favorite shows, lucky to have seen them with Plot to Blow up The Eiffel Tower, way better live than on Album.

I have been lucky enough to see most of the bands I wanted to see...maybe not in their prime, but I saw them...

Two I didn't that haunt me:

Beefheart.

Karp.

(and...Kate Bush...she only did one tour, in 1979...then never played a concert again. Not a band, so she's just a guilty wish.)