Never saw Lou Reed.
Once he didn’t turn up (Reading Festival 1975, the poster lied)
The other time I didn’t turn up.
Someone I knew had the tickets but he got busted the day before the gig so neither of us went
I went to that gig, and the one in Edinburgh the week before. Both were very poor.
A small consolation 
Another one I missed was Zeppelin. My dad wouldn’t let me go to see them at Knebworth in '79 (I could go to the City Hall in Newcastle but not to festivals), and, the difficulty of getting a ticket for the Atlantic tribute at the O2 in '07 meant I didn’t see them then!
I really wish I’d seen The White Stripes.
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Band I never got to see, but really wish I had: an early incarnation of the Byrds.
Best band I did see: REM at the Hammersmith Odeon in about 1989.
Worst gig I went to: Elvis Costello in Hastings Pier - he was more pissed than we were, and that was needless. I think he was going off stage between songs to throw up.
Three times, twice with FoL who was just about old enough to sneak in, bigger venues each time. Gotta hand it to Jack, he was a ready made showman from the beginning.
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Did Robyn Hitchcock join them for the encores? If so, I was there too!
I never got to hear Enrico Caruso sing, born 34 years too late. Does that count?
Genuinely don’t remember. It was the tour that went with the Green album.
I was born far too late for so many of the bands I’d have loved to see. Pink Floyd last played a proper gig when I was 9 years old, (and I was born in the same year as the last time they played as Gilmour, Water, Wright and Mason).
The last time the “classic” lineup of Deep Purple played I was 8 (Made In Japan lineup).
Layne Staley died when I was 17, and hadn’t played live for a long time before that either, so that was no Alice in Chains.
Man, this is turning into a depressingly long list as I scroll through my Tidal library. Even worse are the ones that were touring at times I probably could have managed to get to a gig. 
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I saw Pink Floyd a few times but the most memorable was seeing them play The Wall for the last time ever in their classic line up (not that we knew it at the time but it was Roger Walters’ last gig with the band.), at Earls Court on June 17th 1981.
How I am so sure of the date?
It was my Birthday
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Boom !
I went twice to see The Wall at Earls Court - both times in the August 1980 week (a mix-up meant two different people got tickets for me, but I didn’t mind).
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I saw Pink Floyd on my Birthday as well - Knebworth 5th July 1975
I was sat Reading 1975 on the Saturday
Got. It’s most unfair you didn’t take me, aged -3.5yo as I would have been.
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I was at that gig.
Will never forget the Spitfires at the start!
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Friend went to Floyd at Earl’s Court in 1980. Remember him being blown away by it
They had these huge hanging ‘crossed hammer’ banners all over the place.
They weren’t there for decoration but part of the sound engineers cunning plan.
Earls Court was a bloody great barn but they promised really good sound wherever you sat and they did a great job
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