I've seen Jethro Tull in concert many times.  I yearned for Ian to perform "Baker Street Muse".  As far as I know, Jethro Tull never played "Baker Street Muse" live.

  I know the Minstrel in the Gallery chapter of Tull was painful for Ian because of his divorce.   Ian has said multiple times,  he didn't like Minstrel in the Gallery.  "Minstrel in the Gallery" may not be my favorite Tull album but I feel it's Tull at their most heart breaking beautiful. 

"March of the Black Queen" always get my blood pumping.  I saw Queen 4 times in the 70's but only 1 time was I serenaded by a short section of "March of the Black Queen" on one of Queen's signature medleys.  I'm pretty sure Queen never performed "March of the Black Queen" in it's entirety. 

There must be other epics and masterpieces that never saw the foot lights of the stage.   Please share songs you wish were played live.

You can research songs played in concert at ( http://www.setlist.fm/)    Although not perfect, the site is very good for research and checking out band setlists you wish to see.

I don't think Floyd ever played "Summer 68" live.  However Pink Floyd did perform Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast in 1970. 

Alive pseudo one 

I think Anathema played this only once and very recently on their special show revisiting their doom era.

A lot of that material was re-worked into The Man & The Journey. This was recently released on that massive boxset. I was really looking forward to hearing The Narrow Way (part 3) live. But let me warn you: It's bloody awful! Gilmour didn't even try to hit the notes; i never heard him sounding so off-key. I'm quite frankly surprised they let it see the light of day; if it'd had been me, I'd have burned every copy. Or at least, overdubbed it in the studio. Yes, it really is that bad 

When did they play it?

Well said.

I think its a masterpiece too---They may have tried it once and it was difficult to play---the middle part. But not sure. I like That, that is and don't think Yes played it.

It's a masterpiece to me - my favorite from the post-Gabriel era.

Alan's and other special effects moments used by Pink Floyd, were all a part of the whole concert experience in their "quadraphonic" days, when they had little stories in special effects going 360 around your head, and eventually many of them led to the next song. There is a "real" Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast in the movie "PF Live in Pompeii" with its outtakes.

The full and complete implementation of all these effects came about in "The Wall" when they were no longer pieces in between the songs, but actually a strong part of the story. By comparison, DSOTM was not exactly together, but its order was quite enjoyable, and strong. But only side one has the effects come up to something, that even today, many think is a waste, but it became an important idea to the concept. However weird and difficult it might be to translate that.

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Thank you ... and the ghost of Dean will still come after me! He was "there", too, and sometimes has quite a different view than mine, from Southern California. His view, is also quite valid and many times helps me even more, make sense of some things. Specially his technical side, when I am more of an idealistic side.

At least in Southern California, there was no concert of a big name, where some sex was not involved, and even Tangerine Dream got that honor in my book. And the ladies? Ohhh what I would do to be with them again!

Funny side of things ... I just don't see that many "prog" bands these days as "sexy" ... as so many of the other bands were in those days. The audience for Genesis was already older, and not into sex (so to speak) and the lively time of a group like The Doors, was already over, and Jefferson Airplane, had already dissolved into a very disfunctional family, although Hot Tuna, did a lot better! The YES audience, for me, after the early days, was way too much into the hip folks that were no longer hip. You should see that audience, when I saw them here at the Casino, on Chris' last tour, I think it was. It felt like the Brazilian Carnaval, without the sexiness!

ForestFriend wrote: The Fountain Of Lamneth by Rush - I'm sure some will debate it's masterpiece status, but I think it qualifies as an epic. Understandable that they didn't play it since when it was released they weren't doing a lot of big gigs - playing that and The Necromancer while opening for KISS would've been a career suicide for sure. Granted, it's possible that they played it once in some random town and nobody cared to record it, then again, this is the band that didn't play 2112 in full until 20 years after it was released. It's also unfortunate that they didn't play The Necromancer often enough to have it featured on a live album (or at least a great sounding bootleg).

Good Call ForestFriend!   Certainly a Rush epic!      

Mad Man Moon wouldn't have really worked I don't think. It would basically just be Tony Banks solo spot. There's some very minimal guitar, bass, and drums... but yeah I'd guess it's that and the fact by the time Tony had a CP-70 they already had One For The Vine. 

if someone knows of any live do tell!

Bruhfluhquannie wrote: On the prog metal side of things, Crimson, by Edge of Sanity, and really anything by Dan Swano, since he very rarely plays live.

Just today I was wondering if Crimson had ever been played live.  Thanks for the answer.

Handy is great! 

I'm pretty sure they played Mad Man Moon on one of their US tours that I saw them on--76 (winter of, Trick of the Tail tour) 77 (winter of, Wind and Wuthering tour).