These days, with long covid I'm not gigging at all. I miss it.
Like most memories though, I suspect I'm not remembering the load-ins, waiting around, whizzed punters, ultra late nights and motorway service station meals.
I like the Beatles from Revolver onwards - for me those albums represent the Beatles at their creative peak, catalysed by pioneering studio techniques.
I rarely (if ever) listen to anything before this period as I find it all pretty insipid. YMMV.