2004 Chicago....Simon and Garfunkel's first reunion tour in years. Since I only knew a handful of songs...didn't think it was worth the ticket. Bought the tour DVD and was so absolutely upset I didn't go.

I usually see just about everything I want to. These stick out though. Two when I was living in the South and two after I moved out West:

Sinatra and Sammy Davis in Memphis
Keith and X Pensive Winos in Memphis

Joe Strummer in Hollywood
Stones at The Wiltern--should have called in sick for work.

No doubt about it... I shoulda been there to see the Stones at the Beacon Theater last fall.

I tried and tried
but it never
really worked out.

Regret not making the effort to see the sex pistols & the jam.

Johnny Thunders, Bought Heroin instead......................

I live in Toronto and regret very much that I didn’t take time off work and stand all night in the long queue on the street outside the Phoenix Theatre for the Stones in 2005. I read reports later that people who had driven great distances to do just that still ended up not getting a wristband/ticket so there was no guarantee I would have got one either but still, I should have tried.

Oh, one other .........

Sex Pistols in '77 in Bristol.

The reggae club ("The bamboo Club") where they were to play burnt down.

saw the Clash two months later though.

Led Zep at Knebworth on the 4th August, 1979.

Sold my tickets and regretted it ever since.

Altamont. My friends and I had flight reservations to fly from LA to SF, then somehow find our way out to the show. But . . .I couldn't get off from work. I had already taken a day off when I spent the night in line at the LA Forum to get tickets for the show there. I wish I would have been there, but in some ways I'm glad I wasn't, as I always found a way to be up in the front of concerts near the stage. I don't think I would have wanted to be in the middle of the Hell's Angels beatings and violence.



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Stones june 25,90
I went to 22 and 23 shows.

25th the sun is shining (and the black market cannot sell all the tickets since the band added this 3rd show after the sales for the 2 first gigs. The price was cut in 2 by sellers on june 25th !)
and the show was again excellent. Fortunately the "singer and the fly" boot exists.

The Police, 1977 at Pogo's dance club in Kansas City
a refreshing break from disco of the day

Stones in '65, AC-DC a couple of years ago, and Fleetwood Mac

1997 U2, Popmart tour, Rotterdam, Holland

My friend didn't want to go because he went to his chick. She dumped him that night... :-)

Cheers,
Wuudy

I had tickets to go see Primal Screamin 1991 or '92. My friend bagged at the last minute and I didn't want to go by myself. He didn't even repay me for the tickets!

I also had tickets for some big Eric Clapton show at Lincoln Center, probably '93/'94 ish. It was a benefit and tickets were about $1K each or something. I had a free ticket and was supposed to go with my boss, but work got busy so we blew it off to finish up a presentation.

I also had many opportunity to see Guns N Roses, and didn't want to go, as I hated that kind of music back then. I like it now though.

David Bowie Station to Station tour. All I had to do was ask for the night off from my part time job.... don't know what I was thinking.

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And the queen is bravely shouting,
"What the hell is going on?"

CindyC Wrote:
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> I had tickets to go see Primal Screamin 1991 or
> '92. My friend bagged at the last minute and I
> didn't want to go by myself. He didn't even
> repay me for the tickets!
>
> I also had tickets for some big Eric Clapton show
> at Lincoln Center, probably '93/'94 ish. It was
> a benefit and tickets were about $1K each or
> something. I had a free ticket and was supposed
> to go with my boss, but work got busy so we blew
> it off to finish up a presentation.
>
> I also had many opportunity to see Guns N Roses,
> and didn't want to go, as I hated that kind of
> music back then. I like it now though.


refuse to grow old gracefully, eh?

Ray Brown Trio at the Jazz Bakery

Dolly Parton at HOB Sunset

I've caught EVERYBODY...but blew these 2 off...much to my dismay.

Justin Wrote:
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> 2004 Chicago....Simon and Garfunkel's first
> reunion tour in years. Since I only knew a
> handful of songs...didn't think it was worth the
> ticket. Bought the tour DVD and was so absolutely
> upset I didn't go.

i went to this show. tickets were expensive so i showed up just before the show started and got a couple of seats for $25 each (more than i usually pay last minute).

Phantom Wrote:
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> AC/DC (with Bon Scott) in 1979. I wasn't allowed
> to go by my dad and a few months later Bon died.


my chance to see AC/DC was in '80 or '81 (must've been with Brian Johnson). i was 12 or 13 so i was pretty clueless - now regret it.

little queenie Wrote:
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> Justin Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 2004 Chicago....Simon and Garfunkel's first
> > reunion tour in years. Since I only knew a
> > handful of songs...didn't think it was worth
> the
> > ticket. Bought the tour DVD and was so
> absolutely
> > upset I didn't go.
>
> i went to this show. tickets were expensive so i
> showed up just before the show started and got a
> couple of seats for $25 each (more than i usually
> pay last minute).


got great seats on a last second impulse - far exceeded expectations. art's lost much of his angelic voice, but paul and the CRACK band more than made up for that....plus, seeing the everly's was a major bonus.

StonesTod Wrote:
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refuse to grow old gracefully, eh?


I don't do anything gracefully. You should see me eat.

CindyC Wrote:
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> StonesTod Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> refuse to grow old gracefully, eh?
>
>
> I don't do anything gracefully. You should see
> me eat.

seen it. i shouldn't have.

I would make and post a very long list but I wouldn't be able to afford the necessary therapy involved afterward.

Four Stone Walls Wrote:
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> Oh, one other .........
>
> Sex Pistols in '77 in Bristol.
>
> The reggae club ("The bamboo Club") where they
> were to play burnt down.
>
> saw the Clash two months later though.


Now - both of those I would have regretted my whole life too. Actually it sent me straight to "Never Mind The Bollocks" ..now "Holidays in the Sun"

I'll never forget sitting in my friend's room listening to "Never Mind...." (Hmmm...incoming - was "Nevermind" by Nirvana a nod to Sex Pistols??) and his father bursting in yelling at us to turn the volume down. What a funny, old man he was - he must have been at least 44 (actually probably just in his late 30') -doh!

..and then in the spring of 1981 going to see Bruce Springsteen and totally missing out on the fact, that The Clash played a week before or after?? Damn! (Only got to see the Clash years later on the "Cut The Crap"-tour - what a nightmare.

Dan Wrote:
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> I would make and post a very long list but I
> wouldn't be able to afford the necessary therapy
> involved afterward.


Writing about it might be just the therapy you need? *lol*

See everyone...then you won't have a list.

So...who is seeing Tom Waits at the Bridge School this year?

sdstonesguy Wrote:
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> See everyone...then you won't have a list.
>
> So...who is seeing Tom Waits at the Bridge School
> this year?


Tom Waits on tour in Europe? Or.....???

Woodstock 1969

Rolling Stones Prague 1994 - too young
The Who this tour - no money


Strange i've never regretted i missed 2 U2 shows even that i had tix for one. I gave it to my bro



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Well,the most obvious one that comes to mind because it's most relevant right now,was the last E-Street Band Tour in 99. I didn't care much for The Rising,so I didn't get tickets. Then when the show rolled around I regretted it. Espicially, if I would have known they wouldn't tour for 8 years.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"