Inspired by the recent thread about concerts, one is embarrassed about, I feel there should also be a thread about THAT concert you SHOULD have attended but did not for whatever reasons...


Mine were back in the 1980's and a friend of mine tried for the longest time to talk me into going with him to a Grateful Dead concert. Their last ever in Denmark as it turned out.

I just did not get (or "dig") the GF at that time in life - I could not understand them!!! And as this socalled friend had made disparaging remarks about Rolling Stones, no way was I gonna go with him!!

I have been kicking myself ever since - today I love the Grateful Dead and have several DVD's to watch - but nothing like seing them live for yourself, eh?

Both the Smiths and U2 played at my Polytechnic as they were starting out. Pretty p*ssed that I couldn't be bothered to go. All the reports from my mates were that they were superb. Duh!

That I didn't get to see Patti Smith this summer, because her European dates coincided with my exams

Jeff Buckley, Reading Festival 28th Aug 1994.

I was as this festival.
The great man was playing in a mid-afternoon slot in a tented side-stage.

Walked past the tent, hearing him play, got distracted, never went in.

never got another chance to see him.

..biggest gig-going regret, ever.

Roky Erickson at Roskilde Festival this year

Not everyday you get the oppotunity to see him live

Well Led bloody Zeppelin had just better stop dithering around and simply GET ON with reforming or re-uniting for this one-off show or doing whatever it is they're intending to do, cos' I never saw 'em - and I simply can't have that; it's an intolerable state of affairs. So ... Messers Page/Plant and whoever else is involved: GET ON WITH IT !!

O yeah, and don't forget to send me 4 choice tickets. Thank you !!

Little Feat...somewhere around 74...75...too drunk



ROCKMAN

paulywaul Wrote:
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> Well Led bloody Zeppelin had just better stop
> dithering around and simply GET ON with reforming
> or re-uniting for this one-off show or doing
> whatever it is they're intending to do, cos' I
> never saw 'em - and I simply can't have that; it's
> an intolerable state of affairs. So ... Messers
> Page/Plant and whoever else is involved: GET ON
> WITH IT !!
>
> O yeah, and don't forget to send me 4 choice
> tickets. Thank you !!

[www.iorr.org]

all these shows here in denmark I would ´have loved to have seen

James Brown -last year here in denmark just a couble of months before he passed away

Carl perkins -late 80´s

frank sinatra and sammy davies late 80´s

The Doors (Riders On The Storm) in Oslo earlier this year...

I was on the guest list for Nirvana's show in Bristol (Uk) a few days before Teen Spirit broke. I went to the pub instead.

I came close but missed some important Stones shows in Chicago...Checkerboard with Muddy Waters in 81, Double Door in 97, and the Aragon show in 02. That said, the only show I truly regret and always will regret not attending (because at the time my parents said I was too young to go)...the Stones at Chicago Stadium in 1975.

tigerman Wrote:
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> all these shows here in denmark I would ´have
> loved to have seen
>
> James Brown -last year here in denmark just a
> couble of months before he passed away
>
> Carl perkins -late 80´s
>
> frank sinatra and sammy davies late 80´s


Oh, yeah, count me in on the last one as well. Would have loved to have seen Frank Sinatra ;-)

Adrian-L Wrote:
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> paulywaul Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Well Led bloody Zeppelin had just better stop
> > dithering around and simply GET ON with
> reforming
> > or re-uniting for this one-off show or doing
> > whatever it is they're intending to do, cos' I
> > never saw 'em - and I simply can't have that;
> it's
> > an intolerable state of affairs. So ... Messers
> > Page/Plant and whoever else is involved: GET ON
> > WITH IT !!
> >
> > O yeah, and don't forget to send me 4 choice
> > tickets. Thank you !!
>
> [www.iorr.org]

Bloody hell ............... !! They must've been listening !!

[www.nme.com]

Barrence W Wrote:
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> I was on the guest list for Nirvana's show in
> Bristol (Uk) a few days before Teen Spirit broke.
> I went to the pub instead.

ouch.
saw them at Reading Festival in '92

- i was underwhelmed, to be honest.

Sinatra late eighties. Decided against it.

Jerry Lee Lewis late eighties - Gloucester leisure centre. Didn't have a tenner spare!

Kinks - Girlfriend was pregnant.

Radiohead supporting James..... went to the bar instead

Oasis Gloucester Leisure Centre - worked overtime instead!

ouch! X5

Not goodeh. On the otherside though seen many great gigs......

The Stone Roses at Glasgow Green. Had school the next day...

i had a ticket for the Rollercoaster tour back in the early 90s (i think)

headlined by The Jesus & Mary Chain, with Blur, Dinosaur Jr and My Bloody Valentine in support

at the time i had no time for MBV and insisted on staying in the bar while they played their set. T-W-A-T

now years later i love em, and never got a chance to see em again after that tour


"I was on the guest list for Nirvana's show in Bristol (Uk) a few days before Teen Spirit broke. I went to the pub instead"

they were great on that tour too. agree Reading wasn't the greatest though

He he...I did see MBV at Rollercoaster, though!

apparently, MBV are rumoured to be reforming for Coachella, next year.

ya bastard!

I had an invitation for a Marilyn Manson concert including the after show party with Marilyn.
I don't like the music, so I didn't go.
Sadly the after show party was a real burner including all my favourity exzesses...
Sometimes one must suffer a little to get a reward afterwards...

i heard a rumour about that too. apparently there's website on the go and rumours abound of a tour next year

not sure if its a good idea or not to be honest

Johnny Cash - I remember about 20+ years ago he played near my city, it was like $40 then which seemed extremely high. Boy do I regret that now...

twanghound Wrote:
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> Sadly the after show party was a real burner
> including all my favourity exzesses...


dwarves/ trays of coke?

Remind me Adrian where is the dwarves/trays of coke from? Something tells me it is something to do with Soft Cell...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-09-05 17:17 by neilly43.

a tray of dwarves on coke would be more intriguing to me

Freddie Mercury's birthday 'bash' ?