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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: hutch on January 28, 2020, 08:07:27 pm
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I don’t know what I was “thinking” when I missed the Leonard Cohen concert at Merriweather....
I wish I had a good excuse like it was during my serious addiction to smack
Very embarrassing
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I had tickets, to Ween at Pier 6, and I told every,one I was going. Then I didn't go, because I was lazy that day.
More, than likely, I will never get the chance to see Ween again.
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Prince
Joe strummer show at the 930
Bowie when he played G.Mason
Heliung
More, than likely, I will never get the chance to see Ween again.
well they have played about 30 shows since them, so it's not like they aren't touring
they hate DC for some reason, but they will probably play a show in Phil/balt in the next year
you were missed tho...fun show, hutch even got me claude's drumstick!
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i waffled on seeing james brown at the club. i could have gone but thought the ticket was a little too expensive and that he'd be back soon anyways... ask me how that turned out.
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Prince.
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Hutch, tell us more about your smack habit.
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What I am saying is I wish I could blame it on a smack habit...
I guess maybe he came through town when I was obsessed with other music otherwise it’s hard for me to understand why I blew it off....I have really been into Cohen since around 94 and his tour was a big deal
Maybe I cheapened out...it was expensive
Maybe I thought he was too old?
Serious error in judgment
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Great topic. Daft Punk is up there. Cranberries too (but that’s more about my musical tastes at 12 and Delores O’Riordan passing). John Adams with the NSO.
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+1 on the cranberries. that voice, tho...
Prince.
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agreed (as in, definitely belongs in this thread if you didn't see him. i was lucky enough to have caught him twice).
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Queen at the Glens Falls Civic Center.
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/queen/1980/glens-falls-civic-center-glens-falls-ny-73dc9e55.html
So I was only 13 and wasn't allowed to go to concerts at that point, but i had classmates who went.
7500 people in attendance and the box office was only 67K.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_Tour
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The artist that kills me the most is Jeff Buckley. Unforgivable.
Nirvana in the fall of 91 at the old 930 kinda sux too. Had been a big fan of Bleach but never saw them. That was my best and last shot to catch them.
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The artist that kills me the most is Jeff Buckley. Unforgivable.
gotta give it to Hutch, who got me to see that show at the 9:30...he did a leonard choen song too
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The artist that kills me the most is Jeff Buckley. Unforgivable.
gotta give it to Hutch, who got me to see that show at the 9:30...he did a leonard choen song too
December 1994 or May 1995? I was at one of them (Nightclub 9:30), pretty sure it was '94.
https://concerts.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff_Buckley
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Yeah definitely old 930 so 94
God he was busting tail every night...at least 4 shows in one year in DC...2 black cat, old 930 and WUST
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The artist that kills me the most is Jeff Buckley. Unforgivable.
gotta give it to Hutch, who got me to see that show at the 9:30...he did a leonard choen song too
December 1994 or May 1995? I was at one of them (Nightclub 9:30), pretty sure it was '94.
https://concerts.fandom.com/wiki/Jeff_Buckley
pretty sure December 94
Didn't realize he was in town 3 times that year!
February 21, 1994 Birchmere, Alexandria, VA
February 22, 1994 Black Cat, Washington, DC
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I didn't go to many concerts between 1988-1991 (law school) and then between 1991 and 2000 while the kids were little, and then maybe I went to a few a year from 2000-2006. So, I basically missed everything important. Catching up for that with the last 6 or 7 years, where I have probably gone to close to 400 shows.
Anyway:
Last year, I had a ticket for Idles, but logistics got complicated and I couldnt go.
I would have liked to see Tom Petty's last Baltimore show, but there was a miscommunication.
The Tibetan Freedom Concert at RFK thing & Radiohead at the Club.
That last Foo Fighters thing at the Club. I had ffigured out that it was a free foo show and meant to get a ticket when I was downtown that day to go to a show at BlackCat and just forgot to go to the club to get a ticket.
The Beck thing where he played Lincoln Theatre and was mostly acoustic?
That last DC The Hold Steady show at U Hall.
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Also . . . I guess, this falls into this category.
After 21 years of seeing them, I regret that I have not seen a single Phish show in 2 years and more than likely will never, see them again live. Which, is sad, because I love them, and they really changed my life.
Burnt'd
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Nina Simone 2001
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I didn't go to many concerts between 1988-1991 (law school) and then between 1991 and 2000 while the kids were little
I had a long period like this - roughly from 91 into the 2000s where I didn’t go to shows much, either. For the exact same reasons: kids and school (not law skool tho). I refer to that period as the Dark Ages.
I remember where I was when I read the Buckley had died. Absolutely crushing as I was hell bent not to miss out on him.
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Nina Simone 2001
At DAR? I was there....she was in pretty rough shape
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Oakland....I heard she only played 8 songs or less?
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I don’t know what I was “thinking” when I missed the Leonard Cohen concert at Merriweather....
I wish I had a good excuse like it was during my serious addiction to smack
Very embarrassing
Ditto. And I live down the street. It did not help it was raining that night, but still, no excuse.
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I am also still resentful that my parents didn't let me see shows in high school, so I missed everything before 1995.
I would also have liked to see Brainiac live. But, that one is my own fault.
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Frank Zappa
Palace Theater
Albany, NY
11/12/81 :'(
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The Ramones at Girards in Baltimore February 1985
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I had a ticket for the last DC-area At The Drive-In show at the Black Cat before they originally broke up, but screwed up the dates in my head and missed it. That bummed me out.
Oh, and I had to miss the 50th anniversary Beach Boys show at Merriweather and the last Clean show in the area because my daughter was born (worth it, though, she's pretty cool)
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Also . . . I guess, this falls into this category.
After 21 years of seeing them, I regret that I have not seen a single Phish show in 2 years and more than likely will never, see them again live. Which, is sad, because I love them, and they really changed my life.
Burnt'd
I took an 18 year break and am so glad I've gone back to see them the last two years. Come out for Hershey or Atlantic City!!!
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I don’t know what I was “thinking” when I missed the Leonard Cohen concert at Merriweather....
I wish I had a good excuse like it was during my serious addiction to smack
Very embarrassing
This is the one that jumps to mind for me as well. I had traveled to New York to see him at the Beacon, I didn't have the money for good seats at the time... and I just thought I'd get another chance. But I regret it.
The other one for me is Prince at the Warner theater. It was too rich for my blood, and I'd just seen him in Baltimore, but I never thought it would be the last time.
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Also . . . I guess, this falls into this category.
After 21 years of seeing them, I regret that I have not seen a single Phish show in 2 years and more than likely will never, see them again live. Which, is sad, because I love them, and they really changed my life.
Burnt'd
I took an 18 year break and am so glad I've gone back to see them the last two years. Come out for Hershey or Atlantic City!!!
Yeah... Does not compute.
You still like them?
They play within one hour of your abode basically every year.
Come on Walky.
K8, I do think those AC shows could bring in a nassssty crowd... Just my opinion but keep it in mind.
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James Brown/Chuck Brown (I was newish to the area)
Paul Westerberg (I liked the idea of him just chilling and kind of putzing around with a couch, but my crap band had a show)
The Replacements (sure, replacement replacement of the Replacements, but if it's also the last time Paul does anything, fuck.)
Tom Petty (Who thought he would kick it like that?)
Bummed that I missed Cymbals Eat Guitars, but my wife was sick (practically dying the the passenger seat) and we tried to find parking for fifteens minutes after leaving twenty minutes late. . . Anxiety deluxe.
Supergrass the last time they were here (they were very much a favorite band for this ex-islander anglophile)
White Stripes with The Shins (I'm lame)
It would have been awesome to take my grandmother to see Leonard Cohen, but I wasn't quite there yet.
Probably worst is Joe Strummer (I only kind of liked the Mescaleros, but damn if he wasn't a presence, imagine him in this day and age).
I should probably catch Prine before he shuffles off.
Maybe Dylan one more time
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ohh this is a big one....
skipped Lisa Germano at IOTA and went to The Rapture at 930 instead....how stupid is that!
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Two more, which were out of my control-
Emerson Lake and Palmer 8/18/74 Saratoga (NY) Performing Arts Center -cancelled due to an electrical storm
Grateful Dead run at the Philly Spectrum 9/13-15/92- cancelled due to Jerry's health. Of course, this was the first and only time I received front row seats from the GD mail order service. UGH!
BTW, great thread idea Hutch
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I'd have to say mine are Bowie, Motorhead, Prince. Those are the big ones.
I've seen a bunch of the shows that folks regret missing. The Replacements at Echostage was terrible. Saw them the next night in Philly, which ended up being their last US show, and it was everything you could have wanted/hoped for. So I'm glad I had a true Replacements experience. I saw the Cranberries in 1993 as they were blowing up. They were opening for Suede (with Bernard Butler) and that was an outstanding show. Dolores was a charmer. Really just a great singer and performer. They were great. I also saw Supergrass a ton of times. Always wonderful. Joe Strummer at the 9:30 was fantastic. He did a bunch of Clash tunes...“Bankrobber,” “Tommy Gun,” “London Calling,” “White Man in Hammersmith Palais,” “Rock the Casbah,” "Brand New Cadillac" and "I Fought the Law". Very happy I got to see him.
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Another one I saw, which I'm grateful I did, was the Tibetan Freedom Concert at RFK in 1998. I had tickets the first day...the weather was awful, so we scalped our first day tickets and then bought tickets for day 2 instead. Boy, was that a good call. Second day was pretty amazing, and after the mess from the first day it got really hard to get tickets to day 2. Highlights were definitely watching Radiohead play "Airbag" "Karma Police" and "Lucky" with Michael Stipe, Pulp play "This is Hardcore", REM playing a couple tunes with Thom Yorke, Beastie Boys opening with "Root Down" and going into "Shake Your Rump", and actually the Wallflowers and Wyclef were really good too.
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This is not the rub in the shows you did get to see others wish they had thread Bearman!!
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This is not the rub in the shows you did get to see others wish they had thread Bearman!!
Lol
John Prine is definitely up there for me... Just always get lazy and skip when he's in town but I need to change that.
Edit: John Prine and Emmy Lou sounds like a good evening in June.
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This is not the rub in the shows you did get to see others wish they had thread Bearman!!
Hey Bearman, I saw Bowie AND Prince so put that in your pipe and smoke it. ;D
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skipped Lisa Germano at IOTA and went to The Rapture at 930 instead....how stupid is that!
Only time I ever made it to Iota. I don’t think she ever came back to the area.
I should have noted that I had a ticket to the Replacements at the 930 in 86 but the tour was scrapped a few days prior when Westerberg took a stage dive and had his hand stomped. Never got to see Bob play.
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This is not the rub in the shows you did get to see others wish they had thread Bearman!!
Haha, you missed it and wanna know how it was? I'd tell you if it sucked. Like the 'Mats at Echostage. That was awful.
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Probably the ones i regret not seeing the most having had ample opportunity to do so.....Bowie and the Ramones.
Prince's Purple Rain tour was my first concert though.
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Madness - back when I was cheap and thought $20 was too much too pay.
All the times Blur played at the Black Cat and I couldn't be bothered.
Trotsky Icepick at the 15 Minutes club.
Fugazi - I kept thinking I would've been beaten up for looking like a middle class suburbanite (which I am).
Devo at the Warner (New Traditionalists tour) I was only fourteen but I really wanted to go.
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Also . . . I guess, this falls into this category.
After 21 years of seeing them, I regret that I have not seen a single Phish show in 2 years and more than likely will never, see them again live. Which, is sad, because I love them, and they really changed my life.
Burnt'd
I took an 18 year break and am so glad I've gone back to see them the last two years. Come out for Hershey or Atlantic City!!!
Yeah... Does not compute.
You still like them?
They play within one hour of your abode basically every year.
Come on Walky.
K8, I do think those AC shows could bring in a nassssty crowd... Just my opinion but keep it in mind.
I started to really ponder this one. Why, John, why. I love these guys so much. They mean everything to me musically. I would roadie follow them if I could. But, then I figured it out.
I used to go to Phish shows with my friends. We partied like rock stars from the moment we left until the moment we got home. It was family. It was freedom. Then we got old, and no one that I went with goes anymore really.
I got selfish and wanted it to be the way it once was. I wanted my friends. I wanted that freedom. And I didn't think Wilson, that I could still have fun, by myself.
The, end.
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This is not the rub in the shows you did get to see others wish they had thread Bearman!!
Hey Bearman, I saw Bowie AND Prince so put that in your pipe and smoke it. ;D
So...how were they??
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Also . . . I guess, this falls into this category.
After 21 years of seeing them, I regret that I have not seen a single Phish show in 2 years and more than likely will never, see them again live. Which, is sad, because I love them, and they really changed my life.
Burnt'd
I took an 18 year break and am so glad I've gone back to see them the last two years. Come out for Hershey or Atlantic City!!!
Yeah... Does not compute.
You still like them?
They play within one hour of your abode basically every year.
Come on Walky.
K8, I do think those AC shows could bring in a nassssty crowd... Just my opinion but keep it in mind.
I started to really ponder this one. Why, John, why. I love these guys so much. They mean everything to me musically. I would roadie follow them if I could. But, then I figured it out.
I used to go to Phish shows with my friends. We partied like rock stars from the moment we left until the moment we got home. It was family. It was freedom. Then we got old, and no one that I went with goes anymore really.
I got selfish and wanted it to be the way it once was. I wanted my friends. I wanted that freedom. And I didn't think Wilson, that I could still have fun, by myself.
The, end.
I'll tell you what, John. I probably would've been in a similar situation, however, I converted my partner to a big fan in the early 2010's. She kind of pushes the experience now more than myself, but it's still fun, Wilson.
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This is not the rub in the shows you did get to see others wish they had thread Bearman!!
Hey Bearman, I saw Bowie AND Prince so put that in your pipe and smoke it. ;D
So...how were they??
Bowie was the better of the two. It was part of that weird traveling festival with Moby in like 2002. Wish he had played longer.
Prince was musically super-tight but I was somewhat disappointed he did not play more hits, which seemed to have been his MO in later years.
If I could magically see either again, I would pick Bowie.
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also, i was contemplating going to see frightened rabbit on that last tour....i had heard great things, knew a few songs, but just didnt make it happen.
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This is not the rub in the shows you did get to see others wish they had thread Bearman!!
Hey Bearman, I saw Bowie AND Prince so put that in your pipe and smoke it. ;D
So...how were they??
Bowie was the better of the two. It was part of that weird traveling festival with Moby in like 2002. Wish he had played longer.
Prince was musically super-tight but I was somewhat disappointed he did not play more hits, which seemed to have been his MO in later years.
If I could magically see either again, I would pick Bowie.
Verrrry interesting. I wish I could time travel to see Prince around this era (early '82): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAYQUbh8HHA&t=3124s
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also, i was contemplating going to see frightened rabbit on that last tour....i had heard great things, knew a few songs, but just didnt make it happen.
I though that show sucked though the original MOF tour stop 10 years prior at RNR Hotel was great.
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also, i was contemplating going to see frightened rabbit on that last tour....i had heard great things, knew a few songs, but just didnt make it happen.
I though that show sucked though the original MOF tour stop 10 years prior at RNR Hotel was great.
Would have liked to see for myself. Since he died, I probably have listened to Leper more than any other song (except for the Humpty Dance) on my iTunes.
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The Jam at the Punch & Judy. I caught the bus home in front of the venue and remember seeing the poster promoting the show... there were also several other shows I missed there but that was the one that hurts the most...
I blame it on the lack of an older cooler sibling
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he was so sick at that last black cat show.
also, i was contemplating going to see frightened rabbit on that last tour....i had heard great things, knew a few songs, but just didnt make it happen.
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he was so sick at that last black cat show.
also, i was contemplating going to see frightened rabbit on that last tour....i had heard great things, knew a few songs, but just didnt make it happen.
Sick as in awesome or sick as in ill?
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Talking Heads at Merriweather
U2 on the War tour at Ritchie Coliseum
Dead Kennedys at WUST
Husker Du at Lisner
Grateful Dead in Europe in 1990
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I saw that Talking Heads show at Merriweather and then King Crimson with Adrian Belew the next night.
Anyone ever see Bob Marley live?
Talking Heads at Merriweather
U2 on the War tour at Ritchie Coliseum
Dead Kennedys at WUST
Husker Du at Lisner
Grateful Dead in Europe in 1990
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my greatest regret just resurfaced, my subconscious had suppressed it: i never saw the tragically hip. despite being a big fan since i was a teen. despite them playing the 930 a half-dozen times while i was in DC. i tried to get tix to 3 of their farewell tour shows and would have gotten on a plane had i scored, alas the ticket gods didn't smile on me.
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my greatest regret just resurfaced, my subconscious had suppressed it: i never saw the tragically hip. despite being a big fan since i was a teen. despite them playing the 930 a half-dozen times while i was in DC. i tried to get tix to 3 of their farewell tour shows and would have gotten on a plane had i scored, alas the ticket gods didn't smile on me.
Honest question: What was so great about the Tragically Hip? They're definitely within the limits of my musical taste, but I just never got why they received so much adulation. I watched that documentary on Netflix which featured a lot of live performance and I just thought they were pretty lame. My wife even commented "Why are you wasting your time watching such mediocre garbage?" and I watched it hoping they'd prove her wrong but I came away agreeing with her.
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As a Detroiter who is therefore 40% Canadian, you shut your damn mouth.
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Anyone ever see Bob Marley live?
I had the extreme good fortune of seeing him twice:
The Lenox Music Inn (near Tanglewood-western MA)-6/18/78
and
The Colgate University Gym- Hamilton, NY-10/31/79 (Halloween)
Both religious experiences and I haven't been the same since.
Never saw Peter Tosh tho
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Oh gosh where do I begin?
For starters, any Joe Strummer or Fall show. I did see The Clash on the Combat Rock Tour, so I have that, and the T-shirt.
I also attended that Moby/ Bowie /Busta Rhymes /?show at what is now Jiffy Lube. It was short but when the the lights behind him that spelled Bowie changed to Ziggy, that was something. That lighting apparatus was on display at the David Bowie Is exhibit.
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my greatest regret just resurfaced, my subconscious had suppressed it: i never saw the tragically hip. despite being a big fan since i was a teen. despite them playing the 930 a half-dozen times while i was in DC. i tried to get tix to 3 of their farewell tour shows and would have gotten on a plane had i scored, alas the ticket gods didn't smile on me.
Honest question: What was so great about the Tragically Hip? They're definitely within the limits of my musical taste, but I just never got why they received so much adulation. I watched that documentary on Netflix which featured a lot of live performance and I just thought they were pretty lame. My wife even commented "Why are you wasting your time watching such mediocre garbage?" and I watched it hoping they'd prove her wrong but I came away agreeing with her.
I saw them at the first HFStival in `90. At the time I only knew them from their "New Orleans" song and I wasn't that impressed with the performance. As a matter of fact, that was a pretty lame festival. Pursuit of Happiness played and I was psyched to see them but they weren't that great as was Concrete Blonde. The next year was much better.
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when I was in high school I had scored pretty decent seats to the Bowie Glass Spider tour
Ended up giving them to my sister and her boyfriend. They said it was fun, but mostly talked about the parking and high beer prices
That I regret
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when I was in high school I had scored pretty decent seats to the Bowie Glass Spider tour
Ended up giving them to my sister and her boyfriend. They said it was fun, but mostly talked about the parking and high beer prices
That I regret
Was her boyfriend's name $pace?
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;D
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Thought of one earlier today — Gorillaz at St Andrews on their first tour. Knew someone with an extra ticket and I passed on it. Regrets.