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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: sweetcell on July 22, 2025, 07:04:31 pm
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there might be another thread to this effect, but if there is i couldn't find it. mandatory disclaimer: #firstworldproblems
everybody was talking about that last show
for a hot minute i planned on going to ozzy's retirement party. i had a flight lined up, was scoping out a ticket... but reality set in and i shitcanned the idea. i knew the ozzy/sabbath show was a now-or-never situation, so i was at peace with my decision.
there are several shows that i skipped that i really regret to this day, like not seeing james brown at the club. i forget what did instead or why i couldn't go, but it could not have been more important. huge L there.
i bailed on seeing the cure at MPP at that make-up show where they played 33 songs. that was plain dumb.
didn't go see leonard cohen on his last tour because i thought the ticket was too expensive, not that i wasn't spending as much or more on other shows at the time. yeah, i'm really glad i still have that $200 (or whatever) in my bank account...
biggest regret, and yes admitting this is grounds for revoking my canuck card, is the tragically hip. they were just always around. every time i told myself they'll be back in 12-18 months so i'll catch them next time, until there wasn't one. i did everything i could to get a ticket to their farewell tour but that was a tougher pull than floors for taylor swift.
and you?
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Number one regret is Chuck Berry at Club 1996 or so..he was in town to get Kennedy Center Honor…but I balked at $50…. I just didn’t understand what Chuck represented…by the time I did get to see him like 15 years later he was on his last legs. My friend Howard saw his last show which is pretty cool
Number two is Leonard Cohen at MPP…I balked at price, again….Disgraceful penny pinching. Such is life…
Those are the two that haunt me - at times- and keep me up at night.
I feel like I have been privileged to see most everyone I wanted to see…
Am so glad I will see Pulp and Beta Band later this year…
I will try to think of others…it doesn’t bother me I never saw the Dead with Jerry cause by the time I could have seen them Jerry was in such bad shape… doesn’t bother me u didn’t see Floyd cause stadium shows suck so hard… I wish I had seen Gilmour solo but by time I really wanted to ge was so old and it was ludicrously expensive
I wish I had gone to Radiohead at 930 (the Brad Pitt Aniston show) but I can live with it…
It’s weird I have never seen Paul McCartney but again these huge stadium shows suck and for some reason I don’t care
O yah I thought of one more; regret not seeing Jamiroquai at club..I had a ticket but decided to pass in favor of hanging out at a friends bands show. In retrospect a mistake but I was young and my heart was in the right place!
Overall I done pretty good…
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Grateful Dead @ Three Rivers in 1995
Prince late night show at the Warner
Petty's last local arena show in Bawlmoor
Prob a few others but those are the top three.
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It will forever be The Jam at the Punch and Judy theater in the Detroit suburbs in the late 70s. I used to catch the bus home in front of theater after high school, can remember seeing the poster for the show. I was aware of the Clash, Devo, etc. but at the time not them. After missing out on seeing bands like Talking Heads, Devoat that theater I made a point to see any show there
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The Ramones at Girards in Baltimore in the 80's. Drove past club, saw they were playing and didn't stop to get a ticket.
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Queen, September 1980. Arena show, but tickets started at $8.50.
I was 13. There was no way I was going, but the kids with the cool parents did.
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Queen, September 1980. Arena show, but tickets started at $8.50.
I was 13. There was no way I was going, but the kids with the cool parents did.
That's some trauma to remember a ticket price from 45 years ago.
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Queen, September 1980. Arena show, but tickets started at $8.50.
I was 13. There was no way I was going, but the kids with the cool parents did.
That's some trauma to remember a ticket price from 45 years ago.
I saw a picture of a standing room only ticket online when I Googled the show.
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Van Halen Capital Center March 1984
- all schemes to get anyone to drive 10-year olds to this show were thwarted. Fast forward 2-years and I’m staring at the 5150 cassette I got at Sam Goody wondering how the universe could be so cruel and talking myself into believing this new thing was ok
Nirvana St. Andrew’s Detroit October 1991
- hesitated getting tickets for $10 (see above) while picking up tix to see Pearl Jam at Blind Pig for $7.50 (nice one!) because no one could figure out how to get to Detroit. Kurt started dating Courtney like literally the next day and things were never the same
Daft Punk Brooklyn August 2007
- this board was all over this but I didn’t realize the grave mistake until I bought Alive 2007 at Olsson’s, put it on car stereo and was just like holy shit. And that’s without the visuals, the soundsystem and everything.
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Sharing proactively
Pixies night one if I make it… I swear to yahweh if I pass up Trompe le monde in full am going to hate myself even more than I do but there is some surely lame bbq at our summer pool tonight and I should pretend to want to be with my family at least once a month….
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Queen, September 1980. Arena show, but tickets started at $8.50.
I was 13. There was no way I was going, but the kids with the cool parents did.
That's some trauma to remember a ticket price from 45 years ago.
I saw a picture of a standing room only ticket online when I Googled the show.
Timely - as I saw them on this day in 1982. $12.50.
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Not local but --- Led Zeppelin in London/2007 . Buddy and I were strongly considering ccard debt for it but there were solid rumors of a tour. Once it became a never-happen-again.... ugh.
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And once we saw it and realized how “on” they were!!!! This was the Zep anti/Live Aid gig! They clearly rehearsed and prepared!!! So good..they still had it!!
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The entire NYC scene from the mid 80s
I was 100 miles away but there was an easy one stop train ride to downtown
I believed the suburban bullshit that the city was crazy dangerous and unless you wanted to die, don't go there
When I look back at what was happening in NY in so many genres
spent a lot of my youth going to Nassau Coliseum, MSG, Meadowlands, Jones Beach
I saw some decent shows, sadly none of them free, but being a lifegard paid well
but I really had no idea how much better it was in a small club
I often could not tell who was on stage, this was before always having the giant TV screens that all venues have had for years
never made it to CBGBs...probably my biggest regret
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I walked into CbGbs, walked straight, used bathroom and walked out.
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I walked into CbGbs, walked straight, used bathroom and walked out.
I actually saw a show there, but it wasn't until the 90's. The bands sucked and the place was pretty nasty. I think maybe someone I knew knew someone in one of the bands.
If you forced me to wear one of those silly biking shirts I see bikers riding with, I'd choose the CBGB's over Snickers or Frosted Flakes.
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CBGB’s 1974-1978 heck yeah…
After that????
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CBGB’s 1974-1978 heck yeah…
After that????
well you are not into hardcore
Bad Brains, Cromags, Warzone, murphys law, token entry, gorilla biscuts and sick of it all were all regulars
Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Dinosaur Jr. early beastie boys, pixies, replacements, living color, soundgarden all played early shows there
even John Zorn was playing there in the 80s
by the 90s it was pretty meh
of course the mid 70s would have been epic, but I was only 4-8
if I had a time machine, I would likely pick that era first
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Fair point
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man the CMJ fest in 1987
https://www.setlist.fm/festival/1987/cmj-music-festival-1987-6bd46a1a.html
Thursday, October 29, 1987
CBGB, Living Colour
L'Amour, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Guns N’ Roses
The Cat Club, New York, NY, USA
Faith No More
Friday, October 30, 1987
CBGB, New York, NY, USA
Guns N’ Roses
Pixies
L'Amour, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Overkill
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, NY, USA
Jerry Garcia Band
Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ, USA
The Dickies
The Limelight, New York, NY, USA
Cabaret Voltaire
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Ritz, New York, NY, USA
Omar and the Howlers
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Saturday, October 31, 1987
Irving Plaza, New York, NY, USA
Murphy’s Law
The Dickies
Underdog
L'Amour East, Queens, NY, USA
Corina
Sa‐Fire
L'Amour, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Anvil Bitch
Nuclear Assault
Overkill
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, NY, USA
Jerry Garcia Band
Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ, USA
Pixies
The Celibate Rifles
The Cat Club, New York, NY, USA
Pere Ubu
The Ritz, New York, NY, USA
Faith No More
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sunday, November 1, 1987
1018 Club, New York, NY, USA
Dead or Alive
CBGB, New York, NY, USA
The Celibate Rifles
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Made it! Pixies about to go on
(https://i.postimg.cc/BXkdbJBB/IMG-6417.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/BXkdbJBB)
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Interesting..never heard pixies play don’t stop believing but they are teasing it tonight!
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Pic of hutch in swimming trunks or it didn't happen
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that was quite a down pour, glad to hear they didn't get rained out
Do you think they will sing "drove my car, into the pool" ?
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Pic of hutch in swimming trunks or it didn't happen
I've know him for like 3 decades and I've barely seen that
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Pixies performing Styx!!
Damn that came out of nowhere
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Dude I am the only person here in jeans and long sleeve shirt!
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Wait wut? Mellencamp??
This isn’t pixies is it!?
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Old time rock and roll >
bad case of loving you
(https://i.postimg.cc/sQnZ96ns/IMG-6418.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/sQnZ96ns)
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I want you to want me!!
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Ok my kid got them to play crazy train
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Ok my kid got them to play crazy train
sweet, did you give them the devil horns
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Made it! Pixies about to go on
(https://i.postimg.cc/BXkdbJBB/IMG-6417.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/BXkdbJBB)
is that the infamous backstage pool at MPP??
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Made it! Pixies about to go on
(https://i.postimg.cc/BXkdbJBB/IMG-6417.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/BXkdbJBB)
is that the infamous backstage pool at MPP??
It's the pool above the entrance at the anthem
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i regret not dropping $50 on one of the james brown shows at the club in the late 90s/early 00s.
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I would regret it too if I hadn’t seen it.
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Someone beloved called Bad Moves, apparently. ;)
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You know…missing Bad Moves has been bothering me a lot since I first heard about them on Saturday. Am glad a reunion is on the way.
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My FOMO has never been more activated!
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Phish
1995-2021
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That’s a lot of shows!!!!
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Phish
1995-2021
Welcome to the phamily, phan.
7/29/17