Which band do you regret not seeing live?

[Mobius]

Pixies- Aug. '89 at 9:30, not that I remember and still regret not going or anything.
 My Bloody Valentine
 The Verve
 Jesus and Mary Chain
 
 Many specific shows I missed, but saw the bands later when it wasn't quite as cool.
 
 Saw Nirvana twice.  Best "catch" before it was too late was seeing Miles Davis at Constitution Hall in Aug. '90, just a little before he passed.

[mankie]

Originally posted by grotty:
  I really do wish I had seen the late great Johnny Cash.
 
 and I feel very lucky to have seen both Nirvana & Jeff Buckley not long before their demise.
 
 

Evidently, had you seen Johnny Cash he would've died much sooner!  :eek:

[mankie]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
   

Originally posted by Jaguär:
 Your dad is much cooler than my dad.

my dad is the coolest ever. The first show he took me too was Aerosmith and Guns N Roses in 1988 (i was 11) and he took turns putting me and my friend on his shoulders for the WHOLE show.
 
   he also took me to see Bon Jovi, Poison, Metallica, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, etc.......
 
   [/b]

SHIT! Couldn't he have grounded you as punishment like a normal parent?

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by Skeeter:
  Husker Du @ the old club.  A few of my friends went, but I decided to stay at college an extra day and missed it.  Big mistake. Probably my biggest non-concert-going regret.
 
 

similiar stories U2 played smallish east lansing club in the early 80s, can't remember which album was got at the time,  and i didn't go because it was finals week.
 
 also the jam in high school, use to catch the bus in front of the punch and judy theater, where a good number of the late 70's new wave and punk acts played in detroit.  i can remember seeing the poster for the jam and not acting on it because i didn't have hip older guidance at the time.  
 
 i have a friend who still has his ticket from the time xtc where to play in east lansing..

[Mobius]

Oh, I forgot the king of all missed shows:
 
 Van Halen- 1984 Tour, March 1984 at Capital Center
 
 My friend and I tried to convince his brother to drive us there for weeks (we were 11).  He didn't. Jackass.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by mankie:
   

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
   

Originally posted by Jaguär:
 Your dad is much cooler than my dad.

my dad is the coolest ever. The first show he took me too was Aerosmith and Guns N Roses in 1988 (i was 11) and he took turns putting me and my friend on his shoulders for the WHOLE show.
 
   he also took me to see Bon Jovi, Poison, Metallica, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, etc.......
 
   [/b]

SHIT! Couldn't he have grounded you as punishment like a normal parent? [/b]

i wanted to see them, silly. he didnt like that crap!!

[grotty]

Heavy Metal Parking Lot...the story of my mis-spent youth:
 
 http://www.planetkrulik.com/hmpl.htm

[Justin Tonation]

U2 at Ritchie Coliseum on the War tour.

[Bags]

The Smiths -- how did I miss them?  I'm thinking they didn't hit Florida....
 
 Husker Du -- got into them after Mould's first solo album
 
 The Clash
 
 Robbie Williams
 
 early Foo Fighters shows
 
 Ash
 
 The Tyde @ Velvet Lounge -- crazy late Sun. night show, and they cancelled their other in town gig.

[bearman🐻]

If I could travel back in time to see one band and only one band, I'd have to go with Joy Division...probably in Amsterdam, at the Paradiso. I have a bootleg from that show that never fails to make the hairs on the back of my neck raise.
 
 I'm awfully glad I got to see the Ramones, Nirvana (@ Bender Arena), the Pixies, etc., but to be honest I enjoyed the Breeders opening for Nirvana more than I enjoyed Nirvana. It was not an enjoyable experience to watch Nirvana...and more specifically, not enjoyable to watch the audience watching Nirvana. A lot of people were getting hurt, and hurting each other. Of course, that was back in the day when the moshing thing was really getting out of hand. I enjoyed Smashing Pumpkins the following week at WUST a lot more...with Swervedriver opening, no less. What a great concert that was.

[chaz]

Originally posted by grotty:
  Heavy Metal Parking Lot...the story of my mis-spent youth:
 
  http://www.planetkrulik.com/hmpl.htm

My wife was at the show where they filmed this movie!

[grotty]

yeah Bunnyman - that Nirvana show was a mess - I tried to stay out of the fray as much as I could but by the end of the show nearly the entire floor was consumed. They had Pat Smear with them at the time & he spent a lot of the show tongue kissing Novaselic. Weird.
 While the show was not one of my favorites - you just knew you were seeing something special - important even.

[broadkat]

modest mouse in dallas
 fugazi in dallas
 ani difranco in paris

[J'Mal]

Stone Roses    
 GnR    
 Nirvana  

[vansmack]

This one's simple:
 
 The Clash.  
 
 It was just in the window between my parents taking me to see their classic rock bands and me venturing off to see new acts.  My folks weren't into punk and neither was I when I first started seeing bands on my own.
 
 I will always be bitter about that.  Who's idea was this?