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sweetcell

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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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2025, 07:22:28 pm »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2025, 08:19:57 pm »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2025, 05:25:41 am »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2025, 05:38:09 am »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2025, 09:36:29 am »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2025, 10:10:47 am »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2025, 11:18:28 am »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2025, 03:37:15 pm »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2025, 11:03:12 am »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2025, 11:42:46 am »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2025, 03:52:31 pm »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2025, 03:59:34 pm »
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!!

Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2025, 04:10:51 pm »
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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Re: shows you regret missing the most because they'll never happen again
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2025, 04:18:22 pm »
I walked into CbGbs, walked straight, used bathroom and walked out.