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Husky Alien said:
Wow! Hans can not agree with you on the ones you could care less on. Zeppelin, Bowie and Queen, Floyd I can somewhat understand. Let me tell you I was not a fan of Queen back in the day a friend who was a huge Queen fan said you have to see them live. So I did, opening for them was Billy Squire at New Haven Coliseum. Well I've been to many of concerts including The Who, U2, Gun's and Roses, AC/DC, too many to name. You definitely missed out on a true legendary band with one of the most charismatic front man you will ever see Mr. Freddie Mercury, he commanded the stage like no other. They go down as the BEST band that I have ever seen live. Oh! and Bowie the most classiest act and polished performer in our time and as for Zeppelin well, they speak for them selves. you and I missed out on them how unfortunate or maybe not for you.

Bands/acts with lost opportunity:

Led Zeppelin
REM
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Roy Orbison

I'm sure there are others I'm missing.

The band I miss the most now = Allman Brothers Band & Gregg Allman by far. Would see them almost every time they toured.
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Hello. Correct me if my memory had faded, but do I remember Garcia and Bob Weir coming down from Hartford where the Dead had a gig, to the Bronx and Gaelic park to play a 45 minute "Mountain Jam" with Dickey Betts, post Duane, but Berry Oakley was still with them in summer of '72. And next year in Summer of '73 again saw the Allmans at Dillon Stadium. (only saw The Who & Jefferson Airplane, on the early Sunday morning at Woodstock, August 17,1969, the same day the Super Bowl winning Jets played the Giants 1st time ever at the packed Yale Bowl before 70,874 fans)
Saw The Dead and Eagles together at Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic at a broiling Arrowhead Stadium in K,C. 1981 But lost my ticket to The Moody Blues in 1981 in K.C. because of "too much fun" at a Pre concert party.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
I really like your post a lot, especially how you began by telling me how much you can't agree with those for whom I didn't care that I hadn't seen them. I'm really glad you didn't criticize me based on an incorrect guess that had I intended any disrespect, or drawn a false conclusion as to my final judgment on the band. I simply wanted to name the biggest artists (within a certain space & time frame) who I haven't seen.

Because the name has been brought up in this thread, I'll now add Elton John because I think he occupies similar stature, and I never had the interest to see him either...except, yikes, for thinking maybe I truly once did see him in Rochester while I was halfway though writing that sentence. Now I have to look it up: '75? '76? "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" Wow, that'd be something.

EDIT: NOPE, unless fall 1972 at Rochester War Memorial. Doubtful, though I still kind of liked him at that point.

I have long stories (not here) that would or could 'explain' each of my listed 4.

Queen is the only one I've never listened to, and only know their giant songs that have been appropriated as sports anthems. I saw "Bohemian Rhapsody a couple months ago when it was my host's child's movie choice that night. It called to mind my willingness to give Led Zeppelin a fair hearing 3 years ago, after a half-century claiming I only liked half of the first album and three songs from the 4th ("Stairway..." not being one of them).

After I'd made a stray, dismissive comment about LZ at a dinner party one night, the host said he'd had edited an essay anthology with a different writer assigned to critically discuss each of the band's studio albums, and told me I should read it. I ended up committing to the book & full discography. With a few substituted live & alternate takes inserted, I emerged with a 140 minute playlist named "Led Zeppelin: What the Fuss?," and I've very much enjoyed it every time I've played it.

Does something similar await me regarding Queen? The idea taunts me.
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Very well sir! It was a pleasure sparing with you. Lol. I am sure there will be many more.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
I really like your post a lot, especially how you began by telling me how much you can't agree with those for whom I didn't care that I hadn't seen them. I'm really glad you didn't criticize me based on an incorrect guess that had I intended any disrespect, or drawn a false conclusion as to my final judgment on the band. I simply wanted to name the biggest artists (within a certain space & time frame) who I haven't seen.

Because the name has been brought up in this thread, I'll now add Elton John because I think he occupies similar stature, and I never had the interest to see him either...except, yikes, for thinking maybe I truly once did see him in Rochester while I was halfway though writing that sentence. Now I have to look it up: '75? '76? "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" Wow, that'd be something.

EDIT: NOPE, unless fall 1972 at Rochester War Memorial. Doubtful, though I still kind of liked him at that point.

I have long stories (not here) that would or could 'explain' each of my listed 4.

Queen is the only one I've never listened to, and only know their giant songs that have been appropriated as sports anthems. I saw "Bohemian Rhapsody a couple months ago when it was my host's child's movie choice that night. It called to mind my willingness to give Led Zeppelin a fair hearing 3 years ago, after a half-century claiming I only liked half of the first album and three songs from the 4th ("Stairway..." not being one of them).

After I'd made a stray, dismissive comment about LZ at a dinner party one night, the host said he'd had edited an essay anthology with a different writer assigned to critically discuss each of the band's studio albums, and told me I should read it. I ended up committing to the book & full discography. With a few substituted live & alternate takes inserted, I emerged with a 140 minute playlist named "Led Zeppelin: What the Fuss?," and I've very much enjoyed it every time I've played it.

Does something similar await me regarding Queen? The idea taunts me.
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Yes. Your musical views should probably put you on a list somewhere. But we shall forgive. Because ultimately we like what we like.
 
oldanintheway said:
Hello. Correct me if my memory had faded, but do I remember Garcia and Bob Weir coming down from Hartford where the Dead had a gig, to the Bronx and Gaelic park to play a 45 minute "Mountain Jam" with Dickey Betts, post Duane, but Berry Oakley was still with them in summer of '72. And next year in Summer of '73 again saw the Allmans at Dillon Stadium. (only saw The Who & Jefferson Airplane, on the early Sunday morning at Woodstock, August 17,1969, the same day the Super Bowl winning Jets played the Giants 1st time ever at the packed Yale Bowl before 70,874 fans)
Saw The Dead and Eagles together at Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic at a broiling Arrowhead Stadium in K,C. 1981 But lost my ticket to The Moody Blues in 1981 in K.C. because of "too much fun" at a Pre concert party.
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Not sure why you quoted me on this. But answer to your question regarding Garcia and Bob Weir "Mountain Jam". No clue!
 
oldanintheway said:
Hello. Correct me if my memory had faded, but do I remember Garcia and Bob Weir coming down from Hartford where the Dead had a gig, to the Bronx and Gaelic park to play a 45 minute "Mountain Jam" with Dickey Betts, post Duane, but Berry Oakley was still with them in summer of '72. And next year in Summer of '73 again saw the Allmans at Dillon Stadium. (only saw The Who & Jefferson Airplane, on the early Sunday morning at Woodstock, August 17,1969, the same day the Super Bowl winning Jets played the Giants 1st time ever at the packed Yale Bowl before 70,874 fans)
Saw The Dead and Eagles together at Willie Nelson's 4th of July Picnic at a broiling Arrowhead Stadium in K,C. 1981 But lost my ticket to The Moody Blues in 1981 in K.C. because of "too much fun" at a Pre concert party.
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Post/handle,
(kinder/gentler version)
 
Husky Alien said:
Very well sir! It was a pleasure sparing with you. Lol. I am sure there will be many more.
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Nothing felt like sparring.

I've heard & loved post-Ziggy live Bowie, but I don't recall listening to "Hunky Dory" til '74, so it doesn't bother me that I missed something that I wouldn't have gotten. Similarly, I probably would have liked a "Wish You Were Here" era Floyd show the most.

Very glad I saw Prince, but I really wish I'd have seen him in any or all of the 3 prior decades. Same probably applies to Madonna. And what comes to mind as a last thought would be a peak Rundgren show. I'd have a friend who sang backup for him to tell mwhen that would have been.

Of course, at this point I mostly grateful for the diversion this thread provided, so that I didn't read about Clingan until after 10pm.
 
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pepband99 said:
Gary Moore. I did not realize the genius i was missing.
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Thank you! Have not listened to him in a while and forgot about him. In my post prior I did say "I'm sure there are others I'm missing". Wish I had seen him live.
 
ClifSpliffy said:
Queen? 'they' say (it is said?) that this is the greatest performance ever. mebbe 'they're' right.
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That is what catapulted them from smaller concert venues to stadium shows only. They still sell out even with Adam Lambert.
 
The Stones are a big one for me. I’m 36, so their glory days were too early and I’ve never been able to catch their later tours. In ‘15 their show in Pittsburgh lined up with a yearly baseball trip that I do with my friends so instead of the Stones, I got to see Jose Tabata lean in and ruin Scherzer’s perfect game. My father in law scored us field seats for the tour that was supposed to go off last summer, but obviously that didn’t happen so I doubt I’ll ever get a chance to see them even in their current state.

Another one for me is Aerosmith. I caught the bloated, corporate version once in HS, but I’d have loved to have seen them at their decadent height in the 70s/80s.
 
For me, it’s 100% Nirvana.

Had a chance to see them in winter 1993 when I was doing my residency in Buffalo. They came to SUNY Buffalo for a Friday show. I had to staff the next day at 5am so I passed…figured I’d just “see them the next time they toured through New England.”
 
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Pgh2Storrs said:
In ‘15 their show in Pittsburgh lined up with a yearly baseball trip that I do with my friends so instead of the Stones, I got to see Jose Tabata lean in and ruin Scherzer’s perfect game.
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So in the end, were you sad you didn't witness a perfecto in person, or happy Necklips had the audacity to lean into one and spoil it.
 
JustbrewitMan said:
For me, it’s 100% Nirvana.

Had a chance to see them in winter 1993 when I was doing my residency in Buffalo. They came to SUNY Buffalo for a Friday show. I had to staff the next day at 5am so I passed…figured I’d just “see them the next time they toured through New England.”
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That’s the other one I should have mentioned. I was young when they would have toured around here, but I was a fan of them at 10 or 11. I don’t remember any specific show I missed or anything. I just wish I could have seen them when they were around.
 
Zionn said:
Iron Maiden
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They’re still amazing. If/when they come around again, I can’t recommend them enough. “Fear of the Dark” live is worth the price of admission

storrsroars said:
So in the end, were you sad you didn't witness a perfecto in person, or happy Necklips had the audacity to lean into one and spoil it.
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Miserable. We went the year before to DC as well for my bachelor party and, in two trips, we saw 4 games, zero Pirate wins, and the indignity of being no hit. I have since vowed never to set foot in that stadium ever again.
 
HuskyHawk said:
My rationale for Grateful Dead is the same as yours. Saw Frampton 3-4 years ago. It was just like Frampton Comes Alive. He hasn't lost anything and really transports the audience to the 70's. It's like a time machine.

On the bad timing front, some friends and I were invited by UConn friends from Cheshire to go to Toad's Place one summer. We knew the Stones were holed up at The Gunnery School in Washington CT (because my roommate worked at the only liquor store in town). The girls went to Toad's, we didn't join them. This is what they saw.

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Yeah, I was going to go but work dragged me in that night.
I also missed Talking Heads at West Point and Miles Davis in Tokyo thanks to the need to keep the job.
 
Hans Sprungfeld said:
Very glad I saw Prince, but I really wish I'd have seen him in any or all of the 3 prior decades.
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If that was the Musicology Tour, I agree. He was amazing but I still had the feeling he was holding back.
 
I had a ticket to see the Allman brothers in New Haven in 1973, but had a neck injury at my summer job installing inground pools, so I want allowed to go.
 
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1980. junior year in high school. Mom wouldn't let me go see the Commodores @ MSG because it was a school night. Opening act was Bob Marley & the Wailers. Next show in Pittsburgh was the mighty Bob's last :(. Lucky to have seen Tosh, Bunny & Prince.
 
ToolzieFan said:
My parents saw Pink Floyd in 1994. I was 11 at the time, so I had been to concerts with them, but they didn’t take me. We figured I’d see them on their next tour. Of course, there was no next tour. Luckily, I’ve seen both David Gilmour and Roger Waters on solo tours.

I saw Clapton at the Garden a few years back. I wish I had seen him there when he toured with Steve Winwood, though.
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Those 94 shows were real good but that wasn’t really Pink Floyd. No waters.
 
Deepster said:
Far and away it’s never seeing Pink Floyd. That just kills me to this day.

I also turned down a free ticket to the Public Enemy/Beastie Boys show, I think in New Haven. I vividly recall saying thanks but no thanks. Idiot.
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Saw them at Nassau coliseum on the wall tour they only did 5 shows in NY and 7 in LA and that was it. Last north American og floyd lineup.
 
storrsroars said:
Head to the Netherlands and catch a performance by The Analogues. I went to the Abbey Road 50th anniversary show in Antwerp back in 2019. They have no equal when it comes to performing late-era Beatles (Revolver and later) as they approach the music like a philharmonic orchestra approaches classical music.
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Thanks.

Until it kicked in that "The White Album" (and likely anything in their repertoire if I get their mission correctly) has never before been played live with such fidelity to the sole recorded version that previously endured more than a half-century and formed an indelibly etched & singular prior sound profile, I let the visuals share the space as an unattended background while I worked on rainy day stuff.

Wherever I heard something 'amiss,' I marveled that I'm no more than the persnickety part of a collective memory disturbed from self-affirming splendor that was formed and previously existed only as a completed project that was an elaborately stitched, assembled, and engineered aural collage fashioned as a product available for access by multiple means during the months after "Rubber Soul" and before "Revolver," which was when the band retired from touring and related live performance.

The lack of overlap makes it special, and makes a case for considering The Analogues as alt-cover Beatles, and correspondingly valuing them along with Mingus Dynasty Band and Zappa Plays Zappa, in addition to the earlier-discussed GD long-tail efforts, and cosplay recreations.
 
The only missed opportunity I can think of when I had free tickets to see The Books in NYC.

My friend wanted to score weed and because of that we were late to the show. At that point the venue let other people sit at our seats, so we missed the show completely. They broke up soon after so never got to see them live.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
The only missed opportunity I can think of when I had free tickets to see The Books in NYC.

My friend wanted to score weed and because of that we were late to the show. At that point the venue let other people sit at our seats, so we missed the show completely. They broke up soon after so never got to see them live.
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Smh everyones got that one friend.
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
Wherever I heard something 'amiss,' I marveled that I'm no more than the persnickety part of a collective memory disturbed from self-affirming splendor that was formed and previously existed only as a completed project that was an elaborately stitched, assembled, and engineered aural collage fashioned as a product available for access by multiple means during the months after "Rubber Soul" and before "Revolver," which was when the band retired from touring and related live performance.
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I enjoy watching people do cool things with words as well as basketballs. Sometimes a great shot goes in all net, sometimes it rattles in after an improbable bounce - all fun to watch.

Have to admit I'm struggling to see all net here: "the collective memory" (so far - so good) "had a self affirming splendor" (was it the collective memory, or the Beatles themselves creating the album that was self affirming?) I mean how can a collective memory have a self affirming anything?

Thoroughly enjoyed the wordplay, so not knocking your post in the least - just opining that I think we're looking at the cool bounce.

Well done.
 
mussels said:
I enjoy watching people do cool things with words as well as basketballs. Sometimes a great shot goes in all net, sometimes it rattles in after an improbable bounce - all fun to watch.

Have to admit I'm struggling to see all net here: "the collective memory" (so far - so good) "had a self affirming splendor" (was it the collective memory, or the Beatles themselves creating the album that was self affirming?) I mean how can a collective memory have a self affirming anything?

Thoroughly enjoyed the wordplay, so not knocking your post in the least - just opining that I think we're looking at the cool bounce.

Well done.
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He lost me at "cosplay recreations". Sorry, have never heard one of those that even comes close as those are typically "form before function".
 
I missed Beethoven at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna by 210 years.
 
mussels said:
I enjoy watching people do cool things with words as well as basketballs. Sometimes a great shot goes in all net, sometimes it rattles in after an improbable bounce - all fun to watch.

Have to admit I'm struggling to see all net here: "the collective memory" (so far - so good) "had a self affirming splendor" (was it the collective memory, or the Beatles themselves creating the album that was self affirming?) I mean how can a collective memory have a self affirming anything?

Thoroughly enjoyed the wordplay, so not knocking your post in the least - just opining that I think we're looking at the cool bounce.

Well done.
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Pot is really strong these days.
 
Deepster said:
Pot is really strong these days.
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You definitely hit the rim but the bounce didn’t go your way.

Was a Chilean Cabernet - 2018 Santa Ema from the Maipo Valley. 91 points Wine Spectator and a “Best Buy” at $11.99.
 
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