Concert you regret missing most?

hutch wrote:
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.

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.

Frank Zappa
Palace Theater
Albany, NY
11/12/81 :'(

The Ramones at Girards in Baltimore  February 1985

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)

WalkOnBack wrote:
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!!!

hutch wrote:
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.

K8teebug wrote:

WalkOnBack wrote:
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.

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

ohh this is a big one….

skipped Lisa Germano at IOTA and went to The Rapture at 930 instead….how stupid is that!

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

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.

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.

This is not the rub in the shows you did get to see others wish they had thread Bearman!!

hutch wrote:
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.

hutch wrote:
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

Vas wrote:
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.

hutch wrote:
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.

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.

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.