Concert you regret missing most?

Yada wrote:

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.

I started to really ponder this one. Why, John, why. I love these guys so much.  They mean everything to me musically.  I would roadie follow them if I could.  But, then I figured it out.

I used to go to Phish shows with my friends.  We partied like rock stars from the moment we left until the moment we got home.  It was family.  It was freedom.  Then we got old, and no one that I went with goes anymore really. 

I got selfish and wanted it to be the way it once was.  I wanted my friends. I wanted that freedom.  And I didn't think Wilson, that I could still have fun, by myself.

The, end.

Julian, wrote:

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

So…how were they??

WalkOnBack wrote:

Yada wrote:

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.

I started to really ponder this one. Why, John, why. I love these guys so much.  They mean everything to me musically.  I would roadie follow them if I could.  But, then I figured it out.

I used to go to Phish shows with my friends.  We partied like rock stars from the moment we left until the moment we got home.  It was family.  It was freedom.  Then we got old, and no one that I went with goes anymore really. 

I got selfish and wanted it to be the way it once was.  I wanted my friends. I wanted that freedom.  And I didn't think Wilson, that I could still have fun, by myself.

The, end.

I'll tell you what, John. I probably would've been in a similar situation, however, I converted my partner to a big fan in the early 2010's. She kind of pushes the experience now more than myself, but it's still fun, Wilson.

bearman🐻 wrote:

Julian, wrote:

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

So…how were they??

Bowie was the better of the two. It was part of that weird traveling festival with Moby in like 2002. Wish he had played longer.

Prince was musically super-tight but I was somewhat disappointed he did not play more hits, which seemed to have been his MO in later years.

If I could magically see either again, I would pick Bowie.

also, i was contemplating going to see frightened rabbit on that last tour….i had heard great things, knew a few songs, but just didnt make it happen.

Julian, wrote:

bearman🐻 wrote:

Julian, wrote:

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

So…how were they??

Bowie was the better of the two. It was part of that weird traveling festival with Moby in like 2002. Wish he had played longer.

Prince was musically super-tight but I was somewhat disappointed he did not play more hits, which seemed to have been his MO in later years.

If I could magically see either again, I would pick Bowie.

Verrrry interesting. I wish I could time travel to see Prince around this era (early '82): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAYQUbh8HHA&t=3124s

challanged wrote:
also, i was contemplating going to see frightened rabbit on that last tour….i had heard great things, knew a few songs, but just didnt make it happen.

I though that show sucked though the original MOF tour stop 10 years prior at RNR Hotel was great.

Space wrote:

challanged wrote:
also, i was contemplating going to see frightened rabbit on that last tour….i had heard great things, knew a few songs, but just didnt make it happen.

I though that show sucked though the original MOF tour stop 10 years prior at RNR Hotel was great.

Would have liked to see for myself. Since he died, I probably have listened to Leper more than any other song (except for the Humpty Dance) on my iTunes.

The Jam at the Punch & Judy.  I caught the bus home in front of the venue and remember seeing the poster promoting the show…  there were also several other shows I missed there but that was the one that hurts the most…

I blame it on the lack of an older cooler sibling

he was so sick at that last black cat show.

challanged wrote:
also, i was contemplating going to see frightened rabbit on that last tour….i had heard great things, knew a few songs, but just didnt make it happen.

Vas wrote:
he was so sick at that last black cat show.

challanged wrote:
also, i was contemplating going to see frightened rabbit on that last tour….i had heard great things, knew a few songs, but just didnt make it happen.

Sick as in awesome or sick as in ill?

Talking Heads at Merriweather
U2 on the War tour at Ritchie Coliseum
Dead Kennedys at WUST
Husker Du at Lisner
Grateful Dead in Europe in 1990

I saw that Talking Heads show at Merriweather and then King Crimson with Adrian Belew the next night.

Anyone ever see Bob Marley live?

Bombay wrote:
Talking Heads at Merriweather
U2 on the War tour at Ritchie Coliseum
Dead Kennedys at WUST
Husker Du at Lisner
Grateful Dead in Europe in 1990

my greatest regret just resurfaced, my subconscious had suppressed it: i never saw the tragically hip.  despite being a big fan since i was a teen.  despite them playing the 930 a half-dozen times while i was in DC.  i tried to get tix to 3 of their farewell tour shows and would have gotten on a plane had i scored, alas the ticket gods didn't smile on me.

sweetcell wrote:
my greatest regret just resurfaced, my subconscious had suppressed it: i never saw the tragically hip.  despite being a big fan since i was a teen.  despite them playing the 930 a half-dozen times while i was in DC.  i tried to get tix to 3 of their farewell tour shows and would have gotten on a plane had i scored, alas the ticket gods didn't smile on me.

Honest question: What was so great about the Tragically Hip? They're definitely within the limits of my musical taste, but I just never got why they received so much adulation. I watched that documentary on Netflix which featured a lot of live performance and I just thought they were pretty lame. My wife even commented "Why are you wasting your time watching such mediocre garbage?" and I watched it hoping they'd prove her wrong but I came away agreeing with her.

As a Detroiter who is therefore 40% Canadian, you shut your damn mouth.

jeffml wrote:


Anyone ever see Bob Marley live?

I had the extreme good fortune of seeing him twice:

The Lenox Music Inn (near Tanglewood-western MA)-6/18/78
and
The Colgate University Gym- Hamilton, NY-10/31/79 (Halloween)

Both religious experiences and I haven't been the same since.

Never saw Peter Tosh tho

Oh gosh where do I begin?

For starters, any Joe Strummer or Fall show. I did see The Clash on the Combat Rock Tour, so I have that, and the T-shirt.

I also attended that Moby/ Bowie /Busta Rhymes /?show at what is now Jiffy Lube. It was short but when the the lights behind him that spelled Bowie changed to Ziggy, that was something. That lighting apparatus was on display at the David Bowie Is exhibit.

Space wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
my greatest regret just resurfaced, my subconscious had suppressed it: i never saw the tragically hip.  despite being a big fan since i was a teen.  despite them playing the 930 a half-dozen times while i was in DC.  i tried to get tix to 3 of their farewell tour shows and would have gotten on a plane had i scored, alas the ticket gods didn't smile on me.

Honest question: What was so great about the Tragically Hip? They're definitely within the limits of my musical taste, but I just never got why they received so much adulation. I watched that documentary on Netflix which featured a lot of live performance and I just thought they were pretty lame. My wife even commented "Why are you wasting your time watching such mediocre garbage?" and I watched it hoping they'd prove her wrong but I came away agreeing with her.

I saw them at the first HFStival in `90.  At the time I only knew them from their "New Orleans" song and I wasn't that impressed with the performance.  As a matter of fact, that was a pretty lame festival.  Pursuit of Happiness played and I was psyched to see them but they weren't that great as was Concrete Blonde.  The next year was much better.

when I was in high school I had scored pretty decent seats to the Bowie Glass Spider tour
Ended up giving them to my sister and her boyfriend.  They said it was fun, but mostly talked about the parking and high beer prices

That I regret