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moshkito 
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 Posted: April 22 2015 at 13:52 |
Hi, None really. I passed on a chance to see Jethro Tull twice in LA ... one I was broke and the other ... my new girlfriend was more important and valuable to me, and we went to see Bonnie Raitt instead, which was excellent. IF, there is a show I would have liked to see, there is really only one ... Seventh Wave ... which supposedly had 5 or 6 keyboard players together somewhere in Hollywood.
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dr wu23
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 13:40 |
Too many to name but would have liked to have seen: Genesis with Gabriel during Selling England period...... Crimson with Wetton period..... Led Zep around late 1972 right before Houses came out and Zoso was still riding high.
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 12:09 |
The Clockwork Angels Tour, but to be fair, I'd only just gotten into the band when they'd gotten to USA/Canada to finish 
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presdoug
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 11:31 |
I regret not seeing Triumvirat in Montreal in the mid-seventies (where they played with BTO). Never discovered the band until they had stopped recording and touring. 
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NotAProghead
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 11:31 |
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Los Jaivas - Russian tour 1983 (30 cities, 3 shows in Moscow among them).
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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emigre80
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 10:51 |
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Decemberists 2015 - Couldn't get my sh*t together.. 
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Can't think why you would bother but then again I loathe the Decembrists with a passion bordering on the unbalanced....
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Dean
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 10:33 |
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The Clash '77. Was a prog snob and hated punk, got a free ticket and tore it up. Wish i'd gone now... |
In 1977 I purposely didn't go to see The Tax Exiles because it was rumoured they were The Sex Pistols playing under a pseudonym. On reflection I should have gone just for the bragging-rights, but then it seems they could have been Welsh punk band The Tax Exiles and not the Pistols at all.
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 10:31 |
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Of course, there are all the obvious ones from the '70s (this seems a well-covered thread from the past). You mention Yes' Union tour which I just happened to make it to back in '91(?) at L.A.'s Fabulous Forum ("The Great Western Forum" at the time). There was one amazing moment in the show when White, Rabin, and Kaye left the stage so that the original line-up since Fragile could perform Long Distance Runaround, I believe. Magically captivating. As for those missed shows:
Roxy Music w/Eno
Genesis' Lamb' tour
King Crimson w/ Wetton/Bruford
Jethro Tull's Thick As a Brick tour
Pink Floyd's pre-Animals tours
And not in that particular order...
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 10:10 |
The Clash '77. Was a prog snob and hated punk, got a free ticket and tore it up. Wish i'd gone now...
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Barbu
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 09:32 |
emigre80 wrote:
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How about concerts that you went to but wished you hadn't? |
shouldn't this be a separate thread? |
By golly, I think you're right.
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 09:28 |
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How about concerts that you went to but wished you hadn't? I saw John Fogerty in the mid-80s expecting I would hear some Creedence Clearwater Revival songs. Little did I know at the time that Fogerty was embroiled in a court battle with his old label and he wouldn't play any of his Creedence songs because he refused to play royalties for his own songs (I guess I missed the whole imbroglio in the papers, and of course there was no interwebs). Although I now understand the reasons he refused to play the songs, I must admit listening to him sing f*cking "Centerfield" and other such tripe was rather dismaying and I walked out halfway through. I wouldn't have bought tickets in the first place had I known. |
I've got one of those as well. Aqua in 1998 but I knew that going into the thing. I wasn't prepared for the awefulness though. The chicks were what drew me in to begin with, but I can safely say that it wasn't worth it. Nothing is worth that  I still wake up in cold sweats. The horror.
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emigre80
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 09:26 |
The Dark Elf wrote:
How about concerts that you went to but wished you hadn't? |
shouldn't this be a separate thread? I went to a Jeff Healey concert in the late 1980s that was painfully bad. The music was crap and it was so badly mixed that it sounded even worse than it was. Walked out after 3 songs, totally not worth the bother and expense.
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Blacksword
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 09:24 |
Kate Bush 2014 - Couldn't get tickets  Decemberists 2015 - Couldn't get my sh*t together.. Iron Maiden NOTB 1982 - Couldn't convince my parents I'd get out alive. I was 12..
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 09:22 |
How about concerts that you went to but wished you hadn't? I saw John Fogerty in the mid-80s expecting I would hear some Creedence Clearwater Revival songs. Little did I know at the time that Fogerty was embroiled in a court battle with his old label and he wouldn't play any of his Creedence songs because he refused to play royalties for his own songs (I guess I missed the whole imbroglio in the papers, and of course there was no interwebs). Although I now understand the reasons he refused to play the songs, I must admit listening to him sing f*cking "Centerfield" and other such tripe was rather dismaying and I walked out halfway through. I wouldn't have bought tickets in the first place had I known.
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emigre80
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 08:05 |
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Said it elsewhere, bought Zeppelin tickets in advance for November, 1980 but John Bonham died September, 1980. Biggest concert regret of all time. Of course, seeing Hendrix and The Doors would have been great, but I doubt very much I could have snuck downtown at 9 or 10 years old.
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A friend of mine saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1966. She was only 8 but her older sisters took her. I knew someone who saw the Doors in '68 or so. Her parents refused to give her permission to go so she snuck out surreptitiously. I think she was about 16 at the time, 9 or 10 would have been a bit young for that.
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I would have adored seeing Genesis in 72. I do not go any more to concerts since a few years. The last ones I saw were Arto Lindsay, David Sylvian, Cornelius and Joanna Newsom with Roy Harper in first part.
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 07:45 |
I understand where you're coming from though. I've missed A LOT of gigs, simply because I wasn't a fan of the given act at the time. I can only imagine how many electronic shows I've missed during the 90s.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 07:38 |
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Said it elsewhere, bought Zeppelin tickets in advance for November, 1980 but John Bonham died September, 1980. Biggest concert regret of all time. Of course, seeing Hendrix and The Doors would have been great, but I doubt very much I could have snuck downtown at 9 or 10 years old.
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Dean
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Posted: April 22 2015 at 07:38 |
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Damn.... That is a big one Dean. |
At the time it wasn't such a biggie for me as I wasn't a fan at the time, two years later and I regretted it quite a lot. One of my friends was a little hacked-off by Gabriel's apparent indifference to the crowd, not sure what kind of banter he was expecting but Gabriel's dour and mumbled "Hello, Bedford." at the start of the set evidently wasn't it.
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