tours that you missed and now regret

These were on a college budget, so I don't beat myself up any more:

Pink Floyd 'Animals' tour in '77.
Couldn't get a ticket even though they did 4 nights at Madison Square Garden in NYC.

Also, passed on Tangerine Dream in spring of '77, saw Kansas instead. Kansas was so-so while the TD tour ended up on the 'Encore' album, which is tremendous. Caught TD in 1982 at Radio City-- excellent show, with Andy Summers of the Police opening on solo electric guitar and lots of effects pedals--quite a mind-blower!


Edited by dave-the-rave - April 30 2015 at 13:54

October 15, 2012: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, with special guest Tony Conrad, at the tiny Town Ballroom in Buffalo, NY.

Blacksword wrote: emigre80 wrote: Blacksword wrote: Decemberists 2015 - Couldn't get my sh*t together..       Can't think why you would bother but then again I loathe the Decembrists with a passion bordering on the unbalanced.... I bloody love em!

Seconded! Saw them during the Hazards of Love tour, simply fantastic!

Voivod touring in France in 2009: Paris, then Hellfest.
I didn't know for their Paris concert (I just moved in the capital just a couple of weeks before), and I couldn't afford to go to the Hellfest.

^ sarcasm?

Dream Theater opening for Yes, I think on the Train of Thought tour. Either in Indianapolis or Fort Wayne. My hometown. No one ever plays Fort Wayne. And I didn't go. Ugh.

I also would have to say lot's of 70's prog bands back in the day... several times... but I wasn't even born yet. The ones I might have been able to get to... Pink Floyd on their last tour, but I just got into them a few years later. Then Yes on their las tour with Wakeman and Anderson, but once again I was just getting into them while that was happening, and I wasn't really aware at the time. I guess there must have been tours by King Crimson and others just as well. Then there would be the Dream Theater tour from the Train of Thought album... that one is perhaps my favourite album from them, and my favourite live DVD from them is Live at Budokan (easily the one with my favourite set-list)... but once again, I got into them a few albums later; I have seen them twice or thrice, and really enjoyed the shows (the playing is great to witness), but most of them just had a few of my favourite songs from them. David Gilmour's last tour too... but since he only played in Europe it was indeed a bit too difficult (and the same seems bound to happen once again), though I did get to see Waters three times (though the first time I arrived somewhat late and missed Dogs, and couldn't enjoy Shine on you Crazy Diamond because I was looking for my seat). The one that I almost regretted not seeing was Steven Wilson with Grace for Drowning tour (which actually was the show recorded for the DVD)... but then next year he came with the Raven tour which was even better, so no regrets there really. There's also Steve Hackett with his Genesis Revisited tours, which I don't understand why he just didn't come to Mexico. And, even it it's not prog, there was Nightwish with their Imaginaerum tour (my favourite album from them) with Floor Jansen on vocals... I actually had tickets for that (even from before the vocalist was changed, which ended up being so much better of my taste), but there was some really disturbing problems at the last moment that totally prevented me from going to the show.   

Also, there were several concerts on 2014 that would have been great to attend, but they were too many and I couldn't really go to so many concerts (I have to travel to another city over 3 hours away in order to go to just about any concert I may be interested in). I ended up going to see Transatlantic... but that was a bit of a dissapointment, for Kaleidoscope is perhaps the album I have liked the least from them, and they played very little from The Whirlwind, which is my favourite from them... but still, just as with Dream Theater, just seeing them play makes it worth it. However, this same year came Haken, Anglagard, Riverside, Pain of Salvation (I think), and perhaps some other band I'm forgetting that I bet I would have enjoyed more than Transatlantic.

Rednight wrote: 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...

Forgot about the Dixie Dregs in '80. Was in Denver to see my brother then and saw that they were set to play somewhere on the outskirts of town. Bought tickets, but said brother and I got into an argument about who knows what, I got miffed, and I went about arranging for an earlier flight out. Oh, how the 'Dregs were on a musical role at the time. I think my bro''s roommates ended up using the tickets.