tours that you missed and now regret

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..

The Dark Elf wrote: 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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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...

Edited by Rednight - April 22 2015 at 10:33

Blacksword wrote: Decemberists 2015 - Couldn't get my sh*t together..

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.

Too many to name but would have liked to have seen:

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.

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...

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.