One artist you missed the chance to see

Chicken Man

Chicken Man

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I'm too young to have made a lot of the classics, and wasn't really into a lot of the acts that were big in my day (Nirvana, STP, and the like). I did miss a shot at seeing what turned out to be my favorite incarnation of Wilco (I think it was the summer teeth tour, which I didn't get into until just before their next album came out). I could have seen a late period tour of CSNY, which I might have liked.
 
Oh, shit, I'm now having a faint memory of finding out Hubert Sumlin was touring with someone (or opening or whatever), and I didn't go.
 
Can’t think of a chance to see someone at all that I blew, but I missed chances to see Zappa and Stevie Ray at the Armadillo World Headquarters, instead of the arenas where I saw them later.

And then there’s ZZ Top - have missed about 90 chances to see them. But they aren’t technically dead yet...
 
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I've missed at least four separate opportunities to see Mark Knopfler. Hell, I even had tickets for his most recent show at Red Rocks.

Sure would have liked to have seen Willie when he was a bit younger.
 
I've been fortunate to see most of the musicians on my bucket list. Would have liked to have seen Gilmour, but I refuse to pay that much for a ticket. And it irks me that they charge so much. I did get to see Waters' The Wall twice, but once was a gift and the other time was free.
 
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Back in the mid-80s, I was stationed in Germany. Found out that Queen, doing the “A Kind of Magic” European tour, was coming to Munich, which was about 100 miles away. The show was on a Sunday night, and I couldn’t take a day off the Monday after. Now, I definitely could have made the trip via train, and probably would have gotten back in time for morning formation, but in the end decided it would have been too much of a hassle, and a bit of a risk, so I decided to bypass the show and “catch ‘em next time around”.



*sigh*
 
Frank Zappa. I was 16 and a friends dad had backstage passes. I couldn't get time off from my job at McDonald's. Seriously. What a fucking loser.
 
Bowie. Had a ticket for his show with Moby. Got guilted out of going for some reason.

Also had a cheap ticket to see Petty in the 1990s, for some stupid reason I wasn’t able to go.
 
Honkridge said:
Never saw Heart in their heyday.
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I saw them in '86 or '87, whenever they first took off again. That was a fun show.

Michael Bolton opened but no one knew who he was yet. I think it was a few weeks after the show that his cover of "Dock of the Bay" started getting airplay. :facepalm:
 
Back in 1977 all of my friends and I were planning on going to see a stadium show at the Oakland Coliseum headlined by Led Zeppelin. About two weeks prior to the show my parents announced that we were going on vacation and would be out of town that weekend, so I didn't go. All my friends went and it was pretty universally agreed upon that Led Zep were not very good that day at all. One of the opening acts (Rick Derringer) blew them off stage.

But in the long run that was beside the point. That was the last US date the original Led Zeppelin lineup ever played. And I missed it.
 
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