One artist you missed the chance to see

Devil is Dill said:
Someone offered me Bowie tickets and I was like "Nah, I don't think I could get off work early enough to make it on time." Then he had a heart attack and retired and never toured again.
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I was due to see him at a massive festival less than 2 weeks before he cancelled :( That's easily my biggest one.

I had tickets for The Cure last year. They've been on my bucket list for years but I ended up with a gig so passed - kinda hard to knock back amount of dough I charge to DJ unless it's for something like a family wedding.

My brother said it was brilliant, a colleague said it was rubbish and a friend said it was OK so I'm not really sure wether I missed anything or not.
 
Richie Sambora too, kind of. He did a small club tour a bunch of years ago but we were on holiday. A guy I know knew the promoter and managed to get VIP access, he said the gig was so so and Sambora was absolutely trashed so meeting him was a bit of an anti climax.
 
Going back to Bowie. My dad missed him on the Ziggy tour. Him and his pals all had tickets for a midweek matinee so planned to bunk off school.

They'd all bunked off the day before and got caught so my great grandfather marched him to school then hung around, caught them trying to leave again and told his pals to do what they wanted to do but my dad was going back in there or he'd be getting an even bigger hiding when he got home than the one he was already getting.

They did the noble thing and pissed off to the gig without him :grin:
 
Bowie. The Serious Moonlight Tour would have been right around the time of my late teens. Friends had tickets. I could’ve gotten one of them.

The Who. I had tickets. The show got postponed. On the rescheduled date, the weather was not conducive to a 100 km drive late at night. So, we just stayed home.

A lot of smaller acts that came through the area and I either didn’t know about them until it was too late or timing didn’t work out, or it was a festival kind of thing and the overall lineup wasn’t intriguing enough to warrant the cost of admission.
I’ve yet to attend any shows in The Canal Bank Shuffle show that’s held here every year (except maybe this year).
 
Pink Floyd and Emerson, Lake and Palmer way back in the day. One of those times all your friends went but I shrugged off. I’m sure my excuse was monetary, but I could have found a way.
 
Denverdave said:
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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Must have been Sunday 7/24? Because Saturday was awesome. There was a brawl with Bonham, Grant, Cole and a security guard after Saturdays show, and Zep very nearly did not play Sunday.
 
For me, it was Roy Buchanan. I missed him in '86, and he never made it back out here before his death.
 
There are a lot, mainly because I lived in a small town without an easy way to get to the big city to see the big concerts and I didn't have very much money. So while I saw a lot of good small acts (some of which became much bigger) the big acts I didn't get to see. So I missed Queen, Zep among others. I did get to see Queen without Freddy but while it was good it wasn't the same
 
Gary Blanchard said:
Grateful Dead. I really didn't get into their music until after Jerry died and I discovered his recordings with Dave Grisman. That eventually led me back to Grateful Dead.
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This is shocking to me! I was only a casual dead fan back in the day, and I saw them three or four times during the 70s...
 
For me - it was the Clash. The closest they got to Madison was Chicago. A friend saw them there, but I couldn't get off work.
 
I've seen so many and missed so many. Hmmmm . . .

Led Zeppelin. Had trouble scrounging up the money from my allowance at 14 years old. I had just went to California Jam and seen Black Sabbath and Deep Purple so my parents were unsympathetic. My friends went. Bastards.
 
nuke_diver said:
There are a lot, mainly because I lived in a small town without an easy way to get to the big city to see the big concerts and I didn't have very much money. So while I saw a lot of good small acts (some of which became much bigger) the big acts I didn't get to see. So I missed Queen, Zep among others. I did get to see Queen without Freddy but while it was good it wasn't the same
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Seen Queen twice with Adam Lambert the last few years. Amazing singer, and glad he has his own spin on some songs while still showing great respect what Freddie did - as it should be.
And unlike the Paul Rodgers nonsense he is a great fit for the band and the music.

Other than that, mostly the big 70s bands that I never got to see. Mainly because of being a toddler at the time. :embarrassed:
 
Dexter Inferno said:
Seen Queen twice with Adam Lambert the last few years. Amazing singer, and glad he has his own spin on some songs while still showing great respect what Freddie did - as it should be.
And unlike the Paul Rodgers nonsense he is a great fit for the band and the music.

Other than that, mostly the big 70s bands that I never got to see. Mainly because of being a toddler at the time. :embarrassed:
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Yeah I saw both of those versions, Adam Lambert was far superiour
 
White Zombie. I had a ticket but came down with a horrible stomach bug that day. In between shitting and vomiting I gave the ticket to a friend so at least someone enjoyed it.
 
nuke_diver said:
Yeah I saw both of those versions, Adam Lambert was far superiour
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Indeed. Paul's always been a very good blues/rock singer, but that doesn't make any sense whatsoever with that band.
Having studied Brian's playing in particular for the Queen tribute band I play with, there's almost zero blues in their music.
Just a very weird combination, and it didn't work all that well.

Pleasantly surprised at how good Adam was live. Really really good.
 
I was in someone's office at Sony in 1996 or 1997 and someone said "Hey, Belle & Sebastian are doing a showcase for like a hundred people at a soundstage on W 57th. Do you want to come?"

If you ever needed proof of how fucking idiotic I can be, my exact response was: "Fuck that twee shit."

I can't even. I LIKED If You're Feeling Sinister. I liked twee music. I .... honestly have no fucking idea what got into me. Everyone else said it was great. I went to Two Boots and had a slice and ... what? Felt superior? Righteous in my insistence on 'rawk'? Truly, what a shit-for-brains moment.
 
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