That one concert (tour) you missed and would sacrifice something valuable for today to have been there.

tegendemuur

tegendemuur

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A year of your life? A finger? A newborn? Your choice.

Been nostalgic the last few weeks due to having heard this popular dingus doing a song with Marilyn Manson. Started checking out his latest and was very, very impressed, and thus went backwards until I arrived at my teenage years: Mechanical Animals (I ran into black metal shortly after and never looked back, though that album does get a spin a couple of times a year. Shit, it only gets better with age, as I never caught all the Bowie / Stardust stuff hidden in plain sight as a kid.) Anyway, that tour back then would be the one concert I would gladly give a year of my life for.

Context: It's just... I skipped this festival in the UK about a 15 years ago, and plenty of the artists I missed then I saw over the years... And let me say, once you turn 40, all those dudes often being already older than you from the start, really start showing their age. If I visited that festival so many years back , I would have seen them playing vigorously. Now? Not so much. Some of them looked like they were struggling with artritis and it was just painful to see them being in pain doing a weak version of what they were capable of. I felt no joy in being there, seeing them at last. So yeah, lesson for the kids of today: If you can see them now, do it! Pretty much goes for MM as well. His shows back then are not the shows he's doing now.
 
I had the chance to see Oasis multiple times before they broke up and each time it always fell through at the last minute because of girlfriends. The last tour in 2008 I was going to go see them in Detroit and my girlfriend at the time had some drama that made me miss it. I was like, I'll catch them next go round. following summer they broke up. I had just started dating my wife when it happened, I figured not the first time, they'll be back together in a few months...lol
I honestly didn't think I'd never get to see them live, the feud seemed like it would never end lol. For the past 16 years I've been telling my wife that I always regretted never seeing them and if I ever got the chance to see them I wouldn't miss it. well 16 years later I finally got the chance. She got us tickets to see them in Chicago and it was epic. Glad I got to see them and better yet with her. Bonus since it's the best Liam has sounded in like 25 years and Bonehead was back with them. No more regrets.
 
Could probably write volumes on this, but constraining it to ‘bands I actually could’ve seen at some point’ (i.e. they didn’t break up before I was born) combined with ‘first thing that popped into my head”, I’m going to go with never managing to see The Fall before Mark E. Smith left us as my biggest “perpetually kicking myself” pick.
 
Maybe some of the stuff my parents didn’t allow me to go to as a teenager. Notably Ozzfest and the Family Values tour.

I took my daughter to see Korn last year, which I grew out of, but felt like it made up for missing it.

I was mad at my parents, I wanted to see Black Sabbath. Oh well.

There’s an upcoming concert I really want to see, but it’s not gonna happen. The Jazz From Hell Festival in NYC in December. My favorite band, Imperial Triumphant, will be performing with a full big band. Avant-Garde blackened metal at its finest.
 
jcpst said:
Maybe some of the stuff my parents didn’t allow me to go to as a teenager. Notably Ozzfest and the Family Values tour.
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While I did catch Korn in Amsterdam for the release of Issues, and I did have a very, very memorable concert with Static-X / Amen / Mudvayne / Slipknot the same night in 2000 in Paris, I would do things to see the Family Values tour of '98.

Also I couldn't make it to the Retinal Circus in London in 2013. Now that Devin Townsend is in indefinite hiatus from touring, and given the direction of his music in the last 10 years, I guess I won't see anything close to it again. So Retinal Circus, OR Strapping Young Lad, Live at the Commodore (for those aboot to rock).
 
As a young teenager I saw a lot of 5 dollar all-ages punk shows. In my late teens / early 20s when I had friends going to see big mainstream arena shows I just couldn't wrap my head around the ticket prices. I don't have any specific regrets, but I pretty sure I skipped some great shows because wouldn't cough up the 40 or 50 bucks.

I wouldn't give up one of my fingers to have seen NIN / Janes Addiction / Smashing Pumpkins in early 00s, but I would definitely tell my young self to pay the 50 bucks.
 
I've since seen them multiple times, but I missed seeing Muse at a small (~2000 capacity) venue because my family was leaving for vacation the same day it happened. My parents assured me I would have other chances to see them, but every show they've done since has been stadiums.
 
The front row center mezzanine seats I had at The Ryman for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds that Covid cancelled.
Very special band and a very special venue.
I'd give away $420 and my sense of smell and taste for a couple weeks. Wait, already did that.
 
Iron Maiden - Live after Death. This double cassette was my guitar course. I'd then passed on seeing them around Seventh Son..
Masters of Reality, a live show of the Sunrise on the Sufferbus album with Ginger Baker on the drums.

There's lots of bands out there - RHCP, Nevermore, etc.. but that particular iron maiden stands out and I'd love to have seen MoR with Chris and Ginger at a summer festival.

I've seen a number of shows like Bon Jovi, etc but I think the best two have been dance festivals and catching Red Snapper playing tunes of Paranoid.. not many places have a double bass on stage..
 
Maybe Woodstock...maybe, although I saw many of those bands eventually anyway. My stepbrother got married in VT on that Saturday and I actually drove right past the Bethel exit on the New York State Thruway that Monday morning, probably just about when Jimi Hendrix was wrapping up.
 
I am chuffed I got to see Necrophagist before they disappeared.

I missed the Black Dahlia Murder in 2018 because I was flying out on a 5 week holiday the next morning, they didn't tour again until post COVID and by then Trevor was gone, but I did see them this year with Brian, still an amazing live show.

Last year I saw Animals as Leaders as well and the chore of getting there(I'm a good 50k from the city), the late night(what do you mean concerts start at 9pm) and the terrible sound left a bad taste in my mouth and I missed buying tickets to Archspire, but I have tickets for them for January. So I guess I'd say I'd give about $90aud for that one

(Mechanical Animals is a great album)
 
I can't remember exactly why I didn't go see Siouxsie, on the Tinderbox tour, in New Orleans. Later that night I bumped into some friends who had gone, and they were like changed people with a new sense of clarity and direction in their lives. 😧
 
I have a lot of regrets, not just musical, but let’s stick to that. The one show I miss that I still think about today (ask my wife, I bring it up all the time) is a free Paul McCartney show that he did in Rome right by the Foro in the early 2000s. He still sounded really good back then and I saw some short clips they played on the news the next day that really stuck with me and made me feel like I definitely missed out on something amazing. I can’t remember if I had nobody to go with or if I got lazy and just decided not to leave the house, but I didn’t have a good excuse. And now I would have to pay like $1500 to hear his shaky voice… sigh.
 
jwin615 said:
The front row center mezzanine seats I had at The Ryman for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds that Covid cancelled.
Very special band and a very special venue.
I'd give away $420 and my sense of smell and taste for a couple weeks. Wait, already did that.
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Wow - that would have been amazing to see at the Ryman! Fortunately I did see them on the tour for Let Love In and they were incredible. Even got to sit on plastic crates drinking Bollinger out of plastic cups poured by Blixa Bargeld after the show. That was quite a night. Blixa is very quietly spoken so after a show like that it wasn't easy to converse... Weird venue too. It was at the "Fremantle Passenger Terminal" - a huge kind of hall where passengers used to disembark from ships on a wharf from before air travel became what it is.

But I really would have loved to have seen the Birthday Party play at the big alternative club in our town, the Red Parrot, back in around 1980. That would have been insane.

Siouxsie and the Banshees is one I would have loved too. Never got the opportunity. The Cure toured here in around '79 and I really wish I had seen that one. It was when they were promoting Faith I guess - probably my favourite Cure album.

A lot of bands used to play at a football stadium not far from where I live. The stadium is no longer there as we live in a suburb very close to the city and as football has become bigger and bigger in Australia they kinda ran out of room. But I did hear Paul McCartney play there from my back deck and could clearly hear Linda's vocals. And when ACDC played there I could play along in my lounge room! But I should have gone to both of those concerts.
 
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