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Title: What Band do You Regret Not Seeing?
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Published: Oct 13, 2006
Author: Get Down and Get With It
Post Date: 2006-10-13 20:57:00 by YertleTurtle
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#1. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
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Not exactly a band, but I turned down Woodstock in favor of a hot, sweaty football practice. Dopey.
Skynyrd!!
So YOU'RE the other guy here stateside that's heard of Slade. Actually; I saw every band I wanted to see.
Weather Report, w/ Jaco. I was in college and suddenly decided I couldn't "afford" the $10.00 admission. Good grief.
Def Leppard Brooks & Dunn
It was a ten second free fall..that's what I saw, that's what you saw..that's what everybody saw...
I saw Slade backing up Mott the Hoople in about 73. They were good, not great. They are still playing live in England and are about to tour here, I heard. Small clubs in major cities, probably. The band I most regret not seeing is Love. With Them being second. I missed the Beatles, but I probably would have hated it anyway because of the screaming. The other major one I missed was the Doors. I just look back and I saw all the bands I really loved. I saw Wire on their first tour and second tour, and saw them last year. I saw the Ramones about 20 times. Saw the Clash about 10 times. Saw Talking Heads, Roxy Music, The Who, and Bowie when they were still good. I saw the Velvet Underground just before they broke up, and saw the Kinks, Lou Reed, John Cale and so many others, I forget. If I have to pick one, though, it is Love.
I seen them when they opened up for Ozzy in I believe 1980. It was their "On Through The Night" tour and they were very, very young, maybe even teenagers, I don't know. They rocked though. Randy Rhodes even got on stage and jammed with them. It was a great concert.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Benjamin Franklin
I had a chance to see Stevie Ray Vaughn in Alabama maybe a week or month before he died (I don't remember the exact time frame). I didn't go because I went to visit my grandparents instead, thinking that I'd be able to catch him later. Big mistake.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Benjamin Franklin
Marty Robbins about a year before he died.
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.” James Fenimore Cooper
The Who.
I got tix for them from the teamster boss for my B-day in '96. And I got to meet Jo Dee Messina backstage for a minute. It was nice to relax and watch a show for once rather than have to be working. Too bad I wasn't able to get a date. I even asked a couple of chicks when I went to buy a beer if either of them would like to come and sit on stage right with me. They said no, but they bought me a birthday drink. Nice of them. ;0)
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.” James Fenimore Cooper
I worked them several times, plus the lead singer, Roger Daltry, when he put together another band. That was between '90 and '95 and I guess we did 3 engagements in Chicago with either 3 or 4 nights each time. And they always had autograph sessions after the show and there were always a few hundred at the meet and greet. It was some fun times and we had quite a few laughs with those guys.
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.” James Fenimore Cooper
Grateful Dead
Do I hear a fat lady singing?
I always wanted to see that guy with the sexy name....oh, yeah, Jose Fellatiano
Oddly enough, they ended up being big in my hometown of 50,000 people, for about six months when I was in high school. I even bought this album. "We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
Oh, now look wot you dun! I've got five on vinyl: Had 'Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply' on cd but it got stolen, along with the rest, in '88.
Had the same album until my collection was ripped off by the same "friend" that dragged me to a Marshall Tucker concert. (Mentioned in that 'bad concert' thread.)
hehehehehe...that's awful. :P
It was a ten second free fall..that's what I saw, that's what you saw..that's what everybody saw...
The Pretenders
I saw him at a Fabulous Thunderbirds concert at Fitzgerald's in Houston before he became famous. The FT introduced him and he played a few songs.
That's Slade... one of my favorite tunes by them. I know just exactly where to be probably the band/artist I miss seeing the most, or kick myself in the ass for missing, is SRV. was planning on seeing him at the Toledo Zoo Amphitheater in '90, when I lived there, but ended up kinda' low on cash so figured I'd make sure to catch him next time around. only problem was, there was no next time around. as a consolation, I did get to see Elvin Bishop/George Thorogood-Delaware Destroyers. Elvin stole the show. ;)
#2. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
#3. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
In my case, exactly one: Slade.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
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#5. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
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#7. To: christine (#5)
Def Leppard
#8. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
#9. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
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#10. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
#11. To: christine (#5)
Brooks & Dunn
#12. To: angle (#10)
The Who.
#13. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
#14. To: christine (#5)
#15. To: who knows what evil (#3)
So YOU'RE the other guy here stateside that's heard of Slade. Actually; I saw every band I wanted to see.
#16. To: YertleTurtle, who knows what evil (#15)
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So YOU'RE the other guy here stateside that's heard of Slade.
Slade Alive
In Flame (sealed)
We'll Bring The House Down
Slade On Stage
You Boyz Make Big Noize
Remasters coming soon.
#17. To: YertleTurtle (#15)
I even bought this album.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#18. To: hammerdown (#16)
Oh, now look wot you dun!
#19. To: YertleTurtle (#0)
#20. To: Fibr Dog, christine (#8)
I had a chance to see Stevie Ray Vaughn in Alabama maybe a week or month before he died
#21. To: christine (#18)
You know what my freedom means to me
What it means, what it means to me
Just exactly what my freedom means to me.
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