Bands You Wish You Could've Seen (or Could See) and didn't get that chance!

Motley Crue

So, I was thinking the other day, I've been fortunate enough to see some great acts throughout the years (Metallica, Megadeth, Faith No More, Machine Head, Velvet Revolver, Guns N' Roses) but is there an act you have always wanted to see that you never got the chance to, or someone you just keep missing, perhaps someone who never plays here and just tours Europe/Japan or the States and only does that one UK show in London

Or maybe you wanted to see a band before the death or absence of a member, or a band in support of a pivotal album, list your troubles below!

For Me:
1. Guns N' Roses lineup when they played Slane in 92 or with Stradlin
2. Metallica (w/Jason Newstead)
3. Def Leppard (I've missed them SO many times)
4. Pearl Jam
5. Danger Danger

Dragons Revenge

Metallica 25 years ago
Iron Maiden 25 Years ago

Metal bands 25 years ago.

fluke

I got into his music after he died but I would've loved to have seen Jeff Buckley with his band. Man if only I could grab me a Delorean with Doc's modifications...

and Queen definitely.

There are loads more I'd have liked to see live and some I have yet to see live, but I'm fortunate enough that I've seen most of my favorite bands/artists in their original incarnation, or some form of line-up.

Jay P

The obvious ones:
Pink Floyd. I'll settle quite easily for seeing David Gilmour
The Beatles - I'd like to have seen them after they stopped touring, impossible and all as that is.
Led Zeppelin

Also, I'd like to have seen Alice in Chains with Layne Stayley.
Godspeed You! Black Emporer - Technically I still might, they're iindefinitely on a break, so we'll see.
The Band
Dire Straits
The Smiths
The Stone Roses

DazMarz

-Megadeth (all the various line ups! But mostly the one: Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson, Marty Friedman and Nick Menza... Rust In Peace, y'all!!!)

-Whitesnake (line up of: David Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg, Steve Vai, Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge)

-Van Halen (Diamond Dave, Shreddie Eddie, Michael Anthony, Alex Van Halen; none of this bloody Wolfgang nonsense)

-Vandenberg (Adrian Vandenberg, Bert Heerink, Dick Kemper, Jos Zoomer)

-Thin Lizzy (Phil Lynott, John Sykes, Scott Gorham, Brian Downey)

-AC/DC (with Bon Scott)

-Queen (Original Line Up)

-Guns N Roses (Rose, Slash, Stradlin, McKagan, Adler)

-KISS (Stanley, Simmons, Frehley, Criss)

-Coverdale/Page (a collaboration I'd love to see again!)

-Dokken (Dokken, Lynch, Brown, Pilson)

-Journey (with Perry on lead vocals)

-W.A.S.P. (with Chris Holmes back in the fold)

-Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhoads and also Jake E. Lee

-Ratt (Pearcy, diMartini, Crosby, Croucier, Blotzer)

-Queensrÿche (Original Line Up: Tate, deGarmo, Wilton, Jackson, Rockenfield)

-Quiet Riot (Du Brow, Carvazo, Sarzo, Banali)

GrizzlyMan

Would have loved to have seen:

Windir (RIP Valfar)

Old Mans Child (around the Pagan Properity)

Metallica (Ride the Lightening era)

Sepultura (Arise era)

Gorgoroth ( With Ghaal/King)

Mayhem ( with Dead)

lord lucan

Metallica w/Cliff.

GN'R-Original AFD line-up.

Anthrax w/Belladonna on vocals.

Thin Lizzy w/Philo. I was only 12 when he died.:(

Vegeta

Pantera
Thin Lizzy
Led Zep in their prime
Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan

gent9662

Elvis
Queen

marwelie

The Beatles, Thin Lizzy and The Who (with The Ox and Moonie)

JohnnyCrash

Saw Lizzy play in The Carlton,Kilkenny 1980 and then at the first Slane in 81.Guess im one of the priveleged.

dasdog

JohnnyCrash wrote: »

Saw Lizzy play in The Carlton,Kilkenny 1980 and then at the first Slane in 81.Guess im one of the priveleged.

I guess you are. Above anyone else I'd love to have seen Thin Lizzy of any era with Phil Lynott. My cousins saw them on their farewell tour.

Some others I'd like a time machine for:

Elvis Presley
John Lee Hooker
Van Morrison in the early 70's
Black Sabbath in the early 70's
Iron Maiden with Paul D'ianno
John Coltrane
Charlie Parker
Jimi Hendrix Exp

Of some of the ones mentioned above:

Metallica (w/Jason Newstead) (saw them in 1988)
Pearl Jam (saw them in 1993)
Def Leppard (saw them a couple of times just after their guitarist killed himself)
Megadeth (saw them in 1988 and 1991)
Alice in Chains with Layne Stayley (supported Megadeth in 1991 - I couldn't believe my luck)
Sepultura (Arise era) (1991 - last metal/thrash gig I was at before a long break)
Anthrax w/Belladonna on vocals (1989 though less than half a gig cos they walked off stage)

rednik

Ronnie Van Zant jumping around barefooted on stage with Steve Gaines, Gary Rossington and Allen Collins strumming their way through all those classic Lynyrd Skynyrd tracks. I've seen just about everyone else that I want to.

Dragons Revenge

Oh yeah, I wanna see Megadeth with this current lineup too, as Broderick is an F'n machine. He does Friedman better than Freidman does Freidman. I saw them last on the initial gigantour and they tore it up. I think Drover was on guitar there.

Sandvich

I always miss Muse whenever they come. Either that or they do festivals, and I don't do festivals.

I didn't get to see Dead Can Dance on their tour either.

Nephilim Wolf

JohnnyCrash wrote: »

Saw Lizzy play in The Carlton,Kilkenny 1980 and then at the first Slane in 81.Guess im one of the priveleged.

Lucky for you. I would've loved to have seen them. My choices would be:

Thin Lizzy with either Brian Robertson or Gary Moore lineup
Fields of The Nephilim in 1990
Iron Maiden around 24 years ago because of 'Somewhere in Time' which is an awesome album
Emperor
Faith No More in 1992 because of Angel Dust
Dimmu Borgir with Stian Aarstad on keyboards, Nagash on bassand Tjodalv on drums
Led Zeppelin
Paradise Lost in 1995
U2 in 1983 and 1990
Rush around the time of Exit...Stage Left
Dissection in 1995
David Bowie with Mick Ronson around 1972 or so
The Scorpions 20 years ago
Old Man's Child
The Cult around the time of 'Sonic Temple'

Angron

Shining, just under a year ago. They were playing in Fibbers I think, and I couldn't get to it =/

Jako8

Yes when they released "Close to the Edge"
Metallica with Cliff Burton.
System of a Down (might happen. Heres hoping)
Thin Lizzy with Phil Lynott
Led Zeppelin back in the day.
Horslips back when they were in their prime. Although their most recent shows were good from what I heard but I couldn't go...
The Doors with Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Kyuss

That's all. I would say Rush but I'd love to see them any time.

Motley Crue

dasdog wrote: »

Metallica (w/Jason Newstead) (saw them in 1988)
Pearl Jam (saw them in 1993)
Def Leppard (saw them a couple of times just after their guitarist killed himself)
Megadeth (saw them in 1988 and 1991)
Alice in Chains with Layne Stayley (supported Megadeth in 1991 - I couldn't believe my luck)
Sepultura (Arise era) (1991 - last metal/thrash gig I was at before a long break)
Anthrax w/Belladonna on vocals (1989 though less than half a gig cos they walked off stage)

You lucky bastard, that is a pretty good list of bands, I suppose I forgot to add Pantera....Def Leppard would have started touring again in the summer after Steve Clark committed suicide in January...I think, it was the same year - I do know Vivian Campbell (the guy who replaced Clark) had his first gig at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert and that was Easter Monday 1992

Mental_Legend

Queen at Wembley in 1986. I've seen re-runs of it on the MTV channels and it was absolutely amazing to watch, I can only imagine what it must have been like to have been there live.

Somnus

Mostly older bands

Pink Floyd (Would also settle for David Gilmour)
Camel
Wishbone Ash (They're still touring actually)
Porcupine Tree
The Beatles
A Perfect Circle
Death
Black Sabbath back in the day

Can't think of more right now

Nea

Bit of a mixed bag

Cinderella before Tommy Keifer's voice went
Black Sabbath with Ozzy
Green Carnation
Sepultura circa Chaos AD, was always raging I missed Sepultura/Paradise Lost gig in the SFX
Dimmu Borgir around Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Sacred Reich

_sparkie_

smashing pumpkins pre billy ego inflated to the size of a house. the last tour before the break up really. i think they played in the olympia.

that blink-182 show in the point in december 2004. i am still annoyed i missed it.

dasdog

Motley Crue wrote: »

I do know Vivian Campbell (the guy who replaced Clark) had his first gig at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert and that was Easter Monday 1992

The only reason I went to see Def Leppard was because they were playing a tiny venue as a warm up gig where I'd seen Ozzy do the same warm up thing the previous year but I was really impressed. I think Campbell's second gig was Wembley a week after playing to a few hundred people in the place on South Anne Street.

Couple more that have been mentioned:

Sacred Reich (1989 ish)
Faith No More (1990)

I dunno if its been posted before but I just found http://www.flickr.com/photos/global5325/ which has a load of photos from that era (Metallica in 1986 etc).

lord lucan

dasdog wrote: »

I dunno if its been posted before but I just found http://www.flickr.com/photos/global5325/ which has a load of photos from that era (Metallica in 1986 etc).

Christ!! Some savage pics of late '80s metal there,thanks for the link.:)

Mandalore87

The first bands that come to mind would be Death, Thin Lizzy and Megadeth on the Rust In Peace tour back in 1990.

I still hope to see Rush but I'd say I'll need to do a bit of travelling to witness that spectacle.

Nephilim Wolf

Nea wrote: »

Bit of a mixed bag

Black Sabbath with Ozzy
Green Carnation
Paradise Lost gig in the SFX
Dimmu Borgir around Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

Great bands, and great albums at that time too.:D

Rud

Thin Lizzy(with Phil Lynnott)
System Of A Down
Queens Of The Stone Age(before Nick Oliveri was kicked out)
Chic(when Bernard Edwards was still alive)
Korn(original line-up)

Oh and if i could,i would like to see these bands again

Rage Against The Machine
Death From Above 1979

demanufactured

Pantera
RATM
Metallica with newstead.
Megadeth with friedman.

cournioni

I was two days from seeing Pantera, and then September 11th happened. That will always be my biggest regret.

lord lucan

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

I was two days from seeing Pantera, and then September 11th happened. That will always be my biggest regret.

That was the Tattoo the Planet gig wasn't it? I was gutted that Pantera didn't come over,never got to see them myself.:(