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

demanufactured

ditto.

Motley Crue

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

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

Not to be a dick about this, but I would say a bigger regret, would be for the families and friends of those who lost their lives on that terrible day and not that you missed a Pantera gig - although I do feel for you

Motley Crue

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).

These are incredible photos, I have to say, it gives a fantastic insight into Ireland's metal history - I had no idea so many top class acts played such small, and now non existent, venues in the 1980s

http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

To think he'd be dead just 2 weeks after that photo was taken really sends shivers down my spine

Savage Cabbage

Gotta be Thin Lizzy for me back in the prime. Maybe at one of the gigs in Oz as Ive listened to a lot of Live stuff from there and think it would have been incredible Lizzy's version of Rosalie is my favourite rock song ever

NIBBS

Motley Crue wrote: »

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

I'm one of those old lucky bastards too Crue :-)
I've been pretty lucky and unlucky at the same time.......
missed some stuff because of lack of cash - missed Queen and Lizzy because I wasn't let go (yeah I know at 12 I should have been old enough to just say f**k it and gone, but I wouldn't have had the money either.....)
Was pissed though to miss Lizzy in the RDS on the Thunder and Lightning Tour....

Stuff I really wish I hadn't missed......

Metallica - from '86 to '99 - don't know why, no money for '86 show and then Cliff died....
Queensryche - Oct, 1990 SFX......because of a woman......never made that mistake again.....
Onslaught - 2 nights in McGonagles
Def Leppard/Tesla - when Tesla by all reports blew them off the stage....
Pearl Jam - but making up for it this year...
Pantera - yeah same thing at Tattoo the Planet
Megadeth - RIP era - funny could have gone to them loads of times and wasn't bothered, saw them last year and now regret missing out.....
Y&T - missed them twice last year while having tickets for the gigs, due to illness and work.....they'll be back in the UK def this year with the new album so I'll chalk them off the list then.....
Journey - with Perry - don't ever see it happening again - but would be great.....


to be honest I've gotten to see a lot of the bands that I've always wanted to......some more than once in recent years......
and this year will be chalking off some of the remaining ones.....maybe some of them aren't totally in their prime - but haven't been disappointed by any older band I've seen over the last 3-4 years....

Malice

The one that comes to mind immediately for me is the classic Guns N' Roses line-up with Steven Adler replacing Matt Sorum.

I'd also liked to have seen the classic Sepultura line-up with Max Cavalera on vocals rather than Derrick Green. In fairness to Derrick he's been in the band longer than Max and isn't a half bad vocalist in his own right but, like hearing Scott Weiland covering a Guns N' Roses song, it doesn't sound quite right.

bubonicus

Acrimony
Kyuss
Acid Bath

Dragons Revenge

Motley Crue wrote: »

Not to be a dick about this, but I would say a bigger regret, would be for the families and friends of those who lost their lives on that terrible day and not that you missed a Pantera gig - although I do feel for you

Except now DB is dead and no one will ever get the chance again. That's probably more what he was driving at.

Catari Jaguar

- Nirvana
- Pantera :(
- Rage Against the Machine
- The Smashing Pumpkins back when they played lively (yet lethal) gigs with original members
- Pearl Jam at Pink Pop 92 (Especially for Porch)
- Jonathan Davis at the Academy (Cancelled )
- RHCP way back when they used to play tiny high energy gigs and everyone would take off their shirts and whip them around over their heads
- Woodstock in a naked drug fuelled haze *sigh*
- Foreigner (my secret shame )
- Black Sabbath!!!
- Thin Lizzy with Phil Lynott
- Human Waste Project
- Metallica live @ Roseland NY performing Garage Inc with Jason


and finally...

... Jedward's Ghostbusters performance

Motley Crue

Lil Kitten wrote: »

The Smashing Pumpkins back when they played lively (yet lethal) gigs with original members

Wasn't their that girl killed at the Point in 1996?

Catari Jaguar

Motley Crue wrote: »

Wasn't their that girl killed at the Point in 1996?

Yea, my cousins were at that concert. They banned moshing at their concerts. Although a guy died at their Vancouver show in 2007 from moshing/ crowd surfing...

They've stopped playing Zero. Saw them a couple of years ago in the RDS and it was a very lacklustre show. Disappointing.

Tragic events but I would like to have experienced the energy that would have been on that tour .. Hmm hard to explain without sounding callous.

Cheap Thrills!

Queen

AC/DC with Bon Scott (saw them with Brian Johnson)

Thin Lizzy with Philo (saw them with John Sykes and Scot Gorham)

Black Sabbath with Dio

Led Zeppelin

Janes Addiction with Dave Navarro

Iron Maiden

Pearl Jam

Stone Roses

Pink Floyd

thetonynator

guns and roses would be the main one, and to be at woodstock . . . need i say more???

dregin

Even worse is when you could've seen em and didn't because you googled their name and found all this nazi priest religious **** and took it the COMPLETELY wrong way:

Striknien D.C.

mayordenis

At the Drive-In

Catari Jaguar

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

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

How can you regret something you couldn't change and have no responsibility for?

nacho libre

Thin Lizzy with Phil Lynott and Death.

KingKiller

It would have to be the Jimi Hendrix experience for me. If there is a heaven up these I want to go to the Isle of Wight festival in 1970 where Jimi and the lads were the stars of the show.

antomorro-sei

The Beatles
The Who
Thin Lizzy
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Kinks
Rolling Stones (or do they still gig?)
Queen

NIBBS

Malice_ wrote: »

The one that comes to mind immediately for me is the classic Guns N' Roses line-up with Steven Adler replacing Matt Sorum.

I'd also liked to have seen the classic Sepultura line-up with Max Cavalera on vocals rather than Derrick Green. In fairness to Derrick he's been in the band longer than Max and isn't a half bad vocalist in his own right but, like hearing Scott Weiland covering a Guns N' Roses song, it doesn't sound quite right.

Yeah Malice Seps with the Cavalera boys were really rockin.......I just prefer the earlier more thrashy stuff anyway, so was so happy to have seen them live.......not by design but I haven't managed to see them with Green yet....

Malice

NIBBS wrote: »

Yeah Malice Seps with the Cavalera boys were really rockin.......I just prefer the earlier more thrashy stuff anyway, so was so happy to have seen them live.......not by design but I haven't managed to see them with Green yet....

I saw them when they played with In Flames in Dublin in 2005 or 2006 (can't remember the year ). Roy Mayorga was on drums and while he is an excellent drummer in his own right, it didn't seem the same without Igor.

Star Bingo

Sepultura's Chaos AD leg in the SFX was great - when you mention a Mayorga i thought of Louiche, but he was a bass player for Suicidal

i'd have liked to have seen Danzig, Voivod, Death. Danzig did play here once, the Top Hat. was best buddies at the time w/ metallic-urgh, touring with em as support - urgh!

Pushtrak

Jay P wrote: »

Pink Floyd.
Led Zeppelin
Alice in Chains with Layne Stayley.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor

The above, along with Jimi Hendrix I would say.

Sephiroth_dude

Alice in Chains with Layne Stayley
Metallica with Jason newstead.

Pyr0

Morbid Angel with Steve Tucker or during any of the previous album tours.
Emperor
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Ozzy with Jake E Lee and Randy Rhodes
Metallica touring with the Mop/KEA/RTL albums
Pantera during the Power Metal/CFH days
Black Label Society touring with Sonic Brew and Stronger Than Death akbums
Pride and Glory
Obituary when they played the Button Factory
White Zombie
Soundgarden
Alice in Chains
Temple of the Dog
Death (Can't believe I almost forgot !)

cournioni

Lil Kitten wrote: »

How can you regret something you couldn't change and have no responsibility for?

My regret is not seeing them before then!

cournioni

Motley Crue wrote: »

Not to be a dick about this, but I would say a bigger regret, would be for the families and friends of those who lost their lives on that terrible day and not that you missed a Pantera gig - although I do feel for you

Obviously I have sympathy for the people who had lost loved ones on that day, but that is not the point of this thread. The point of the thread is what band you wish you could have seen and didn't get to see, and that was Pantera for me.

fortuneg

mayordenis wrote: »

At the Drive-In

This

Arnold Layne

Star Bingo wrote: »

i'd have liked to have seen Danzig, Voivod, Death. Danzig did play here once, the Top Hat. was best buddies at the time w/ metallic-urgh, touring with em as support - urgh!

I was at that gig in '88. It was the best time that I saw Metallica. Danzig were awesome, Hammett & Hetfield came on for the end of the Danzig set and Glenn Danzig came on for Last Caress during the Metallica encore. It was £8 a ticket at the time.

I've never seen Slayer though:(

NIBBS

n8zPyro wrote: »

Morbid Angel with Steve Tucker or during any of the previous album tours.
Emperor
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Ozzy with Jake E Lee and Randy Rhodes
Metallica touring with the Mop/KEA/RTL albums
Pantera during the Power Metal/CFH days
Black Label Society touring with Sonic Brew and Stronger Than Death akbums
Pride and Glory
Obituary when they played the Button Factory
White Zombie
Soundgarden
Alice in Chains
Temple of the Dog
Death (Can't believe I almost forgot !)

With the exception of dead people you still have a chance with a few of them.....



Soundgarden maybe this year......

some more bands I really wish I'd seen in their prime :-

Dark Angel
Possessed
Corporation 187
Dokken
Van Halen