The One Show You Regret Not Attending (PJ or not)

Loulou

Faith No More, Soundwave Adelaide 2010? I think that's the year?
Had tickets but gave them away because I was pregnant. Can't say I 'regret' it because if I had that time over, I still would never go but sad I missed them. my little chicken was more important.

Just thought that that might come across as judgmental, not having a go at women that do go to concerts pregnant, Soundwave is notoriously a little violent, Just thought I'd clarify that before I got some angry feedback. :?

samjam

Alpine Valley, even though it would have been really really really difficult and would have cost me a ton.

More realistically, not seeing Arcade Fire/Spoon at MSG in 2010.

Jon Chorba

Lots of regrets! hahaha

Incubus..I've had the opportunity to see them at least a dozen times in the past 13 years and something ALWAYS comes up. I remember I could've seen them in '99 at a small club just before Pardon Me broke. I heard this show was killer.

Metallica in NY/NJ in 2004 and 2009. One of my all time favorite bands and I've never seen them.

Soundgarden 2011 Toronto...had the opportunity but had to pass...

A Perfect Circle in 2002 or 2003..

Pearl Jam...Spectrum final night. I didn't even try to get tickets for this! What was I thinking!!?!?!

smarchee

Radiohead in the summer of 1995 at Call The Office in London, Ont.

My drug dealer, lol, was going and wanted me to go with him, I turned him down, sigh, I liked Pablo Honey but was in to more heavy music then and didn't even know of the Bends yet then. Christ this place can hold like 300 people, I still can't believe they played there. Everytime I went to a show there afterwards I always thought that I could of seen Radiohead there on the Bends tour. Only later in 1996 did that same dealer give me The Bends cause it was fucking him up to much lol, my love for Radiohead began

Lifted

not really any shows i've missed the boat on that i've lived to regret. but i really do wish i had managed to catch the avett brothers and broken social scene at bonnaroo 2008. i was there, but a little preoccupied at the time. damn, really wish i had forced myself to attend. i've seen broken social scene a couple times since, so i feel redeemed in that regard, but i have still yet to see the avett brothers. still kicking myself. i need to see that band.

i also missed pretty much every show i wanted to see on saturday at bonnaroo last year. deervana would've been nice to see...also regret missing buffalo springfield and eminem. it was an opium kind of day. oh well.


oh wait...on second thought...

really wish i had attended one or both of the pj msg shows in '03. and state college more than anything. only show i made it to on that tour was hershey, which was great, but suffered from a terrible venue. '03 was one of the best pj tours they've had in my opinion. judging from the bootlegs of course. i also quite liked eddie's short hair-do. so handsome.

Lifted

fife wrote:

I had a chance to see oasis at Knebworth 15 1995. I was traveling in Europe at that time and a friend had applied for tickets and got 2. I ended up missing the concerts due to food poisoning. there was over 120,000 people at each concert.

that show was historical. you must still be upset over that one. damn.

Drowned Out

Red Lukin wrote:

Pink Floyd in 94. I just started likeing them around 1993 and has no clue that would be the last time they toured.

^^yup.
I broke up with my gf only a week or two before the show, and was pretty messed up about it...didn't want to have to sit near her, esp knowing the frame of mind I'd be in at a Floyd show ...couldn't find anyone else to go with.
In retrospect...i so wish I'd sucked it up and gone, either sitting near her, or alone.... Will prob never get another chance.

IgotshitID

the white stripes

goldrush

Easily Pearl Jam at the Brixton Academy in July 1993. I went to the Finsbury Park show on the Sunday and could get tickets for the first Brixton show on the Tuesday. Unfortunately I was only 16 and had nowhere to stay in London so I had to head back to South Wales instead :(

Jon Chorba

Jon Chorba wrote:

Lots of regrets! hahaha

Incubus..I've had the opportunity to see them at least a dozen times in the past 13 years and something ALWAYS comes up. I remember I could've seen them in '99 at a small club just before Pardon Me broke. I heard this show was killer.

Metallica in NY/NJ in 2004 and 2009. One of my all time favorite bands and I've never seen them.

Soundgarden 2011 Toronto...had the opportunity but had to pass...

A Perfect Circle in 2002 or 2003..

Pearl Jam...Spectrum final night. I didn't even try to get tickets for this! What was I thinking!!?!?!

Ohh I left off a BIG one...Damageplan in November of 2004. A few weeks before Dimebag was killed. I remember being offered the tickets, declining and then saying to myself.."I'll catch them on the next tour.." Damn shame!

uninnocent-

Jon Chorba wrote:

Jon Chorba wrote:

Lots of regrets! hahaha

Incubus..I've had the opportunity to see them at least a dozen times in the past 13 years and something ALWAYS comes up. I remember I could've seen them in '99 at a small club just before Pardon Me broke. I heard this show was killer.

Metallica in NY/NJ in 2004 and 2009. One of my all time favorite bands and I've never seen them.

Soundgarden 2011 Toronto...had the opportunity but had to pass...

A Perfect Circle in 2002 or 2003..

Pearl Jam...Spectrum final night. I didn't even try to get tickets for this! What was I thinking!!?!?!

Ohh I left off a BIG one...Damageplan in November of 2004. A few weeks before Dimebag was killed. I remember being offered the tickets, declining and then saying to myself.."I'll catch them on the next tour.." Damn shame!

My biggest regret is missing Damageplan in Toronto exactly one week before Dimebag's senseless death. I, too, passed on it telling myself I'd catch 'em next time they came around. It was Christmastime and I thought I'd be better off saving my money for gifts. If only I'd known.

PJ-wise, I really regret missing the 2005 Hamilton and London shows. There was no excuse missing a show so close to home.

morgannspicer

I regret NOT attending both Chicago nights back in 2006. I had the opportunity but went to Grand Rapids two nights later but still should have gone to all three. Dammit.

randallanddarcy

The Twilight Singers in January 2004 in Whelan's in Dublin. My missus went and taped it for me. It sounds off the fucking hook! Grrrrrrrr.................

frazba

Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl (acoustic), The Southern Bar (my local at the time), Edinburgh, 1st Dec 1991. I saw Nirvana 2 nights earlier at Calton Studios Edinburgh. As we were leaving we got handed a flyer for a band called Teen Spirit at The Southern, didn't think anything of it.
Went to see Lenny Kravitz on the 1st Dec, as we were walking home past The Southern, we met some friends who had just been in for a pint, raving about Kurt and Dave just wandering in with acoustic guitars and playing, chatting and generally enjoying themselves with the 20 odd people in the bar.
Seriously bugs me to this day.

I also regret not trying harder to get tix for Tom Waits in Dublin on the Glitter and Doom tour, I saw him in the eighties but that may well be my last chance to see him again.

frazba

Oh, and Stiff Little Fingers at Carlisle Market Hall (1981?). I had a ticket but I was twelve, my mother said I was too young.

Kloddz

R.E.M. the last time they played here in Zurich - I never thought it would be my last chance to see them live and very stupidly decided not to go. :?

Come to think of it, I could have realistically gone to PJ Berlin 2010 and did not even try to get tickets (10c presale was over by the time I made it to a computer, so you have to give me that at least; but I guess I could have gotten general sale tickets somehow), so that has to rank pretty high as well. :oops:

Jon Chorba

uninnocent- wrote:

My biggest regret is missing Damageplan in Toronto exactly one week before Dimebag's senseless death. I, too, passed on it telling myself I'd catch 'em next time they came around. It was Christmastime and I thought I'd be better off saving my money for gifts. If only I'd known.

I hear ya, dude..I never got to see one of my all time favorite guitar players up on stage and never will. Sucks big time!

dcfaithful

I'm going to speak on the behalf of my friend Mike on this one and say this for him as I know he would post this:

Jeff Buckley. He died about 3 years later.

dcfaithful

I personally passed on Nine Inch Nails, and I regret that decision.

I also passed on Alice In Chains w/ Velvet Revolver at The Tabernacle in Atlanta when I lived there. Regret that one too.

Mamasan23

Never got to see Pantera live. Every time they came through something or other came up. A fact that my hubby likes to rub in to me every chance he gets...since he saw them live something like 5 times. Ahhh regrets.

Also wish I was at the '95 PJ Soldier Field show, but alas my mom said I was too young for concerts :evil: