Thread: epic concerts you missed by "this much!"

Originally Posted by Caucasian Asian

A show I wished I had missed.

Saw Econoline Crush play at a pub one night. Their opening act was a piece of shit band called Nickelback.

Econoline crush. Haven't heard that name in a long time. Knew a couple of those guys around the time they got their first shot at a record contract. Was a very weird time of my life. They had some talent.

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Originally Posted by OSECS

Missed seeing Little Feat in 79 I think it was ....... Lowell George died.

Drove from Indianapolis to Bloomington to see Little Feat that same year. Got there to find the show was cancelled. Lowell passed about 3 weeks later.

Was fortunate enough to have caught them when they were supporting the Waiting for Columbus album a year and a half earlier. One of the best shows I have ever seen.

Widespread Panic in Crested Butte, '97ish. friends bailed because they couldn't get tickets, at the time I didn't know much about them, so I traded my ticket for a ball of hash. Hot hippy chicks in sundresses shoulda been reason enough to go. Did see a lot of kick-ass bands that weekend, but still haven't seen Widespread.

Not sure if these concerts would have been epic, but I am bummed I missed them;

Husker Du in 86, manager committed suicide and tour cancelled

Lou Reed with the smithereens opening, sometime in 85-87. Don't quite remember. Lou broke his hand or some shit.

Any of the Warren Zevon shows at the Pickle Barrel. Every freaking year he played and every year I thought about going and never did.

Phish 2-28-03 Nassau.

Thought I had family commitments that night, but they got canceled. Headed out to LI last minute with a friend with a grip of cash and booked a last minute room at the hotel in the parking lot. Walked around for 3 hours with about $300 in cash and could get a single bite. I knew the show was gonna be epic....I could just feel it.

First and last time I was shutout of a show. Luckily there were hundreds of unopened beers that security left by the gates for us dirty miserable lots rats to drown our sorrows with. As soon as I heard about the Destiny bustout I was so pissed.

Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian

Phish 2-28-03 Nassau.

Thought I had family commitments that night, but they got canceled. Headed out to LI last minute with a friend with a grip of cash and booked a last minute room at the hotel in the parking lot. Walked around for 3 hours with about $300 in cash and could get a single bite. I knew the show was gonna be epic....I could just feel it.

First and last time I was shutout of a show. Luckily there were hundreds of unopened beers that security left by the gates for us dirty miserable lots rats to drown our sorrows with. As soon as I heard about the Destiny bustout I was so pissed.

Phish show counts as epic?

Originally Posted by Whiteroom_Guardian

Phish 2-28-03 Nassau.

Thought I had family commitments that night, but they got canceled. Headed out to LI last minute with a friend with a grip of cash and booked a last minute room at the hotel in the parking lot. Walked around for 3 hours with about $300 in cash and could get a single bite. I knew the show was gonna be epic....I could just feel it.

First and last time I was shutout of a show. Luckily there were hundreds of unopened beers that security left by the gates for us dirty miserable lots rats to drown our sorrows with. As soon as I heard about the Destiny bustout I was so pissed.

Was there. Good show but overrated.
The '98 Island Tour, that was something else...

Ween, in 95 or so at one of those summer music festivals. Little did we know, they added a bunch of bands to the lineup, so the festival started a few hours earlier than we thought. Just as we were getting out of the car, we heard the end of “Dr ROCK!”. I believe those were the days when it was just Dean and Gene on stage with a fuckin tape recorder keeping the beat.
Still got to see Primus, Beck, and Neil Young that night though, so I guess I can't complain too much.

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The first Lollapalooza tour, with the original Janes Addiction lineup. My older sister was getting tickets, but mom said no to me. I was 13 or 14 at the time. Anyway, I pleaded my case and actually convinced her that I was mature enough to go. But by then it was sold out.

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RHCP in like 88 or 89. Same story as above, but I was 12 years old, so I got a “hell no”.

Originally Posted by 4matic

Phish show counts as epic?

seriously

Pretty much every Laguna Seca Daze festival. Especially 1993. Was going to ucsc at the time and all my friends went but I always spent every moment in late May BC skiing in the Sierra so never went.

Originally Posted by bcd

The first Lollapalooza tour, with the original Janes Addiction lineup. My older sister was getting tickets, but mom said no to me. I was 13 or 14 at the time. Anyway, I pleaded my case and actually convinced her that I was mature enough to go. But by then it was sold out.

A few of my friends and I had tickets. The day before the show I came down with strep or pneumonia or something nasty. Bummed.

Missed Cypress Hill at Gas Works park for one of the first hempfests. I was in boot camp. Everyone of my stoner friends was there.

Van Halen at the Tacoma Dome. Missed it because I got sick the day of the show. Gave my ticket to a friend of mine.

Peter Tosh, Park Plaza Castle, Boston. 1983, I think it was the Mama Africa tour. Went down to Ticketron at the mall with my buddies and watched them buy tickets, for reasons that escape me now I passed. Sure wish I had gone.

Kanye in 04, free concert put on by student government. Didn't even know who he was then.


BB King and Neil Young did shows drive-able distances away, always regretted not going.