Name a band you wish you would have seen but never will

For me it has to be Humble Pie. Not the Frampton version, but gthe rockin' version with Steve Marriott, Dave Clempson, Greg Ridley, and Jerry Shirley. That was a rocking Bluesy sound before it was called Rocking Blues. Long live Humble Pie!

Saw three of them. Paul in 75 and 91 and last weekend in SF. Ringo at the Last Waltz and on a couple of his All Star Band tours and George in 75 on his Ill fated "All things Must pass" tour. but no John. how could one of the most important musicians in my life not be part of my show going resume...?

And I saw every version of Humble Pie. At Winterland, for a while, you could not go to a show without Humble Pie opening. OR so it seemed. They were the perfect warm up band....Good and loud, gritty, hard, they would get you pretty pumped up, especiually Marriot and his self importancy... When Frampton joined, everyone was like "man this guy is going to be HUGE" and then he formed "Frampton's Camel" the next year and then it was just Peter Frampton. I saw him twice on that tour including the show that the live album was from (Winterland)...(my middle kid was conceived to "Do you Feel Like I do" in the back of 75 Cadillac Coupe Deville)....

There are too many to list but The Beatles would top it. I clicked on this thread with some conflicting bands in mind until I saw your reply Peggy. Bingo! Definitely The Beatles! :hi:

at the old Sahara hotel in Tahoe. 74 (?). And then I saw him with Sammy and Lia Minelli in Oakland in the 80's. I loved that show in Oakland but in Tahoe, the Elvis hoopla thing, the women etc... was so weird and he was so pathetic and so different stylistically that I did not care much for Frank at the Tahoe show. Might have nee the first time I ever really heard that old style of crooner/big bandy thing live...So I didn't get it..

played at the USF Sundome on that 80's tour
I still kick myself that I didn't get a couple of tickets and ask my co-worker/friend Stephanie to go with me
Who needed that lousy boyfriend anyway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2Obko Sing Sing Sing

Mine would probably be the Glenn Miller Band. :hi:


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That is a good choice. I've seen Little Feat several times but never with Lowell George.

Love em always. Saw them in 75 or so in Sac with Lowell and then many many times since then and they are always a great band......

Any of his bands would have been something. Miles, Monk, Cannonball Adderley,Elvin jones, McCoy Tyner etc...all of them.

:)

I agree...all of the bands were something.
I have been playing this weird "game" for the past 112 weeks. I check the New Yorker to see who is playing a gig that week. Out of these past 112 weeks, there has only been 15 weeks when a Davis alumnus was not playing in NYC. The man was Jazz University.

The complete Montreaux boxed set is something. every band every performance.

It would also be nice to go back in time and visit Minton's Playhouse on a Monday night in 1942 and watch bebop being born.

for those specific lineups
and at Minton's (I'm more a modal than bopper, but that would have been truly astonishing to witness)

I was just a bit to young to see them in their great. My brothers still talk about the show at the Cap Center in DC. And the jerks like to rub it in as well:)

Other than that, the Dead.

Seriously. Most over rated band in history. Douchebags before anyone called anyone douchebags. I saw them a few times and no big deal. Once they were hours late and sucked (The Tubes made their SF debut and blew them off the stage). Then the debacle that was the 78 tour where there were riots everywhere at every venue. Then they get to a venue with no riots, (Oakland) the band themselves start their own and fight with Bill Graham and end up getting arrested. I saw them in Seattle (75?)and they were pretty good, but the only thing I really remember is that it was the first time I ever saw lasers at a concert...

Not to mention that at every LZ show (and Page and Plant show I saw later) there was always a HUGE FIGHT, right up front with hundreds of people squaring off, pushing everyone around (My feet, and I am over 200 lbs, left the ground last time).....

Read the Bill graham book, that story is incredible. Whaddabuchofjerkoffs.

Now I loved the Page and Plant shows. Finally they could hire musicians who could make that sound. Not longer three guys making all that music (which means loops. effects etc) they had a band and that really made a difference. I liked them much better than Led Zep myself except for the huge fights and that people were really pissed about them not playing Stairway)...

Zeppelin have some great tracks, so its just something i felt was missed.

I did see Page/Plant in Jacksonville around 97 or 98. They played the standards, but also included a couple butt kickers that are rarely played. Out On The Tiles was one:)

I enjoyed myself!

Do you recall the "No Quarter" concert on TV (Page and Plant)? It was amazing. They had Indian musicians and strings. It gave their work a completely different feel. IMHO, it should have been the direction that Zep went. Their drummer was just some young kid who was so into his opportunity. He was great. Of course, John Paul Jones later said that he should probably send Plant and Page his phone number...in reference to the fact that they did not have him as the bass player for the No Quarter performances. I think most people are aware that John Paul Jones was probably the most talented and creative of the four. At least I think he was.

I saw them once in the early 70s/ Page was mediocre at best (good studio musician) and Plant's voice was terrible.

because they were so terrible?

for years because of its "quality"

1968-1971 would've been ideal....

but saw most of Franks other bands. even seen Zappa Plays Zappa twice (And they rock your face off!)

What a fantastic show! I knew Dweezil could play or whatever, but I never realized he could actually do some virtuosic shredding of his own.

incredible band and it reminds of the GD in the best sense....

Damn, I would have loved to have seen Freddie perform live!

Die of envy, suckas.

in that other thread ...:grr: very very very JEALOUS!

Excellent concert.

Holy crap..."Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore?" Not "rockin'?"



Four Day Creep...I'm Ready...Stone Cold Fever...I Walk On Gilded Splinters...Rollin' Stone...Hallelujah (I Love Her So)...I Don't Need No Doctor

This is a hard-rocking, blues-based album...Marriott is howling at the moon from front to back...the twin guitars of Frampton and Marriott just come crashing down again and again and again...

...please explain to me how this is "not" the "rockin' version" of Humble Pie?

I know the ORIGINAL Pie albums were "lighter" efforts, but "Performance?" Not "rockin'?"

You've actually heard this album...right?

:shrug:

Most concerts since then fail to live up to the standard those guys set for me.


They were astounding.

It'll never happen, even though all the members are still alive. But damn, I'd love to see them.

Moz & Johnny Marr circa 1983 ... Damn.

They actually get inducted into the R&RHOF and play a one-off reunion.

Same thing goes for New Order.

Moz and Hooky are kind of dickish, but maybe they can keep it in check for a night.

and in 89 with PiL and the Sugar Cubes. I saw that tour both in Milwaukee and Chicago. It was pretty amazing. :hi:

I had tickets to see Bad Lieutenant (aka Zombie New Order, Barney, Steven, and Phil are all in the band) in NYC, but the show was scrapped because of the Mt. Grflurgrmykgr volcano in Iceland. I exchanged the tix for...Echo and the Bunnymen! Awesome show at a smaller venue in Boston. Mac the Mouth was in fine form!

I bet it was a great show.

I would do anything to see the Smiths, but that is quite doubtful. I have seen Moz on a few occasions though - last year actually.

That was a lot of fun!

:My friends and I wriggled all the way up to the third row for New Order. I still have my '9' PiL t-shirt that I wear every time I move. :rofl:

Was there a crazy thunderstorm during that show? I can't remember if it was the 87 or 89 show, but there was this major storm that blew through and as you can imagine, Poplar Creek becomes rather messy when it rains. :rofl: I have a drunken memory of 'A Perfect Kiss' starting over after the stage lost power for a few seconds. Ahhh- to be young again. :D

though, I remember that. I just got rid of my New Order and my PiL shirt a few years ago, they were in tatters. Too bad, day-glo colors are back in style. I used to work for a company called Publications International Ltd. and wore my PiL shirt to a company picnic once. :)

recent, less intense, music. If they'd play their old stuff I'd love to see them again though.

But I never had the pleasure of seeing the Smiths live. Saw Mozzers a few times, but never the Smiths. Sigh...

A mix of the new stuff, with a good chunk of Joy Division and New Order as well.

1. This Is Home (BL)
2. Summer Days On Holiday (BL)
3. Regret (NO)
4. Twist Of Fate (BL)
5. Ceremony (NO/JD)
6. Sink Or Swim (BL)
7. Shine Like The Sun (BL)
8. Bizarre Love Triangle (NO)
9. Running Out Of Luck (BL)
10. Crystal (NO)
11. Tighten Up (Electronic)
12. Out of Control (Chemical Brothers)
13. Temptation (NO)
14. Transmission (JD)
15. Love Will Tear Us Apart (JD)

I was lucky enough to see Queen, Thin Lizzy, and the Grateful Dead

...and on and on and on...

I've seen them several times with Brian but I really wish I would have gotten to see them with Bon.

many, many, many years ago at the Agora on OSU campus in Columbus. He fell off the stage into the crowd and never missed a note. :hi:

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I am going to see Sir Paul next month though! :)

I've seen just about every other band I wanted to see. I went to a lot of concerts in my youth.

Never got the chance to see them and with Phil Lynott's death I never will. Sad.....

I've always said that I was born too late. :(

Of course I was 8 years old at the the so I probably wouldn't have appreciated it as much as I would now.

Sex Pistols, The Clash and an enormous number of Jazz Musicians....



I have seen all The Beatles separately though.......

but they include Hendrix, Zappa ca. 1972, Voivod (with Piggy), The Clash, The Dead Kennedys, Ramones...

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Big Country


The Doors

Elvis. The Ramones. Nirvana.

But the 3 that jump to mind immediately are:

Boston
Queen
Pantera

Boston and Queen mostly in retrospect.
But Pantera, I had the chance to see them several times and didn't. Even Damageplan. But I figure I'd always have time. Then some idiot with a gun and a grudge fucked that all up.

I saw them in '77 and they kind of, well, stunk. And they are the most overplayed band in the history of "classic rock" radio history, which I suppose is not their fault.

and they were terrible.
I didn't really care for the album, but it was timeless art compared to their live performance

Its a beautiful day would be nice to....
they were supposed to make it to my university but never did

I'm only guessing that the band is no longer together, though.

They were both good. :hi:

in 1975 or 6. It was before they were really big. Can't remember if they were good or not, but I did have a good time... That was during my Thai stick phase.

Doors
Fleetwood Mac


Hendrix #1 by far, though.