Bands you wish you'd seen

[K50 DEL]

I've just spent a fantastic evening on You Tube watching various Dire Straits live performances from the 80s and 90s..... sadly I didn't know they existed back then, so I never got to see them live...

Apart from Queen (who I think everyone would love to see live) who do you feel you missed out on?

[CO2000]

Pink Floyd

[odyssey2200]

Queen

With Freddie

[sploosh]

circa 1992

Mate - "fancy going to see rage against the machine? 3 quid in JB's in Dudley"

me - "nah, can't be arsed, never heard of them"

[rhinochopig]

Nirvana
The Pixies - in their Heyday

[working class]

Oasis when they first started

[sploosh]

working class said:

Oasis when they first started

My Students Union had a double header of Oasis and Blur a month before "brit pop" kicked in.

Didn't bother

[yoof full chav]

Thin Lizzy
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles
The Who
The Rolling Stones

[K50 DEL]

sploosh said:

My Students Union had a double header of Oasis and Blur a month before "brit pop" kicked in.

Didn't bother

Both are bands that I couldn't stand when they first came out (hugely against the glamourisation of drugs that Oasis perpetuated) but nowadays I can see the quality of their music and I too would have liked to see them live.

[JonRB]

Genesis in their heyday when they were pushing the bounds of what you could do in a live show, including both sounds and lighting.

[anonymous-user]

Not bands as such

Miles Davis
Charlie Parker
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk
Tubby Hayes
Benny Goodman
Michel Legrand

in the 1950's, in a cellar bar, in Paris preferably.

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

I would have loved to have seen Pink Floyd at Live 8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wtiNzci1Wc
I had tickets to see Guns N' Roses in Milton Keynes in '93, but went and got a bad dose of Flu and missed it - gutted!

[Glassman]

CO2000 said:

Pink Floyd

+1

[cazzer]

NeMiSiS said:

The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, the Floral Dance I believe was a killer LIVE.

Seen em...saddleworth band contest.
Don't hold a candle to Saddleworth Brass Band

[Ozone]

I always wished i had seen Yazoo before they split in the 80's and luckily they toured last year and i got to see them

I'm sorry i didn't get to see Stevie Ray Vaughan or Led Zeppelin

[Zad]

I wasn't really old enough to go alone to the Pink Floyd Pulse concert, but I really wanted to go, and wish to this day that I could have found the cash + someone to go with.

For Queen: Live Aid. That is all. I would gladly forego every other concert in return for 20 mins of Queen at Live Aid.

Not live bands in the normal sense, but I would have loved to have seen the Blitz club in it's prime.

[sploosh]

K50 DEL said:

Both are bands that I couldn't stand when they first came out (hugely against the glamourisation of drugs that Oasis perpetuated) but nowadays I can see the quality of their music and I too would have liked to see them live.

I'd not really heard of Oasis but quite liked blur ... ticket price put me off - think it was about £6

Also chose to watch Rolf Harris at Glastonbury 2000 instead of Bowie (Rolf was ace though...)

........ and ignored Coldplay in favour of the Wurzels....... which were also brill.

[Pothole]

Dr Doofenshmirtz said:

I would have loved to have seen Pink Floyd at Live 8 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wtiNzci1Wc

I was there. Bloody good thing it was free: No BAR!

[robsco]

The Smiths and Joy Division, though I wasn't born at that stage so seeing them perform would have been fairly tricky. I've seen Morrissey 3 times however, which is tne next best thing. I've always been disappointed that I never saw Suede or James live too.

[K50 DEL]

Zad said:

I wasn't really old enough to go alone to the Pink Floyd Pulse concert, but I really wanted to go, and wish to this day that I could have found the cash + someone to go with.

For Queen: Live Aid. That is all. I would gladly forego every other concert in return for 20 mins of Queen at Live Aid.

Not live bands in the normal sense, but I would have loved to have seen the Blitz club in it's prime.

I would gladly forgo most live concert tickets for a ticket to Live Aid... I have the DVD box set, watched the documentary on TV..... I would give anything to have been there... Phil Collins on Concorde, Boomtown Rats not liking Mondays, Dire Straits, Beach boys... I have no idea how Geldof did it, but he produced the line-up to end all line-ups and that day will go down in the annals of history.

For me, there are 2 groups/artistes that I would give anything to see live... Dire Straits and Garth Brooks... Garth's touring in the US at the moment and I'm trying to sort flights and tickets, sadly Mark Knopfler seems to be quite happy without the Straits so I think I've st out on that one!