I got a haircut yesterday as well, but I think tina is cuter.

Glad I could help spready the unbunny love, Nicklas. Tomorrow, it's the Beatnik Filmstars!

This article in today's Tribune poses a decent Friday Music thread question. What band do you most regret not seeing before THEY were dead and what band do you most want to see live before YOU are dead?

Also, if I lived in NYC, I would go see this:

In a free concert tomorrow night at the World Financial Center Winter Garden, musicians including Michelle Shocked, the National, Meshell Ndegeocello and Mark Eitzel will perform the entire album (Nebraska by Springsteen), in sequence.

It's the opening concert for the NY Guitar Festival. Quoted from today's NYT: [link]

ETA: I'm still thinking about my answers....

What band do you most regret not seeing before THEY were dead and what band do you most want to see live before YOU are dead?

The first one is easy: Neutral Milk Hotel. I was at the later of my two jobs in Chapel Hill when they played that Cat's Cradle show (the one bootlegged all over the place) and my co-worker, a supercute punk girl on whom I had a crush, tried to get me to go with her, but I'd been up since 6 in the morning and it was almost midnight when our shift ended, and (as I've pointed out here before) I wasn't bowled over by NMH at first and figured I'd have plenty of opportunities to see them again, so I declined. That was the only time they played Chapel Hill that I remember.

I don't know about the band I want to see most before I kick off. Have to think more about that.

By the way, any of you NYistas heard from Joe B lately?

The first one is easy: Neutral Milk Hotel.

That was my initial reaction as well. I've thought that ever since reading Jon's reaction to seeing them. And now that I am reading Kim's book I keep thinking about it. I was waiting to see if somethine else popped into my mind though.

figured I'd have plenty of opportunities to see them again, so I declined.

OUCH - that's such a close miss!

The show I regret not going to when I had the chance is easy. Mike Watt at the bottleneck in lawrence in the late 90s (maybe 99). It was like $10 and there was a special guest which turned out to be Eddie Vedder. And we all know what an sick obsessed Vedder fan I am. I could have died. I don't even remember why I didn't go.

I still can't think of who I must see before I die...

I remember that tour! Watt and Hovercraft, right? And Vedder was Hovercraft's drummer, I think.

Maybe the Velvet Underground. Though I don't regret not traveling to Europe for the reunion tour they did. That live CD is really annoying.

Or maybe the Minutemen. I had many chances, but wasn't that into them at the time. I did see firehose before their first album came out.

Up until a few years ago, I would have said Mission of Burma. :)

Ohh! The original Modern Lovers! Before JR got all cutsey. Final answer!

No idea on the second question. I've seen most of my current faves.

Watt and Hovercraft, right? And Vedder was Hovercraft's drummer, I think.

Yup. I get all angry every time I think about it. I was a huge Watt fan - why didn't I go?? People talked about that show for YEARS. Almost as much as they talked about the Cibbo Matto show at the bottleneck a few years later where Sean Lennon got ripped and bought the whole bar drinks and took pictures with everyone and then took everybody (I mean everybody at the show) to another bar down the street...

We can pick any show in history, not just conceivable misses?

Then I change my answer to Miles Davis at Fillmore West in 1970, the show documented on It's About That Time, 'cause GODDAMN.

And I'm with Jon on the 2nd one. I've even seen Jandek live on what sounded like the best of his American live dates. I missed Wire when they came through in 2002 because I was off seeing the Mekons in NYC, so maybe Wire.

We can pick any show in history, not just conceivable misses?

Yes.

I did get to seem him once but I wish I would have been able to see Elliott Smith again before he died and once I was a bigger fan.

I would have DIED and gone to HEAVEN if I could have seen the Smiths when I was say... 15 right when Strangeways came out.

Still thinking about who I must see - I really want to see Richard Buckner but that will probably happen in a matter of weeks. I haven't seen Rilo Kiley yet so they better do another tour once they get the side project stuff done.