Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
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.
I've seen Buckner play about 8 times, and his shows have varied widely in quality. I suspect that he has a pot plateau, and the worst shows are when he's either not high or too high. The best ones were when he had Eric Heywood on pedal steel accompanying him.
Saw Joe a couple of weeks ago and he was fine, if in pain, if that makes sense.
Hey, Corwood, I'm not hallucinating that you're Austin-based, am I? I've got a crazy-brief last-minute trip down there for work Tuesday-Wednesday.
Excellent! Wanna grab a beer & some yummy Tex-Mex? Maybe meet Li'l Sphere, who wasn't even a gleam in my eye last time I saw you?
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?
I was about to write Pixies as (1) but since they're not dead anymore it's a tough one. Charles Mingus? The Jam? But no, I go with Cats Laughing.
(2) is either Flaming Lips or Thea Gilmore. I can't choose.
I wish I could've seen Marvin Gaye. And Tina Turner.(Although Tina is very much alive, she gave up touring and I've got no reason to think it was a Cher/Rolling Stones fakeout thing.) I've hardly seen anybody live, but am very glad I bought those B.B. King tickets. Bruce Springsteen, without having to rob a liquor store.
You ever seen Gimme Shelter, Erika? I never got Tina Turner until I saw that.