Biggest music regrets

[maddnotez]

Yes, who doesn't?

For me it was selling an old BC Rich Platinum for $50. Was the old version with the pointy headstock.

I also regret selling my Pitbull 100CL but I can always get another one of those if I wanted. (meanest amp I have had so far)

Also regret not going to see Pantera and musically I regret not learning different styles at a younger age when I had all the time in the world to practice.

 

[Bishop5150]

Sold my first real amp, an early 80's JCM 800 because it wasn't heavy enough didn't sound metal enough. :facepalm:
Of course I didn't turn it up loud and I'd never heard of using a boost in front of it. Really want to get one of those early 2203's and an OD-1 to boost with.

I did the same thing. I was young and didn't know about boosting. Traded it in and payed some extra cash for a brand new 5150 Block letter when they first came out. Around 92-93. Loved the 5150 but hated parting with the JCM 800. Sold the block letter a couple of years ago too. UGH.

 

[webrthomson]

I wish I would've gone to more Pantera shows.

I respected their musical evolution, but the further they got from their CFH sound, the less I connected with the music...so I put attending Pantera live shows on the backburner. Still bought all their albums (and Damageplan) upon release and loved Dime's playing. Next thing you know, the band broke up, then Dime was gone. The guy played with so much JOY. Sorely missed.

This!

 

[shredhead7]

I've seen most bands that I wanted to see, I don't live in an area that gets much traffic anyway, so it's not like I really have missed much, because they weren't coming here anyway. My real regret is that I should have ventured out and tried to be in a band when I was younger. I started to do so in high school, but once I went to college, I didn't have the confidence. I woodshed in my basement until I was 28, and then when I finally did play out, people would ask where I came from. Not that I'm all that compared to a lot of people, but I became a big fish in a small pond, but by then, I was used to a professional job, a house payment, etc...It was over before it even began. I just wish that I would have tried when I was young enough to have no responsibility.

Seeing Randy play would have been cool though and Cacophony or Racer X in their heyday.

 

[mystixboi]

In 1998, I formed a band fronted by female singer. It was the perfect time as artists like Alanis Morrissette and no doubt were huge. Long story short, we were offered a record deal after only playing two shows. I was so smug and naive that I didn't even pay attention during the meetings with the label and I ultimately said that we could find a better deal. I had no idea what I talking about.

We never got approached by another record label. But the singer went on to get signed a few years later. She's had a few moderate hits and is got to work and tour with some awesome artists.

 

[suhrimmetal]

Letting my Gower Killer Kali++ go. Miss that amp every damn day.

 

[spanny]

Not convincing Chad Kroeger's mom to pull out

 

[Oblivion DC]

Not convincing Chad Kroeger's mom to pull out

LOLOLOLOLOL Chad Kroeger's mom has a penis...

 

[Bloodrock]

Never getting to see Guns n Roses live. Begged and begged. I was 15 when they broke up. On the flip side, i was lucky enough to Pantera plenty being from Ft. Worth. Ozzfest 2000 was the craziest experience of my life!

 

[GregM]

I regret never getting to see Layne era Alice in Chains, I never got to see Pantera, and never got to see Metallica before they...well, you know.

 

[lyres requiem]

Not convincing Chad Kroeger's mom to pull out

LOLOLOLOLOL Chad Kroeger's mom has a penis...

for the win...

 

[the rossness]

I regret the creation of rap music... the whole genre.

 

[BrentSSL]

Trading in my first three channel dual rec for a line6 spider valve bogner head. I've been flipping through amps for almost 5 years because of it.
I just wish I would have started playing guitar earlier but I was a jock douche and then did Karate then started playing guitar at like 23ish

 

[Salos]

I had the chance a few times..... but I never saw Dio.

I also had the chance to get Zeppelin tickets for the O2 on eBay after the first round of the lottery ended. But I hesitated because of the whole "key code" shenanigans. After the first round ended and they started popping up on eBay, there was concern that tickets could only be claimed by the person's name entered in the official lottery..... the promoters waited until after the second round to say, "okay, if bought eBay tickets from first round, we'll make an exception." But by then, it was too late.

 

[Zap]

Not seeing Les Paul at the Iridium.

 

[Yek]

I regret backing the Fryette GP/DI project on Kickstarter. What a mess.

 

[rupe]

Skipped seeing Jeff Beck and SRV in the summer of '90...'nuff said

 

[messenger]

Not convincing Chad Kroeger's mom to pull out

Virgin??

 

[stdio]

I passed on the VH show a couple of weeks ago and caught the Rush show last week, it was an awesome concert, still feeling it now. I regret not seeing more Rush shows back in the late 80's and 90's, they kind of fell of my radar after high school. Also wish i had seen Ozzy with Randy, and Pantera. The only gear i miss is my first electric, a 1985 Ibanez roadstar strat copy. And maybe practicing more seriously as a teen.

Great thread by the way.

 

[dirtyfunkg]

I regret showing up late to a Red Hot Chili Peppers show in 2003. We drove up from Chicago to Madison and I was a freshman in High School.

The lineup was...

The Mars Volta (Deloused in the Comatorium)
Queens of the Stone Age (Songs for the Deaf)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (By the Way)

We got there in time for QOTSA's last song. So, long story short, I regret showing up late and missing The Mars Volta and Queens of the Stone Age on their best albums' tours. RHCP was still a great show, but I thought that By the Way was a bad album, and they've continued to be bad since. In retrospect I've been a much bigger QOTSA and Mars Volta fan and they've done more to define me as a musician.

As for gear, I regret trading my old '57 Reissue Strat (with an aftermarket neck that, to this day, was the best neck I ever played) for a Charvel Model 3.