IndyWS6
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I’m going to go with ZZ Top…
Especially before the move to digital, quantized drums and the pop BS…
Especially before the move to digital, quantized drums and the pop BS…
NoHassle
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Queen
JDs Couch
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Hendrix, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd. I did get to see Waters twice, once on the DSOTM anniversary tour in 2008 and then The Wall. Which were both epic, but to see Floyd would have been awesome.
Also I would have loved to catch a Grateful Dead show when they were on a good run.
IndyWS6
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Solid choices. Obviously, some are age related ( e.g., Hendrix died before I was old enough to go to concerts).
JamesTiberiusKirk
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Hendrix of course. Beatles of course.
I've seen quite a few of my favorites, some more than once. Jeff Beck, King Crimson, SRV, The Stones.
Oh, I know who...I'd love to have seen Gabriel era Genesis. And Zeppelin.
I'd catch Randy Hansen. That'd be a good Hendrix substitute. I saw a Zep Tribute band whose name I can't remember that did the entire first LP. It was really damn impressive.
I've seen quite a few of my favorites, some more than once. Jeff Beck, King Crimson, SRV, The Stones.
Oh, I know who...I'd love to have seen Gabriel era Genesis. And Zeppelin.
I'd catch Randy Hansen. That'd be a good Hendrix substitute. I saw a Zep Tribute band whose name I can't remember that did the entire first LP. It was really damn impressive.
IndyWS6
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I should have restricted responses to concerts that you actually would have been able to attend. That was the intent…
JDs Couch
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Ah. In that case...
I had to miss Tool last time they came through because I caught COVID that day.
JamesTiberiusKirk
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Oh.
Well I've lived in a few cities, some of which attract major acts so the only one on my list that I was too young for was the Beatles. I'm barely old enough to have caught Hendrix. Barely. I doubt I could have talked my way into going though. "There'll be drugs." "And girls not wearing a bra". Lolol.
klugster
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I missed Van Halen as a teenager, total fuck up on my part, wanted to party instead of using the free ticket that was given to me, circa 89-90ish, then years later circa 2015-16ish Tom Petty was playing at Sandstone amphitheater in KC, bombed that one also.
JohnnyGtar
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The Mighty Zep.
84superchamp
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I've seen a lot of bands but sure missed some of the best. #1 regret: AC DC in their prime. #2: Skynyrd.
70 Mach 1
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Had a chance to see Zep in 77 at MSG
My friend begged me for days to go.
I didn't start playing until 79 so i really had no idea who they were
Iirc they played a whole week and he went to something like 3 shows.
Tickets were $8.50
My friend begged me for days to go.
I didn't start playing until 79 so i really had no idea who they were
Iirc they played a whole week and he went to something like 3 shows.
Tickets were $8.50
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VonBonfire
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Dick Dale. I was embittered about some things at the time so I stayed home.
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Alpha Stryke
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Ive seen everything i want to see. And some i didn't.
I wouldn't go to a big live event now if someone paid me.
Its a scam.
Floyd Eye
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Yeah, getting off the couch is hard.
NoHassle
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I also wished I had seen Gary Moore in his 80s rock years...monster guitar player.
His 90s and thereafter blues efforts were horrific...great angry guitar playing but blues it wasn't.
I saw Walter Trout a few times at a Huntington Beach small bar and he was great...re the blues.
His 90s and thereafter blues efforts were horrific...great angry guitar playing but blues it wasn't.
I saw Walter Trout a few times at a Huntington Beach small bar and he was great...re the blues.
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VonBonfire
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I was never really into the stadium stuff. My favorite shows are auditoriums and clubs partly for the cost and partly because I can actually see the performer in action without the aid of tv screens.
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VonBonfire
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Interesting opinion. I would rather see Gary play the blues than Walter Trout. Nothing against Walter but we are talking blues-rock and Gary can pretty much whoop anyone in that department plus I prefer his vocal to Walters.
NoHassle
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Subjective of course.
I'm a HUGE fan of Gary Moore and his early work was spectacular and yes, there was nothing he couldn't play at the highest level.
For the blues Moore was too bombastic about it whereas Trout had more passion and emotion making him a better rock blues guy. As far as guitar playing Trout was no match for Moore in the slightest.
Moore was the heavy rock version of Jeff Beck regarding sophisticated taste on the modes he successfully used in rock etc.
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VonBonfire
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Solid take. I do find Moore pretty bombastic and am generally not a blues-rock fan because the guitar is somehow an acceptable substitute in that genre in a lot of cases for having a weak or bad vocal. Real blues is vocal music first and foremost.
