Kid Calamity
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Re: Greatest Bands You Missed 8-(
Nov 27, 2010, 08:51
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Gnomon wrote: Never got to see Belly - Had the chance to see them with REM & The Cranberries but I was going through a 'stadium gigs suck big logs' phase at the time (still am!)
I saw Belly with REM at Milton Keynes bowl. And yeah those sort of events attract all the wrong kinds of people. I suppose I was a borderline case, back in those days, though.
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Popel Vooje
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Edited Nov 27, 2010, 16:32
Re: Greatest Bands You Missed 8-(
Nov 27, 2010, 16:31
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Looks like I'll have to add Throbbing Gristle to this list now, unfortunately .... but at least I can delete the Pop Group from it.
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Fitter Stoke
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Edited Nov 28, 2010, 01:12
Re: Greatest Bands You Missed 8-(
Nov 28, 2010, 01:09
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Uncool as it may sound, I would've loved to have seen the original lineup of Jethro Tull in 1968. Being only seven at the time, I was denied that joy, though to be honest I probably preferred Lego and Action Man (that's G.I Joe to our US readers). When I see those old Marquee ads, I'm beside myself with envy for people ever-so-slightly older than me, who saw the likes of Fairport, Traffic, The Groundhogs and Ten Years After at their peak. And that's from someone who DID see The Clash, supported by The Buzzcocks and Subway Sect, in early '77. It was a good night, but not as good as Ultravox! (with exclamation mark included) in January 1978. Now, there was a gig: quite the best I ever saw. Never let the sad 80's bastardisation of that bandname overshadow the fact that once it used to be a really marvellous - and original - band. Their first three albums are virtually faultless, the second absolutely so. But I digress.
For what it's worth, I also saw Joy Division supporting The Buzzcocks in 1979. Much as Ioved (and love) their contemporaneous first album, they were pretty kack live. Sacrilege it may be to say so, but I'm an honest man. The same year I saw Simple Minds support Magazine and guess what, they were shite: now there's a surprise. But they did go on to do some pretty good krautrock parodies with 'Reel To Real Cacophony' and 'Empires and Dance'. I would've liked to have seen them then, but I've not lost sleep over it.
Cutting to the quick, like most here I would have loved to have seen the Pistols in their prime. But how far do you take thoughts like that? I would've loved to have seen Hendrix, Syd's Floyd, The Beatles, The Small Faces and (pray silence) Eddie Cochran even more. And I bet Beethoven was pretty damn good before that deafness set in...
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The Sea Cat
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Re: Greatest Bands You Missed 8-(
Nov 28, 2010, 10:02
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Someone I now used to frequent UFO during its brief existence, and saw Syd's Floyd, Soft Machine et al. Wonderful. I believe Lubin saw Sandy's Fairport as well. What I'd give to have seen them.....
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IanB
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Edited Nov 28, 2010, 10:49
Re: Greatest Bands You Missed 8-(
Nov 28, 2010, 10:45
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Bands that I was old enough and possibly just about hip enough to have wanted to see at the time but didn't? Fairly predictable and mainstream really ...
Bowie with Ronno
LZ at Earls Court
The Stones in 73
Genesis doing Lamb Lies Down
Purple with Coverdale, Hughes and Blackmore
Elvis C and the Attractions in their first flush of genius
Dexys before KR brought in the cellos and the bullshit
Traffic in the Low Spark / Shoot Out era
Dekeless Man at the Rainbow in 72 circa Be Good To Yourself
Roxy before Siren
Floyd on the DOTM tour
Television
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