Bands/artists you missed ( and you wish you hadn't!)

[tigereye]

(inspired by the bands you've seen list!)


Minutemen
The Who
Midnight Oil (my old band was always playing a gig or I was out of town)
Betty Carter :cry:
The Stones (just never did)
Sex Pistols
Moxy Fruvous
Dorothy Donegan - I should have gone that night in Toronto
The Distillers
The Methadones
The Queers
The Runaways
B 52s
Dizzy Gillerpie and other jazz greats - I didn't care about jazz when they were alive, or missed my chance.
Sarah Vaughn
The Pretenders

[Lethe]

1. whatever happened to Midnight Oil?

they were pretty cool....

"how can we sleep while our beds are burnin'?"

[tigereye]

2. the singer went into politics, I think. the band broke up.

and then he had a stroke or something...

I wanted to see them so badly. None of my friends could understand why I liked them. They were a great, tight band with excellent hooks and songs.

[Lethe]

4. aw that sucks.

Sorry to hear it. :(

[tigereye]

6. well, that's what I heard - I might not have the whole story here...

no one else seems to talk much about MO - nice to encounter someone else who does!

I miss those guys.

[AllegroRondo]

18. The did perform at the 2000 Olympics

in Sydney, the closing ceremony.

[greendog]

3. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee...

...came through town a couple times and I never got it together to see them.

[tigereye]

5. wonder if my sister saw em - she's a blues fanatic

I did get to see Pine Top Perkins last summer at the local blues fest here.

[greendog]

8. They toured quite a bit in the early '80's.

Sonny passed away in '86.

I got to see Pine Top with Muddy Waters a couple times. He's great!

[tigereye]

11. seeing Muddy Waters was a highlight - it was in a college gym of all places!

it was a blind date - I think I owe that guy! ;)

[greendog]

13. You sure do owe him!

I saw Muddy at little club in Indianapolis. I also saw him open for Clapton.

[tigereye]

17. kick for am folks

[unpossibles]

7. :sigh: I wish I'd seen the Minutemen too!

I did see the Who and The Queers on your list, otherwise I am with you on a lot of those. I also still have not seen Tom Waits, Joe Jackson Band, or Elvis Costello yet!

And I wish I'd seen Strummer before he died too!

[tigereye]

9. oh you HAVE to see Costello!

He is amazing. And I'm not just saying that. One of the best shows I've seen in years, and he played for 3 hours! Incredible. Plus he had Emmy Lou Harris with him.


I did get to see the Clash and I'm glad I did. It was during the Sandinista period. ( I think)

[Richard Steele]

10. Had a chance to see the Grateful Dead on their last tour, but decided I'd "catch them next year".

There was no next year. :(

[tigereye]

12. I never saw them either

I really liked the garcia/grissman projects.

Now I kind of wish I had seen the Dead.

[tigereye]

14. kick

[madrchsod]

15. 13th floor elevators

kinks
john lee hooker
muddy waters
jefferson airplane
inxs
devo
talking heads
otis redding
lowell george/little feat
paul butterfield blues band

[tigereye]

16. yeah, 13th floor Elevators - wow.

I've seen the Cynics a number of times - they channel them in this period of time.


And the Kinks would have been great!