Bands You Wish You Could've Seen (or Could See) and didn't get that chance!

Motley Crue

So, I was thinking the other day, I've been fortunate enough to see some great acts throughout the years (Metallica, Megadeth, Faith No More, Machine Head, Velvet Revolver, Guns N' Roses) but is there an act you have always wanted to see that you never got the chance to, or someone you just keep missing, perhaps someone who never plays here and just tours Europe/Japan or the States and only does that one UK show in London

Or maybe you wanted to see a band before the death or absence of a member, or a band in support of a pivotal album, list your troubles below!

For Me:
1. Guns N' Roses lineup when they played Slane in 92 or with Stradlin
2. Metallica (w/Jason Newstead)
3. Def Leppard (I've missed them SO many times)
4. Pearl Jam
5. Danger Danger

Dragons Revenge

Metallica 25 years ago
Iron Maiden 25 Years ago

Metal bands 25 years ago.

fluke

I got into his music after he died but I would've loved to have seen Jeff Buckley with his band. Man if only I could grab me a Delorean with Doc's modifications...

and Queen definitely.

There are loads more I'd have liked to see live and some I have yet to see live, but I'm fortunate enough that I've seen most of my favorite bands/artists in their original incarnation, or some form of line-up.

Jay P

The obvious ones:
Pink Floyd. I'll settle quite easily for seeing David Gilmour
The Beatles - I'd like to have seen them after they stopped touring, impossible and all as that is.
Led Zeppelin

Also, I'd like to have seen Alice in Chains with Layne Stayley.
Godspeed You! Black Emporer - Technically I still might, they're iindefinitely on a break, so we'll see.
The Band
Dire Straits
The Smiths
The Stone Roses

DazMarz

-Megadeth (all the various line ups! But mostly the one: Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson, Marty Friedman and Nick Menza... Rust In Peace, y'all!!!)

-Whitesnake (line up of: David Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg, Steve Vai, Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge)

-Van Halen (Diamond Dave, Shreddie Eddie, Michael Anthony, Alex Van Halen; none of this bloody Wolfgang nonsense)

-Vandenberg (Adrian Vandenberg, Bert Heerink, Dick Kemper, Jos Zoomer)

-Thin Lizzy (Phil Lynott, John Sykes, Scott Gorham, Brian Downey)

-AC/DC (with Bon Scott)

-Queen (Original Line Up)

-Guns N Roses (Rose, Slash, Stradlin, McKagan, Adler)

-KISS (Stanley, Simmons, Frehley, Criss)

-Coverdale/Page (a collaboration I'd love to see again!)

-Dokken (Dokken, Lynch, Brown, Pilson)

-Journey (with Perry on lead vocals)

-W.A.S.P. (with Chris Holmes back in the fold)

-Ozzy Osbourne with Randy Rhoads and also Jake E. Lee

-Ratt (Pearcy, diMartini, Crosby, Croucier, Blotzer)

-Queensrÿche (Original Line Up: Tate, deGarmo, Wilton, Jackson, Rockenfield)

-Quiet Riot (Du Brow, Carvazo, Sarzo, Banali)

GrizzlyMan

Would have loved to have seen:

Windir (RIP Valfar)

Old Mans Child (around the Pagan Properity)

Metallica (Ride the Lightening era)

Sepultura (Arise era)

Gorgoroth ( With Ghaal/King)

Mayhem ( with Dead)

lord lucan

Metallica w/Cliff.

GN'R-Original AFD line-up.

Anthrax w/Belladonna on vocals.

Thin Lizzy w/Philo. I was only 12 when he died.:(

Vegeta

Pantera
Thin Lizzy
Led Zep in their prime
Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan

gent9662

Elvis
Queen

marwelie

The Beatles, Thin Lizzy and The Who (with The Ox and Moonie)

JohnnyCrash

Saw Lizzy play in The Carlton,Kilkenny 1980 and then at the first Slane in 81.Guess im one of the priveleged.

dasdog

JohnnyCrash wrote: »

Saw Lizzy play in The Carlton,Kilkenny 1980 and then at the first Slane in 81.Guess im one of the priveleged.

I guess you are. Above anyone else I'd love to have seen Thin Lizzy of any era with Phil Lynott. My cousins saw them on their farewell tour.

Some others I'd like a time machine for:

Elvis Presley
John Lee Hooker
Van Morrison in the early 70's
Black Sabbath in the early 70's
Iron Maiden with Paul D'ianno
John Coltrane
Charlie Parker
Jimi Hendrix Exp

Of some of the ones mentioned above:

Metallica (w/Jason Newstead) (saw them in 1988)
Pearl Jam (saw them in 1993)
Def Leppard (saw them a couple of times just after their guitarist killed himself)
Megadeth (saw them in 1988 and 1991)
Alice in Chains with Layne Stayley (supported Megadeth in 1991 - I couldn't believe my luck)
Sepultura (Arise era) (1991 - last metal/thrash gig I was at before a long break)
Anthrax w/Belladonna on vocals (1989 though less than half a gig cos they walked off stage)

rednik

Ronnie Van Zant jumping around barefooted on stage with Steve Gaines, Gary Rossington and Allen Collins strumming their way through all those classic Lynyrd Skynyrd tracks. I've seen just about everyone else that I want to.

Dragons Revenge

Oh yeah, I wanna see Megadeth with this current lineup too, as Broderick is an F'n machine. He does Friedman better than Freidman does Freidman. I saw them last on the initial gigantour and they tore it up. I think Drover was on guitar there.

Sandvich

I always miss Muse whenever they come. Either that or they do festivals, and I don't do festivals.

I didn't get to see Dead Can Dance on their tour either.

Nephilim Wolf

JohnnyCrash wrote: »

Saw Lizzy play in The Carlton,Kilkenny 1980 and then at the first Slane in 81.Guess im one of the priveleged.

Lucky for you. I would've loved to have seen them. My choices would be:

Thin Lizzy with either Brian Robertson or Gary Moore lineup
Fields of The Nephilim in 1990
Iron Maiden around 24 years ago because of 'Somewhere in Time' which is an awesome album
Emperor
Faith No More in 1992 because of Angel Dust
Dimmu Borgir with Stian Aarstad on keyboards, Nagash on bassand Tjodalv on drums
Led Zeppelin
Paradise Lost in 1995
U2 in 1983 and 1990
Rush around the time of Exit...Stage Left
Dissection in 1995
David Bowie with Mick Ronson around 1972 or so
The Scorpions 20 years ago
Old Man's Child
The Cult around the time of 'Sonic Temple'

Angron

Shining, just under a year ago. They were playing in Fibbers I think, and I couldn't get to it =/

Jako8

Yes when they released "Close to the Edge"
Metallica with Cliff Burton.
System of a Down (might happen. Heres hoping)
Thin Lizzy with Phil Lynott
Led Zeppelin back in the day.
Horslips back when they were in their prime. Although their most recent shows were good from what I heard but I couldn't go...
The Doors with Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Kyuss

That's all. I would say Rush but I'd love to see them any time.

Motley Crue

dasdog wrote: »

Metallica (w/Jason Newstead) (saw them in 1988)
Pearl Jam (saw them in 1993)
Def Leppard (saw them a couple of times just after their guitarist killed himself)
Megadeth (saw them in 1988 and 1991)
Alice in Chains with Layne Stayley (supported Megadeth in 1991 - I couldn't believe my luck)
Sepultura (Arise era) (1991 - last metal/thrash gig I was at before a long break)
Anthrax w/Belladonna on vocals (1989 though less than half a gig cos they walked off stage)

You lucky bastard, that is a pretty good list of bands, I suppose I forgot to add Pantera....Def Leppard would have started touring again in the summer after Steve Clark committed suicide in January...I think, it was the same year - I do know Vivian Campbell (the guy who replaced Clark) had his first gig at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert and that was Easter Monday 1992

Mental_Legend

Queen at Wembley in 1986. I've seen re-runs of it on the MTV channels and it was absolutely amazing to watch, I can only imagine what it must have been like to have been there live.

Somnus

Mostly older bands

Pink Floyd (Would also settle for David Gilmour)
Camel
Wishbone Ash (They're still touring actually)
Porcupine Tree
The Beatles
A Perfect Circle
Death
Black Sabbath back in the day

Can't think of more right now

Nea

Bit of a mixed bag

Cinderella before Tommy Keifer's voice went
Black Sabbath with Ozzy
Green Carnation
Sepultura circa Chaos AD, was always raging I missed Sepultura/Paradise Lost gig in the SFX
Dimmu Borgir around Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Sacred Reich

_sparkie_

smashing pumpkins pre billy ego inflated to the size of a house. the last tour before the break up really. i think they played in the olympia.

that blink-182 show in the point in december 2004. i am still annoyed i missed it.

dasdog

Motley Crue wrote: »

I do know Vivian Campbell (the guy who replaced Clark) had his first gig at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert and that was Easter Monday 1992

The only reason I went to see Def Leppard was because they were playing a tiny venue as a warm up gig where I'd seen Ozzy do the same warm up thing the previous year but I was really impressed. I think Campbell's second gig was Wembley a week after playing to a few hundred people in the place on South Anne Street.

Couple more that have been mentioned:

Sacred Reich (1989 ish)
Faith No More (1990)

I dunno if its been posted before but I just found http://www.flickr.com/photos/global5325/ which has a load of photos from that era (Metallica in 1986 etc).

lord lucan

dasdog wrote: »

I dunno if its been posted before but I just found http://www.flickr.com/photos/global5325/ which has a load of photos from that era (Metallica in 1986 etc).

Christ!! Some savage pics of late '80s metal there,thanks for the link.:)

Mandalore87

The first bands that come to mind would be Death, Thin Lizzy and Megadeth on the Rust In Peace tour back in 1990.

I still hope to see Rush but I'd say I'll need to do a bit of travelling to witness that spectacle.

Nephilim Wolf

Nea wrote: »

Bit of a mixed bag

Black Sabbath with Ozzy
Green Carnation
Paradise Lost gig in the SFX
Dimmu Borgir around Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

Great bands, and great albums at that time too.:D

Rud

Thin Lizzy(with Phil Lynnott)
System Of A Down
Queens Of The Stone Age(before Nick Oliveri was kicked out)
Chic(when Bernard Edwards was still alive)
Korn(original line-up)

Oh and if i could,i would like to see these bands again

Rage Against The Machine
Death From Above 1979

demanufactured

Pantera
RATM
Metallica with newstead.
Megadeth with friedman.

cournioni

I was two days from seeing Pantera, and then September 11th happened. That will always be my biggest regret.

lord lucan

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

I was two days from seeing Pantera, and then September 11th happened. That will always be my biggest regret.

That was the Tattoo the Planet gig wasn't it? I was gutted that Pantera didn't come over,never got to see them myself.:(

demanufactured

ditto.

Motley Crue

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

I was two days from seeing Pantera, and then September 11th happened. That will always be my biggest regret.

Not to be a dick about this, but I would say a bigger regret, would be for the families and friends of those who lost their lives on that terrible day and not that you missed a Pantera gig - although I do feel for you

Motley Crue

dasdog wrote: »

I dunno if its been posted before but I just found http://www.flickr.com/photos/global5325/ which has a load of photos from that era (Metallica in 1986 etc).

These are incredible photos, I have to say, it gives a fantastic insight into Ireland's metal history - I had no idea so many top class acts played such small, and now non existent, venues in the 1980s

http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

To think he'd be dead just 2 weeks after that photo was taken really sends shivers down my spine

Savage Cabbage

Gotta be Thin Lizzy for me back in the prime. Maybe at one of the gigs in Oz as Ive listened to a lot of Live stuff from there and think it would have been incredible Lizzy's version of Rosalie is my favourite rock song ever

NIBBS

Motley Crue wrote: »

You lucky bastard, that is a pretty good list of bands, I suppose I forgot to add Pantera....Def Leppard would have started touring again in the summer after Steve Clark committed suicide in January...I think, it was the same year - I do know Vivian Campbell (the guy who replaced Clark) had his first gig at the Freddie Mercury tribute concert and that was Easter Monday 1992

I'm one of those old lucky bastards too Crue :-)
I've been pretty lucky and unlucky at the same time.......
missed some stuff because of lack of cash - missed Queen and Lizzy because I wasn't let go (yeah I know at 12 I should have been old enough to just say f**k it and gone, but I wouldn't have had the money either.....)
Was pissed though to miss Lizzy in the RDS on the Thunder and Lightning Tour....

Stuff I really wish I hadn't missed......

Metallica - from '86 to '99 - don't know why, no money for '86 show and then Cliff died....
Queensryche - Oct, 1990 SFX......because of a woman......never made that mistake again.....
Onslaught - 2 nights in McGonagles
Def Leppard/Tesla - when Tesla by all reports blew them off the stage....
Pearl Jam - but making up for it this year...
Pantera - yeah same thing at Tattoo the Planet
Megadeth - RIP era - funny could have gone to them loads of times and wasn't bothered, saw them last year and now regret missing out.....
Y&T - missed them twice last year while having tickets for the gigs, due to illness and work.....they'll be back in the UK def this year with the new album so I'll chalk them off the list then.....
Journey - with Perry - don't ever see it happening again - but would be great.....


to be honest I've gotten to see a lot of the bands that I've always wanted to......some more than once in recent years......
and this year will be chalking off some of the remaining ones.....maybe some of them aren't totally in their prime - but haven't been disappointed by any older band I've seen over the last 3-4 years....

Malice

The one that comes to mind immediately for me is the classic Guns N' Roses line-up with Steven Adler replacing Matt Sorum.

I'd also liked to have seen the classic Sepultura line-up with Max Cavalera on vocals rather than Derrick Green. In fairness to Derrick he's been in the band longer than Max and isn't a half bad vocalist in his own right but, like hearing Scott Weiland covering a Guns N' Roses song, it doesn't sound quite right.

bubonicus

Acrimony
Kyuss
Acid Bath

Dragons Revenge

Motley Crue wrote: »

Not to be a dick about this, but I would say a bigger regret, would be for the families and friends of those who lost their lives on that terrible day and not that you missed a Pantera gig - although I do feel for you

Except now DB is dead and no one will ever get the chance again. That's probably more what he was driving at.

Catari Jaguar

- Nirvana
- Pantera :(
- Rage Against the Machine
- The Smashing Pumpkins back when they played lively (yet lethal) gigs with original members
- Pearl Jam at Pink Pop 92 (Especially for Porch)
- Jonathan Davis at the Academy (Cancelled )
- RHCP way back when they used to play tiny high energy gigs and everyone would take off their shirts and whip them around over their heads
- Woodstock in a naked drug fuelled haze *sigh*
- Foreigner (my secret shame )
- Black Sabbath!!!
- Thin Lizzy with Phil Lynott
- Human Waste Project
- Metallica live @ Roseland NY performing Garage Inc with Jason


and finally...

... Jedward's Ghostbusters performance

Motley Crue

Lil Kitten wrote: »

The Smashing Pumpkins back when they played lively (yet lethal) gigs with original members

Wasn't their that girl killed at the Point in 1996?

Catari Jaguar

Motley Crue wrote: »

Wasn't their that girl killed at the Point in 1996?

Yea, my cousins were at that concert. They banned moshing at their concerts. Although a guy died at their Vancouver show in 2007 from moshing/ crowd surfing...

They've stopped playing Zero. Saw them a couple of years ago in the RDS and it was a very lacklustre show. Disappointing.

Tragic events but I would like to have experienced the energy that would have been on that tour .. Hmm hard to explain without sounding callous.

Cheap Thrills!

Queen

AC/DC with Bon Scott (saw them with Brian Johnson)

Thin Lizzy with Philo (saw them with John Sykes and Scot Gorham)

Black Sabbath with Dio

Led Zeppelin

Janes Addiction with Dave Navarro

Iron Maiden

Pearl Jam

Stone Roses

Pink Floyd

thetonynator

guns and roses would be the main one, and to be at woodstock . . . need i say more???

dregin

Even worse is when you could've seen em and didn't because you googled their name and found all this nazi priest religious **** and took it the COMPLETELY wrong way:

Striknien D.C.

mayordenis

At the Drive-In

Catari Jaguar

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

I was two days from seeing Pantera, and then September 11th happened. That will always be my biggest regret.

How can you regret something you couldn't change and have no responsibility for?

nacho libre

Thin Lizzy with Phil Lynott and Death.

KingKiller

It would have to be the Jimi Hendrix experience for me. If there is a heaven up these I want to go to the Isle of Wight festival in 1970 where Jimi and the lads were the stars of the show.

antomorro-sei

The Beatles
The Who
Thin Lizzy
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Kinks
Rolling Stones (or do they still gig?)
Queen

NIBBS

Malice_ wrote: »

The one that comes to mind immediately for me is the classic Guns N' Roses line-up with Steven Adler replacing Matt Sorum.

I'd also liked to have seen the classic Sepultura line-up with Max Cavalera on vocals rather than Derrick Green. In fairness to Derrick he's been in the band longer than Max and isn't a half bad vocalist in his own right but, like hearing Scott Weiland covering a Guns N' Roses song, it doesn't sound quite right.

Yeah Malice Seps with the Cavalera boys were really rockin.......I just prefer the earlier more thrashy stuff anyway, so was so happy to have seen them live.......not by design but I haven't managed to see them with Green yet....