Wish I had seen (and was alive and old enough to have been able to):
Nirvana
Danzig (lineup from the first three albums)
Emperor
A Tribe Called Quest
No Justice
Sex Positions
Sunny Day Real Estate
Weezer (with Matt Sharp)
That Dog
xFilesx
86 Mentality
Gaunt
Grinderman
Texas is the Reason
Unwound

Really glad I was able to see:
Kungfu Rick (although they sporadically do reunions)
Seven Days of Samsara (although they are kinda sorta still together)
The White Stripes
Reggie and the Full Effect
Convicted
Expired Youth
RL Burnside

Best shows:
Expired Youth's last show
Modern Life is War in a tiny basement classroom at DePaul University
Captured By Robots doing their Ten Commandments show
White Stripes right after they started getting big

At the Drive-In. Had a ticket to the show and then they broke up 2-3 months before.

Apoptygma Berzerk.
I was sick for weeks a few years ago and didnt know that they came in town.

I saw Nirvana open for L7.Metallica on the Ride the Lightning tour in 1984.Big Black at Leeds Poly.Fugazi at Lafayette Park.De La Soul on their three feet high and rising tour.Beastie Boys opening for Rollins.Too many good DJ's to mention aswell.

Wish I would have seen any of these US HxC shows from 1981 - 1983: Minor Threat, SS Decontrol or Black Flag.

The guy opposite me at work saw the first two tone tour: Specials, Madness and Selecter which would have been amazing.

I also regret not going to AC/DC at Donnington.

Mm I saw acdc at donning ton, and was nearly murdered after the show by a bunch of moronic bikers who thought kicking the shit out of a long haired 90 pound kid was a good time. Evil morons. Took me a while to go a festival after that. Anyhow, easier for me to list bands Im glad I saw before they imploded:

Nirvana - 4 times in all, first time opening for Tad in a dingy basement. Had Tix for a fifth but Kurt ended it a month before.
MBV
Husker Du
Sugar
Diamond head
Any pixies show
Naked Raygun
Sound garden
Spacemen 3
Gun club
Og Stone roses
OG lineup van halen
House of love
OG napalm death
The Darkness ... So much fun live
Sex Pistols
Pale saints
Cocteau twins
Psychic tv
The cult
Balsam and the angel
OG sisters of mercy lineup
Flesh for lulu
Screaming trees
smashing pumpkins w Darcy
Garbage
Ride
Slowdive
Echobelly
March violets
Swervedriver
Elastica
Lush
Pulp
Blur
Manic street preachers with Richie
Shop assistants
The primitives

Bands I'm sad I never saw:
Smiths - they played my college freshmans ball, and I didn't go cos I was metal...sigh
ISIS - kept thinking next time
The Ramones
The clash
The jam


There must be more...but it's late and I can't think straight. I just came back for X the Avengers and dead Kennedy's show. skip skipster or whether his name is was the most entertaining man if ten show, and the avengers really brought it. Wow.

I grew up in Newark, Delaware and was born in 75'. It was the hub of classic rock and metal when I was young.

Led Zepplin
Motley Crue (pre theater of pain years)
Black Sabbath
AC/DC (the original lineup)
Metallica (the Cliff Burton years)
Pink Floyd
Miles Davis (the fusion era)


Bands my wife, and or friends have turned me onto:

Joy Division
Black Flag (rollins era)
Ringworm
Helmet
Govt Issue
The Cramps
Lunachicks
Bad Luck 13

Best shows I've been to:

Pulp This is Hardcore era
Moz - seen him about 15 times, The "Your Arsenal" show was the best for me
Fugazi -all of the shows I went to were great
seeing RHCP/Smashing Pumpkins (Gish era)/Pearl Jam (ten era) all on one bill for $15
The first Lollapalooza (minus Siouxise, she was sick in Boston:( )
Promise Ring
Bad Religion at the Middle East in Cambridge
Sleater Kinney at a fruit warehouse during SxSW

Scariest shows ever (I was 15 for both)
Suicidal Tendencies/Exodus/Pantera - for many reasons
Sepultura/Napalm Death/Sacred Reich

Happy I got to see
Original GNR lineup when they opened for Aerosmith in 1988

Best show memory
Seeing Less Than Jake with my boyfriend, they spun their "Price is Right" style wheel, and ended up playing his favorite album in it's entirety. Good. Times.

Bands I'm lucky to have seen:
Instead
Rorschach
Born Against
Refused (2 days before they broke up in a tiny hall, they tore the place up)
Into Another
Ice Burn
Body Count
Nirvana
Acrid
Anal Cunt

Bands I will never see:
Judge
Smiths (have seen Moz 3 times)

Band I'm stoked to see again:
Sheer Terror in Miami soon

Bands ill never see...

Refused
The Cramps
Misfits (original line up)
Dead Kennedys (original line up)
Daughters
AxCx
Thursdsay
Smiths

...and there is plenty more where that came from.

so i have taken from this that...
i also wish i had seen:
the jam
the specials
blur
de la soul
Kid Dynamite
sex positions
Sunny Day Real Estate (should have went to phoenix for that diary tour)
and og napalm death (hate you carl)
But im glad i have seen:
GNR (w/metallica tour) admittedly i was like 6 lol but it was awesome
white zombie
thursday
Napalm Death period lol
powerman 5000 (dont judge they were awesome live when i was in middle school)
bane
comeback kid
MOZ
mastodon
ISIS
Mindless Self Indulgence
Tiger Army
Nekromantix
Modest Mouse
Bad Brains
Shai Hulud
AFi (old AFI)
Agnostic Front
Madball
Pantera
Morbid Angel
Cannibal Corpse
Krs One
Bad Religion
Descendents
Alkaline Trio
Baroness
with honor
...
And oh my god i didnt know sheer terror was still playing id be all about that
there probably other stuff in the hxc era i dont remember seeing but blessedxcursed could help me there i imagine

Desmond Dekker

at the drive-in and refused are reuniting, for those of you that have'em on your list

Coachella is gonna be sick this year for that alone maybe they will do a little more stuff

I believe they are

Jan 23rd Lewd Act's facebook page said "We miss you. New tunes in the works."

SHUT UP!!!!! thats Fuckin AWESOME!!! that band is like my heart man them and ceremony and trash talk thats my shit
edit: that said i hope its more like the early stuff and less like black eye blues... more dirty less metally

Reading this is great.

I forgot to add Pulp to my list of bands I'm glad I saw. I saw em a bunch of times, but never better than around the peak of their powers/popularity when Commom People was a huge hit and the indie kids united in pure joy at their shows..At this point they were 17 yrs in, which says something about today's fast forward new is best culture; give em time to grow.

The whole blur oasis challenge was stupid but fun. Oasis took the numbers, but blur took the long term.

So many other great bands. It's funny, but I've always felt I had a handle on great stuff, but lately I'm afflicted with whothefuckarethey syndrome. Either I'm getting old, or the new music model and my lack of blog reading is catching up to me.

Only band I'm excited to see was old punk last night, and my favorite newish bands The Joy Formidable ( check em out PLEASE) and Zola Jesus.

Carl your "saw" list is very impressive. I wish I'd seen Swervedriver.

Another "glad I saw" that I forgot to mention is Violent Femmes. I got dragged kicking and screaming to see them at The I-Beam in SF. For some reason I didn't think I liked them. Stupid! From the get-go when the band marched through the audience blowing on conch shells, I was blown away. One of the best live bands I'd seen to that point ... they were very on-edge ... it seemed like things could go wrong at any second but never did. I came and saw them again the following night, totally won over. There's nothing like getting over your own (wrong) bad attitudes! Also Mojo Nixon with Skid Roper at the Fillmore. Pure fun, great rapport with the audience. Red Hot Chili Peppers (also at the I-Beam) right after their first album came out. For an encore they came out nude and played their cover of Hendrix' "Fire" which just about set the club on fire. If only they'd maintained that intensity, but then, few do.

More very bad shows (sorry EBM freaks): Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Severed Heads. How impressive to see all your music coming out of a preprogrammed keyboard while you jump around onstage. On the other hand Chris and Cosey played heavily pre-sequenced music live but somehow their shows came across as very thoughtful and poignant. PsychicTV, um, not so much. Love ya Gen but love beads and ecstasy did not become you.

I really wish i could have seen The Birthday Party.

oh dude totally and now Nick Cave is on my list too dammit!

Never saw:
Original Misfits
Best show: Ramones at the Hampton beach casino ballroom. Hardly anyone there.
Danzig/Samhain reunion show. Well it was a good show until Glenn called the audiance dicks and refused to play Mother. It was funny at least.

The Beatles
Nirvana

when did he do that was that the same time as the french onion soup debacle?

Add Guns N Roses (appetite for destruction lineup) and that's what i'll never get to see that I wish I could..

Is Led Zeppelin still touring? if not add that to the list.

I envy the people that got to see the beatles perform, especially during their later albums (abbey road, let it be, etc) and at the rooftop.

Ah yes, someone mentioned it. Metallica when Cliff Burton was still alive . Damn it that guy was a beast on bass.