That Band You Wish You Could See Again:

[false_aesthetic]

I saw Sunny Day Real Estate open for Shudder to Think in 1993
I saw Hum open for Bush in 1995.
I saw Jawbreaker in April 1996.

Never had a chance to see them again . . . .

Well.... Hum is on tour with Mineral + Failure this summer

Hum is a start.


Who would you pay to see . . . even years later?

[robin3mj]

The Beastie Boys, or Jurassic 5.

Both put on awesome shows.

[bking]

i'd pay big money to sit at fillmore east and listen to the allman brothers do elizabeth reed et al.

[RickM]

The Band.

[steve garro]

Gillian Welch & David Rawlins

Shovels & Rope

NOMEANSNO

- Garro.

[davids]

Well, since you said "again" I won't jump to fantasies of bands I never got to see. Four come to mind:

1. The Replacements with Bob Stinson. nevermore.
2. The Loud Family. nevermore.
3. Vijay Iyer Trio
4. Sleater-Kinney. asap, please!

[dogrange]

For sure was not "authentic" in the sense of all original members, but Lloyd was an inspired choice to fill PL's huge shoes. Lloyd was good in the Television reunion shows too, but the RFTT material really let him rip in a way the uptight Television arrangements don't.

I like that Datapanic box, but the RFTT reissue's sole focus on that band really drives home how great they were.

[Diablo de Acero]

Speaking of Pere Ubu and Rockets from the Tombs. I worked(during the 80s) with Scott Krauss who was one of the drummers for Pere Ubu at Record Revolution in downtown Cleveland. Good Days... Now I work with a young gent named Buddy Akita who is one
current guitar players in Rockets from the Tombs. Both are great guys.

"Jellyfish" is mine for the moment.

[rowdyhillrambler]

Shit, how do you narrow this down???

Jeremy Enigk, of Sunny Day played in Nashville a couple of weeks ago. Not Sunny, but oh Man did he kill it!

Short list: 400 years, StillLife, the Cure, Pixies, Inkwell, Blood for Blood, Mr. Bungle, and the one I never saw The Smiths, although I have seen morrissey a dozen times.

[kohlboto]

Pavement.

[chasea]

Again?

R.E.M.
Gris Gris
Reigning Sound in a small room (okay, I'm seeing them next week in a 100-person venue, but I want smaller)
An earlier line-up of The Roots
Kanye
Our Mountain (with or without Abbey Lee)
The Rolling Stones
Harlan T Bobo
BB King
Iggy and the Stooges

[golivar]

Shit, how do you narrow this down???

Jeremy Enigk, of Sunny Day played in Nashville a couple of weeks ago. Not Sunny, but oh Man did he kill it!

Short list: 400 years, StillLife, the Cure, Pixies, Inkwell, Blood for Blood, Mr. Bungle, and the one I never saw The Smiths, although I have seen morrissey a dozen times.

Still Life! Wow, that's a band I haven't thought about in a while. That's cool.

Would love to see Drive Like Jehu, Buffalo Tom, Catherine Wheel, Echobelly, Christie Front Drive, Into Another, and Sensefield again. There's just too many to mention.

[Shinomaster]

The Dead and Phish circa 1991 back then they were small and fun. Also Santana and The Velvet Teen + Allman Brothers.

[dogrange]

Speaking of Pere Ubu and Rockets from the Tombs. I worked(during the 80s) with Scott Krauss who was one of the drummers for Pere Ubu at Record Revolution in downtown Cleveland. Good Days... Now I work with a young gent named Buddy Akita who is one
current guitar players in Rockets from the Tombs. Both are great guys.

"Jellyfish" is mine for the moment.

Cool! I really like Scott K's drumming on the Pere Ubu recordings he is on. is RFTT touring with this new lineup?

[michäel2]

Didnt need to think long about this one:
Jj cale
Never saw him, nevere been in the same place at the same time but really dislike i never got to see hime

[Guillaume]

Well I won tickets to a Misfits show last wednesday. With Jerry Only as the original member.

It was good, but I'm glad I had'nt paid for it.

[Brian Smith]

to name 5:
Crash Worship

Dead Can Dance

Vandermark 5

7 Seconds

Consolidated

missed, so not again but simply see once:
Embrace

[rowdyhillrambler]

3rd best show ever was Consolidated! So funking good, there was a band that opened for them called Tchkung! I think, they were off the chart... I had almost forgot about that show.

to name 5:
Crash Worship

Dead Can Dance

Vandermark 5

7 Seconds

Consolidated

missed, so not again but simply see once:
Embrace

[Bob Ross]

Vandermark 5

One of my Six Degrees Of Separation revelations: Ken Vandermark was a member of my band for several months in 1988, and we did another collaborative project/tour in '93 or '94 ...and at the time I wasn't at all a cyclist (or certainly not the obsessive cyclist I've become in the past decade). Fast-forward to the new millennia, and now whenever I mention "Vandermark" all my friends think I'm talking about Ken's brother Rob!

[thomas]

Would like to relive an Allman Brothers concert from 1971. All original members, and I was with a certain someone who had a spell over me back then.

More recently Pat Metheny and the Unity Band - mesmerizing concert. Wayne Shorter from about 6-7 years ago - something spell-binding about that quartet, too.

Some flamenco concerts with singer, guitarist and dancers have been unbelievable in their intensity.