I'm in a fortunate situation where I have seen most of my favourite bands or solo artists. However, a lot were dead, long split up or had simply disbanded by the time I was either old enough to go to gigs or had discovered them. A couple on the list I could have seen, but at the time turned the opportunity down. Who would play your imagery festival?
Pink Floyd
The La's
George Harrison
The Clash
Neural Milk Hotel
The Who (with Keith Moon)
The Kinks
Queen (with Freddie)
Aztec Camera
Radiohead (pre 2000)
Pulp
T-Rex
Lou Reed
The Wailers
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The Who (with Keith Moon)
The Kinks
Queen (with Freddie)
Aztec Camera
Saw all of these, all of these were great other than obviously Queen.
Never saw and wish I had:
Velvet underground (did see Lou Reed)
The Band
The Wailers
Cream
The Who (with Keith Moon)
Small Faces
Sweet(70s version)
David Bowie
Marvin Gaye
What is it with your hatred of Queen? Is it Brian May's hair?
Freddie OTT singing and stage act, his terrible voice and lyrics, the way they'd ripped off other bands (Chic Le Freak = another one bites the dust, Bo Rap (sic) being the most pretentious song ever that makes the also terrible Stairway to Heaven seems almost bearable, that their many fans struggled to see that FM was both Asian and gay, both of which I'm fine with but they often were not (talking 1970/80s here), that it winds up so many people when you say they are crap is a bonus but they truly are crap 😁
Lucky you didn't say anything about the dirty knife.
Literally hundreds that split or were dead before I was old enough to see them.
And Traffic. I was a bit too young to catch them. Welcome to the Canteen is a fantastic live album. That version of Gimme Some Lovin’ , I still play. It’s wild, the band sounds like they are all off their tits, Winwood just about manages to hold it together. Just. Wonderful.
Soft Cell
Roxy Music
Squeeze
Queen
REM
Bowie
If could magically see a performance from one of those live again, I would find it very very difficult to decide which, but would probably be Queen with Freddie at the helm, as he was beyond a performer on the stage. His presence and performance at Live Aid all those years ago was an absolute stand out for me.
Johnny Cash (actually this is probably my biggest regret, when he reinvented himself after Rick Rubin, he played here and I was too preoccupied with other stuff to sort out seeing him)
Leonard Cohen
Bobby Womack (he was due to play at a festival I had tickets for when he died)
David Bowie
Eric Bogle
Kate Bush
Dolly Parton
Old Crow Medicine Show
firehose
There are almost certainly loads more but I don't really want to dwell on regrets. And obviously for some of them it's not too late, part of the problem is I'm not a fan of very large venues.
Peter Tosh
Velvet Underground
Steely Dan.
Zeppelin.
Stevie Nicks.
Little Feat.
Camel.
They flew me out a week earlier to set up ticketing outlets and be their stadium manager (Plaza de Toro’s) on the night.
Having been part of the party who met them at the airport we loosely set about seeing their needs were met (I won’t go into specifics about that 🤭) and to see if there was anything that they specifically wanted to do.
Peter Tosh wanted to do a bit of shopping, so I was duly delegated to take him into town and chaperone him and then get him back to their villa.
It turned out that he had somehow learned that flick knives were legal in Spain and he had his heart set on getting one......nothing else, just a flick knife!
Well there were some cheapo touristy tat ones available in almost every gift shop, but you could see the quality was very poor.
After asking around I was told there was a local hunting/fishing type shop, so we went there and eventually tracked down some pucker ones. He was pleased as punch and to my amazement he actually bought three or four!
Don’t remember too much about him to be honest, other than he was friendly enough and in the short time we were together we got on well.
Seem to remember he paid in US$.
One of my very, very, very few claims to fame!