I have tickets to Lynyrd Skynyrd Friday night at an amphitheater, lawn seating. Temps are supposed to be in the low 50s with a chance of rain, so we're bowing out. Future music regret or nah?

Talk about adding insult to injury...

Not going to the last Rush tour.

Maybe. But I say no. I had tickets to see Natalie Merchant at an outdoor amphitheatre on September 23, 1995. It ended up being the first chilly weekend of the season. Merchant came out and did 2-3 "fast" songs (fast for Natalie Merchant, anyway). She then went into a tear of her 10 slowest, mopiest songs. And midway through the first slow song it started pouring down rain, that long, steady rain that farmers love so much. And Merchant was oblivious to the people in the crowd huddled under jackets and tablecloths, just droning on and on about about military spending and her lack of a baby. I hung in there for a few songs, but eventually said "to hell with this" and left. The theatre seats 6,900 people, and it was nearly full when the show started. But by the time we left, there couldn't have been more than 1,000 people left in the seats. My date and I went to am upscale diner to warm up and have a nice dinner instead.

Not having seen Tangerine Dream play live- don't think they even played anywhere near me.

My next regret will be if I don't see the Sparks/Franz Ferdinand (FFS) show in Oakland coming up soon- always wanted to see Sparks in concert but they've never played here, was hoping they'd come closer than Oakland but that may have to do.

A huge regret...

I passed seeing Frank Zappa in 1988 when he played 15 minutes from my house. This would end up being one of the the last live shows Zappa ever performed in the US. Recordings of this particular show (Allentown, PA) ended up on the record The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life which Zappa believed to be his greatest touring unit ever assembled. Frank Zappa died 5 years later.

Passing on Lollapalooza '93, as it was the only time I would have seen Alice in Chains w/Layne Staley.

Selling my Pearl Jam tickets to the United Center show in '98, because I had no one to go with - the guy who went to Alpine Valley with me decided once was enough for that tour.

I saw him in Cincinnati in 1994. Other than being able to say, "I saw Sinatra live," it wasn't that big a deal. Don't get me wrong - I'm a huge fan and own dozens of his records, but he was really headed downhill by then. He had to use a teleprompter for the lyrics and still got a bunch wrong. He couldn't hit a lot of notes anymore, that sort of stuff.

My biggest regret was not taking the train to Glasgow (from Edinburgh) to see Paul Weller in 2002.

ETA: I guess I'm not the only person here to have a similar experience, re: Francis Albert.

Lynyrd Skynyrd in 2015 isn't really Lynyrd Skynyrd anyway.

You mean Damageplan. You were a year too late to see Pantera.

That I didn't go to Berlin to see Roger Waters do the original "Wall" show in 1990. I've seen him do it since, but it would have been cool.

Doh, you are absolutely right.

My Friends: Want to come see Nirvana with us at Bender Auditorium on November 11, 1993!

Me: I'll see them on the next tour.

MTV News: Kurt is dead (April 8, 1994)

Me: *sad banana*

The original Wall show was with the band Pink Floyd in 1980. I saw it at the LA Sports Arena.

You win.

Or lose, or whatever..

I am very lucky. Saw many many of the artists mentioned in the thread, including Lynyrd Skynyrd (a month before the plane went down), The Ramones (many times) Frank Sinatra (Front table, dead center at the Desert Inn in Vegas, 1992), Nirvana (not a full show though), Rush (both in the 80's and recently) as well as many more.

Out of all of these...I wish I had seen The Wall w/ PF in the 80's at the Sports Arena (I knew someone that went) and I didn't bother going in on the last day of the 1982 US Festival and missed the "Breakfast with the Grateful Dead"

If you want to see my 300+ shows...
http://www.chrisedge.com/ChrisConcertList.htm

Cool list - 40 years of concerts! Your first was a few weeks after I was born.

I've seen about 200 shows and wish I had a running list like this.

It made it easier that I have every ticket stub still, (for those shows I got stubs for) and I record a lot of shows as well so sometimes, even without a stub I have some type of recording to assist with all the dates...

Passing on an Ozzy Osbourne concert in early 1982. I was saving up for something else and didn't want to spend my money on concert tickets at that point.

I could have seen Randy Rhoads live...

No, but I've had some near misses, with friends or girlfriends wanting to bail on a show because they're "tired" and or don't want to drive out to LA. I've talked them into it each time, so I've never had a regret. I don't understand these people - they complain about going to a show, but every time they do go, they have a good time and never regret it - the regret almost always comes from NOT going.

I also turned down a chance to see then in Texas thinking the same thing.

I meant the Wall show at the Berlin Wall, not the original Floyd tour. Sorry.

There was an episode of the old National Lampoon Radio Hour about a guy hitchhiking cross country to a Jimi Hendrix show in S.F. in the late 60's.
He decides to take a break. He sits down under a tree, smokes a joint, falls asleep. Pulls a Rip Van Winkle.
He wakes up, not knowing 5-6 years have passed. Walks back up to the highway and sticks out his thumb. Car stops and picks him up.

Driver: "Where you headed"?
Hitchhiker" Frisco. Got tickets to see Hendrix"
Driver: "Jimi Hendrix? He's dead dude"
Hitchhiker: "WHAT? When did that happen?"
Driver: "Around four years ago"
Hitchhiker: "Four years! What year is it?"
Driver: "1974"
Hitchhiker: "Awww, man! My Janis Joplin tickets are probably no good anymore either"

Not seeing the Ramones live.