Oops. Can someone fix my missing [MI]? Sorry..

I'm about to miss De La Soul at a pretty fun 3 day music festival here on the Island, unless I get over my massive unpreparedness and find myself a tend and hitch-hike out to the festival site.

I missed going to see Camper van Beethoven in London in 1990: they were one of my favourite bands at the time. My friend had found out they were playing & tried to find me to let me know, but I was in the library studying… ‘That’s okay,’ I thought, ‘they’ll be playing in London again after those other European dates…’ but, as it turned out, they broke up hardly more than a week after I’d missed them.

I missed a chance to see John Cage in 1990. I'm not sure if he was speaking or performing, but either way its something I would have liked to see.

I got tickets for the final Sleater-Kinney show in Portland. . .May let my daughter pass it on or may go. . .not sure yet. She is the fan, really.

YAY!!!!

I was visiting LA just when Sheryl Crow's first album came out. She was playing in some bar, and I passed it up.

She moved directly to stadiums (stadia?) after that, and I lost interest.

But I really dug the first one and I am sorry to have missed the chance to see her in a small place.

I was supposed to go see Material Issue with a couple friends in June 1996. However, one of them got in much later than planned and we decided we were too tired to go into the city and see the show. I figured Material Issue was local, they played in Chicago all the time and I'd be able to see them another time.

A few days later, Jim Ellison committed suicide.

Missed seeing The Flaming Lips open for Beck at some small venue on my college campus. Just wasn't that into them at the time, but now I'm really kicking myself.

I heard this story once and I don't know how true it is.

Within the course of a week some guy goes to see two concerts. The first one is Joe Cocker. During the first song, Joe Cocker pukes his guts out and they cancel the show.

That same week, same guy goes to see Warren Zevon. During the intro to the first song, he comes running out on stage, slips and falls and breaks his ankle.

God I miss the 70s'

I missed Woodstock, and the Stones at the garden back in '69. Mainly by not being alive. You wouldn't believe how many shows I've missed cos of that.

I missed Woodstock, and the Stones at the garden back in '69. Mainly by not being alive. You wouldn't believe how many shows I've missed cos of that.

Yeah I hear ya. I missed Jesus and his "Sermon on The Mount - Beatitudes or Bust" summer tour. I still kick myself but I am Forgiven.

Yeah, he was a great performer, but watch out for his road crew, man.

Oh another one. .the Talking Heads rented the performing arts center here for 2 weeks to rehearse the Stop Making Sense tour, then launched it here.

Missed it. Coulda ridden my bike to it.

(I also coulda seen the Dead 21 times. . .I only went 19.)

I guess this is an opposite of a miss, but that's not going to stop me from posting it.

Went to see Lyle Lovett and His Large Band in Austin about 8 or 10 years ago. It was an outdoor venue. About an hour before the show, it started pissing down rain. We huddled under what little cover there was and waited. And waited. And waited.

The rain finally stopped. An hour or so after the show was supposed to start, Lyle Lovett himself came out to apologetically announce that the venue was going to postpone the concert until later in the week, that the rain made all the electrical equipment on the (covered) stage dangerous to the band.

People were pretty pissed -- the venue was 25 miles outside of town.

But before there was too much grumbling, Lyle asked for his guitar, said something like "I wouldn't want y'all to come all this way for nothing."

And he proceeded to play a 2-hour solo set.

It was awesome. Plus, we went back 3 days later to see the postponed concert.

I like the guy anyway, but I'll always love him for that.

(I listen to other stuff than the Dead, but. . .)

The day Jerry Garcia died, or the day after, Lovett was playing Eugene. . .

He came out before his band's set, in casual clothes, and played "Friend of the Devil," solo, then went and changed into his suit and his band played their usual set. . . .

One of those things you never forget.

I missed Jawbox on their last tour. It was a Sunday show and I decided that they'd probably come through town again since they were on a major label.
They broke up right after that and I've been kicking myself ever since.

A show I did not miss:
I was a bit fan of a local band called Karp. They split up and the bassist formed a thrash garage band called The Tight Bros From Way Back When. That went on for awhile, but then I hear that 2/3 of Karp (the drummer and aforementioned bassist) were forming a new band with Joe Preston of The Thrones and The Melvins called The Whip.
I went down to Tacoma and dragged my girlfriend at the time to the show. The Whip ruled!
While I was there, I realized that the drummer looked familiar but couldn't figure out why.
Two days later I hear a new report about a young man dying in a freak boating accident. Later on, I asked a friend what he was doing that night and he told me he was going to a memorial for Scotty, a guy who used to bartend at a place I freqent and who played drums in The Whip...then it all fell into place - I'd been buying drinks from Scott for years AND I'd seen his last show...