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Comment on Regrettapalooza by Sylvia McLain

Sylvia McLain — Sun, 05 May 2013 18:57:51 +0000

I passed up the opportunity to see Public Enemy live in Hong Kong (lack of funds – should have spent them) and the Police when I was a 16 year old (my mom would have killed me but like so many other things I could have snuck out of the house)

but have seen Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan (twice) and Def Leppard (embarrassingly – back when the drummer had 2 arms )

Comment on Regrettapalooza by Richard Wintle

Richard Wintle — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:57:37 +0000

Yes indeed – and many stories of not enough food or shelter, rain and mud. I suspect I would have been completely miserable.

Comment on Regrettapalooza by cromercrox

cromercrox — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:42:12 +0000

Wow. One Is Not Worthy.

Mind you, I suspect that the magic of such occasions owes a great deal to nostalgia. I once heard a comment on this topic by some wag who said ‘by the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong – and three hundred thousand of us were looking for the toilets’.

Comment on Regrettapalooza by Richard Wintle

Richard Wintle — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:50:05 +0000

Having thought about this a bit further, I also regret not seeing Blue Oyster Cult at Kingswood Music Theatre (on the grounds of Canada’s Wonderland) when I was in high school. I did see them, much later, at Rock ‘N Roll Heaven in Toronto, though.

Of all the acts mentioned above, the only ones I *have* seen are Sting, Peter Gabriel, and U2.

And, along the lines of Henry’s last comment – I had a high school history teacher who was actually at Woodstock.

Comment on PLAYOFFS, BABY! by modscientist

modscientist — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:50:55 +0000

We have a bracket challenge going too:

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League Name: CatsInSkates
League Password: hockeycats

Comment on Regrettapalooza by Richard Wintle

Richard Wintle — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:12:41 +0000

I can think of many bands I couldn’t realistically have gone to see (Beatles, Hendrix, Led Zep, etc. etc. etc.). The one that I could have done that really sticks out is Queen.

Comment on Regrettapalooza by cromercrox

cromercrox — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:06:43 +0000

I am lucky enough to have seen Queen, twice. With Freddy. And they were every bit as good as legend says they were.

Comment on Regrettapalooza by cromercrox

cromercrox — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:05:57 +0000

Ah! When I was a graduate student, me and the other grads would be in awe of a postgrad in our lab who, when very young, had seen Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Festival.

Comment on Regrettapalooza by Philip Strange

Philip Strange — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:48:12 +0000

When I was at school about ten miles north of Portsmouth, I had a friend called Ken Raistrick. He was more adventurous than I and he would occasionally visit clubs in Portsmouth. One day he came back very excited as he had just seen a new band called the Rolling Stones – I would love to have been there that night. He also saw Steam Packet with a very young Rod Stewart.

Later when I was a postdoc at UC Berkeley, Joni Mitchell came to the Berkeley Auditorium on her Miles of Aisles Tour. For all sorts of reasons I didn’t go to the concert and I wish I had!

Comment on Regrettapalooza by Cromercrox

Cromercrox — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:36:28 +0000

Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow. And Wham!