Great bands you somehow missed....

I somehow completely missed these guys until this year. Big Star: http://www.youtube.com/wa...BRLy-p4-AS-7DGoLGyZt26

I missed these guys: Mckendree Spring http://mckendreespring.com/content/ until I bought some used LPs several years ago and "Tracks" was in the stack. That stack of records also turned me on to Terry Reid and Jesse Colin Young.

But I can't believe I missed Big Star. I am going to have to do a little shopping for some old records and I just saw that Mckendree Spring has a new album after 30 yrs... cool!

Who are some artists that you somehow missed and discovered years later?

Julien

Wow...  That would be a rather long list, however many of them I've discovered from this and another forum.  Good stuff!

Guitarhacker


I missed Led Zepplin....... due to my high school graduation being scheduled on the same June evening in 1972.

Shoot, Herb. I missed my graduation for a 6-pack of beer!

STRAWBS was a fantastic band that I found a little late, accidentally and with the help of a friend.
I've never heard it being played in radio in Finland, for example.

57Gregy

Guitarhacker


I missed Led Zepplin....... due to my high school graduation being scheduled on the same June evening in 1972.

Shoot, Herb. I missed my graduation for a 6-pack of beer!

Thats funny Greg....    My buddy Denny and I wanted to see Zep so bad. Even had tix...... but both of our mom's pulled the guilt trip, crying, after all we did for you, this is how we get thanked, routine...... so we sheepishly tucked tails and went to graduation, and sold the tix to someone else. 


we heard it was a great concert. 

I missed Mark Knopfler one night. I thought I was doing something better. I was wrong.

Hi,

Not a whole lot.

The only ones I ever wanted to see that I have not seen, and will NEVER see, are Mike Oldfield, Klaus Schulze and Vangelis. The world of commercial music does not believe that anyone else is worth their talent and work ... so that's fine ... at least Mike and Vangelis have etched their name in music history that 99% of rock music never will, so I'm happy with that! (They have Oscars!).

All in all, I missed Led Z in Santa Barbara (Earl Warren Showgrounds) and that bootleg was not half as good as the other series of their shows in LA the previous year when they were the best live acts out there, would have been the ones I would have wanted to see, specially when those bootlegs are insanely great!

All in all ... none really. I suppose I would have liked to see Jimi, and Janis, and Jim, three people I have a really good feel and heart for, but that's ok ... their music already lives forever inside me and I don't need any reminders for anyone to tell me what they really meant and wanted to say. It's in my heart already and I never lost it!

I would have gladly worked to help a CHB come together with a video to help expand the ability to showcase some excellent talent in the music itself, but I have a feeling that the folks involved are not that confident. I don't think that we need to be perfect or proper or better than anyone ... there are a lot of bands out there that could not kiss the dust of the feet the CHB leaves behind!

But I'm not sure they know that!
 
I would pay to see some of the folks in this baord ... Jubi's voice is ... I have no words for some of the things I have heard. Mamma's hands are very soft and sweet ... and those are but two of the folks whose work I remember the best in this board as individuals ... but I do not harbor any hero or worship ideas about music or any of the arts in order to have to feel that I have to see it ... mostly I want to "feel it", not see it!

Hi,

Thought of a couple ...

I missed the show by "Seventh Wave" which apparently in LA was done with 7 keyboad players. Which would have been a treat as their first album was an amazing sound blast! And the 2nd ... was out of this world!

Another band I missed in LA in the early 80's before I moved north was Caravan ... I was in school at UCSB and was too broke to afford it. And to give you an idea, when I got the DVD of their show at the Nearfest, during some pieces I had tears in my eyes, because some of that music is so dear to my heart and inner growing. And I still think that "Caravan and the New Sinfonia" is by far the very best orchestra/rock band album ever done ... and dig this ... on the encore, the orchestra did not want to go out for it, as they would not get paid for it, and Caravan said ... screw you and went out anyway ... and of course before the band had said anything they showed up quickly! ... and the original material written for it all mixed beautifully and the addon stuff for the known pieces were magnificent ... and most "progressive" rock idiots have no ear for this stuff at all and say this is bad stuff!

You can't win ... which means ... just do it!

Guitarhacker

57Gregy

Guitarhacker


I missed Led Zepplin....... due to my high school graduation being scheduled on the same June evening in 1972.

Shoot, Herb. I missed my graduation for a 6-pack of beer!

Thats funny Greg....    My buddy Denny and I wanted to see Zep so bad. Even had tix...... but both of our mom's pulled the guilt trip, crying, after all we did for you, this is how we get thanked, routine...... so we sheepishly tucked tails and went to graduation, and sold the tix to someone else. 


we heard it was a great concert. 

If my mom had said I should go, I would have. But I was the youngest of 4, so she had seen it all before.
Plus, I think she was working that night, washing dishes at one of the mess halls on Fort Bragg.

craigb


I missed the only Who concert I would have ever seen...  I FINALLY had tickets to see them for the Friday, June 28th show in 2002 right by my house in Irvine California.  Unfortunately, Entwhistle passed away the day before so the concert was cancelled (and I got my money back). 

How rude of him