List the bands that you've never seen before, but would have loved to if you had the chance. And I'm referring to those bands that are either split up and done with or just wimped out so there's no point in seeing them anymore.

My list is:
Venom, anytime around 1981-1984 - i was either a sperm or a fetus during this era of Venom's career. Eventually they turned kinda crappy and even still, I was too young to really be into metal, so i missed out.
The Misfits - obviously i'm referring to the danzig era. again, i wasn't even a thought in anyone's head during this time. I know the misfits are still around, but they blow ass now, and doyle jams a few tunes on stage with danzig every now and then, but it'll never be the same.
Metallica, anytime between 1984-1989 - metallica's best work (actually, their only good work!) came during these 5 years and i was too young to even know about it! i could still go see metallica play today, but why bother?
Pantera - one of the very best metal bands in the 1990's, and i started getting into metal just a little too late to see them play. shame.

Death- I couldn't get a ride to see em at Red Square in Saugus, and i've been killing myself ever since.
Exhorder- the ultimate injustice in my life is that i'll never see these guys

oh yeah, and GG Allin, DK, and every early 80's DC hardcore band on Dischord

acid bath - stupid goddamn drunk driving cocksuckers

davefromthegrave said:

agreed

The Misfits, Death, Metal Church w/ David Wayne, Agony Column, Deep Purple w/Ritchie Blackmoor, Sabbath w/Dio or Tony Martin, At The Gates, Twisted Sister...there is an ednless array of bands...I guess it's no good to dwell on the past

I saw Twisted Sister.
and they played "The Price."
and it was good.

Did they play "Hot Love"? that song is hilarious

well i would have said Shai Hulud, but im going to see their reunion tonite! and definitely Death, oh man thatd be sweet.

Uriah Heep, DK, Bauhaus, the MC5, Jesus & Mary Chain, Looking glass, Stepen Wolf,Bathory, sisters of mercy, fields of the nephlim, Celtic frost,13 floor elevators, and DUST, bitch

Impetigo

DomesticTerror said:

Mayhem with Dead
Varathon
Led Zeppelin
Venom
Celtic Frost
Bestial Summoning
Death In June
Blasphemy
VON

Immortal
Death
GG Allin

boston - 1st LP
acid bath
nightingale
edge of sanity

I'm very fortunate to have seen most of the bands I have respected but-
THIN LIZZY
DISCHARGE
THE TRUE MAYHEM
TORMENTOR
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS

Death
Carnivore
Nirvana
Meatmen

MONSTROSITY

DomesticTerror said:

these are my top two as well

DomesticTerror said:

that's another one i would have liked to see. of course i know that if i went to a GG show i would be scared of either A. getting beaten up or B. getting a faceful of GG's feces.

a few other people put led zeppelin - i definitely would have liked to see them too.

led zeppelin
pink floyd with Syd, or any time before Waters left
Crime
Ramones, saw them twice, but to see them in 82 would have ruled
Void
Dead Boys
Germs
Metallica with Cliff
Megadeth on the Peace Sells tour
the Ventures in the late 60's
MC5
the Damned during the Machine Gun Ettiquette tour
Frank Zappa
Soundgarden during the Superunkown tour
Converge during the Jane Doe tour
GG Allin
Hawkwind with Lemmy

The revolution.

Alice in Chains
Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax pre-1990
Danzig pre-5
Carnivore
Misfits Danzig-era
Samhain
Motley Crue either Shout at the Devil or Dr. Feelgood era
At the Gates
Faith No More
Guns and Roses

the doors
(though i think if doors of the 20th century tour i might go shoot it just because)

hmm---I was born in '71 but I was still too young to have seen Venom. Someday maybe, as long as it's Cronos. It'll be but a shadow of their former selves, but fuckin' CRONOS!

"Who's wild? ARE YOU WILD?"
*crowd affirms*
"WELL FOOKIN' SHOUT WILD!"
*crowd affirms*
"YEAH! WELL SDFGHNDEGGSCGJSGFGJLSDXVSKFVSDUKVH !"
*crowd is confused as hell but cheers*
*VKJDBHNHSXDV,MD,HGFSDFHVS,DFCHSUD,VVCUUYWR34Y6E4LW89F76!"
*crowd is really really really confused BUT cheers. VEVOM is onstage*

heh-heh

alice in chains
jimi hendrix experience
pink floyd
carcass
sepultura
zeppelin
soundgarden
nirvana

.... among others.

DEATH!
CARNIVORE!
GG FUCKING ALLIN!
The Misfits
Carcass
At the Gates
Venom
Possessed
Cannibal Coprse (with Barnes obviously)
Metallica (when they were good)
Sex Pistols
Ramones
Amebix
GBH

Shit I forgot about Ramones.

Angelcorpse

yes, Angelcorpse is another big one.

WhyamIandasshole at home said:

you shoulda gone with me and Levinson, man! that last time was a riot (literally!)

Assuck
Terrorzone
District 9
Venom
Emperor

You guys are making feel really old. I've seen a bunch of the bands listed above. I saw:
Metallica w/ Cliff
Death twice
Acid Bath several times
Black Sabbath w/Dio
Twisted Sister 3 times (only the recent reunion shows, but they kicked MAJOR ass)
Immortal 3 times
Carnivore several times
Meatmen several times
Monstrosity several times
Megadeth on the Rust in Peace tour
Anthrax a couple times in the 80's
Carcass on the Necroticism and Fartwork tours
At The Gates twice
Sepultura twice on the Arise tour
Cannibal Corpse at least once on evey tour since Butchered at Birth
Angelcorpse 3 times
Alice in Chains
Assuck
Emperor twice

Whoever said Bathory, Bathory never played a gig, ever.

My list:

Jimi Hendrix
AC/DC w/Bon Scott
Dead Kennedys w/Jello
Accused
Chicago w/Terry Kath
Motorhead w/Fast Eddie
The Doors w/Morrison
tons of hardcore bands circa '81-'83
Repulsion
Napalm Death w/Lee & Bill

THIN LIZZY~!!!!!!

also
Voivod (in the early days)
Venom
the Ramones
Roy Orbison
Faith No More
James Brown (in the 60's)
did DOWN ever tour? I would have loved to have seen that!

lots of rock/metal/punk/funk/soul bands from the 60's through the 80's

SickSickSicks said:

Yeah, they toured in '95 and again in '02. I saw 'em on both tours.

cryptic slaughter "back in the day."

nirvana at any point in their career.

Immortal.

plus a lot of the aforemntioned, obvious choices like Death, Venom, Carcass, etc.

heh

Down in 2002 from NYC

edit
meant to post this one

oh man.
yea.
seeing them in '95 would have been OUTTA THIS WORLD

Black Sabbath in the early 70's...Metallica with Cliff...Alice In Chains

SickSickSicks said:


how could I forget Roy?!!! and Johnny Cash!

Only 1 I can think of at the moment...The original line up of....CCR

Cryptic slaughter
Dead kennedys / Jello
Discharge
Insanity
Siege
Sheer Terror again
Immortal
Cannibal Corpse with barnes
Life at Zero again with Duguay and Downs
Brutal Truth again
Repulsion
Bathory
GG Allin
Dead Boys

Acrid
abnegation

Cannibal Corpse (w/Barnes)
Immortal
The Smiths

and plenty more I cant even think of right now.

Van Halen w/ Diamond Dave
Sabbath w/ Dio
Led Zeppelin
CC w/ Chris Barnes
Death
Exodus w/ Paul Baloff


Im still hoping to see Sodom and Bolt Thrower

I'm gonna stick with bands I conceivably could've seen and didn't.

Metallica pre-suck
Faith no More (as I'm now reminded of them.)
Carcass, Obituary and Cannibal Corpse, in the early nineties
Disrupt
Brutal Truth
Wesley Willis (I had to fucking work third shift the night he played the Middle East, and my roommate offered my bed to his tour manager for Wesley to sleep in. *shudder*)
GG
Nine Shocks Terror - my own fault, due to me being lazy and stupid
Spazz
Emperor

And, to ensure maximum "gay" comments,

At the Gates. Oh, yes.

Death, Carcass, At The Gates, DEFINATELY Acid Bath (I went to The Ratt the night BEFORE they played, DAMMIT), Anthrax and Metallica back in the day, theres a lot of bands...I don't want to think about it, I'll get depressed.

And yes, DOWN did tour, I saw them four times. They'll tour again, don't miss it, they kill live.

you know it's kind of gratifying reading through this thread and seeing bands others missed that you didn't. almost makes up for remembering the bands you didn't see.

i think most of mine have been said, so i'm just gonna copy and paste them in the order they were posted.

Venom
The Misfits
Pantera
GG Allin
DK
the MC5
Celtic frost
Led Zeppelin
THIN LIZZY
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS
Ramones
Metallica with Cliff
Frank Zappa
Hawkwind with Lemmy
Anthrax pre-1990
Guns and Roses
the doors
jimi hendrix experience
carcass
sepultura
Amebix
Assuck
AC/DC w/Bon Scott
Repulsion
Napalm Death w/Lee & Bill
Voivod
Siege


as for bands that weren't listed yet, The Stooges, Terrorizer...fuck i'm drawing a blank here...

I got to see Repulsion's reunion in Milwaukee, I fucking savored that shit. One of their moms was in the crowd, she was like 100 years old jumping up and down with a cigarette screaming "YOU PLAY FAST!!!" and "GO!! GO!!" over and over again. It was possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life.

G'n'R is a good one. I'll add that to my list.

voivod
celtic frost
thin lizzy
acid bath
emperor
dissection
carcass
death
edge of sanity
wham

DestroyYouAlot said:

some of my friends who had shows on the school radio station got wesley willis booked to play at the school and then some assholes in the administration heard his music and said it wouldn't be appropriate and canceled it. we were going to interview wesley on the air and hang out with him all day. it would've been awesome. fuck school.

add arcturus with garm to my list

S.O.D.
CORONER
Robert Johnson
Charlie Christian
Blues Brothers
Pentagram
Bad Brains
Black Flag
Dark Angel
Link Wray
Discordance Axis
DOOM
Fear of God
Minor Threat
John Coltrane
Chuck Berry in his prime

KillerKadoogan said:

They reunited in 2001, and even did a Metallica tribute song for a comp. cd. Then Ron Rinehart (vocalist Leave Scars and Time Does Not Heal) broke his back in a motorcylce accident and they had to shelve the reunion. They even played a couple shows in CA.

I have the post Time Does Not Heal demo (Hunger) in mp3s if you want me to burn it or send on Soulseek , my name thingy is Snakestrike

BLACK FLAG. definately.

damanged, broken hope, death, at the gates and black sabbath when they were good

black sabbath was good?






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Guinnea.

get back on the boat!

The ba-na-na boat.

I love threads like this; nostalgia is such a huge part of my life.

Metal:
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick tour
Death - SoP tour
Opeth - multiple times between 1993 and 2000
Iron Maiden - Killers tour, Number of the Beast tour, Powerslave tour
Immortal - probably Sons tour
Emperor - any time
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina tour
Cryptopsy - NSV tour
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather tour and some time in the 80s too

Classic Rock:
Led Zeppelin - near the end of 69 or beginning of 70, also sometime between 73 and 76
Pink Floyd - Any tour where they played Dark Side all the way through, the Animals tour (where they played Animals - with a song order change - and Wish You Were Here all the way through) and The Wall tour
Jethro Tull - Late 60s early 70s, also any concert where they played Thick As A Brick in its entirety
Black Sabbath - Paranoid tour, or pretty much any time before Ozzy left
Queen - fucking any tour

Joy Division.

Rites Of Spring.

Majority Rule. Angel Hair. Heroin.

pageninetynine. creation is crucifixion. deadguy.

kalibas. sadis euphoria. kodan armada.

What's that Mark? No pizza-eating remarks?




Yea, that's right.


The Banana boat shut you right the fuck up, didn't it?

sorry, i was too busy thinking about all of the joyous foods that can complement pizza in topping form.
immigrant.

Rottrevore
Abominog
Derketa
Regurgitation
Hemdale
Judecca

Death
Misfits (Danzig era)
Samhaim
Danzig (pre 5)
Metallica (pre Load)
Emperor
At the Gates
Children of Bodom (pre Hate Crew Deathroll)
In Flames (pre Clayman)
Nasum
Iced Earth (w/ Matthew Barlow)
Guns N' Roses
Cynic
Carcass

insipidzombie said:

i would have loved to see iced earth with matt barlow at the mic. i think that since they have tim owens that it wouldn't be as great to see them now, but that may be a biased opinion since i haven't really listened to the new Iced Earth CD, and to how owens fits in the band. matt barlow is one of my personal favorite heavy metal singers ever, the man was incredible.

ATHEIST
DEMILICH (I hope I get to see them in MD)
DISSECTION
CROWBAR
REINFECTION
KRISIUN (all 4 times on the conqerors tours 99/00)
ABSU

you know, i've never listened to atheist before - i noticed that their albums were re-issued recently, i always seem to look at them, but never pick one up....maybe it's the whole "jazz/death metal" thing about them; i mean i like some technical stuff, but usually it sounds too show-offy to me, like playing technical for its own sake, which if the feeling i got from some of Death's albums....i don't know - any suggestions?

fuckin absu rocks, they're one of the best american black metal bands....i love "the sun of tiphareth"...awesome!

death
misfits with glen
corpes with barnes
nasum


glad I got to see sepultura with original members

MarkFuckingRichards said:




Yea well....


fag

Emperor
Godflesh

pam nli said:

i FUCKING LOVE down i heard phil is having some back problems and theres rumor he might not walk again but you now how the news in the mettal world goes...and yes they did tour they toured twice then did an ozzfest

there was really only one band i wish i could have seen but some reason never got a chance to and that was White Zombie

DEATH
CARCASS
AT THE GATES
EMPEROR
FAITH NO MORE
JUDAS PRIEST
AC/DC w/ bon scott

JESUS LIZARD.

jim croce (even though he's kinda a solo act)
metallica(kill em all/mustaine era..you know for all the sweet vest rockin)
faith no more
vehemence
black sabbath(before the drugs really got to ozzy)
big brother and the holdign company
thin lizzy
grand funk railroad(just for that one song)
the doors
led zep
deep purple
stevie ray vaughn

Josh_Martin said:

yeah because this thread is actually titled "Bands you've been able to see because you're old"...

zing

Brutal fucking Truth

RustedAngel said:


yeah but if that was the list of bands I'd seen, I'd be bragging too

Good call on Terry Kath Chicago. I'd love to see him live.

Bon AC/DC
Kiss right after Love Gun came out.
Metallica on Puppets.
Megadeth on Rust.
Zep.
Rainbow.
Dio's first solo tour.
Ozzy w/ Randy.
Van Halen in their prime.
SRV
Death
Priest on the Defenders tour
Def Leppard right after High & Dry came out
Journey with Perry.
Pantera in a small club.

babyshaker said:

A friend of mine just got back from trying out for Verbal Abuse on guitar, and they all got in a huge screaming fight over playing that song. (Apparently all they do all day is shoot heroin until almost dead, do some meth to wake up, and repeat. They wouldn't tell him where the bus station was, he had to sneak away. Technically, he's still in the band. Heh.)

HAH, i've got a BUNCH of these
Glassjaw
XTC
The Comsat ANgels
Mission of Burma (back in the 80's)
Catherine Wheel
Swervedriver (i saw Adam Franklin play a solo set and then a couple of swervedriver songs with Last Burning Embers as a backing band, but i know it just wasnt the same)
The Buzzcocks (back in the 80's)

Carcass
Emperor
Enslaved
Immortal
Demilich
Metallica (in the kill'em all/ride the lightning years)
Megadeth (pre-rust in peace years)

mOe said:

I looked really quick, and thought you said something else. Hahaha...

Frank Zappa

At The Gates
In Thy Dreams
Fragments of Unbecoming
Necrophagist (hopefully I'll make it MDF this year to see those guys)
Alice in Chains

with all the fucking people who want to see At the Gates, You'd think they'd smarten the fuck up and get back together for a tour. I can't even imagine how much money they'd stand to make off the metalcore kids. Sure they're faggots, but that wouldn't stop me from taking their money.

I'm just glad that I actually SAW At The Gates

and Dissection better do a North American Church Burning tour once their album comes out

At The Gates WILL reunite. They have to. Because I said so.

DomesticTerror said:

uh oh, i was at this show. i even got pics from that show. looooong time ago. those guys at that time were kinda wacky. I remember the bassist at that show was having a hard time keeping up with the band. it was kinda sad.

Demolition Hammer & Believer, Farmington, CT 1990. I missed that show but saw video footage of it and i really wish i was there even though i was a little kid at that time.

Nuclear Assault back in 1989 would have been cool as well. They always had a cross over audience back in those days. I was too young...

Atheist back in 1993 in CT, missed it and I was looking forward to it I remember.

Cynic back in 1994, missed the show because my ride never showed up. so mad.

pink floyd
exhorder
death
angelcorpes
mistfist w/glen
never seen megadeth(prolly wouldnt want to now)
carcass

Death
Thorns of the Carrion
Sadus
Anthrax back in like... the late 80's
Immortal again