[Music] The band/artist you never saw, never will, and regret the most because of it

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Ditto. But @HWT’s brother said JD were shit live.

Not my brother but an old pal who saw them at the first V festival in Leeds. He deffo said they were shit. Dull and droney. I saw him recently and asked him about the gig and he said they were great. A 40 year bit of aftertiming I didn't let it pass, I can tell you.

Fact. Joy Division were not rated by anyone till after Ian died. He was regarded as a (brace yourselves) Jim Morrison soundalikee. They were in there with Delta 5 (out of 100 as my old pal still calls them), PragVec, early Section 25 and suchlike, very league 1, and way way of the pace of bands like the Comsat Angels, Killing Joke, The Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The Jam.

I was too young to see them, apart from their final ever gig (at The Brighton Centre).

Good shout. Me and I think @<u><a href="https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/member.php?u=25" target="_blank">Gwylan</a></u> (not together as I didn't know him then) were at the Embassy cinema gig. I saw the Clash at Top Rank when Townshend played a track with them, and Scritti Politti love supported. Just for the record, like, not gloating.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

As a follow up I have seen The Clash in their parts:

Joe Strummer - solo
Paul Simenon - The Good The Bad The Queen
Terry Chimes - Cherry Bombz
Mick Jones - Half time tombola at Loftus Road

 

[Weststander]

Not my brother but an old pal who saw them at the first V festival in Leeds. He deffo said they were shit. Dull and droney. I saw him recently and asked him about the gig and he said they were great. A 40 year bit of aftertiming I didn't let it pass, I can tell you.

Fact. Joy Division were not rated by anyone till after Ian died. He was regarded as a (brace yourselves) Jim Morrison soundalikee. They were in there with Delta 5 (out of 100 as my old pal still calls them), PragVec, early Section 25 and suchlike, very league 1, and way way of the pace of bands like the Comsat Angels, Killing Joke, The Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen.

Jim Morrison was their hero, mentioned in Hookie’s last autobio

I was just a young teen buying NME and I saw JD mentioned, but just one of many, many band names, I didn’t listen to Peel at that stage. I first fell in love with the newly formed New Order, their first album and singles, then immediately got into JD. So the wrong way round. Curtis’s death undoubtedly helped publicity and awareness, justifiably so in this case. There was substance to the belated love of their work.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

I would have loved to see Flowered Up

 

[Mr Bridger]

The Clash

 

[BN9 BHA]

Jim Morrison was their hero, mentioned in Hookie’s last autobio

I will not be impressed if the youngest comes back from the festival tomorrow and tells me he didn’t see Hooky

 

[Elbow750]

Led Zep, Queen and early Roxy Music when Eno was with them. But David Bowie is my big regret.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

As a follow up I have seen The Clash in their parts:

Joe Strummer - solo
Paul Simenon - The Good The Bad The Queen
Terry Chimes - Cherry Bombz
Mick Jones - Half time tombola at Loftus Road

I have the first Clash album, vinyl, cover singed by Joe. This time I am gloating . And see above wrt seeing them live.

 

[Robinjakarta]

Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny or Judy Dyble, Love in the days of Forever Changes, The Doors, Buffalo Springfield.

 

[The Mole]

Not music - but the first time I went to the Edinburgh Fringe I wanted to see Bill Hicks… but didn’t- sadly he died within the year

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Hendrix. There are precious few videos or recordings, unlike the Beatles who I was just too young to see at the Hippodrome.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Jim Morrison was their hero, mentioned in Hookie’s last autobio

I was just a young teen buying NME and I saw JD mentioned, but just one of many, many band names, I didn’t listen to Peel at that stage. I first fell in love with the newly formed New Order, their first album and singles, then immediately got into JD. So the wrong way round. Curtis’s death undoubtedly helped publicity and awareness, justifiably so in this case. There was substance to the belated love of their work.

It was the wrong way round for me too, ish. I bought the last JD studio album and it was the most expensive bit of vinyl I ever bought (£5 odd in 1980, ffs. Equivalent to £100 in today's money taking into account inflation - mostly of my salary). I still don't like it much.

Meanwhile, the first New Order Peel session was an event. I listened on the tranny while in the bath, drinking rum and smoking my licorice roll ups (that's what amounted to decadence for me back then), possibly herbally suplemented.

But the live double JD album..... A work mate made a tape of it for me in 1982 and I was smitten. Still one of my faves. The dispair is palpable. Ian Curtis and Adrian Borland (The Sound). Two absolute tortured icons. RIP.

 

[Eric Potts]

As a follow up I have seen The Clash in their parts:

Joe Strummer - solo
Paul Simenon - The Good The Bad The Queen
Terry Chimes - Cherry Bombz
Mick Jones - Half time tombola at Loftus Road

I've seen Joe in 3 different bands .
The Clash - Blackburn . King Georges Hall
The Pogues - Finsbury Park Fleadh
The Mescaleros - Concorde

 

[GT49er]

Good post. Diary of Dreams were supporting Assemblage 23 in Inslington 20 years ago and I'd not heard of them so I stayed in the bar waiting patiently for Tom Shear and pals to hit the stage I have all DOD's releases now and....(twaaaaat!)

Of the above the ones I highlight I have seen live, all in their pomp

(My ex wife saw Hendrix at Altamont, and my pal Bob the social worker saw the Beatles at the Cavern maybe 25 times (and Little Richard at Port Sunlight, and the Stones, and....the (old) b'stard!)).

Yeh, we could carry this on all night!. Would have loved to have seen the Everley Brothers and Buddy Holly too, for example! I've got a pretty extensive list of bands - both big and obscure - that I have seen too!

 

[Razzoo]

Down in the pond watching Cardiacs

 

[studio150]

Yeh, we could carry this on all night!. Would have loved to have seen Buddy Hilly

Wow tribute bands were a thing in the 50s, who knew

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny or Judy Dyble, Love in the days of Forever Changes, The Doors, Buffalo Springfield.

Arthur Lee and some young musicians played Mount Ephraim (Canterbury) Festival getting on for 20 years ago. We expected shite but it was one of the 5 best gigs I ever saw. The young musicians recreated the original sound exactly. Lee's voice was perfect. Old people (my mates, in their 50s at the time) cried. It was amazing.

 

[studio150]

Fortunate to have seen many of the bands mentioned in the list.

Missed Zeppelin

 

[Weststander]

It was the wrong way round for me too, ish. I bought the last JD studio album and it was the most expensive bit of vinyl I ever bought (£5 odd in 1980, ffs. Equivalent to £100 in today's money taking into account inflation - mostly of my salary). I still don't like it much.

Meanwhile, the first New Order Peel session was an event. I listened on the tranny while in the bath, drinking rum and smoking my licorice roll ups (that's what amounted to decadence for me back then), possibly herbally suplemented.

But the live double JD album..... A work mate made a tape of it for me in 1982 and I was smitten. Still one of my faves. The dispair is palpable. Ian Curtis and Adrian Borland (The Sound). Two absolute tortured icons. RIP.

For me, very much part of that teens/early 20’s era, where the music of that time in your life does something special to you and your passion for that music stays with you for life. I’d always thought that anyway, then a brilliant R4 documentary about a year ago explained exactly why. Hormones, brain development and all that.

The album Movement, singles Possession/Everything’s Gone Green and Temptation, Closer and Unknown Pleasures all hit that spot for me. Luckily at 16/17 and beyond, my close friends all felt the same, that sharing added to the whole thing. Jeremy Vine gets it, in July on R2 on what would’ve been IC’s 65th birthday, he aired a great piece and cried a bit for IC’s anguish.