[kj] Regrets

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Regrets:
 
Not seeing...
 
The Clash at the Hollywood Palladium shows June of 1982 and  after
Marginal Man at the Cathay De Grande - Hollywood 1984
The Chameleons and The Cure in their prime
The Dead Kennedys 1983 -1985
Raw Power and B.G.K,. at The Olympic 1984
Siouxsie & The Banshees many times
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry 1990 at Helter Skelter
 
Happy to see...
 
Killing Joke & JFA first time at the Wiskey A Go Go 1982
Minor Threat at Chatsworth Rollerdome 1983
Boston's Finest F.U.'s many times in 1983-1984
GBH (first tour), Effigies, SSD at Santa Monica Civic
Naked Raygun many times 1984-1990
Articles of Faith, Really Red, at Shamus O' Briens 1983
Government Issue at Sun Valley Sportsman's Lodge 1983
Youth Brigade, 7- Seconds, Stretch Marks and Die Kreuzen at The Vex #  3 East 
L.A. 1983
TSOL at SIR Studios Hollywood with big riot followed 1983
Dead Can Dance's first tour 1990 at The Wodsworth Theater 
Subhumans 2nd tour at The Olympic 1985 
Discharge, Misfits (many times after), 45 Grave, Crucifix and The Lewd, at  
Florentine Gardens 1982
Mark Burgess & The Sons of God at The Troubadour 1994
Holidays in the Sun 2001 (San Francisco) at Maritime Hall with Sham 69,  
Chelsea. Cockney Rejects, Anti Nowhere League, and countless others.
 
 
Reunions...
 
Bauhaus Hollywood Palladium 1998
Sex Pistols 1996  2 times
The Chameleons UK 2000 at Spaceland
 
~ LB
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/17/2007 3:42:59 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
Janean.Lancaster at hopwood.ac.uk writes:

 
Regrets:    
Far too many to  mention!  I’m always late getting into bands.  I only got 
into KJ in  2004. 
My biggest regret is  not seeing Depeche Mode with Alan Wilder. 
Glad:   
The Cure at their  prime in ‘89. 
Jesus Lizard circa  Goat. 
Curve circa Frozen  EP. 
 
  
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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net  [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On  
Behalf Of Brian Whitehead
Sent: 17 September 2007 11:30
To: A list  about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: [kj] Regrets
 
Regrets:
 
Ignoring the support band for the Buzzcocks circa  78...Joy Division.
 
Deciding the support for the Rezzilos around the same  time were crap and 
would never make it...Gang Of  Four
 
Only seeing the Ramones very late  on.
 
Ignoring New Model Army until the late  90s.

 
Hating The Fall until the mid  90s.
 
+ too many to  mention.
 

 

 
Glad:
 
Catching one of the first UK PiL  gigs.
 
Seeing the Damned in all their riotous glory in  78.
 
Seeing KJ in 79/80.  
 
Seeing, what I now believe, was the last ever Cocteaus  gig at the Subterania.
 
Seeing the last ever "real" Banshees gig in  Belguim.
 

 
Brian.



On 16/09/2007, _jpwhkj at aol.com_ (mailto:jpwhkj at aol.com)  <_jpwhkj at aol.com_ 
(mailto:jpwhkj at aol.com) >  wrote:  
 
Regrets:
 

Never saw the original Undertones - saw them about  3 or 4 years ago (very 
good)
Didn't see SLF until 1997 - admittedly they  were great then and since
Didn't see the original KJ line-up (first KJ gig  was 83, featuring Raven - 
which was great) 
Didn't see the Stranglers early  on - saw them in 85 (they were great)
Didn't see the original Buzzcocks  (but did see them perform dreadfully at 
Holidays in the Sun 96)
Only saw  about half of an Inner City Unit gig (85). Saw Maximum Effect quite 
a few  times after that though - they were great. And I "Judge Trev's Inner 
City  Unit" a few years ago (late nineties I think). 
Never saw Rudimentary  Peni.
Never saw the Dead Kennedys (biggest regret by a mile).
Never saw  CRASS.
Never saw Joy Division.
Never saw the Clash (but saw a lot of Joe  Strummer and the Mescaleros - who 
were great) 
Never saw The Mob - though I  did see Blyth Power play a Mob set as a benefit 
for the McLibel Two (along  with Zounds - apparently Steve Lake is an old 
mate of Dave Morris')
Didn't  see the original Zounds - although I've seen numerous reunions. 
Didn't see  the original Beat - but seen plenty of reunions (great).
Didn't see the  original Selecter - but seen plenty of times in the last few 
years  (great).

Things I'm glad about:

The fact that I did manage to  catch a lot of reunions (see above) and: 
- seeing Blyth Power very early  (the day of Live Aid 85)
- seeing Lords of the New Church several times early on (before  the second 
album came out)
- seeing the short-lived Maximum Effect
-  seeing Big Black
- seeing KJ relatively early on and before the downturn of  the late eighties
- seeing Chumbawamba fairly early (87 - Pictures of  Starving Children era) 
and then again in 98 and rekindling my interest.
-  seeing Motorhead (87) 
- seeing Tackhead (93, I think - wish it had been  earlier)
- seeing Flux (91/92? - wish it had been earlier)
- seeing  Conflict (my opinion has plummeted since, but at the time it was 
very  exciting)
- seeing Conflict and Steve Ignorant (Feeding of the 5000) 
-  seeing Transmission featuring Big Paul and Youth onstage together for the  
first time since 82 I guess.

And plenty of other less well-known bands  (Stormed of Cambridge, anyone?) 
who provided great nights out, of course...  



 













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