[kj] Regrets

[gingoblin at easynet.co.uk]

Oh I still kick myself at some of the gigs I missed!  Main ones:
NAKED RAYGUN  - Edinburgh '90(89? 91?)... had somehow managed to not hear 
them up to that point, and a friend with bad taste in music had a poster of 
'em on his wall so I made the assumption they can't be very good. Oh how 
wrong I was. I WILL see them one day though since they're back playing.

NOMEANSNO - First time they played Edinburgh... '89 I think... bought Wrong 
that day... thought "ach, too stoppy-starty for me" and didn't go. Of 
course I now love 'em and Wrong is my fave album by them!   Caught them 
many times since though.

BAD BRAINS - Glasgow '89 (hmm, 1989... what the fuck was going on?). 
Offered a seat on the bus going through... knocked it back... MASSIVE 
regret ever since. Gonna see 'em in London next month... HOPEFULLY gonna 
make up.

But still, Fugazi 1st UK tour, Turbonegro pre-split, Poison Idea w/Pig, 
Slayer Hippy etc, Clash, Jam, Stranglers, Ramones + a few hundred others... 
the HUGE list of top gigs crushes the few regrets! Thank the lords!

Dave in Edinburgh







At 17:59 17/09/2007 -0400, you wrote:

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>Regrets:

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>Not seeing...

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>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

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>Happy to see...

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>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.

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>Reunions...

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>Bauhaus Hollywood Palladium 1998

>Sex Pistols 1996  2 times

>The Chameleons UK 2000 at Spaceland

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>~ LB

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>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, <mailto:jpwhkj at aol.com>jpwhkj at aol.com 

><<mailto:jpwhkj at aol.com>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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