Biggest Live Miss 23 years ago today............

Coltrane; sometimes I can feel him in the room with me when the stereo is just so and the lights are off. It is the rarest of experiences to go back in time and be in the presence of long-dead giants that invented the language as if they were speaking in tongues. Unsound, I caught Kirk twice at the Village Vanguard. The second time was after the stroke and he could only play with one arm, the other being paralyzed. He rigged up all of the horns on stands in a way that only Kirk could. It was the most inspiriational concert of my life. He died a few months later.

Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Cream.

Velvet Underground, The Doors, Bob Marley, Otis Redding. I've seen almost everyone else I wanted to -- Stones in '72 and at least five times since, The Dead, also in '72 and many times since, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Who in the early 70's and a few more times, CSN&Y, Dylan with The Band and without, Pink Floyd in the early 70's, Cream, Janis Joplin, Peter Tosh, etc. etc., so I don't have too many regrets. I still have all my ticket stubs, too.

I missed the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense tour in Chapel Hill. I was working 70 hours a week on a major consulting project 2 hours away and had just been to Chapel Hill the night before to see The Clash... After only 2 hours sleep and 10 hours work, I was unable to make the drive the second night.

Missed Zeppelin tour due to Bonham death.

Missed The Who's FIRST farewell tour due to HS Basketball Regionals, missed the NEXT farewell tour due to a college calculus final, which I nearly failed anyway. Oh well, so many farewell tours followed that I have only myself to blame.

A girl I took around alot in college wanted to take me to see the Tom Tom Club in a small club but I begged off(No romance, alas, she just liked having a really big guy around to drag her out of all of the interesting things she got herself into.) That would have been fun, but I didn't realize it until later. I was a genuine redneck.

The band I always wanted to see was Skynyrd, but I was too young before the plane crash. Saw the remnants later.