regrets, i've had a few.....

[flap]

I missed 2 of the staples shows and 2 of the Oakland shows and the vegas show. I wish I would have made those since they were in my neck of the woods.I wish I could make the land of Oz too but I won't be able to do that. Oh what dreams may come.

[dari]

see what happens when you only sleep 4-5 hours a night? you think of all the things you might have changed if you could have. so, i know i have a few regrets about decisions i've made to either go to a concert or not. or maybe it was one that you couldn't get to for reasons beyond your control (something insignificant...like you weren't born yet), and you had to hear about it from others. so what bruce concert and what non-bruce concert do you regret missing and why didn't you go?

dari

[Bustedsister]

Early bird !

I regret not having gone to see Bruce at the Boston Garden December 16, 1982 (I think), because I was in high school then, and didn't like the guy that asked me. See what good morals I have ?!

Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

They were JB seats, too.

Also, I didn't go on a trip with the folks I worked with to see Live Aid, because I was having panic attacks at that point in my life, and I didn't want to travel. What was THAT all about ?! I don't have them anymore.

And, I missed U2 at the Boston Garden on St. Patricks Day (Boston has an extremely high Irish immigrant population. If I'm not mistaken, even higher than NYC.) it would have been GREAT. But, I had been partying all day, and couldn't pull myself away from the Irish bar I was drinking in. Ever have that happen ??

[Paulie]

Ah, Dari!!

Can you guess what concert I'm gonna pick?? This is an easy one: the one non-Bruce concert I'd have loved to be at would have been the Beatles at Shea Stadium. Something about the fact I was only 6 months old and had no clue who the Beatles were (or anything or anyone else, for that matter!), kept me away from the Big Apple that night.

If I had to pick one concert that I would have been logistically able to go to, but didn't, I would have to say Queen at Boston Garden in 1982. I had tickets, but sold them at the last minute. I believe it was the last time they ever played the Garden.

Bustedsister:
You have the right month and date, but it was 1980, on the River tour, just a week after John Lennon died. I regret missing that one myself...I think it was sheer stupidity on my part that time! If memory serves, that was the last night he did "Crush on You" in concert.

Paulie

[orthy]

I chose a Guns n Roses/Metallica concert over Human Touch Tour in Jersey in 92...More of a scheduling conflict than a desire to see gnr/met but.....

[EstreetGirl]

i turned down tickets for closing night in philly this tour. i went to lake placid for my dad's hockey tournament. and when i got home and checked the setlist i was, needless to say, heartbroken...!!! bruce plays incident for the first time in 20 years... and opens with it!!!!!!!!!!!! and i missed it!!!!!!!!! but i finally got to hear it in msg thank goodness!!!!

[fanatic7]

I missed the GOTJ show in Denver. We hadn't been in Colorado long and didn't have any Bruce fan friends, couldn't talk anyone into going with me, and didn't want to go alone. THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!!!

The one non-Bruce performer I regret never having seen is Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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"Queen of the Silly Graphics"/"Thread Killer"

[Sherry Darlin]

Dari, that's an easy one! I left you and Lsg in Ft. Lauderdale and missed closing night. He played "Meeting across the River"
into "Jungleland", "Trapped" and the rest of the show was incredible. I never got to hear any of those songs for the rest of the tour and I'll always regret not staying. But I did get to see my boy wack a few at his baseball game, so I guess I had my priorities straight. There's always next tour, right!!?????

[jungleland10]

I don't have any regrets about missed shows, b/c at 16 i didn't have any way to get to any other cities, or pay for any more tickets. There is one regret that i do have...

I only really discovered Bruce about one year ago at the 8/27/99 closing night in boston. I went to the show expecting him to play Dancin in the Dark, BITUSA, I'm on fire, Glory Days, and all the commercial hits. When i heard Candy's Room to open, Adam Raised a cain, Ties that bind, Thunder Road, Jungleland, Point Blank, etc, i knew there was a little bit more to the music than i knew. I regret that i went to the show with so little knowledge, and although i loved it, i would have enjoyed it more if i had heard the songs before.

"Well i got this guitar and i learned how to make it talk..."

[Bustedsister]

Paulie,

80, '82, those years were pretty much a blur to me , after JL got murdered.

[beckster]

Of course I regret missing every Bruce concert from the beginning until 8/21/99
my first live Bruce ever (almost exactly a year ago). I kick myself because I was in college in the late 70's in New England and if I'd been less of a wimp I could have seen him.
I almost went to Hartford 5/8 and I 'd could kick myself http://talk.livedaily.com/docs/mad.gif , some of my fave's (Brilliant Disguise, Because the Night, Atlantic City, Spirit in the Night...) and I've heard the boot.. amazing. That bit of Honky Tonk Woman , must have been a unique moment.

E Street Band!, E Street Band!....

Fanatic7 .. I agree about Stevie Ray Vaughn. That's about the only other music I listen to these days. Unfortunately I only really discovered his music after he died. Think what he could have accomplished (he was also a John Hammond discovery I believe).

Dari , hope you get some sleep soon!
Beckster



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[Estreetgirl's mom]

Funny, dari, ESG and I were just talking about this recently. Great (or at least like) minds etc.

I regret not going to all eleven NJ shows I had tickets for, not going to Philly, not going to Ft. Lauderdale, etc, etc, etc. Next tour there will be NO REGRETS.

[con]

i regret missing the second night in atlanta... saw the first night but had to leave to make it home for work on monday morning ( i should have called in sick) and i really regret not seeing any shows on the darkness tour..

[Hazeleyes]

I regret not going to Dallas this year. Dari you and I have talked about being at Reunion in 84, and I have heard this years show was great.

At the time, I was just happy to get a ticket for Houston. And I didn't find LD, until after the show.

I also regret not trying harder to go to a show during his River tour while I was in graduate school. Of course, he never played College Station, but I could have driven to Houston or Austin.

But I am just happy that I got to see him 3 times this year. And the JBs in SLC were the icing on the cake.

Can't wait till the next tour, so I can use all the TM tricks to get good seats to a lot of shows.

Non Bruce shows I could have seen, but didn't for one reason or another - Clapton in '89, and U2 in the 80's.

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[dari]

i've been pretty damned lucky when it comes to bruce but i still regret that my brother who was living with his girlfriend (my sister-in-law now) picked july 1978 to get married when i had 3rd row tickets to see bruce at the forum with backstage passes already in hand. let's see...do i see bruce or be banished from the family forever for missing the wedding? i would have picked bruce for my other brothers but this is the one who actually likes me so i had to go.

now to make matters worse my friend steven who i would have been sitting with got backstage with his camera and hung out with bruce and jackson browne for awhile and got some great shots(have those). WORSE THAN THAT... my friends pete and lou heard before the encores that if you left the show and made it up to the roxy that tickets for the roxy show 2 nights later were going on sale. they ditched the encores, praying that it wasn't all rumour, and lo and behold got tickets to the roxy show which, if you have it on tape (radio broadcast), you know was one of the best shows ever.
i was at my brother's house for his anniversary this year and it is still a touchy subject. he laughed when i told him it's good that the marriage has lasted all of these 22 years. if it had only lasted a couple of years i would have killed him.

for a non-bruce show...
my friends asked me if i wanted to drive up to san francisco to see a concert on thanksgiving. like a fool i didn't really know what it was gonna be and because it was a holiday,i decided to spend it with my cousins as i had just moved to california.
come to find out that the concert was the band's last (the last waltz of course) and have been kicking myself ever since.


dari
p.s. kind of sorry i missed woodstock too but i think i miss the idea of the whole thing more than the reality. of course that's hindsight...at the time i felt miserable that i didn't go.

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[Toots]

I regret not being able to get tickets to a show on the Darkness tour, or having the guts to drive myself to Cleveland (I lived an hour away at the time) and trying to get whatever seats I could in the parking lot. But I was only 18 and new to the area so I'll give myself a break on that one. I also regret living in Alaska when he toured in 84 and 85, being pregnant and living in Syracuse for TOL and the closest show at that time was in Worcester Mass.

But I'm really glad that I got to see two shows in LA last October, that I stumbled upon this message board and made some great friends, I made it to one show at the Pond, and got to Vegas to see him there. I wish that I had the money to have gone to New York to see him at the Garden, especially on 6/27 when he did Loose Ends AND Back in your Arms. Maybe by the next tour I will have won that lottery and I'll hit every show there is!

Toots

[dari]

toots

if you win that lottery then you're taking the whole "family" on the whole tour next time!

dari

[ForYou]

Lets see, I regret not going to the No Nukes show.
I regret not seeing the other 2 Fla. shows after Orlando but had to leave early because of family illness.
Would really have regrets if we had not gone to NY for 7/1 and even more regrets if we had not gotten in.
Wish I could have seen the Beatles in Hamburg or the Cavern.
Wish I had seen John Lennon in NYC

Dari--I had a choice of my lst cousins wedding or the Beatles and I went to the Beatles. No regrets.

[Bobby Gene]

Beckster, same as you about 5/8, I regret missing that show. Both Hartford shows actually. But I had a final exam the morning and night of 5/8 so I really could have gone to 5/7, but then I would have been to tired the next day. But I saw quite a few songs performed, and some really rare ones so I can't complain. The only other regret would be that the Darkness tour was 2 years before I was born, because I've heard that that was the best tour of Springsteen's.

[VTGIRL]

I regret missing the second night in Hartford. He played Atlantic City. Which I never heard. I did get to hear Growing Up and Human Touch the first night though!! I also wish that I had to gone to more shows by myself. I don't have any relatives or friends who like Bruce.

[dari]

for you

if it was just a cousin it wouldn't have been an option to miss bruce but it was my brother unfortunately. but you did make the right choice...would hate to look back on missing the beatles for a cousin's wedding...NO CONTEST THERE.

and i almost posted missing the beatles at the cavern and i guess i should have but i was thinking more in terms of a concert then them at a club/bar. don't ask me why i make these distinctions in my head... i have no clue. but if that were the case then, yes, the beatles at the cavern or the star club would be choice #1 over and above anything else.

dari

[Incident]

I regret not being able to go to the June 1978 Bruce show in Milwaukee. I had just found out that I had cancer and had to have surgery. The concert was scheduled for the night I had my surgery. I asked the doctor and my mom if they could postpone the surgery a day or two. They both looked at me like I was insane, though the doctor probably would have let me do it, my mom since I was only 15 years old vetoed that suggestion.
Man, was I ticked off.

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We'll be seeing you.

Paul

[Muddyemms]

Both categories are due to a lack of funds at the time . . . the Bruce concert(s) that I wish I could have gone to would have to be the Atlanta duo. Why? It has a lot to do with meeting a lot of you people, and a couple of animals, as well. I probably could have found someone to borrow the funds from (This, of course, would have not sat well with Mrs. M at all.). The NBC that I wish I could have seen . . . the Stones, in Hartford, about two weeks before Bruce's first show of this tour, in Barcelona . . .

[BronxDarren]

I regret being inside a stale office building on the most beautiful day of the year Sunday gorgeous blue sky warm tropical breezes Yankees playing in ther Bronx Whitey Ford day supposed to go with my brother and friend the day after my girlfriend left for Utah for 3 months with a mixed Bruce live tape in her walkman thanks Redrocks but I sit here looking through files why why why $$$$$ sick to my stomach

also regret being 1 or 2 when bruce was still playing clubs-dont regret blowing all my money to take my family and friend s to so many of this tour.

Incident: holy smoke!! that's incredible. congrats

[patter]

ACK!!!!!! You need to ask????????

Guess I'm STILL not over it.............

pppppppppppppatter

[NaughtySherry]

I guess I have to join the contingent regretting missing Hartford 5/8, but I suppose I shouldn't start harping on my &%$#! husband and his %$&*@@!* job that made me miss it (though, in having to scramble for a seat to 5/7 at the last minute I did make a very good friend. But that doesn't let my husband off the hook.) I also regret missing the second Anaheim show, for which I had a perfect MIB seat, for the same damned reason.

As for non-bruce events, I regret not going to see BonJovi in 1987 just because I was in labor with my daughter...

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But that's just my opinion.

[swamptramp]

There were so many memorable Bruce shows, I could probably list 15 or 20, that I would have like to have seen. Probably the New Year's Eve show at Nassau Coliseum would rank high.

For non-Bruce, the roof top concert the Beatles gave during the filming of Let It Be. So many groups have their last tour only to tour again and again. This was the last show and you definately saw that come through on the film. Still they rallied and put on a great moment. Yup, John, you did pass the audition!

[Phillyfan1]

Interesting Thread Dari, I;ve enjoyed reading everyones regrets..ok here's mine.

This is pathetic..but...
I'm sure you all remember how famous Peter Frampton was in the late 70's..I don't remember the year, but I'm thinking 75 or 76.
Anyway, I had tickets to see him here in Phila. But,there was this guy I had a huge crush on who was not going to the concert. So I sold my tickets to a friend, because this guy said we would spend the day together since neither of us would be going. I didn't want to tell my Mom that I wasn't going to the concert because that way I could stay out all day and into the evening. So I left my house pretending to go to the concert, waited all day for this guy to show up at "our Meeting place". To make a long story short, he never showed. I stayed out of the house all day by myself...kicking myself for not going to the concert with my friends ....To make matter worse I had to lie when I got home, telling Mom what a great time I had...pathetic, but true !

My other regret would be of course not going to see Bruce on 6/29 and 7/1 , mostly because I wanted to meet my little Brother Flap and of course you Dari. But I had to work and just didn't have the money..

Seems as if alot regret not going to 5/8 in Hartford...so I'm counting my blessings and happy I was there.

And the one thing that thrills me about Bruce touring this year, was finding a new family on this board. Hopefully we will all meet again "Further on up the Road"

[scootbigman]

My Bruce regret is the second show in Atlanta. My NBC would have to be Woodstock(the original). I blame my Mother for this because if she would have just said to my two older brothers " where ever you go this weekend you have to take your little brother with you!" I would have been there. Imagine being 9 years old and seeing naked women and rolling in mud for three days, what a memory that would have been!

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[brucefanatic]

Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention.....
I regret not being a Bruce tramp in the early 70's when I could have seen in person some of the incredible performances I can now only listen to on tape and wonder at. I don't even have the excuse that I wasn't born yet or too young. I was just not converted yet.


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the power, the promise

[dari]

scootbigman

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love your reason for wanting to go to woodstock...mud and naked women!!! most would have wanted to see jimi or janis but at 9 i guess your hormones were already confused about whether you were a child or a pre-teen.
don't know about you but my older brother still hates me because my mother always said "..and take your sister!!!"

phillyfan1

hope you only regret missing july 1 for the concert. it was amazing and you will get to meet flap and me at the bruce-a-thoon..right?

swamptramp

have i mentioned before that i think i love you? concert on the roof...how the hell did
for you and i forget that one???? i can't belive that this december it will be 20 years. maybe the concert on the roof wouldn't have been the last one.....


dari

[swamptramp]

dari

I think I am blushing! A love connection based on Bruce & The Beatles, nothing could be more sound.

For anyone who is interested in Beatle books, there is a really great book, "Growing Up With The Beatles", by Ron Schaumburg. It was written before John's death, so the innocence is still there (you may or may not like that part). It had everything we all remember, girls fighting over who was the cutest, guys who perfected their "John at the microphone" imitation in the mirror, the "clues" that people found uncovering Paul's death.

It is just a real fun read remembering those events.

[Marsha]

I have no regrets for Bruce. I may not have traveled the world to see him but I have not missed seeing at least one show on every tour since 1975 that has come to my area.
Benefits as well.

Shows I've not caught but would have loved:
Janis Joplin and The Doors for obvious reasons.

Jethro Tull for no good reason.

Neil Young because the tickets were $150.00 a piece, I was second in line and passed. This was also in the midst of spending for Bruce. Money always well spent.

[Abes]

How's this? I can't really say I regret it because I had no choice.

I live near Boston. But, I had to be in Chicago for work when Bruce and the Band were in Boston on the tour last year (and I couldn't make it home on the weekends). Then, I had to be back home when Bruce and the Band were in Chicago. I left Chicago four days before.

Just my luck...

[Rams]

I missed Bruce on his solo acoustical tour in 1996, even though he was playing only 3 miles away. It was right smack between my wedding and Christmas, so I couldn't get the cash together. Fortunately, he came back to town with the whole band in tow four years later, so there was some redemption.

Rams
a cool rockin' daddy.

[young again]

On the past tour I went to 4 shows and there were only 2 others that I had any realistic chance of going to -- Philly 9/25 and Hartford 5/8. In both cases I couldn't get anyone to watch the kids. So that's not so much a "regret" as bad luck.

I certainly regret not having seen Bruce sooner -- I was too young prior to the River tour, and I have some vague recollection of being away when he was in town for that one. As for BITUSA, I was turned off of stadium shows in general and annoyed at Bruce for doing silly videos, stadium shows, dance mixes, etc., so I didn't even try. Seems pretty silly in retrospect now that I know what I was missing out on. Similarly for the following tours, I didn't really like TOL at the time, didn't want to see him without the E-Streeters, etc. But now of course I'd see him regardless of whether I like his new material (please let there be new material) or who he's playing with (please let him play for us again)!

I'm sure there were some non-Bruce events that I regretted not going to, but they all pale in comparison. I wish I had gone to some of the great concerts in Central Park back when I used to live in the NY area.

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[Clairester]

I regret living in Philly 1980-88 and not going to any Bruce concerts then! Though I did see him play a song during a U2 Concert--i think it was at JFK in 87. Bono had broken his arm and Bruce came onstage and palyed a song with him. The crowd went wild. The first Bruce concert I went to was 1992 or 93 in Chapel Hill, NC. Just not the same.
I did go to Live Aid though, in Philly.

A regret concerning a show I did go to: Fargo. I snuck way up front and was grooving to the show. Then went back to where my husband was, brought him up front, and we got caught. Had to return to our seats.
damn.

Regret going out with my brothers instead of going to MSG on 6/23. I could have snagged tix too. Regret not going to the second Minneapolis show, though I went to the first one.

[Rosalita1223]

Oh this is easy...

The show I missed that I wished I could have seen was any of the Garden shows in May 1976 for Paul McCartney's Wings Over America Tour. His first to the US in 13 years but I was not allowed to go into the city by my mommy. Hey I was only 13...but that had to be the worst spring and summer of my then young life...oh the agony! But I won "Wings At the Speed of Sound" from 77 WABC radio contest that weekend, I guess it was a consolation...

The Bruce show I missed that I regret was the MUSE show at the Garden in September 1979. And there we all were, standing at the ticket booth in the Garden waiting to get into the Ted Nugent show (ewwww) looking at the board for the MUSE lineup and we had to actually think about it. Teenagers make such silly decisions sometimes...

[BADABING!]

i missed seeing..cream at one of murray the k shows.with about 4 other bands. i was playin in a band at the time. i missed neil young ,sat nie..2nd row center because my bro n his wife came down with food poisoning, n didnt tell me until 6 http://talk.livedaily.com/docs/redface.gifo the time to leave. if they would have called earlier.. i would seen a hell of a show

[back2theisland]

i have to agree with marsha regarding not having any bruce regrets. i've also managed to see at least one show on every tour since '77. i even ended up seated next to him at a small press gathering after my first show. i snuck backstage, had a seat and the next thing i knew out comes this guy that had just put on one of the greatest live shows i'd ever seen. he took a seat at a table almost next to mine and it was then that security noticed that i had no credentials. security asked me to leave but he said it was ok and i could stay, so i sat down.
on the other hand, i have only one regret about a show that i didn't go to. i was with friends for the weekend with plans to get home sunday morning and go to a show sunday afternoon. one thing led to another and i stayed and partied with my friends. the next day i heard the news that a copter had crashed in the fog and we had lost stevie ray vaughn. i cried for two days.

I hear a blues riff in the still of the night.
Is that you little boy blues? Your cross was found on some faraway hill,
They say where wild flowers grow.
Are you up there somewhere playing your blues?
Oh Lord I think I know . . .

[dari]

hey badabing

i went to that show and what you may not remember was that it wasn't only the cream but also the who in their first american concert on the bill as well. both of them were opening for the headliner who was mitch ryder and the detroit wheels (devil with a blue dress/cc ryder...the detroit medley). in fact, we kept saying to each other...who are these guys and what are they doing? then when the who did their guitar smashing thing we went nuts booing them. what a show for $3.50 a ticket and in a movie theater no less! can't even remember who the other acts were
as they were just part of a phenomenal line up.

backtotheisland

that makes 2 of us crying over stevie ray!


dari

[cobalt]

Other than the obvious regrets about not seeing Bruce when he was first getting his $60 guitar from his mom, and every performance after that (hehe), my biggest regret was in about 1978 or so, I had tickets to see the original lineup of Little Feat, but had a bad flu. I debated going anyway, but decided I could alwasy catch them next time. Lowell George was dead within the year.

I also never saw Talking Heads, and really regret that.

[lori]

My biggest non-Bruce regret is not catching the Eagles after they got back together again fairly recently (they were my first favorite rock group, when I was in 4th grade).

Unfortunatley, I do have Bruce regrets. I was too young to catch the River tour. I desperately wanted to go, but my parents wouldn't let me. I somehow missed the Amnesty tour (I think it was my first year in law school--I know, lame excuse). I missed the HT/LT tour because I had just started working and was dating my soon-to-be husband who was not into music and/or Bruce. I guess law school and non-Bruce friends got me out of my Bruce mode, which was pretty intense in high school and college.
for the GOTJ tour, I was shut out when I tried to get tix the honest way. On the night of the show, with my 3 week old baby at home I went to the Wiltern to scalp tix, but 1/2 hour into the show, the cheapest tix I could get were $150 (which was more than I was willing to go).
Needless to say, seeing him 8 times in 4 cities this past year has been a complete shock to my husband (who really had no idea that I was such a fan) and the ultimate joy for me!!

[HazardFromHarvard]

Paulie and BustedSister: I too missed the 12/16/80 show - my friends and I had a choice of great seats to J. Geils or Bruce (my friend's uncle worked for Ticketron) and I got outvoted. Another friend then offered me a ticket to Bruce but I passed because of the cost ($12.50 - about $3 per hour for those River shows). Geils was great, but my first Bruce show was postponed for over 4 years. (Yes, Paulie, that was the last Crush On You, and I always thought that was a good concert song.)

[Zephyrs 23]

Since I was either not born or too young for all of them before this tour I'll exclude those.

Mine is August 21, 1999 FleetCenter Boston, my 18th birthday. I had read that all 5 shows sold out in 3 hours, and this was the night they went on sale. It was before I was on here, so I didn't know about ticket drops or BTX, and so I worked that night sulking. And my friend tried to win tickets for it from a radio station, and she was THREE calls too early!!! THREE. George from southwick one and he has since been the bane of my existance.

As for other concerts, Billy Joel, December 8, 1998 hartford Civic Center. Originally it was scheduled for September, but for some reason it was pushed back. I got a group of friends, and for some reason nearly all of them had to back out. and I couldn't buy my own ticket because my brother never paid me back $60 he owed me. Still hasn't.

And if I miss U2's tour that inevitably will support the album to be released on Halloween, I will have that one too.

[MeanGene]

I'd like to think I have no regrets over missed shows 'cuz after all, what's done is done. However, I have a 12/16/80 story but with a happy ending. http://talk.livedaily.com/docs/smile.gif

Bruce was playing back-to-back nights (the 15th & 16th) at Boston Garden. I had just started grad school at BU and hadn't made any friends in the Boston area yet. I had just gotten into the "River" and some of the older stuff when the tickets went on sale and I decided to buy one for each show. As the concerts got nearer I started having my doubts about seeing a performer on back-to-back nights, something I had only done once prior (Harry Chapin http://talk.livedaily.com/docs/biggrin.gif) and that was during summer vacation.

Anyway, although it's too late to make a long story short http://talk.livedaily.com/docs/wink.gif, I was still having my doubts when the 1st night of the stand I ran into a college classmate of mine before the show. I told him my dilemna about going to both shows and he gave me a look like "What, are you $#&@ing crazy??" Needless to say, I was back for another 3-1/2 hours of euphoria the following night!!


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[Bustedsister]

Oh, yeah, (yeah, yeah)-

I totally forgot the Beatles rooftop. But that's probably because I've watched the film soooooo many times, and, I didn't really count that as a fan-attended show, anyway.

I do, however, regret missing their show at Suffolk Downs, which, at the time, was in my hometown !

Swamptramp and dari,

my dream relationship has the Beatles/Bruce commonality. I've had one or the other, but never BOTH!!

[Kumo]

A couple of regrets, but this one comes up in my mind. I regret not following ESG's advice of staying in NYC after 6/20!!! She came up with that "eardrum inflammation" idea, so I couldn't fly back to Belgium (could arrange something to 'prove' that). But to stay reasonable, that would be a little bit stupid. http://talk.livedaily.com/docs/wink.gif
Another thing is, that I didn't go for tickets for Orlando, Ft Lauderdale, Atlanta. Now that I think about it, every other show that I didn't see.

[billyboy]

October 25, 1975. My then-wife and I had gone back to my college in New England for a football weekend. In front of the performing arts center was a sign: "Tonight - Bruce Springsteen." It's a 900-seat auditorium with great acoustics. She asked: "Do you know who that is?" I said, "No. Should we go anyway?" We decided that we didn't think we were going to like that kind of "hard rock," so we didn't go. I never did see him until BITUSA ten years later. Oh, the wasted years!!!

[dari]

billyboy

...if it had been just 2 days later you might have seen the covers of time and newsweek and gone. i got depressed for you just reading this.

dari

[BADABING!]

had tickets to the bottom line shows.but i ended up playin down the shore.

[fishlady]

I regret not being a fan from the beginning. When my younger sister was listening to Bruce in 74/75, I was still listening to my old Beatle albums (I have a tendency to live in the past). I regret not knowing my husband then (I was 18, he would've been 14...kinda weird I guess). He was into Bruce bigtime, and saw some incredible shows! I regret not enjoying the shows I saw in 1980 more. I am ashamed to admit that I was into...ugh...disco....argh!!!!!!!! I regret not going to the last show of this tour on 7/1. Even without tix, the energy and excitement had to be contagious.

But I am grateful for finally seeing the light, or rather hearing the sound, and going to 6 shows.

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Faith will be rewarded