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Me neither, and as a result I sometimes get kind of angry and scared when cyclist commuters ride hands free in the narrow city streets around here. One medium sized pebble and your life is over.

My first time seeing Phish was their Atlanta Roxy shows which came out as an official release a few years ago. Just amazingly fun shows. I saw them four or five more times after that, and after the Hoist tour I never bothered with them again. I thought NRBQ broke up a few years ago. If they still play together then I'm happy. Terry Adams just came through town with his band, but I didn't get to see them.

For me, it was 1991. Amazing show.

Elvis Costello and the Attractions (doubt they'll ever do it again) Neil Young and Crazy Horse (ditto) Walt Mink original lineup. Violent Femmes (these guys are done, right?)

I had a pair of third row tickets to see Pearl Jam in 1994. I wound up selling the tickets to a broker and spent the money on a trip to Ohio to see two Grateful Dead shows. Can't say I regret my decision, but it would have been cool to see Pearl Jam at that time in their career. I doubt I'll ever see them now.

The Who w/ Entwistle ('89 or '90. My first rock concert, 4th row center!) Traffic ('90s reuinion tour) Television (reunion album tour) Big Star/Chilton solo Dizzy Gillespie w/ Max Roach & M'Boom Grateful Dead Nirvana Phish (when they were still playing small theaters) NRBQ Allman Brothers before they fired Dickie Betts Firehose Janes Addiction in a small theater Bowie (Sound and Vision tour) King Crimson double trio Monks of Doom Link Wray Five Style Pink Floyd (Division Bell tour) June Carter Cash w/ Johnny guesting on several songs Pixies (Trompe Le Monde tour)

Luckily for me, when I was in my BMX phase there was an office park under construction near my neighborhood. For a few years most of it was dirt fields. Some motorcycle guys built a huge moto-cross track complete with large berms and a variety of jumps in one of the fields. My favorite/scariest jump was in my backyard. We tore the slide off my swingset, and propped it up against a log. On one side of the landing area was a huge boulder that jutted out from a steep hill, and on the other side was our pile of grass clippings. So the options were to land a VERY rad jump, get mortally wounde

Ah yeah, I missed at least four or five opportunities to see Sun Ra.

I don't mean to pile on, but if it weren't for the nitpicking/clarification of purpose, this thread might as well be a link to Mojo Magazine's list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. Who we failed to take the opporunity to see and now regret is far more interesting/personal/revealing than who we wish we had seen.

That's a pretty tough looking bike. Looks like something the kid who beat me up a couple times would have ridden.

I remember seeing one of those. They just don't make things like they used to. Those grips are the type that put blisters all over your hands. Did you have to reweld the frame to accomodate the chopper forks?

The Bandit! I forgot all about that. A friend of mine had one and I got to ride it once. That thing is an ergonomic disaster. My second bike was a no-name. Might've been an AMF, actually. It was blue and I upgraded it with velcro lightning bolt pads (pads with snaps were the lamest things ever once velcro pads came out). That bike got stolen, and, out of anger, I immediately accused my neighor (who was something of a hood) and made him open his crawlspace to prove he didn't have it. Of course, he was innocent. My dad and I went to the police station a few dyas later. In their at

Inspired by the Borders thread... The first bike I ever wanted was a purple bike with flames on it that was for sale at Lionel Playworld. This must've been 1976, or something. I guess my parents didn't have enough money to buy it, so they bought a used girls bike from someone in the neighborhood and my dad went to work on it. He removed the girl-style top bar and welded a boy-style straight top bar onto it, and then attached a triangular plate between the top bar that had red flames painted on it. He also attached wooden blocks to the pedals because my legs weren't long enough to reach.

Chopper Bike. Badass. I had a couple pretty interesting chiildhood bikes/bike stories. I think a new thread might be in order to discuss our childhood bicycles.

Me too. I eventually got a Redline and my brother had a Torker (super funky looking bike at the time). Those bikes wound up rotting below my parents' porch. I wish I had been in a position to rescue and store them for a couple decades, but they're long gone now. Borders closing - - > BMX bikes. Definitely one of the best thread-jacks ever.

Totally forgot about that one.

Alva's one of the greats, but I was always more of a Neil Blender, Mark Gonzales guy. Igave my brother a box full of my old Thrasher magazines from the 80s when I saw hom at Christmas.

I remember those days. I loved Circus and Hit Parader, but I was also reading BMX Plus.

Me too. I missed the Being There tour. Two of my bandmates at the time went. I already liked Wilco, and I easily could have tagged along, but for whatever reason I didn't go. I remember them meeting up with me and some friends at a bar after the show and saying how great the show was. It wasn't until the last post-Jay/pre-Nels tour that I finally got to see them.

Who Let the Dog's Out? - no idea who did this one

I passed on seeing the Kinks on their two last tours. At the time I really only knew "You Really Got Me" and "Tired of Waiting", and although I liked those songs they weren't an important band to me. I still kick myself for missing them, though.

It sucks that a lot of people are going to lose their jobs over this, but aside form that I really don't care that Border's is closing stores and will probably soon be gone entirely. They've gone so far downhill, and so fast, that it's almost shocking. Borders used to be a pleasant place to shop/browse/spend time. It has turned into a place that flaunt its inability to attract my business.

I hope the suicide helpline is going to be fully staffed that night. What a massive bummer of an album.

And Do You Love Me Now? - - the Breeders

So What'cha Want? - Beastie Boys