Music regrets

[Silent Alarm]

Nah, I'd move to Brooklyn and start sleeping with Alexa Chung like everyone else in a rock band has.

 

[Kurve]

Bootscooting to Billy Ray Cyrus

 

[Ocha905]

That the only music I wanted to listen to from years 10-14 were by Linkin Park.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Bootscooting to Billy Ray Cyrus

You win.

 

[Kurve]

You win.

I know ...

 

[PVF]

I regretted not going to see Sabbath play back in 2013. So glad they decided to come back last year because I jumped on that opportunity and it was a ****ing awesome gig.

Never seeing Scott Weiland in either Stone Temple Pilots or Velvet Revolver.

Not really regrettable because he died 20 years before I was born but if I had a time machine I'd go back to see The Doors with Jim Morrison live.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I regretted not going to see Sabbath play back in 2013. So glad they decided to come back last year because I jumped on that opportunity and it was a ******* awesome gig.

Never seeing Scott Weiland in either Stone Temple Pilots or Velvet Revolver.

Not really regrettable because he died 20 years before I was born but if I had a time machine I'd go back to see The Doors with Jim Morrison live.

Whenever you reminisce about old Jimbo just listen to this...

 

[Gough]

Or this Mount Gambier's finest.

 

[Gasometer]

Gifted a John Farnham ticket...the same night Guns and Roses were playing in 1989.

 

[JackOutback]

Gifted a John Farnham ticket...the same night Guns and Roses were playing in 1989.

Yeah, but it was probably Farnsey's farewell tour, right?

 

[Silent Alarm]

Yeah, but it was probably Farnsey's farewell tour, right?

This gag doesn't ever get old.

 

[PhatBoy]

Not getting into The Ramones until 3/4 of them were dead, not seeing Pennywise play About Time last year because by the time I realised it was happening it was sold out.

Absolutely agree. Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee were all gone or in dee Dee's case, on his way via gear when I finally started to listen to them. I can thank Tony Hawk II for introducing me via Blitzkrieg Bop

 

[Richard Cranium]

Once being Team XCX...



Oof.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Once being Team XCX...



Oof.

After The Afterparty is a nice song. Sounds like something that should have been on the Bangerz album Miley Cyrus should've made. Unfortunately her non-pop stuff is simply terrible (Vroom Vroom EP for example) and it's becoming obvious her albums will never be really stellar, proper and rounded and investable pop albums.

She is such a pop tart too these days, just looks a little dirty as well. I still would though.

 

[JackFlash]

Everyone regrets something; there's no shame in it. You're more of a monster if you truly live free of regrets, because the moment you accidentally back over someone's little Jack Russell, only a super dickhead smiles and yells "shoulda bought a cat" before driving off.

In the grand scheme of things, you can really be consumed by regretting your past actions. It's a slap in your own face, because no one wants to blame themselves for something that went terribly wrong, but we all have those harrowing moments of honesty when we're forced to realise that shit went wrong and no one else caused it but us. Music regrets are few as i always hated disco, no matter how popular it was, i was never that commercial sort of guy, i was into punk and looked like a Ramone so whatever it was i was against it! No regrets there.

Did you ever watch Countdown and secretly like that horrible new pop song Molly was flogging that week? You never told your mates about it, but everytime it came on the radio you listened to it all the way through secretly thinking "that wasn't so bad". The songs were generally horrible, but for some reason they stuck in your head, things like Echo Beach, 99 Luft Balloons or the latest single by hornbag Kim Wilde! I got over it! I wasn't the only one who had a Kylie fascination, ask Nick Cave and Michael Hutchence! I think it was her great legs and those lips?

I suppose my biggest regret was never seeing Led Zeppelin, i was too young to go when they came to OZ the first time, i did see the Page/Plant tour in 1996 and i met them both, but i would've loved to have seen Zeppelin at their peak.

 

[Schauermann]

Missed Mercyful Fate in Wacken 1999. But was young, stupid and mainly into more extrem stuff at that time.

And I slept through Arthur Brown last year being hopelessly drunk.

 

[Nantes]

Not learning piano, I had a great chance to do it with a great teacher/neighbour free of charge as a kid. I just wanted to play drums, I did it for years but it bores me these days and has for a while.

 

[smasha]

Not learning piano, I had a great chance to do it with a great teacher/neighbour free of charge as a kid. I just wanted to play drums, I did it for years but it bores me these days and has for a while.

Never too old to learn an instrument,I wanna learn keyboards as well.
My eyes aint too flash and learning piano requires alot of chart reading.
Another regret,missing Tull and Yes when they came over here but have seen Radiohead and Massive Attack so you take the good with the bad.

Plenty of quality local acts nowadays in all genres of music.

 

[PhatBoy]

Not learning piano, I had a great chance to do it with a great teacher/neighbour free of charge as a kid. I just wanted to play drums, I did it for years but it bores me these days and has for a while.

I was very lucky as a kid.

My mum was a piano player who turned her hand to teaching later in life. My sister studied piano at the Sydney Conservatorium and became a music teacher. My grandma was a concert violin player who was still playing the piano at her retirement village church services until 2 years ago (she turns 107 in November).

I always wanted to learn drums and guitar but mum insisted that I learn piano. I had a great teacher, didn't practice as much as I should have but learned for 6 years.

It made it possible to easily teach myself drums and guitar - 17 years later I teach both for a living as well as playing/singing at gigs on weekends. Mums decision was the best ever made on my behalf.

 

[Richard Cranium]

She is such a pop tart too these days, just looks a little dirty as well. I still would though.

Yeah I can think of two reasons the track's called Bounce, amiritelads?

 

[PP34]

Getting a guitar late in primary school, learning for a bit and then basically just stopping in high school. Not that I was that great or anything, but being able to jam is a pretty fun and useful talent, particularly now as I have a few friends into performing.

I did a tiny bit of jamming with some mates as a grade 6 student in one of their grandma's basement but it didn't last long unfortunately. One of the blokes now plays a bit in a band at some pubs and clubs around Melbourne. Certainly never wanted to be a performer as a kid, but these days I look at bands and think it would be a pretty cool existence.

 

[smasha]

I was very lucky as a kid.

My mum was a piano player who turned her hand to teaching later in life. My sister studied piano at the Sydney Conservatorium and became a music teacher. My grandma was a concert violin player who was still playing the piano at her retirement village church services until 2 years ago (she turns 107 in November).

I always wanted to learn drums and guitar but mum insisted that I learn piano. I had a great teacher, didn't practice as much as I should have but learned for 6 years.

It made it possible to easily teach myself drums and guitar - 17 years later I teach both for a living as well as playing/singing at gigs on weekends. Mums decision was the best ever made on my behalf.

So who do you play for?
Sound very talented,musical genes helps.
I think today is the greatest time to learn an instrument,so much info on the net to keep you inspired.

 

[PhatBoy]

So who do you play for?
Sound very talented,musical genes helps.
I think today is the greatest time to learn an instrument,so much info on the net to keep you inspired.

I'm nothing special don't worry, play in an acoustic duo called Dont Call Me Shirley, do a lot of weddings and functions etc, and play on my own at bars. I'm a mid-level guitarist and probably around the same standard at drums (struggle with double kicks, that sort of thing) but more than adequate for teaching kids.

Agree 100 per cent with the last part of your post as well, it is so easy when you've got 20 minutes to do a quick online tutorial either to learn new exercises or a new song. Even yesterday I randomly stumbled on a lesson on the solo from The Waifs' London Still, a song I've loved for ages. Within half an hour I could play basically the whole thing. Massive luxury.

 

[bradrowe#32]

Not seeing My Morning Jacket at the 2009 BDO and then missing them a few days later when they opened for Neil Young. I was at both these shows. I got into them by accident a few months after these gigs and I've never seen them live.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Not seeing My Morning Jacket at the 2009 BDO and then missing them a few days later when they opened for Neil Young. I was at both these shows. I got into them by accident a few months after these gigs and I've never seen them live.

Yeah they were pretty tight, I'm sorry to say.

I missed TVotR that BDO because I couldn't get there in time, and I'm getting the feeling that that may have been the only chance I'll ever get to see them. They were probably at their peak around that time as well, just coming off Dear Science.

Battles in 2008 is another BDO regret. I think I only got into over the next year, then they never played or recorded with their original line up again. I've seen them live since then, but can't help but feel like I missed out big time.