Bands Not in Your Music Collection

Pink Floyd 

So many bands not in my record collection, like anything after 1990, maybe earlier. I don't have any of the ones you listed not having, Ken.
I would often hear someone play on a record with musicians known to me and decide to get an album of theirs, Les Dudek comes to mind for some reason.

I lent my collection to a friend from 1974 to 1979. Sadly for me, he switched a lot of the records and album covers with ones in his collection so he kept the best conditions of both. I was glad to get a lot of them back, but they didn't sound or look nearly as good as the ones I lent him. I have quite a few first records by smaller artists, like Mark Spoestra but I never got back some others I prized, like Dave Van Ronk, Koerner, Ray & Glover, and many I don't remember without seeing them.
There were a lot of sweet bands in the early-mid '60s...

Similar list. Never had any heavy metal after Led Zep(Houses of the Holy) and some Uriah Heep and Deep Purple. . Maybe a couple others. My only Zappa was "We're only in it for the Money". Actually tons of music that I never bought.

Here's one for ya. My first album was Herman's Hermits.

Judit: so lame !

otherwise; that's a challenge

so many!

some on your list i have had, Ken /:

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some others that would have been cool & regret they didn't make it into the soundtrack of my life. i missed the entire grunge scene from having gotten on the bus in late 89, and was still heavily into death metal that spring lolol

i do wish there was more good old school punk in my repertoire: dead kennedys, circle jerks...

also women singers like joan baez & joni mitchell, for example

my first album was lady & the tramp soundtrack !

first rock album, sgt pepper

Funny question Ken. I picked up Waterfalls from Millennium and we realized it was my first MMJ album after seeing a bunch of shows. I'll remedy that in 2025

Can't get enough Zappa. I just picked up the CD set live from the Whiskey a Go Go -  1968. Great recording- great show. Loved that band.  Wish I could have seen them.

Could flip Ken's question:  What are bands in your collection you never intended?  I bought a new, sealed LP of Graham Nash - Songs for Beginners from Rasputin's.  Got it home, opened it up, and voila!  Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida!  Never returned it.

Another tangent:  What bands are conspicuously absent from your collections, that you saw perform live?  I saw REO Speedwagon headline Winterland because my friend wanted to see the opener, Ritchie Blackmore.

1st album Meet The Beatles which shows you how old I am

1st Grateful album Skull and Roses 

and they've pretty much kept me broke since then

>>>my friend wanted to see the opener, Ritchie Blackmore

That made me laugh only because I saw Ritchie open for Fog Hat - REO would have been better. 

Funny you should mention!  A group of us saw Foghat headline the Cow Palace about that same time.  The openers were Rick Derringer followed by Sammy Hagar with special guest Ronnie Montrose.  The crowd really got into both opening sets and seemed kind of spent by the time Foghat came out.  Ended up being a case of the band wanting energy from the crowd, and the crowd wanting energy from the band.  Underwhelming.  Derringer lived up to his then-current live album, and seeing Ronnie get a featured solo spot was a treat.  Foghat didn't equal their successful live album.

The Winterland show was good!  Blackmore's Rainbow had Ronnie James Dio on vocals, and Ritchie was his primadonna self.  Only time I saw/heard an electric guitar smashed.  REO came across as hard working professionals.  The band in the movie Almost Famous reminded me of them at that show, with girlfriends/wives/family on the side of the stage watching the guys work.  A solid rock and roll performance.

Didn't mean to hijack the thread, but the memories....!

>>>Bon Jovi,  

Huge mistake.   

Just kidding - I don't have any either but they are a guilty pleasure.