do you have one?
have you ever forgotten to go to a concert you had tickets to?

no, i do not.

a few years ago, i found an unused ticket as a bookmark in a book i hadn't read in many years. the show was in the mid-90s and i couldn't remember if i forgot to go or if i couldn't get there (because i didn't have a car or couldn't use my parents'). luckily, i've seen the band twice anyway.

Not forgotten, but I just didn't go...I had tics to the last q and not u show and I just didn't feel like going...I later regretted it, but I just was not in the mood to go that night ...

edit: oh, wait, you're talking about possessing poor memory skills, not remembering horrible memories from the past.

dude, what album is your avatar?

How about the day I was told that I had to have brain surgery?
Or the moment that I told my family the same?

Was offered a free ticket to see My Bloody Valentine open for Dinosaur Jr. at a small club in Charlottesville many years ago. Was a huge Dino Jr. fan (wasn't familiar with MBV at the time), but my laze arse didn't feel like making the 45 minute jaunt.

I'd kill to have the opportunity to make that choice again.

i can have a horrible memory. i often forget where I am parked - once had to leave my car overnight and come look for it in the morning (possible that drinking had something to do with it)

but i never forgot to go to a concert

i won tickets to see the charlatans here in cleveland last weekend.
and just forgot to go.


not the first time i've done that either.
i once PAID for a ticket to see the indigo girls.
i was DYING to see them at the time....
and completely forgot.

quit smokin' the pot
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i wouldn't be too broken up. they were very mediocre here.

well, that does make me feel a little bit better.

however, they've been on my 'must see' list for FOREVER.

This thread is a demonstration of the importance of adjectival clarity.

Judge Judy always says, "You don't need a good memory if you never lie."

if i didn't lie i would never have anything to say.

Witchburner-Incarnation of Evil..I've been really getting into them for the last few weeks..German Tharash Metal..Hot Shit....

i would never forget to go to a concert that i had tickets to.

however, i sometimes double book and get my dates mixed up - but that's because there's always a million shows going on in la. oh, what a tough life to live.

If that the mostest horribler memory that sticks out in your mind, I'm happy you've had such a pleasant life.

Cuz, jeebuz, some bad things happen to people sometimes.

yeah. definitely not my most horrible memory.
'that' is not quite what i meant.

Leo Kottke. Thought the show was on a Saturday night. Showed up to the Unitarian church and the only thing going on was an AA meeting.

Unfortunately the show was the night before.

We need to combine the two directions of this thread. Like...

I had tickets to see Radiohead, but I forgot to go because I was preoccupied that day by accidentally running over the neighbor's kid with the lawnmower. D'oh - I've got such a horrible memory. AND a horrible memory.

Couldn't it also be "I was heading to the Radiohead show when I realized, because I have such a horrible memory, that I forgot to pick up my girlfriend. While I was speeding to her place, I blindsided a limo which, coincidentally, was carrying all the members of Radiohead. I killed my favourite band. My horrible (short-term) memory begat this horrible (long-term) memory."

i'll trade you something for it

typical old school thrash sound??

btw, our posts are the only interesting ones in this thread

I think you're right - that's the ideal situation for this thread.

With the exception, of course, of Dalen's far more interesting questions about the cover art on albums by atrociously bad thrash metal bands.

I'm down..I'l upload it tonight and pm the link..

Yeah, typical old school sound..Sorta like DRI a bit..But it's hard to understand dude with the accent sometimes..I'll upload Incarantion of Evil and if ya dig it, I got 3 other albums I can flow ya..