DeadSplinter Up! All Night: I Believe in Me

25/1/20 Boop to the Face 19

I’ve been under the weather this week, but it won’t prevent me from seeing the Motion City Soundtrack reunion show tonight because it’s my birthday in a few days. Has illness ever prevented you from going to a concert? Thank you for your continued support of DeadSplinter,

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19 Comments

  1. I haven’t missed a show due to illness, thankfully. I have a very firm policy of “if you like this band, see them the next chance you get” for almost a decade now. I skipped two shows within a year and 1/2 of one another, thinking “I’ll just catch them next time”, and both turned out to be the last chance I’d ever have to see the band.

    The first was Type O Negative. I had a free ticket to their last show in Milwaukee, and skipped it because I had an exam I needed to study for. Peter Steele was dead 6 months later.

    The second was Woods of Ypres. It was a Thursday show in Chicago, and I found out about it on Tuesday of that week, and couldn’t get off work in time. David Gold was dead 6 months later.

    I guess the moral of the story is: If you’re in a band I like, send me a personal invitation when you book a show anywhere within 90 miles of where I live.

    And, on that SUPER uplifting note, enjoy your show tonight!

    • Lucky you?

      Ace was always my favorite when I was in the Kiss Army. There used to be a giant photo of him shredding the smoking guitar outside Madison Square Garden that I thought was the coolest thing ever.

  3. I wasn’t sick but I was too wiped out to go see these guys & they haven’t been back since. They have one of the greatest front men since Lux Interior & put on a hell of a show. Th’Legendary Shack Shakers – Ichabod

  5. illness has never prevented me from going to a gig
    the damage i did to meself in the pit to these guys did nearly get me sacked from a job tho


    i was in a state after that gig…. no where near the heaviest band ive ever seen… but the pit was vicious

  7. …so, not quite the same thing as missing the gig but I had one arm in a sling when I saw these guys play

    …which meant that unlike a friend I wasn’t up front for the main act either, so didn’t end up on stage trying to keep up with Maxim dancing onstage to this

    …& when people were grabbing cabs to make it across town to catch the Chemical Brothers play their second set of the night…I guess I could claim I missed that gig due to temporary infirmity…which was sort of the question?

  9. Nice job, Boop, and I hope you are feeling better soon!

    Illness has never prevented me from going to a concert, but if Zeppelin ever has a reunion show and I am gravely ill, I will have them wheel my hospital bed into the venue, even if it means I have to buy up a whole row of seats so that I’ll fit!

    Molly Hatchet! Guitars, and lots of them!

  10. I can’t remember missing a show because I was sick. I thought I was going to have to miss seeing Jonathan Richman once because I was broke. But I pawned a bracelet my ex had given me and got enough money to chip in for gas, entry to the club, and a couple of drinks. Worth it!

  11. Keitel is a good egg who takes me to shows that are not his cup of tea. We saw Sufjan Stevens in a small local venue right before their first European tour. I had just been released from two weeks in the hospital,and he made it happen for me.
    These folks put on a fun, happy, no -whining show.

  12. I missed The Wedding Present at CBGB’s because the first Gulf War had just started and we were watching it on t.v. I got to see them there another time, though, and it’s the loudest show I’ve ever been to.

    I’m Not Always So Stupid – The Wedding Present

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