Here are 30 bands that I’ve NEVER shared a stage or dressing room with – and I’m totally at peace with that:
1) Pavement
2) Thurston Moore
3) Bonnie Prince Billy
4) Kid Rock
5) Tool
6) Helmet
7) Fleet Foxes
8) Rem (after Bill Berry left)
9) Replacements (after Bob Stinson passed)
10) Beyonce
11) Kanye West
12) Black Sabbath
13) Abba
14) Kansas
15) Styx
16) Journey
17) Foreigner
18) REO Speedwagon
19) Death Cab for Cutie
20) Coldplay
21) Daft Punk
22) Arcade Fire
23) Kurt Vile
24) Grizzly Bear
25) Archers of Loaf
26) Dreams So Real
27) Kilkenny Cats
28) Uriah Heep
29) Elvis Costello (after 1990)
30) Morrissey
– Pat Thomas is the author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975.