# What cancelled concerts have you not gone to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cancelled-concerts-have-you-not-gone-to/250938 "2004-06-17T23:05:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cancelled-concerts-have-you-not-gone-to/250938/21 "2004-06-18T03:47:32Z")
1987 David Bowie concert in Stuttgart if I recall correctly the venue. That was some tour too. Made the news a lot. The concert in Berlin had people scaling the wall. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cancelled-concerts-have-you-not-gone-to/250938/22 "2004-06-18T04:28:52Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I had tickets for R.E.M.'s show at Dortmund, Germany in 1995 that was cancelled after Bill Berry’s aneurysm. They cancelled their original Phoenix date on that tour, too, but Mr. Legend and I got to see them in September instead after the tour was rescheduled (following Berry’s recovery, Mike Mills’ surgery _and_ Michael Stipe’s hernia - we felt lucky there was still a band to play at all). More recently, Wilco cancelled their Santa Fe show in April after Jeff Tweedy went into rehab. It doesn’t look like they plan to make that one up. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cancelled-concerts-have-you-not-gone-to/250938/23 "2004-06-18T04:31:50Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > David Cassidy. I was heartbroken. It would have been my first real concert. I still have the ticket somewhere. Do you remember why it was cancelled? ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cancelled-concerts-have-you-not-gone-to/250938/24 "2004-06-18T10:47:28Z")
I had tickets for Nirvana. First the gig got postponed because he was not very well. Then made very sure he wasn’t going to do any gigs at all anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cancelled-concerts-have-you-not-gone-to/250938/25 "2004-06-18T10:54:36Z")
Counting Crows start of this year. Adam’s grandma died. Yeh yeh yeh. So they suck. They used to be alright. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cancelled-concerts-have-you-not-gone-to/250938/26 "2004-06-18T11:22:07Z")
Back in 1986 I was sitting in the audience (in a close to the stage seat) waiting for James Brown to appear (Westbury Music Fair on Long Island). (There was an early and a late show scheduled; this was the early show). James comes strutting down the aisle to the stage and proceeds to tell us how much he’d love to play for us but the band’s bus went to the wrong venue (somewhere in New Jersey) and that our show was cancelled. But he says they will still play the second show and that we can trade in our tickets if we desire. A mob scene ensues at the box office. When I finally get to the counter they only have last row seats left. I know, I should have done the trade but I was so pissed off that I was losing my “close to the stage seat” that I said hell with it and got my money back. Luckily James (and the band) came back in 1987 and the show went smoothly. ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cancelled-concerts-have-you-not-gone-to/250938/27 "2004-06-18T15:22:26Z")
In 1997 or 1998 - Weird Al Yankovic had a show scheduled in Indianapolis; he cancelled because it was supposed to be an all-ages show & the venue was a bar. IIRC, we had to send the tickets back to get our refund. September 11, 2001 - Jimmy Buffett at Deer Creek/Verizon center near Indianapolis. ☹ ☹ ☹ Thankfully - he rescheduled for 2 weeks later & put on a hell of a show! I think we still have the ticket stub with the original date somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cancelled-concerts-have-you-not-gone-to/250938/28 "2004-06-18T15:40:55Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Guns’n’Roses/Metallica in 1992 > > Stupid pyrotechnic injuries. If it makes you feel any better, this concert wasn’t canceled at Giants’ Stadium, but Axl walked off stage and effectively shut it down for the night. Boy, was I glad I’d paid good hard-earned allowance money to go see that. _mutter_ I’m still mad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cancelled-concerts-have-you-not-gone-to/250938.md?page=1)