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Before I Die....

By Julene McCoy in Arts & Entertainment on Jan 13, 2006 2:24PM

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The Trib's On the Town music editor decided that since it's Friday the 13th, he would deal with one of the most pressing issues of our time - which band is it necessary to see before we all go to that gig in the sky?

Different editors and reporters offered up their opinions and the majority of their answers lie definitely farther in the past than we would have gone. Each person stated the band that it kills them they haven't seen and why. It's a varying mix of old man groups and bands that can no longer exist from The Beatles to the Police and Rolling Stones. Are they all that old over there at the Trib?

We used to have that feeling about Soul Asylum and then finally saw them a million years too late and thought that's what we were excited about? We're trying to think of anyone else that we are dying to see, but we know that you can help us out on that. What band or musician haven't you seen that is on your list of things to do before you die?