Concert attendance

Sean, you definitely made a big, big mistake. The LOVE concert was one of the top highlights of my concertgoing experience, & I've been going since before the original band. Unless it was some kind of family emergency you experienced, I would urge you in the future not to read into temporal events some sort of "superstitious" uber-plan. Hey, Arthur Lee's "message" before the US tour was to apparently break his ankle just before the first show putting him in chronic pain and unable to walk without a cane or help. He did put the cane down and carried on on adreline for close to 2 hours and KILLED for most of that time. And then he had to be helped offstage. Absolutely the best show I've seen in years by anyone (altho I heard the LA show was mediocre). Unfortunately you truly missed a major event my friend. They may return in the fall for another tour.
Although this probably isn't the forum to get into this, since you brought it up I would urge you, inasmuch as it is possible, not to let your life be guided by external events or opinions but rather by your owns dreams & goals.
"Good luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey
Respectfully,

Both I & my buddy who attended the Yardbirds NYC gig & go back to the beginning with them agreed that this was a real Yardbirds show, not a tribute band or an oldies act. They played with fire & spirit and sounded great. No, not the "original" Yardbirds perhaps, but a real Yardbirds nonetheless.
In the literal sense I can't think of a single 1960's "original" act that has toured for a number of years, and even back in the day personnel & sound changed constantly. Pete Best & Stu Sutcliffe with the Beatles, Brian Jones with the Stones, Pigpen from the Dead.... Was the Graham Parsons version of the Byrds inauthentic? How about a few months later when they dumped him but kept his songs and arrangements? I'm probably going to get the new Yardbirds CD. Who'd a thunk it?