Bands/Artists no longer together or alive that you would have liked to see.

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Bob Marley - purely for the experience
Joy Division
The Clash
The Police
Beach Boys
The Smiths
Jimi Hendrix
Nick Drake

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Le Petomane

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

prince & the revolution

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Halen with DLR

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

DLR-era Van Halen.
AC/DC with Bonn Scott

― cw28 (cw28), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, The Clash. I have seen the Smiths and Prine and the rev.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

John Prine isn't dead!

― woly boly (woly boly), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, you meant Prince, I think

― woly boly (woly boly), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

In order:
Howlin' Wolf
Dylan with the Hawks in 1966
Robert Johnson
Thelonious Monk
Sly and the Family Stone

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

sly and the family stone
prince & the revolution
jimi hendrix
the who - original lineup
robert johnson
muddy waters

― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I never saw Magazine. I had a ticket and they split up the week before the gig. I never saw the Raincoats either.

Also would have liked to see The Small Faces, The Who, A Joe Meek package (maybe Heinz, The Tornadoes, The Honeycombs), Dusty Springfield, The Sweet, Ziggy-era Bowie, The Move, A Motown Revue.....I think I'll stop there.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Velvet Underground/Stooges/MC5/NY Dolls/RFFT or Pere Ubu w/Laughner.
James Brown w/Bootsy in 70-71
Otis Redding
Jimi Hendrix w/the Monkees
Elvis Presley
Consider myself lucky to have witnessed the Clash, Prince & the Revolution, Bob Marley, the Smiths, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5. I could go on...
Saw Van Halen w/DLR in 1984 and they blew. Flat-out.

― lovebug starski, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Marvin Gaye
Sam Cooke

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow tell me about Bob Marley.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

the John Coltrane Quartet (the classic band)
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band (any incarnation, really)
the Jimi Hendrix Experience
the Hampton Grease Band (why not)
Public Image Ltd.
Gang of Four (original line-up)

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

dion and the belmonts

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, and Fairport Convention (RT/Sandy line-up), Television (back in the day), and, sure, Bob Marley and the Wailers and Fela and Africa 70.

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Haircut 100

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

id have liked to see some of the UFO club stuff. early soft machine and syd-era pink floyd.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Marley in 1978 was a religious experience. No Tosh/Bunny, w/the I Threes and lead guitarist but still "irie." Of course my pot-addled memory...sorry I'm falling back on superlatives.
Saw the original GofF several times, most spectacularly in Detroit 1980 touring on first album. As awesome as you imagine. Saw Beefheart around the same time, w/Gary Lucas in band. At one point the Cap was rapdily sketching on a pad and then distributing pictures to the crowd. Wish I'd grabbed one.

― lovebug starski, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

At least one of you may get your chance to fulfill your wish!

The original line-up of a highly influential post-punk band is reforming (for the first time) to tour later this year !

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, I could go on and on....

I'm casting a couple of votes for bands/artists that are still performing (and I've seen) but wish I'd seen at their absolute peak-Springsteen and the E-Streeters circa The River; Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue.

Other choices: The Who with Keith Moon; The Undertones (with Feargal Sharkey); The Clash; Little Feat (Lowell George era); The Band. Oh, and a little outfit called The Beatles.

― Arthur2Sheds, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Birthday party (Junkyard era)

― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I passed on the opportunity to see Johnny Cash about 7 years back, which I have always regretted.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

this heat
desperate bicycles
naked city
cale/reed vu
howlin' wolf
eric dolphy
d boon

― autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Blanton/Webster-era Duke Ellington Orchestra.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The Birthday Party (Junkyard-era indeed!), Pylon, Public Image Limited (post-Public Image/pre-Flowers of Romance), Associates, The Pop Group, and more...

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Minutemen
The Misfits
APB
Black Flag
Mars
Otis Redding
The Beatles
The Specials
Big Black
Husker Du
PIL
Love
Serge Gainsbourg

FAR TOO MANY!!

― ddb (ddb), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Big Star
Fela Kuti ca 1971 or '72
Creedance
Smiths
Grandmaster Flash
Herbie Hancock headhunters era
Minutemen
Ike & Tina
Beatles hamburg, germany/pill-popping era
Staple Singers or any other Stax/Volt act in the 60's

― cramedog, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Queen
Venom (Cronos, Mantas, Abbadon line-up)
The Birthday Party
The Pop Group
the Clash
Van Halen (w/ Roth)
Motorhead (with Philthy Phil and Fast Eddie)
Modern Lovers

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Albert Ayler
Richard and Linda Thompson
Janis Joplin
The Dead w/ Garcia and Pigpen
Fleetwood Mac circa Tusk
Minutemen
Johnny Cash

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Surprisingly few, considering how often I've been disappointed by concerts and/or live recordings. It would have to be some jazz musician or at least a rock performer like Hendrix who specialized in improvisation. Or the Minutemen. Or the original Stooges, just to see if they were as wild as they were reputed to have been.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

loud-era Swans
70s Suicide
Velvet Underground
Stooges
NY Dolls
MC5
Miles Davis
Black Flag
Throbbing Gristle (reunion don't count)
Birthday Party
ealy-to-mid era Pink Floyd
Robbie Basho
CCR
Hendrix
Elvis
Can
Devo
the Iannis Xenakkis performances with light-installations

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and fucking LED ZEPPELIN ferchristssakes

― sexy, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and fucking NIRVANA ferchristssakes

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Mozart. No, for real, I bet when he was eight years old and tearing it up on the harpsichord he was totally out of control.

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

im pretty sure the beatles were shit live. except maybe in hamburg when they were on speed. otherwise im pretty sure the screaming girls would overpower the music.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 1 July 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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