Top 5 artists that are now dead/defunct that we would have loved to have seen live.
For me it's:
1. The Band
2. The Clash
3. Johnny Cash (I highly doubt he'll ever perform again, even if he is still alive)
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. The Who (I've seen them live, but it was after John Entwistle and Keith Moon were dead, so I think it would have been a totally different experience).
Woulda Loved To See Them Live - Top 5
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The Clash
Rockpile--pigs may fly and they might reunite but it will never be the same
Ian Dury and the Blockheads--maybe I should just say the whole Live Stiffs thing
Lynyrd Skynyrd before the plane crash (it's required of me, sorry)
The Allmans before the peach truck
Blue and El V: I talked my dad into taking me to a Roy Orbison show on the strength of a rumor that Johnny Cash would be there. No such luck, but Roy was great. I guess you're both too young to remember Johnny's tv show. sounds weird now, but he had kind of a variety show. Bob Dylan was on it once. Grew up watching that and Hee Haw. And Dolly and Porter.
Rockpile--pigs may fly and they might reunite but it will never be the same
Ian Dury and the Blockheads--maybe I should just say the whole Live Stiffs thing
Lynyrd Skynyrd before the plane crash (it's required of me, sorry)
The Allmans before the peach truck
Blue and El V: I talked my dad into taking me to a Roy Orbison show on the strength of a rumor that Johnny Cash would be there. No such luck, but Roy was great. I guess you're both too young to remember Johnny's tv show. sounds weird now, but he had kind of a variety show. Bob Dylan was on it once. Grew up watching that and Hee Haw. And Dolly and Porter.
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1. The Beatles
2. Bob Marley
3. De La Soul back when it mattered
4. The Who with Keith (saw them with Simon Phillips in '89).
5. Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and Max Roach.
2. Bob Marley
3. De La Soul back when it mattered
4. The Who with Keith (saw them with Simon Phillips in '89).
5. Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and Max Roach.
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Richard, you beat me to it!
1 Joy Division
2. Talking Heads
3. The Smiths
4. Bob Marley
5. Velvet Underground (original line-up)
My claim to Permanent Residence in Dunce's Corner is that I could easily have seen The Smiths at Birmingham University on their first UK tour, when they are just so full of their potential. I hadn't been that impressed by what I'd heard (one or two singles, I think, it was September 1983, freshers week at Birmingham University), and thought the wanker with a quiff going on about how all art was dead apart from his was a total arse. Subsequent events indicate I got this a little bit wrong.
1 Joy Division
2. Talking Heads
3. The Smiths
4. Bob Marley
5. Velvet Underground (original line-up)
My claim to Permanent Residence in Dunce's Corner is that I could easily have seen The Smiths at Birmingham University on their first UK tour, when they are just so full of their potential. I hadn't been that impressed by what I'd heard (one or two singles, I think, it was September 1983, freshers week at Birmingham University), and thought the wanker with a quiff going on about how all art was dead apart from his was a total arse. Subsequent events indicate I got this a little bit wrong.
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Well, I've got nothing original to add really (Clash, Band, Ramones, etc., though did anyone say original lineup of the Pogues? And you know, I'll never forgive my parents making me sell the tix I had to see Elton John at Madison Square Garden in 1973 [damn vacation], cause really, that woulda been somethin') so insead I'll list some acts I'm glad I caught before they split up or lost key members:
- Mission of Burma
- Mark Sandman (w/Morphine and Treat Her Right)
- Smoking Popes
- Greatful Dead
- Liz Phair before her crappy new record (ouch...)
- Mission of Burma
- Mark Sandman (w/Morphine and Treat Her Right)
- Smoking Popes
- Greatful Dead
- Liz Phair before her crappy new record (ouch...)
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Sorry to go all nitpicky, but "the 4 originals" doesn't work in this context, 'cause the band had a long and storied history before Jerry Harrison joined. I know not many in the Wider World knew them before Talking Heads '77 hit the stores, but all those songs, and most of the ones on More Songs About Buildings and Food, were written for, performed and perfected by David, Chris and Tina. That was the lineup that got signed to Sire and recorded the first single, "Love → Building on Fire"/"New Feeling."Richard wrote:How about -
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Talking Heads (either the 4 originals or the full funk line-up)
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One of the greatest things for me about the 1983 tour (and the movie "Stop Making Sense") is that six years after the fact, I got to see the original lineup revisit "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel."
Damn, this thread makes me feel old!
for me I guess it's Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Cream
Blind Faith
The Rolling Stones' best lineup, with Mick Taylor
Vanity 6 (just kidding!)
"But it's a dangerous game that comedy plays
Sometimes it tells you the truth
Sometimes it delays it"
Sometimes it tells you the truth
Sometimes it delays it"
I don't know which is worse SMM~ you having to get rid of your Elton ticket (Captain Fantastic is one of my FAV records) or me having a ticket to see the Stones (their first farewell tour) and not being able to bum a ride from school??
Every once in a while I take out the unused ticket and throw a fit.
Every once in a while I take out the unused ticket and throw a fit.
I'm not angry anymore....