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For me, Albert King.
Have listened to his Albert King: Live recording (on Charly) and wish I could have seen him play live.
EDIT - he died in 1992 so that is, at best, impractical
George Best (swa him play once but well past his pomp)
Curtis/Joy Division
Jimi Hendrix
Lux/Cramps
(loads 🙁 )
Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Ian Curtiss to name a few.
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bit ot, but this fella, best number six ever
and ian curtis every time
Hendrix for sure.
Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, John Coltrane.
Hendrix, obviously. Phil Lynott. James Brown.
Joe Strummer and Seve Ballesteros in his prime.
Billie Holliday
Bill Hicks
Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriot
My Grandad when he played R League for Widnes.
Jesus had a great show. Wish I'd seen it.
Freddie mercury
Jimmy hendrix
Wish I could see orbital live again
Not dead but wished I could have seen Gazza play
John Bonham; Jimi Hendrix; Jim Morrison; John Bonham; Miles Davis; John Coltrane; Janis Joplin; John Bonham; Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli; John Bonham.
Mozart
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Keith Moon
Bon Scott
The Ramones
Saw them once which wasn't enough.
Cliff Richard
Davesmate 😀 😀
For the post, Sex Pistols would have been awesome to see, having seen most of the other bands at the time including the Clash
The original Sex Pistols are all still alive are they not?, so your dream may yet come true.
Paul Kossoff
Freddie Mercury. The one I regret most is passing up the opportunity to see Queen during their Winter 1977 tour (News of the World) Loads of my mates went but for some reason I didn't. Never got to see them live after that.
I guess that does give away my advancing years!
Janis Jopln and as above seen the Ramones a few times but still not enough times
Sid Vicious is a bit dead Mr Nana
Hendrix for me, and possibly Elvis in a guilty pleasure sort of way 🙂
Gary Moore, Freddie Mercury.
Cliff Burton & Hillel Slovak (although all of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are now dead to me).
@seven, Sid wasn't the original bass player with the Pistols.
Rory Gallagher
Bon Scott
Phil Lynott
Ronnie Van Zant
Jimi Hendrix
Paul Kossof
Joy Division
seven - MemberSid Vicious is a bit dead Mr Nana
He wasn't the original bass player
Frank Sinatra
Freddie Mercury with Queen
Bradley Nowell with Sublime
keith moon
nick drake
on a slightly different note would like to see the libertines perform together again but I reckon pete doherty will be dead before they get it sorted
Janis joplin
Freddie with queen
Hendrix, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley. The Stone Roses, don't ever see them getting back together 🙁
Most of the above. My brother made it to the front for queen at wembley 1986, wish Id gone.
bird - probably 1944 or thereabouts
Pretty much everyone on my itunes ...
Top ones ...
Tim Buckley / Jeff
Frank zappa
Nina Simone
John Coltrane
Thelonius Monk
Ali Farka Toure
Fela Kuti
Junior. Kimbrough
Orig. Blues borthers
The man in black.
Pink Floyd, mostly all still alive, but I doubt I'll see the rest play together again.
Warren Zevon
Townes van Zandt
Nirvana/Cobain
Big Star (the original line up)
Nick Drake
Saw the floyd in 94 the night after the seating collapsed, saw joy division In Bowden in 78.
Even saw The new York dolls at the hacienda
But still never saw Duncan play
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, SRV, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Zappa, Carlos Vega, and my favourite musician Jeff Porcaro with impecable timing and groove.
Yes to Tim Buckley, Marvin, Alex Chilton (Big Star) and Miles.
Add Charles Mingus, D Boone (Minutemen), Lee Dorsey and Sterling Morrison
Nirvana with Cobain
Michael Jackson (from the [i]Thriller[/i] days)
Metallica with Burton
Mozart
Bach
Beethoven
Maria Callas
Queen with Mercury
Andrzej Zaucha
Jimi Hendrix.
Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Janis Joplin.
Rory Gallagher.
Joe Strummer
could've / should've seen The Clash in Bradford 82 but never got round to getting a ticket. I will always regret that.
jimi hendrix
gil scott heron
jeff buckley
tim buckley
steve marriot
john lennon
richard pryor
but seen arthur lee and bill hicks on the same night !!!
arthur lee and bill hicks on the same night, hats off !
I'm fairly happy with who I saw as a teen, but like John, The Clash were still performing and I didn't see them, their first album is probably still my favourite. I seem to recall Joe Strummer had a rep for regularly going AWOL before gigs in the early 80s. Poly Styrene died recently, would have liked to have seen X-ray Specs. A few above have said Ian Curtis/Joy Division, I'd probably agree with them. Really old bands, Sky Saxon/The Seeds and probably Hendrix and Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Co.
John Lennon
Freddie with Queen
Kurt Cobain/Nirvana
Bob Marley
I saw Arthur Lee at the T&C in Leeds in 94ish, Hicks wasn't there tho.
Queen (Freddy)
Free (Kossof)
Nick Drake
Jeff Buckley
Sandy Denny
Jimi Hendrix
The Who
Would have loved to have seen Joni Mitchell with Jaco Pastorious on bass.
Saw Pink Floyd and Rory Gallagher on the same evening at two different venues, seen the Clash, Thin Lizzy (five or six times), Metallica, (three times), Ian Dury and The Blockheads, (what a character),
I think Sandy is the one I most regret never having seen, her voice and music mean a great deal to me, and I could cry sometimes at having missed seeing her when she played Bristol Colston Hall. Very sadly missed.
Shane McGowan
before he went all zombie
Louis Armstrong would've been awesome.
Queen as well though and maybe Nirvana as well.
elvis, buddy holly, hank williams, johnny cash, hendrix & alex harvey
Mozart
Saw the floyd in 94 the night after the seating collapsed,
Me too! I was in the rebuilt bit too, I'd to surrender my posh "souvenir ticket" for a crappy one due to the layout changing.
Bob Marley
Dunno if you count this. But would loved to have seen Pantani in the flesh in the tour.
And George Carlin (comedian - rufus from Bill and Ted).
ah well in that case... John Belushi too...
Has to be G.G. Allin...total legend...
Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer up there too.
Malcolm Owen
Matthew Ashman - one of my favourite bass players - I did actually see him live once, but didn't know he was in the band!
Oh, I forgot to mention! Gram Parsons!!
Saw Zappa at Wembley Arena and it was a massive disappointment as he was off on one of his guitar trips although the film "Does humour belong in music" is a truly magnificent piece of work.
Saw Rory Gallagher at Hammersmith Odeon and it was ****in awesome.
I'd like to add Johnny Cash to my list
How about people who you don't want to see and wish were dead?? 😀
The list might get quite long!
To answer the op's question - Joe strummer
BILL HICKS AND ARTHUR LEE liverpool may 1992
Metallica with Cliff Burton
Alice in Chains with Layne Stayley (new lineup is good though)
Queen with Freddie Mercury
Stuart Adamson- Big Country
One of my lifes only regrets is not seeing the band of my childhood before SA 's tragic death.
Brack, I met Stuart Adamson whilst working at HMV in the mid 90s. Out of the people that did store appearances he was the most down to earth and peaceful. A real shock when he took his life.
My choices...
Layne Staley - Alice in Chains
Gerard Smith - TV on The Radio
Andrew Wood - Mother Love Bone
Stinkerbell ----- GG Allin????? You must be wanting something in a gig to see him fling sh*t around!!
metallica with cliff burton
poison idea with pig champion
I had tickets to see Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck at Hammersmith - but SRV died two weeks beforehand 🙁 I was hoping that was going to be a 'Seeing Hendrix at Woodstock'-style revelation moment...
I have been lucky enough to have a couple of other people here's wants though. I saw Queen with Freddy at Wembley in '86. And I saw Pantani on the Ventoux.
[i]Stuart Adamson- Big Country[/i]
Surely The Skids would've been the choice?
This belated fondness for Big Country is a complete mystery to me.
[i]Gerard Smith - TV on The Radio[/i]
Holy... I didn't know he'd died. 🙁
The original Lynyrd Skynyrd
The original Lynyrd Skynyrd
Good call!
rumbledethumps - "Stinkerbell ----- GG Allin????? You must be wanting something in a gig to see him fling sh*t around!!"
@ Rumbledethumps - Maybe its just not enough to go charging through cow patts and sheep sh*t at weekends!!! 😯
Hendrix!