Musicians you wish you'd seen live

Subject: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Chris Green
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 06:59 AM

Not really sure if this is BS or not - if you think it is feel free to move it below the line!

As a bloke in his mid-twenties, it occurs to me that, through death or retirement, I haven't seen a lot of my favourite musicians play live. Then, being the shiftless layabout that I am, I started to make a list.

Nic Jones (I was five when he had his accident)

Stephane Grappelli (no excuse as he was still touring in his final year of life)

Bach (for obvious reasons)

Sandy Denny

Anyone else got any performers they really wish they'd seen?

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST,Betsy
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:01 AM

Beatles

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: The Beast of Farlington
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:02 AM

Jimi Hendrix

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Jess A
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:10 AM

Peter Bellamy

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:12 AM

ditto Nick Jones.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: s&r
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:13 AM

Segovia

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Chris Green
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:15 AM

Django. I've seen Martin Taylor, which I suppose is the next best thing. I came away from that gig feeling like I wanted to do something really different on my guitar. Like a clog dance!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: rhyzla
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:55 AM

Well - John Lennon, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley (in 1956), Buddy Holly, Django, George Harrison, etc

All folk icons in their way!

BTW, see you tommorrow Chris!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:59 AM

Harri Watts band.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Grab
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:08 AM

Dire Straits, Michael Jackson, Crowded House and Michael Hedges, for ones where I could have gone but didn't.

For ones where I was too young or not yet born, all the great 60s, 70s and 80s rock bands - Stones, Kinks, Animals, Hendrix, Led Zep, Floyd, Queen, Meatloaf, Iron Maiden, Levellers. (Yes I know I could still see some of them - but they're none of them rocking like they used to.) Also Django and Dave Brubeck on the jazz front. And just about any of the bluesmen from the 30s.

Graham.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: The Shambles
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:32 AM

I did see the Beatles but I would preferred to have seen Jim Hendrix. Looking back - I could have done so easily. Too late now.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST,Arnie
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:36 AM

Uncle Dave Macon
The Delmore Brothers
Charlie Poole
Jimmie Rodgers
The Skillet Lickers

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:37 AM

Stanley Turrentine
Credence Clearwater Revival (I chose to hear Pentangle instead)
Penguins, Del Vikings, Orioles, Moonglows, Crows, Flamingos
Charlie Christian
Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent
Swan Silvertones

Jerry

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: alanabit
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:49 AM

That must have been a difficult choice between CCR and Pentangle, Jerry. I am not sure what I would have done.
I enjoyed the Bob Dylan gigs I saw, but I would have liked to see him younger. I didn't see him until 1978 for the first time. I would love to have been able to see Mississippi John Hurt close up. I should have seen Tony Rose. I should have made the effort. I did see Peter Bellamy and Nic Jones before the accident. I am glad I did.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:50 AM

Well, let's see...
Beatles
Dylan (although there's still time isn't there?)
Billie Holiday
Led Zeppelin
Sandy Denny
John Lennon
Nick Drake

(I did get to see Creedence in there latest incarnation, with my fiancee's uncle on vocals...)

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Mrs_Annie
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:51 AM

Graham, the Levellers still rock (when they're not doing Acoustic gigs which seems to be all this year).

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:54 AM

Mozart and The Cream

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:55 AM

OH, did I forget Traffic? oops...

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST,Stuart
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:58 AM

Bob Marley
Fred Neil
Sly and The Family Stone
Jackson C Frank
Robert Johnson
Funkadelic
Nick Drake......

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:01 AM

Buddy Holly of course.

I have a friend, three years older than I, who saw him play Hull in 1958 - but I was only 11 at the time. Born too late

R

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:03 AM

Woodie Guthrie
Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Peter Bellamy
Stan Rogers (Rodgers?)

And, although they're not dead yet, I don't think I'll ever have a chance to experience the live performance of
Utah Phillips and
Pete Seeger

Dave Oesterreich (oh, I've heard him!)

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST,Sooz (at work)
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:07 AM

I'm glad to have seen Lonnie Donnegan and Jimi Hendrix but sad to have missed the Beatles.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Big Mick
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:08 AM

Leo Rowsome

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Chris Green
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:32 AM

There are quite a few people being mentioned I've never heard of! Forward Google! :)

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:37 AM

Really? It happens... I think you should check some of these people out.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Wesley S
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:38 AM

Mississippi John Hurt, Bill Monroe, Fred Neil, Tom Rush...

But I've got some eighth row seats to see Doc Watson in a couple of weeks.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Chris Green
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:45 AM

They're mainly non-UK perfomers that I have haven't heard of. We can be a tad insular over here!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:47 AM

Oh, I see. Please tell me you've heard of Nick Drake and Sandy Denny...

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Chris Green
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:50 AM

Erm, yes. Stanley Turrentine and Bascom Lamar Lunsford are new ones on me though!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: muppitz
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:50 AM

I have had the pleasure of seeing Neil Finn solo, but I would have LOVED to have seen Crowded House!

I'm sure there's loads more but I can't think of them right now!

muppitz x

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Big Mick
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:52 AM

The Bothy Band

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: mooman
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:53 AM

Rick Fielding


More votes also for:

Sandy Denny
Nick Drake

I've been lucky enough to have seen Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Traffic, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley and Nic Jones who have been mentioned above.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Chris Green
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:56 AM

Yes! The Bothy Band! Gosh! Wow!



Ahem



Got carried away, there. Think I'll go and have a cold shower.... :)

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: mooman
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:07 AM

Lucky enough to have seen the BB too!

moo (who has been blessed)

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:08 AM

Fred McDowell
Jesse Fuller
Sidney Bechet
among many others
RtS
(DID see Bukka White, Sonny & Brownie, Rosetta Tharpe, Willie Dixon & Louis Armstrong)

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Mark Ross
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:13 AM

Not to attempt thread creep, but I read a description once of a night in a Chicago hotel room with Groucho Marx, Carl Sandburg, and Will Rogers, and a guitar and some whiskey. How I would have like to have been a fly on the wall for that!

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:17 AM

That sounds like quite a night to me!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:17 AM

I've been fortunate to have seen several of the ones I would have listed here. Uncle Dave Macon, Bill Monroe, the Delmore Brothers, Stringbean, et al. (I've even seen Jerry Rasmussen! ;-) ) I would have loved to have seen Lonnie Donegan, Shag Connors and the Carrot Crunchers; and I would like to see Gary and Vera Aspey and the Wurzels! Another one I did see and never expected to---John Williamson of Australia.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:21 AM

Kilby Snow...grandfater of the Autoharp virtuosos

Davy Stewart
Walter Pardon
Jeanne Robertson
and what Arnie said...

*begin purist gripe*
I know it just says 'musicians' in the title, but don't some of you have FOLK/BLUES people you have missed? Dead rock stars takes this whole place in a funny direction

*end purist gripe*

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Chris Green
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:24 AM

You're right - a lot of the dead rock stars don't really fall into a roots category. Doesn't mean I don't wish I'd seen them though! :)

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Wesley S
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:27 AM

Mark - A friend of mine was the son of missionaries in China. His father once spent a week travelling with Will Rogers on a train across China. When his son - Kent - heard about this he told his father that it must have been wonderful to spend so much time with such funny person as Will Rogers. His father replyed that after a week on a train - even Will Rogers isn't funny anymore.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:49 AM

Stanley Turrentine was a great, bluesy sax player. I'm close enough to New York City to get down to hear him, but the last couple of times he played clubs, I had another commitment. And then he up and died. I did get to hear some other great jazz musicians though, including Louis Armstrong, George Shearing, Tal Farlow and Bob Scobey with Clancy Hayes on vocals.

Sorry, Bill. I really enjoy seeing the breadth of music that Catters love. It gives me a better feel of who they are...

Jerry

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: The Beast of Farlington
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:53 AM

Tom Waits


Back when he was good.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Amergin
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 12:00 PM

rick fielding

pete seeger

slim dusty

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: freightdawg
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 12:02 PM

Man, there are a lot of folks listed here that I wish I had seen live. To that list I would add:

John Denver
Grandpa Jones
Chet Atkins
The Kingston Trio (The Originals primarily, although any manifestation of the group would be okay too).
Roy Clark (I think he is still alive, but haven't heard from him in a long time).

Sigh,

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 12:06 PM

Wish I'd seen Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix.

And the ones that spring to mind who have died, that I am really glad I did get to see.........Joe Strummer, The Ramones and Frank Zappa.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Grab
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 01:29 PM

Oh yes, Davey Graham as well. Caught Bert Jansch a couple of years ago, and he was stunning - the definition of why some people are paid to make music.

Graham.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Bernard
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 01:57 PM

I'm pleased to say I did get to see Segovia live at Manchester's Free Trade Hall - even shook his hand after the concert!

Missed out on Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Buddy Holly and Sandy Denny...

Beethoven... that would have been something!!

I'm also pleased to have worked with many of today's living folk legends - Carthy, Swarbrick (before and after), Simpson, Bailey... missed Nic Jones...

This is a list that could go on forever...!!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Chris Green
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 02:02 PM

A mate of mine was running a guitar workshop at Sidmouth about fifteen years ago. Apparently Davey Graham came in! Rather like Michelangelo wandering into a house-painting workshop, I imagine! :)

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Bert
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 02:11 PM

Marie LLoyd
Harry Lauder
Edith Piaf
Lonnie Donnegan
Ken Dodd
Harry Secombe