Musicians you wish you'd seen live

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Cluin
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 01:16 PM

In addition to Little Hawk, Hank Sr. was mentioned 3 other times, tarheel. I listed him, as did Scoville and darkriver. If you don't want to actually READ the previous posts in a thread, you can always use your browser's "find" feature to look for a word on the page you are viewing.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 12:47 PM

Woody
Lead Belly
Josh White
Cisco Houston
Phil Ochs
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Joe Heaney
Charlie Poole
Janis Joplin
Al Jolson

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: PoppaGator
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 12:39 PM

Anyone mention Graham Parsons, who died so young?

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GLoux
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 12:25 PM

Clarence White
Son House
Alton & Rabon Delmore
Django
Carter Family
Eck Robertson
Ed Haley
John Salyer
Buddy Thomas
Gid Tanner
Riley Puckett
Uncle Dave Macon
Sam & Kirk McGee

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 12:08 PM

Punch the Horse. Oh...... I have!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 12:06 PM

Matter of fact, I mentioned Hank Williams Sr., tarheel. I can't imagine leaving him off such a list.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Grab
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 11:50 AM

Thanks for the recommendation, Mrs. Annie. A friend of mine is also a Levellers fan, so have to check them out when they come anywhere near us.

Sorry to ppl whose favourites these were, but John Prine and Joe Strummer/Mescaleros are both acts I've seen in the last few years and didn't think they were as good as they were billed. Ho hum.

But I've seen Tom Paxton twice, and Lou and Peter Berryman twice, so I'm not too sore. ;-)

Graham.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 10:04 AM

My big regret in life, never got to see Luke Kelly live. And could have.
Noel P

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: tarheel
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 09:08 AM

wow! so many greats listed in here,but NONE mentioned Hank Williams Senior!!!
heard him live on the wsm radio and the grand ole opry many times,but never saw him in person!
i remember many times when he would have "Bocephus"(hank jr.) with him on the air,along with "miss audrey"(hank's wife and bocephus'mother)and it sounded like a really good family of folks!
radio was deceiving at the time i guess,but to a kid like me in the 50's,hank williams was bigger than life itself!!!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: black walnut
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 08:55 AM

O'Carolan.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 08:23 AM

Charlie, I think you've been drinking again to include my non-talent among that lot. Curiosity value only!

RtS
(barely live!)

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Nov 04 - 02:19 AM

Amen, brothah!!!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 09:00 PM

Gabriel and his Trumpet!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 06:53 PM

Hi there, Eve Goldberg! How goes it? This is Little Hawk in the Orillia Folk Society.

Now, to the question. Tony Clifton! I'd die to see Tony Clifton live. :-)

Other than that...

Leonard Cohen
Tish Hinojosa
Al Stewart
Mark Knopfler
Billie Holiday
Edith Piaf
Eartha Kitt
The Beatles
Dylan in the 60's
Baez in the 60's
Joni Mitchell in the 60's
Dolly Parton in the 60's or 70's
Early Rolling Stones
Jimmy Hendrix
Hank Williams
Woody Guthrie
Odetta
the Doors
Ike and Tina Turner Revue in the 60's
young Elvis
Gene Vincent
Buddy Holly
Linda Ronstadt
Warren Zevon
Jefferson Airplane
Crosby, Stills and Nash when they started out
Buffalo Springfield
Mimi and Richard Farina

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Eve Goldberg
Date: 21 Nov 04 - 02:27 PM

OK, here's a small portion of my list:

Mississippi John Hurt
Bessie Smith
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band
The Carter Family
The Beatles
Muddy Waters
Woody Guthrie
Uncle Dave Macon
Kitty Wells
Patsy Cline
Bill Monroe
Hazel and Alice

I am fortunate to have seen a lot of my musical heroes (mostly thanks to my mom who dragged me to all kinds of concerts when I was too young to protest!).

Eve

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Bill Tidwell
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 08:39 PM

Kate Wolf and if had not been for Joe I would have never known about her. The other would be Stan Rogers.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Terry Allan Hall
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 07:48 PM

Harry Chapin
Mississippi John Hurt
Steve Goodman
Mance Lipscomb
Marty Robbins
Django

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Joybell
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 05:15 PM

The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
Charley Poole, Richard Rabbit Brown, and also many, many of the other singers recorded during the 20s and 30s in America
Sam Cowell
Robert "Billy" Barlow (in Australia)
Red Clay Ramblers
Grateful Dead (before now)
Bob Dylan (before now)
Pete Seeger (I still hope too)
Cyril Tawney
Dame Nellie Melba
And yes, darkriver! Homer. Most of all.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Bernard
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 04:48 PM

Aaahh.. Piaf! Flossie Malavialle is doing some Piaff stuff - and brilliantly!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: fat B****rd
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 05:22 AM

Charley Patton
Leadbelly
Howlin' Wolf
Charlie Parker
MIles Davis
Elvis Presley (56-58)
Davy Graham
Jimi Hendrix
Marvin Gaye
Roger The Skiffler
Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith.....

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: kendall
Date: 20 Nov 04 - 05:09 AM

Kate Wolf

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 11:18 PM

Edith Piaf. Harry Cox. Henry Burstow. Louie Hooper. Lucy White. Emma Overd. Jeannie Robertson. Lizzie Higgins. People like that.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 10:07 PM

I wish I'd seen all those guys on the Blues project album

I did see Spider John Koerner in the 60's at Les cousins. he didn't disappoint.

I never saw Mark Spoelestra, Dave Van Ronk, Dave snaker Ray, Tony Glover, Ric Von Schmidt, Ian Buchanan, Geof Muldaur. and someone whose name esapes me but he was very good and in London in the 60's cos a friend of mine's sister knew him.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Scoville
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:48 PM

I passed up a chance to see the Irish Rovers when I was 11 and still haven't forgiven myself.

Other than that:

Woody Guthrie
Hank Williams
Lefty Frizzell in his early years
the original Red Clay Ramblers
Bessie Smith
Ma Rainey
Robert Johnson
Norman Blake as he was in the Seventies
Buddy Holly
a young Bob Dylan
a young Arlo Guthrie (actually, I'd like to see the middle-aged Arlo, too)
Kate Wolf

and probably others . . .

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:33 PM

Several folks who've been listed here, including Steve Goodman and various incarnations of Fairport (I **have** seen the current lineup once and the next-oldest lineup once).

The one I most regret is missing Stan Rogers. Unfortunately I didn't even start getting into folk music until 10 years **after** he died.

Next biggest regret is not having seen **more** of Schooner Fare before Tom Rowe's death earlier this year (and I was **at** the WFMA concert the weekend it happened).

-- Gary

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: darkriver
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:12 PM

Homer
C. H. I. von Biber
J. S. Bach
W. A. Mozart
and
Hank Williams

doug

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Peace
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:08 PM

Dave Edmunds.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Big Jim from Jackson
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 09:07 PM

I guess I should add Bob Gibson and Shel Silverstein to my list 'way on up above. I would LOVE to see Roberts and Barrand and Seamus Kennedy, too.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:58 PM

I'd still like to see Donovan. Heard his new disc, and his voice hasn't changed at all!

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:55 PM

John Lee Hooker.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 08:45 PM

I'd go see Richard and Linda for the brawl.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: MurkeyChris
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:19 PM

Richard and Linda Thompson together. I know Linda is singing again, but even a one off reunion seems pretty unlikely to me! Although I am seeing son and duaghter Teddy and Kamilla on Monday (as well as John Martyn on Sunday, an all time great I'm glad I'm finally getting to see for the first time).

In the same vein, Fairport Covention circa Leige and Lief. Although it was fourteen years before I was even born so I have an excuse. I've seen them recently of course, but it's hardly the same.

Lal Waterson

Sandy Denny

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleroes. Okay I caught the last song of a Glastonbury set before I really knew who he was, but I would loved to have seen them properly. He lived really close to me, and played a gig at my local shitty nightclub weeks before he died, but I was away at uni at the the time :(

Chris

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: andymac
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 07:08 PM

As a bit of a purist, I'd pick:
Pete Seeger (not much chance of me seeing him now but I still hope)
Woody Guthrie
Willie Scott
Tony Cuffe (we were trying to get him to our local folk club around the time he took ill...)
Paddy Tunney
Ian Manuel
Lizzie Higgins
Ewan MacColl
I could go on- I said I was a bit of a purist but outside of Folk Music (Leadbelly's quote permitting..) I'd say
The Beatles
Crowded House
The Doors
Joni Mitchell (in her "Blue" heyday)
The Sex Pistols
Led Zepellin

Andy

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 06:24 PM

Stan Rogers
Rick Fielding
Steve Goodman
Townes Van Zandt
Hank Williams
Howlin' Wolf
Michael Hedges
Toby Keith

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 06:02 PM

Catch Bonnie Raitt if you can. I've seen her about 5 or 6 times, and she was a gem in every show I ever saw (yep, even when she was drinkin' and cokin' heavy).

Bill Staines & Ry Cooder too, but I wouldn't put either one of them in the same class of performer as Bonnie, even though they are both better players than she is. Bonnie is one of those rare musicians who puts it all together and blows you away when you see her perform.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST,chinmusic
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 05:55 PM

1- Eva Cassidy
2- Judy Garland
3- David Mallett
4- John McCutcheon
5- Patsy Cline
6- Ry Cooder
7- Gove Scrivenor
8- Bonnie Raitt
9- John Starling
10- Bill Staines

    This list is in no particular order, except for Eva Cassidy as number one.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 05:31 PM

BTW, Steve Goodman in his prime was one of the best acts, in the sense of being purely and divinely entertained, I have ever seen.   Him and Andy M. Stewart are probably the masters of that sort of music and entertainment I've ever seen.

Tom Waits I saw in his prime, just him and a piano--again, one of the best musical experiences of my life.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 05:18 PM

Wow! Some great artists listed here. Stanley Turrentine! YES!

Others already listed that I would 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th, and throw in a few of my own--mind you, I would have wanted to see them all in their prime, not decline:

Folk/country sorts of acts I never saw, but would have LOVED to see:

Silly Wizard
Sandy Denny
Pentangle
Planxty
Willie Clancy
Ramblin' Jack Elliot
John Prine
Richie Havens
Ricky Scaggs
Earle Scruggs
Dolores Keane
Fairport
The Band
Doc Watson
Patsy Cline
Arlo Guthrie
Woody
Jean Ritchie
Johnny Cash
Roseanne Cash
Allison Kraus
Flyin Burrito Brothers
Emmylou
Poco
Dixie Chicks (I know there is still plenty of hope)
McGarrigle Sisters
Natalie McMaster (again, still hope)

Blues/R & B acts...

Mingus
Coltrane
Stanley Turrentine
Willie Dixon
Lady Blues, Billie Holiday
Bessie Smith
Nina Simone
Wilson Pickett
Sam Cooke
Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels
Booker T & the MGs
Boz Scaggs
The Immortal Roy Orbison

Rock/blues acts...

Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Richard
Janis Joplin
The Doors
Hendrix
Rolling Stones
Allman Brothers
Allman Brothers
Allman Brothers
Traffic
Blues Project
Blind Faith
Nirvana
The Clash

Pop music acts...

Sinatra
Tony Bennett
Duke Ellington
Beatles (my mum wouldn't let me go when I had the chance at a free ticket, but then you couldn't hear them anyway, so I don't know it matters much in the end)
Everly Brothers
Marvin Gaye
Shirelles
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Hall and Oates (they were kinda like an Everly Bros reincarnation, weren't they?)
Young Rascals (homeboys of my youth)
Joni Mitchell
Van Morrison
Rickie Lee Jones
The Hollies
The Kinks

But really, there are only a handful of acts I truly, truly wish I had seen:

Allman Bros
Janis Joplin
Patsy Cline
Everly Bros
Silly Wizard
Planxty
Mingus
and call me crazy, but Duke Ellington. I saw the Count, I saw Louis Armstrong, but I never saw the Duke. Would have loved to have seen him with my dad, who loved Big Band music and introduced me to it.

And of the greatest singers of all time, Billie Holliday, Nina Simone, Sandy Denny, and Frank Sinatra. Considering how prevalent the bias is towards men in music, I find it ironic that most the "great" singers on my own list are women.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 04:47 PM

I have been fortunate to have seen most of my musical heroes live (some of whom are mentioned here), even had the chance to speak to some of them. However not Miles Davis or Muddy Waters

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 04:42 PM

The Blue Sky Boys

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: The Barden of England
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 04:21 PM

Ewan McColl
Nic Jones
Stan Rodgers
Alex Harvey
Isaac Guillory
John Denver

Why Alex Harvey you may ask? What a showman is my answer.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Auggie
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 03:38 PM

Forgot to mention
Chet Atkins, and his brother-in-law
Jethro Burns

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Auggie
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 03:22 PM

Eva Cassidy
Stephane Grapelli
Eva Cassidy
Kate Wolf
Eva Cassidy
Isaac Guillory

I was fortunate enough to see Stevie Goodman twice, but I think I was the only person in Chicago NOT to know he had leukemia (until after Artistic Hair, when troubles were obvious even to me),so I passed on numerous other occasions. I have no idea what I did on those nights instead, but it couldn't have been as good as what I missed.

Now if my favorites are within a hundred miles or so, I'm there too.

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 02:41 PM

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

oh, sure, Jerry...but when they ONLY mention rock..etc., it makes me wonder why they are here. I have tried to swear off my purist gripes the last 2-3 years, but occasionally my buttons get pushed and I yearn for that one tiny little corner of the world where traditional folk holds the main place on stage. I, too, like a wider type of music...some jazz, Dixieland, classical, even some recent songwriters..*wink*...I just butt in sometimes and note that what is in a collection of 9000 or so songs in the DigiTrad is NOT Django or Beatles or Jimi Hendrix....and 'hope' that a few will read it and temper their digressions a bit...

Ok...I'll give it a rest for another couple years...*grin*

Subject: RE: Musicians you wish you'd seen live
From: jaze
Date: 19 Nov 04 - 02:21 PM

Mississippi John Hurt. But I'd settle for a video. I'd love to see how he played that guitar.

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

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: 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: 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: 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.