# Artists you discovered a little too late **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213 "2017-03-02T17:15:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/1 "2017-03-02T17:15:53Z")
You hear a song on the radio and are blown away by the sound. Looking up the artist you discover that they just recently died, and you’ll never see them in concert and there won’t be any new music. ☹ For me the two artists that fall into this category were both from my college days. Stan Rogers, the great Canadian folk singer was a huge favorite in my crowd in college. I learned his songs around the campfires and found his albums at the Co-op. Unfortunately, he died in a plane fire my sophomore year before I really discovered who he was. The video of him in concert still gives me goosebumps. The second was a little later in college, Steve Goodman (City of New Orleans, A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request). Someone in the house I lived in off campus had an album and we played it constantly. Again, without Wikipedia I didn’t discover that he’d died right about the time I played the album for the time. I would have loved his live show. So, who did you discover just a little too late? ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/2 "2017-03-02T17:20:03Z")
Hard to believe, Doc Watson. I’d heard OF him of course, but he never had or wrote any hits of his own or had much airplay. Very fine flatpicker of course. It would have been nice to see him perform live, in his prime or close to it. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/3 "2017-03-02T17:31:06Z")
I won’t say I discovered him too late, but I just missed seeing Bob Marley live. He was scheduled to play at my university in 1980 but had to cancel because of his cancer and died the next year. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/4 "2017-03-02T17:54:28Z")
By the time I’d even heard of Anna Russell, she’d been dead for about 6 years. I would have loved to have gone to one of her shows. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/5 "2017-03-02T18:09:35Z")
I did not discover **Type O Negative** until after Peter Steele had already died. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/6 "2017-03-02T18:27:33Z")
When Warren Zevon died, all I knew about him was that he did that werewolf song. I’ve been working on my ignorance since then. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/7 "2017-03-02T18:29:30Z")
I loved [Sam Myers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Myers), who sang/toured with Anson Funderburgh’s band. I probably saw him perform 6 times over the years, so he isn’t a perfect match for this thread. I was busy and missed his show when he was in Pittsburgh in 2005. He died a short time later. I really regret not seeing him one final time. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/8 "2017-03-02T18:39:32Z")
Although I became a fan of The Band in the late '80s, I really wasn’t aware of who sang what song and what their individual talents were. Consequently I didn’t make any concerted efforts to see the remaining members when they appeared numerous times and in various combinations in NYC until after Richard Manuel’s passing…really would have loved to have heard him live. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/9 "2017-03-02T19:03:15Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > You hear a song on the radio and are blown away by the sound. Looking up the artist you discover that they just recently died, and you’ll never see them in concert and there won’t be any new music. ☹ > > For me the two artists that fall into this category were both from my college days. Stan Rogers, the great Canadian folk singer was a huge favorite in my crowd in college. I learned his songs around the campfires and found his albums at the Co-op. Unfortunately, he died in a plane fire my sophomore year before I really discovered who he was. The video of him in concert still gives me goosebumps. > > The second was a little later in college, Steve Goodman (City of New Orleans, A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request). Someone in the house I lived in off campus had an album and we played it constantly. Again, without Wikipedia I didn’t discover that he’d died right about the time I played the album for the time. I would have loved his live show. > > So, who did you discover just a little too late? I don’t know Stan Rogers, but good call on Steve Goodman. _A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request_ is brilliant. Also in the folk genre, there was a Seattle trio called Uncle Bansai that I only discovered after they’d broken up. They reunited for occasional gigs later, and I’ve been to a few, but I wonder if I missed something not seeing them in their heyday. > [@Colibri](#): > > I won’t say I discovered him too late, but I just missed seeing Bob Marley live. He was scheduled to play at my university in 1980 but had to cancel because of his cancer and died the next year. A few years ago I splurged on a really good ticket to see Ennio Morricone with a 100-piece orchestra in New York City. He had to cancel because of poor health. At his age, I won’t have too many chances left. A search shows some upcoming tour dates in Europe; if I had the cash, I’d consider it. Also a good call on Warren Zevon. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/10 "2017-03-02T20:28:57Z")
I actually discovered Fairport Convention **because** of Sandy Denny’s death. I read her obit in Rolling Stone and it intrigued me, so I bought _Liege & Lief_. I now own every recording she ever did. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/11 "2017-03-02T20:39:09Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > A few years ago I splurged on a really good ticket to see Ennio Morricone with a 100-piece orchestra in New York City. He had to cancel because of poor health. At his age, I won’t have too many chances left. A search shows some upcoming tour dates in Europe; if I had the cash, I’d consider it. > > Also a good call on Warren Zevon. In 2006 I saw Cesária Évora (the barefoot diva) perform in Pittsburgh. She was spectacular. Her health declined after that and she died in 2011. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/12 "2017-03-02T22:35:37Z")
Many, many artists. Two that come to mind immediately are Eva Cassidy and Richie Havens. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/13 "2017-03-02T22:51:56Z")
Tommy Bolin. I barely knew some of his work from Deep Purple and was really getting into Private Eyes when he OD’d. I’d love to have seen him, especially if he could have moderated the drugs a bit that were taking a toll, but then that’s always been true for a lot of artists… and probably always will. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/14 "2017-03-02T22:55:03Z")
SRV. But I was only 13, and just getting into the blues. I did, however, have the enviable pleasure of seeing (and meeting) Danny Gatton a couple dozen times or so. He used to have a regular gig at a place called Tornado Alley in Wheaton, MD and I had a friend who worked there and would let me sneak in the back. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/15 "2017-03-02T23:05:15Z")
Elliot Smith and Eva Cassidy. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/16 "2017-03-02T23:24:44Z")
Didn’t get into Led Zeppelin until a couple years after John Bonham died. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/17 "2017-03-02T23:36:24Z")
I became aware of Duane Allman just a few months after he was killed. He’s one of my three “If I had a time machine who would I see” artists. (Art Tatum, George Gershwin) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/18 "2017-03-02T23:37:29Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > SRV. But I was only 13, and just getting into the blues. > > I did, however, have the enviable pleasure of seeing (and meeting) Danny Gatton a couple dozen times or so. He used to have a regular gig at a place called Tornado Alley in Wheaton, MD and I had a friend who worked there and would let me sneak in the back. So jealous!! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/19 "2017-03-03T03:10:18Z")
XTC By the time I got hip to them Andy had long retired from the stage and the band didn’t really exist anymore ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213/20 "2017-03-03T03:33:17Z")
Sublime, but i guess everyone did. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-you-discovered-a-little-too-late/781213.md?page=2)