# Double (or more) concert bills that would have been great but never happened, that you know of **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879 "2020-06-01T22:45:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/1 "2020-06-01T22:45:37Z")
For me, the ultimate combination of music acts that never, to my knowledge, performed together and should have would have been Rush and King’s X. Can anyone else think of something similar? ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/2 "2020-06-02T00:21:02Z")
Billie Holiday and Hank Williams. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/3 "2020-06-02T00:50:42Z")
John Coltrane Mozart Miles Davis Jimi Hendrix ---
**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:** [June 2, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/4 "2020-06-02T01:47:04Z")
1965 Rolling Stones opening for 1965 Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/5 "2020-06-02T02:07:54Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > John Coltrane > Mozart > Miles Davis > Jimi Hendrix That would be quite a quadruple bill, but maybe this thread should be limited to artists who are/were alive and performing at the same time. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/6 "2020-06-02T02:16:42Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > 1965 Rolling Stones opening for 1965 Beatles. That would be the 1965 NME Poll Winner’s All Star Concert. The line up: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Animals, The Kinks, Herman’s Hermits, Moody Blues, Them, Cilla Black, The Seekers and Donovan. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/7 "2020-06-02T02:47:15Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > That would be quite a quadruple bill, but maybe this thread should be limited to artists who are/were alive and performing at the same time. Lou Rawls Ted Nugget Culture Club Motorhead All doing a group finale at the he end. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/8 "2020-06-02T20:29:53Z")
A youthful Adele opening for Amy Winehouse. Graham Parker opening for Dexys Midnight Runners Could turn out to be two epic battles. I specified Graham Parker opening for a reason: the other way round would imply a time when DMR were just starting out. I saw them in the early days and they were _awful_. So I envisage DMR in their pomp supported by GP. j ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/9 "2020-06-02T21:38:28Z")
Doug Stanhope opening for a stand up show that had Louis CK and George Carlin as the two main acts. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/10 "2020-06-02T22:11:43Z")
Some prog double bills that would be something to see: Pink Floyd and King Crimson Genesis and The Moody Blues Yes and ELP ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/11 "2020-06-02T23:21:05Z")
Yes and Rush at Red Rocks. On a cool fall day. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/12 "2020-06-03T01:10:52Z")
The Stooges opening for the MC5. (could easily have happened, but never did as far as I know) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/13 "2020-06-03T05:12:31Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Yes and Rush at Red Rocks. On a cool fall day. At which time in their careers, and in the case of Yes, with which lineup? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/14 "2020-06-03T05:14:16Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Some prog double bills that would be something to see: > > Pink Floyd and King Crimson > > Genesis and The Moody Blues > > Yes and ELP That’s quite a Venn diagram, personnel-wise! ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/15 "2020-06-03T05:31:08Z")
Cream, The Jeff Beck Group, and The New Yardbirds/Led Zeppelin with Clapton, Beck and Page jamming on an encore before Page began his way to completely being in his own world like he was at the 1983 ARMS concert! ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-or-more-concert-bills-that-would-have-been-great-but-never-happened-that-you-know-of/854879/16 "2020-06-11T04:26:08Z")
Deep Purple and ELP. With Dream Theater as an opening act. Oh wait, I actually saw that in 1997 or so. Yeah, not what you’re looking for. But it’s what I thought of.