# Which dead rock stars have you seen in concert? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870 "2006-10-25T18:36:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/41 "2006-10-26T00:02:17Z")
I saw **Brad Nowell** with Sublime too. He spit on my friend! We hated him … until he died. **Maynard Ferguson** **Mark Sandman** of Morphine on a really small stage in Columbus somewhere. Gosh I feel so young compared to a lot of you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/42 "2006-10-26T00:39:13Z")
I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn seven times. I have his autograph. I saw blues great Johnny Copeland. I think it was his last performance before he died. His daughter had to finish several songs for him because he was so sick. Never saw Frank Zappa play unfortunately. I did see a free lecture he did at my college. Richard Manuel/ Rick Danko Michael Hedges I’m sure there are more but I can’t remember it now. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/43 "2006-10-26T01:15:25Z")
\*\*The Ramones \*\* (3 down 1 or 2 to go) **Nirvana** \*\*Winter Hours \*\* (Joe Marques) **Foghat** (Lonesome Dave, Rod Price) \*\*Tom Petty \*\* (Howie Epstein) \*\*The Replacements \*\* (Bob Stinson) \*\*The Beat Farmers \*\* (Country Dick Montana, Buddy Blue) **Styx** (John Panazzo) \*\*Head East \*\* (Dan Birney) **INXS** (Michael Hutchence) \*\*New Model Army \*\* (New Model Army) \*\*Metallica \*\* (Cliff Burton) \*\*Soul Asylum \*\* (Karl Mueller) \*\*10,000 Maniacs \*\* (Rob Buck) **Stevie Ray Vaughn** **Loverboy** (Scott Smith) There’s probably others I can’t recall off the top of my head, but I feel I’ve named far too many… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/44 "2006-10-26T01:27:35Z")
Ramones, Jim Croce(folky) Garcia John Lee Hooker (not rock but…) ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/45 "2006-10-26T01:36:14Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] I’m sure there are several, but the only ones who jump to mind right now are the three aforementioned Ramones, and Material Issue frontman Jim Ellison (suicide). [/QUOTE] These for me, as well, plus: Kurt Cobain Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon) Can’t think of any others right now. ---
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**An Arky** , I did NOT know that John Panazzo, Karl Mueller, and Rob Buck had died (damn, I’m out of it!) Them too. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/47 "2006-10-26T01:47:34Z")
**Kirsty MacColl** It seems like someone my age should hve a longer list. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/48 "2006-10-26T01:56:19Z")
John Bonham ( No Led Zeppelin on this list yet?) Jimi Hendrix ---
**Author:** ![veemoffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/35a633/32.png) [@veemoffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veemoffa)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/49 "2006-10-26T02:13:14Z")
My very first rock concert was the Beatles last time in Seattle. Two of them are dead now. Sigh. Now I feel old. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/50 "2006-10-26T02:30:21Z")
Keith Moon John Entwistle Stevie Ray Vaughn John Bonham Jerry Garcia Vince Welnick Freddy Mercury Rory Gallagher Joe Strummer George Tumahai Bob Mayo Gary Thain Toy Caldwell Tommy Caldwell ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/51 "2006-10-26T02:56:30Z")
Karen Carpenter ---
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Sundry dead Ramones John Entwistle Stevie Ray Vaughn Mark Sandman (I was also at his last show in Central Square) Jerry Garcia Bob Stinson Layne Staley Curtis Mayfield Joe Strummer (but as a Mescalero) Ray Charles ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/53 "2006-10-26T03:24:57Z")
Joe Strummer Keith Moon and John Entwistle Frank Zappa Jerry Garcia and Brent Mydland Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone Ronnie Lane Johnny and June Carter Cash I did go see Jerry Lee Lewis over 20 years ago to be sure “I saw him before he diied”. But the Killer has lasted longer than anyone figured. ---
**Author:** ![Stinkum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Stinkum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stinkum)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/54 "2006-10-26T04:37:41Z")
Freddy Mercury (several times) Warren Zevon Dee Murray (of the Elton John Band) I don’t get out much. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/55 "2006-10-26T05:03:00Z")
Cozy Powell (who I saw with Emerson Lake & Powell and with Leslie West in the mid-70s and didn’t know was dead until this thread) Stevie Ray Vaughan Allen Woody (Gov’t Mule, Allman Brothers) James Dewar (Robin Trower) Keith Knudsen and Cornelius Bumpus (Doobie Brothers) “Lonesome” Dave Preverett (Foghat) Kenny Kirkland (who was a jazz musician, but I saw him with Sting who says “Consider Me Gone” would make a good epitaph, or maybe “Woke up in my clothes again this morning”) Bobby Sheehan (Blues Traveler) Michael Houser (Widespread Panic) I know there are more, but this is way too depressing. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/56 "2006-10-26T06:46:38Z")
[QUOTE=ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness] My first concert ever, back in 1982, had a two-fer: Joe Strummer (The Clash) - heart attack John Entwhistle (The Who) - drug overdose [/QUOTE] Were you still in SoCal back then? If so, I was at the Coliseum that day too! Now if T-Bone Burnett would die, we’d hit the trifecta for that day. ---
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Terry Kath (Chicago) Carl Wilson (Beach Boys) John Denver Dottie West (OK, actually a country star, but she did have one pop hit. Ask me sometime to tell you about how I had Dottie West alone with me in my Camaro Z-28…and let me brag a little…) ---
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I don’t expect too many folks on this board to know who the band Fludd was, but they are legendary from having been in The Canadian Invasion in the early-mid '70s. They were about as close as we got to glam. Founding members of the band were Brian and Ed Pilling. They played at my high school, and I saw them later at the Canadian National Exhibition. Brian Pilling died of cancer in 1978, and the band broke up for good. (Another founding member, Greg Godovitz, went on to form Goddo. I haven’t heard about anything from Ed Pilling since he lost his brother.) ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/59 "2006-10-26T07:54:25Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] I saw Morphine play at a street fair on June 6, 1999. Two shows later, on July 3, **Mark Sandman** had a heart attack on stage and died. [/QUOTE] Bah and I had tickets to see him just a few shows later here in Seattle, Andrew Wood, mostly local star, he was the Singer for the band that became Pearl Jam (mother love bone) Saw them at an old skate king along with Lane Staley from Alice in chains at the same show, Didnt exatly see them but I did work backstage security for Nirvana. ---
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