# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/61 "2006-10-26T10:33:35Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] Several, including the Ramones, but the one that sticks with me most is: Jeff Buckley - drowned. [/QUOTE] Jeff Buckley is the one of many now-sadly-dead guys that sticks in my mind. And the funny thing I remember about seeing him isn’t so much the music - it was coming away thinking, and I say this as a staunch heterosexual, thinking “he is one good looking guy!” When Grant McLennan passed away it brough back a lot of sweet memories of early Go-Betweens gigs. mm ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/62 "2006-10-26T10:53:05Z")
Jimi Hendrix John Bonham Keith Moon John Entwistle (the first time for the previous 3 was at the same concert) Jerry Garcia John Denver Frank Zappa Lowell George ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/63 "2006-10-26T10:59:54Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] Several, including the Ramones, but the one that sticks with me most is: Jeff Buckley - drowned. [/QUOTE] I was lucky enough to see Jeff Buckley in February of 1996, where he played at Belvoir Amphitheatre in Western Australia’s Swan Valley. On a warm February night (mid to high 20s) under a cloudless sky, he left the crowd awestruck even though Grace had received fairly limited airplay up until that point. To think back to that night and remember how unbelievable he was so early on in his career makes his death easily the saddest I can think of in terms of people I’ve never met. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/64 "2006-10-26T11:00:43Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] Jimi Hendrix Janis Joplin Jim Morrison (The Doors) Keith Moon/John Entwhistle (The Who) George Harrison (Concert for Bangladesh) Richard Manuel/Rick Danko (The Band) Jerry Garcia Stevie Ray Vaughn Phil Ochs [/QUOTE] Damn! I wanna be you! All I got is Zappa and Garcia. I think. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/65 "2006-10-26T11:01:50Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Damn! I wanna be you! All I got is Zappa and Garcia. I think. [/QUOTE] I take that back. I got John Bonham, too. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/66 "2006-10-26T12:20:10Z")
The various Ramones Kurt Cobain Sterling Morrison Grant McLennan (who I didn’t know had died until this thread) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/67 "2006-10-26T12:44:13Z")
Just remembered one who I bet a lot of us saw: Ian Stewart, the sixth Rolling Stone. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870/68 "2006-10-27T17:42:30Z")
[QUOTE=Manatee] 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. [/QUOTE] Yep, that was the show. Only time I ever ditched school. I remember that was the concert that caused the Los Angeles City Council to ban daytime stadium events on school days. [QUOTE=An Arky] The Beat Farmers (Country Dick Montana, Buddy Blue) [/QUOTE] Ooh, Forgot about them. Country Dick’s passing didn’t surprise me. I was working the night they placed the UCLA Cooperage (campus pizza joint that had a stage). After the set I found Country Dick sprawled out on his back in a pool of sweat in the hallway leading to the service elevators. I got him some water and waited for the rest of the band to show up and take over. That was 1985 or '86. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-dead-rock-stars-have-you-seen-in-concert/377870.md?page=3)