# Who do you wish you had seen that's no longer alive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001 "2018-08-02T20:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/1 "2018-08-02T20:10:14Z")
Inspired by [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=859772). I’ve seen tons of great shows over the years, but there are a few that dammit, I sure wish I could have seen that were either a little before my time or I just never made it out when they came around: Jimi Hendirx Muddy Waters Tom Petty Prince David Bowie Those are the big ones that I regret not having seen. If I got a one time shot at a time machine to see only one of them, it would have to be Jimi, but at least he was before my time. Missing out on Petty and Prince - that’s on me. Object lesson here kids, don’t wait for next year… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/2 "2018-08-02T20:16:44Z")
Martin Gardner. Though by “seen”, I’d mean I wish I’d had the chance to have a nice lengthy chat with him over tea. ---
**Author:** ![bionic\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@bionic\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bionic_man)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/3 "2018-08-02T20:20:56Z")
I like to seen the ebatleswhen they played the hollywood bowl. ilike toseen the original stones with brian jones. i like to seen aactul dinosar before they became exstint.:eek: ---
**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:** [August 2, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/4 "2018-08-02T20:36:11Z")
I passed on SRV at The Hollywood Bowl. Figured I’d catch him the next time around. Never did. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/5 "2018-08-02T20:59:41Z")
Richard Pryor, Prince, Stevie Ray Vaughan are my top 3. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/6 "2018-08-02T21:02:30Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I passed on SRV at The Hollywood Bowl. Figured I’d catch him the next time around. > > Never did. ☹ Same here, only at some hall in Boise. Damn it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/7 "2018-08-02T21:17:21Z")
Nirvana Alice in Chains - original, of course. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/8 "2018-08-02T21:30:32Z")
Maria Callas ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/9 "2018-08-02T21:36:06Z")
Freddie Mercury Les Paul I have tickets to see Jeff Lynne and ELO in two weeks, having missed out on my only two prior chances to see them: the last time they toured the US was in 1982, and while my friend and I dearly wanted to go, we were only 17, and we couldn’t convince our parents to let us drive from Green Bay to Milwaukee to see them. I had tickets to see ELO when they had announced a US tour in 2001, but the tour was cancelled due to low sales. So, I’m keeping my fingers and toes crossed that Jeff doesn’t catch a bug between now and the 15th, since he’s the last one on my musical bucket list. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/10 "2018-08-02T22:18:50Z")
I had tickets to see The Who and one month before the show, John Entwistle died. They still performed, but I feel I didn’t really see the Who proper (Keith Moon would have been cool see, but he was before my time and they were still a legit band after he was gone). I was on transfer to Chicago and we saw that Stevie Ray Vaughn was coming to town. A friend of mine and I considered going but passed. He ended up dying on his way to that concert. Not really a big fan, but he was a legend and I just missed him. Just a few months before Hairspray was released, Divine was making an appearance at my favorite indie video store. I actually lived 80 miles away and decided I really didn’t feel like making the drive. A few months later, he was dead. I will regret that to my dying days. I’ve since met John Waters and Mink Stole. Not a close call, but I really wish I’d been able to see Roy Orbison perform and I would have loved to have met William S Burroughs and Christopher Lee… ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/11 "2018-08-02T22:20:02Z")
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison would be my top three…George Carlin and John Belushi would be next… ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/12 "2018-08-02T22:29:05Z")
Oh, and Duane Allman, I first saw the ABB in 1979, but Duane was killed in 1971… ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/13 "2018-08-02T22:42:04Z")
James Brown. I’ve watched clips of his shows on youtube and he was awesome. I also wish I seen a few more Prince shows. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/14 "2018-08-02T23:05:09Z")
Would have loved to have seen the premier of _Rhapsody in Blue_ with George Gershwin on piano. More realistically, I had tickets a few years ago to see Ennio Morricone conducting an orchestra in Brooklyn, but he cancelled for health reasons. He’s still alive, but at his age I don’t know if he’d make another North American tour. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/15 "2018-08-02T23:52:04Z")
Peter Paul and Mary played a concert here not too long before Mary Travers passed away. I couldn’t interest anyone in going and I should have just gone by myself. They are one of the reasons I picked up a guitar all those years ago. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/16 "2018-08-03T00:18:39Z")
Billie Holiday, mainly. But I would have had to have seen her when I was 7 or 8 years old. Howlin’ Wolf. Forgot to mention in the other thread that I did see Les Paul. My buddy treated me to a show at the Iridium for my 50th birthday (2002). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/17 "2018-08-03T00:24:23Z")
John Lennon. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/18 "2018-08-03T00:45:38Z")
The Beatles and The Doors for sure. I’m hanging onto hopes that I still may see Paul in Montreal this fall. I’d be a tub of jello. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/19 "2018-08-03T00:51:44Z")
I would’ve _loved_ to see The Beatles in concert. But John Lennon died before I was even born. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/20 "2018-08-03T01:57:31Z")
Queen with Freddie Mercury. I hurried through an exam at university to watch the tribute concert. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001.md?page=2)