# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/21 "2018-08-03T02:13:40Z")
Led Zeppelin before Bonzo passed. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/22 "2018-08-03T03:03:41Z")
Something that I thought about when the other thread came up–when I was in college, they had a free Dizzy Gillespie concert. All I needed to do was walk across campus from my room to the auditorium, but I didn’t bother. He died a couple of years later. I don’t particularly regret misding it, but acknowledge that there were plenty of others who would have loved to have had the opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/23 "2018-08-03T03:18:03Z")
Reaching too far back cause I could never have had the chance, but Sergei Rachmaninoff. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2018, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/24 "2018-08-03T03:37:06Z")
Hendrix, Morrison, Sinatra, Presley ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/25 "2018-08-03T03:46:18Z")
My mother. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/26 "2018-08-03T03:51:45Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Led Zeppelin before Bonzo passed. I saw Jimmy Page with the Black Crowes, it was up there with some of my favorite concerts. Jimmy is still great and Chris did an amazing job embodying Robert. I’ve seen Tom Petty 9 or 10 times and would have gladly continued to buy tickets. The one that really bugs me is Prince. I’ve mentioned this in plenty of other threads, but I never paid attention to him. I was born in 1980, and (IMO) around the time he was really getting huge, I was only about 10-15. This was around the same time a lot of comedians used him as a punching bag. Anyway, when George Harrison died, Prince along with a number of others did While My Guitar Gently weeps for George’s R&R inductiin and, as I know you know where I’m going with this, his solo is what made me realize how good of a guitar player he was. He was more than just a someone that could sing and/or put on a show. When he died, XM had a Prince station, listening to almost exclusively his music for a month straight is what really made me understand what everyone else had known for 30+ years. FWIW, when Prince died, this is what I posted on my facebook page > [@](#): > > I consider myself VERY lucky that I got to see David Bowie (a long time ago) and someday I know I’ll be lucky that I got to see Roger Waters twice and Tom Petty like 10 times. I wish I had the chance to see Prince. He was never really on my radar. I was aware of him since Diamonds and Pearls was in heavy rotation on The Box, but I never really appreciated him until his tribute to George Harrison at the R&R Hall of Fame Induction. > > I’m a much bigger fan of David Bowie than Prince, but this, surprisingly, hit me a bit harder, I’m still not sure why. To this day, it’s still seems so bizarre to me how much bigger of a loss it feels like Prince was than Bowie (at the time), considering I never listened to prince beyond knowing a handful of songs on the radio and I loved Bowie pretty much since I first heard him. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/27 "2018-08-03T17:20:09Z")
Michael Jackson George Michael Queen w/ Freddie Mercury Israel Kamakawiwo’ole ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/28 "2018-08-03T18:21:32Z")
Lots of great calls so far. But for me, miles ahead of the others and just in front of Keith Moon, is [Lux Interior](http://thequietus.com/articles/01096-lux-interior-obituary-and-tribute-by-john-robb). Fascinating guy on paper and on videos, but I can’t imagine what it must have been like to be in the presence of such a ball of energy. ---
**Author:** ![NVME702-redux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@NVME702-redux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NVME702-redux)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/29 "2018-08-03T20:53:58Z")
Growing up in Las Vegas there were always strip casinos that had Ray Charles on the marquee. I always meant to go, and it seemed that he always played Vegas. But then it was too late. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/30 "2018-08-03T21:09:50Z")
A migrating herd of Brontosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/31 "2018-08-06T03:05:27Z")
Johnny Winter ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/32 "2018-08-06T13:25:33Z")
Monty Python… with Graham Chapman and Terry Jones. (Yes, Terry Jones is still alive, but he has some form of dementia, I believe.) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/33 "2018-08-06T13:40:51Z")
In 1995 (or was it 1994?), I could have seen James Brown perform in Barcelona, but it would have meant altering our trip schedule (I was with my mother and girlfriend) by a coupe of days. Nowadays with internet hotel reservations and such it would be pretty easy, but at the time we decided it wasn’t worth the trouble. Mistake! ---
**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:** [August 6, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/34 "2018-08-06T13:52:32Z")
Bob Marley. My university was on his scheduled tour and I was looking forward to seeing him when the tour was canceled due to his fatal illness. (I was fortunate enough to see Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, George Harrison, and Keith Moon (with the Who) before they died.) ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/35 "2018-08-06T13:57:39Z")
Honor, honesty, chivalry … things like that. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/36 "2018-08-06T15:51:54Z")
Eva Cassidy ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/37 "2018-08-06T18:00:34Z")
George Carlin. I’ve seen every standup show that’s made it onto Netflix and I so wish I’d gone to see him live. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/38 "2018-08-06T18:09:44Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Honor, honesty, chivalry … things like that. Aw, they’re not _dead_, they’re just resting. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/39 "2018-08-06T18:52:35Z")
**Duane Allman.** I saw everyone else I ever wanted to, including the Beatles. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/40 "2018-08-06T19:45:50Z")
George Carlin. Maybe the original Nirvana lineup. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001.md?page=3)