# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/41 "2018-08-06T20:06:43Z")
Prince David Bowie The Doors Led Zeppelin The Who with Keith & John Mitch Hedberg AC/DC with Bon Scott Mother Love Bone with Andrew Wood George Carlin ---
**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, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/42 "2018-08-06T20:20:15Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > Mitch Hedberg Thats a really good one. Also Bill Hicks (he wasn’t very funny, but he was before his time). Greg Giraldo too. And Tupac ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/43 "2018-08-06T20:26:58Z")
Henny Youngman. When I was in grad school, one of my classmates was from California and had worked in LA as a companion for visiting celebrities, showing them around town. One of her charges was Henny Youngman, and she told me about driving him from place to place (like magic shops) to visit old friends: “He was so _boring_, always cracking these corny jokes!” I wanted to strangle her! :mad: All I could say was “\*You \*spent an evening with \*Henny \*_Youngman_?!?” After Henny, I’d list Rodney Dangerfield, George Carlin, and Steve Allen. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/44 "2018-08-06T22:45:02Z")
My list is long, but I’ll only post the number one: George Carlin. mmm (on second thought, I gotta get the Beatles in there too) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/45 "2018-08-07T00:47:04Z")
The Pythons. (Complete lineup, with Chapman.) Mozart. Satchmo. (Saw Dizzy once. Inspiring. But his comment on Satchmo has always stayed with me: “No him, no me.”) Any of the ancient Macrimmons playing pibroch. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/46 "2018-08-07T00:52:34Z")
Stevie Ray Vaughan- that show at Alpine Valley was north of Chicago, and I said “I’ll see him when he comes to Chicago.” Also Rory Gallagher. I got turned on to Rory towards the end of his career/life, and although I had a few chances, I never made it. I would have loved to have seen Randy Rhoads play live, but I was 13 when he died. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/47 "2018-08-07T04:07:50Z")
Just remembered one other: Bach! he was a virtuoso on the organ, as well as being a top-notch composer. He was once travelling and stopped in a little town where he wasn’t known. He went to the church. The organist wasn’t around, so he asked someone if he could play a bit, just to practise. After he had been playing for a while, the church organist came back and listened. At a break in the performance, the organist went up to him and said: “Based on your playing, you are either God or Johann Bach.” ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/48 "2018-08-07T04:42:10Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Stevie Ray Vaughan- that show at Alpine Valley was north of Chicago, and I said “I’ll see him when he comes to Chicago.” SRV played two nights at Alpine Valley. I was at the first show. Sort of stunned when I heard the news later. The one I would have liked to have seen is Townes Van Zandt. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/49 "2018-08-07T06:44:57Z")
Bob Marley in Madison, WI in the 80’s. I thought I’d be able to see him later but he died shortly after. ---
**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 7, 2018, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/50 "2018-08-07T07:55:32Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > Monty Python… with Graham Chapman and Terry Jones. (Yes, Terry Jones is still alive, but he has some form of dementia, I believe.) I got Graham’s autograph, and Terry’s. Been hunting the rest since. > [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Aw, they’re not _dead_, they’re just resting. Pining for the Fjords? 😉 > [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > SRV played two nights at Alpine Valley. I was at the first show. Sort of stunned when I heard the news later. Oh, Dude! You should make a thread about your review of this show. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/51 "2018-08-07T18:23:53Z")
A few years ago I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was the 50th Anniversary so almost all the casts of all the shows were there (the most notably absent were Takei, Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner). Seeing everyone else made me really sad I would never have had a chance to see Leonard Nimoy live. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001/52 "2018-08-07T19:19:01Z")
Johnny Cash The Beatles (if the audience wasn’t full of screaming girls) Led Zeppelin The Doors [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-do-you-wish-you-had-seen-thats-no-longer-alive/819001.md?page=2)