# Who have you seen live that is no longer with us? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death, music\ **Created:** [August 2, 2018, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968 "2018-08-02T10:28:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/241 "2021-08-26T11:37:58Z")
I forgot: Gerald Ford. He came to my high school during a campaign stop in 1976. Ronald Reagan. I was present at a speech he made in Port Washington in 1987. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/242 "2021-08-26T23:02:52Z")
I forgot: Doc Watson Merle Watson Oscar Brand Long John Baldry Elizabeth Cotten Stan Rogers John Allan Cameron Peter Gzowski Also, Eric Clapton is dead to me. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/243 "2021-08-26T23:17:48Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > Also, Eric Clapton is dead to me. You know, I’ve always admired Clapton for his skills and his music, until I learned about his racist screed at a concert in 1976. It came in bits and pieces to me, I’ve maybe heard about it first in the mid-nineties, but that was just a rumor I read in some magazine. But later, I read the whole story and the transcript of his rant on a website, and I thought I’d never could enjoy his music again, which had brought me so much joy in my life before. This mellowed a bit in the last years, but when I read about his thoughts on Covid, I revisited the old story and found out that to this day, he hasn’t convincingly refuted his awful and disgusting words from way back in 1976. Obviously, he finds the incident “funny” in retrospect. Yeah, he’s dead to me too. (I’ve seen him in 1993). ETA: sorry, if you don’t know what I’m referring to, here’s the story. It brought one good thing, “Rock Against Racism”: > **[When Eric Clapton's Bigoted 1976 Rant Sparked Rock Against Racism](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/eric-clapton-rant-rock-against-racism/)** > > Eric Clapton went on a racist rant onstage at a 1976 concert, which sparked Britain's Rock Against Racism campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/244 "2021-08-26T23:30:50Z")
Yup, that’s my point too ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/245 "2021-08-26T23:37:43Z")
Roger Miller, George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/246 "2021-08-26T23:44:08Z")
Saw **B. B. King** in a small bar in a high rise hotel in downtown Dayton, Ohio. Was in 1982 or 1983. I was 15 years old. My friend (who was also 15) was a fan of him and took me along. His mother drove us. There was probably less than 30 people in the bar. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/247 "2021-08-27T16:44:39Z")
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