# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/101 "2018-08-03T00:51:05Z")
Davy Jones (the former Monkee) Ray Thomas (of the Moody Blues) ---
**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 3, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/102 "2018-08-03T01:19:45Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Duane Allman and Berry Oakley with the Allman Brothers. That’s pretty freaking cool…on another thread, Duane was on my list of people you had wished you had seen, unfortunately for the musical world, he was killed in 1971, I didn’t see ABB until 1979 when I was 17… ---
**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 3, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/103 "2018-08-03T01:26:29Z")
I re-reading this thread, I remembered how our parents dragged us to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Saturday Night Pops, as a kid, I actually really liked it, and they would take us to the Lyric to see the off-Broadway shows, so Leonard Bernstein Arthur Fiedler Anthony Quinn Yul Brynner Carol Channing ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/104 "2018-08-03T01:34:34Z")
Too many to mention and too depressing, but a few stand out… Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, B.B. King, Stephane Grapelli ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/105 "2018-08-03T01:40:45Z")
I saw Bob Dylan & The Band in 1974 in Chicago (_Before The Flood_ tour) so: Richard Manuel Levon Helm Rick Danko I was at Farm Aid in 1990 in Indianapolis so: Bill Monroe Carl Perkins Don Williams Lou Reed John Denver Dick Clark (emcee) I saw the HORDE Festival in Michigan in 1992 or 1994 so: Gregg Allman Butch Trucks Allen Woody (bassist for Allman Bros. and Gov’t. Mule) Bobby Sheehan (bassist for Blues Traveler) You might get the idea I like blues guitar from the following list: B.B. King Son Seals Fenton Robinson Johnny Winter Roy Buchanan Stevie Ray Vaughan Lonnie Mack Assorted others: Carl Wilson Dennis Wilson Richard Wright Chet Atkins Bobby “Blue” Bland Jeff Healey Dan Hicks Bo Diddley ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/106 "2018-08-03T01:46:36Z")
I can only think of a few: Chuck Berry Linda McCartney Jon Lord (Deep Purple) Tommy Bolin (different iteration of Deep Purple) Oh, and I saw Margot Fonteyn dance once. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/107 "2018-08-03T02:16:26Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > I saw Tito Puente play just months before he died. Not bragging, but I think I win. Ella Fitzgerald (of course, then we need to start debating “win”) ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/108 "2018-08-03T02:20:10Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > [Moderating] > I fixed the typo in the title. It was making my brain hurt until I figured it out. > > [Not moderating] > Tommy Makem, multiple times (but most of you have probably never heard of him). He used to always come to the Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival every year. He and Liam Clancy (another, late, great performer) used to do an annual show at the Lakewood (Ohio) Auditorium. Makem used a one-liner that seems appropriate, "Let’s all join hands and we’ll contact the living. " 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/109 "2018-08-03T02:23:59Z")
> [@betterlifethroughchemistry](#): > > That’s pretty freaking cool…on another thread, Duane was on my list of people you had wished you had seen, unfortunately for the musical world, he was killed in 1971, I didn’t see ABB until 1979 when I was 17… I saw them four times. Twice with Duane, once more without him but with Oakley, and once with neither. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/110 "2018-08-03T02:56:25Z")
Sinatra - even in his old age he put on one hell of a show ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/111 "2018-08-03T03:23:06Z")
> [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](#): > > I can’t be the only Doper who saw The Clash live, can I? Sadly Joe Strummer passed in '02. Nope. I already name checked him in post #23. How I could have forgot about Gord Downie I don’t know. I saw the Hip over a dozen times. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/112 "2018-08-03T03:55:40Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Jack Bruce, Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Chris Squire, Clarence Clemons, Roy Bittan, Linda McCartney, Chuck Berry, B.B. King. Unless there’s some breaking news I haven’t been made aware of, Roy Bittan is still alive. 😃 My personal list, as far as I can think of, is Carlin, Allen Lanier, Lemmy, Dusty Rhodes, Nikolai Volkoff, Mr. Fuji, and the Ultimate Warrior. ---
**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 3, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/113 "2018-08-03T04:15:51Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Duane Allman and Berry Oakley with the Allman Brothers Then you must have also seen Butch Trucks? You’ve reminded me I left Berry Oakley off my own list. And speaking of the ABB, I’m _so_ envious of you and any others upthread who saw Duane play. I only became aware of him just a couple of months after he’d been killed. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/114 "2018-08-03T04:18:10Z")
There’s a number of them, but mostly at large tour venues lacking that sense of personal connection to the artist. Which is why Stevie Ray stands out for me. Growing up in Austin, I saw SRV 15-20 times in the 80s, at places like Antone’s and outdoor shows on Auditorium Shores. He poured so much of himself into his music, joy and pain rolling off him with every note. I’d just quit my job to go to grad school and been out late celebrating; my girlfriend (now wife) called the next morning to break the news about the helicopter crash. That was my “day the music died”. I still tear up every time I hear Jimmie singing Six Strings Down. The other is Townes Van Zandt. Many of his albums were terribly produced, but his songwriting is among the all time best and his live shows were intimate and featured that beautiful, powerful voice. ---
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Biscuit (both Big Boys and Cargo Cult) D Boone (Minutemen) Dave Brockie (GWAR) John Entwistle (Who) Faye Hunter (Let’s Active) Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) Grant Hart (Husker Dü) John Stewart (solo) Bob Stinson (Replacements) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968/116 "2018-08-03T04:52:45Z")
40% of the original Boston (Bradley Delp and Sib Hashian) And most tragically of all, House of Freaks, who opened for the Bangles who I attended in the late 1980s and are less well known for their music than they are for the incredibly horrific way one of the members died. > **[Bryan Harvey (musician)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Harvey_(musician))** > > Bryan Taber Harvey (April 27, 1956 – January 1, 2006) was an American musician noted for his fronting role in House of Freaks. > Harvey first gained attention in the early 1980s as singer-guitarist in a power pop band based out of Richmond, Virginia, called The Dads. Popular at East Coast colleges, the band reached the pinnacle of its success in 1984 with the release, on CBS records, of its self-titled album. > Harvey's subsequent musical career included long-time participation in the indie supergr... ---
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Stevie Ray Vaughan. He jammed with the Fabulous Thunderbirds in Austin in '88. ---
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Ingrid Bergman on stage in 1975. (_The Constant Wife_) Gregory Hines on stage in 1982. (_Sophisticated Ladies_) Whitney Houston in concert in 1986. (Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu) Natalie Cole in concert in 1991. (Hollywood Bowl) ---
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George Carlin, and met him after the show. Ray Charles Peter Steele/Type O Negative Tim Wilson (comic/musician) Robert Goulet (well, didn’t see him perform, but met him) Bill Hicks ---
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There’ve been a few but the first to come to mind is Ricky Nelson (don’t judge me, the concert tickets were freebies). It was a pretty good performance. Women up near the stage were throwing their underwear at him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-have-you-seen-live-that-is-no-longer-with-us/818968.md?page=7)