Musicians/bands you were able to see live before they passed on.

[Billyzoom]

I was listening to Ray Charles today, and was reminded that when I finally got around to getting tickets to see him live, he passed away before the concert.  Though he was past his prime, he was still legendary, and I smacked myself for delaying seeing him.  That got me to thinking of the people I've been fortunate to see before they died, such as:

Stevie Ray Vaughan (3x) (the only person whose death I ever wept about that I didn't actually know.)
Albert King
Boston with Brad Delp
Ruth Brown
Jeff Healey
Albert Collins

What are some of the acts you folks have been lucky enough to see?

Joel

[RAT900]

The real entire cast of the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East farewell show...yeagh I am old

Ray Charles in Central Park

probably a ton of others...if you list who is dead I can probably remember if I saw them or not


saw Cream in MSG farewell tour in 66 or 67 iirc...but I think they are all still alive

[GAAN]

seen a bunch before they broke up but so far no one who has died

Willie is coming to Portland this summer

HAVE to see him

He's getting long in the tooth

[JBubble]

seen a bunch before they broke up but so far no one who has died

Willie is coming to Portland this summer

HAVE to see him

He's getting long in the tooth

That might be difficult....the Portland show is on our wedding day and the Bend show is the day before....you want tix to the Bend show?

[GAAN]

 

[superjohn]

I'm usually on the other side of the equation and the artist passes before I can see them, but I'm glad I got to see my bass hero John Entwistle before he died. Peter Steele was another one that I'm glad to have seen with Type O now that he's passed.

[ducpainter]

I saw Hendrix a couple of times

[Randy@StradaFab]

SRV

Son Seals

Cedell Davis

[Speedbag]

The real entire cast of the Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East farewell show...yeagh I am old

That would have been AWESOME.

[mitt]

Saw Nirvana and Alice in Chains before death.

mitt

[lethe]

I saw James Brown at a free outside show in Harlem next to the building I was working at.

[Kopfjager]

Elvis

[WarrenJ]

Warren Zevon

John Entwistle

[pitbull]

I was listening to Ray Charles today, and was reminded that when I finally got around to getting tickets to see him live, he passed away before the concert.  Though he was past his prime, he was still legendary, and I smacked myself for delaying seeing him.  That got me to thinking of the people I've been fortunate to see before they died, such as:

Stevie Ray Vaughan (3x) (the only person whose death I ever wept about that I didn't actually know.)
Albert King
Boston with Brad Delp
Ruth Brown
Jeff Healey
Albert Collins

What are some of the acts you folks have been lucky enough to see?

Joel

that's a pretty awesome list actually.......I would have loved to have seen SRV, Albert King, and Albert Collins.

I did see boston as a kid and have seen Jeff Healey a few times. I think my favourite Jeff Healey show was at his bar after he started playing 20's and 30's era jazz stuff. He also played some trumpet during the show, which was really entertaining.

[Grampa]

The Ramones