Who have you seen live who has since passed away?

[yardbird]

Betty Carter
Jaco Pastorius
Ella Fitzgerald
Sandy Denny
Steve Marriott
Robbie McIntosh
Screaming Lord Sutch
Canned Heat (can never remember the name of the falsetto-voiced lead singer)
Ian Dury (never saw the Blockheads live, but saw the Kursaal Flyers)
Keith Moon (who pinched my arse, as any fule no, but not at a gig)
probably loads more I haven't thought of....
Blind Lemon saw Moon Dog at his only UK gig and I was working that day

edited to add
Ronnie Scott (many times, many many times as as Betty Marsden would say) John Lee Hooker.

I think I love you!

 

[Bomber]

Keith Moon
Jon Entwistle
Bob Marley
Phil Lynott
John Bonham
Jaco Pastorious
Nina Simone
Muddy Waters
Albert King
Lee Brilleaux
Ronnie Lane
& no doubt a few others as well

 

[deezee]

Wrong- he was the big one with the gruff voice. The one with the high voice was Al "Blind Owl" Wilson

right you are..i saw "dead" and "canned heat" in the same sentence and just immediately thought of bob hite (also now dead of course).

 

[richsaint]

Kurt Cobain
Ian dury
John Lee Hooker - and I met him back stage
Rufus Thomas
Richey Edwards
Screaming Lord Sutch

Also, loads of old bluesmen and soul singers my dad took me to see as a kid, I can't remember them all but I'm sure some of them must be dead, most of them where elderly twenty years ago.

And probably a bunch of others that I've seen at festivals, but that doesn't count as they're not people I've been to specifically see IYKWIM.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Kurt Kobain.

I went to see Tad and they were supporting. I spoke to him afterwards and gave him a tape to listen to.

Billy from Guitar Wolf is the sadest for me though.

I saw him at the garage less than a month before he died (I'm even in the live DVD they filmed). I was also lucky enough to meet him and the other wolfs in the pub before hand and have a quick chat (I'm such a fan boy for Guitar Wolf).

Maybe I have the touch of band death.

 

[oneflewover]

Alex Harvey, Keith Moon, John Entwhistle and Freddie Mercury.

 

[Calva dosser]

Bo Diddley ain't dead, that was said further up this thread!!!

We always thought
he was though. Dog and Trumpet anyone?

 

[Wolfie]

Marc Bolan and Mickey Finn
Bob "the bear" Hite and Al Wilson
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Mick Ronson
Bob Marley + Carlton "family man" Barrett
Steve Marriot
Lee Brilleaux
Keith Moon and John Entwistle
varous Ramones
various New York Dolls
Ian Dury
Joe Strummer
Nico
various Pretenders
Alex Harvey (possibly the best gig I've ever been to)
Kevin Coyne
some of the Byrds - I can't remember the line up I saw
is Chuck Berry dead yet?

oh and John fuckin Bonham of course

oh and John Peel

and him from the MC5

 

[ViolentPanda]

Kurt Cobain
Joe Strummer
Freddie Mercury
Phil Lynott
Pete De Freitas
Stiv Bators
Johnny, Joey and DeeDee Ramone
Mick Ronson (unfortunately I didn't see him with Bowie but with Ian Hunter )
Lee Brilleaux (several amazing sweaty gigs)
Malcolm Owen
Stuart Adamson
Johnny Thunders (couple of times when he played with Peter Perrett at the Vortex)
Alex Soria (guitarist singer and songwriter from my favourite Canadian punk band, the Nils).

Christ that's depressing.

 

[Dubversion]

christ, what a thread.

mine - off the top of my head plus other people's mentions:

Billy Guitar Wolf
Cozy Powell
the guy from Brainiac
Bass Thing
Chris From Lush
Andy from Snuff / Leatherface
Dennis Brown
Johnny Cash
Will Shamen
Stuart Big Country
Rob Charlatan
Mary Stereolab
Kurt Cobain
Ian Dury
Jimmy God Machine
Joe Strummer
Zak EMF
Kirsty mcColl
Sterling Morrison
Phil Lynott
the Ramones..

there are bound to be more, especially from old metal bands and US punk outfits

 

[Wolfie]

oh and Sir John Barbirolli

don't know what made that pop into my head, but going to see the Hallé orchestra conducted by him was one of my first proper live musical experiences - put me off "classical" music for life ...

 

[Sunspots]

Rod Hull

 

[Leica]

Nina Simone.

 

[William of Walworth]

Just seen this ....

Surely not! I remember the Kursaals quite well, and Ian Dury was
never in them, he was in Kilburn & the High Roads for years before
the Blockheads.

Yes

Kilburn & the High Roads surely, not Kursaal Flyers Or was he in both ?

Apologies ... the Clash biography, which I've just finished, talked of both bands who were around and active when Joe Strummer was first setting out as lead singer of the 101ers. Looks like I got them sort of mixed up with each other (in fact I hot the impression he was in both bands) as well as Mrs M.

 

[William of Walworth]

Nina Simone's not dead is she?

Yes , she died a few years ago

February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003

(from the NS official website)

 

[perplexis]

Elliott Smith