Which performer would you have loved to have seen live, but didn't, and can't now?

[Publius Ovidius]

Mozart

 

[graz126]

the smiths, or the jam

 

[the full harris]

Elliott Smith

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Mozart

Christ Dave, just exactly how old are you, by my reckoning you're 215 !

 

[Dandyman]

Danny Blanchflower.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Elliott Smith

Good one!

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=elliott+smith&search_type=search_videos

http://www.myspace.com/samandme (cover of Angel in the Snow by my mates)

 

[Cian]

Joy Division

Feeder's proper lineup

I've seen both "next best things", namely New Order, and Feeder sans-Jon, indeed I saw them both on the same day last year, as well as within a week of each other before... but not quite the same

 

[Gazwag]

Christ Dave, just exactly how old are you, by my reckoning you're 215 !

Errr, I think Mozart comes under the "and can't now" heading

 

[Trufflehound]

In the summer of 1991 I was driving to the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium with some friends. Feeling a bit thirsty, we looked at the line-up and the first act on was some bunch of Americans none of us had ever heard of. We had a quick discussion, decided they were a bunch of no-hopers and certainly crap, and went for a pint before going in.

Three months later, this same bunch of no-hopers were on Top of the Pops playing Smells Like Teen Spirit, and their Nevermind album was about to go mental...

Oops. How was I to know it would be Nirvana's one and only festival appearance in continental Europe?

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

But he would have loved to have seen him live, but didn't, infers he was able to see him live in the first place !

If we're going to allow Mozart then I'll take Beethoven !

 

[Dandyman]

Joy Division

Feeder's proper lineup

I've seen both "next best things", namely New Order, and Feeder sans-Jon, indeed I saw them both on the same day last year, as well as within a week of each other before... but not quite the same

Never saw Joy Division live, but I did see Warsaw bottled off stage while supporting the Buzzcocks at the Top Rank in 1978.

 

[the full harris]

Good one!

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=elliott+smith&search_type=search_videos

http://www.myspace.com/samandme (cover of Angel in the Snow by my mates)

Cheers! I was trying to find a video of the Oscars performance a while ago but every time I downloaded it on Limewire, it turned out to be porn. I gave up in the end.

 

[Northstander]

Johnny Cash
Elvis
Queen (With Freddie Mercury!!)
The Doors

 

[Lord Bracknell]

What's depressing about this thread is the fact that I am so old that I have actually seen quite a lot of these performers live.

I preferred the Doors to Danny Blanchflower, though.

 

[Dandyman]

What's depressing about this thread is the fact that I am so old that I have actually seen quite a lot of these performers live.

I preferred the Doors to Danny Blanchflower, though.

Jim Morrison's ball control was appalling, Lord B !

 

[Trufflehound]

Jim Morrison's ball control was appalling, Lord B !

But he was known to be very good at dribbling towards the end of his life.

 

[Lammy]

Freddy Mercury
Peter Ward
Kurt Cobain
Jimi Hendrix
Keith Moon
Jimmy Greaves
Led Zep

 

[justin72]

Bob Marley

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Zeppelin in their pomp
The doors
Bob Marley
Fourteenth Eye

 

[JJ McClure]

Elvis Presley all the way. His 1970 Las Vegas show was amazing. Would have loved to see it in person.