Name the Band You Most Wish You Could See Live But Never Will

[Merrick]

For me, I'd put Fugazi, Alice In Chains and the Clash at the top of the list. Of course there is always the outside chance the first will get back together, and the second has, but without Layne it's not quite the same IMO.

[Carnea]

1. Beatles..... NT

[Faygo Kid]

49. Of course.

Too easy.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra,,,,,

sucks to be my age....

[grasswire]

22. here's Frankie....

....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsdzGzLzA2Q&feature=related

I figure as long as there's you tube, the greats still live.

[DarkTirade]

3. Beatles and Nirvana for me.

Those were really my two biggest influences when it comes to popular music.

[Kire]

4. Lynyrd Skynyrd

They deserve to live.

[nytemare]

5. 70's era Genesis.

With Peter Gabriel.

[cemaphonic]

28. Next best thing:

No costumes, but a really good performance and recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35wtfcByIY

The drumming here almost makes me feel bad for mocking Phil Collins so much. Almost.

[hellbound-liberal]

39. Thanks cemaphonic! That was beautiful! It reminds me how much I loved Genesis in the 70s

[nytemare]

54. I've seen that in crappy quality before, your link is great!

The video and audio is crisp. Thanks very much!

[Skittles]

6. Queen was my big miss n/t

[Merrick]

8. Funny - there's a Queen cover band playing right down the street tonight

as we speak here in Long Beach. Sharing the bill with a Journey cover band. I wanted to go - especially since I could get free tickets, but I couldn't find an accomplice.

[Skittles]

11. ?

why can't you go alone?

[Merrick]

12. eh, don't feel like it. I confess I didn't want to go THAT badly

as I just kinda like Queen and would dig seeing the Journey cover band mostly for the cheesiness value.

[khashka]

7. The Doors

Jim getting drunk and jerking off onstage? Baby, it doesn't get better than that. And I love their music, 60s child that I am.

Khash.

[CornField]

117. Me too -- would have loved to have seen them.

[Bennyboy]

9. Beatles, Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd.....

That's about it. Seen everybody else I think.....

[MorningGlow]

10. Beatles, the Clash n/t

[DS1]

13. Pink Floyd on their "The Wall" tour

My Parents saw them, and I was young, but I do remember them coming back home saying how great it was.

[Bennyboy]

15. I saw that tour...LA Forum........

Pretty incredible for sure.......The whole building the wall and then the climax was one of the best "Shows" I have ever seen.

[truedelphi]

18. How old were you??

When the Wall came out, my son was about three. It was the era of "the Big WHeel" and I can remember all the kids on the street on their big wheels singing "We don't need no education"

If you can imagine half a dozen little four year olds singing that song, for most of one summer -- it always struck me as so SURREAL.

[Bennyboy]

23. I was in my early twenties....

and my kids were riding big wheels singing that song too....

[DS1]

24. I was probably 6 or 7, and I still remember my parents putting on the

"Wish You Were Here" LP and I remember listening to "Welcome to the Machine" a number of times. It still creeps me out, but I like listening to it.

[bbernardini]

100. You know, there's some pretty good video available of that tour...

PM me if you're interested.

[Sultana]

14. Bob Marley and the Wailers

[fight4my3sons]

46. I'm with you on the Bob Marley, but I've seen the Wailers

numerous times. Not all original members though.

[rockymountaindem]

16. I have to agree with you about The Clash

RIP Joe.

I'd add Led Zeppelin to the list.

[Bennyboy]

17. Professor Longhair.......

Fess....that would have been nice......Louis Armstrong too....

[greenbriar]

19. the original Temptations

The beatles

[grannylib]

20. Little Feat with Lowell George, and Crowded House

[grace0418]

129. You can see Crowded House (albeit without Paul Hester). They just did a short tour

in May and sounded FANTASTIC. And they are working on a new album so will be touring sometime in 2009. The new drummer, Matt Sherrod, is a very different personality than Paul, but he's awesome.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

21. Faith No More

with Mike Patton & Nirvana :(

[flvegan]

29. Patton rules.

I'd love it if they toured again.

[Forkboy]

52. That guy has his fingers in more pies.

I've seen him with both FNM and Fantomas...I prefer Fantomas, but both were great.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

72. Is he still with Tomahawk?

I'd like to see them too.

[Forkboy]

88. Yup.

[KitchenWitch]

25. The Beatles

[Initech]

26. Frank Zappa, The White Stripes

[Merrick]

27. ?

Did the White Stripes break up recently? That would be pretty surprising since they're married, and Meg is a pretty rubbish drummer who likely couldn't get a job with any other halfway decent band.

[jobycom]

32. Jack and Meg have been divorced since before they were famous.

They still play together, and Jack also plays with the Raconteurs. I think he's been married at least once since then.

Oddly, this is the second time today I've had this conversation.

[Initech]

35. I was supposed to go to their Forum show last October but it got cancelled.

Now I'm thinking it will be another 3 - 4 years before I get to see them. Oh well, there's always the Racontuers.

[TroglodyteScholar]

45. Zappa and the Mothers, definitely

[cemaphonic]

30. Tom Waits

Sure he still tours from time to time, but it is sporadic, and tickets are impossible to get.

[SeattleGirl]

31. The Beatles.

Plus Sinatra, the Big Bands, and Elvis in his prime.

[jobycom]

33. My best friend's band in college.

They only played once. I had to work. Pissed me off.

[galledgoblin]

34. Queen

not a big fan of rock concerts, but that's one I wish I could have seen.

[Kickin_Donkey]

36. The Dead ...

not so much for the band itself, but the whole cultish experience surrounding it.

[VenusRising]

37. The Doors for me too. n/t

[AbbeyRoad]

38. Neutral Milk Hotel

and also the Beatles, Bob Marley, and Bob Dylan in their prime.

[Lautremont]

125. It could theoretically be possible to see NMH yet!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed, anyway.

[Callalily]

40. Big Brother and the

Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8npK1q6LY9Q

[hobbit709]

41. Top 3

Beatles
Early Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett
Early Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green.

Bands I've seen but will never see again
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Janis with Big Brother
Hendrix
The Who

[hellbound-liberal]

42. No question, my favorite performer of all time: Rory Gallagher

Sadly, he is no longer with us.

Bad Penny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSzsDWTc4mY

[SoxFan]

107. Weird. I did see him.

He opened for Rush back in 1982.

[femmocrat]

43. The Beatles, the Doors, the Who.

I wish I had seen them when I did have the opportunity.

[begin_within]

47. So did The Who ever officially break up or announce they weren't going to tour again?

I saw them once, in 1982 at San Diego.

[charlie and algernon]

67. the who just released a new album a year or two ago

called "Endless Wire"

[Tuesday Afternoon]

44. Quicksilver Messenger Service

~sigh~

[tigereye]

48. I did see the Clash and Fugazi, but I would love to see the Ramones again=

assuming they could come back from the dead.

I wish I had been able to see the original Minutemen (I could kick myself since they were here when I was a youngin) and Midnight Oil. Oh and probably the Grateful Dead.


:(


ON edit, Betty Carter and Art Blakey. And the Who. Somehow managed to miss them in the 70s.

[one mean sheath]

50. oh man.

alice in chains (i'm with you on the "reunion" tours not being the same without layne), the misfits back in the day, and white zombie back in the day.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

51. The Smiths

I doubt if Morrissey and Marr will ever get together on this one. SIGH.

[Forkboy]

53. Fugazi was great live. Hell, they're great period.

I've seen so many shows that I honestly am having a hard time thinking of any I would have liked to have seen and didn't. The Ramones come to mind. I haven't seen The Residents yet either. x(

[bertha katzenengel]

55. Queen.

[driver8]

56. XTC!!

One of my favorite bands of all time -- Andy Partridge no longer tours because of severe stage fright.

[Blue_In_AK]

57. I missed Jimi Hendrix in Denver

in 1969. Major bummer. I was here http://www.bobwyman.com/hendrix.html but on Day 2 when we all got tear gassed. I didn't have enough money for the third day when Hendrix played.

[speedoo]

58. Original Allmans, Beatles, Dylan with Bloomfield, Kooper, etc.

I'd love to see The Band again, but at least I saw them once (with Dylan in 1974).

[flvegan]

59. The Ramones and Mother Love Bone

[MrCoffee]

115. I'll second MLB

[ghostsofgiants]

60. Fugazi and The Clash rank up there, for sure.

Here's some Fugazi live for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgI1OPcJxG8

Aside form those two, I'd add:

Refused, At the Drive-in, Joy Division, Husker Du.

[bamacrat]

61. No contest my 1, 2, 3 are. Even though you said the band.

1. The Beatles
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Nirvana

[LostInAnomie]

62. Pantera

RIP Dimebag

I was really hoping Phil Anselmo would take Layne's spot in AIC, but that does not appear to be the case.

[Genevieve]

63. The Beatles. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

64. Beatles, Hendrix, Skynyrd, ELP

[Amerigo Vespucci]

65. The ORIGINAL Tubes

...although I did see them four times, in their heyday. Once, Boz Scaggs came out for "White Punks On Dope" during his "Silk Degrees" career peak. Blue pinstipe suit, white Strat...sucker was SHARP. There was also a guy in a gorilla suit, and Fee Waybill proclaimed the Spooner/Steen/Scaggs/gorilla lineup as "THE LYNYRD SKYNYRD GUITAR SECTION, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!"

Waybill/Spooner/Steen/Prince/Cotten/Anderson/Welnick/Styles...and joined a couple of years into it by Mingo Lewis on percussion.

In 2008, the band still includes Waybill/Steen/Prince/Anderson...but the original? Some of the best shows I've seen in my life.

:toast:

[Bennyboy]

68. The TUBES had me convinced!

Saw them many times. best was at Bimbos with about 100 people in the crowd and about 60 on stage inclduing about 20 naked girls. Fee singing the Tom jones song "It's Not Unusual to be loved by anyone.....". For about five years I was a TUBES head....

[Amerigo Vespucci]

69. You and I might have been in the same audience...

...one of my fondest memories was attending several Tubes shows at Bimbos with my posse. I've always followed whatever Fee Waybill did, but Spooner leaving was a major mojo loss for me. He basically carried the weight onstage while Fee was in the middle of costume changes.

By the way...something you might already own, but I'll tell you about it anyway...Jack Casady's solo album "Dream Factor" from 2003 featured one track with what's gotta be THE ultimate "super group" of all time on a track called "Sweden."

Fee Waybill, vocals
Jack Casady, bass, lead "Versatone Bass," guitar
Warren Haynes: Lead Guitar (left channel)
Jorma Kaukonen, Lead Guitar (right channel)
Steffen Presley, Hammond B-3, keyboards
Steve Gorman, drums

...and the best part is the fact that the track is KILLER (no wasted talent here).

"Black smoke, grey skies, are all I see through frozen eyes"...

:toast:

[Bennyboy]

71. I don't have that or have even heard it!

any chance you can sendspace it here.....

[Amerigo Vespucci]

73. PM me with the details of how to do that...

:toast:

Haynes and Kaukonen snarl like a couple of wildcats. ESSENTIAL listening!

[bbernardini]

97. The guys have been doing some interesting shows lately...

Covers of Zappa and Hedwig & The Angry Inch...the return of "This Town" and "I Want It All Now" to the setlist. They still need a second guitarist, though.

They HAD been in discussions to play some reunion shows when Vince died. Perhaps when Michael Cotten finishes the documentary. I can only hope.

[Bennyboy]

103. Vince......

I thought it was weird that he was playing with String Cheese Incident at the warfield one night when the Tubes were playing at the same time in SF......Don't know if The Tubes were what he wanted to do......

[charlie and algernon]

66. the ORIGINAL Who

Daltry
Townsend
MOON
ENTWISTLE

[Amerigo Vespucci]

74. AFTER Kenny Jones left the band...

...Townshend acknowledged that Moon was the heart of the band.

Entwistle was the "lead guitarist" (anyone who doesn't believe that can listen to "The Real Me" from "Quadrophenia")...

I have vivid memories of the original Who, and Moon was ALWAYS the spoke that the wheel turned on.

:toast:

[bbernardini]

98. I saw Daltrey/Townshend on the tour for "Endless Wire"...

...and I have to admit, even without Moon and Entwistle, it was still an amazing performance. I think Zak Starkey is probably the closest they'll ever come to having Keith Moon back. (In fact, according to The Who's Wikipedia entry, they offered Zak a permanent position in the band.)

I saw Entwistle in the late 90s on one of his solo tours, and he also put on a great show. I thought he let his drummer talk too much, though. :)

[BrotherBuzz]

70. Quintette du Hot Club de France

I've heard Stéphane Grappelli live, but I only wish Django Reinhardt could have lived long enough for me to hear him live.

[Guava Jelly]

75. The Pretenders

:)

[steelemagnolia]

76. Simon and Garfunkel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXF5lVpN1ys Oh, how I'd love to hear this live and every other piece of gold they made.

[stuntcat]

113. it would be beautiful

I think, to see them! I listen to them every day :loveya:

[Mudoria]

77. Thin Lizzy

Has been my favorite band since I was in my 20's way back in the 70's, which dates me. Not a month goes by I don't listen through "Live and Dangerous" at least once. They still tour but without Phil on vocals and bass it's not really Lizzy.

RIP Phil Lynott 1949-1986

[Iggo]

78. All the usual suspects...

...like The Beatles, Hendrix, Skynyrd, Zeppelin, The Who...all bands whose hey-day was before my concert-going time began (around 1981 or 82, whenever the Mob Rules tour happened.)

The ones that kill me, though, are the ones I could've seen but didn't: Queen, SRV, and especially Pantera. My friends went to shitloads of Pantera shows and always invited me, but something came up or I just didn't feel like it. Dammit, dammit, dammit!

[BlueIris]

79. R.E.M./Depeche Mode.

[NewJeffCT]

127. I saw REM 20+ years ago

very good show. I had great seats, too.

[Va Lefty]

80. I would have loved to have seen that show in Clear Lake Iowa 1959

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Dion, and The "Big Bopper"

[Catch22Dem]

81. Beatles or Floyd (not Syd era...sorry)

[Mad_Dem_X]

82. The Beatles and Queen. nt

[Dhalgren]

83. Wishbone Ash...

[TrogL]

84. Emerson Lakd and Palmer

They broke up reformed broke up reformed broke up....

[Bluzmann57]

95. I saw ELP!

And they were quite good.

[bbernardini]

101. As did I...first official show of the reunion tour in 1991 (or '92, I forget) in Philadelphia.

While Carl Palmer's inability to keep a steady beat drives me insane, the combination of those three is amazing.

(I say "official" because they did a warmup show for a small audience at the Tower Theater a day or two before the tour started.)

[bullwinkle428]

85. Warren Zevon...

R.I.P. :(

[Blue_In_AK]

106. I miss Warren, too.

I'll join in your :(

[City of Mills]

86. The Wiggles

:)



Just kidding...I'd love to see Led Zeppelin live in 1970-1972 but my time machine's not working correctly.

[no name no slogan]

87. The Barrett-Era Pink Floyd, Gram Parsons-era Flying Burrito Brothers

I'd also like to see the original Dead Kennedys back together again, but that's highly unlikely.

However, two of my other favorites have recently reunited (Killing Joke and My Bloody Valentine), so I'll be happy with that.

[Lindsey]

89. The Beatles. n/t

[Caution]

90. I've seen Fugazi (great live) and Alice in Chains (awful) would love to see The Beatles or Led Zep

[stuntcat]

112. I love Fugazi

I never saw them live but my husband saw them a lot of times.. now he's always got some cool points I'll never have. We used to listen to their tapes when were laying out in the sun behind our dorms :headbang:

[Bluzmann57]

91. The James Gang

With either Joe Walsh or Tommy Bolin fronting them. Both men were (are) extremely talented musicians.

[Bennyboy]

92. I saw them open for Cheech and Chong once!

Sacramento Memorial Auditorium 72 maybe?

[Bluzmann57]

94. In actuality, I saw Bolin

in his next to last show of his life. He looked bad. He was confused, angry, and just all around disoriented. Now we know why. He was addicted to heroin and he died because of it. What a waste. But it would have been good to see him when he fronted the James Gang. He was a good guitar player.

[elshiva]

93. Not the Beatles because even though I love them,

you could not hear any music at their concerts for the screaming.

Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny (she is dead).

[Release The Hounds]

96. Nirvana, Audioslave

[datasuspect]

99. the doodletown pipers

[Rising Phoenix]

102. Nirvana

I saw Fugazi and A I C.....great shows!

[erinlough]

104. I would like to see Gogol Bordello live, but

I won't because I am just too old to go to see a gypsy punk band and not stick out like a very old sore thumb. Hey, maybe if I wore purple.......

[krispos42]

105. Johann Sebastian Bach

John McCain says he was an awesome organist and that his live performances, especially Toccata and Fugue in D minor, are just incredible and had to be heard to be believed.





















:rofl:

[Rosie1223]

121. I was thinking Mozart, myself

Does McCain have an opinion on him?

[krispos42]

123. He wrote a glowing review in "Poor Richard's Almanac"

:rofl:

[SoxFan]

108. Ramones

The Clash

Big Country (RIP, Stuart Adamson)

Midnight Oil (I doubt they're going to tour any time soon, what with Peter Garret being a cabinet minister and all!)

[PVnRT]

109. Another vote for The Clash

[mochajava666]

114. The Doors

Pink Floyd (with Waters)
The Beatles
The Clash

[stuntcat]

110. QUEEN

:headbang:

(I keep a list of who I didn't get to see- Queen, Joni Mitchell, Everything But The Girl, Paul Simon, Kate Bush, The Pretenders, Michael Jackson and Leonard Cohen)

[Phillycat]

111. Queen. Freddy Mercury was the best front man of all time.

I really wish I could have seen him live.

Also 1971 Aretha Franklin.

[AccessGranted]

116. H.I.M. From Finland

I love that group.

[dubeskin]

118. John Denver, Hall & Oats, and Jefferson Airplane

And bands I'd like to see live but PROBABLY never will: The Eagles, Dave Matthews Band, Jackson Browne, Steve Miller Band, Boston, Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty, The Police, The Rolling Stones, and U2.

[DBoon]

119. The Allman Brothers, Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zepplin

(Yes I know BOC still tours but it aint the same thing)

[hellbound-liberal]

122. BOC was one of the best shows I have ever seen. I saw them on the Agents of Fortune tour

Their laser light show was amazing, way ahead of most other bands!

[sarge43]

120. Beach Boys n/t

[Symarip]

124. I actually saw Fugazi in highschool way back when.

I also got to see Joe Strummer before he passed away. My father sometimes speaks about how he went into seclusion over John Lennon's passing - I can relate. The morning I woke up and heard on the radio that Joe didn't wake up I just packed my things up from work and went home and turned off the phone and the tv. I mourned for three days. Sometimes, it still hurts to think he's gone. I almost feel guilty that I never got to tell him (the few times I had the chance) that he changed my life. If I ever thought of someone as a hero, it's Joe. For those who don't know much about him, check him out on wikipedia.

I can't really say there are any bands I'd like to see live, because I've attended and/or often opened for every act I'd ever want to experience.


The best live band ever: Oingo Boingo.

[NewJeffCT]

126. The Beatles, Nirvana, Jim Croce...

The original Van Halen from the early years.
Buddy Holly
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Marley

[grace0418]

128. The Smiths, Crowded House with Paul Hester, the Beatles.

The only one that is even remotely possible is the Smiths, but it's not really possible because they all hate each other.