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eeyore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:44 PM
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What music acts do you wish you'd seen live before they broke up or died?
What music acts do you wish you'd seen live before they broke up or died?

Acts that are now insufferable and essentially dead to you can also count.

Also, at which point in their career do you wish you had seen them?


Myself, I wish I'd seen:

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
The Clash during their London Calling tour
XTC around the English Settlement era
AC/DC in Australia in the High Voltage era
Elvis Costello & The Attractions during the This Year's Model era
The Kinks during their their Something Else.../Village Green era
The Pretty Things during their SF Sorrow/Parachute era
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:47 PM
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1. The Doors, during their Whiskey-A-Go-Go period.
That would have been cool. B-)
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:49 PM
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4. My dear Aristus!
How lovely to see you today......

How are you?

Are you still in school?


:loveya: :hug:
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:52 PM
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9. Hi, CalPeg! School's out for the Holidays. (Yes! The HOLIDAYS,
YOU RIGHT-WING FUCKS! AND I'M A CHRISTIAN!)

Sorry, CalPeg, didn't mean to drop the f-bomb on ya! B-)

Second quarter of Anatomy & Physiology start Jan. 4th.

Are you having a nice Christma-Hanna-Kwanzaa-kka? :7
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:04 PM
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19. My dear Aristus!
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 06:07 PM by CaliforniaPeggy
I have no problem with your dropping the F-Bomb on me! After all, I shouldn't be the only one with those privileges!

Anatomy and physiology........ :scared: How well I remember those days!

My Christmas is shaping up rather nicely, thank you! I hope yours is too...

In fact, instead of noodling around here in the Lounge, I should be on the phone, ordering the presents for my family and friends.....

But I WILL do that today.....I have set that task for myself!

Good to see you.....hope you'll be posting more since you're free of school for now.......


:loveya: :hug:



Edited for extremely poor sentence structure....
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:17 PM
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30. dang I wish I would have been alive then! nt
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:48 PM
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2. I wish I'd gotten to see the Beatles......
and Men At Work........

:cry:
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eeyore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:51 PM
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7. Thanks for reminding me Peggy...
The Beatles at Shea Stadium, RFK Stadium or Budokan.

:toast:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:08 PM
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23. You're most welcome, my dear eeyore......nt
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:48 PM
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3. The Clash/The Mescaleros
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:49 PM
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5. Janis Joplin! nt.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:50 PM
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6. The Beatles
Although I did manage to see them all separately....
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:14 PM
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44. When I saw them in 1964 I literally couldn't hear the concert for the
screaming. It was the days before big p.a., and they had a wall of Vox amplifiers across the stage: no match for 10,000 teenage girls.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:51 PM
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8. the original Misfits
and DK
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:52 PM
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10. They would have been great to see, too...
Though I'd love to see the Michale Graves Misfits, just so I could tell Michale Gaves how much of a douche he is.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:55 PM
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well yes, so would i
"conservative punks"?!? :rofl: as if...
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:55 PM
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11. the Ramones at any time nt
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eeyore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:57 PM
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13. Indeed...
Especially early on at CBGB. That would be something to be able to tell the grandkids some day!
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:04 PM
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18. yeah you are right and...
I change my answer to what you said - at CBGBs. That would be something else especially since the club is gonna have to either close or change locations soon.
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:16 PM
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29. I so wish I had seen those guys live. They must have put on
some crazy shows. There is so much energy in their music; live it would have been sick good.
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:21 PM
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32. I have a friend who saw them and he said...
that the only way you could tell that a new song was starting was when the drummer (probably Marky at that time) would yell out "onetwothreefour!" How cool.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:56 PM
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12. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stevie Ray Vaughn
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eeyore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:00 PM
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15. I was lucky enough to see Stevie Ray twice at Red Rocks...
Those were fantastic shows, and I'm very much not a blues fan. The crowd was such a cool mix of blues fans, hippies, rednecks, metalheads, and basically anyone who could appreciate what a mindfuck it was to see him.

Damn, now you're making me wish I'd seen Hendrix too!

I guess I'm greedy....
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:59 PM
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14. Skinny Puppy
DR Goettel et al
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djeseru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:01 PM
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16. I saw David Bowie instead of Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Stevie Ray died the next month. :cry: At least I caught the funeral.
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eeyore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:02 PM
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17. Too bad you didn't see Bowie's Let's Dance Tour
You could have caught them both in one shot since SRV was the guitiarist on that tour.
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djeseru Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:08 PM
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22. Weird, isn't it?
I wasn't that musically broad yet though, and still didn't understand the complexities and/or coincidences of it either. That came with drug usage and college a couple of years later...
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:22 PM
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33. Actually..
... while SRV did play on the album, Bowie (in typical Bowie fashion) offered him such low pay for doing the tour he declined.

At least that is what I read somewhere.
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:07 PM
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20. speaking of red rocks, how 'bout U2 there...
for the Sunday Bloody Sunday erea. That would have been way cool! "Hold it up. Let it fly. Sing, 'no more!'"
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eeyore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:09 PM
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25. Okay, now you've done it!
All of my friends went to that show, and for some reason I didn't! :cry:

I have no explanation for my idiocy, and my regret has no end. :cry:
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:14 PM
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27. oh so sad!
I was too young - maybe 12. Damn that would have been so cool. How sad for both of us...
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Buck Turgidson Donating Member (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:07 PM
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21. Flatt & Scruggs


Lester and Earl split in 1969. Earl joined his sons in The Earl Scruggs Revue while Lester formed Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass. Flatt died on May 11th, 1979.
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:09 PM
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24. The Oblivians
also

Johnny Cash at any time
Bob Dylan in the 60's
The Stooges


Mostly the Oblivians though. The other ones I wasn't really around for so I'm not all wound up over it. I missed the oblivians by that much, though (just a couple years too young) so that one pisses me off.
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:10 PM
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26. Bob Marley @ the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, about two yrs before he died
unfortunately, also about two years before I moved to Santa Cruz to go to college. Bummer.

:smoke: Jah Rastafari :hippie:
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:16 PM
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28. the Smiths...
I did see Morrissey around 1991 but seeing the Smiths would have been soooo much better.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:32 PM
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40. i saw them in the 80's at George Washington University in DC.
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 06:33 PM by jonnyblitz
I believe the tour was for "the queen is dead" album/cassette/CD(whatever it was back then) but i don't remember for sure. they played t.rex "the slider" album for canned music over the speakers in between bands. i enjoyed that as much as I did the concert. I never did see Morrissey solo after that.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:18 PM
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31. Little Feat...
...before Lowell George's death, that is.
Pink Floyd, before Roger Waters' departure.
Led Zeppelin
The Who, ca. '71-78, though they were still monstrous in 2000.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:22 PM
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34. Elvis Presley in 1969-70
The Beatles at the Cavern or on the roof of Apple. In between would have driving me insane with all that screeching.

The Who with Keith Moon
The Stones with Brian or even Mick Taylor
The Band at The Last Waltz show
The Sex Pistols in the 70s (Saw them in the 90s)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
The original Alice Cooper Band
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:16 PM
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45. ELVIS! And,
yeah, some of these others.

The Beatles (though, Paul, alone is pretty darned good as a consolation prize), The Doors (with Jimbo, circa 1968), Johnny Cash (he was on my shortlist of people to see :-( ), and maybe a few others. Glad I saw Stevie Ray, though.
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:24 PM
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35. I saw the Beatles and I played with Stevie Ray....
but I wish I had heard Duke Ellington's band just before Cootie Williams left in 1940.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:26 PM
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36. Played with Stevie Ray?
That's pretty cool. I'm not a huge fan of his, but I bet that was a gas.
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:29 PM
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39. It was in Fort Worth in the early 80's at blues jams around town. He or
Jimmie would sit in from time to time. Stevie had star power, but I liked Jimmie's playing better.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:33 PM
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42. I saw them when Jimmy opened for Stevie
I have to say that I enjoyed Jimmy much more. It was pretty cool when they played together. They had a double-neck and Stevie played the one neck and the other strings and Jimmy did the same. Quite entertaining.
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lovelaureng Donating Member (434 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:26 PM
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37. Metallica, nt.
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vikegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:27 PM
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38. Nitzer Ebb
especially when they were touring with Depeche Mode. Alas, I lived in Iowa at the time and practically nobody ever came there. *sigh* :-(
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 06:33 PM
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41. The Supremes: Original line up


Florence Ballard, Diane(a)Ross and Mary Wilson !

I did the second to the last line up in 1974.



(bottom left photo)

Scherrie Payne, Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong.
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:09 PM
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43. The Beatles
I saw McCartney at a stadium concert in Memphis about 12 years ago. It was terrific but it wasn't the Fab 4.
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