If you could see anyone, musically, in a gig or concert, dead or alive, who would it be and why?
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If you could have a top five list of the artists you would love to see, dead or alive, who would they be and why?
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Bach. One of the to 5 musical geniuses in all of this solar system’s history Humanity’s history (I do not want to offend any saurian Musicians here).
Jeff Buckley.
Oh, top 5?
Kurt Cobain.
Sid Vicious
Hendrix.
Johnny Cash.
@ragingloli I was about to type the B for Bach when your answer popped up but next choice would be Michael Jackson.
Will The Smiths ever reunite? I’d travel anywhere to see them.
Elvis in his younger days!!!
Beatles
Doors
Pink Floyd (with Barrett)
Jimi Hendrix
Who (with Moon)
I never saw the first four and seeing Keith Moon with the Who again would be a real treat.
See ya…..Gary/wtf
Top 5? Oh jeeze. I’m going to make two lists because I can’t choose.
Dead list:
Queen (with Freddy, thank you)
John Lennon
Frank Sinatra (back in the day)
Cream
Elvis (before the jumpsuits)
Alive list:
Paul Simon
The Police
Annie Lennox
Prince
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
There are many, many, many more including classical musicians and the big band guys from the 40s but these are the ones that came to my mind.
Elton John! I LOVE his music. I don’t care what he wears….his music is the best.
Maybe Lily Pons. It’s hard to imagine what she must have sounded like.
Chet Atkins – Love this guitar style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-c66SJPuUI He makes it look easy! :)
Howlin Wolf
Alice in Chains – with Layne Staley, I respect thew new singer but never got to see the old band.
@rangerr I have to 2nd the request for Johnny Cash too.
Pantera with Dimebag Darrell
Any classical composer would have been a treat to see I imagine from back when.
Hendrix, GG allin, Mozart, maiden, Hellhammer/pre-into pandemonnium/monotheist era CF, Pre-load metallica, Maiden, Death when Chuck was still alive, Electric Wizard, Velvet underground, Motorhead, Gwar (again), 70’s Sabbath, Bolt Thrower, Pink Floyd, Suffocation, Queen with Freddy, Radiohead, Mr Bungle or FNM, The Mentors, Megadeth, Slayer, Cab Calloway, Pentagram, and Queensryche when they were doing the Operation: Mindcrime tour.
Young Elvis, Michael Jackson in his Thriller-era, Johnny Cash. Oh god Elvis. SHIVERS
Old I am:
5. Glenn Miller Orchastra w/Glenn Miller
4. Thelonious Monk
3. Jimi Hendrix
2. Janis Joplin
1.b. Mamas and the Papas
1.a. Simon and Garfunkel
I would also love to see Stevie Ray Vaughan again and the Eagles with Randy Meisner. I saw both but to do it again is impossible, it would seem.
Billie Holiday – Because her voice is pure magic to my ears
Beatles (back in the day) – Just to see what all the fuss was about.
Elvis (when he was young) – Because I know what the fuss was about
The Beach Boys (also when they were young) – just because I’m an islander and a wannabe surfer
and..
probably Van halen (in their hay day) .. just because I really dig their music.
@TheLoneMonk Theolonious Monk, I recently found out about him, interesting musician.
Elvis (young)
Queen
Michael Jackson
does Weird Al count?
Jimi Hendrix
The Who (back when they hoped they’d die before they got old)
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Nick Drake.
The Doors.
Jacques Brel.
Jimi Hendrix.
Santana.
Concensus to this point seems to point to a majority wanting to see Jimi!
Elvis in his hey day. That would make my entire life. Best looking man ever, in my opinion. Would love to see the Doors with Jim Morrison. I have always been a big fan, even though Jim Morrison died several years before I was even born. I would have loved to see Michael Jackson.
1. Ludwig van Beethoven
2. Led Zeppelin (w/ Jon Bonham)
3. The Doors
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. Frank Sinatra
@NaturalMineralWater I saw The Beach Boys this summer at a free concert – they still kick ass. It was great.
@TheLoneMonk -You are.I know someone else who was too.Very sad day when he died.
Simon and Garfunkel is a good one. Art Garfunkel came to my town alone recently, we were all confused.
Let’s review the question as asked:
If you could see anyone, musically, in a gig or concert, dead or alive, who would it be and why?
If you could have a top five list of the artists you would love to see, dead or alive, who would they be and why?
I would like to see Marilyn Manson, dead please.
I would like to see Elvis again, alive please.
And maybe with Michael Jackson. In a cage match.
We want Thunderdome!
I would love to see Dire Straits.
Otherwise, Beatles of course are at the top of the list followed by The Who (WIth Moon and Entwistle), Queen (It’s not Queen without Freddy), and probably Zepplin (even though I think John Bonham is extremely overrated, or maybe The Traveling Wilburys, just because of the amazing amount of talent there.
Currently, though, I hope to make it to a Them Crooked Vultures gig sometime, just because of John Paul Jones. Of course, Josh Homme and Dave Grohl are added bonuses.
@dverhey Excellent choices with the Wilburys and Dire Straits. I would love to see both.
Although Dire Straits may not be up there with bands like Queen in stage presence, that’s what I find so great about them. Mark Knopfler doesn’t need to dance around the stage or windmill, he just sort of sits there and pulls off crazy guitar licks.
Van Halen (back in the day) with Dave Lee Roth. Pink Floyd (have seen them already). Red Hot Chili Peppers. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix.
I saw RHCP 11 times between 1988 and 1991.
Bob Marley and The Wailers
B.B. King
Blondie
The Ramones
Louie Armstrong
John Lennon/The Beatles – Because I missed it! I missed it all, dammit!
Duke Ellington – Because he was a classy, talented man who was proud of his people and their music.
Billie Holiday – I want to see the face behind the haunting voice in person.
“Weird Al” Yankovic – It just seems like it’d be a really good time, right?
Aretha Franklin – In her heyday, was there anyone better?
Oooh, And I’d love to see The Smiths. I wish Johnny Marr and Morrissey didn’t hate each other so. :(
Freddie Mercury (with the rest of Queen, of course).
But he was an amazing performer, frontman, singer, and songwriter.
It has been said many times that they gave the best live performances out of any band, especially at Live Aid which was supposed to be the greatest performance, ever.
R.I.P. Freddie
wow. tell me I didn’t. Louis, I’m sorry!
Patsy Cline… even though she died young, she is still, to me, the “voice” of female country
Billie Holliday… well, what can you say, she’s the immortal Lady Day
Yothu Yindi… not only do I love their music, I love their message
Jimi Hendrix… for his sheer brilliance
Pink Floyd… just because I have been a fan since being a young teen
In no order of preference:
The Blues Brothers (w/ Joliet Jake)
Early Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Boogie Down Productions (Before the death of Scott La Rock)
Huey Lewis & the News
Can we only choose people that we haven’t already seen? If so my list would be:
Dusty Springfield
Lady Gaga
Lea Salonga (in a musical or concert, I just want to see her live in something)
Nightwish (with Tarja)
Abba
I was going to say Alicia Keys but I have tickets to see her in May.
There are plenty of people that I have already seen but would love to see again, my top five in this list are:
Barbra Streisand
Cher
Patti Russo
Anastacia
Meat Loaf with The Neverland Express (which includes Patti Russo)
Damnit, I can’t stick to just 5. I also loved Barry Manilow (stop laughing), Rod Stewart and Dolly Parton.
Can I do more?
Newsboys
Relient K
The Sounds
Tokio Hotel
Asking Adam
Mates of State
Weezer
The Academy Is…
John Denver
The Killers
Nana Kitade
Stan Rogers
Jim Croce
Harry Chapin
Phil Ochs
Elton John and Billy Joel
The Flirtations
Queen
Pink Floyd (minus Sid Barrett)
Beatles
B Holiday
Edith Piaf
Queen and Freedy Mercury, he had an incredible voice ans was such a showman.
Pink Floyd, because they has a sound no one else had and quite conceptual on stage
Michael Jackson, because he had a voice also and moves no one else was making
Enrico Caruso, if you have to ask why then you really don’t know the man and his voice.
Can’t think of a 5th I want to see that bad.
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