Oh and his son Jeff!

I was lucky to see Queen.

Had tickets to see Nirvana but the gig never happened.

Ac/Dc with Bon Scott I’d love to see. And Floyd to the power of infinity.

And Elvis.

Thin Lizzy – I remember the day Phil Lynott died. He was turned away from the nearest hospital IIRC because the A&E department had been closed due to budget cuts. He might well have lived had it not been for the delay in reaching the second hospital.
Jimi Hendrix
Mozart

Elvis.
Eddie cochran.
Buddy holly.
Gene vincent.
Jhonny cash.
Billy fury.

To name just a few of the rock n roll/rockabilly greats that every teddy boy would sacrifice his best mates right nut to see.

I’m no teddy boy, but by fek that’s some list! 🙂
I was thinking Buddy Holly myself when I opened the thread, and Elvis when he was young
Then Queen
Then the Sex Pistols

Surprised I am the first to suggest Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack

Yep, I’ll join you there 🙂

Then the Sex Pistols

not dead last time I looked?
Frank Zappa and Janis Joplin top my list

but absolutely Tim Buckley

+1 absolutely!

And Gram Parsons
And Sterling Morrison.
And Miles Davis

I saw Johnny Cash at Glastonbury in about 1993, I went to the festival on crutches after a knee op. Not one of my mates wanted to come and see Cash with me so I hobbled off on my own, the man was a genius and seemed genuinely suprised that the crowd of smelly kids loved him. I think most of the people who I went to the festival with now regret not seeing him that day.

I’d love to have seen Townes Van Zandt at his peak. oh and Woodie Guthrie of course.

Then the Sex Pistols
not dead last time I looked?

One of them is!

Jeff Buckley
Freddie Mercury

Saw Nirvana in Oct 1989 at the Duchess in Leeds promoting the Bleach album, prefer the Foo Fighters

Buddy holly
freddie mercury
roy orbison

Nick Drake

Led Zeppelin featuring John Bonham on drums
Bob Marley
Queen with Freddie Mercury
Nick Drake – (though probably not that exciting live by all accounts….)
John Lennon

EDIT – Beat me to it, Doug D!

PeterPoddy – Member
Then the Sex Pistols
not dead last time I looked?

One of them is!
The original line up on Never Mind The Boll……are all still alive, was their point I think. In terms of song writing, their best line up, in terms of freakshow, not.

Can

Nick Drake (although he didn’t do many gigs!) Hendrix, SRV, Charlie Christian, Jaco Pastorius. I’d love to be able to see what went on at the debut of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and also Beethoven’s 9th.

One more……….

Judging by his concerts this summer I’d say,

Paul McCartney

apologies if already said.
would’ve loved to have seen the following.
gary moore
srv
the pink floyd with syd barrett
louis armstrong
billie holiday
jaco pastorius
sex pistols
frank zappa
jimi hendrix
rory gallagher
john coltrane
miles davis

i’ll stop there (as i could be here all day 😉

Beethoven

you can’t have Sex Pistols, they’re not dead. And occasionally still play, in their original line up of Lydon/Jones/Matlock/Cook. Keep an eye on Sky Arts for “There’ll Always Be An England”, Pistols live 2007, 30th anniversary of NMTB.

Sid is dead but he was a non-playing figurehead. when he was onstage, his amp was turned right down & someone else was backstage doing the actual bass. allegedly.

may as well say Siouxsie & The Banshees too as he was the drummer in their original lineup

Another one for Hendrix. My biology teacher saw him at the Isle of Wight, spawny git used to wind me up about it!

Saw Queen and even Jacko.
Would love to have seen Nirvana as a band play and also the Doors and Joy Division.

Phil Lynott / Thin Lizzy
Luke Kelly

Saw The Clash though – must be over 30 years ago….

Last time I saw Joe Strummer he was lead singer for The Pogues after the band sacked Shane.

Gerard Smith – TV on the radio
Layne Stanley – Alice in Chains
Andrew Wood – Mother Love Bone

Err Staley I meant. Damn phone.

Jeff Buckley and Sandy Denny. It truly upsets me that I’ll never get to see Sandy perform, a stunning singer and sublime songwriter. 😥

Gerry Rafferty
Kurt Cobain
Phil Lynott
Hendrix
Gary Moore

Hendrix and if we get a choice, at the recording of the Peel session, then I could have meet the man JP too

Hendrix
Freddie

Yauch.

With Mike D & Ad Rock.

One last time 🙁

Always wanted to see Hendrix and Nirvana. Those are the two main ones. Hendrix would’ve been electric! And Nirvana…well I grew up on them. Unfortunately Hendrix was dead long before I was born, and when Nirvana played here I was just a bit too young to really know how to go about getting to a gig…

The Doors too.

Obvious ones aside…

Pantera
Bert Jansch (I’d also love to see John Renbourn play before life catches up with him too)

Minutemen with D Boon
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Albert Ayler
Beastie Boys
James Brown
Curtis Mayfield
The Cramps
MC5
The New York Dolls
Otis Redding
Shugie Otis
The list goes on and on

Hendrix and Morrison, T Rex.

charlie parker in his prime

No-one said Divine yet? 🙂

Several people mentioned Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy, I saw them four or five times, at Reading, on the Johnny The Fox and the Black Rose tours, and and a couple of other times. I also saw Phil on probably one of the last live gigs he ever played, with Grand Slam. Can’t remember the date now, but it was at Golddiggers in Chippenham, the band only existed from ’84-85, and Lynott died in January ’86. I was very upset when I heard, he was the consummate frontman, a real rocker, and funny with it. A sad loss
Oh, and I have tinnitus as a result of standing in front of the speaker stack taking photos! No idea where they are, now, but I’m sure they’ll turn up one day.