Former bands you'd love to see

matthyaouw

Out of all the bands no longer in existance, which would you have most liked to see?

A few of mine:
Alice in Chains
Soundgarden
The Smashing Pumpkins
Led Zeppelin
Rage Against the Machine.

I was meant to be born in '76, not '86, I'm telling you!

brewnog

Oooh, good one!

I'd have to say:

Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Stone Roses
The Smiths
The Who

That will do for now. Ohh, and Jeff Buckley.

matthyaouw

Jeff Buckley! How could I forget!?

ranger

Led Zeppelin


Thats the only old band that I can think of for now.

Tom Mattson

The One, The Only, The Beatles.

Andy

Guns N' Roses
Led Zeppelin
The Who

Cybersteve

Queen -at around the mid eighties.
Hendrix - obviously!
Kinks
Beach Boys - were they any good live?
Bowie - in his Ziggy days - providing I don't have to dress up!


PS Saw Bob Dylan tonight after waiting 40 years!!!

TheStatutoryApe

Soul Coughing
Sadly they were around during the 90s but I never got the opertunity to see them.

The Rat Pack
Not really a band but still.

The Benny Goodman Orchestra

The team up of They Might Be Giants with M. Doughty
It happened and I had not clue.

Chi Meson

Joy Division
Gang of Four (when there were only three of them)
Sex Pistols
X
Germs

Integral

The Doors with Jim Morrison

Evo

I saw them. It was bizarre and rather boring, Morrison disappeared underneath the stage for 20 minutes while they were playing "Light my fire" and the rest of the band kept playing the same piece over and over. It was really annoying.

I also saw

Led Zeppelin (twice)
The Who
Jimi Hendrix
etc...

loseyourname

Joy Division (obviously)
Led Zeppelin
Love
Nick Drake
Television
The Clash
Johnny Cash
Woody Guthrie (not that I think he would have been anything special live, but it would have been nice to meet him)
The Who
The Allman Brothers (I have seen them, but I would have liked to see them when Duane Allman was still alive)
Beatles
Soundgarden
Gram Parsons
Ray Charles
Marvin Gaye (especially w/ Tammi Terrell)
Beach Boys (again, I have seen them, but it would have been nice when they were whole and not in their 60s)
Public Enemy
Jeff Buckley
Elliot Smith (would have seen him, too, if it wasn't for a last-minute flakeout from stupid Kathy Colby)
Richie Valens (white-washed Hispanic kid from suburban LA; a man after my own heart)

It might have been cool to see the Manic Street Preachers; I don't know

robphy

(original) Van Halen [...I did see VH with Sammy in concert.]
(original) Black Sabbath

loseyourname

Van Halen played at one of my dad's birthday parties in his backyard, when they were still just a local band without a record deal. That would have been so awesome to be there.

Ivan Seeking

The Osmonds - esp Donny and Marie.

zoobyshoe

In this vein, it's my understanding that William Shatner recorded an album of his vocal stylings. Wouldn't it be great to see him singing live?

Ivan Seeking

Shatner and Nimoy did some great stuff. And do I hear a chant for the Partridge Family?