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Title: Dead guys in concert!!!!!!
Post by: sonickteam2 on March 13, 2007, 02:53:00 pm
Talking with some friends last night, this came up.  who have you seen live, thats now not! (alive).
 
   i came up with
 
   Nirvana (Cobain)
   Alice In Chains (Staley)
   Elliott Smith
   Blind Melon (singer guy with girls name)
   James Brown
   Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia)
   Smashing Pumpkins (Chamberlain)
   at least one of the Ramones...
 
   maybe i am missing a couple that i forget.
 
   i am sure some of you old folks might have a bigger list....try it!!!
Title: Re: Dead guys in concert!!!!!!
Post by: nkotb on March 13, 2007, 02:54:00 pm
Jimmy Chamberlain is still alive.
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Post by: allmy$to930 on March 13, 2007, 02:55:00 pm
Cash
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Post by: sonickteam2 on March 13, 2007, 02:55:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by nkotb:
  Jimmy Chamberlain is still alive.
lol.  hilarious. i had no idea, but a friend said it and i've seen em hahaha.
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Post by: Vas Deferens on March 13, 2007, 02:57:00 pm
I can only think of:
 
 Elliott Smith (4 times)
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Post by: nkotb on March 13, 2007, 03:00:00 pm
He was involved in that death fiasco during the Mellon Collie (worst album title ever?) tour, but it was Jonathan Melvoin that died.  He was a touring member.  In fact, Chamberlain is the only other original member in the new (yet to be unveiled) Pumpkins line-up.
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by le sonick:
   
Quote
Originally posted by nkotb:
  Jimmy Chamberlain is still alive.
lol.  hilarious. i had no idea, but a friend said it and i've seen em hahaha. [/b]
Title: Re: Dead guys in concert!!!!!!
Post by: sonickteam2 on March 13, 2007, 03:00:00 pm
i really cant believe with all the hairband metal shows i went to in the 80s that i cant add ANY of them to the list.  have any of them even died yet?
 
   really makes me question how hard they were actually partying!!   :roll:
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Post by: brennser on March 13, 2007, 03:03:00 pm
Nirvana
 Chris Whitley
 Go-Betweens
 The Charlatans
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Post by: thirsty moore on March 13, 2007, 03:04:00 pm
Morphine
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Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 13, 2007, 03:10:00 pm
Johnny Cash and at least two of the Ramones (can't remember if DeeDee was still with the band, he would make three), and one member of Social Distortion. Good question...I can't think of any more off the top of my head.
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Post by: dfmcpete on March 13, 2007, 03:11:00 pm
Joe Strummer (Mescaleros)
 John Entwhistle (The Who; actually, same show as Strummer)
 Joey Ramone
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Post by: Sir HC on March 13, 2007, 03:34:00 pm
John Entwistle (The Who and Daltry Sings the Who)
 The Ramones (Joey and Johnny)
 The Go-Betweens and when the two guys came around together
 
 I know there are more, but just don't know who.
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Post by: TimCooke on March 13, 2007, 04:02:00 pm
Come on...don't tell me that none of you caught Milli Vanilli in concert!
 
 BTW...my addition is Michael Hutchence
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Post by: beetsnotbeats on March 13, 2007, 04:03:00 pm
Lessee:
 
 John Cage
 Sonny Sharrock
 Wonderstuff (The Bass Thing)
 Winter Hours (Joseph Marques, singer)
 Joe Strummer
 Material Issue (singer)
 Hans Vonk (conductor)
 Bryan Harvey (House of Freaks)
 Eva Cassidy (school actually, never saw her perform)
 Frank Zappa
 Country Dick Montana (Beat Farmers)
 
 gotta be a couple of others....
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Post by: grotty on March 13, 2007, 04:06:00 pm
"really cant believe with all the hairband metal shows i went to in the 80s that i cant add ANY of them to the list. have any of them even died yet?"
 
 Someone from Ratt died (aids). Also Def Leppard (alcohol).
 
 I got those. Also:
 
 C Whitley
 K Cobain
 M Hutchence (@ the great HFStival)
 Jeff Buckley
 Warren Zevon
 
 No one saw Bon Scott eh?
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Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 13, 2007, 04:12:00 pm
One of the members of Squirrel Nut Zippers od'd but he may have been out of the band before I first saw them (at the old Black Cat sometime in the mid-90's).
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Post by: grotty on March 13, 2007, 04:15:00 pm
Surely someone's caught:
 
 Dennis Danell (Social D)?
 Randy Rhoads (I missed him by a year)?
 John Bonham?
 Lynyrd Skynyrd?
 
 **edit**
 
 I see rhett checked off the social distortion pre 2000
 
 Check yer score here:
  The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: But the years of the wicked shall be shortened (http://www.av1611.org/rockdead.html)
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Post by: sonickteam2 on March 13, 2007, 04:26:00 pm
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Originally posted by CookieMonster:
  Come on...don't tell me that none of you caught Milli Vanilli in concert!
 
 BTW...my addition is Michael Hutchence
ahh! yes, have to add him too! (hutchence, not milli vanilli!)
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Post by: Sir HC on March 13, 2007, 04:32:00 pm
Yes Social D (w/ sonic youth and Neil Young)
 Yes INXS (HFStival, right?)
 
 Saw Zappa lecture, but not play...
Title: Re: Dead guys in concert!!!!!!
Post by: Bombay Chutney on March 13, 2007, 04:42:00 pm
How depressing.
 
 Chic (Bernard Edwards)
 The Cars  (Benjamin Orr)
 Queen  (Freddie Mercury)
 The Who (John Entwistle)
 Ramones (Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee)
 Stevie Ray Vaughn
 Dead Milkmen (didn't someone die recently?)
 Divine
 Grateful Dead (Garcia, Mydland, Welnick)
 Jerry Garcia Band (Garcia, John Kahn)
 Nirvana (Cobain)
 Babatunde Olatunji
 James Brown
 
 I'm kind of surprised there aren't more.
Title: Re: Dead guys in concert!!!!!!
Post by: beetsnotbeats on March 13, 2007, 04:45:00 pm
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
 Saw Zappa lecture, but not play...
Yeah, that was my Zappa experience, too. UMCP or somewhere else?
Title: Re: Dead guys in concert!!!!!!
Post by: Sir HC on March 13, 2007, 04:56:00 pm
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Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
   
Quote
Originally posted by Sir HC:
 Saw Zappa lecture, but not play...
Yeah, that was my Zappa experience, too. UMCP or somewhere else? [/b]
UMCP
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Post by: Sir HC on March 13, 2007, 04:58:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
  Dead Milkmen (didn't someone die recently?)
 
Bassist committed suicide.
 
 Gads saw them, Cars, Dead, Blind Mellon, James Brown, this is depressing.
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Post by: xneverwherex on March 13, 2007, 05:01:00 pm
EMF
 
 probably others, but nothing comes to mind offhand.
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Post by: Frank Gallagher on March 13, 2007, 05:09:00 pm
Joe Strummer (Clash)
 John Entwistle (Who)
 Michael Hutchins (INXS)
 Howard Jones back-up keyboard player
 Mick Ronson (Bowie/Ziggy & the Spiders)
 Social Distortion
 
 Winter Hours...are they a local band? I remember seeing a great band in Frederick MD and they were called Winter Hours.
 
 
 I'm sure there's a bunch of 70's punk bands I saw who's members have crashed and burned. I never knew someone from Social D had died for example.
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Post by: beetsnotbeats on March 13, 2007, 05:29:00 pm
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Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
  Winter Hours...are they a local band? I remember seeing a great band in Frederick MD and they were called Winter Hours.
From New Jersey. They played here a lot; WHFS had them in pretty good rotation.
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Post by: Frank Gallagher on March 13, 2007, 05:45:00 pm
What happened to the singer?
 
 I always had them pegged for bigger and better things they were that good.
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Post by: Sir HC on March 13, 2007, 06:10:00 pm
Lucy Brown.
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Post by: beetsnotbeats on March 13, 2007, 06:52:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
  What happened to the singer?
 
 I always had them pegged for bigger and better things they were that good.
Heart attack, I believe, four years ago, 40 years old.
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Post by: bearman🐻 on March 13, 2007, 07:49:00 pm
Chris Acland from Lush
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Post by: Venerable Bede on March 13, 2007, 07:54:00 pm
jim ellison (material issue)
 shannon hoon (blind melon)
 john mcgeoch (pil)
 jerry garcia (grateful dead)
 dave blood (dead milkmen)
 chris acland (lush)
 elliot smith
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Post by: vansmack on March 13, 2007, 08:20:00 pm
I've seen a lot of artists who have now passed on, but I found it really tough to see Social D at the Dennis Dannell benefit show just after his passing.
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Post by: vansmack on March 13, 2007, 08:49:00 pm
You're right, this does suck.  I remembered a few that haven't been listed from my early So Cal days:
 
 Hole/Janitor Joe (Kristen Pfaff)
 Metallica (Cliff Burton)
 D.O.A. (Ken Jenson)
 Pennywise (Jason Thirsk)
 Sublime (Brad Nowell)
 RHCP (Hillel Slovak)
 No Doubt (John Spence)
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Post by: distance on March 13, 2007, 10:50:00 pm
jonathan melvoin (smashing pumpkins)
 james brown
 jeff buckley
 i saw hank III and his fiddle player died but i can't remember his name.
 
 as far as i know, that is all.
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Post by: Mobius on March 13, 2007, 11:55:00 pm
Miles Davis
 Nirvana
 Grateful Dead
 Joe Strummer
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Post by: Dr. Anton Phibes on March 14, 2007, 12:01:00 am
I thought of a few...
 
 Johnny,Joey,Dee Dee (The Ramones)
 Paul Hester (Crowded House)
 Rob Collins (Charlatans UK)
 Pete DeFrietas (Echo & The Bunnymen)
 Bon Scott (AC/DC)
 Ricky Wilson (B-52's)
 Bob Stinson (The Replacements)
 John Panozzo (Styx)
 Joe Strummer (The Clash)
 Ben Orr (The Cars)
 Hillel Slovak (Red Hot Chillis)
 Carlton Barrett (Bob Marley & The Wailers)
 Tony Thompson (Playing with Bowie)
 Johnny Cash
 Bob Marley (His last show ever, in Pittsburgh)
 and of course...
 
 Liberace!!!
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Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 14, 2007, 07:02:00 am
Wasn't he just called "Fiddle Boy"? I forgot to mention Buckley on my list.
 
 
Quote
Originally posted by distance:
  jonathan melvoin (smashing pumpkins)
 james brown
 jeff buckley
 i saw hank III and his fiddle player died but i can't remember his name.
 
 as far as i know, that is all.
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Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 14, 2007, 07:32:00 am
off the top of  my head
 
 Benny Goodman
 Sun Ra
 Miles Davis
 Stan Getz
 Dexter Gordon
 The Ramones
 Joe Strummer
 The Ox
 The guy from INXS
 D. Boon (i'm pretty sure)
 Ricky Wilson
 Bob Stinson
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Post by: bearman🐻 on March 14, 2007, 08:01:00 am
Oh yeah, Karl Crack from Atari Teenage Riot.
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Post by: on March 14, 2007, 08:21:00 am
Dennis Wilson
 Terry Kath
 Dave Blood
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Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 14, 2007, 08:59:00 am
Forgot one  Arthur Lee
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Post by: beetsnotbeats on March 14, 2007, 11:16:00 am
Remembered another: Steve Lacy
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Post by: TheDirector217 on March 14, 2007, 11:45:00 am
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Originally posted by Dr. Anton Phibes:
  I thought of a few...
 
 Johnny,Joey,Dee Dee (The Ramones)
 Paul Hester (Crowded House)
 Rob Collins (Charlatans UK)
 Pete DeFrietas (Echo & The Bunnymen)
 Bon Scott (AC/DC)
 Ricky Wilson (B-52's)
 Bob Stinson (The Replacements)
 John Panozzo (Styx)
 Joe Strummer (The Clash)
 Ben Orr (The Cars)
 Hillel Slovak (Red Hot Chillis)
 Carlton Barrett (Bob Marley & The Wailers)
 Tony Thompson (Playing with Bowie)
 Johnny Cash
 Bob Marley (His last show ever, in Pittsburgh)
 and of course...
 
 Liberace!!!
DAMN! You saw The Clash (I think you said that in another thread), Marley, ORIGINAL AC/DC, Bowie, The Ramones, & Johnny Cash???!!! Off the strength of this post alone, I pay homage, fam.  WHOA!
 
 Seen The Stones 4 times, & theoretically Keith Richards should be dead by now, so do I get credit for that???
 
 
 P.S. I'm just buggin' out.  I hope Keith never dies. I got mad love for Keith.    :D
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Post by: sonickteam2 on March 14, 2007, 02:02:00 pm
oops!!! we can add another one to some of our lists...chutney!!
 
  pollstar (http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=7746)
 
 Boston Lead Singer Dies
 Updated 16:26 PST Fri, Mar 09 2007
 (The Associated Press, Atkinson, New Hampshire) Brad Delp, lead singer of the band Boston, is being remembered as a generous, unassuming star.
  Delp was found dead in his home Friday at age 55. Authorities are investigating the cause of death, but police said they do not suspect foul play.
  Some of Boston's big hits include "More Than A Feeling," "Smokin"' and "Peace of Mind."
  "He was the most humble guy you'd want to meet. He had no rock star attitude, he had no problem mingling with the crowd. He'd talk to fans for hours," said local musician Gardner Berry, who most recently worked with Delp in November during a benefit at the Black Brimmer in Manchester.
  Friday night, the Boston Web site was taken down and replaced with the statement: "We just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll."
  Delp remained active in the local music scene, lending his name and talents to a variety of benefit concerts around New England.
  Last weekend, he played a gig for about 300 fans at Keene High School with Beatlejuice. Delp founded the Beatles tribute band about 14 years ago, a project he described during a Keene radio interview last year as "my hobby and my passion."
  WKNE-FM personality Parker Springfield first interviewed Delp in March 2006. The two sat down again last weekend for another interview, and to record an hour-long segment about the Beatles.
  Springfield said Delp was upbeat and talked at length about his career and his own roots in Beatlemania. He also spoke about looking forward to touring this summer with Boston and marriage to longtime girlfriend Pamela Sullivan during a tour break.
  "It's a shock," Springfield said. "Three minutes before he was supposed to go on stage last week we were still chatting - he was just that kind of regular guy, so down to earth. The kind of guy who, after a show, would sit at the end of the stage and just talk with people. He really had his ego in check."
  Springfield said that although he noticed Delp appeared thinner than he did a year ago, he looked healthy.
  Delp was a native of Danvers, Mass., moving to New Hampshire in 1980 and living for a time in Londonderry before settling in Atkinson.
  Delp recorded several albums with Boston before leaving the band in 1991 to front Return to Zero with Boston bandmate Barry Goudreau.
  Boston reunited in 1997 and released a few remastered versions of their earlier hit albums. In 2002 they released Corporate America, which led to a 2003 national tour launched in Manchester at the Verizon Wireless Arena.
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Post by: Bombay Chutney on March 14, 2007, 03:18:00 pm
nah - I never saw Boston.  I never really understood why they get such a bad rap though.  Their first 2 records were terrific, guitar-heavy, melody-rich rock and roll.  Nothing wrong with that.
 
 But that first reunion album suuuuuucked.
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Post by: MaLo on March 14, 2007, 03:52:00 pm
am I the only one who is going to admit to seeing John Denver?
 
 His last show at Wolftrap in 1997.
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Post by: Dr. Anton Phibes on March 14, 2007, 03:59:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by MaLo:
  am I the only one who is going to admit to seeing John Denver?
 
 His last show at Wolftrap in 1997.
Hey,I threw Liberace out there,for crissake!
 
 Denver is the "god of rock" compared to Lee...