Band you would want to see live, if a crucial member had

[palahniukkubrick]

Nirvana
 Alice in Chains
 Minutemen
 Beatles
 bob marley
 Clash
 Ramones
 
 and others I can't think of at the moment.  

[Sir HC]

Sex Pistols
 The Clash
 AC/DC
 Morphine

[markie]

the who
 
 the rolling stones
 
 The jimi hedrix experience
 
 the doors

[chaz]

This is one long list....

[palahniukkubrick]

When you said that you would want to see the sex pistols live but who is the crucial member you're referring to? I'm guessing Sid Vicious who would be cool to see play, but I don't think of him a crucial.
 
 Just my opinion.    

[flawd101]

nirvana

[Venerable Bede]

buddy holly
 sex pistols
 the who
 jimi hendrix
 pink floyd (does syd going insane count?)

[Jaguär]

I would like to put The Beatles except they bit it way before John died.
 
 The Sex Pistols
 Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company
 Matthew Jay
 Elliott Smith
 Morphine
 The Rolling Stones with Brian Jones

[vansmack]

The Beatles
 The Clash
 Led Zeppelin
 Joy Division

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  pink floyd (does syd going insane count?)

I debated the very same thing. In that case, add to my list...
 
 Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green and NO Buckingham and Nicks (I did see them only about a month or so after Peter left and Jeremy Spence was with them.)

[SPARX]

Joy division...Mothers of Invention....Mott the Hoople....Morphine

[Jaguär]

Oh, God yeah, Smackie!
 
 Joy Division

[twangirl]

Thin Lizzy!

[Sir HC]

Originally posted by palahniukkubrick:
  When you said that you would want to see the sex pistols live but who is the crucial member you're referring to? I'm guessing Sid Vicious who would be cool to see play, but I don't think of him a crucial.
 
 Just my opinion.        

It is the way that they were seen in the states the first time round, would be great to have seen that line up.  I did see them at the 9:30 this go around.  It was great, I was super happy but Sid would have been a different show, but equally entertaining for different reasons.
 
 Some of the "oldies" that have lost major members (Beatles, Led Zep, The Doors) I hate to think the kind of music they would be making right now if they still existed.
 
 I guess others include:
 
 INXS
 Stereolab
 The Rain Parade
 The Shamen
 Bob Marley and the Wailers
 Darling Candy
 Skinny Puppy

[igor]

jeff buckley
 joy division
 john coltrane
 lynyrd skynyrd
 led zeppelin
 metallica
 the germs
 and many more
 
 solo: nick drake