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Who have you seen live that isn't around anymore?

  • 04-03-2019 8:20pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭


    So just as the title states, after the sad news of Keith Flint today, it got me thinking about who I have seen (solo or a band member) no longer with us.

    Off the top of my head,

    James Brown,
    Amy Winehouse,
    Glenn Frey with the eagles,
    Keith Flint with the prodigy (unfortunately)
    Chester with Linkin Park (like all teenagers at the time I had a phase)

    There are probably plenty more that will come back to me but interesting to see what older legends from years back people got to see


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭McTigs


    Prince


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Keith Flint

    Joe Strummer (delighted to have seen him)

    Lou Reed in Royal Albert Hall

    Prince (thanks for reminder)

    Always regret not swapping Rolling Stones for Bowie tickets when asked back in the day, both playing The Point in the space of a week


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,113 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    INXS
    The Cure
    Simple Minds
    Dead Can Dance


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭Edward M


    Big Tom.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,858 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Ian Dury
    BB King
    Leonard Cohen


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,674 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    cnocbui wrote: »
    INXS
    The Cure
    Simple Minds
    Dead Can Dance

    All of Simple Minds is still alive and they were touring last year lol. The Cure is still touring too.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭ger vallely


    cnocbui wrote: »
    INXS
    The Cure
    Simple Minds
    Dead Can Dance

    The Cure and Dead Can Dance are both still touring.

    Ritchie Havens
    Keith Flint.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭judeboy101


    MJ


  • Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭angel eyes 2012


    Keith Flint
    Glenn Frey
    George Michael


  • Registered Users Posts: 47 thenumber3


    David Bowie
    Prince


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭LowOdour


    Scott Hutchison
    Chris Cornell


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭Mike Oxlong


    Michael Hutchence
    James Brown
    Eric Roche
    Stuart Adamson (Big Country)
    Keith Flint
    Michael Jackson
    Rob Buck (10,000 maniacs)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭denismc


    Keith Flint
    Ray Manzarack
    Chris Cornell
    Dolores O Riordan
    Malcolm Young


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    Joe Dolan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 501 ✭✭✭squawker


    Rory Gallagher

    Gary Moore

    Stevie Ray Vaughan

    Only three I can think of at the moment


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭Mike Oxlong


    squawker wrote: »
    Rory Gallagher

    Gary Moore

    Stevie Ray Vaughan

    Only three I can think of at the moment

    And what a 3!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 501 ✭✭✭squawker


    And what a 3!!


    Aye, only a couple more I really wanted to see was Albert King and Fela Kuti


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭Deagol


    Queen (with Freddie Mercury)

    David Bowie

    Michael Jackson


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,781 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Tom Petty


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,630 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Joe Dolan
    Leonard Cohen

    Not sure if they'd exactly qualify for this category of thread, but

    Liam O'Flynn
    Micheál Ó Suilleabháin


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  • Registered Users Posts: 564 ✭✭✭keeponrockin


    Kurt Cobain
    Layne Staley
    Chris Cornell
    Chester Bennington
    Scott Weiland
    Dimebag Darrell/Vinnie Paul
    Amy Winehouse
    Michael Jackson
    Michael Hutchence
    Prince
    Keith Flint

    Jaysus i feel like the Grim Reaper!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭endainoz


    HeidiHeidi wrote:
    Liam O'Flynn Micheál Ó Suilleabháin

    Of course it does! Trad and folk legends, had forgotten I'd seen Liam O Flynn before too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,647 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    Motorhead (Lemmy)
    Soundgarden (Chris Cornell)
    Audioslave (Chris Cornell)
    INXS (Michael Hutchence)
    Manic Street Preachers (Richie Edwards)
    The Prodigy (Keith Flint)
    Beastie Boys (Adam Yauch)
    The Cranberries (Delores O'Riordan)
    EMF (Zac Foley)
    Mega City Four (Wiz)

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES(x2), And So I Watch You From Afar

    Gigs '25 - Orbital, Supergrass



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,674 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Robert Calvert & the Starfighters (Ex Hawkwind vocalist and poet) 1987 Leeds Queen Hall Acid Daze.
    Richard Wright (with Pink Floyd 1988 Manchester can remember the date 8.8.88. :)
    Liam O'Flynn - solo with Arty McGlynn and Dennis Martin and with Planxty in Galway 2004.
    Tommy Peoples live at a session in Lisdoonvarna, Clare.
    Gary Moore - Corridors of Power tour 1984 Glasgow Apollo and Castle Donington when it was a one dayer.
    Lemmy with Motorhead in 1984 at Glasgow.
    Keith Flint with Prodigy 2018 Electric Picnic and 2010 Oxegen.
    Ronnie James Dio with his own band touring Holy Diver 1984 Glasgow.
    The Asheton Brothers with Iggy Pop and the Stooges Electric Picnic 2007.
    Jon Lord with Whitesnake in 1984 Glasgow Apollo.
    Frankie Kennedy, flautist with Altan in his last gig at Ballyshannon Folk Festival August 1994
    Malcolm Young with AC/DC at Glasgow Apollo 1982 and at Monsters of Rock Castle Donnington 1984
    Alec Finn with De Danann, lost count of how many times I've seen this group but a lot during the nineties and noughties.
    Derek Bell with the Chieftains at Fleadh Mor, Tramore, County Waterford 1993
    Daevid Allen with Gong and Gongmaison 1987 (2 gigs Edinburgh Arts Festival and Edinburgh 2009 with Steve Hillage and Mike Howlet in the Gong Band).
    Gilli Smyth with Gong and Gongmaison also in 1987 and 2009.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭endainoz


    Ah can't believe I forgot about Delores!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭sabrewulf


    Peter Steele (5x with Carnivore and 4x with Type O Negative)
    Chester Bennington (2x)
    Lemmy (about 4x)
    Keith Flint (1x)
    Dave Brockie (G.W.A.R.) (1x)
    Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys) (2x)
    Mooseman, Beatmaster V (Body Count) (1x)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,711 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Prince, Dio, Bowie

    F*** I didn't even know Chris Cornell was dead


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,364 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Of top of my head

    Ou est let swimming pool (Charles Haddon 2010)

    Frightened rabbit (Scott Hutchison 2018)

    Tom Petty 2017


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭twowheelsonly


    Off the top of my head...

    Freddie Mercury,
    Phil Lynott,
    Bowie,
    Dolores O'Riordan,
    Prince,
    Leonard Cohen,
    Michael Jackson,
    Keith Flint,

    Probably a good few more that I can't think of - Full disclosure: I worked t a lot of these gigs for a good few years.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 342 ✭✭VeryTerry


    Pete Shelley
    Lemmy
    Delores
    Phil Chevron
    Keith Flint


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 661 ✭✭✭Johnny Jukebox


    Joe Strummer
    Johnny Thunders
    David Bowie
    Lou Reed
    Philip Chevron
    Mark Megaray
    Phil Lynott
    Rory Gallagher
    Lemmy
    Stuart Adamson
    Kurt Cobain
    James Honeyman Scott
    Pete Farndon
    John Barrowman
    Pete Shelley
    Leonard Cohen
    Ian Dury
    Lux Interior


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,222 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    I saw the following that are now deceased:

    Freddy Mercury (with Queen) - Knebworth in 1986

    Philip Chevron (with The Pogues) - Croke Park in 1987

    David Bowie - Slane in 1987 (Glass Spider Tour)

    Stuart Adamson (with Big Country) - Slane in 1987

    Frank Sinatra - Lansdowne Stadium in 1989

    Sammy Davis Junior - Lansdowne Stadium in 1989

    Prince - Páirc Uí Chaoimh in 1990 and R.D.S. in 1992
    Tom Petty (with the Heartbreakers) - The Point in 1992 and 3Arena in 2012
    Howie Epstein of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - The Point in 1992

    Glenn Frey - National Stadium in 1992

    I am sure I have seen Ronnie Drew and Barney McKenna of The Dubliners at some stage too.

    I saw Crowded House at the Point Theatre at some stage in the early '90s. I'm pretty sure the lineup included their late ex-drummer and founding member Paul Hester.

    There is already a thread about this under the music sub-forum:

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99852325


  • Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    Malcolm Young
    Cliff Burton
    Velvet Underground
    Dio
    Glenn Frey
    Lemmy/Philthy
    Rik Mayall
    Leonard Cohen
    Ian Dury
    Queen with Freddie
    Bowie
    Michael Hutchence
    Prince
    Phil Lynott
    Steve Clarke
    Lee Brilleaux
    Gary Moore
    Jon Lord
    Eric Carr
    John Martyn
    Randy Castillo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭ned rierson


    The Ramones


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭ConcertKing


    Prince
    Whitney Houston
    George Michael
    Joe Dolan

    Gutted I never got to see Layne Staley(Alice In Chains),Freddie Mercury(Queen),David Bowie,Mark Hollis(Talk Talk),Michael Jackson or Tupac Shakur in Concert.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭crazyguy01


    Think only 2 for me but glad to say have seen Leonard Cohen and Bo Diddley live.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,615 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    George Michael.

    The Dubliners.


  • Registered Users Posts: 713 ✭✭✭loadwire


    David Bowie
    Nina Simone
    Vic Chesnutt


  • Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭fillup


    crazyguy01 wrote: »
    Think only 2 for me but glad to say Leonard Cohen and Bo Diddley.

    You might want to rephrase that one Crazyguy01 or maybe you have something against Canadian, square guitar playing performers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Mark E Smith (The Fall)
    Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)
    Leonard Cohen
    Gill Scott Heron
    Kevin Garcia (Grandaddy)
    Lou Reed

    Probably more Ive forgotton about


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭Greg81


    Delores O'Riordan
    Chester Bennington
    Chris Cornell


  • Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭crazyguy01


    fillup wrote:
    You might want to rephrase that one Crazyguy01 or maybe you have something against Canadian, square guitar playing performers.


    Haha, edited, it was late posting, see your point!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,099 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Charley Patton


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    Just Chester Bennington and Leonard Cohen for me

    🤪



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭corm500


    David Bowie
    Kirsty Macoll
    MCA
    James Brown
    Gary Moore
    Rory Gallagher
    Ray Manzerak
    Michael Hutchence
    John Entwhistle
    BB King
    Stuart Adamson
    Ronnie Drew
    Philip Chevron
    Phil Everly
    Richey Edwards
    Davy Jones
    Ray Charles
    Bobby Keys
    Lou Reed
    Joe Strummer
    Vic Chesnutt
    Barney McKenna
    Albert King
    Leonard Cohen
    Chris Cornell
    Liam og Flynn
    Christy Hennessy
    Jim McCann
    George Michael
    Glenn Campbell
    Joni Sledge
    John Bradbury (Specials)
    Tom Petty
    Chris Squire



    I think I should stay away from gigs, I'm a bloody curse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭corm500


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Keith Flint

    Joe Strummer (delighted to have seen him)

    Lou Reed in Royal Albert Hall

    Prince (thanks for reminder)

    Always regret not swapping Rolling Stones for Bowie tickets when asked back in the day, both playing The Point in the space of a week

    That Stones gig in the Point has gone down as a classic though. Ive seen it mentioned in more than one list of greatest Irish gigs of all time, so don't beat yourself up about it:D


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,518 ✭✭✭Ciaran_B


    David Bowie would be the big one. I had to check if Neil Diamond was still alive. Turns out he is alive and still touring.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭maxsmum


    Elliott Smith in the Red Box circa 2000. Bell X1 supported in one of their first gigs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,423 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Bowie
    Gill Scott Heron
    Beastie Boys
    The Fall


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 242 ✭✭beecee


    Keith
    Prince
    MCA
    Amy Winehouse
    James Brown
    Bobby Womack
    Arthur Lee (Love)
    Liam O'Flynn (Planxty)
    Phil Everly

    sure there's more...


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