Which musician(s), dead or alive, would you most like to see in performance?

For me, Beethoven playing the organ or his 4th piano concerto

For me, Schubert playing late piano sonatas

Robert Johnson playing some delta blues or Nick Drake just playing any of the great songs he wrote.

Buddy Holly or John Lennon, doing anything...

Mozart, of course, performing his very last piano concerto (KV595), or perhaps even performing a new one written for the 21st Century. Now THAT would be an event!

Graham

Coltrane and Monk, Zeppelin when the west was won, Janis Joplin, Buddy Bolden, Jacqueline du Pré, Kreisler, Lynyrd Skynyrd ...

The list is endless really

Franz Liszt Live!~

oh.. and Keith Moon....

Kuma

Not together, surely!

Graham

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Originally posted by graham55:
Kuma

Not together, surely!

Graham,

Actually, it would be a fun gig!

Kuma

Mozart and Hendrix, even?

G

Art Pepper. Sax genius.

Nigel

I've been fortunate to see most of my favorites at one time or another. The ones I missed out on that right now I'd love to see are: The Beatles, Led Zep, Van Morrison (on a good night), the Who with Keith Moon (I saw them after he passed), Roy Orbison, Jeff Buckley, Chuck Berry and Stevie Ray Vaughn, to name a few.

Mike

Well, Mike, I'm ahead of you in one respect. I saw Jeff Buckley four times - the very best concerts, by far, that I ever attended.

Still, at least we each got to see Brian Wilson create wonderful music this year, which I count as some kind of miracle in itself.

Graham

G,

hmm.. Hendrix and Mozart.. that would be good.

oh... would have loved to hear Bill Evans play live, too. ( preferably 3 ft. away! )

I saw most of the bands I loved in the early 70s and one or two before I realised how good they were (Roy Orbison wasn't my main man then but for some reason I got tickets from my school for doing charity work. His voice was just astonishing).

Beatles obviously and Mozart if we're taking it to extremes.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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Originally posted by Boddah:
Stevie Ray Vaughan

I saw him few weeks before his untimely death fronting Jeff Beck.

I'm not sure I want to see a corpse on stage. Though some artists manage it on very appearance.

It might have been fun to attend a few Vierne or Bach organ practice sessions. Or a Paganini performance.

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Originally posted by Nime:
I'm not sure I want to see a corpse on stage. Though some artists manage it on very appearance. .

Really, Nime?

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Originally posted by graham55:
Well, Mike, I'm ahead of you in one respect. I saw Jeff Buckley four times - the very best concerts, by far, that I ever attended.

Still, at least we each got to see Brian Wilson create wonderful music this year, which I count as some kind of miracle in itself.

Graham

Agreed. Seeing Brian Wilson was a great experience.

Zappa: missed him in '88 (having only discovered his music the previous year) and he never toured again in the UK...

Also missed out on Miles, and would have loved to have known about Jeff Buckley when he played Edinburgh in the early nineties (my wife had, and considered going, but decided to pass and regrets that decision to this day).

John

I second the Bill Evans. Also Monk and Zappa.

Freddie Mercury, without doubt the greatest showman.

Regards

PB

John Lee Hooker / Stan Getz / Miles

Nic

Jim Morrison--Apparently a genius on stage.

Mike.