Music, who would you see if you could?

[alwslate]

Soundgarden, they are back together as a group and are touring this
year. Bad Company. Paul Rogers is still a great singer.
Cream, don't expect to see them ever tour again though.

 

[george minze]

I always wanted to see "The Band" I thought they were about as tight as it gets.....Funny...The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was just here for the 4th...Last time I saw them was 35 years ago...They got older,,,,Heck not only they got older....Red Rocks was a great place to see any of the greats...Waylon played a great show there O so many years ago...Darn I'm getting old......Probably the most outstanding live show I have ever seen was Neil Diamond at the Greek Theater in 76....

 

[Ogandydancer]

A few of mine would be:
Jimmy Martin (that can never be He's gone on)
Ralph Stanley
Dale McCoury
Karl Shifflet & Big Countey
Cumberland Highlanders
Barefoot Becky
Polka Nuts
Leon Olsen
and last but not least The Vienna Philharmonic for any New Year celebration preferably with Franz Welser Most conducting.

 

[speedyquad]

Wasn't that "Dimebag" Darryl?

he used diamond when it was inappropriate for dimebag...like on this forum...

as far as concert prices go...i hadn't gone to any in a long time...because of the prices...then my friend mentioned a female fronted group was playing close to my birthday and thought maybe my wife would make that my birthday gift...she did...the pair of tix came to less than $60. i've been to 4 concerts in a little over a year...not one single ticket was over $40. the concert i am going to in october is the most expensive at $58. i'm not sure i would have bought 2 tix at that price..

 

[speedyquad]

That's correct and the band he was playing with at the time was Damageplan..

it was damageplan then...i've been in bed sick since monday...i've finally started keeping solid foods in me yesterday...things were a little fuzzy...lol

 

[cmort666]

Apart from chamber and military band music, I don't really like live music all that much.

That having been said, I'd like to see:

• Steely Dan
• Yellow Magic Orchestra
• Focus (I don't know if they've done any reunions.)

Back in the '80s, I saw The Crusaders and Spyro Gyra live in Louisville. Spyro Gyra put on an especially good show.

 

[Texas Star]

Dido Armstrong. And it's about time she made a new CD release. I have all of her present ones.

There are a few others, but she's my primary candidate.

Julio Iglesias is up there, too, if he's still singing. Can't stand his son's "music."

 

[fdw]

There's really only one person that I would have like to have seen and that's Frank Sinatra, The Chairman of The Board....

and that would have been in his younger years. I hear his last concerts were quite short.

Saw the Eagles 3 times starting in the 70s. Best concert I went to was either Rod Stewart or Michael Buble.

Edit: Forgot to mention I saw Tony Bennett on my wedding night. Put him right at the top too.

 

[bill2000]

One show I'd like to see before either one of us goes is Van Morrison.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I guess I got a little confused on dead or alive?
The Eagles have been mentioned several times, I would also like to see the Eagles.
So I'll just go with some folks that I have seen, that I feel privileged to have seen.
Willie, Waylon, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Charlie Pride, the killer Jerry Lee, Fats Domino, Julie London, Junior Wells, B.B. King, Delbert McClinton, Marcia Ball, Moses Allison, Duke Ellington, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin and last and absolutely not least Louis Armstrong.

 

[shouldazagged]

One of the best TV short "concerts" I've seen was Heart with Wynonna Judd. Fantastic blend of voices, and I'd love to see then together live.

Another was Pat Benatar, with a guest duet with Martina McBride on "We Belong". High-octane stuff.

I can add My Morning Jacket and Marcia Ball to my list too. And René Marie, and Lyle Lovett with the big band. Oh, hell, throw in Leonard Cohen too, before he or I shuffle off this mortal cluster.

Man, I get started on a thread like this and I can't stop!

 

[carpriver]

I have never been to a live concert. One person I would like to see and here would be Neil Diamond. I am not a person that likes crowds so I am not about to attend a concert in a large arena.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Many of the best are through, but I believe that Henry Gray is still kicking.

 

[maxbnc]

The absolute all time...

favorite, was Jim Morrison and the Doors! The tone, and range of his voice, and the other guys, to me, was riveting.
I loved listening to Bo Diddley also. it was an hypnotic experience to hear him.

 

[Seldom]

I would most like to go to a concert with Alison Krauss and Union Station. That's a dream event. Oh wait a minute... I have two tickets for them at the end of this month at the Rockygrass Festival here in Lyons, Colorado.

Here's something really different. If I had a time machine my first choice would be in 1909 when Gustav Mahler conducted the newly formed New York Philharmonic in Sergei Rachmaninoff's third piano concerto with the composer at the piano. Second would be any recital with Franz Liszt playing his own music on the piano circa 1845.

 

[george minze]

I have never been to a live concert. One person I would like to see and here would be Neil Diamond. I am not a person that likes crowds so I am not about to attend a concert in a large arena.

It has been a long time, but what a show...The guy was just great. Very connected to the audience...Unlike his normal demeanor..Or so I was told ....His show was tight and well performed and had a lot of audience connection...I guess that is why he was and still is a super star..

 

[shouldazagged]

I would most like to go to a concert with Alison Krauss and Union Station. That's a dream event. Oht i wait a minute... I have two tickets for them at the end of this month at the Rockygrass Festival here in Lyons, Colorado.

My late wife and I saw Union Station before Alison was billed. She was fifteen. I turned to Carol and said, "Watch that one, she's going to be a star." Carol agreed.

I envy you the tickets. Do you have the album she made with Robert Plant? Shouldn't have worked, but it did, beautifully.

 

[vigil617]

As for live shows, for me it starts and ends with Springsteen.

Nobody, but nobody, lays it all out there night after night the way he does. Like him or hate him, you gotta give him respect for what he gives to his performances and in making sure that the people buying the tickets get their money's worth and more. IMHO, he has inherited the mantle of the late great James Brown as "the hardest working man in show business."

Long live The Boss.

 

[Fishslayer]

I would have liked to see Pink Floyd on the Division Bell tour in '94.