Your most missed music stars

Mark E. Smith. It's only been a few months but I went to Fall gigs regularly, I miss that a lot.

 

Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, and yes, Rory Gallagher.

 

If you have a strict definition of "theater in Philly," then you're probably right.

But I saw all 3 of these legendary artists in concert within (or just outside) the city limits. And IIRC, the old Valley Forge Music Fair in Devon hosted all of them at least once. There's also the casinos down in A.C.

 

Mick Ronson
David Bowie
Marc Bolan
Felix Pappalardi
Charlie Quintana (It's amazing how many of my favorite albums featured Mr. Quintana.)
Freddie Mercury

 

So many. Freddie Mercury above all. Then David Bowie, Lemmy & Rick Parfitt. John Lennon and George Harrison still being around would be very welcome.

A lot of my favourite musicians were around before I was born or peaked then, so I can't really miss them, but the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly, Jim Morrison, Marc Bolan, Bob Marley and many more had a lot more to offer and are a sad loss. Amy Winehouse would have been fascinating to follow had it not gone horribly wrong.

There's also depressingly few of the great 60s and 70s soul singers still around.

 

yea bob marley was a big loss

 

More than everyone else combined.

 

Roy Orbison. Also Bill Withers (still alive but mostly MIA)

 

Danny "Phantom Dan" Federici.
Clarence "Big Man" Clemons.
These are the boys.
These are the real boys.

 

true -- I was only at the Valley Forge Music Fair once to see a James Brown/Wilson Pickett show in the mid-1980's?. I don't think Pickett ever played near Philly again after that . Both artists were past their prime, but still a fun show.

 

Frank Zappa
Michael Hedges
Snakefinger
D. Boon
Don Van Vliet

 

David Bowie, Chris Cornell, Jeff Buckley, Prince.

 

Leonard Cohen
David Bowie
Lou Reed

 

Lowell George
Roland Kirk
Prince

 

I was lucky enough to see Gatton on the Crusin' Deuces tour in Minneapolis in 1993. What an amazing talent!

 

John Lennon

George Harrison

Jerry Garcia

Keith Moon

Kurt Cobain


and, though it was long ago, Janis, Jimi and Jim


It's going to be a very rough day for me when Neil Young joins the All-Star band in the sky.

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I'll bet! I saw Sam & Dave (with the Shirelles opening) at the old Ripley on South Street around 1981. Shirley Alston & Co. weren't awful, just kinda listless, probably from having played too many oldies shows. OTOH, Sam & Dave came out and HIT it from start to finish, great band including horns, a great night. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't been there.

 

David Bowie, especially since Blackstar is my #1 all-time favorite Bowie album.

If Blackstar had been made by someone in their early 30's, people would be talking about it like they were the new Radiohead.

Man went out at the very top of his game.

 

Willy DeVille, who performed beautiful, heartbreaking, soulful music to the very end...

 

Jimi Hendrix
Noel Redding
Mitch Mitchell
Buddy Miles
Paul Kossoff
Chris Wood

 

Mr. John Anthony Ganzale...the anniversary of his death is in three days.

 

As "Mystery Girl" by Roy Orbison was one of my first CDs, I always appreciate every new album by a favourite artist as the treasure it actually is. In my early teens, I had to accept we would never get another Orbison album just as I had to accept the Traveling Wilburys ended after Vol. 3.

 

My most missed is probably Sonic Youth because they are all still with us but that great collective brain that was the band is no more. Stupid Thurston......
my most missed passed on artists are probably Grant Mclennan of the Go-Betweens and MCA (Adam Yauch) of the Beastie Boys whose deaths gutted me

 

In my lifetime, most certainty (though I loathe the word "star")...

Prince & Lennon - The most painful.

Bowie
MCA
Gaye
Petty

To me, their losses represent a loss of pieces of myself, my childhood, who I identified with outside of my self. Not that I am now somehow incomplete, only the world is slightly skewed with their absence.

 

Beethoven
Buddy Holly
Jim Morrison
John Lennon
Jerry Garcia
Jon Lord
Chris Squire
...and the list grows on.