Top Five Bands You Wish You Could Have Seen Live

[Toadflax]

As a companion to the Top Five Bands You Want To See Live thread, let's do one for top five bands who are no longer alive or actively performing that you which you could have seen live! Here are mine:

1. Nirvana
2. Jeff Buckley
3. Pink Floyd
4. Led Zeppelin
5. The Doors

And then there are bands like Guns N' Roses, KMFDM, etc., who are still around, but I wish I had seen them in their heyday.

Also, I was lucky enough for my first show ever to be NIN & Bowie, but I didn't fully appreciate Bowie yet. I would have loved to see him again after really falling in love with his music.

[DVYDRNS]

the new shellac album is making me really bummed I will never be able to see them.

[henryeatscereal]

- David Bowie
- Motorhead
- The Ramones
- Soundgarden
- Black Sabbath

[Ruined]

1. Nirvana (I attended the Lollapalooza that they were supposed to headline, but, sadly never got to play).
2. Queen
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Jimi Hendrix and the Experience
5. Run DMC

[ryanmcfly]

Every Time I Die
Audioslave
Faith No More
Alice In Chains (with Layne)
System of a Down (in their prime, seen some recent videos and I think I’ll pass on seeing them now)

honorable mentions: Rage Against the Machine and Stone Temple Pilots (my wife got to see them with Chester Bennington and I’m super jealous of that and would have been cool with either him or Scott Weiland)

[GulDukat]

1. The Doors
2. Led Zeppelin
3. The Beatles
4. Van Halen (version 1.0)
5. Pink Floyd

[virushopper]

The Replacements (the original line up)
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Mahavishnu Orchestra
David Bowie
Talking Heads

[thefragile_jake]

Daft Punk
MF DOOM
Prince
The Smiths
GG Allin

[versusreality]

two bands I actually had tickets for on their last tours, but didn't go for various reasons:
Mazzy Star
Lush

I had a ticket for Prince in my cart on Ticketmaster, but said to myself "next time" ...sadly, there'd be no next time.

[Cookster426]

Primus
A Perfect Circle
System of a Down
Stone Temple Pilots (w/ Scott Weiland)
Soundgarden

[LaneSax]

Alice in Chains w/ Layne
Van Halen
Ramones
Soundgarden
AC/DC w/ Bon Scott

[BRoswell]

Beastie Boys
Daft Punk
David Bowie
Talking Heads
The White Stripes