What artists have you seen perform live, who are no longer with us?

The problem with this question for me is that I don’t know who’s dead. Off hand I could name:

Phil Oaks
Otis Redding
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Is Joan Baez still kicking?
Ginger Baker?
Dino Valenti?
Country Joe MacDonald?
John Lennon and George Harrison.
Jerry Garcia
Stan Owsley
A couple of the original Jefferson Airplane. Grace Slick looks dead, does that count?
The whole Allman brothers band, I think, died in a plane crash.
Probably a lot more.

Rolf Harris, he painted a naked child bent over his knee, the dirty bastard is locked away now & so no longer with us, long may he rot

Ooops. Edit: Phil Ochs.

@Espiritus_Corvus Joan Baex just performed in my area.

Lynryrd Skynrd died in a plane crash; I think one Allman Bro died in maybe a motorcycle crash.

I saw Phil Ochs too and kissed him afterward.

I saw Prince play in October 1981, opening for the Roling Stones. He was booed off the stage.

I saw Lynrd Skynrd the year before the plane crash.

James Brown
Benny Goodman
Chris Farley
Von Freeman
Dexter Gordon
Aaron Copland conducting an orchestra

I don’t like live rock shows much and have not been to many

The best one I ever attended was David Bowie.

@Espiritus_Corvus

Joan’s father died when he was 95, and her mother died last year (IIRC) at the age of 100. I think and hope she’s going to be around for many more years.

@Brian1946 Me too. I always liked her and Mimi Farina. Real Troopers for what is right.

@janbb You kissed Phil Ochs? Amazing. There is a song in that.

@Espiritus_Corvus Yeah – “I kissed a folksinger and then he offed himself!”

The Ramones (1987, 1988, and 1999).

^ edit: 1989, not 99.

B. B. King

Oh, dear, most of them. Pavarotti tops the list.

John Entwistle (The Who)
Frank Sinatra
Count Basie

David Bowie.

forgot…

Motorhead (Lemmy)