The Elvis movie got me to thinking about what it must've been like to see Elvis himself live before he died.

There's such a range of age groups on texags, someone must have right? Or had a parent or grand parent that did? I'd love to hear about seeing especially some of the legends like Elvis, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, The Beatles (all together, seeing Paul McCartney doesn't count), Michael Jackson… people like that.

Not a "legend" like those listed but I saw Joe Diffie play live like a month before he died of Covid complications. Felt a little surreal.

Tom Petty, Scott Weiland, Dusty Hill, Carl Perkins
I'm sure will come to mind later

Jerry Jeff Walker
Taylor Hawkins
Chester Bennington
Charlie Watts

mrsbeer05 said:

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Tom Petty, Scott Weiland, Billy Gibbons, Carl Perkins
I'm sure will come to mind later

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Billy Gibbons is still with us, unless he died today and I some how missed it.

Neil Peart
Eddie Van Halen
Brad Delp
Cliff Burton

That's a pretty damned good band right there.

Whichever guys in Great White died in the fire. Saw them open for Judas Priest in the 80's.

Pat Torpey of Mr. Big.

Julio Iglesias (is he still alive?)

Which ever one of the Panozzo brothers from Styx that died.

Gary Moore

Robin Crosby of Ratt

Probably some others I don't recall right now.

Yul Brynner starring in "The King And I" when it was touring. I was maybe 12 years old. Dude rocked the shaved head and made it cool a couple decades before anybody else (except for Telly Savalas).

ETA Dusty Hill

Gary Stewart (wouldn't have thought of him if not mentioned here)

Chris LeDoux
Merle Haggard
Jerry Jeff Walker
Guy Clark
Don Walser
Emilio Navaira
Hal Ketchum
Jimmy LaFave

Ha ha my list is gonna be pretty TX-centric.

Gotta be plenty more I'll think of…

Tom Petty
Clarence Clemons
Charlie Daniels
Charlie Pride


Petty hurts the worst, my all-time, all-time favorite artist.

TXAG 05 said:

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mrsbeer05 said:

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Tom Petty, Scott Weiland, Billy Gibbons, Carl Perkins
I'm sure will come to mind later

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Billy Gibbons is still with us, unless he died today and I some how missed it.

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That's what I get for doing TexAgs during bedtime. Dusty, not Billy

Prince
Eddie Van Halen
Neil Peart
Chris Cornell
Scott Weiland
Taylor Hawkins
B.B. King
Dimebag Darrell
Vinnie Paul
Ray Manzarek
Dusty Hill
Buddy Miles
Charlie Watts
Jerry Jeff Walker

I'm sure there are more. These are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Tom Petty
Eric Carr (Kiss)
Robin Crosby (Ratt)
Tim Kelly (Slaughter)
Peter Steele (Type O Negative)

Eddie Money

Jerry Garcia, John Denver and Kurt Cobain. Could probably throw Adam "MCA" Yauch into the list as well.

Layne Staley

Merle
Levon Helm
BB King
Bo Diddley

Plus a few others already mentioned.

Jerry Jeff
Waylon
Merle
Leon Russell
Prince
Little Richard
Layne Staley
Chris Cornell
Charlie Watts
Dusty Hill

I'm sure many more.

Jimmy Bain, bass player for Dio, co-writer for Rainbow in the Dark.

We were on the Def Leppard cruise. Saw Last in Line, Dio's band with Andrew Freeman singing lead, performing at the pre-cruise concert the night before we sailed. Two days into the cruise, IIRC, we ran into a group of people looking very upset. We found out that Jimmy had died the night before on board the ship, of undiagnosed lung cancer. Definitely assed a weird vibe to the cruise.

Add to that Joe Elliot of Def Leppard got sick and couldn't sing so the big DL concert was the rest of DL with an all-star cast of lead singers.

All in all, with all of that aside, we had a great time. An interesting trip and one we'll never forget.

My mom saw Elvis at the Houston Rodeo in 1974.

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Layne Staley

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Still bummed I never got to see him.

Tom Petty, Chris Cornell (saw him Audioslave, never with soundgarden unfortunately), Peter Steele, Vinnie & Dime, Nick Menza (former megadeth drummer) , Eddie Harsch (black crowes keyboard), Joe Cocker, Eddie Money, Dusty Hill...I'm sure there are others.

Johnny Cash
Johnny Paycheck
Gary Stewart
Jerry Lee Lewis
George Jones
Marc Bolan (T. Rex)
Hoyt Axton
Roky Erickson
Probably a lot I can't think of

John Wetton of Asia

Prince
Tom Petty
Stone Temple Pilots with Scott Weiland
ZZ Top with Dusty Hill
Beach Boys with Carl Wilson

Merle Haggard at the Gruene Hall was pretty cool to see. I don't go to too many concerts so I am having trouble coming up with others.

Ben Orr and Ric Ocasek of The Cars

Charlie Watts
Ronnie James Dio
John Entwistle
Neil Peart
Dusty Hill
Eddie Van Halen
Kevin DuBrow (okay, really pushing the "legends" moniker with that entry)

Richard Wright of Pink Floyd

A couple of The Moody Blues members.

The Doors in 2011. Well 50% of them anyway. It was Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, some other guy and a fake Jim that looked and sounded real so it was pretty cool.

Also the GREAT Merle Haggard with Willie at some amphitheater in the middle of nowhere about 20 miles from New Braunfels. That was 6 months before Merle passed and he was great. Seeing them sing "Pancho and Lefty" together was worth the trip.

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The Doors in 2011. Well 50% of them anyway. It was Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, some other guy and a fake Jim that looked and sounded real so it was pretty cool.

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I'm no math major but you saw three members of The Doors and only one of those is dead so that would be 33%.

LOL no John Densmore didn't participate so that's why I said some guy. No Jim and no John = 50% of the ORIGINAL Doors. Sorry should have said that lol. They were still really good though.

Elvis -- Houston Rodeo 1971 (?)
The Beatles -- Sam Houston Coliseum 1965
Kenny Rogers with the First Edition
Glenn Frey -- Eagles 2014

Charlie Daniels
Have to think about more.