72stones wrote:
Of your list, I've had the pleasure of seeing Ray Charles and Santana.
Consider yourself lucky, Steve. I'm trying to think if I've also seen the originators of hard rock. I've seen Ray Davies, who created sort of the prototype of hard rock, and Deep Purple, who were full-blown hard rock, but I think Blue Cheer might get the credit as the first hard rock band, and I haven't seen Blue Cheer.