Biggest loss to music (early deaths)

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Jimi hendrix

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overrated imo

basically woodstock made him because all the fricking hippies look back at that as some kind of performance from God

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basically woodstock made him because all the fricking hippies look back at that as some kind of performance from God

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Nice troll; 8/10

And the answer to this thread is Duane Allman and no one else.

Mozart

Otis Redding recorded Sitting on the Dock of the Bay four days before he died. He had already gone pretty far musically in a short amount of time and his death cut his career way too short.

He and Duane Allman are the most "what could've been" deaths

ETA: Also I'm not sure Mercury and Barret qualify under this standard. I mean Queen had been going for around 15 years when he died. Barrett did not die early although he lost his mind

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

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My overall favorite and biggest personal lost, but his niche was deeply rooted in blues. Hendrix crossed over many boundaries. Although I believe SRV is such a superior musician to Hendrix, Hendrix was a bigger loss to the music world. I would also like to nominate John Bonham. Zeppelin died with him. Hard to believe they made all of the great music they did in less than one decade.

Ian Curtis
Darby Crash

You got to have Duane on that list somewhere

plenty of others I could mention, but I'll go with Gram Parsons

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Mozart

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It depends how you look at things. Someone like Hendrix or Allman died right when they were getting into their prime and seemingly starting to go really interesting places. There's a fairly small sample size to where we only saw the beginning of the potential of what they could have been.

Mozart was fairly young when he died, but he was so young and prolific when he started making music that he left behind a huge library for the world to know who he was musically. He still had a complete body of work despite dying young.