Save a band/artist

that's a good one, how about MaMa Cass's sandwich maker?

I haven't read the Skynyrd thread but this reminds me of the book Glimpses. It came out in 1993 and i am certain I was 13 or 14 when I read it so it is a little vague but I have fond memories of it. I will post the plot summary

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From Kirkus Reviews
Can the 60's cure the 90's? That's what Texas stereo repairman Ray Shackleford struggles to prove in this strenuous fantasy of rock- and-roll hits that never were. Shortly after his unloving father drowns in Cozumel, Ray starts to imagine he's hearing impossible songtracks that he's able to record directly from his head. He takes his tape of the Beatles' never- recorded hit ``The Long and Winding Road'' to L.A. producer Graham Hudson, who's already remastered three volumes of Glimpses from rock's legendary past, and Graham persuades him to go after bigger game. So Ray travels back in time, changing history enough so that Jim Morrison can record Celebration of the Lizard and Brian Wilson can persist in his breakthrough album Smile. There's money to be made here, of course, but what Ray and Graham really want is to save the world by recalling the aging rock audience to its ardent roots. (Maybe a little too ardent, as when Ray wonders, ``Was it that way for everybody, music and sex and politics and love all inextricably part of each other, or is it just me?'') Trying to come to terms with his hated father's death, Ray takes time out to retrace his steps in Cozumel, attempting to re-create his own experience of the 60's more directly in 1989, but his romance with a diving instructor seems to open wide the rift in his ten-year marriage without giving him a satisfactory alternative, and he ends up repeating his father's experience instead of accepting it. So it's back to the past for one last try--with a Jimi Hendrix album that Ray hopes can keep the 60's from ending. As you'd expect from versatile fantasist Shiner (Slam, 1990, etc.), Ray's attempts to keep the faith by resurrecting Jimi and laying his own father to rest are powerfully affecting. Much more than yuppie reunions like The Big Chill, this captures a generation's sweet, desperate yearning for the 60's--though it ends up as authentically woolly as the period. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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I haven't read the Skynyrd thread

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was just some posts about having tickets to the skynyrd show that didn't happen. Made me think,,,what if, you could have kept them from taking that flight?

I would just go back to 2008 and murder all the Followills

Bradley N - Sublime

Stevie Ray Vaughn

John Bonham - Led Zep

While I don’t condone murder, David Chapman spared us of 30 years of people fawning of John Lennon’s adult contemporary hits clogging the airways. If Double Fantasy is any indication of where Lennon was headed, the world is fortunate he took a bullet and we were spared any more of the treacley garbage he had started to churn out.

When Elvis died, he hadn’t released a good album in over a decade. While I’m not gonna cheer his death, it’s not a tragedy for the record buying public. It’s not we’re missing out on some potential classics. He was going to keep churning out the same crap he had for a decade.

Buddy Holly’s a great answer, though none of the 50s guys seemed to stay relevant in the 60s. I think he would’ve bucked the trend. Personally, I would’ve liked to see D Boon’s post-Minutemen work.

Sure. He was doing a cheesy Vegas review and entertaining housewives from across the nation. But it's not like we missed out on the next great Elvis album. He was done making good music.

Hell, Ray Charles didn't make any good new music for the last 30 years or so of his life. Still an all-time great. But had he died of a stroke in 1970, its not like we would've missed out on anything as music fans (other than a chance to see him). His recorded legacy was pretty much complete.

Jimi
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Ronnie Wayne

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Jimi
SRV
Croce
Ronnie Wayne

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How do you save them? Keep them from getting on the plane/chopper?

And Robert Johnson, I'd stopped him from flirting with married women and never let him drink from an open bottle of whiskey