re: Top 5 Artists who died before their time?

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I know this is a rock 'n roll thread

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Not really. I think the rock and roll life leads to a more dominating place on the list, but I also listed Otis Redding and Tupac Shakur

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Otis Redding

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In R&R Hall of Fame

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Gram Parsons

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i was waiting for that mention.

Nick Drake gets honorable mention too.

Tim Hardin and Harry Chapin too.

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I think he still had plenty to write about when the plane went down/never really took off in Natchitoches.

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I was at the crash site early the next morning. frick Danny Dyson, Dickie Prudhomme and those other frickheads with the Natchitoches P.D. and Sheriff's Dept. They're the reason the plane took off so abruptly.

Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Gram Parsons, Marc Bolin and Janis Joplin.






And John Coltrane, Otis Redding and, without a doubt, Duane Allman.

Ritchie Valens?

Hendrix
Duane Allman
Robert Johnson



everyone else

I'm sure these have all been mentioned before but

Jeff Buckley
Bradley Nowell
Shannon Hoon

I don't really consider Cobain, Hendrix, Morrison, etc. to have been before their time because they were already huge at the time of their death.

The 3 I listed were up and coming but not a household name at the time of their death

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For me, Hendrix had more to do with unfulfilled potential more than popularity. The guy was just starting to branch out and really explore himself as an artist. I just can't imagine what he could have created if he lived longer.

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That's an absolute fact. He was a musical genius as measured by any yardstick you want. When does a genius peak in what they can accomplish? Answer: you don't know because the rest of us aren't smart enough to determine the boundaries of what they're capable of.