re: If you could pick one musician to never die too soon who you got?

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:04 pm to holdem Tiger

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Burton was a tragedy, but good lord you can’t put a bassist at the top this list!

Trevor Burton of The Move

Posted by ATCTx

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:05 pm to wartiger2004

Hank Williams - was only 30.

EDIT: Correct...he was 29...my bad

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Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:06 pm to ATCTx

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Hank Williams - was only 30

Posted by DTRooster

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:06 pm to Solo Cam

SRV

Posted by Spook

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:07 pm to wartiger2004

wow.

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Posted by HempHead

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:12 pm to Solo Cam

Duane frickin Allman

Posted by The Spleen

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:18 pm to SpqrTiger

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Lots of possible answers, but I’m going with Jim Morrison.

While I don’t think the loss of Jim Morrison was a huge loss to music in general, it would have been interesting to see where they would have gone had he not died. After a couple of shaky records, they seemed to have found something again with LA Woman and we’re poised to get the train back on the tracks.

Posted by IAmNERD

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:32 pm to The Spleen

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Not sure why people say this, because it’s not all that accurate. Nirvana was wildly popular when he killed himself. Has there been some inflation of his image post-mortem? Sure, but it’s not like he and his band were middling in obscurity at the time.

The music was good. Dave Grohl was great on the drums. You can follow his career through all of it's turns to see he is a great rock artist. Combined, they wrote and put out some good songs and their impact of changing the sound of rock is undeniable. But as a front man and/or guitar player, Kurt Cobain was pretty meh.

And they absolutely got bigger after his death.

Posted by tigersownall

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:38 pm to Solo Cam

Hendrix

Posted by m2pro

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:45 pm to RueCooks

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RueCooks

Absolutely how I would answer this. I hate that shite. I really wish I had seen them live.

Jimi Hendrix is probably the best pick all in all, and I'm not even that huge of a fan. I do think he had a lot more to have given and written.

Cornell isn't right b/c he was sorta dried up and not inspired at all. I don't think we would have gotten a ton more out of him that truly mattered. Despite his unparalleled voice.

Lane Staley is up there for me also.

Posted by fr33manator

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:46 pm to Solo Cam

Jim Croce

Posted by S

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:47 pm to Solo Cam

Since you said Cobain I’ll go Layne Staley

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Posted by The Spleen

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Posted on 4/28/22 at 3:51 pm to IAmNERD

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And they absolutely got bigger after his death.

I don’t deny that, just disagree on the degree they got more popular. Heart Shaped Box was getting massive airplay on MTV at the time of his death. And I’d argue the release of their Unplugged album had more to do with his post-death popularity than his death did. It was released almost a year after his death.