re: Of all the musicians who died too young, whose stuff would you have most liked to see?

I guess technically there was a pilot, but they didn't have permission to be flying the plane and were just fricking around and buzzing the tour bus.

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After driving much of the night, the bus stopped at Flying Baron Estates in Leesburg, Florida, to fix a malfunctioning air conditioning unit while Osbourne remained asleep.[29] On the property, owned by the Calhoun Brothers tour bus company, there was an airstrip with helicopters and small planes.[14] Without permission, tour bus driver and private pilot Andrew Aycock took a single-engine Beechcraft F35 plane registered to a Mike Partin.[30][31] On the first flight, Aycock took keyboardist Don Airey and tour manager Jake Duncan with him as passengers.[29] Duncan later revealed that Aycock "buzzed" the bus in an attempt to wake drummer Tommy Aldridge. The group then landed. The second flight had Rhoads and makeup artist Rachel Youngblood aboard. Rhoads had tried unsuccessfully to coax bassist Rudy Sarzo to join him on the flight; Sarzo chose to get some extra sleep instead.[14]

During the second flight, more attempts were made to "buzz" the tour bus.[30] Aycock succeeded in making two close passes, but botched the third attempt. At about 10 a.m., after being in the air for approximately five minutes,[31] one of the plane's wings clipped the top of the tour bus, breaking the wing into two parts and sending the plane spiraling.[32] The initial impact with the bus caused Rhoads' and Youngblood's heads to crash through the plane's windshield.[29] The plane then severed the top of a pine tree and crashed into the garage of a nearby mansion, bursting into flames.[5] Rhoads (25) was killed instantly, as were Aycock (36) and Youngblood (58). All three bodies were burned beyond recognition, and Rhoads was identified by dental records and personal jewelry. According to Sharon Osbourne, who was asleep in the bus and awoken by the crash, "They were all in bits, it was just body parts everywhere."[32]

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Buddy Holly

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Would have gone country like JLL. The British Invasion killed his genre.

Jim Croce

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The British Invasion killed his genre

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kind of the opposite, Holly inspired those Brits, The Hollies named themselves after him, the Stones used to open up their US tours with “”Not Fade Away,” the Beatles loved them, etc.

Buddy Holly

Keith moon was a great drummer… died way to soon.

Keith Whitley might have ended up in George Strait territory as far as commercial success had he kicked the drugs and booze. Question is would he be the same sober? There are bunch of artist like that, if Hendrix or Morrison are clean are they the same performers?

As far the original question, my list is

Whitley
Townes Van Zandt
Gary Stewart
I would have also liked to see what Elvis would do he his later years if he had gotten clean, blues, country?

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Michael Hutchence/INXS
Jim Morrison/The Doors

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Michael Hutchence was approached at one time to be the lead singer of Riders on the Storm. He definitely had the Jim Morrison swagger.

Steve Goodman


Eta: or Elvis's twin brother

My 1a and 1b would be Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. Seeing Jimi and The Doors in the 60s would've been unreal.

I would've loved to have seen Bob Marley and SRV as well.

I saw Page and Plant 2 nights in a row in NOLA back in the 90s, so i got a bit of a fix, but it would've been awesome to see the full Zeppelin back in the 70s.

Same with Alice in Chains. Saw them without Layne, but it's still a big regret for me that I didn't see them live with him. Had tickets once, but they canceled their tour because of him. Had tickets to see Nirvana that never panned out either.

And some great calls with Otis, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke. Seeing the full act of The Temptations would be great.