Which rockers/bands would still be big if not for their untimely deaths?

I say Skynyrd, SRV, and possibly, the Doors. Think Cobain would have been found out as overrated with little to say. Brian Jones? Hard to say if he could beat the drink and drugs enough to use his talents.

jimi would still be the best guitarist on this planet or any other....

entwisle would still be snorting coke, banging hookers and laying down mean bass lines with the best of them.

Oooops! How the hell did I forget to mention him (Jimi)? Maybe he and Stevie Ray on a double bill?



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Hey Elmo,

I disagree about Cobain. I liked him a lot and dug the way he put words together.

I think this is a great..

"My heart is broke, but I have some glue
Help me inhale, and mend it with you.
We'll float around, hang out on clouds
Then we'll come down, have a hangover".

Wasn't looking too good, but I was feeling real well.

Many love Cobain, he's just not my cup of tea. Seems to have some enthusiastic fans.

not sure SRV would have emerged the way he did had Jimi actually survived...I think SRV help to "fill the vacancy" left by Jimi....

Good point, but talent like that almost has to make it.

sure - was a huge SRV fan myself well before the debut album

It was so nice to hear that riff from 'Come As You Are' on Top 40 radio back in 1991/2, whenever it first came out. So raw (yet elegant); and I mean 'raw' technically and emotionally-- 'cracked'. Like R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Nico (solo post-Velvets with her harmonium).

Although most of the time I think Nirvana pushed it way too hard and painful where I would have preferred to have slipped into a groove.

But there's always 'Dance pt.2', 'Everything's Turnin' to Gold', and 'Pretty Beat Up' for that!



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Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> Many love Cobain, he's just not my cup of tea.
> Seems to have some enthusiastic fans.


You should hear Herbie Hancock's version of All Apologies, or other artists who've covered Cobain's songs. He's really a good writer in my opinion, and that comes through when you hear others do his stuff, at least it did for me, that's how I got into their stuff.

I think he (cobain) had a voice you either loved or hated, like Dylan. Some people can't get past that.

I love what he did with that old Leadbelly song on Unplugged.

Wasn't looking too good, but I was feeling real well.

Sid Vicious and his "stutter bass"

Buddy Holly
Sam Cooke
Otis Redding
Janis
Ronnie Van Zandt
Jim Croce
Bonham
Randy Rhoads

and I'm sure many others that I can't think of right now.

X



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Herman Brood

Roy Orbison

Would have loved it if he were on The Traveling Wilburys 2nd album. There was even talk of a short tour. When Harrison died that was the end of the Wilburys. Damn.

i don't think the Wilburys were gonna happen again even if George hadn't died...it was a novelty concept. they hadn't recorded in over a decade before GH passed....

They actually had one concert. I dont now much about it, or if it was only invited guests or whatever, but they had one concert.

not really - they've all played together, but not billed as the Wilburys and not playing Wilbury songs.

if ferrante9 lived he would---- oh wait he's alive and stupid. sorry.

if it was the full who, and full zeppelin, they would be HUGE.

If macca and lennon could keep them selves from fighting, there was enough money incentive, and harrison was still alive, the beatles would also be big.

Yes, StonesTod, that might be right. You see, I remember that there was something strange (and not-so-great) about this concert, I just didnt know what it was.

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cirrhosis Wrote:
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> Jimi would
> probably be collaborating with hip-hop artists

BLASPHEMY! I call for a boycott of all future cirrhosis posts!

CindyC Wrote:
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> Hey Elmo,
>
> I disagree about Cobain. I liked him a lot and
> dug the way he put words together.
>
> I think this is a great..
>
> "My heart is broke, but I have some glue
> Help me inhale, and mend it with you.
> We'll float around, hang out on clouds
> Then we'll come down, have a hangover".
>
> Wasn't looking too good, but I was feeling real
> well.

I'm a child of the '90s and I love Nirvana. I still haven't quite forgiven Cobain for offing himself. But, the music is timeless. It seems to me most Stones fans would dig it. Maybe it's a little rougher than what they are used to, but it definitely rocks! Plus he was a great guitarist. If he had lived and gotten his shit together Nirvana might be one of the two or three biggest bands in the world today, certainly bigger and better than U2.

you're a 90's child, ONNYA? do your parents know you're on the 'net?

Buddy Holly would have been as big, if not bigger, than Elvis Presley. This is no knock on the King, because he may have been born with more natural charisma (except maybe Frank Sinatra) than any other 20th century entertainer. But Buddy Holly had an advantage over Elvis in that he was a singer/songwriter. It would have been very interesting to have seen those two careers blossom together.

Jimi and hip hop? I don't know.

But if the Beatles and Jimi continued to evolve can you imagine what they might have done? Even if it were twenty years ago today?

Take a listen . . .

[s50.yousendit.com]

StonesTod Wrote:
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> you're a 90's child, ONNYA? do your parents know
> you're on the 'net?

Um, I suppose "'90s child" is relative. I was 20 in '90 and 29 in '99. Spent the first five or so years of the '90s in college where I learned to appreciate modern music for the first time. Before that I thought only '60s and '70s stuff was good, Somewhat understandable considering I graduated high school in '88 when bad hair metal like Bon Jovi and pop garbage like Michael Jackson ruled the airwaves. Nirvana overthrew Michael Jackson in early 1992 and after that the decade was pretty sweet musically as far as I'm concerned. Not that I liked everything in the '90s, but there was a lot of good stuff.