Mr. B wrote:Maybe I missed it, but I just jumped on to this thread and haven't seen the name of the great Joe Strummer.
Did he die before his time though? Obviously too young but musically he probably was never going to exceed his work with clash. Same reason I didn't list the great Warren Zevon.
We call him Scooby Do, but Scooby doesn’t do. Scooby, is not involved
Mr. B wrote:Maybe I missed it, but I just jumped on to this thread and haven't seen the name of the great Joe Strummer.
Did he die before his time though? Obviously too young but musically he probably was never going to exceed his work with clash. Same reason I didn't list the great Warren Zevon.
That's a pretty high bar, isn't? Not many are going to exceed what the Clash did in the late 70s/early 80s. Joe was still making some great music with the Mescaleros.
People who still had some music in them they never got to let out:
Buddy Holly (lots could have come together with him) John Coltrane (clearly headed out somewhere those last couple of years) Jimi Hendrix (he just wan't done) D. Boon (he did so many different things so well, and he was so young) Jaco Pastorius (maybe he wasn't going to change bass playing forever again, but he was a beautiful musician)
People who we needed for who they were (aside from being very fine musicians):
Lowell George John Lennon Bob Marley James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon Frank Zappa
People who move me personally and who I can't believe I don't have in either list:
Warren Zevon Laura Nyro Keith Moon Kurt Cobain Arthur Lee
The sooner we put those assholes in the grave&piss on the dirt above it, the better off we'll be
John A Arkansawyer wrote:People who still had some music in them they never got to let out:
Buddy Holly (lots could have come together with him) John Coltrane (clearly headed out somewhere those last couple of years) Jimi Hendrix (he just wan't done) D. Boon (he did so many different things so well, and he was so young) Jaco Pastorius (maybe he wasn't going to change bass playing forever again, but he was a beautiful musician)
People who we needed for who they were (aside from being very fine musicians):
Lowell George John Lennon Bob Marley James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon Frank Zappa
People who move me personally and who I can't believe I don't have in either list:
Warren Zevon Laura Nyro Keith Moon Kurt Cobain Arthur Lee
I really like all three of these lists. Nailed it.
We call him Scooby Do, but Scooby doesn’t do. Scooby, is not involved
I know SRV and Hendrix get compared to one another a lot and for good reason. I feel that both were on the cusp of major change in musical direction, too bad we never got to see that come to fruition.
I'm more a fan of latter day Mats but has anyone mentioned Bob Stinson yet? Maybe he was one of the ones (like Cobain) who was destined to die young no matter what.
Kudzu Guillotine wrote:I know SRV and Hendrix get compared to one another a lot and for good reason. I feel that both were on the cusp of major change in musical direction, too bad we never got to see that come to fruition.
I'm more a fan of latter day Mats but has anyone mentioned Bob Stinson yet? Maybe he was one of the ones (like Cobain) who was destined to die young no matter what.
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Bob Stinson was sort of a tragic case, but typical. Live fast and die young. I saw several 'Mats shows in those days and never saw him anything approaching sober.
We call him Scooby Do, but Scooby doesn’t do. Scooby, is not involved
cobain gram the exploding hearts (entire band except for one of the guitarist died in a car crash after releasing only one album) danny whitten jimi
tried to keep it to people who still had something musically interesting going on at the time of their death and not, say, johnny thunders who I love but who probably wouldn't have released anything worthwhile, or at least nothing close to as good as his earlier stuff.
