Quicklists XXIII: Top 5 Died Too Soon

[Smitty]

(stole this from ninebullets.net - they put it up in honor of Dec 8 being the anniversary of John Lennon and Dimebag Darrell Abbott's deaths)

1. Vic Chesnutt
2. Ronnie Van Zant/Steve&Cassie Gaines
3. Gram Parsons
4. Buddy Holly
5. Lowell George


I'm leaving out my lord & savior Hank Williams, because I think (when it comes to his legend/legacy) he went out at exactly the right time, and having studied his life so closely, I can't imagine him going on much longer in the shape he was in.

[Iowan]

-Gram Parsons
-Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon is one of the most underrated bands of all time)
-Bon Scott (not even remotely joking)
-Jimi (I think we were just starting to push his potential)
-SRV

[dime in the gutter]

lennon
danny whitten
skynyrd crash
skydog
buddy holly

[rlipps]

Rod Stewart (oh wait, he didn't die, someone just cut his balls off apparently)

[Gator McKlusky]

Rod Stewart (oh wait, he didn't die, someone just cut his balls off apparently)

Yeah, when you have the same artists in your collection as your mother-in-law something seems very, very wrong!

[lajakesdad]

Lennon
GP
Brad Nowell
Kurt Cobain ( I know he offed himself but I'm curious as to what he would be doing today)

[Gator McKlusky]

James Honeyman-Scott. Pretenders went to shit after he died. (except for Learning To Crawl)

[RevMatt]

1: Buddy Holly
2: Ronnie Van Zandt, Steve and Cassie Gaines
3: Pete DeFrietas -- He was the drummer for Echo and The Bunnymen. IMO, one of the best drummers ever. He died in a motorcycle crash around 1989, 1990.
4: Jimi Hendrix -- He would have been awesome playing some of the styles that became popular in the seventies like prog rock or jazz fusion.
5: Gram Parsons

There are others who died that I didn't mention. Although I miss Lennon tremendously, his legacy was pretty well secured by the time of his death. The ones I mentioned are people who, IMO, never really finished what they set out to do or could have done.

[Gator McKlusky]

Yeah, definitely Jimi Hendrix. I love the direction he was going in with Band of Gypsys and apparently he had plans to work with Funkadelic--would have loved to hear that collaberation.

[Clams]

James Honeyman-Scott. Pretenders went to shit after he died. (except for Learning To Crawl)

Great call Gator. Don't forget Pete Farndon the bass player. They both died right after that second record. Talk about a band getting ripped in half.

[Flea]

Don't forget Jim Morrison, Janis, Bonzo, and Warren Zevon.

[Gator McKlusky]

I thought about mentioning Pete Farndon but he had already been kicked out of the band for quite some time before he died. He was a great bass player and I wonder if he had gotten his shit together if Chrissie would have taken him back. Such a great fucking band that unfortunately only have 2 albums to their credit.

[Clams]

I thought about mentioning Pete Farndon but he had already been kicked out of the band for quite some time before he died. He was a great bass player and I wonder if he had gotten his shit together if Chrissie would have taken him back. Such a great fucking band that unfortunately only have 2 albums to their credit.

I didn't know that. Listen to the bass line in Mystery Achievement, that's all you need to know about Farndon.

[Tequila Cowboy]

Jimi
Cobain
Andrew Wood (Mother Love Bone)
SRV
Jeff Buckley

[Sian-of-the-dead]

Andrew Wood (Mother Love Bone)

Definitely.

Skynyrd, Dimebag, Jimi and Bolan also make my list.

[cortez the killer]

John Lennon
John Henry Bonham
Keith Moon
Bon Scott
Ronnie Van Zant
Danny Whitten

['Scratch]

Duane Alman
Bon Scott
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jim Croce
Aaliyah

[beagle001]

Ronnie VZ
Gram
The Caldwell boys from Marshall Tucker Band
Zevon
Buddy Holly

[RevMatt]

Losing Buddy Holly was a pretty big blow because he had some pretty innovative plans. At the time of his death he was in the process of forming his own record label. He was going to build a studio in Lubbock, Texas. He already had verbal commitments from Eddie Cochran, Richie Valens and Waylon Jennings. If that plane hadn't gone down the entire outlaw country movement might have started a decade earlier. After his experience in Nashville, Holly had some pretty strong opinions about what was wrong with the music biz and was a firm advocate of the artists taking control from the producers and publishers.

[scotto]

All of the above, plus...
Bix
Sandy Denny
Charlie Parker
Bobby Fuller
Kurt Rundstrom (Split Lip Rayfield)

[Zip City]

Cliff Burton

[garnersound]

Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon is one of the most underrated bands of all time)

word.
"and i'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away"

[Slipkid42]

Duane Allman
Jimi Hendrix
Buddy Holly
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Kurt Cobain

Marvin Gaye & Otis Redding also died too early

[Flea]

Bob Marley. How could we all miss including Bob Marley?

[Tequila Cowboy]

Bob Marley. How could we all miss including Bob Marley?

Marley belongs.

We also missed D. Boon.

[dime in the gutter]

since were talking about dead rock stars....

what was the story on the dude from chicago? russian roulette gone wrong or something of the like?

[Smitty]

a new discovery for me, but Gary Stewart - he would've been deserving of a comeback, and with his catalog/life story he could've had cult status

[RevMatt]

Bob Marley. How could we all miss including Bob Marley?

Marley belongs.

We also missed D. Boon.

We were limited to five. How about Joe Strummer? Certainly belongs. Ian Curtis. Nick Drake.

[Zip City]

Richard Wright

[rlipps]

Steve Goodman
Keith Whitley