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Paperboy Posts: 37 Joined: 27 May 2008     | |
Paperboy Posts: 48 Joined: 8 Mar 2006    | Jeff Porcaro |
Muckraker  Posts: 260 Joined: 17 Nov 2008    |
+1 Honestly didn't like his music, but he was a good guitarist. Michael Hutchence from INXS. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 117 Joined: 30 Oct 2008   |
Shit! Didn't realise Mitch Mitchell had died. He was an awesome drummer, really complimented Jimi's playing. Noel Redding seemed like an arse, always seemed jealous/pissed off. |
BANNED  Posts: 814 Joined: 23 Apr 2008    | I haven't read through all the posts, but I'll wager I'm the only one whose mentioning Dwayne Goettel (Skinny Puppy / Download / Lots of other projects) Amazingly talent musican, peaceful, great person. Heroin OD in 1995 User was banned for: Ballad (?) of an ex-goth. (Permanent) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 169 Joined: 24 Oct 2008   |
Popular opinion /= to musical quality, IMO. Someone else mentioned it went 16 posts before Cobain was mentioned, that's because the thread title said "great musicians". Sorry, but I really don't think Cobain makes the grade on that. Of course music is all opinion anyway, and, all that said, I like Nirvana. Gotta throw my love in for Shannon Hoon though, if we're gonna be talking vocalists as well. Would have loved to see what that band would have done with some more time. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 117 Joined: 30 Oct 2008 |
Yay! Someone else showing some Blind Melon love. What's your opinion on the new album by the way? |
Beat Writer Posts: 169 Joined: 24 Oct 2008 |
I actually like the new album. They certainly can never be what they were with Shannon Hoon, but I thought that with Travis Warren they've been able to maintain what the band was, without making it seem like he's just trying to imitate Hoon. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 360 Joined: 11 Oct 2008   |
Finally, another Nick Drake fan. I second this, as well as Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Holly. I really, really wish Johnny Cash was still around, though. I know he didn't die young by any means, but it's sad to know he's gone. Not to mention it makes me realize how old Bob Dylan is getting... *weeps* |
Wordsmith Extraordinaire  Posts: 10318 Joined: 28 Nov 2007    | Oh...my...God. 4 pages, 114 posts...and I'm the only one to mention Brad Delp? What the hell? Besides him, SRV, Keith Moon, Dimebag Darrel, Ronnie Van Zant, Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, and Randy Rhoads. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 67 Joined: 14 Aug 2008 | Cliff Burton...hands down. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 160 Joined: 16 Dec 2007   |
This took WAAAY too long to be mentioned. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2893 Joined: 6 Mar 2008   | I don't even know who half of these people being mentioned are... :/ |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 854 Joined: 17 Sep 2008 |
Well you need to LURK MOAR. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 854 Joined: 17 Sep 2008 | Ironic, seeing as I didn't name him in my original post. In any case I'm actually glad he sort-of died because now Death can't ever get worse, they can only get better through constant listening. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2146 Joined: 7 Sep 2008    |
Name who? We won't understand what you're talking about unless you use the quote button- hitting the reply button means you're replying to the thread, not the poster you intend to reply to. Now, I also say that Franz Schubert died too young- he died just before he unfinished his last symphony (whoever gets that reference gets the entire universe). |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 854 Joined: 17 Sep 2008 |
Death was the reference to Chuck Schuldiner, an innovative heavy metal guitarst who was the front-runner of the aforementioned band, and I did press the quote button but the quote dissappeared as hitting the quote button refreshes the page. Hence, I have to hit it twice. Pardon me if that happens in the future. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 117 Joined: 30 Oct 2008 | Me too1 I have come accross lots of people who just dismissed it without even giving it a go. Anything that lets the band carry on is good to me. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 1 Joined: 4 Sep 2009 | all of these great, and some not so great, musicians named, yet no one mentioned the driving force behind the Allman Brothers after Duane died. One of the greatest 'lead' bassist around. Berry Oakley, who, just like Duane, was killed by a motorcycle accident three blocks from where Duane had died. |
Paperboy Posts: 50 Joined: 9 Apr 2008    |
Muahahaha! The universe is mine! Anyway, here's my (perhaps obscure, but by no means undeserved) contribution: Phil Ochs, one of the greats of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 60s. I was overjoyed to see that somewhere near me, someone's put together an evening in his honour later this month (FNAR, but I'm going anyway). I also have to second any mention of Moonie, Bonham and Jeff Porcaro. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 99 Joined: 19 Jul 2009    | Joe Strummer. He influenced me just as much as my parents did, and I can easily join the people saying "he changed my life". I got his portrait tattooed last year, thought it was a fitting way to pay my respects, and thank him. I still miss him like hell, the music today sure as hell needs a Strummer-like figure. Also, his name escapes me, but the drummer from Rich Kids on LSD. He took over the project as vocalist for just one album, and he really had the most amazing voice I've ever heard. He collapsed on his piano, so sad. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3744 Joined: 22 Oct 2008   | Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Billy Joel (Come on guys, we know he's gonna kick the bucket soon), Freddie Mercury, John Lennon. List goes on and on... |
Muckraker  Posts: 324 Joined: 20 Mar 2009   | Jimi Hendrix and Kirk Cobain...R.I.P.! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1876 Joined: 27 Dec 2008   | Rory Gallagher. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1116 Joined: 9 Feb 2008  | Jeff Buckley. One album was far too little of his work for the world to receive. His death is the one that still hits me the hardest for the possibilities. John Lennon, for obvious reasons. While I'm not too keen on his solo stuff, he still had some great songs left in him imo. And while I'm not the biggest fan of his music, I feel kinda sorry for Marc Bolan as he'd gotten his life back on track after the failure of his marriage, health and band, only to die in a car-crash. Not going to say Cobain as he'd contributed about as much as he ever was going to towards music, and his influence may not even have been so prevalent without his untimely death. And whoever said Joe Strummer, he was fifty when he died. Really too young, judging purely by musical potential? He hasn't released anything good for some time before his death. Same reason I didn't include Freddy Mercury. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 842 Joined: 27 May 2009   |
i was just about to write Elliott Smith. i wish i could have seen him play live. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1295 Joined: 31 May 2008 | John lenon comes to mind. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1475 Joined: 19 Feb 2009     | Did no one say Buddy Holly? Guess I will then. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 189 Joined: 12 Jul 2009  | Jimi Hendrix, Randy Rhoads, Kurt Cobain, and Cliff Burton. EDIT: Duh, John Lennon. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 494 Joined: 4 Aug 2008  |
Couldn't agree more. You can definitely hear his influence in the beginning. While ...AJFA was a good album, there wasn't the brilliant flow that was there in RtL or MoP.
Being voted in the top 10 of crappy pop countdowns (especially with the amount of nu-metal that finds its way in) doesn't make them a great band, nor does it make teen spirit a great song. I'm neither strongly opposed to, nor in favour of Nirvana, by the way. I'm just pointing out your crappy logic. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 655 Joined: 28 Jun 2009   | I'mma give it to Jimi Hendrix. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1341 Joined: 19 Jun 2008  | Cliff Burton. He is easily the best bassist to have ever lived and he was only 24 when he died. People would argue that the Flea is better, but I disagree. The Flea is in his forties right now, which means he's had a lot more experience. Even so, I think Cliff's stuff is better than Flea's. But imagine if Cliff Burton had 16 more years of experience... |
Muckraker  Posts: 239 Joined: 23 Oct 2008     | Marvin Gaye. One of the greatest voices ever. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 99 Joined: 19 Jul 2009 |
Wait, what? The Mescaleros got pretty succesful, and for a good reason, all three albums were great. But each to their own, I guess. :) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1116 Joined: 9 Feb 2008 |
Never heard any of the Mescaleros, never really had them down as successful. Maybe I'm being unfair towards them as they weren't anything near the Clash. I heard some of Strummers 80's stuff and thought it was terrible, so I just assumed he was on something of a decline and never bothered to listen to his newer stuff, and nobody told me it was worth listening too. I'll have a look into a couple of their songs. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll have a look into a couple of their songs. Thanks for pointing that out.
How the hell did I forget that? Such a needless death too. |
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Jimi hendrix. By the way Mitch Mitchell the drummer of the Experience just passed away. Noel Redding passed away back in 03-04, so now the whole hendrix experience is dead. For me its kind of sad since they are the ones who made me pick up a guitar :(
Dimebag Darrel, he was an amazing guitarplayer.
Layne Staley from Alice in Chains
2pac
Ian Curtis from Joy Division
And to go the old granny way, Id have to say Chopin. Play Eternal sonata XD