Most untimely deaths in music history....

[ShanghaiOrange]

Gram Parsons
Keith Richards

[Alethia]

george harrison (maybe not when he died, but when he was stabbed about 2 yrs before that)

[NEON MERCURY]

.shannon hoon..

blind melon is way under rated..

grab..." letters from a porcupine".....
its a cool dvd..

[freakerdude]

Robert Johnson - most of you youngsters don't know who this is but he was a key figure in the birth of the blues. He recorded 29 songs (41 including alternates) around 1937 and only lived to be 27 yo, before he was poisoned by a jealous husband. Robert was a big time womanizer. Legend has it that he sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads to learn how to play the blues. Just him singing, his acoustic guitar, and the stomping of his foot for rythm.
Hendrix - imagine what more this guy could have done
Duane Allman - his own motorcycle crushed him against a tree
Bob Marley - gang green > cancer from a stubbed toe playing soccer
Berry Oakley - Allman Bros. bassist died almost exactly 1 year after Duane...both from motorcycle accidents about 1 block away. His helmet severed a vein in his neck.
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Stevie took Eric Clapton's original seat on that helicopter flight for some reason unknown to me.
Bonham
Morrison
Joplin
Bon Scott - choked and suffocated on his own vomit
Kurt Cobain
Layne Staley of Alice In Chains - wasted away on heroin in his apt. for years

Faded into wasteland: Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd.

[Mesh]

Holy shit, how has John Lennon not been mentioned yet?  It took the next Beatle 20+ more years to die!

Keith Moon, drummer of The Who, died right around that same time, too.  HUGE LOSS to rock music.

D. Boon of the Minutemen died in 1984, just as that band was starting to get really, incredibly good......But fIREHOSE and Mike Watt ain't been too bad in his absence!

And, because no one else will mention him, I will:  Cliff Burton, bassist on Metallica's first three albums.

[MacGuffin]

Holy shit, how has John Lennon not been mentioned yet?

He's in the very first post that started off this thread.

[Mesh]

Holy shit, how has John Lennon not been mentioned yet?

He's in the very first post that started off this thread.

What's your point?





edit:  No one here really misses that dude from Sublime very much, right? What about that one member of Lush that died?  Most recent tragic loss to modern music:  Mary Hansen of Stereolab.  And while I'm at it, Frank Zappa died far too young.  I didn't even become a fan until he'd been gone 4 or 5 years.  Shit.

[Mesh]

I just thought of two more sad ones:  Dennis Wilson and Michael Hutchence.

The only consolation there is that both died after their best music had most likely already been recorded.

[coffeebeetle]

R.I.P Elliot Smith

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R.I.P Elliot Smith

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[rustinglass]

I know he's been mentioned before but godam I wish jeff buckley was still alive. I want more of his music.

[Pedro]

R.I.P Elliot Smith

[Kev Hoffman]

R.I.P Elliot Smith

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Horribly... I must add.

R.I.P. Elliot

[aclockworkjj]

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[SHAFTR]

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