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Title: Most untimely deaths in music history....
Post by: Kev Hoffman on October 17, 2003, 09:37:49 AM

mine:

Otis Redding
John Lennon
Robert Johnson
Marvin Gaye
and
Jimi Hendrix

Title: Most untimely deaths in music history....
Post by: SoNowThen on October 17, 2003, 10:06:50 AM

Buddy Holly, maybe

I have one for Most Timely death: Brian Johnson. After he died, it freed up the Stones to do their best work (though I guess they had sacked him already, but still, it worked as a good cap for their early pop-ier era).

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Post by: godardian on October 17, 2003, 10:55:22 AM

Nick Drake.

Title: Most untimely deaths in music history....
Post by: SoNowThen on October 17, 2003, 10:57:18 AM

Quote from: godardianNick Drake.

seconded

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Post by: modage on October 17, 2003, 12:55:42 PM

kurt cobain?

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Post by: godardian on October 17, 2003, 12:57:41 PM

Mick Ronson... died after producing Morrissey's wonderful Your Arsenal album... would've been nice to hear what he could've done for future Moz releases/other artists...

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Post by: Witkacy on October 17, 2003, 06:01:21 PM

Sid Vicious... not because he was a good musician but because his death changed the path of punk rock. If he never died we may have been mired in a never ending cycle of bad Brit punk. PIL may have never formed.
Then again... I still play my Sex Pistols' vinyl.

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Post by: Pedro on October 17, 2003, 06:06:27 PM

Quote from: SoNowThen
Quote from: godardianNick Drake.

seconded

thirded

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Post by: Cecil on October 17, 2003, 08:39:16 PM

morrison

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Post by: Kev Hoffman on October 17, 2003, 09:42:16 PM

Quote from: Pedro the Wombat
Quote from: SoNowThen
Quote from: godardianNick Drake.

seconded
thirded

Forgoted

Title: Most untimely deaths in music history....
Post by: smash on October 17, 2003, 11:06:36 PM

Nick Drake
Jeff Buckley

Title: Most untimely deaths in music history....
Post by: Find Your Magali on October 18, 2003, 09:45:27 AM

John Bonham.

Led Zeppelin making fresh music in the 80s would have been a fascinating thing.

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Post by: SHAFTR on October 18, 2003, 12:44:20 PM

Otis Redding is sittin' on the bottom of the bay near me. His plane crashed in Lake Menona in Madison, WI...which is 3 blocks from me.

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Post by: Alethia on October 18, 2003, 11:52:01 PM

left eye.

:wink:

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Post by: pookiethecat on October 19, 2003, 08:20:45 PM

even if left eye's only audible contribution to the group were goofy rap interludes, TLC recorded some pretty sweet songs

observe:

unpretty
no scrubs
creep
waterfalls

ya gotta figure she contributed somewhat

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Post by: ShanghaiOrange on October 19, 2003, 09:12:49 PM

Gram Parsons :(
Keith Richards

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Post by: Alethia on October 19, 2003, 10:48:23 PM

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

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Post by: NEON MERCURY on October 19, 2003, 10:52:55 PM

.shannon hoon..

blind melon is way under rated..

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

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Post by: freakerdude on October 20, 2003, 03:13:45 AM

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.

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Post by: Mesh on October 20, 2003, 04:50:49 PM

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.

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Post by: MacGuffin on October 20, 2003, 04:53:59 PM

Quote from: MeshHoly shit, how has John Lennon not been mentioned yet?

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

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Post by: Mesh on October 20, 2003, 04:57:01 PM

Quote from: MacGuffin
Quote from: MeshHoly 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?

:lol:

:oops:

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.

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Post by: Mesh on October 21, 2003, 11:25:19 AM

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.

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Post by: coffeebeetle on October 22, 2003, 09:18:31 AM

R.I.P Elliot Smith

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Post by: modage on October 22, 2003, 12:17:36 PM

Quote from: coffeebeetleR.I.P Elliot Smith

...

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Post by: rustinglass on October 22, 2003, 12:30:32 PM

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

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Post by: Pedro on October 22, 2003, 04:42:09 PM

Quote from: coffeebeetleR.I.P Elliot Smith

:cry:

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Post by: Kev Hoffman on October 22, 2003, 11:27:01 PM

Quote from: themodernage02
Quote from: coffeebeetleR.I.P Elliot Smith

...

Horribly... I must add.

R.I.P. Elliot

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Post by: aclockworkjj on October 23, 2003, 12:09:10 AM

fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Post by: SHAFTR on October 23, 2003, 12:13:18 AM

Quote from: aclockworkjjfuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no matter how many times used...the FUCK never dies.

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