Wesley Willis
Wesley Willis
Notsomuch wrote:
Mewzak wrote:
Buddy Holly
Big Bopper
Ritchie Valens
I seriously doubt any of these would have survived the Beatles.
Ritchie Valens was an all around musician and writer at 17. Heard "Come on let's go" sitting in a Whole Foods cafe just yesterday.
A lot of teens sang songs but how many 16-1 7 year olds wrote songs 60 years ago that are still played today? And stand up.
His melding of Mexican and American music was distinctive and not replaced. La Bamba was a re-made hit 30 years post.
Serious candidate.
Jimmie Rodgers..that boy could yodel.
like wow, Jerry Garcia, man,
coach wrote:
60 minutes wrote:
You win. I bow to you as you've soundly proven me wrong. Fare well to thee Track Coach.
Im not a fan of hers, but she was well respected by many. You don't have to bow.
Nope, I may be anonymous, but I called you out and you came back with "it". I bow to you sir!
The Connor Brothers wrote:
Precious Roy wrote:
Jaco Pastorius. There is a really good netflix documentary about him. He was just beginning to emerge as a band leader and composer when his bipolar disorder lead him to drugs and alcohol. His bipolar episode would cause him pick fights in bars with people twice his size and let them beat him up. Eventually, he picked one fight too many and was beaten into a coma and later died from a brain hemorrhage. Pastorius was a musical genius on the level of Mozart or Coltrane. Without the mental illness, he probably would have written volumes of great jazz works and collaborated with anyone who could keep up with him. But his bipolar disorder made him impossible to work with the last few years of his life at a time when his brilliance was maturing into something very special.
Is that the documentary that Robert Trujillo (Metallica) put together? I've heard good things about it.
It is. It is loaded with great interviews with jazz legends and footage of Jaco's performances and even of him with his family. It is a bit hard to watch as his self destructive behavior took over due to his bipolar illness. But it is great that the documentary is out there to tell his story and share his music with new generations of musicians and jazz fans. In the 1980 and 90ss, everyone who had anything to do with jazz knew about Jaco. But as time goes by, fewer and fewer people are aware of Jaco and his great contributions to the jazz world.
Brad Nowell
If you're over 40 you don't go on this list. Two of the recent greats that we lost, Bowie & Prince, both still had gas in the tank but do not belong on this list. Certainly the likes of Cornel (who I like) and Lennon (vastly overrated) don't belong on it though there losses were unfortunate. I'll go:
Otis Redding
Buddy Holly
Duane Allman
Hendrix
Eddie Cocheran
The most interesting I think is Morrison, he was so good in so many ways, but way out there, what would have become of him?
Has Robert Johnson been mentioned? If not, what an oversight!
Richie Edwards
60 minutes wrote:
coach wrote:
Im not a fan of hers, but she was well respected by many. You don't have to bow.
Nope, I may be anonymous, but I called you out and you came back with "it". I bow to you sir!
Decency on Letsrun? What has this world come to? Someone manned up? I'm flabbergasted:):):)
Not just Jeff Buckley but also Tim Buckley
Carter Stanley was Ralph's brother. They performed as the Stanley Brothers-until Carter drank himself to death in the mid-60s--probably around 40 years old. He sang lead and played guitar--and many of the songs Ralph popularized in his dotage with the Clinch Mountain Boys were originally released by the brothers 50 years earlier. I get you were trying to make a joke, but Carter is probably a better answer to the question.
Gramps wrote:
note this wrote:
Lennon's productive years were far behind him when he died.
Ralph Stanley of the Clinch Mountain Boys.
Passed at 89 but was just getting started. Got a Grammy at 80-plus.
portsea57 wrote:
Has Robert Johnson been mentioned? If not, what an oversight!
I don't believe he has. But yes, that is indeed an oversight. A huge influence on every blues rock guitarist of the 60s and 70s.
His death, however unfortunate, did give rise to a great rock-and-roll idea though ... sell your soul to the devil in exchange for musical greatness:
https://rolfpotts.com/robert-johnson-sold-his-soul-to-the-devil-in-rosedale-mississippi/I love to laugh and laugh hard wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
Marvin Gaye
Bob Marley
Otis Redding
Billie Holiday
Sam Cooke
Tupac Shakur
Donny Hathaway
Wow there all black, I wonder why you thought that.
Seriously?
Rock: Hendrix
Jazz: Scott LaFaro
The Connor Brothers wrote:
portsea57 wrote:
Has Robert Johnson been mentioned? If not, what an oversight!
I don't believe he has. But yes, that is indeed an oversight. A huge influence on every blues rock guitarist of the 60s and 70s.
His death, however unfortunate, did give rise to a great rock-and-roll idea though ... sell your soul to the devil in exchange for musical greatness:
https://rolfpotts.com/robert-johnson-sold-his-soul-to-the-devil-in-rosedale-mississippi/
Not an oversight on my part. Johnson was actually TOO good for this list. In his short life he left a body of work that few people in the history of music (even the giants) have gotten within the ballpark of matching. I think he had given all he had to give, but who knows?
portsea57 wrote:
Has Robert Johnson been mentioned? If not, what an oversight!
And how 'bout Chet Baker, a cool jazz trumpet player who took a half-gainer out a hotel window?
Lil Peep, gone too soon
Yo, what about Easy-E, the brother was straight outta Compton, like me.