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If you could bring a dead rock star back to life

If I can pick from any genre, then Biggie. Dude was pretty great.
If we're only talking rock, probably Freddie Mercury. I'm not even that into Queen, but he was one hell of a musician, I'd be keen to see what he'd be like today.
 
boss.king said:
If I can pick from any genre, then Biggie. Dude was pretty great.
If we're only talking rock, probably Freddie Mercury. I'm not even that into Queen, but he was one hell of a musician, I'd be keen to see what he'd be like today.
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Biggie and Freddie, what a nice choice!
 
killr_b said:
I would bring back Dimebag Darrell.

For those who don't know, he was on stage performing with Damageplan when an obsessed Pantera fan shot him.

R.I.P.
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The dude that shot him lived on the street next to mine. The police killed him with a shotgun in his house.

Crazy.

I know this isn't popular or the standard pick or whatever, but I would bring the drummer from Avenged Sevenfold back. It's a band that was in the middle of it's prime, and he decided to kill himself. He wrote their songs and was well regarded as a fantastic drummer. /unpopular pick
 
Stevie Ray Vaughn

Jimi Hendrix

Freddie Mercury

John Bonham

Eric Carr

Randy Rhoads

Jim Morrison

All of these guys were still actively making music at the time they died, or were otherwise in their prime. Several interesting picks (Lennon, Presley, and I'm surprised at the lack of love for George Harrison) were long past their prime from a new music standpoint, and their deaths perhaps did not rob us of as much future work from them.
 
Michael Jackson. Since Neil Armstrong died, we don't have many moonwalkers.
 
I'd go for Freddy Mercury, if only to keep Brian May from thinking that performing with Jessie J was a good idea.
 
Am I the only one who thinks Curt Cobain and Nirvana are kinda overrated? No disrespect to them, just never really got their music. Just talking into a mic with slow and quiet chords between choruses then when the choruses come up instruments get louder and speed up.

I would probably bring back Ian Curtis or Johnny Cash.
 
TSE said:
Am I the only one who thinks Curt Cobain and Nirvana are kinda overrated? No disrespect to them, just never really got their music.
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I'm with you on that. They had a handful of cool songs IMO, but whatever "movement" they were supposedly spearheading I guess I just didn't care for it.
 
Frank Zappa. As much as I love Freddie Mercury, I have far too many happy memories with my late father when I was little. Listening to Zappa and drawing while he told me fairy tales.

So having Frank still around, making music, yeah.
 
There's so many... here's my short list

Bob Marley
Jimi Hendrix
John Lennon
Bradley Nowell

TSE said:
Am I the only one who thinks Curt Cobain and Nirvana are kinda overrated? No disrespect to them, just never really got their music. Just talking into a mic with slow and quiet chords between choruses then when the choruses come up instruments get louder and speed up.
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I don't think Nirvana is overrated when you look at the whole picture. I'm not a huge fan of their music, but they were the biggest influence on tons of the 1990s alt rock bands. Rock and alternative rock would be nothing like it is today without Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.
 
TSE said:
Am I the only one who thinks Curt Cobain and Nirvana are kinda overrated? No disrespect to them, just never really got their music. Just talking into a mic with slow and quiet chords between choruses then when the choruses come up instruments get louder and speed up.
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You could say that about anything though. Johnny Cash become becomes a man singing over a guitar. MF Doom becomes a man speaking rhyming sentences over a drum machine, with cartoons sampled at the beginning and end of the song. Breaking a band or artist down to the components that make them up will never fully portray their music. Obviously not everyone will like all music, it's all subjective, but to ignore that music is more than a sum of its elements is to miss the entire point of music in the first place.
 
Jerry Garcia, no doubt about it. Because there's no question that he would start touring with Bruce Hornsby and the entire Grateful Dead about five minutes after his return.
 
Gee whiz...gosh and golly...no one wanted Karen Carpenter.

Wow...she and her brother were so clean cut, not like those dirty, drugged up, nasty rockers - like Jim Morrison.

Us clean cut, all American, good squeaky clean folks really miss super tunes like "Muskrat Love".

Now there was a fine tune. Great music, SUPER lyrics...a real toe tapper.

Also, playing The Carpenters music continuously is used instead of water boarding...more effective.

So here's my vote for Karen Carpenter.


:p
 
boss.king said:
You could say that about anything though. Johnny Cash become becomes a man singing over a guitar. MF Doom becomes a man speaking rhyming sentences over a drum machine, with cartoons sampled at the beginning and end of the song. Breaking a band or artist down to the components that make them up will never fully portray their music. Obviously not everyone will like all music, it's all subjective, but to ignore that music is more than a sum of its elements is to miss the entire point of music in the first place.
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That is a good point, but Johnny Cash was never known for his instrumentals or his great vocal ability. He was known for being one tough son of a bitch (which he was), and telling stories through his music, a lot of them being true, relevant to the time he was in, or events that actually happened to him. I just don't get that through Nirvana's music.

Like I said though, I was born in '93 so I might have had to really live in the 90's as a teenager to see what was so special about Nirvana.
 
TSE said:
That is a good point, but Johnny Cash was never known for his instrumentals or his great vocal ability. He was known for being one tough son of a bitch (which he was), and telling stories through his music, a lot of them being true, relevant to the time he was in, or events that actually happened to him. I just don't get that through Nirvana's music.

Like I said though, I was born in '93 so I might have had to really live in the 90's as a teenager to see what was so special about Nirvana.
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I was born in 1990, so we're not so different in terms of generations. I know a guy who loves Nirvana who was born in '92. It's not even about growing up with it, it's just whether or not you can identify with the music or enjoy it. Music is entertainment, and just as you are entertained by Johnny Cash, others are entertained by Nirvana. There's nothing wrong with it not being your thing, just as there's nothing wrong with other people not liking the music you like. Personally, I find both to be good, depending on my mood, but typically I'm a massive hip-hop/rap fan. There's no hard and fast rule about who you have to like based on when/how you grew up.
 
boss.king said:
I was born in 1990, so we're not so different in terms of generations. I know a guy who loves Nirvana who was born in '92. It's not even about growing up with it, it's just whether or not you can identify with the music or enjoy it. Music is entertainment, and just as you are entertained by Johnny Cash, others are entertained by Nirvana. There's nothing wrong with it not being your thing, just as there's nothing wrong with other people not liking the music you like. Personally, I find both to be good, depending on my mood, but typically I'm a massive hip-hop/rap fan. There's no hard and fast rule about who you have to like based on when/how you grew up.
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Can't disagree with you on any of that. :)
 
Oh look! Someone brought this thread back to life!

I take back what I said. I want The 27 Club™ back. We have too many vapid "musicians" with douchebag hair and autotune flooding the market the last few years. I'll take anyone who had skill in writing their own music and didn't whore themselves out for a mediocre career in pop music to fatten the wallets of Simon Cowell, et al..
 
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