Who gives you 5 choices:
1. Kurt Cobain
2. Freddy Mercury
3. Jimmy Hendrix
4. Jim Morrison
5. John Lennon
Who do you pick? You can only resurrect one of them!
Kurt Cobain
Jimmy Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Freddy Mercury
John Lennon
None of these
Who gives you 5 choices:
1. Kurt Cobain
2. Freddy Mercury
3. Jimmy Hendrix
4. Jim Morrison
5. John Lennon
Who do you pick? You can only resurrect one of them!
Buddy Holly?
Or, even better, Robert Johnson?
redsfandan (06-14-2013)
If you're talking about just a "singer", Sam Cooke.
If you're talking about a musician, the one I would have given the most to see where his talent would have taken him was Buddy Holly. By far...
"In baseball, you don't know nothin'"...Yogi Berra
Danny Whitten from Neil Young's Crazy Horse
redsfandan (06-14-2013)
I'm going with none of the above. The beauty of these musicians' premature deaths is that they didn't live long enough to tarnish their own legacy.
Duane Allman
When all is said and done more is said than done.
I'll venture that already happened
1. Kurt Cobain - Not impressed with the hooks from their last CD
2. Freddy Mercury - Got too campy, too british, not enough rocking as the Sheer Heart Attack years
3. Jimmy Hendrix - Maybe the sleeper, while he was always a great player his song writing was just starting to blossom
4. Jim Morrison - Listen to American Prayer to remind yourself what a poor poet Jim could be
5. John Lennon - Anyone who lets Yoko take up tracks on their records is stealing money from the consumer
I read a book of Morrison's poems once and had trouble taking The Doors seriously afterward. They were as pretentious as stuff I wrote as a college sophomore.
I wonder about Lennon, though. I wonder what direction he would have gone.
I think Sam Cooke would have ended up going pretty political. Buddy Holly would have been interesting.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
redsfandan (06-14-2013)
Sammy Davis Jr.
1. Are we supposed to judge Cobain from his last efforts, or from what he originally created? (teen spirit, something in the way, heart shaped box, rape me, etc)
2. He was always campy though. That was his shtick. He was a Broadway esque rocker from the beginning
4. He was a poor poet perhaps, but his music was still great.
5. john lennon is still john lennon though and his potential was boundless.
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