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  • Kurt Cobain

    9 16.07%
  • Jimmy Hendrix

    10 17.86%
  • Jim Morrison

    6 10.71%
  • Freddy Mercury

    4 7.14%
  • John Lennon

    18 32.14%
  • None of these

    16 28.57%
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    A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    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!

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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    Buddy Holly?

    Or, even better, Robert Johnson?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrap Irony View Post
    Buddy Holly?

    Or, even better, Robert Johnson?
    Well I'm more targeting music from the 70's-90's.

    I love Buddy Holly as much as anyone, but to compare him to say like John Lennon or Hendrix is a little bit unfair.

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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    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...
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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    Quote Originally Posted by chicoruiz View Post
    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...
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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    Quote Originally Posted by chicoruiz View Post
    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...
    Buddy Holly...or maybe Jim Croce whom Sea Ray mentioned...or Hank Williams who was only 29 when he died
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    Danny Whitten from Neil Young's Crazy Horse

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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    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.

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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    Quote Originally Posted by reds1869 View Post
    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.
    This, its better to burn out than to fade away.
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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    Quote Originally Posted by reds1869 View Post
    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.
    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

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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    Quote Originally Posted by westofyou View Post
    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
    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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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    Duane Allman
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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

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    Duane Allman
    One heck of a slide guitar player.

    Just bought the CD recently "Allman Brothers Live At Fillmore East". Use to play the heck out of the album.

    And of course his work with Clapton on Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs is one of my all-time favorites.
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    Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

    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.
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