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View Poll Results: You can resurrect only one of these singers..who do you choose?
Kurt Cobain 9 16.98%
Jimmy Hendrix 10 18.87%
Jim Morrison 5 9.43%
Freddy Mercury 4 7.55%
John Lennon 18 33.96%
None of these 14 26.42%
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Old 12-17-2012, 06:43 PM   #1
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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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Old 12-17-2012, 06:52 PM   #2
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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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Old 12-17-2012, 06:54 PM   #3
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Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

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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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Old 12-17-2012, 07:02 PM   #4
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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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Old 12-17-2012, 09:48 PM   #5
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Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

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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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Old 12-18-2012, 12:41 PM   #6
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Re: A genie gives you the chance to resurrect a singer that died to soon

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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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Old 12-17-2012, 07:06 PM   #7
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Danny Whitten from Neil Young's Crazy Horse
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Old 12-17-2012, 07:24 PM   #8
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Old 12-17-2012, 07:28 PM   #9
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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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Old 12-17-2012, 07:33 PM   #10
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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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Old 12-17-2012, 07:49 PM   #11
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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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Old 12-17-2012, 09:29 PM   #12
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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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Old 12-21-2012, 04:15 AM   #14
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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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Old 12-17-2012, 08:06 PM   #15
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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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