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If You Could Bring Back One Musician in Their Prime From the Dead, who Would it be?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Obito, Nov 23, 2017.

  1. Obito

    Obito Contributing Member

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    I’m leaning torwards Johnny Cash, maybe Freddie Mercury or Jimi. I’m a Hip Hop fan and you can flame me for this but I think Tupac and Biggie are a bit overrated. Was also never a big Nirvana fan. Wasn’t around for the Beatles or Frank Sinatra either.

    Who would you bring back?
     
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  2. Torn n Frayed

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    Hendrix
    Harry Nilsson
    Lowell George
    Skip Spence
     
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  3. what

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    Maybe Selena. Still sad about her.
     
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    buddy holly - look at what he did in such a short time and think about where he would have gone if he had lived longer. he was an innovator in so many ways - merging different musical styles, recording techniques, ect. pop music might have turned out very different. his impact could have been greater than the beatles.

    hendrix would have to be #2 - again, look at what he did in such a short time and where he was already starting to go when he died...he was only getting better.
     
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    Michael Jackson.
     
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    Look at what happened to all his contemporaries, though. They were all marginalized and pushed to the side within 5 or 6 years. Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly... Even Elvis stagnated and became "old fashoned", even though he did all right with the movies. There was a sea change in the early 60's and literally nobody was able to adapt and remain at the forefront.

    True story - Waylon Jennings was playing bass for Buddy Holly when Holly died. He was supposed to be on the plane with Holly but "The Big Bopper" was sick, and the heater on the tour bus was broken, so he let the Big Hopper take his spot.

    As they were leaving, Holly jokingly said to Jennings, "I hope you freeze on that bus." Jennings responded (jokingly as well), "I hope your plane crashes." It was the last words he ever spoke to Holly.
     
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    John Lennon. We were so cheated when that coward shot him as he was just making a comeback and was only 40.
     
  8. Obito

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    Apparently one of the main reasons they wanted to take a plane was because they had dirty clothes and really wanted to do some laundry. Crazy.
     
  9. Yung-T

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    Tough to find a #1, but my top 3 would probably be Freddie Mercury, Hendrix and Michael Jackson.

    And if we're going really far back in time, Chopin and Liszt.
     
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    I'm a big fan but...statistically, his age would preclude the ability to shape music as he previously had.

    Plus, the longer he'd lived, the more likely we'd have realised he was an a**hole.
     
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    Well hopefully old boy would have also realized he was an as*hole too..;)
     
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    Nah, dude was selfishly incapable of admitting his faults.
    Perhaps when he got to his sixties.
     
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    Hank Williams, Sr; just wondering how he would have evolved in late '50s and '60s. And Andy Gibb. Also, that one who died in a car crash, and who had a movie made about her where Schwarzenegger played her husband.
     
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    Starts with Michael Jackson


    Then I look to Prince

    then Whitney Houston

    Then Tupac

    Rocket River
     
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    Chris Cornell
     
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    I'd bring back Kurt Cobain, rock is dead and I feel like he could do something about that.
     
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    piggybacking on @Yung-T breh, i would like to bring beethoven, mozart, and vivaldi (i know it's 3, but i dream big). then put them on thr piano and have a piano death match.
     
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    Bradley Nowell
     
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    Ray Charles

    Or Jerry...not sure yet.
     
  20. No Worries

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    Jimi. Mainly because I don’t think he had reached his prime when he died.
     
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