Musicians We've Lost

[Sweetnsourpoke 171]

So we lost Jimi Hendrix 50 years ago today......a tremendous loss for music. Imagine what he would have created had we had another four years of his career. 

What musician's death had the biggest impact on you personally? 

[Bogeywon 2,544]

Kurt Cobain. I was devastated. Still am. wish I knew what his music would have sounded like

[Post Oak 20,358]

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Edited September 18, 2020 by Post Oak

[Post Oak 20,358]

The night of my wife and I's first date I played Guy Clark in my car.  Dublin Blues, stuff that works, Magdalene.  She loved it.  

Every time I listen to Guy Clark, which is pretty often I think about that night and how lucky I am.

Now nearly 12 years later my 4-year-olds favorite song is Man in the Box by Alice and Chains. he loves rocking out in his car seat.  So I think about Layne Staley a lot too.  That guy could fucking sing.

[CooterBrown 18,116]

Chris Cornell for me. Still remember when I first heard Louder Than Love in ‘90. It was my gateway out of mediocre music.

[jimmyjazz 46,526]

[Dennis Taylor 19,100]

I was too young to understand the impact of Bon Scott's death, and ac/dc obviously continued on for many years. 

I am a huge Alice in Chains fan as well. Dirt was just mind-blowing to me, i couldn't stop listening to that whole album for a long time. But it was clear Layne wasn't going to be around for a long time. He basically disappeared about 3 years before he died so news of his actual death was almost anti-climactic.

Cornell was another story altogether. I saw them in 2013 and it was amazing, two and a half hours- no opening act, no breaks, no wardrobe changes, just killing it and Chris owned the room. 

setlist https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/soundgarden/2013/bayou-music-center-houston-tx-13d9b589.html

 They were going to be in Houston the week after Detroit and i was going to surprise my son who was a senior in high school at the time and take him. I knew he would dig the show. When he came down to breakfast the morning after it happened, he was looking at his phone and told me. I thought it had to be wrong or a hoax or something.  I wanted so badly for it to be a hoax...

The night they would have been playing on one side of downtown Houston I went to the Zakk Sabbath show on the other side of downtown. They played several SG tunes on the PA between bands and it was very emotional...      

     

[hullabelew 3,724]

SRV and Tom Petty for me.  SRV because he had gotten his life back on track and Petty.....still hundreds of songs left to write and I was interesting to see what that led.  

Also, when the Skynyrd plane went down.   I was 14 and I had tickets for their NYE show in Ft. Worth that December.  Plus, I was REALLY interested to see where Steve Gaines was about to take them.  I'm pretty sure Van Zant and Gaines were about to really have an impact on the music together. 

And High Voltage was probably the first real guitar driven rock album I bought so Bon Scott's death pissed me off and I never really cared for the music after that but for some reason, it didn't have impact on me that the other 3 did.   Probably mores because of my age.  

Edited September 28, 2020 by hullabelew

[Deej 77,296]

All these years later, and the loss of Joe Strummer is still a gut punch. 

[ztejas 43,777]

Well I think we should find them.

[WhatTheBuck 28,852]

I watched Imagine John Lennon again over the weekend. I'll never forget when he died. My mom generally doesn't know much but she knew how much I loved the Beatles and she came and woke me up to tell me when she heard the news. 

Such a brilliant, complex, flawed, and totally honest artist. 

 

[Born to Run 6,591]

This threads a big nope for me in 2020...

[WhatTheBuck 28,852]

Jerry Garcia's death was the first one I learned about via e-mail. That was 25 years ago. 

[Nole-4-Life 809]

Stevie Ray and Glenn Frey.

[4th&Five 41,725]

On 9/18/2020 at 6:54 AM, Bogeywon said:

Kurt Cobain. I was devastated. Still am. wish I knew what his music would have sounded like

Definitely Cobain at the time it happened. I remember seeing the MTV news break in my bedroom. I had no idea how to deal with that at that age and my folks thought I was just being dramatic. 
 

Prime, Petty and Guy really sucked. Guy was on my birthday, which sucked even more.
 

There will be some big ones in the not so distant future that’ll hurt a lot. 

[Cheeseweasel 26,438]

Zevon. Because we all knew it was coming but we hoped it wouldn't. He didn't die a "rockstar's" death.

Enjoy every sandwich, you surly fuckers.

[smuggs 9,359]

MCA got me. 

 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28,852]

11 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

There will be some big ones in the not so distant future that’ll hurt a lot. 

When Paul McCartney passes, the whole world will come to a standstill. Every other celebrity death will pale by comparison. 

I'm not looking forward to that day. 

[Deej 77,296]

The real Paul passed some time ago.

[WhatTheBuck 28,852]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

The real Paul passed some time ago.

I buried him. 

[staboner 5,017]

losing Toots sucked

[Dennis Taylor 19,100]

 

[MAUFRAIS 6,680]

RIP JS Bach

[CooterBrown 18,116]

2 hours ago, Dennis Taylor said:

 

Peak Cornell

 

[Rip76 4,987]

 

[pokeNbeans 203]

Here's a recent rockumentary produced by the late Terry Kath's daughter. It's a great watch if your into "early" Chicago when they were actually good.

 

[Rip76 4,987]

1 hour ago, pokeNbeans said:

Here's a recent rockumentary produced by the late Terry Kath's daughter. It's a great watch if your into "early" Chicago when they were actually good.

 

Great documentary.  One of my favorite guitarists ever.

[mdleast 8,393]

This will sound like a strange submission but in 2014 when Tommy Ramone died.

More specifically because at that point all 4 original members of the Ramones were dead. That really struck me.

 

"By 2014, all four of the band's original members had died – lead singer Joey Ramone (1951–2001), bassist Dee Dee Ramone (1951–2002), guitarist Johnny Ramone (1948–2004) and drummer Tommy Ramone (1949–2014)."

[mdmost 43,332]

B.J. Thomas died today. 

 

[Lat22 4,053]

RIP

[Mileslong 4,753]

B.J. Thomas died today. 
 

Girlfriend just told me and I responded with “raindrops keep fallin’ now I’m dead”. Got a great eye roll...

[cafe society 2,881]

He was our neighbor when I was about 11-14.  This was at the height of his addition issues, but he was always nice to me and we'd talk baseball and how my team was doing whenever he saw me.  RIP.

[mdleast 8,393]

1 + 1 = 3?

[cafe society 2,881]

6 hours ago, mdleast said:

1 + 1 = 3?

Pills and booze abuse.

[James Knox Polk 11]

John Lennon

Jim Croce

Members of Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[MadTrapper 153]

On the jazz side, Roy Hargrove hit me pretty hard back in 2018. Dude was a genius and he was a Texan.

Clifford Brown back in the day.

[MAUFRAIS 6,680]

I can’t find my glasses to look him up, but I think I heard the amazing Jonathan is really sick.