Music industry deaths.

[Gully]

Jacko and Hendrix

I have a couple of recordings of Hendrix live at Woodstock and the Isle of Wight...would have been wonderful to have added Glastonbury to that list...absolutely massive!

 

[element]

The drummer(s) from Spinal Tap...

Poooooooof........

 

[Ernest]

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[seagullsovergrimsby]

Its funny to think that Divine's grossout in Pink Flamingos for eating dogshit is acceptable today when compared with buying a burger from Withdean.

 

[NMH]

Muddy Waters

Good call there!

Robert Johnson.

I was SHOCKED when he popped his little clogs.

 

[John Boy]

Phil Lynott

 

[wigman]

Phil Lynott

Good call,me and a mate of mine were going to see Thin Lizzy but he pulled out so i didnt go;always regretted that decision.

 

[Meade's Ball]

"Haven't laughed this hard in a long time.
Better stop now, before i start crying."

Elliott Smith for me.

 

[NMH]

"Haven't laughed this hard in a long time.
Better stop now, before i start crying."

Elliott Smith for me.

Really! An obscure one, I would say.
I was a bit of a fan, before he died, so I have a couple of earlier things by him.
A strange death that - suicide by stabbing himself in the heart.

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[NMH]

Elliott Smith, from Jools' show

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[NMH]

Okay - speaking of lesser-known impacts on music, there was Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone. They went on to become, basically, Temple of The Dog, which spawned Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.
Without Mother Love Bone, I'm not so sure 'Grunge' would have become a new musical genre (not to extol its' virtues though, necessarily).
Andrew Wood was influenced by Marc Bolan and glam in general - as were Supergrass incidentally.

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[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Better get used to it, they're going to be coming thick and fast from here on in. Surviving members of The Beatles, The Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Abba, every damn band you ever heard of in the Sixties/Seventies in fact. Not to mention the Neil Youngs and the Neil Diamonds and other solo artists not called Neil. Hard to care really, unless they happen to be immediate family. They're old people now. They'll die soon. That's how life is

 

[dougdeep]

Hendrix and Joplin, so close together.

 

[NMH]

Better get used to it, they're going to be coming thick and fast from here on in. Surviving members of The Beatles, The Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Abba, every damn band you ever heard of in the Sixties/Seventies in fact. Not to mention the Neil Youngs and the Neil Diamonds and other solo artists not called Neil. Hard to care really, unless they happen to be immediate family. They're old people now. They'll die soon. That's how life is

No way! You ought to rename y'self 'Phil Officer'

p.s. I....don't think anyone was disputing the likelyhood of music people NOT dying. As one deadun' said - "no one getss outta here alive". Just sayin', like.

 

[Norman Potting]

Phil Lynott

Very good call - let's also hear it for Lee Brilleaux of Dr Feelgood.

 

[jakarta]

Better get used to it, they're going to be coming thick and fast from here on in. Surviving members of The Beatles, The Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Abba, every damn band you ever heard of in the Sixties/Seventies in fact. Not to mention the Neil Youngs and the Neil Diamonds and other solo artists not called Neil. Hard to care really, unless they happen to be immediate family. They're old people now. They'll die soon. That's how life is

I think the point was that Bonham, Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison et al were NOT old people when they died and there was every chance they would have done significant work in the future.

My candidate is Simon Jeffes, Founder and Composer of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra who died of a brain tumour at the age of 48 - a dreadful waste of a wonderful talent.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Really! An obscure one, I would say.
I was a bit of a fan, before he died, so I have a couple of earlier things by him.
A strange death that - suicide by stabbing himself in the heart.

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He was in Heatmiser along with his old friend who became the organist/guitarist/vocalist of legendary husband-and-wife alt-blues-rock-novelty-electro band Quasi. Did a few cool, rockier tracks with Heatmiser with some expert basslines.
I saw him live once back at Glastonbury in 2002 or something Elliott Smith. It was a Friday night and i was excited about him playing. I'd managed to neck about 3 pills that afternoon, so by the time he came on, my enthusiam had grown wild and i warbled his every note as he sang. It ruined it for many people around me as my decibelic control had long gone, but i loved it truly. I just can't really remember what he sang or how long for. I only recall my mate, pilled-up too, but rolling his eyes in disgust at my endless gurny singing.

Wish i'd been a bit older and he'd lived a bit longer to maybe make me cry for real in public in some arty hall one evening.

 

[Wozza]

Mel. (Or was it Kim?)

 

[1066familyman]

Hugh Mundell.
Tenor Saw.

 

[Red Drago]

Lennon or Mercury for me.