If you could bring a dead rock star back to life

Mudbugclub

If you could bring a dead rock star back to life for one gig, who would it be?

John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Kurt Cobain? Or someone else?

This Day in Music are carrying out a world-wide survey to see which dead rock stars people would want to see again - for one night only!

Who would you pick? You can see a full list and vote on
www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/stairway_to_heaven

EvolutionNights

Hendrix, Cliff Burton and John Bonham in the same band.

chin_grin

Layne Staley - lead singer of Alice in Chains.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layne_Staley

Also Dimebag Darrell, guitarist out of Pantera.


Such amazing talent, gone before their time.

NOGMaxpower

Bob Marley & Layne Staley

Krsnik87

Lennon and George, poor fookers

Dudess

Ian Curtis, Janis Joplin.

grumpytrousers

possibly not *now* as stuff has moved on, but if there was one i could have prevented from dying, it'd be Buddy Holly. Without a doubt. He was the master, and the recorded output that spanned something like 2 years showed progression the likes of which even the Beatles would have had difficulty maintaining. I'm not sure he'd have branched out into psychedelia, him being a good ol' boy from Lubbock, Texas, but then (controversy ahoy) maybe that would have been a *good* thing...

Blackhorse Slim

Jimi Hendrix, no question. He achieved so much in such a short space of time, it's mind-boggling to think what he could have achieved had he lived at least another 10 years.

Parrish_Crooks

Tupac Shakur, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson (Technically not dead, but you know what I mean....)

berliner

Phil Lynott.Gone way to soon.

RastaRed

Bob Marley, Philo, Ian Curtis, all dead way too soon, so much more to give

meditraitor

Robert Nesta and Elvis Aaron

Juan Pablo

berliner wrote: »

Phil Lynott.Gone way to soon.

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youcancallmeal

Rory Gallagher, best Irish musician of all time!

Valeriedoors

Definitely Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Buckley would be at the top of my list

EvolutionNights

Valeriedoors wrote: »

Jeff Buckley

Good call. Amazing guitarist and excellent vocalist.
Departed far too early.

cournioni

Layne Staley (vocals)
Dimebag Darrell (lead guitar)
Chuck Shuldiner (rhythm guitar)
Cliff Burton (bass)
Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka (drummer)

Nice little band right there!

Nailz

Dimebag Darrell, Kurt Cobain, Hendrix, Lennon & John Bonham.

drunkmonkey

I'd bring back Jim Morrison....the worlds in need of a few rock and roll stars..

PrivateEye

Ian Curtis.


and the voice of the people, who may not have been a rockstar but certainly rocked the foundations a little harder than most of them....



Luke Kelly.

Sleepsatnight

I think Eva Cassidy was fantastic and she didn't get to enjoy being famous so I'd bring her back:)

Another one is Israel Kamakawiwo'ole who was a cool hawaian dude check him out on you tube his voice is soooo soft!:)

Zaph

Joe Strummer
Joey/Johnny/Dee Dee Ramone

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PrivateEye wrote: »

Ian Curtis.


and the voice of the people, who may not have been a rockstar but certainly rocked the foundations a little harder than most of them....



Luke Kelly.

agreed 100% on ian curtis, i could have enjoyed at least 4-5 more joy division records

Mudbugclub

Just had a look at the results so far, John Lennon in third, John Bonham from Led Zepp in second and Elvis has the most votes at the moment.

I would've thought John Lennon would win this no problem? Freddie Mercury is in forth place, Hendrix is in fifth and Kurt Cobain in sixth.

Bubs101

For me it would be between Bob Marley and Gram Parsons

Bob Marley was the only ever superstar of Reggae so is an obvious choice. Gram Parsons released two albums and there's not a duff track on either of them. The second one is an utter masterpiece. He was a really big influence on the Stones and U2. The Joshua Tree's cover is the tree where his ashes are spread

unreggd

Elvis and/or Curt Cobain, just so everyone will STFU about them!!

Howard the Duck

Elliott Smith

Joe Strummer

Joey Ramone ... because his solo stuff was pretty good... the other ramones well only if they made a new ramones album and if Johnny wasn;t such a dick

grumpytrousers

Mudbugclub wrote: »

I would've thought John Lennon would win this no problem?

Only if it was a condition that he *had* to work in conjunction/competition with Paul McCartney. Otherwise you're stuck with his 70's output. It had a sod of a lot of stink about it.

JerryHandbag

youcancallme>al wrote: »

Rory Gallagher, best Irish musician of all time!

One of the greatest guitarists ever imo, visited his grave recently...gone way too soon and it saddens me.

Also Bob Marley, Ian Curtis & John Bonham

Rustar

Can't believe nobody's mentioned (I always say "can't believe nobody's mentioned" in these threads) Stevie Ray.

meditraitor

Rustar wrote: »

Can't believe nobody's mentioned (I always say "can't believe nobody's mentioned" in these threads) Stevie Ray.

? who

Prefabsprouter

Otis Redding - he was just getting well known and it would have been interesting to see the direction his career would have taken if not for his death.

also Mic Christopher

suckslikeafox

Where to start?

Cliff Burton
Tupac Shakur
Jim Morrisson
Jimi Hendrix
Kurt Cobain
Rory Gallagher

...and thats just off the top of my head

Amazotheamazing

Paul McCartney

or, if he cleaned up, Bob Stinson

Krsnik87

lmao @ Paul McCartney

Blisterman

Jimi Hendrix, although chances are, he would just drug himself to death again, so it'd have to be someone who died of causes not brought on by himself.

I'd go for Frank Zappa.

JP Liz

Elvis Presley

Heisenberg.

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Rustar

meditraitor wrote:

? who

Stevie Ray....Vaughan?

And before you start yelling "Blues!", he's easily more rock and less pop than John Lennon or Elvis, at least by today's definition of 'rock'.

jon burrows

Elvis presley, actually he is still alive check out the pic attached.

Mr. Presentable

What age is he when he comes back? No one wants a 70 year old Elvis.

rowlandbrowner

I got talking to an aging musician last year, he was part of the no wave scene in new york during the 80’s, nice guy, but he’s still clinging on to the moderate success he had more than 20 years ago. He was a peer with a lot of bands I like, claims he drank with Jeffrey Lee Pierce from The Gun Club. But nowadays he’s a self parody pursuing teenage European girls. I realised he probably was a cool guy in the 1980’s, some of the music he made is pretty good, I realised the only mistake he made was not dying like most of his better known peers. For this reason I feel artists are sometimes better off dead, for the sake of their reputations and artistic credibility.

I seen Nick Cave live recently, he laughed and joked and played music that sounded very standard and almost emm… nice, far from the Birthday Party performances I grew up watching, they scared the sh*t out of me. Not that I’m advocating the mans death, but his being alive certainly – for me – detracts at times from his younger self.

Anyway, as far as dead musicians go, you need only play their albums to resurrect them.

jon burrows

Elvis: 73 this year, 74 in January

gustavo

Kurt Cobain for me

Alex Kidd

Jeff Buckley,
Joe Strummer,

HalloweenJack

Jimi Hendrix, Mick Ronson, Eddie Hazel, Sun Ra.

DenMan

If I was to pick just one, I would go for Phil Lynott. My mother knew him. They both lived in the same part of North Dublin, Whitehall. She used to see him on the bus in the evening. He spoke to her a good few times. At that point in time he was in a very bad state and it was not too long after that he died. Creative genius, died way before his time. If he was still alive now I am sure he would be involved in the Irish music industry. He certainly would not have let it deteriate to the state it is in now.

nyarlothothep

Freddy Mercury

RubberMammy

Robert Johnson

rowlandbrowner

...but his soul belongs to satan.

Bodhidharma

A lot of the people mentioned here were quite old when they died: Elvis, Joe Strummer, Freddie Mercury, etc. All of them are legends and did great things, but they were on the way down when they died. If they came back would they offer much?

The opposite goes for the people who died young. Cobain, Buckley, Joplin, Jimi. In a strange way they had the perfect career. Produced quality and never let themselves down by softening the edges.

If i could bring someone back it'd be John Bonham. The guy is the greatest drummer of all time and a Led Zeppelin tour would be fantastic. Of all the people who died, he'd bring the most to the table for coming back.

I know he's not a rock star but if i had the power to raise the dead i'd go for Bill Hicks, he'd be relevent today and would probably fight Russel Crowe.