If you could bring a dead rock star back to life

[Mudbug]

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, Buddy Holly, Freddie Mercury? 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
This day in Music (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com)

[grow1964]

John Bonham, Would love to see zepplin live!!

[cygnustaxt]

Elliott Smith

[thcbongman]

Jerry or Bob.

Take your pick.

[higher4hockey]

brad nowell

[SnSstealth]

Cliff Burton!!!!
whiskeytango

[Weedhound]

Jim Croce

[ATrain]

Bob Marley or Jeff Buckley. Imagine the chaos if they dropped a new album! :jointsmile:

[killerweed420]

SRV The blues god.

[FakeBoobsRule]

Keith Richards.............

[rhizome]

Snakefinger, who provided the guitarwork on this tune by the Residents. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ZgHU3uRoE&feature=related)

Just listen to the tone he could get.

[psychocat]

Brian Adams :D

I know he aint dead but if he was I'd bring him back just to shoot him myself .:wtf:

I've never forgiven him for clogging up the airwaves with that pile of pap (Everything I Do) that everyone seems to have bought but nobody will admit to.

Seriously though I would probably go with Robert Johnson or Eddie Cochran.

[epilepticme]

Jerry Garcia.

[veggii]

Jim Morrison !! :jointsmile:

[stinkyattic]

Snakefinger, who provided the guitarwork on this tune by the Residents. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ZgHU3uRoE&feature=related)
Just listen to the tone he could get.
Your concept of 'rock star' somehow does not surprise me...

[killerweed420]

Keith Richards.............

He only looks dead.lol

[Dutch Pimp]

Keith Richards.............

...and Keith Moon...:thumbsup:

[Esoteric416]

brad nowell

Oh Mcmotherfuckin HELL YEAH!!!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Breukelen advocaat]

Ike Turner, the father of rock and roll.

[ijustloveweed]

brad nowell for sure, but id love to bring jimi back too

[silkyblue]

Harry Chapin

Lennon

Janis Joplin

Elvis

[suhl]

hendrix is my fav of the deads, but i'd bring none of em back. i'm not a religious man but i do believe death happens for a reason we can't understand and never will. hendrix is the innovator the king of electric guitar, king of blues rock king of psychadelic music king of improv jamming. he had the riff the solo. he is why women want to fuck rockstars. he is the most important electric guitar player ever, other than the guy who invented he might be the most important guitar player ever. and the best part is his skill matches his influence, unlike a lot of people who were hugely influential but not much skill.

[silkyblue]

George Harrison


such young lives cut short too soon! dammi! theres gotta b a reward
somewhere out there in the land of milk and hunny

The 'promise' of a hapier, calmer, carefree, loving, life is rainbows after the rain storm

the promise

I hate death but I dont fear my own, if need b I'll drink the purple koolaid

party over outta time

we loose peeps we love and need through life for all the tears shed

I should be able to call my Grandmother on the land line Id love to see my 'grama' again happy

I miss my grandmother sorely (

[Burnt Toast]

Steve Marriott (The Small Faces, Humble Pie)

Marc Bolin (T. Rex)

Duane Allman (The Allman Brothers Band)

Lowell George (Little Feat)

Frank Zappa (Mothers Of Invention)

Keith Relf (The Yardbirds)

Randy California (Spirit)

Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd)

Ben Orr (The Cars)

[Stimpy]

John Lennon for sure.

[josemartinez915]

hands down JIM MORRISON!

[KingsBlend420]

Jerry Garcia.

[Metaphor]

not really a 'rock star', but ide say J-Dilla.

[TallCoolOne]

I wouldn't bring back some dumbass who killed themself from drug od (so no Hendrix, Bonham (alcohol IS a drug), Morrison, Joplin, etc.) But I'd say I'd bring back SRV!

[Its a Plant]

I wouldn't bring back some dumbass who killed themself from drug od (so no Hendrix, Bonham (alcohol IS a drug), Morrison, Joplin, etc.) But I'd say I'd bring back SRV!

Well to be fair Jimi was murdered, but that's for another time...

But I will agree with you on SRV. 18 years ago yesterday he died in a plane crash at Alpine Valley. Crazy stuff if you ask me.

[Burnt Toast]

Jimi Hendrix died by suffocating in his own vomit while unconscious after taking barbiturates. The death was ruled accidental.

Jim Morrisons death was determined at the scene to be heart failure. No autopsy nor toxicological examinations were ever performed on the body, so theres no hard evidence to establish that drug use was the cause of his death.

[Its a Plant]

Jimi Hendrix died by suffocating in his own vomit while unconscious after taking barbiturates. The death was ruled accidental.

Jim Morrisons death was determined at the scene to be heart failure. No autopsy nor toxicological examinations were ever performed on the body, so theres no hard evidence to establish that drug use was the cause of his death.

There's a couple books you need to read. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the book, but it was an incredible story on Jimi Hendrix and how this whole big set up resulted in his murder.

And I always thought it was common knowledge that Morrison did in fact die because of his drug use. He was always spotted in all the underground heroin bars in France before he died. That fateful night he was all messed up and wanted to cool off, so he drew a bath and the result was heart failure from his body cooling off too fast.

Read "The Lizard King" it tells a pretty good story of the real Jim. :jointsmile:

[bongbro4]

Dudes,

As much as I hate country music, (Iâ??m a rock n roller all the way, and Rockabilly is not rock n roll). I was related to Johnny Cash, so I feel obligated.

Bud :stoned::stoned::stoned::stoned:

[DTRave420]

Brian Jones-Lead guitarist,the guy who formed the Rolling Stones,(check him out on youtube-Rollingstones"Dead Flowers live 72")

Allen Collins,Ronnie VanZant,Steve Gaines-Lynyrd Skynyrd

Jerry Garcia,Ron "Pig Pen" Mckernin-Grateful Dead

Jonathan Melvoin-Smashing Pumkins

Sid Vicious-Sex Pistols

Janis Joplin

She might not belong here but I say she can stay,god only knows how far she would have gone-"Selena"

And last but not least,the guy who still gets voted as one of the best guitar players ever years after his death, Randy Rhoades-Quiet Riot,Ozzy
:420thought:

[rebgirl420]

Madonna!



Oh....she just LOOKS dead...my bad

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

I feel the biggest lose to the music world was Jimi Hendrix. If he was still around the music world would be a different place. He probably would have influenced the African American sector more and we would have never had this gangster rap and go go music that is somehow considered music.

[TurnyBright]

I'll be the first to say good old Ludwig Van.

[O. G. ganja smoker]

How could you guys forget Randy Rhoads!!! But id pick Jim Morrison over him tho, an ancient lunatic reigns in the trees of the night!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA.

[Immolation]

DimeBag:thumbsup: He didn't deserve what he got.:(

[RamblerGambler]

A dead tie between Jim Morrison and Warren Zevon. Bring back the intelligent musicians!

[overgrowthegovt]

1. Jimi Hendrix (whoever said the music world would be different if he'd stayed around is right--he was just revving up when he died)

2. Jim Morrison

3. Janis Joplin

4. John Bonham (what greater tragedy than the breakup of Zeppelin?)

5. John Lennon

6. John Entwhistle/Keith Moon (the Who ain't the same without that rhythm section)

7. Stevie Ray Vaughan

8. Duane Allman

9. Bob Marley

10. Rory Gallagher (the man could PLAY)

[playertater]

John Bonham, or stevie ray vaughn

[psychocat]

Lux Interior

YouTube - Cramps - Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cz8LNdFdew&feature=related)

[Dutch Pimp]

Billy Powell, Issac Hayes and Dimebag Darryl. RIP.

[FreshNugz]

Janis Joplin, and Lennon.
And the missing members of Lynard Skynard

And howdy Dutch, good to see you back after all the site hiatus! :)

[Dutch Pimp]

Hi...Nugz...good to see you, too...:thumbsup:

[yokinazu]

jerry would definatly top the list followed by

hendrix
janice
morrison
keith moon
pigpen
and to play bass allen woody

and i know he aint a rock star but a lot of the above post wouldnt contain some of the gretas with out uncle bobo better known as bill graham

[bobthenuker]

Well to be fair Jimi was murdered, but that's for another time...

I've heard that before...stuff like Hendrix and twopac were murdered by the cia and a whole lot of other mumbo jumbo...but honestly...who the hell would want to murder these guys, I'd understand maybe someone who knew them personally, had a grudge or whatever, but it's not some conspiracy...besides, people like Hendrix and twopac weren't even important figures worth murdering anyway...now men like Napoleon, Stalin, and Alexander, they were secretly poisoned, despite what most books say.

[hotchilli]

If you were a young rebel in the middle of punk rock, like me then you might say Sid Vicious-Sex Pistols too

[FourTwenty4Life]

RICHARD WRIGHT - PINK FLOYD IS ONE OF THE BEST BANDS EVER. I dont say Sid because I doubt we would of had Saucerfull of Secrets, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, or The Wall (plus many others but those are the best) if Sid had stayed sane.

[psmitty54]

Syd Barrett

LeRoi Moore

[SteenerTim]

Nick drake (dunno if you could call hima rock star, still amazin tho)
Hendrix (obviously):jointsmile:
Syd Barret (surprised no one has really mentioned him)
Bob marley (again not a rock star per se, but still amazin)

Could list loads!

[crabbyback]

But here's some not on anyone's list yet:

Layne Staley (Alice in Chains)
Andrew Wood (Mother Love Bone)
Ronnie VanZandt, and co. (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Jeff Porcaro (Toto)
Roy Orbison

[boaz]

Bonn Scott! nobody could scowl like Scott. :cool:

[gypski]

Dwayne Allman and his bass player whose name I forget. Great live show in the day. :thumbsup:

[invalidentry]

jerry, lennon, marley, zappa & bradly

[fourkicks]

JOE STRUMMER

[crazzycat]

Jimmy Hendrix:hippy:

[Burnt Toast]

Dwayne Allman and his bass player whose name I forget. Great live show in the day. :thumbsup: You must be referring to Berry Oakley, the original Allman Bros bassist. Like Duane Allman, Oakley was killed in a motorcycle accident which happened 13 months after Duane. He died less than three blocks from the site of Duanes fatal accident in Macon, Ga.

My favorite of Oakleys work is the rumbling bass intro on the 1969 studio track Whipping Post.