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Hi guys got another question for yas :)

Anyway as you know guys and girls theres been so many infulential amazing musicians out there especially over the last 50 years who could have really changed the world with their music and sadly all died young and before their time.

So my question is if the following artists had LIVED till now!

Which one do you think would have been the most succesful?

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Which one do you think would have changed the world the most (even if it was just a little bit)

Jimi Hendrix

Bob Marley

Buddy Holly

Kurt Cobain

John Lennon


Sorry if i missed anyone heads a bit blank right now feel free to add your own if i missed out someone you feel deserves it :)

Peace guys

john lennon or jimi hendrix

given time, hendrix prolly could have COMPLETELY changed the way guitar is played today, if he had lived longer, done more crazy and wild shit to influence more. but since the beatles were well, the beatles, they could have made even more music that would influence today's industry.

just something to think about - if the beatles made one more album with the whole crew, what do you think music would sound like today?

you forgot JERRY!

jesus dude thats a great question!!!

i have no idea it would be different though!

but i have to agree i think hendrix would have changed guitar playing so so much !

i think musically hendrix would have changed the way music was more than anyone else!

but i really really think lennon could have changed the world man ! he really was starting to do something then he got shot!

i think Cobain could have changed a lot of things for kids if he had the will power to get over his addiction. i even think he could have set a few things straight with the music industry but the drugs would have always been a problem for him.

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you forgot JERRY!

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Jerry huh :) did forget him

You forgot to give a reason dude :)

haha jerry garcia didn't exacly die young, but if he was still around, then i bet the jam scene would be even bigger. actually, with his death the grateful dead blew up a lot, so whatever... he was just so amazing i had to bring him up in the music legends thread.

actually i would like to mention brad nowell of sublime as well. sublime was about to release their third album when he died (of a heroin overdose). brad had gotten clean and went partying after a show and went a little overboard. he had every intention of continuing making music for a long long time, and i bet they would have put out some monumental albums even today. sublime was so good.

yeh man i really like sublime i reckon they would have made a cpl of really great albums man

What about Jim Morrison or Janis Joplin?

I would have to say Hendrix because he was such an innovater. Ever hear about the first time Eric Clapton heard him play. It was long after Clapton had been established as a "guitar god" when he saw Jimi in a little club in London. The next day he sent his manager to find Jimi so he could teach Clapton some new things.

Lennon was great but I think he could have gone on to do so much more if the Beatles stayed together. The team of Lennon-McCartney was a true example of the total being more than just the sum of the parts.

Holly and Marley were both great but I don't see them as really continuing to progress. They might have been the old masters of their genres but not out on the cutting edge.

Never really thought that much of Cobain. I really think he would have just faded out if he fed himself a shotgun shell.

The Velvet Underground!!!!!

shit i meant to put Jim Morrison on there!!!

dammit!

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haha jerry garcia didn't exacly die young, but if he was still around, then i bet the jam scene would be even bigger. actually, with his death the grateful dead blew up a lot, so whatever... he was just so amazing i had to bring him up in the music legends thread.
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If Jerry was still around, and playing the way he was back in '94-'95, it might have had the opposite effect. The last few shows I saw you could see he was really just going through the motions. I remember one night he was dong particularly bad, off tempo, off key, forgetting the words(even with the teleprompters :confused: ). You could tell that Bob was seriously pissed off and a couple of times I thought he just might go over and pop Jerry in the jaw.

Then again, you could say that by that point he was essentially already dieing. So yeah, if he was still around, not doing heroin, and had his diabetes under control, then maybe..........

I do miss him:(

My aunt worked at some place in London (Dunno the name of it) and Jimi Hendrix was always on the stairs of this place spaced out on smack or whatever he had scored that day, and she used to say good morning to him.

I think he could have totaly changed rock music or anything with guitars (Not none of this SHIT rap crap or r&b .. I mean what the fucks rap and r&b about? Its shit.

I wish kurt cobain was still alive, i saw him at a nirvana gig many years ago, and he was truely passionate about music, he wasnt a good signer, or guitarist really, but he put in passion, and thats what made nirvana so good... :)

i agree with what you said about jerry not being too great in 94-95.

Im not so farmiliar with grateful dead im downloading the anthology now :)

Jimi

the anthology will change your life

I would say John Lennon or Hendrix. I don't really think there is an explanation needed for that, seeing how they are still VERY influential today. I think if they were both still alive, they'd still be making some kind of music.

I'm suggesting that Stevie Ray Vaughan be put on that list as well. He's one of the greatest guitar players ever, and if he were still around today I think he'd still be making some kick ass music and guitar riffs. You want pure rock and roll, listen to him and Double Trouble. Just my .02 though.

Kurt Cobain was overrated, as was Nirvana. I still like some of their music, but I don't think he would be talked about near as much today if he weren't dead. I think he would have faded out.. Pearl Jam is much better, IMO.

Jimi, Jim Morrison, and Mr. Marley

Bob Marley, Peter Tosh

innovators of reggae both died b4 their time.