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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOk, you suddenly have the power to resurrect 1 musician to enjoy new work from them for 10 more
years. Who do you resurrect?
For Me, it would be Stiv Bators
Runners' up:
Joe Strummer
Johnny Thunders
garybeck
(9,942 posts)probably jerry
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)That is, if I can bring back Stéphane Grappelli, too
yonder
(9,674 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)Paul Mehling just about has his Selmer guitar dialed in, but he would have to bust or cut off a couple of finger to surpass Django Reinhardt's fingering. Oh, and who need drums when you got 'La Pompe' boys doing their thing.
yonder
(9,674 posts)When I grow up I think I'll stop fooling around with fiddle tunes and get me on to some gypsy jazz.
Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)Just walk over to YouTube and type a variation of - Samois-sur-Seine, France, Festival Django Reinhardt and you'll find all the Gypsy Jazz you can consume in a week.
It's a toss up who plays better, the Jammers in the parking lots or the big boys on the stages.
Enjoy
DFW
(54,436 posts)George Harrison or Stevie Ray Vaughan
Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)He was just hitting his long hair phase when he died.
DFW
(54,436 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)In the Summer months, he would open his windows and fill the valley with music.
I remember him noodling 'Cast you fate to the Wind' on his new electric harpsichord, over and over again, only to discover he was composing all that Snoopy music
Can you recognize any similarity?
Best_man23
(4,907 posts)I can only imagine the soundtrack he would be creating for the Resistance.
Iwasthere
(3,170 posts)Zoonart
(11,878 posts)Plus Bowie and Freddie.
raccoon
(31,119 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)Silenced by a gun!
Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)....not a difficult decision....
skylucy
(3,743 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)We could use his voice and vision right now. Although what he did give us feels incredibly relevant atm.
KPN
(15,650 posts)Imagine!
Lunabell
(6,105 posts)My working class hero.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)And not just for music. I felt like the build-up to the Iraq War lacked a focal point, someone who could channel the energy into real protest. I think Lennon might have come closest to filling that role.
we can do it
(12,193 posts)SouthernLiberal
(407 posts)He had such a beautiful and powerful voice.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)we can do it
(12,193 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)is amazing. The clip us about 20 minutes long.
woodsprite
(11,924 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)I guess I'm number 6. More to folllow, I'm sure.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)The guy Marc will be singing on the new Queen movie. You can hear them together here.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)He left so early. Listen to the show must go on. Poor man couldn't even walk but he sang almost too the end.
Wish I saw him live.
we can do it
(12,193 posts)Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,127 posts)I am glad his sons and grand sons have picked up the torch - the young Marleys are making great music and have become awesome freedom fighters through their music just like their dad and grandad. He would be very proud. But I would love to have him around. He died when I was a little girl. I would have loved to see him perform live.
wryter2000
(46,081 posts)n/t
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...he was only 36 when he died. How he would have reacted to Beethoven's challenge, and the switch from "classical" to "romantic", is maybe the most fascinating what-if in music history. His very last works show that he was moving a little in that direction. I think we would have had some music beyond human imagination...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)Think what opera there might have been. Perhaps something even better than Die Zauberflote.
The mind boggles.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)and I wish he'd lived long enough to write more of them. They are all wonderful.
catrose
(5,073 posts)He might have a few problems adjusting to today's world. I hope it doesn't affect his creativity.
lame54
(35,321 posts)Buddy Holly
he would have gone nuts in the studio
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...he was only 35. If somehow, some way, he could have gotten clear of booze and dope...I think he was capable of re-inventing the music again, as he had already in the 1940s. Exactly how I can't imagine...but it's the ability of genius to do things ordinary mortals can't imagine. I can see Bird combining Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, and squaring the result. Or maybe he would have done something totally different. We'll never know now...
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)klook
(12,165 posts)My first thought was Thelonious Monk, but he got a lot done and maybe said most of what he had to say.
Your comments about Parker are spot on. He was an amazing genius, and interested in Edgar's Varese and Stravinsky as well as jazz and blues. What he and Dizzy accomplished together transformed jazz forever (although there are still many who haven't come to terms with bebop, not to mention all the developments since then -- don't get me started).
Charlie Parker in his short life was one of the most potent forces in music ever. What if he'd lived another 50 years? Just imagine!
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)IggleDuer
(964 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)beaglelover
(3,489 posts)nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)According to his estate. I do miss Prince, but damn that is insane!
I've been going through all of his previously unavailable 90s - 2010 NPG albums and there is a ton of Prince stuff there and it's all good, the man could do no wrong.
blitzen
(4,572 posts)JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)Bob Marley a close second.
Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)too......
samnsara
(17,635 posts)Chemisse
(30,817 posts)GP6971
(31,205 posts)Buzz cook
(2,474 posts)There are lots of great musicians. Art Tatum, Jimi Hendrix, or Ella Fitzgerald to name a few. Lots of great composers that we lost tragically young such as Gershwin and Liszt.
Mozart was both. He was a noted musician famous for his improvisation and arguably one of the greatest composers of all time.
catbyte
(34,447 posts)He performed other music as much as his own, but I would've loved to have seen what he would've done. A voice like no other.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)FSogol
(45,526 posts)ZZenith
(4,126 posts)First name that popped into my head.
Imagine him with todays technology. Aye-yi -yi...
Jake Stern
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|]Harker
(14,034 posts)Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)Never got to hear his biggest hit "Sitting On the Dock of the Bay"....
He was pushing himself and broadening his sound and he was cut down before he even got to hear the first fruits of that genius....
kwassa
(23,340 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)I used to go see him when I was in college, in '80-81. He was taken from us way too early.
Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)the drummer of his band (Chris Layton) Double Trouble....(Ray High School - Corpus Christi)
blob:https://www.youtube.com/82ee91e1-de8c-4b65-a4bb-c7c33d339735
Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)the drummer of his band (Chris Layton) Double Trouble....(Ray High School - Corpus Christi)
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)byronius
(7,401 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)Incredible singer who died just as she was becoming famous.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Amazing voice
kwassa
(23,340 posts)A very charasmatic singer and performer who was murdered as she was crossing into major stardom.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Ptah
(33,037 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Send your donations to Pat Robertson.
Don't be limited to just one.
RWW News: Robertson: Power To Raise The Dead Is Ours But We Don't Use It
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Second would be George Harrison.
Kajun Gal
(1,907 posts)Pink Floyd pianist
FM123
(10,054 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)Surprised nobody else mentioned him. His later work was moving in the direction of funk, had he lived another 10 years, I believe he would have had a major impact on that genre.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)From Rolling Stone:
The last Byrds song Clark had a hand in writing, and also the band's last Top 20 hit, this Clark/Crosby/McGuinn co-write was the group's most ambitious single, with the latter's Rickenbacker 12-string guitar tuned to a higher plane of Ravi Shankar-inspired raga drones and Coltrane-esque modal fire. The wry lyrics, though, are primarily Clark's, and they're appropriately soaring, psychedelic and impressionistic. He left the band the same month as the single was released, citing, somewhat ironically, a fear of flying.
For a Spanish Guitar
From Rolling Stone:
It's been widely reported that Bob Dylan had this to say about "For a Spanish Guitar," arguably Gene Clark's greatest effort: " It's) something I or anybody else would have been proud to have written." Against gracefully descending guitar chords, Clark distills Dylan's poetic mysticism down to its emotional essence. In the song, he examines the troubadour's plight: his or her effort to draw in the great wide world of beggars, laughing children and seagulls, and to render that world in song and strings. Clark muses, as best he can, that "the answers they cannot explain/ pulsate from my soul through my brain/ in a Spanish guitar."
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/byrd-lives-cult-hero-gene-clarks-21-best-songs-15355/for-a-spanish-guitar-134566/
__________________
Just for the heck of it, A cover of Gene Clark's Feel A Whole Lot Better performed by Tom Petty (RIP)
ms liberty
(8,596 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)lastlib
(23,286 posts)Such a brilliant guitarist!
Jim Morrison, John Lennon, and Stevie Ray Vaughn would be good also. George Harrison, Glenn Ferey, J.J. Cale...
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Iggo
(47,565 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,969 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,722 posts)Kaleva
(36,342 posts)Mostly known as being a composer, he was also a very talented musician.
Runningdawg
(4,522 posts)But I am still missing Peter Steele of Type O Negative
Leith
(7,813 posts)Just watch the Blue Danube Waltz scene from 2001: a Space Odyssey and be blown away again.
So many to choose from...
Harry Nilsson
Buddy Holly
Spike Jones
Mozart
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Coventina
(27,172 posts)He had so much potential
Thyla
(791 posts)I already wish that there was more of his music to listen too.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)and saying to wife I wish there was more.
1959 - Who else was pushing the envelope and integrating rockabilly with classical?
Thunderbeast
(3,419 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Jack Bone
(2,023 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)zanana1
(6,129 posts)She had alot of music left in her.
Rowdyag
(105 posts)sfwriter
(3,032 posts)peekaloo
(22,977 posts)Iggo
(47,565 posts)For me: Jimi.
Initech
(100,102 posts)I'd love to hear what a 21st century Doors album would sound like!
Harker
(14,034 posts)His intellect and showmanship would be devastating.
Of course, we'd need Ray Manzarek back, too, for the full effect.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)but I like to fantasize when I fall asleep. One of my favorites is being a bass player, song writer, and front man who would take over for Jim Morrison with the Doors after his death.
I know its weird. I was seven when he died. My dad instilled in me a life long love of The Doors.
Harker
(14,034 posts)I got a postcard in the mail when I was 13 or 14, which would make it '72 or '73.. It depicted an iguana, and there was a handwritten cartoon bubble which said, "I am the lizard king... I can do anything."
Never found out who sent it, so I playfully attribute it to Jim. He has always meant a lot to me, too.
bif
(22,745 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Throwing a few just because i didn't see them mentioned:
Rock: Duane Allman & Jon Lord
Jazz: Monk & Bill Evans
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)decompose in peace!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Tell me something you think I don't know, perhaps?
Iggo
(47,565 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)That band had a lot of unrealized potential
FSogol
(45,526 posts)About them? Its on youtube, iirc
DBoon
(22,397 posts)saw the at The Plant (SF Valley), a downtown LA street festival and the Anti-club
sdfernando
(4,941 posts)Two of my favs though are listed below...one died too young...and one had an unmatched voice and technique.
George Gershwin and Ella Fitzgerald
utopian
(1,093 posts)He had a lot if music left in him. I can only imagine the masterpieces that were left unsung. He died way too young.
Itchinjim
(3,085 posts)For 3.3 years apiece.
samnsara
(17,635 posts)becca da bakkah
(426 posts)...not just for the music, but I know he'd thoroughly skewer the Orange Shit Gibbon, and the whole current political climate.
Second choice would be BB King. But, BB in his prime, not the last 10 years on stage where he pretty much just phoned it in.
And, my boyfriend says Hendrix. It would be interesting to see how age would have an impact on ways his music would mature and develop.
Harker
(14,034 posts)When he died in 1976 at the age of 25 he was just starting to put it together, though he'd been recording for nearly a decade.
Through posthumous releases I've had a taste of what might have been, but to hear what he'd be doing today?.. that would truly be priceless.
Tikki
(14,559 posts)Tikki
VOX
(22,976 posts)Imagine the classics that he didn't get to compose.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)john657
(1,058 posts)it would have to be the late great Jimi Hendrix, nobody could make a guitar sing like him.
Glorfindel
(9,734 posts)I can't even begin to imagine what he could have done in ten more years!
kes
(21 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Travelling with Tom T Hall and a few others. I've heard she was a real nice lady.
She was incredibly nice. She loved her fans and never met a stranger
blue neen
(12,328 posts)She was gone way too soon, only 30 when she died.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)He was making his best, most visionary music right at the end.
Harker
(14,034 posts)mysteries of the universe. Great choice.