Which band would have had the brightest future if a member wouldn't have died?

[LostInAnomie]

Poll question: Which band would have had the brightest future if a member wouldn't have died?

[YDogg]

1. rolling stones?

[swag]

2. I would say Joy Division,

but they would probably have started sucking had Ian lived, just as New Order mostly sucked with Ian dead.

[HuskerDU]

3. I'd like to think the Minutemen, but their last album wasn't

their best effort IMO.

[HuskerDU]

6. I take that back. Hanoi Rocks for sure!

Vince Neil killed their drummer in a drunk driving accident. They could've been huge.

Hanoi Rocks is one of my fave bands of all time.

[swag]

7. I should probably finally listen to them.

[HuskerDU]

9. Been a fan for over 20 years. I loved the 80s hardcore/indie

scene, but this band beats 'em all, make-up and teased hair intact.

[Bennyboy]

4. Blind Melon....

They wre jsut beginning to take off when Shannon Hoon died.

[angrycarpenter]

12. one of the most solid debut albums ever nt

[Lethe]

51. i have to agree with this

although the No Rain song got played out ad nauseum, i saw them live in concert with Neil Young and they totally kicked ass.

[southpaw]

57. I'm not as optimistic

'Soup' may have just been a sophomore slump album, but it was horribly weak compared to the debut.

Hoon was awesome, as was the band as a whole, but that album was not encouraging.

IMO, of course. Some people really like 'Soup'

[swag]

5. The Germs

I have pondered this seriously, and I have no doubt. The Germs.

[HuskerDU]

8. Were they not already finished when their singer died?

I thought that they had already broken up.

[swag]

16. I'm sure you are correct,

but that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

[HuskerDU]

18. And what a decade we would've been in for had Darby

lived, put the Germs back together and surged to the top of the rock-n-roll world! Instead we got 80s mainstream.:puke:

[jonnyblitz]

14. really.

I will have to ponder that one. :hi:

darby was a mess.

[opiate69]

10. Mother Love Bone..

Not that I was particularly a fan, but they were about to release their debut major-label release when Andrew Wood died.. it's generally accepted that the label intended to spare no expense as far as marketing/promotion was concerned.

[Spirochete]

42. But didn't they then become Pearl Jam?

So they did achieve success in spite of that?

[opiate69]

53. well.. two of the members formed PJ.. but, PJ was signed by a different label, so..

while I'm sure the connections Gossard and Ament made in MLB helped, PJ was, for all intents and purposes, a different entity.

[southpaw]

56. Yeah, Pearl Jam and Mother Love Bone were WAY different.

Gossard and Ament contributed heavily to both bands, but Andy Wood and Eddie Vedder are vastly different in just about every way.

Basically, Stone and Jeff were damn lucky to have two opportunities to acheive success.

[last_texas_dem]

11. The Doors

When you consider that they had just released what many consider to be their best album not long before Jim Morrison's death, it would be interesting to see what they still had in them and how they would have responded to the changing styles throughout the seventies. I've actually heard a couple of tracks from the Morrison-less Doors and think they're pretty good, but I don't think the public would consider the band to be the Doors w/o their longtime lead vocalist.

I also think Chicago's loss of Terry Kath was significant, although I'm sure there are more than a few DUers who think they pretty much always sucked so losing their guitarist couldn't have made that big of a difference! But, despite eventually regaining some of the commercial success they had had previously during the mid-eighties, they really seemed to lose their direction musically after Kath's death, and most of what they made after his death doesn't measure up to the music on their first eleven albums.

[bbernardini]

13. The Tubes

They were on the verge of a reunion with all the original members when Vince Welnick killed himself.

[Bennyboy]

30. Vince played with String Cheese Incident..in SF

the same night the Tubes were having a reunion show in SF. So I do not know about that.

[enigmatic]

15. For Squirrels

"Example" was somewhat derivative but had some classic ("Mighty K.C.", ironically about the death of Kurt Cobain, and "Orangeworker") songs. Had they gone on, they would have had a few more excellent albums in them:

http://www.forsquirrels.net/bio.html

http://www.forsquirrels.net/

[Omphaloskepsis]

17. The Murder Junkies

R.I.P GG

[JVS]

32. Only the good die young

and GG too

Requiem eternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.

[datasuspect]

19. the beatles?

what would it take to reunite the beatles?


two bullets

[terrya]

20. Spinal Tap

Damn combustible drummers!

[Dr. Strange]

25. Among other things...

Bizarre gardening accidents, etc.

You can't really dust for vomit.

[Joe Fields]

21. Band of Gypsies

[Greyskye]

22. Grateful Dead

:hippie:

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. It's posts like these that remind me how freakin' old I am.

And I haven't hit 40 yet. :hurts:

[pokerfan]

24. Buddy Holly and the Crickets?

There first album was released in 1957 and he died in February 1959. Between August 1957 and August 1958, Holly and the Crickets charted seven Top Forty singles.

[idgiehkt]

36. that's a thought

most definitely. ;)

[pokerfan]

50. Holly was just beginning to experiment

with the studio/production side. I could have easily seen him turning out a Sgt. Pepper or a Pet Sounds.

[MilesColtrane]

26. The Beatles?

If Paul hadn't blown his mind out in a car, I'm sure he would have made nice with John and Yoko and given us 20 years of great music.

Instead Billy Shears broke up the band and went on to a solo career that included "Ebony and Ivory", and "The Girl is Mine".

[last_texas_dem]

38. Although I'm a Paul fan, I think your post is funny

However, I think Ringo was actually "Billy Shears."

[Maine-ah]

40. you are correct...

what would you do if I sang out of tune?

Ringo will always be my favorite. Saw him in concert a couple of years ago in Boston. Took my Mom, who never got to see The Beatles live. :(

[Jamastiene]

27. Nirvana.

Hands down.

[flvegan]

28. AC/DC

I love Brian Johnson, but Bon Scott was the MAN.

But then, "Back In Black" would never have been.

Hmmm...

Entry withdrawn.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

29. The Gits

Mia Zapata rocked....May she rest in peace.

[Magrittes Pipe]

43. Agreed.

The development between their first and second (albeit really unfinished) albums was astonishing. They would likely have grown creatively, AND sold millions of records.

[JVS]

31. The Jimi Hendrix Experience really never recovered

[Swamp Rat]

35. Mitch Mitchell is the only one left.

http://www.mitchmitchell.de/mitch/mitchgighistory.htm

[Joe Fields]

46. It was the Band of Gypsies at that time. (the time of his death)

[JVS]

54. You're right but Band of Gypsies sounds much less doomed by the event than JHE

[Tektonik]

33. Joy Division

[Lyric]

55. seconded

RIP Ian

[Vidar]

34. The Doors & Queen.

[Mojambo]

37. The Exploding Hearts.

One mindblowingly good album and then 3/4 of the band were killed in a car accident.

HUGE loss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx6Q1Kved5o

[wildhorses]

39. if duane hadn't died, i think the allman brothers would have con-

tinued to innovate and excite. berry oakley, too.

[driver8]

47. I think that would be my choice, too,

Duane was such an amazing guitar player, and so young when he died. It is hard to imagine what the Allman Bros. would have sounded like if Duane had lived.

I read recently that Duane was not killed instantly in his motorcycle accident. He actually made it home and was there for a few hours before dying. I never knew that.

[MissMillie]

41. Milli Vanilli

they were making a comeback... singing for themselves....








































:hide:

:silly:

[billyskank]

52. Part of me died the day Milli Vanilli were assassinated.

:crazy:

[Rabrrrrrr]

44. Jimi Hendrix Experience; Zappa; The Doors; Buddy Holly; Zeppelin

[billyskank]

45. Kurt dying was the best thing that could have happened to Nirvana.

It turned them from a band into a legend. And the band never had a chance to get old together and start to suck. (Unless you think they always sucked).

[edbermac]

48. Badfinger

[Throd]

49. Glenn Danzig