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Cliff Burton. 

Imagine And Justice for All, only, WITH bass...

 
Good call.
 
 

Paul McCartney. He was a good songwriter and walrus.

Keef... oh wait, he just looks dead. (I see he was already mentioned, laff).

Janis Joplin, I think she would have just gotten better and better.

I wonder what more great music we would have from Hank Williams and Patsy Cline.

Robert Johnson... dead at 27. Incredible legacy.

Gram Parsons.

..and of course Duane Allman and Berry Oakley.

J

jbow


Paul McCartney. He was a good songwriter and walrus. 



J

Um, didn't Sir Paul just play a gig last night with Bruce Springsteen?  (I only heard because, apparently, they pulled the power plug promptly at 10:30pm due to curfews...)

Nah... I don't know who that was... Paul is dead, I heard it in the backmasking.

There was a BIG to do about "Paul is dead" back in '69 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

J

Yeah but that was way back then - Paul WAS dead. He no longer is.

He came back as "Sir Paul"... sort of like Gandalf the Grey came back as Gandalf the White

J

That's what those MBE medals do to you when you don't send them back in protest. ;)

jamesg1213


John Martyn. Still hard to believe that there won't be any more new music from the big man. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBPTuAl2Qyk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-YrJbX4Wrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12si7A9UyGw

A huge +1

Gerry Rafferty too, both huge influences on me early on, on account of them both being based in my home town at the time.

I still miss this guy the most, really generous and encouraging to work with, he'd muck in with anyone including me, one of the best instinctive musicians I've ever known and much loved by anybody that had any contact with him at all.  A truly class act that touched me deeply.

http://www.kennycraddock.com/

I still cant watch this with him on piano without a tear welling up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piv3tauJo2M

The musical legacy and family tree of musicians that those three alone have spawned, been involved with and influenced is far more immense that anything that the British music industry could ever have brought about.  True giants of the British music scene yet probably not among the best known but so highly acclaimed and esteemed by anyone that's ever heard them.

A huge legacy, RIP!

I'll tell ya where all these guys would be if they were still alive today.

Scratchin at the coffin like a wildcat!



Randy