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

The irony will be that once Ringo goes, Paul will be the sole surviving Beatle; the one who supposedly blew his mind out in a car turns out to be last one alive.

I will take the diametrically opposite view and say that most, if not all of them, would be either irrelevant or marginalized.  There would be exceptions, of course, but most would be trapped inside their time windows as "clues to the new direction" and would quickly find themselves superseded by younger artists...who, in like manner, would become footnotes in musical history as time progressed.  Or not.

SRV

yorolpal


I will take the diametrically opposite view and say that most, if not all of them, would be either irrelevant or marginalized.  There would be exceptions, of course, but most would be trapped inside their time windows as "clues to the new direction" and would quickly find themselves superseded by younger artists...who, in like manner, would become footnotes in musical history as time progressed.  Or not.

I like way you think.

James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon from the Pretenders, both very talented, likewise John Glascock, Jethro Tull bassist. He and Barrie Barlow were a wonderful rhythm section.

yorolpal


I will take the diametrically opposite view and say that most, if not all of them, would be either irrelevant or marginalized.  There would be exceptions, of course, but most would be trapped inside their time windows as "clues to the new direction" and would quickly find themselves superseded by younger artists...who, in like manner, would become footnotes in musical history as time progressed.  Or not.

That is exactly right, which is why 'true success' is not down the amount of contracts you get to sign, the boatloads of product you can shift, the amount of adulation you can garner, but simply the amount of fulfilment you can get out of the job you do.

None of that transcribes on to any headstone, so no point worrying that the big break is just around the next corner, it ain't, it's right here, right now where the best memories will come from further down the line.

As Ian Hunter once liked to say "You ain't the nazz, you're just a buzz, some kind of temporary"

So to paraphrase our 'ol pal, rock on, droogies, rock on...

I can't help missing some of 'em though, which was the second part of Maurice's question.

yorolpal


I will take the diametrically opposite view and say that most, if not all of them, would be either irrelevant or marginalized.  There would be exceptions, of course, but most would be trapped inside their time windows as "clues to the new direction" and would quickly find themselves superseded by younger artists...who, in like manner, would become footnotes in musical history as time progressed.  Or not.

Apart from Zappa

Marc Bolan, Dusty Springfield, Gary Thain (Uriah Heep), Paul Kossoff

Sandy Denny

+ umpteen for Robert Johnson