greatest musical premature deaths
 

jimi hendrix. he did not have nearly enough time to get into the other musical scenes that he would've been incredible in.

Elliott Smith 1969-2003, who i will hate forever for killing himself.

I agree w/ every word you said. Jimi died way before he could explore the whole music genre. I was watching the documentary, "Hendrix & The Band Of Gypsy's", & it was saying how before he passed a bunch of Jazz artists were wanting to book sessions w/ Jimi. One of those artists, Miles Davis.
Could you imagine what "Machine Gun" would have sounded like if those two played on one track. Damn! It would have been amazing,

hahaha, funny you say that. i made this post based on being currently watching that documentary. elliot smith's best stuff was his early stuff in my opinion so despite it being a terrible loss to have him die so young i would say his best musical accomplishments were already behind him

billie holiday
marc bolan

It's a small world after all.

Kurt Cobain :)

Billy Corgan.

It is sad, but true.

Kurt Cobain: 1967-1994

D. Boon

yeah, my favourite Elliott Smith album is Roman Candle (his first one) but From a Basement on the hill is just Glorious. you really must get it if you havent already. its so fucking beautiful. i love everything he has ever written. he was too good for this world.

RIP

Mark Sandman (Morphine) died on the stage
I wish I could die like that...

ooo yea. billie holiday and cobain are deffinelty up there. and i really hope no one says darbie crash

from a basement on a hill is the first one of his i ever got actually. it seemed hit and miss for me though. fond farewell is actually my favorite elliot smith song ever but i deffinetly prefer roman candle as a whole

When did he die?:rolleyes:

really???, gosh i find this so hard to believe, 'kings crossing' and 'twilight' and 'a distorted reality is now a necessity to be free' and 'pretty (ugly before)' are such amazing songs.
but yes Roman Candle is a beautiful album, 'no name 3' is my favourite Elliott Smith song ever.

i haven't listened to it in a long time actually. a distorted reality etc. etc. is up there as well. i'd say that that album kicks out single songs that are incredible but roman candle is the most consistently great.

Jhonn Balance.

yeah, roman candle flows really really nicely from song to song,

you can tell by listening to it that Elliott Has not not done the final production of 'from a baesment on the hill', the songs dont flow well like they do on everysingle other Elliott Smith album.

Not musical, but Bill Hicks. What I would give for another 12 years of his routine.

I thought the singer of Nirvana died like a decade ago.

Schubert

Joe Strummer made it to 50, but that's still way too young, especially as he was doing some really good stuff again with the Mescaleros.

Pete DeFreitas, Echo and the Bunnymen's drummer.

Otis Redding.

Charlie PArker.

Mozart.

Eveleyn Preer, African-American blues singer of the 1920's or thereabouts.

Curtis Mayfield

charley parker and bill hicks are good uns

I thought I'd give Fats Waller a proper mention.

Thomas Wright 'Fats' Waller died of pneumonia aged 39. Not only prolific, but also consistently wonderful, he penned a great number of trad jazz standards, as well as several others for which he sold the rights for quick cash ('On The Sunny Side of the Street', for example).

His classics include an early co-written anti-racism piece, "What Did I Do (To Be So Black and Blue)?" (which became a hit for Louis Armstrong), 'The Joint is Jumpin', the frenetic 'A Handful of Keys' and the sublimely lovely 'Ain't Misbehavin'.

A great pianist (and organist), his style varied from the trad jazz for which he is famous, to Bach's organ pieces, to brathtaking improvisations.

ian curtis
&
michael hedges

Nikki Sudden, formerly of the Swell Maps just died this week. There's been no offficial word of how he died even; he apparently played an anti-bush benifit the night before. Seems like so many punk rockers are dropping dead around fifty.

i wonder why....

rolling stone magazine called...

...they have a cease and desist order on the subject of rock n' roll deaths. they also want $10 000 000 in royalties since they own the rights to the mention of the names "jimi hendrix" and "kurt cobain".

AND DARBY CRASH WAS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool thread.....

Nirvana
Jimi Hendrix
Nick Drake
Elliott Smith

Jeff Buckley.

Elliot Smith
Ian Curtis

and I guess

Kurt Cobain

D Boon

pardon me, monsieur, but you must have been smoking schwag. billy corgan singer of nirvana? in what parallel universe? :D

http://499angels.net/germs/biography.htm Darby Crash

Bill Evans

as a matter of fact I'll put on Live at Montreux right now

more:
tim buckley
nick drake
skip spence
marvin gaye
bob marley
dennis wilson
ODB
hank williams
robert johnson
no one's mentioned gg allin yet?

John Bohnam, Keith Moon. just to name a few

Forgot

Notorious B.I.G.