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Poll Question: Favorite Dead Musician to be exact
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Byron was a unique personality.... a huge public figure. From his life, we get the word "Byronic".


Well that explains why they got Val Kilmer to play Jim Morrison, then.

Originally posted by Danbo Danbo wrote:

Stevie Ray Vaughan, who had just cleaned up his act, released a killer Blues-Rock album, "In Step," and completed another album with his brother Jimmy, "Family Style," and then died because of some nit-wit 'copter pilot


He was playing a gig with Clapton that day, and if you believe the (probably apocryphal) stories, he was in a hurry, and swopped places with Clapton, who took a later flight.

From the list, though, it'd have to be:

Uncle Frank - guitarist, satirist, composer. He left us so much, yet left so much still un-done.

George Harrison - In my opinion, the true genius in The Beatles; a gentleman and a gentle man, a giant of a songwriter, and a vastly under-rated guitarist, too.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - The man had his demons, yet defeated them (to an extent, anyway), all the time creating, and re-inventing classic guitar based blues. He'll be remembered as one of the greats, but had he lived.... the great??

Finally - no mention yet of a man who polarised opinion on his death, but one of my favorite British dead guys - the irreplaceable John Peel; RIP Peely!

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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2005 at 03:35
Ok, so i'll give it another try...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2005 at 03:32

Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:


Contrary to you, i found Ray's voice horrible.

 

Just ever forget Jim sang with the Doors..Even forget the sound of him singing & just listern to ''Other voices''

Other Voices

Full Circle



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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2005 at 03:17
I know very well American prayer and i have it and love it.
It's the best doors album after jim's death.
The doors have manage to make jimi's voice re-live with their music.
Moreover, it's maybe the only pure poetry rock album.

Contrary to you, i found Ray's voice horrible.

Yes, Jim has understand that he feels really alive only when he was close to death.

He has understand that only death gives intensity to live, whereas mot people try to do as if death don't exist, and because of that live a boring life.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2005 at 01:01

Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

Is this smiling hides some irony?

Yes, for sure it's easier to drow in a swimming pool
than in a bath.
I was fcusing on the fact they both died the same dayin the same element.

Moreover, in their last Doors album, "LA Woman", in the song "hyacinth house", Morrisson has something like the premonition of his own death, when he says:"i see the bathroom is clear, i'm sure than someone is following me"

Oliver old chap.

You been watching that farcicle Doors movie by Oliver stone havent you?

Jimbo was obsessed with death!

& last Doors album indeed.Last with Jim as a front man yeh but ''Other voices'' & ''Full circle'' were released...Ray manzeracks voice is so convincing on these albums...

Don't forget the Jim Morisson album 'An american prayer'' music by the dorrs not released till November '78.Well worth a listern i'll tell you.
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2005 at 21:12

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Damn! I had hope there!
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Points: 999 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2005 at 21:07
It has to be Lennon. He was such an influential guy, I only wonder where music would be now if he wasn't killed 24 years ago.
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Points: 5243 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2005 at 17:42
Jimi, Janis, Jim... all contributed directly to their own demise. Even though it was a great loss it just isn't the same as, for instance, Stevie Ray Vaughan, who had just cleaned up his act, released a killer Blues-Rock album, "In Step," and completed another album with his brother Jimmy, "Family Style," and then died because of some nit-wit 'copter pilot. How sad. Every time I hear the SRV version of Little Wing I get misty.  
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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2005 at 11:26
Yes...
and (funny?) he's probably died of it, although he was not addict to it.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2005 at 10:49
pamela courson killed him along with her rich count heroin chum...he was going to leave her cuz she couldnt get off the smack

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2005 at 10:49
yea and then he says "o yeah"
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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2005 at 09:02
Is this smiling hides some irony?

Yes, for sure it's easier to drow in a swimming pool
than in a bath.
I was fcusing on the fact they both died the same dayin the same element.

Moreover, in their last Doors album, "LA Woman", in the song "hyacinth house", Morrisson has something like the premonition of his own death, when he says:"i see the bathroom is clear, i'm sure than someone is following me"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2005 at 08:49
Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

Originally posted by Karnevil9 Karnevil9 wrote:




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<DIV ="thumb tright">Jim Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, in his bathtub at the age of 27 (btw: i was born on July 3rd); many fans and biographers have speculated that the cause of death was a drug overdose, or possibly an assassination by American government authorities. Morrison remarked several times near his death that he was "number 3". Referring to himself as likely to be the third person to die mysteriously; <A title="Jimi Hendrix" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix">Jimi Hendrix</A> and <A title="Janis Joplin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin">Janis Joplin</A> being the first two. The official report listed "heart attack" as the cause of death. Morrison is buried in the famous <A title="Le Père Lachaise Cemetery" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%E8re_Lachaise_Cemete ry">Le Père Lachaise Cemetery</A> in eastern Paris.




Yes, and he died in water, the exact same day than Brian Jones.

More chance of accidental drowning in a swiming pool than a bath don't you think?
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Points: 20251 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2005 at 05:11

From your list, Hendrix!!

Could've added Brian Jones or Paul Kossof (Free)

In prog circles, Jim Capaldi (Traffic) recently left for the great gig in the sky!
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Originally posted by Karnevil9 Karnevil9 wrote:




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<DIV ="thumb tright">Jim Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, in his bathtub at the age of 27 (btw: i was born on July 3rd); many fans and biographers have speculated that the cause of death was a drug overdose, or possibly an assassination by American government authorities. Morrison remarked several times near his death that he was "number 3". Referring to himself as likely to be the third person to die mysteriously; <A title="Jimi Hendrix" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix">Jimi Hendrix</A> and <A title="Janis Joplin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin">Janis Joplin</A> being the first two. The official report listed "heart attack" as the cause of death. Morrison is buried in the famous <A title="Le Père Lachaise Cemetery" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%E8re_Lachaise_Cemete ry">Le Père Lachaise Cemetery</A> in eastern Paris.
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<DIV align=center ="thumb tright">Not fans there brain dead
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Yes, and he died in water, the exact same day than Brian Jones.
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Points: 6308 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2005 at 03:31
Favory "dead" musician?

Maybe Jerry Garcia
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Originally posted by Peter Peter wrote:

Originally posted by Rob The Good Rob The Good wrote:

^ Except fever got him at Missolonghi before he COULD fight for those others! Oh! And what about Aleister Crowley - Occultist?!


Yes; thus my use of the word "trying." His early  death was sad, not funny.  <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#ff0000 size=5>^


For all his flaws, Byron was a unique personality -- though a Lord, he spoke up for the liberty of the common man, and put his money where his mouth was. Crack shot, expert swimmer, club-footed but handsome lady's man (probably a bit of a "man's man" too, it seems), he was like a rock star of his day -- a huge public figure. From his life, we get the word "Byronic." I really like the ribald humour that's in much of his poetry, including his epic masterpiece "Don Juan" -- funny, & highly recommended!


That self-styled "antichrist" Crowley, as you probably know, was an egotistic charlatan. I've read one of his books on magic -- absolute crapola. He died in disgrace, but not before many of the wealthy and gullible were hoodwinked by him. If Jimmy Page admired/admires him, then Page is a fool -- a drug-addled, spoiled and gullible rock star. LOVE LZ, though -- don't get me wrong....


I'd also nominate another of my heros from literature, Charles Dickens: he also fought injustice and oppression, both in his writing, and in his private, financial life. A great writer, and a consummate humanist, he worked himself into an early grave -- thus only 14 major books, more's the pity.Unhappy



Aww Peter I didn't mean to laugh at Byron's death. Despite his early death, I personally think he did much for the Greeks in their fight against the Turks for this reason: like you said, he was the rockstar of his day, and such a high profile figure taking part in the Greek War probably drew a fair bit of attention to it - France, Britain and Russia defeated the Turks at Navarino (The Guns of Navarino! ).

As for my favourite Romantic poet though, he's Coleridge in fact: the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan to me possess dreamlike qualities (not surprising since Kubla Khan was written after an Opium-induced dream). I tend to like art or literature that has a hint of the subconcious about it, which is the reason behind my love of Surrealist art and Alice in Wonderland

Aleister Crowley wasn't exactly a nice man: he died a failure. He wrote so many books on "magick" but I don't understand how HE personally came across such information...perhaps his Guardian Angel told him?

He liked to refer to himself as The Beast or Antichrist, but he certainly represents the exact antithesis of saintly qualities.
And Jesus said unto John, "come forth and receive eternal life..."
Unfortunately, John came fifth and was stuck with a toaster.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2005 at 20:54

Originally posted by Crimson Prince Crimson Prince wrote:

What a morbid discussion topic, but I have to go with Cobain. I am sure he had a lot more art to produce. As for Freddie Merc, well, we don't need any more faggots or queers in the world.

It was a joke. Not in good taste I realize. I am a shock-whore. 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 24 2005 at 20:28

 

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Jim Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, in his bathtub at the age of 27 (btw: i was born on July 3rd); many fans and biographers have speculated that the cause of death was a drug overdose, or possibly an assassination by American government authorities. Morrison remarked several times near his death that he was "number 3". Referring to himself as likely to be the third person to die mysteriously; Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin being the first two. The official report listed "heart attack" as the cause of death. Morrison is buried in the famous Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in eastern Paris.
 
Not fans there brain dead
 
 
 


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Originally posted by Richardw Richardw wrote:

Zapped

It's gotta be Uncle Frank for me.

RIP

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