The Dead Guys: who would've done best?
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Topic: The Dead Guys: who would've done best?
Posted By: RoyFairbank
Subject: The Dead Guys: who would've done best?
Date Posted: April 26 2010 at 16:07
syd barrett just for fun  but seriously  no not really
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: April 26 2010 at 16:15
| Jimi, since he actually knew how to play his instrument, how to produce, how to jam and how to take listeners to his world. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 26 2010 at 16:42
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Had he not tragically died in that cow tipping accident, Jimi Hendrix. That Barrett comment isn't very nice |
Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: April 26 2010 at 16:44
I said Syd Barrett I wasn't talking about Roger Barrett, geez....  oh wait they're the same person  |
Logan wrote:Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: April 27 2010 at 06:28
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As an alternative question: If all of those four artists hadn't dies but just given up the music business to become accountants and bank clerks, would they have been as famous as they are? I'd say Hendrix possibly, but definitively not Joplin, Barrett, and Morrison. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 27 2010 at 06:38
| I think Jim Morrison was planning to get more serious into his real profession, film direction. Also, I don't think Janis would have evolved out of the 60s rock paradigm she embodied so well. So this leaves Jimi and Syd. I think Jimi would have continued to make stuff of great public appeal, while Syd would have indulged into excentric niches... but I can't say who would have done a better job. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 27 2010 at 06:42
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Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin have always been overrated. The screaming of the latter may have dimmed a bit by age-inducted hoarseness. Jimi Hendrix may have done well, but my vote goes to Syd Barrett. ------------- 
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Posted By: RoyFairbank
Date Posted: April 27 2010 at 11:48
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Personally, I imagine for Syd a career of conformity. I just don't think he had that much to say. He always was the "single factor" of early Pink Floyd. He would have been doing smooth synth pop by the 1980s. As for Hendrix, I imagine a career like Clapton's but much better. Often well-regarded back-to-basics albums, a few forays into well-produced AOR type stuff like Clapton 1985-1989, the basic reputation of a living legend. Joplin would have faded into obscurity IMO. Morrison I can't say. So Jimi. |