Most tragic (early) couch sale in ROCK music history?

dnc

Jimi Hendrix

Racist pole is clearly the only reason a group who stocks teen bois wouldn't mourn the loss of an 18 year old star.









*correction, 17 year old!

alumni94

Duane Allman

NoWarningJustDawg said:

PurpleThrobber said:

Change my vote to Michael Hutchence.

Anybody who hung themselves whacking off when they could have been banging Kylie Minogue is a goddamned Greek tragedy.

I give Hutchence a break compared to a lot of the other self-inflicted deaths.
Dude got serious brain damage and fractured skull from an assault in 1992, and also lost his sense of taste and smell (insert COVID joke).
He was in the middle of 4 years with Helena Christensen (the replacement for Minogue) at the time.
Helena in that 1991-1995 period was fucking incredible.
Then in 1996 the dickbag from Oasis called Hutchence a has-been while Michael was presenting them with an award.
Depression, dealing with anger and violent outbursts ever since his assault, fighting with Paula Yates, trying to see his kid, humiliated on TV, not getting to sex up Helena anymore, etc.
I mean, every man has his breaking point

Tragic, but the man did OK:

Helena Christensen is my favorite 90s model.

dnc

Jimi Hendrix

YellowSnow said:

creepycoug said:

This should be a run-off between Hendrix and Morrison. With all due respect to Bon Scott.

John Lennon ... I've never been able to there with the Beattles. And Lennon was obnoxious and unlikable.

I tend to agree. Hendrix and Morrison both were still at their artistic peak in 1970/71 and had a number of good years left in them. The last Doors album was damn near as good as the first.

Bon Scott on Back in Black would have been epic, but no offense to my homey @dflea I think AC DC takes one trick pony formula as far as they can with or without Bon by about 1981.

Cobain is probably my 3rd place here.

Lennon and Elvis both could have sold out stadiums in the 80s and a Beatles reunion could have been cool, but I don't know how much artistic juice they had left in the tank. Especially Elvis.

Staley is only here to prevent @dnc bullying.

Staley was more a tragic life than tragic death. I think the biggest surprise when he passed was that he had made it that long. The writing was on the wall for a long tim.

dnc

Jimi Hendrix

After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division

YellowSnow

Jimi Hendrix

dnc said:

YellowSnow said:

creepycoug said:

This should be a run-off between Hendrix and Morrison. With all due respect to Bon Scott.

John Lennon ... I've never been able to there with the Beattles. And Lennon was obnoxious and unlikable.

I tend to agree. Hendrix and Morrison both were still at their artistic peak in 1970/71 and had a number of good years left in them. The last Doors album was damn near as good as the first.

Bon Scott on Back in Black would have been epic, but no offense to my homey @dflea I think AC DC takes one trick pony formula as far as they can with or without Bon by about 1981.

Cobain is probably my 3rd place here.

Lennon and Elvis both could have sold out stadiums in the 80s and a Beatles reunion could have been cool, but I don't know how much artistic juice they had left in the tank. Especially Elvis.

Staley is only here to prevent @dnc bullying.

Staley was more a tragic life than tragic death. I think the biggest surprise when he passed was that he had made it that long. The writing was on the wall for a long tim.

I also would say AiC was past it's golden era by then as well.

Laocoön

Buddy Holly

dnc said:

After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division

Ben McMillan, lead singer of Gruntruck & Skin Yard, died way too young from complications related to diabetes. Super cool and really nice dude! Caught a lot of their shows back in the early 90’s.

coronabruin

creepycoug said:

coronabruin said:

If you died doing some pussy shit like suicide, getting shot (like a BITCH) or a plane crash, you don’t deserve to be on this list. HTH.

Shut up ese. We? Don’t like you anymore.

NOC what you think about rock and roll, Ricky Martin. Go shove a maraca in your boyfren Mario’s loser ass.

GrundleStiltzkin

Buddy Holly

Laocoön said:

dnc said:

After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division

Ben McMillan, lead singer of Gruntruck & Skin Yard, died way too young from complications related to diabetes. Super cool and really nice dude! Caught a lot of their shows back in the early 90’s.

Shoutout to Grunttruck

NoWarningJustDawg

Buddy Holly

Laocoön said:

dnc said:

After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division

Ben McMillan, lead singer of Gruntruck & Skin Yard, died way too young from complications related to diabetes. Super cool and really nice dude! Caught a lot of their shows back in the early 90’s.

I feel like because they opened for multiple bigger bands and threw in smaller free shows here and there I might have seen Screaming Trees, Gruntruck, and Sweet Water more than anyone else live. I dunno, it's at least close.
Good times.

Laocoön

Buddy Holly

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Laocoön said:

dnc said:

After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division

Ben McMillan, lead singer of Gruntruck & Skin Yard, died way too young from complications related to diabetes. Super cool and really nice dude! Caught a lot of their shows back in the early 90’s.

Shoutout to Grunttruck

The ultimate shoutout!
https://youtu.be/d2_94Dw6eqs

Laocoön

Buddy Holly

NoWarningJustDawg said:

Laocoön said:

dnc said:

After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division

Ben McMillan, lead singer of Gruntruck & Skin Yard, died way too young from complications related to diabetes. Super cool and really nice dude! Caught a lot of their shows back in the early 90’s.

I feel like because they opened for multiple bigger bands and threw in smaller free shows here and there I might have seen Screaming Trees, Gruntruck, and Sweet Water more than anyone else live. I dunno, it's at least close.
Good times.

Totally agree! They are my #1 Seattle band to have seen live and it isn’t even close. Love Battery & Pure Joy are distant 2nds.

Good tims, indeed!

GrundleStiltzkin

Buddy Holly

NoWarningJustDawg said:

Laocoön said:

dnc said:

After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division

Ben McMillan, lead singer of Gruntruck & Skin Yard, died way too young from complications related to diabetes. Super cool and really nice dude! Caught a lot of their shows back in the early 90’s.

I feel like because they opened for multiple bigger bands and threw in smaller free shows here and there I might have seen Screaming Trees, Gruntruck, and Sweet Water more than anyone else live. I dunno, it's at least close.
Good times.

Shit, there's a band I'd not thought of in decades. Saw them once, pretty good. Also Screaming Trees once, and that show was awful.

NoWarningJustDawg

Buddy Holly

GrundleStiltzkin said:

NoWarningJustDawg said:

Laocoön said:

dnc said:

After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division

Ben McMillan, lead singer of Gruntruck & Skin Yard, died way too young from complications related to diabetes. Super cool and really nice dude! Caught a lot of their shows back in the early 90’s.

I feel like because they opened for multiple bigger bands and threw in smaller free shows here and there I might have seen Screaming Trees, Gruntruck, and Sweet Water more than anyone else live. I dunno, it's at least close.
Good times.

Shit, there's a band I'd not thought of in decades. Saw them once, pretty good. Also Screaming Trees once, and that show was awful.

is "regional" the term for a band that is well known for a while locally, but not nationally? Well, whatever. I'm amazed how many Sweet Water songs I still know by heart.
Honestly for as much airplay as the songs Head Down, Crawl, Everything Will Be All Right, and Superstar got, the band never got very big.

El_K

John Lennon

Most of those guys did it to themselves. Lennon not signing an autograph was what did him in.