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Most tragic (early) couch sale in ROCK music history?
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Jimi HendrixRacist pole is clearly the only reason a group who stocks teen bois wouldn't mourn the loss of an 18 year old star.
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Duane Allman
Helena Christensen is my favorite 90s model.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:
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Jimi Hendrix
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.YellowSnow said:
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.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.
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.
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Jimi HendrixAfter Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division
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Jimi Hendrix
I also would say AiC was past it's golden era by then as well.dnc said:
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.YellowSnow said:
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.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.
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.
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Buddy Holly
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.dnc said:After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division
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NOC what you think about rock and roll, Ricky Martin. Go shove a maraca in your boyfren Mario’s loser ass.creepycoug said:
Shut up ese. We? Don’t like you anymore.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.
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Buddy Holly
Shoutout to GrunttruckLaocoön said:
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.dnc said:After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division
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Buddy Holly
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.Laocoön said:
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.dnc said:After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division
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Buddy Holly
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.NoWarningJustDawg said:
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.Laocoön said:
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.dnc said:After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division
Good times.
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Buddy Holly
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 said:
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.Laocoön said:
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.dnc said:After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division
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Buddy Holly
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.GrundleStiltzkin said:
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 said:
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.Laocoön said:
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.dnc said:After Kurt I’d nominate Andy Wood for the grunge division
Good times.
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.
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John LennonMost of those guys did it to themselves. Lennon not signing an autograph was what did him in.
https://youtu.be/d2_94Dw6eqs
