If you could bring back from the dead.........

guitars4you

Teetonetal said:

Hendrix. Unlike Clapton, I think he would have gravitated away from commercial success and knocked out some interesting records.

I think Jimi would have gone down the fusion/jazz route (either with or without vocals) as per J Beck and others - We probably saw  a hint of this at the end with Buddy Miles - where he would have gone later then who knows - I think some experimentation would have been obvious then a return to his late 60's era at some date in the future

Bucket

Chuck Schuldiner has to be up there too.

proggy

Got to be Gary Moore for me, and if we're allowed bass guitarists, Chris Squire as well. 

frank1985

Teetonetal said:

Hendrix. Unlike Clapton, I think he would have gravitated away from commercial success and knocked out some interesting records.

I would love to have heard his collab with Bitches era Miles Davis

Philly_Q

proggy said:

...and if we're allowed bass guitarists, Chris Squire as well. 

There are quite a few... Bernard Edwards, Jack Bruce, Felix Pappalardi, James Dewar, Jaco Pastorius, Gary Thain, Trevor Bolder, Cliff Burton, Lemmy...

proggy

Philly_Q said:

proggy said:

...and if we're allowed bass guitarists, Chris Squire as well. 

There are quite a few... Bernard Edwards, Jack Bruce, Felix Pappalardi, James Dewar, Jaco Pastorius, Gary Thain, Trevor Bolder, Cliff Burton, Lemmy...

Wow, James Dewar, I'd forgotten about him, and what a voice too. I must dig some Trower out.

RaymondLin

nvm

stephen.wood125

SRV, Jimi, or for Bass, maybe Jaco (I know some would find him already partly impenetrable but still) Dimebag is a great shout too.

Bucket

Well if we're talking bass, then I can go on.

Cliff Burton - Metallica likely wouldn't be super-super-famous, but they might still be credible and making good music.

Jaco - need I explain?

Bernard Edwards - see above



And another guitarist - Robert Dahlqvist from the Hellacopters, who died aged only 40 last year. Very sad.

SimonC

Phil Lynott without question.

BloodEagle

Jeff Hanneman 
Kurt Cobain
D Boon
Randy Rhoads
Chuck Schuldiner
Dimebag

ICBM

James Honeyman-Scott. Only 25 when he died.

The irony is that if he'd lived we wouldn't have 'Back On The Chain Gang', Chrissie Hynde's best song.

hywelg

proggy said:

Philly_Q said:

proggy said:

...and if we're allowed bass guitarists, Chris Squire as well. 

There are quite a few... Bernard Edwards, Jack Bruce, Felix Pappalardi, James Dewar, Jaco Pastorius, Gary Thain, Trevor Bolder, Cliff Burton, Lemmy...

Wow, James Dewar, I'd forgotten about him, and what a voice too. I must dig some Trower out.

And don't forget Stone The Crows. Fantastic band saw them live must be 5 or 6 times.

english_bob

Philly_Q said:

Bucket said:

Philly_Q said:

english_bob said:
Put him on a modern singer-songwriter tour with a selection of guitars so he didn't have to change tunings on stage, a decent PA system so he could be heard, and maybe a sympathetic co-headliner or support act, use social media to connect him to fans who like his music and things might be different. Or maybe he would have been doomed in any age.

Sounds dismayingly like Ed Sheeran.

Nick Drake would never write the kind of fucking tripe Sheeran comes out with.

I'm in no way equating Nick Drake with Ed Sheeran, but if a young Nick Drake emerged today someone would try and sell him to the Sheeran market.  Which isn't to say he'd let that happen.  But it's a different world now. 

I never did understand this with music fans. If your favourite artist can make the music they want to make and have bazillions of people like it and give them money for it, why would you wish obscurity on them?

Besides, properly promoting your artists, putting them on a proper tour with the right equipment to make sure they can play their best and people can enjoy it is hardly the epitome of sucking corporate cock, is it? It's just competent management.

At least part of the reason Drake never connected to a significant audience in his lifetime was that touring was the way to do that, and he wasn't very good at it. He was very shy, which in itself isn't enough to derail an entire career, but he toured with just one guitar, and had to regularly switch between at least three or four different tunings between songs, all in an era when acoustic guitar amplification was pretty dismal. Tell me you'd have recognized the guy for the talent he was when you could barely hear him over the crowd, and half his set was spent mumbling and tuning up. Give the same performer a couple of spare guitars, a roadie who knows when to bring the next guitar out, a proper PA, maybe a small band, and you've got a whole different ball game.

richardhomer

Could I suggest the OP edits the title to include ‘guitarist’ or ‘musician’? The current one might cause distress for some members....

Reverend

Bucket said:

Well if we're talking bass, then I can go on.

Cliff Burton - Metallica likely wouldn't be super-super-famous, but they might still be credible and making good music.

Jaco - need I explain?

Bernard Edwards - see above



And another guitarist - Robert Dahlqvist from the Hellacopters, who died aged only 40 last year. Very sad.

Metallica were big already. However they may not have have been quite as big as they became. Certainly Justice would have sounded better and, who knows, maybe Cliff would have got Lars to play slow music properly. 

freakboy1610

Stuart Adamson. My first guitar hero and a top bloke by all accounts.

Neill

freakboy1610 said:

Stuart Adamson. My first guitar hero and a top bloke by all accounts.

Yes that's a great call - vastly underrated on all counts.  A real innovator and would have had a lot more to give if he could have kept his drinking under control.  That Raphaels album, Stuart's last project, is quality all the way through.