Musicians who died in your lifetime whose output you miss

Jason

Tom Petty

Bod

Grangousier said:

Tim Smith

I came here to say exactly that.  Wearing my Cardiacs shirt as I type.

scrumhalf

Rory
Jimi
Mickey Jones

Offset

CaseOfAce said:

I'm reading the responses and I think most of them pretty much gave what they had to give.

Yep - I'm really after those whose output (EDIT - you consider) was cut cruelly short.

BillDL

Robert Leroy Johnson.

There are others, but I forget their names and it would take me too long to type it on this newfangled screen thing - excuse me, what was that you were saying? ...Oh,  OK nurse .... time for my medication and afternoon nap. Cheerio.

CoffeeAndTV

Freddie
Amy Winehouse
Billy Higgins
Allan Holdsworth
2Pac

Tannin

Offset said:

CaseOfAce said:

I'm reading the responses and I think most of them pretty much gave what they had to give.

Yep - I'm really after those whose output (EDIT - you consider) was cut cruelly short.

This is exactly the point. This is why I mentioned Buddy Holly (who had barely even scratched the surface of his genius) and Glenn Miller, but not Hendrix. Not that Jimi would not have done a good deal more important work, but he had already given so much.  

dazzajl

Most of the 27 club would probably be on my list and very much Adam Schlesinger (Fountains Of Wayne). 

Then there is the list of people much missed but who might not have added much to the amazing catalog they left behind. Gil Scott Heron, Freddie etc…….

Kebabkid

Phil Lynott/old Thin Lizzy
EVH
George Michael

Jonathangus

Bon Scott 
Freddie 
Steve Clark 

Danny1969

Kurt 
EVH
Lennon
Bowie
Freddy 

blobb

Daevid Allen

Hugh Hopper

But most of all, Alan Gowan.

MikeB

Randy Rhoads. Was around when I was young but had passed by the time I was lucky enough to hear him for the first time. 

oh_pollo

Jeff Buckley
D Boon
Nick Drake

Wazmeister

Tom Petty was the one that saddened me most.

goldtop

Karen Carpenter
George Michael

Philly_Q

Layne Staley, Chris Cornell, Randy Rhoads, SRV, Frank Zappa, Edward Van Halen, Cliff Burton, Dimebag, Leslie West, Eric Wagner, Gary Moore, Gary Thain, David Byron (actually most of the original/classic members of Uriah Heep), Malcolm Young, James Dewar, Paul Kossoff, Roy Buchanan, Nick Drake, Dan Hartman, Jimi Hendrix(!)... there are so many. 

I don't necessarily miss what they would have gone on to do, because many of those were well past their creative peak.  Some might have done interesting things if they'd defeated their personal demons.  Either way, it's a shame they're not around any more.

Philly_Q

Also thinking of people who are still around, but can no longer play - like Jason Becker - or simply withdrew from the music business and never came back - like Vito Bratta.

Cols

I’d interpret this as artists who died during my lifetime who, if they had lived, would have a lot more to deliver musically.  Kurt Cobain’s an obvious example - he’d a lot more in him than three albums and an MTV Unplugged session.

At the other end of the scale - I mourn the loss of Peter Green, but to be frank he’d delivered everything for which he’ll be remembered by 1970 and was a shadow of his former self when he returned to action.

With that in mind:
Kurt Cobain
Freddie Mercury
Chris Cornell
Dimebag Darrell
Rory Gallagher
Prince

mrkb

I was 6 months old when Hendrix died - so it would have to be him.