Which deceased musicians you miss the most and wish were still alive?

[blueone]

I'm not sure I understand the question. For example, Jimi Hendrix would be 82 years old this year had he lived, so are you wishing for a time machine for a young Hendrix or the elderly version you would get if he just lived?

If I could choose one to come back to life at the age she died, which was in her early 30s, it would be Karen Carpenter. One of the best female voices I've ever heard. The one condition would be that she gets to pick her own material, rather than that sappy stuff her brother and Herb Alpert made her sing.

 

[Tell]

Cosma. The poor guy died in a car accident in 2003, the same year that he released his legendary album Nonstop. I wonder what other timeless classics he would have managed to create if he was still alive today.

 

[Timcognito]

 

[Somafunk]

Martyn Bennet as I knew him from when we were in primary school on Mull and then remade our acquaintance meeting as adults in the burgeoning alternative/electronic Scottish music scene (everyone knows each other), we all knew he had cancer as he was desperate to get his album Grit finished but it was still such a blood curdling numbing shock when he died, he was such an innovator in the scene that his influence is still talked about to this day, not a week goes by where I don’t listen to his music

Another friend taken far too soon is Scott Hutchinson from “Frightened Rabbit”, he struggled with depression throughout his life and it eventually became too much for him, met him through friends in the scene and subsequently booked him for folk festivals we put on and he exuded such emotion on stage but like so many “great” performers there is often a dark and troubling cloud with them at all times.

 

[andersw]

Frank Zappa.

 

[DWPress]

Lou Reed
Tom Petty
David Bowie
John Lennon

 

[Chucka]

Nanci Griffith, WIllie K

 

[Timcognito]

Frank Zappa.

Heard he feinged death and is in Montana, a dental floss tycoon

 

[iconoclast]

Allan Holdsworth

 

[Great Sun Jester]

John Bonham & Bon Scott

 

[andersw]

Captain Beefheart.

 

[Adaboy4z]

Whitney and Prince!!

 

[beefkabob]

I still don't get the love for Cobain. He DID have a gun. My friends were obsessed. I've heard every B, C, and D side track. Still don't care one bit for his music. Dave Grohl made a nice song or two years later, but nothing especially great.
Lennon wasn't especially relevant after "Imagine," the treacle song. Let it Be has a couple great tracks.
David Bowie was long past his relevant years when he died. I liked Outside, but his genius burned out in the '70s.
Basically the same with Prince, Reed, Petty, Jackson, Elvis, Cash, and Cohen.

 

[Great Sun Jester]

Eddie Van Halen & Randy Rhodes

 

[BillH]

Frank Zappa and
Vic chesnutt

https://www.npr.org/2008/06/05/91190732/vic-chesnutt-tiny-desk-concert

 

[LTig]

In no particular order:
Jon Hiseman & Barbara Thompson
Ennio Morricone
Luther Allison
John Campbell
Long John Baldry
Neil Peart
Eva Cassidy
Hugh Masekela
Wolfgang Dauner
Eberhard Weber
Lili Boulanger
Jacqueline du Pré

Going to miss in the future:
Arvo Pärt
John Williams

 

[Jim Taylor]

Bird (Charlie Parker) and Robert Johnson. Neither one had enough time with us.

Jim

 

[ThatM1key]

Artists that I wish were still alive. Artists that meant something to me.

Country:
Buck Owens
Charley Pride
Conway Twitty
Toby Keith
Johnny Cash
George Jones
Hank Thompson
Hank Williams
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jim Reeves
Johnny Paycheck
Keith Whitley
Marty Robbins
Merle Haggard
Patsy Cline
Ray Price
Toby Keith
Waylon Jennings

Hip Hop/Rap:
Biz Markie
Christopher George Latore Wallace (Biggie)
Earl Simmons (DMX)
Eric Lynn Wright (Eazy-E)
Fresh Kid Ice (Part of "2 Live Crew")

Pop:
Michael Jackson

Rock:
Benjamin Orr (Part of the "The Cars")
Chris Cornell
Kurt Cobain
Steve Harwell
Ric Ocasek (Part of the "The Cars")


"Oldies" Era:
Bobby Rydell
Buddy Holly
Chuck Berry
Dean Martin
Elvis Presley
Ray Charles
Ricky Nelson
Roy Orbison

For the Hank Williams fans:

For the Johnny Cash fans:

 

[Rick63]

Too many to list, but here's the first one that came to my mind.

 

[Anton D]

Bob Marley

D’uh! Of course!

I say D’uh because I wish I had thought to say that!