Whom do you miss the most?

[Dundas]

Bob Marley

 

[gene_stl]

George Harrison and John Lennon
Keith Moon and John Entwhistle
Jascha Heifeitz
Gustav Leonhardt
Philip Rosheger

 

[JJB70]

Given that most of the music I listen to was written by dead guys and most of my favourite performances of that music are by dead people this one is difficult but for five performers I will go with:

George Szell
Emil Gilels
Istvan Kertesz
Karl Bohm
Colin Davis

 

[bluefuzz]

John Peel. If it wasn't for John Peel our record collections would be much smaller and much less interesting ...

Also sorely missed:

Don van Vliet
Scott Walker
Bert Jansch
Curtis Mayfield
Ari Up
Leonard Cohen
Pete Shelley
Jaki Liebezeit
Mark E. Smith
Grant Green
Ali Farka Touré
Gabi Delgado-López
Jake Thakray
Daevid Allen
Poly Styrene
Lou Reed
Karen Dalton
David Bowie
Baden Powell
Sandy Denny
Tony Allen

There are probably hundreds more ...

 

[Ken1951]

Nick Drake
Sandy Denny
Jimi
B.B.
Lou Reed
Bowie
Warren Zevon

 

[raistlin65]

Hendrix

Given the impact he had on rock during his short performing career, one can imagine rock might be quite different today had he lived another 20-30 years.

 

[ahofer]

Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Art Blakey, Coltrane, Lennon, Joni Mitchell (she's not dead, but gone from music)

 

[abdo123]

I miss my family, haven't seen my mom in 3 years, my siblings even longer...

 

[thefsb]

Jon Hassell

 

[Mart68]

Walter Becker.

 

[muslhead]

Didnt see mention yet (but may have missed it) ... Prince

 

[Teyry]

musically,
Jon Lord, Cozy Powell, Jimi Hendrix, John Entwistle, Ronnie James Dio
Keith Emerson, John Bonham, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Chris Squire, Brad Delp
Jaco Paturious, Glen Frey, Jeff Golub, Chuck Loeb, George Harrison, Ronnie Montrose etc…

 

[Hipper]

Sandy Denny - she still had more to offer.
Gene Clark maybe.
The bands Matthews Southern Comfort (broke up too soon) and perhaps Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band. Matthews is still active but Rick departed in 1985 but at that point his music did nothing for me..

Some pedal steel players - Gordon Huntley, Red Rhodes, Tom Brumley.

Finally Sandy's husband Trevor Lucas. I loved his voice:

 

[BinkieHuckerback]

Neil Peart

 

[Ken1951]

Sandy Denny - she still had more to offer.

Her "Listen, Listen" almost brings me to tears every time I hear it.

 

[NiagaraPete]

Brandon Lee but I'm guessing you're asking about musicians. Maybe Alan Holdsworth.

 

[Andretti60]

I miss most all the great musicians who left us away too early when they were still young and at the top of their carrier.
Frank Zappa, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Marvin Gaye, among them.

 

[Hipper]

Woolly Wolstenholme of Barclay James Harvest.

By 1979 BJH were no longer musically working for me and his departure just confirmed that. He killed himself in 2010.

https://woollywolstenholme.co.uk/biog.htm

 

[Vacceo]

Lemmy Kilminster, Chuck Schuldiner, Marianne Séjourné, Jon Nödtveit, Jeff Hanneman, Martin Kearns.

 

[posvibes]

Quite a few, but it still hurts particularly when I think of Lowell George and Amy Winehouse.