The day the music died...

crankycrank

Agree that the music never dies. It just goes into a coma every few years. For the moment it's in a deep, deep coma.

mask of sanity

Jez mon wrote:

Dimebag amazing metal guitarist shot by a crazed "fan".

If I look back, perhaps Cliff Burton, even though I wasn't around at the time, looking back at Metallica's music there is a definite loss after his death. Of course further back, Jimi Hendrix's death is tragic and as was John Bonham's.

Agree with you on all of them! I wasn't even a fan of Pantera or Damageplan when it happened but was still really sad! Can't forget Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bon Scott as well!! They were both pretty awful as well!! Although perhaps Bon's was less of a surprise...

But ultimately it's the birth of all these stupid shows like X factor! Music looses it's purity as soon as it requires a sh1tty TV show for it to become a part of popular culture. Bring back the days when Zeppelin and Sabbath reigned and bands were famous because of song writing ability and raw talent rather than because of the size of their knockers!

Anonymous

Gram parsons.

FyPunK

It will die when I die. I was and still am 1st generation punk, I still get to see most of the bands from then (loads last weekend at the punk festival in Blackpool) but I see plenty of newer UK82 bands and then there is the new generation and I enjoy it now more than ever. I saw for the first time The King Blues, they were really good, not punk as such but with the ethos, bands/ singers whatever come and go but the music still goes on.

Frank the tank

Marc Bolan.

Far too soon to slip his mortal coil.

The Chingford Skinhead

I was saddened by the death of Phil Lynot

Shocked by the death of Michael Hutchence (?sp) - though I liked his music rather than him

Music generally has always had a few golden nuggets buried in mountains of pap. I'm always slightly saddened when I watch music tv shows that go over the 80s and play all the usual suspects rather than things that were different - I personally liked things like Squeeze and even the brief British funk bands like Linx - not high art but as worthy of an 80s recall as anything else. And what about serious stuff like The The - when was the last time you saw one of their videos on tv?

One saddens me currently is the rewriting of history and the so-called icons who end up promoting car insurance. The biggest bit of history rewriting is around Punk. According to so many "authorities" and pundits it was all Viviene Westwood and Malcolm McClaren with the (massively overrated Sex Pistols). Bands like 999 and Chelsea were around a long time before them and actually experienced the alienation that they sang about unlike rebelling toffs like Lynden :evil:
(oops - gone into a bit of a rant..)

iainment

dmclite wrote:

Gram parsons.

Amen to that brother. Wish I had a nudie suit like his.

shockedsoshocked

bikerbill wrote:

Joe Strummer's death was a bugger. He was a hero to me and no doubt many others.

RIP Joe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10tP5HIpaA

First artist I loved who passed away when I was alive. Would have loved to see them live. Hoping Bowie doesn't pop his clogs before I get to see him too.

Other artists who passed away who's music I love.

Ian Curtis (Joy Division)
Stuart Adamson (The Skids)
D Boon (Minutemen)

AndyRubio

Music dead???? It gets better every year.

Was kind of pissed off when Ian Curtis died though.

tebbit

When Fuzzbox finally called it a day, ah well.....

Or the day when someone thought Pop Idol/X Factor was a good idea, plastic pop stars.

Saying that I would love someone to do the Lucien San-Dubios scene from The Producers, baby.

mgcycleguy

bikerbill wrote:

Joe Strummer's death was a bugger. He was a hero to me and no doubt many others.

RIP Joe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10tP5HIpaA

+1 RIP Joe ... I still ride with Clash albums on my ipod ... and they still have a profound impact on me. It always amazes me to ride around seeing all the crap going on, with a clash soundtrack playing in your head

mgcycleguy

... I'd also add... Janis Joplin (tragically taken too young) and Johnny Cash, the man was a true legend

Sleepycol

Paul Raven of Killing Joke. Never really thought much about any rock stars death being that important before, but Raven's demise got to me.

cycologist

I remember being told at school that Otis rRdding had died - ye gods, that was more than forty years ago.. More recently, i felt greatly saddened to read of the death of Curtis Mayfield - as well as his music contribution , he seemed like a genuinely nice person.
For anyone who has had a musical bias towards the Blues, then death has been a frequent and inevitable visitor as one after another, the legends and greats have all gone to the great crossroads in the sky.

Cressers

Music died when instruments were able to play themselves with minimal human intervention.

Surf-Matt

What a bunch of old moaning gits...

shockedsoshocked

Surf-Matt wrote:

What a bunch of old moaning gits...

Pff, I'm 21, a moaning young git

Although my girlfriend does think i'm a middle aged miserable bastard trapped in the body of a young man.

Cressers

Moaning, old, and proud of it!

Surf-Matt

I like old music, new music, all sorts.

Never have I ever thought music "died" at any stage.

My Dad's the same and he's a lifelong pro bass player that's played with some big bands in the past - he still gigs (at small venues) and still enjoys all sorts of modern music - aged 57.

He was devasted though when Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy front man) died - he taught him to play guitar and was a close friend for years.

mask of sanity

Surf-Matt wrote:

He was devasted though when Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy front man) died - he taught him to play guitar and was a close friend for years.

Your dad knew Phill Lynott?! Wow! That guy was amazing! Really passionate about his music! And so much talent!

mercsport

Displaying my age here , but one of the first moments when I thought life was a wee bit unfair was when Eddie Cochran came to grief ( ..on an English road, wouldn't y'know ?). I thought he was up there with Elvis ( ..before the army cut off Elvis's sideburns and, effectively, emasculated his music too), and was the main man on the first gig I ever attended, aged about 14, I guess.

EDIT : How blind have I been all these years ? Y'know, for the first time in my life, I've just noticed one of Gibson's P90 pickups on Eddie's Gretsch !



Hendrix blowing town also sobered me up somewhat.



At least Syd Barrett managed to live to get to a respectable age before dying ( .. of boredom). And the great Beefheart is still alive, doing time as a painter and decorator.
The awesome guff so recently about Jacko throwing in the towel had me perplexed somewhat. 'Genius' : ' ..as great as Mozart'. :shock: They were kidding ? Weren't they ? :? Was he not only a bit of a decent hoofer with the singing voice of a sub-par castrato ?

Aye, I'm beginning to think my time's just about up too.

Surf-Matt

mask of sanity wrote:

Surf-Matt wrote:

He was devasted though when Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy front man) died - he taught him to play guitar and was a close friend for years.

Your dad knew Phill Lynott?! Wow! That guy was amazing! Really passionate about his music! And so much talent!

They were good friends for many years. He cheekily asked my Mum out once too (before she married my Dad - but they were "going out!").

Thin Lizzy's early gigs were in support of Dad's band (at the time).

AndyRubio

I along with half the earth's population discovered Nick Drake's records a small number of years ago. I went to his grave. It's sad that he's dead. I read that the night he died his mum heard him padding around the house as normal. Normally she'd've got up and had a cup of tea with him but that night she was too tired so didn't.

I don't like Northern Lights much though.

iainf72

Sleepycol wrote:

Paul Raven of Killing Joke. Never really thought much about any rock stars death being that important before, but Raven's demise got to me.

That's one I forgot. I listened to the Killing Joke live stuff that was released recently and they have Raven's son on stage and start "Love Like Blood" with "...for Raven" - Real lump in the throat time.

sheepworryingbhoy

Just after Joe Strummer sadly passed on I was at Celtic Park for a home game. At half-time the DJ played "Should I stay..." then at the end of the song payed tribute to Joe, almost all of the 50,000 or so crowd burst into spontaneous applause, it was a really emotional moment.

guilliano

Elton John's music died the day he re-wrote Candle in the wind (which I actually thought was a good song) for Diana. Awful tribute song that!

Kurt Cobain was the big one for me as I was a big fan at the time.

But "popular" music died when club music and boy/girl "bands" took over. How can they be called bands when none play an instrument and most are there for visual effect???

psychle

AndyRubio wrote:

I along with half the earth's population discovered Nick Drake's records a small number of years ago. I went to his grave. It's sad that he's dead. I read that the night he died his mum heard him padding around the house as normal. Normally she'd've got up and had a cup of tea with him but that night she was too tired so didn't.

I'll +1 that.

Three pages in and no-one has mentioned Jeff Buckley!
To create a debut album like 'Grace' and then disappear in such a tragic way is just truly awful.