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30 Jan 2012, 12:28 pm

Janis Joplin.


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30 Jan 2012, 4:09 pm

Mmm...

Layne Staley - AIC
Brad Nowell - Sublime
Dwayne Goettel - Skinny Puppy


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30 Jan 2012, 4:17 pm

Patsy Cline, Gram Parsons, Jimi Hendrix



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01 Feb 2012, 7:55 pm

2pac for me, Biggie doesn't come far behind, I just wish there was more material from the latter artist.

I'm also a fan of Micheal Jackson, Luther Vandross & Marvin Gaye.



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01 Feb 2012, 7:57 pm

Agreed, especially on Marvin Gaye.


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02 Feb 2012, 1:13 am

bobby darin could do it all like nobody's business. and frances farmer was not only an outstanding actress but also a woefully underutilized musician and singer, who possessed an utterly unique contralto voice rather like marian anderson, and who could play several instruments including guitar and pedal harp. both left too soon.



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02 Feb 2012, 6:37 am

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i am not sure whether beethoven was a good musician however. i have never heard any stories about how well he played the piano.


Beethoven was by far the best player around. He was a player first and composer second until he realized that to express himself properly, he needed to create new music. He premiered most of his piano concertos himself, but as his hearing got worse this became difficult and then impossible. He played so powerfully that he broke the pianos he used, and had instruments specially built for him, pushing the development of the Piano forward more than anyone in the history of keyboards (until Robert Moog, perhaps?).

Relevant to this site as well, I would assume, is that he is a prime candidate for a post mortem Autism Spectrum diagnosis.

For me, there are too many great dead people to mention, so here are a few great dead guys I had the great privilege of seeing live: Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Jokke, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Richard Wright,



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02 Feb 2012, 2:44 pm

Johnny Cash.

Ian Curtis, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday, Bob Marley, George Harrison, Etta James, Luther Vandross, Tim Buckley, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Freddie, Tammi Terrell...



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02 Feb 2012, 4:10 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9LY14prqIs[/youtube]

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02 Feb 2012, 6:11 pm

I'd have to say it's a tie between Vivaldi and Peter Steele.


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02 Feb 2012, 9:19 pm

Miles Davies, Jeff Buckley, Ian Curtis, Freddie Mercury.

All people I got into far too late! Oh, and Charles Mingus.


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03 Feb 2012, 12:31 am

Janis Joplin would be my favorite, with Billie Holiday following close behind.


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03 Feb 2012, 12:42 am

Woody Guthrie should be mentioned. Without him folk music would not be the same.


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03 Feb 2012, 6:28 am

fats waller and bennie moten taught count basie all that he knew.



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03 Feb 2012, 10:03 am

dead musicians do not play music. they are as silent as a tree stump. i have never enjoyed a song played by a dead musician.



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03 Feb 2012, 11:04 am

b9 wrote:
dead musicians do not play music. they are as silent as a tree stump. i have never enjoyed a song played by a dead musician.


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