I´m sure we all agree that the real worst moments are the deaths, illnesses and addictions that musicians have sustained, and that a sudden death at a young age is far worse than an old guy's death that is seen coming by doctors. With that in mind, my list might be:-
1. The plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and others, which Janszoon recently posted about in this thread:
http://www.musicbanter.com/lounge/90...ng-places.html
2. John Lennon's death, which shocked a rather innocent, post-war generation and taught them that even mega-talent and stardom does not make you invulnerable to a bullet
3. Poor Amy Whitehouse, who has a thread dedicated to her somewhere
4. I'm putting Keith Moon and Brian Jones together, because their deaths were only ten months apart, and I want some space for...
5. Jeff Buckley, whose death occured under particulary poignant circumstances:-
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On the evening of May 29, 1997, Buckley's band flew to Memphis intending to join him in his studio there to work on the newly written material. The same evening, Buckley went swimming in Wolf River Harbor, a slack water channel of the Mississippi River, while wearing boots and all of his clothing and singing the chorus of the song "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin.
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Actually five is clearly too small a number because I haven't yet mentioned:-
Nick Drake whose sleeping pill overdose may well have been accidental, having forgotten if or how many pills he'd already taken.
Duanne Allman who had only just hit his true musical stride when he died. Of all the "what if..." losses to music, his is the one that I am most convinced would've been excellent.
And lastly Robert Wyatt, who fell out of a hotel window while drunk and became paralysed from the waist down at the age of 28.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
I think Waters obviously did a lot for the band, but I think that Syd could have brought them to further levels and brought some more flavours to the picture than were already there. Major what if because I think he would have gone weird with schizophrenia regardless, but I don't think he would detract from it.
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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Did you ever read about how bad it had gotten towards the end? Both live and in the studio? Dude had become a massive liability and refused to budge an inch.
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^ I agree with both of these things about Syd Barratt, and one of the saddest things about his story is this rumour: that he lived for a while in a London suburb with a couple who imagined that they could free his psychedelic genius by giving him LSD. Supposedly, for about a month, they put LSD in his breakfast drink every morning without telling him. If true, can you imagine what that must've done to a guy whose mind was already teetering on a dangerous edge?
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And lastly, to anyone who has put "Dylan" on their list, you are invited to post something in this thread so that I can report you to the mods immediately
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http://www.musicbanter.com/country-f...bob-dylan.html