it's over too soon sometimes.

[schmeankman]

Lowell George. That fan brought da funk.

[afterstasis]

Buddy Holly

i was just about to berate everyone for forgetting buddy... crisis averted.

[KingProgdor]

I want the 1970's Chicago lineup to come back and record another album, to be honest.

Gimme my Robert Lamm, Walter Parazaider, James Pankow, Daniel Seraphine, TERRY KATH, Peter Cetera, and Lee Loughnane back dammit. T_T

[FleshofJesu]

weakling and graves at sea

[warthogdb]

It would be interesting to see how time would have treated some artists had they not died. Perhaps they wouldn't be quite so legendary.

[Onslaught_fei]

Chuck.

[afterstasis]

weakling

i can't believe i didn't think of weakling.

[Gowienczyk]

I want another fIREHOSE record, it seems they just ended it a little too early, imo.

[Lolicat]

. seriously. That was the life they were living. Thus, why they talked about it in such a manner. The rappers around in the last 10 years or so rely on fabrication and exaggeration. I blame the no talent hacks that over-glorify something they aren't truly involved in. I blame 50 cent and the likes of those idiots for what rap has become. And let's not confuse hip-hop with rap, they are, after all, quite different.

Hmmm, perhaps I was being too sweeping; what I as refering to in particular was the whole East/West rivalry that they were responsible for escalating, and the amount of diss tracks and hate that was subsequently generated.
That said, even if that was the life they were living, they didn't need to represent it in the manner that they did, but rather could have condemned it like the political and alternative hip-hop artists.
I do agree that modern R&B artists need to stop co-opting the pain of the ghetto for their own image, though, that's not kosher with me.

[onidragon]

John Lennon and Hendrix are easy picks, but I really, deep down, want Kurt Cobain to come back and put out Nirvana IV, because if "You Know You're Right" was any indication, he was on the cusp of outdoing Nevermind and In Utero.