If you could bring one dead musician back to life to continue writing/performing, who would you choose?
Posted Oct 21, 2014, 1:36 AM UTC
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Buddy Holly
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Tchaikovsky, Holst, Sebelius, Dvorak, to name a few
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Janis Joplin. She was way ahead of her time and her voice was amazing
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Michael Jackson. He touched so many people in his life and I'm sure if we brought him back he'd touch many more.
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Really? -_-
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ZAPPA!!
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Elvis Presley for sure
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Freddie Mercury.
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I second Hendrix!!
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Bob Marley.
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Mozart, he would be the next Deadmau5.
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Beethoven. You thought his musical transition ended at early romanticism? Just imagine what it would have been like had he developed his music even further.
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Stevie Ray Vaughn
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John Bonham. If only to keep LZ together and playing.
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Frank Sinatra
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John Lennon.
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I would love to just have 5 more years of Jimi Hendrix's interpretations and innovations.
I know there's someone else I'd rather pick, but this is the first answer I have when someone asks this question. The amount of technology he'd have at his disposal these days, or even in the mid-70s, would have allowed him to get some pretty radical sounds.
Of course, he could have devolved into a wanky blooze player, but he'd still be better than most of the guys in boomer blues bands that are out there.