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If you could bring a dead rock star back to life for one gig, who would it be?

John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Buddy Holly, Freddie Mercury? Or someone else?

guccilvr

So who would you bring back??


I'd bring back Keith Moon. Dude was a maniac, and I loved his out of control lifestyle.

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The_Jazz

You'd only bring him back if you got to party with him, gucci. I'm sure you secretly want Jim Croce back.

In all seriousness, I've got to go with either Buddy Holly or Kurt Cobain on this one just for the "what else would they have done" factor. All the rest were on the downslope of their careers.

And if I could go back in time to 1992, I'd kill Madonna. Nothing like going out on a high note. And sparing us the looking like shoe leather bit that we have now.

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Halx

I would bring back Bradley Nowell. I thought he could have developed into a great musician.

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love to see what buddy holly could have done...

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Stevie Ray Vaughan, I think. It's a tough question.

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Willravel

I keep forgetting Robert Plant is still alive.

But yeah, it's gotta be Lennon. It would have been amazing to see how the world would have continued to change because of his influence through the 80s and 90s. His brand of peace activism seemed to take a back seat in the 80s. Not only that, but his amazing music was continuing to morph even as he was entering his 40s. He'd be 68 as of this October.

Baraka_Guru

This is a tough one. Buddy Holly and Kurt Cobain would be high on my list.

But, ultimately, I'd have to choose Jimi Hendrix. That shit was just getting started.

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roachboy

i think this question is creepy.
i keep thinking zombie flick. i keep thinking that we'd need guitar wolf to deal with them. that'd mean bringing bass wolf back to life so that he could help deal with the zombies. so nothing makes any sense. that's why it's creepy.

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Definitely Freddy Mercury. The man was a genius. And Lennon.

Why has no one mentioned Ritchie Valens?

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fresnelly

Agreed. I want to see him in concert and stand close to the speakers and damn the consequences.

Can we stretch the definition of "Rock Star" to include other popular genres?

Then Nick Drake for Folk. Did you know there is no video footage of him performing at all? Shame.

Nina Simone for soul music because I really would like to see her in concert.

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guccilvr

eh.. Lennon would have just been arrested by homeland security and locked up as a terrorist.

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Daniel_

Marc Bolan.

If nothing else, he'd have ended up a Travelling Willbury.

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ShaniFaye

Freddie Mercury absolutely!!

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Punk.of.Ages

For one gig: John Bonham.

I'd love to see Zeppelin live.

To see what else could've happened: I'll also have to say Bradley Nowell.

So much originality so abruptly ended.

Just for fun: Bring Ol' Dirty Bastard back!

That dude was hilarious!

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roachboy

i retract my previous being-creeped out position and endorse marc bolan.

nothing says degenerate vegas show quite the way t-rex in their 60s does.
i'd go in a second.

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Nikilidstrom

You read my mind, although it wasn't a very tough decision for me, as I sit here listening to Lenny and air guitaring my ass off.

jorgelito

Bob Marley. He was transcendent.

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Manic_Skafe

Definitely Hendrix but only if when he goes back to the dead he takes Bono, Chris Cornell and all of the Smashing Pumpkins with him.

Edit: And Coldplay too. Fuck Coldplay.

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onesnowyowl

SRV, as others have already said. I've often wished he could have had a longer career.

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Martian

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Bradley Nowell are the only ones listed so far that I feel didn't have a chance to say what they really wanted to say. So one or the other of them. Probably Vaughan.

By the time of his death, Hendrix had already alienated the Experience, along with Chas Chandler, who was a key figure in shaping his pre-Ladyland stuff. I think that the other guys don't get as much credit as they deserve, and without them I don't think Hendrix could've topped Electric Ladyland.

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speshul-k

John Bonham without a doubt.
Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan and hell some Freddie Mercury for good measure.
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Of course Lennon and Jim Morrison.

ratbastid

Well, I was all Hendrix until I read that. It'd be INTERESTING to see what Jimi would be up to these days, but in terms of sheer "vision left unfulfilled", SRV is way out in front.

The_Jazz

In the spirit of roachboy's first post, can I kill Michael Bolton, have him buried, then reanimate him but leave him buried?

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Baraka_Guru

Throw in Kenny G and make it a double.

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mixedmedia

I think Zappa had a lot of music left in him.
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...and Buddy Holly, definitely.

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