Greatest Dead Rock Stars

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Jerry is my favorite on that list, but he gave us a lifetime of music to enjoy. Whlie Lennon was gone far to soon, he also left volumes of music.

From that list, I gotta go with Hendrix as well. Way too young, way too much promise.

But, I think the real answer is:

Robert Johnson 1911-1938

Another of note that isn't as well know: Gram Parsons.

 

[BayBuck]

Jeff Buckley.

Good call, that guy had a lot of great music left in him--though his early death seemed more inevitable in hindsight than some of the others here.

 

[Folanator]

I did not put Cash or Ol' Blue Eyes on the list because they lived full lives. I kept it to people that checkout out earlier than they should have.

There was another I almost put on there:

Selena. Big time in the Hispanic world.

FC, Parsons was a coin flip. Not only for the GP Project, but more his Studio Work. Didn't he get killed by that Movie Producer after a party?

 

[OSUsushichic]

Elvis, John Lennon, and Johnny Cash

 

[SanAntonioBuck]

Jimi Hendrix

 

[gregorylee]

The fact that I am the first one to vote for SRV makes this entire poll bogus...

 

[Big Papa]

Personally, I think Jimi Hendrix but I picked John Lennon just b/c of his social impact.

I agree with Thump here. Lennon's death had such a huge social impact and people still mark the anniversary each December. I remember hearing as a kid on the radio when he died. It was just such a crazy scenario how Chapman was like a crazed, stocker fan that gunned him down. Another person that could have and should have been put on this list was Dimebag Darrell Abbott. Elvis, Hendrix and Cobain were also all huge and certainly had social impacts as well, just think Lennon's was the biggest because he was a Beatle.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

The fact that I am the first one to vote for SRV makes this entire poll bogus...

SRV is second place to Hendrix... and SRV would have said the same himself.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Dimebag Darrell on the list?

When someone says "Hendrix, Lennon or Elvis" the next name out of my mouth is never "Dimebag Darrell"

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Paul McCartney

That's what I get for not watching CNN more often...I didn't know he had died.

 

[BB73]

That's what I get for not watching CNN more often...I didn't know he had died.

You've got to play those old LP's backwards.

 

[JoJaBuckeye]

May I ask how old you are? because you have to be in your 20's and learned about Lennon from MTV. He was one of the leading voices against the war in Vietnam in the late 60's early 70's. Held demonstrations out of his hotel in Europe where all of the worlds press covered the events (he and Yoko naked in bed). Made anti war movies and was a general peace activist that was HUGE in influancing people. To say that Lennon was a flash in the pan pop star is an insult to one of the greatist men blah blah blah....

I'll be 49 on Feb. 10, and I don't give a rat's ass about Lennon's politics or idiotology. Furthermore, I think Imagine is the worst piece of crap ever written.

Like I said, heralded the age of long hair, put Brylcream in the coffin. Beyond that, identify one single person on the planet who had food who otherwise would not have had any food b/c Lennon lived. You cannot, I know you cannot, and you know that I know you cannot.

This is where you lay down your king and walk away. And as you do so, try not to impose your affinity for the man on those of us with a different perspective....after all, we're not the ghouls who show up with candles once a year. He's dead, we're over it already.

 

[JoJaBuckeye]

There was another I almost put on there:

Selena. Big time in the Hispanic world.

Yes, and excellent cross-over potential. We'll never know, tragically.

 

[CookyPuss]

FC, Parsons was a coin flip. Not only for the GP Project, but more his Studio Work. Didn't he get killed by that Movie Producer after a party?

He died of OD. His road manager stole his body from the airport and burned it in the desert near Joshua Tree to honor a pact they had made. The story is immortalized in the movie Grand Theft Parsons starring Johnny Knoxville.

He was pretty major influence on the Stones (hung out with Keith when they were recording tunes like Honkey Tonk Women and Wild Horses) and the Eagles (played with Bernie Leadon in The Flying Burrito Bros).

 

[Big Papa]

Dimebag Darrell on the list?

When someone says "Hendrix, Lennon or Elvis" the next name out of my mouth is never "Dimebag Darrell"

For that era and that generation that listens to that style Rock N Roll, he was a huge loss and had a degree of social impact. Especially given the violent and tragic way he died and the situation was somewhat similar to Lennon in that it was a disturbed fan that blamed him for the breakup of Pantera. You can't discount someone just because you don't like or follow that style of music. To me personally Jerry Garcia listed is ridiculous.