To answer Don's question, I think Jim Morrison falls into that category. In fact, he was well on the way there when he died. The Doors' music is still very popular, but I think Morrison, had he lived, had the potential to do things that would have made people never want to hear his music again. In a younger vain, I think Kurt Cobain of Nirvana would have eventually driven his fans away too. And, with apologies to Peg, Janis Joplin was so burnt out by the time she died that I have a hard time believing that she could have seriously accomplished much else. She had definitely peaked and was not gonna come back up again.

Bruce