Whose music will you miss??

Subject: Whose music will you miss??
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 05:47 PM

In the Stevie Ray Vaughn thread we were talking about the fact that we'll miss his music and we will always wonder what types of things he would have been doing if he were still alive.

So the question is whose music will you miss? I for one will wonder about Fred Neil. As far as I know he's not dead - he's just dropped out of music. But I wonder what types of songs he would be doing now, and would I still be listening? So who do you wish had the chance to put out one more recording??

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Mbo
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 05:51 PM

Jeff Lynne and/or ELO.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: hesperis
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 05:52 PM

Janis Joplin.
What would her music be like now if she'd been able to take care of herself?

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: kendall
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 05:56 PM

Stan Rogers Fred Pike Wilf Carter Wila Lee Cooper

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Kim C
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 05:56 PM

the Beatles
Stevie Ray
the Allman Brothers
Charlie Rich (okay, he was my favorite singer when I was 6
I'll second the vote for Janis
Johnny Horton
Keith Whitley
the Who
the Georgia Satellites. As far as I'm concerned, the last really good rock band of the 80s.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 06:24 PM

Mozart. He was younger than me when he died, and although he got started early, I've always wondered what his music would be like when it matured down a little....

LTS

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Auxiris
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 06:30 PM

Stan Rogers, Peter Bellamy, Gamble Rogers are three who come to mind right away.

Aux

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: pastorpest
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 06:33 PM

I like others wonder what Stan rogers would be writing now. also I would like to add Jim Croce to the list.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 06:33 PM

Sandy Denny -still miss her now, and Nic Jones still around but an amazing talent cut short.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 06:49 PM

Second the Sandy Denny nomination, Beethoven, and Richard Farinia

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 07:09 PM

Hendrix. Coltrane. Stan Rogers, without a doubt. John Lennon. Buddy Holly. Del Shannon. Hoyt Axton. Steve Goodman. Pre-induction Elvis (after the army he just was never the same). Gram Parsons. Cactus Jack (the band I had through the 70's - we were just getting good at writing our own stuff when it all went ker-flooey).

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: GUEST,guinnesschik
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 07:31 PM

I have to second the Gram Parsons motion. Janis, Hendrix, The Rolling Stones...no, wait, they just LOOK deceased. John Lennon, Buddy Holly, Jim Morrison: The Doors were a work in progress. Bill Monroe. Bob Wills. All stuff I've loved and wondered about.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Callie
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 07:52 PM

Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley. Especially Jeff Buckley.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: GUEST,sajumikey
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 08:10 PM

What about Harry Chapin

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: GUEST,sajumikey
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 08:11 PM

What about Harry Chapin

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Crowhugger
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 08:48 PM

Bruce Cockburn comes to mind first; his music is always evolving, tho' I do have a soft spot for the older stuff.

CH.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: richlmo
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:11 PM

Jim Croce, Gram Parsons and I'll really miss Doc Watson when he's gone! Towns VanZandt,too.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: WyoWoman
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:19 PM

Hendrix, Nick Drake, Townes Van Zandt, Janis -- although her voice was so utterly destroyed before the rest of her went away, I don't know that she'd be making a sound if she had lived much longer anyway. Jimmy Spheeris ...

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:38 PM

If Bob Dylan goes back into Spirit before I do, I will miss him terribly. Like I would miss my dearest brother or my own child. Like I miss seeing Crazy Horse riding free on unstolen land.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:46 PM

I miss the old-timey music of my grandparents. I will miss the music of my uncles and cousins and my friends, whom I hold dear.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Melani
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 11:03 PM

Nic Jones, although he's not dead-just almost was. As a result, no longer performing.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: GUEST,Barry Finn
Date: 29 Aug 00 - 11:11 PM

Bob Franke......opps, sorry

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: campfire
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 02:05 AM

Those already gone:

Stan Rogers
Jim Croce
Steve Goodman
Harry Chapin

Those I'll miss when they go:

Jackson Browne
Nanci Griffith
John Prine- okay, maybe not his SINGING, but his SONGS
Bob Franke
Probably more I'm not thinking of

campfire

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Benjamin
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 02:23 AM

I must say Robert Johnson. I wonder what he'd be like had he not died so early and he had more time to progess as a musician.

Bruce Jay Pascow of the Washington Squares. He was a good friend of mine and my musical mentor. I wonder how I'd be turning out right now if he were still around.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: GUEST,Rickie
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 04:04 AM

Jeff Buckley I wonder what great music he would've come up with had he not died so young.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: GUEST,mike
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 04:11 AM

definitely missing Annie Briggs!

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 07:56 AM

The singing of David Parry, song collecting and singing by Belle Stewart and Jeannie Robertson, the life and music of Ewan McColl.

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 08:25 AM

Top of the list for me Sandy Denny. And not just because I'm reading her biography at the moment.
Those Passed
Hendrix
Karren Carpenter
Stan Rogers

Not Yet Gone
Nic Jones
Cat Stevens

Still Going
Jackson Browne
Ralph McTell

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: sledge
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 08:37 AM

Sandy Denny.

Just read the Biography.

Cried.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 09:12 AM

Billie Holliday.

Merle Travis. There's lots of Travis sound-alikes, but he had the original patent. So jazzy and country ... such a beautiful, mellow, thumbpicking sound.

Duane Allman.

The Grateful Dead.

Hank Williams.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: winniemih
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 11:18 AM

Tim Buckley (Jeff's dad) Kate Wolf

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Bert
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 11:23 AM

Lionel Bart.

And is NO ONE going to miss poor old John Denver?

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Art Thieme
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 12:01 PM

Bat Goddess,

Thank you for listing some actual folksingers.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 12:19 PM

Bryan Bowers and John Hartford but they're not going anywhere for a long time.
I miss my Aunt May's "over the top" performances of Gay Nineties tunes.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Morticia
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 12:29 PM

Jake Thackray........so far as I know he's not dead just not making music anymore and I miss him terribly.....I hope he's well and happy wherever he is........

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 12:49 PM

Yours. And yours. And yours... all of you.

~S~

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 01:56 PM

Too many to name them all...

A couple of dead ones:

Big Maceo Merriweather

Zuhra Shandieva

Roscoe Holcomb


Live ones I'll miss when they're gone:

Björk Guðmundsdóttir

Doc Watson

Oderous Urungus

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 02:05 PM

I've often thought it would've been neat to see what Jimi would have become had he lived. I think he was as creative and innovative as anyone I've heard. I also think he was just hitting his stride.

But then I look at what has become of so many people and bands who had moments of brilliance and turned into complete crap. Rod Stewart, Elton John, Chicago, Elvis to name a few.

Who knows, if he'd have lived he may have become a Vegas act. (Half tongue in cheek)

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Ely
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 03:12 PM

Kate Wolf, Janis, Hendrix, the Allmans, Townes, Bessie Smith, Buddy Holly, Elizabeth Cotten, the Red Clay Ramblers as we knew them, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Jim Morrison, and a guy named Bob White who probably isn't dead but apparently doesn't perform any more (my parents last saw him at the Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 20+ years ago).

I WILL miss Norman Blake, Fats Domino, Jean Ritchie, Etta Baker (is she still around?), Paul Geramia, Willie Nelson, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Paxton.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: annamill
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 05:14 PM

Fred Neil is in California hangin'. A friend of mine who used to own the Night Owl Cafe in NY is very good friends with him and they communicate regularly. He's ok, but is out of music right now. I can find out more if anyone is really interested. I won't bother him though. He obviously wants to left alone. I'll just ask my friend about him.

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Wesley S
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 05:40 PM

Annamill - I wouldn't want to intrude on Fred Neils personal life but it just seems a shame that such a talented guy with such a great voice { to my ears at least } had to get fed up the the music biz. I wish he would drop into a studio one or twice a decade so those of us who love his music could hear that 12 string and subsonic voice of his. It sure would be nice to tell him that there is at least one guy out there { and probably a lot more } that really loves his music.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Lanfranc
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 05:42 PM

I already miss lots of those nominated above, plus the following who I remember fondly, who have passed on or into oblivion:

Alex Campbell, Alex Atterson, Paul McNeil, Redd Sullivan, Michael and Claire Milner, Bob Roberts, Stephane Grapelli, Peter Parkhill ....

Thanks to the minor miracle of sound recording, their voices or playing are with me yet. What I really miss is them!

Of my all-time heroes, I'd hate to think that I would never see Tom Paxton again.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: mousethief
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 06:02 PM

The gone -- wonder what they could have done had they lived:

Buddy Holly

The not-yet-gone but will miss when they go:

Gordon Bok (and Muir and Trickett)
Al Stewart (who will have a new album out soon on Miramar)
Paul Simon

I also concur with whoever it was said that the earlier Bruce Cockburn stuff (before, say, 1983) was the best. Although his acoustic/folky stuff in the last 5 years has been very good. "Pacing the Cage" could not be written by a young man.

O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: BigDaddy
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 06:11 PM

Honestly have to say the one I miss most is my mother's sweet voice, singing the mountain ballads that were handed down from generation to generation. And I too unaware at the time to at least get them on tape. Should they pass on before I do, I'd miss Jean Ritchie, Maddy Prior, June Tabor, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and so many others. At least we have recordings of these.

J.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: kendall
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 06:11 PM

I miss John Denver, and, of course, I will miss Trickett Bok and Muir, the Patons, Bob Zentz, Joan Sprung, Helen Schneyer, Art Thieme, Rick Fielding etc. but, I hope that is a loooong way off!

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 06:34 PM

Man there are some greats on this thread. Kendall, I'm glad you had the guts to say the ones you did. Kinda fely funny to try to say it.

The gones? Probably at the top of my list because of where they were headed when they died too young---Jim Croce, Harry Chapin, Buddy Holly. Also Frank Proffitt, Merle Watson, Gram Parsons, Hoyt axton, Steve Goodman......

I'd miss everyone Kendall named, and also Jean Ritchie, Emmylou, John Prine,........hell, even Kendall. (stick around bro)

He has gone on to different things in the trad field, but I miss the Patrick Sky of the 60's. An excellent folksinger (trad), but a superior songwriter and interpreter. Great stuff.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Robo
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 06:42 PM

For me the list of dead-or-gone-and-wish-they-weren't starts with Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Steve Goodman, Woody Guthrie, Dave Cousins/the Strawbs, the Dead, Terry Reid . . . and certainly includes my grandmother, Sara. I can still see us on her porch, me in her lap and maybe two years old, and her singing me this tune. Not long after, I'd learned some of it, and she made me sing it for her friends one night after dinner. I remember that scene, too. I really didn't want to do it; I was so afraid. Now I cherish the memory and only wish I had the whole sequence on film . . . so I could remember what that tune was and hear her sing it once again.

--Robo

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Ely
Date: 30 Aug 00 - 07:10 PM

*Sob* My Buddy Holly tape just stretched! The one with "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man" on it . . .

I ought to add Dave Van Ronk and Buffy Sainte-Marie while I'm at it, and Dock Boggs.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Hollowfox
Date: 31 Aug 00 - 03:08 PM

I'm with Auxiris and Bat Goddess, and I'd like to add Lal Waterson and Royston Wood.

Subject: RE: Whose music will you miss??
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Aug 00 - 08:30 PM

*smile*,....and Helen Schenyer is coming to do FSGW concert in Nov!...I have been missing HER for several years, though she only went a few huindred miles north!