Thread: Biggest loss to rock

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

In fact most decent drummers can at least play piano and bass and are not just dead heads sitting at the rear of the stage.

No drummer belongs in this thread, not even that bloke from Rush, so sling yer 'ook!

Musically Sid wasn't even a loss to the Pistols.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

No drummer belongs in this thread, not even that bloke from Rush, so sling yer 'ook!

Bite your foking tongue and just goes to show you know zilch about music. And whilst your at it get a bass drum up yer cout.

I'll throw Brian Epstein into the mix as a man who probably couldn't even play a note but his genuis and visionary talent changed the face of music.

I wonder how many other great bands he would of discoverd and promoted if he had not died so young.

I'm with you with Brian Epstein, I gave him consideration also. But sorry I don't believe
Foreigner, Journey, Toto, Styx, Boston, et al made that great a contribution other than maybe the 'arena power ballad'.

Originally Posted by steevee

But sorry I don't believe Foreigner, Journey, Toto, Styx, Boston, et al made that great a contribution other than maybe the 'arena power ballad'.

I think only those with mullets consider them great acts.

Originally Posted by steevee

Foreigner, Journey, Toto, Styx, Boston,

Vomit..........

Syd Barrett was a huge loss to rock. Even though he didn't die until he was 60 years old, he had lost the plot totally before the age of 22.

Pink Floyd wrote and recorded several tributes to him after he left, the most known being the 1975 album Wish You Were Here.

And did you exchange , a walk on part in the war , for a lead role in a cage?

what a line .

In one way he was a great loss, but on the other hand, he inspired Pink Floyd to write some great songs.

Another song written about Syd:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine

Plain fact is, Pink Floyd got way better after they ditched Syd. Until then, they were stuck in a 60's psychedelia time warp. Not that they wanted to give him the boot, but he'd fried his brain on acid.

Originally Posted by TizMe

In one way he was a great loss, but on the other hand, he inspired Pink Floyd to write some great songs.

Indeed. He was their muse more than a creative, musical genius.

Originally Posted by Finney64

Reckon this fella's worth a mention...

Downloaded and watched the movie Control ..well worth a watch

Hendrix for sure.

But Phil Lynot of Thin Lizzy deserves honorable mention I reckon. A good Irish lad.

Lowell George of Little Feat was a great lost to American Rock and Roll

And lets not forget Duane Allmon and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Randy Rhoads

"Two degrees in be-bop, a phd in swing, he's a master of rhythm, he's a rock 'n roll king "- lowell george

One of the saddest and devastaing losses to the music industry is when Ronnie Wood joined the Rolling Bones.

Originally Posted by The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog

Randy Rhoads

Superb musician - crap pilot.


Yes, I know he wasn't actually piloting the plane.

Rhodes had a fear of flying, he was no pilot at all never mind a good or bad one....

Its always sad to hear about some rockstar died choking on their own vomit if only to lament that they didn't perish choking on mine.

Graham Parsons - mixed blues, folk, and rock to create what he called "Cosmic American Music".

Former Byrd and Fabulous Burrito Brother, introduced country music to Keith Richards
His solo album Grievous Angel is a towering achievement that influenced the singer-songwriter movement and is the impetus for the entire alt-country genre IMO.
Another gigantic talent lost to drugs.