If you could bring a dead rock star back to life for one gig

[Spiritinthesky]

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?

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[Mike Snyder]

Stevie Ray, Brian Jones, Keith Moon.

[John Flynn]

Keith Richards

[mandobeater]

Srv

[Bertram Henze]

Hotblack Desiato

[ourgang]

Randy Rhodes, my son's guitar hero. He would have loved to have met him.

[William Smith]

Wow Morbid but kool!,,I'd pick either Clarence White or Don Rich,,,I'dlike a one on one with em!

[Bigtuna]

Jerry Garcia

[journeybear]

All of them! Well, except for ... better stop right there.

Pretty weird, and then there's the ''one gig'' proviso. So I voted for Hendrix (of course), and then checked the current standings. Stunned to see he has only 5.5% of the vote. The leaders? Bonzo and Mercury, who account for nearly half the votes. Really? A drummer and a singer, not a guitarist. OK, one of the all-time best rock drummers (and given the rather unimaginative current crop, sorely missed), but still ... Oh well, these lists are always weird, subject to the vicissitudes of the public's taste, and the possibility of a voting campaign by fiercely organized fans. (Freddie Mercury? Really? That's my explanation.) Eh. And not a mandolinist in the bunch (other than George Harrison and Jerry Garcia, who dabbled).

[Rush Burkhardt]

Jim Croce (I know...maybe not a "rock" star), Danny Gatton

[Markus]

Jerry Garcia. Might even make him pull out his acoustic some.

[pjlama]

Jerry

[Richard.g.hampton]

John Bonham..........we'd have had a lot more Led Zep then

Richard

[Baboon]

Duane Allman

[greg_tsam]

G.G. Allin would make a great zombie. He'd probably come back well mannered and tasteful.

[JEStanek]

Lux Interior.

G.G. Allin would make a great zombie. He'd probably come back well mannered and tasteful.

No. well mannered and tasteful are the antithesis of GG. Even Sid Viscous looks like a Choir Boy in comparison.

Jamie

[Jim Ferguson]

For me........definitely Lennon.
Peace,

[journeybear]

Lennon would be the only one who might bump Hendrix off the top spot for me. Well, maybe Garcia. Well, maybe Allman. Well, maybe Janis. Well, maybe Marley. Well, maybe ...

Thanks for mentioning Duane. Believe it or not, he isn't even on the list of choices!

Plus, they have photos of Marc Bolan, Bo Diddley, Amy Winehouse, Nick Drake, Michael Jackson, John Peel, and Whitney Houston, but they aren't on the list. Oops!

Whatever!

Here 'tis:

John Lennon
Elvis Presley
Kurt Cobain
Jimi Hendrix
Jeff Buckley
Jerry Garcia
Bob Marley
Jim Morrison
Ronnie Van Zant
Ian Curtis
Michael Hutchence
Janis Joplin
John Bonham
Freddie Mercury
Bon Scott
Keith Moon
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Phil Lynott
George Harrison
Frank Zappa
Dimebag Darrell
Otis Redding
Roy Orbison
Sid Vicious
Karen Carpenter
Johnny Cash
Other:

[Mando Bondage]

I usually get "burned", when I express this personal opinion, but,....I HAVE NEVER gotten the whole Kurt Cobain thing!! Never saw him as a "Musical Genius", never understood people falling all over themselves singing his praises!! To me, in my opinion, he was a very unhappy, very depressed, "misfit", if you will, whose music was dull, depressing, and boring. The only song that Nirvana ever recorded that I liked was their COVER of Leadbelly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night".

Some of my choices:
John Lennon
Buddy Holly
Jimi Hendrix
Freddie Mercury
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Roy Buchanan
Gram Parsons
Gotta Love the Lux Interior idea too!!

[greg_tsam]

Lux Interior.

No. well mannered and tasteful are the antithesis of GG. Even Sid Viscous looks like a Choir Boy in comparison.

Jamie

Well, my point is normal people turned into zombies go from normal to gross. Maybe GG could go from gross to normal. Then again he might come back as something entirely different.

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I'd like either SRV or Dave Peters. Or anyone cut down in their prime or just before they were going to explode on the scene. It's a silly question the OP poses but fun to think about. How far would Buddy Holly have gone and what would he become in his 80's? Or Elvis? Would they have become legendary artists who continued to produce or caricatures of themselves still singing Hound Dog and Maybe, Baby.

[Mando Bondage]

greg_tsam: I have always felt that Buddy Holly would have eventually quit the performing end and would have become a major record producer.

[George R. Lane]

Robert Johnson.

[Elliot Luber]

I knew John Entwhistle, so I would have to say him, but does J.S. Bach count?

[JeffD]

Keith Richards

[Loretta Callahan]

Jimi Hendrix.