Ertha Kitt.
Nina Simone.

GG.

wow.

i hadn't thought of him in forever. i met his brother at a show a few years ago and he was the nicest guy on earth. merle..

muddy waters
howlin' wolf
Willie Dixon
Richard wright-Pink Floyd

Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone

Layne Staley

Brad Nowell

Anytime someone remembers my man Stevie Ray, it makes my day. I saw him & Double Trouble in '89. That concert still touches my soul.

I saw Freddie M. & the boys twice.

I saw The Man in Black once.

Brad Delp of Boston fame hasn't been mentioned.

I thinks it's great that everyone has mentioned all of these musical artist, but my question to you would be; which of the many mentioned actually touched you where you live?

Bob Marley
Peter Tosh
Bogle
General Echo

Great artists all murdered before their time. Given time, I'll remember some more reggae greats. They all tend to die a bit young.

Wow! SO many I want to list; many of my very favs have already been named. All of the following have bee SO incredibly formative to my life. Undoubtedly, I'll need to revisit w/ those I forget in my haste. ...

... Some of those I believe that are yet unheralded(?), that I'll apply a lil rapid~fire listing, include but are not limited to:

Les Paul
John Coltraine
Thelonius Monk
Etta James
Gram Parsons
Townes Van Zandt ... ... my brotha ...
Lowell George
Lightnin' Hopkins
Mississippi John Hurt
Otis Spann
Sonny Boy Williamson(yes, 1 and 2)
Junior Well
Big Joe Williams
Charlie Patton
Elizabeth Cotten
Scott Joplin
Buddy Guy
Louis Prima
Louis Armstrong
Edith Piaf
Dusty Springfield
Peggy Lee
Dinah Washington
Benny Goodman
Glenn Miller
Artie Shaw
Robert Johnson
Leadbelly
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Spike Jones
Bob Wills
Hank Williams
Bill Munroe
Sam Cooke
Eddy Arnold
Nick Drake
Joe Strummer
Buddy Miles
Dicky Betts
Duane Allman
Peter Green
Janis Joplin
Vivaldi
Lizst
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky


Hmmmmmmmmm ...

... Then, I'd echo some of my other deceased favs I believe were all already saluted in this thread:

Mozart
John Lennon
George Harrison
Stevie Ray Vaughn ... ... My brotha ...
Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Johnny Cash
Patsy Cline
Nat King Cole
Frank Sinatra
Billie Holiday
Roger Miller
Bing Crosby
Nina Simone
Miles Davis
Marvin Gaye
Otis Redding
Howlin' Wolf
Willie Dixon
Billy Preston
Muddy
Zappa
Robert Palmer
Kurt Cobain
John Bonham
Freddie Mercury
Marc Bolan
Mike Bloomfield
Keith Moon
John Entwhistle
Richard Manuel
Layne Staley


... There are so many more ...

... Would be so fine to have them ALL chartin' as contemporaries in the now; what sound!!! ...

Herbi Mann <sp----Love that Village gate 64 into 66 or so!

I U & miss U so much. It was your wonderful voice,song writing,honest expression & stellar acoustical guitar playing that left a mark on my heart & soul forever.It is U who deeply inspired me & gave me great passion for this instrument.It is so tragic & greatly saddening that U were taken from us all in your prime.U may have left us but U will never be forgotten.Godspeed!Steven ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPu_G-T28iU&feature=PlayList&p=BACAADA8FD59A5F6&index=21

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OMG! There will never be enough caffeine to get me through this thread! All the best are dead, far outnumbering those still pluggin' and chuggin'! I could do a great jazz masters and another blues masters and still another great composers thread, and I'd never get done with those 3 threads alone!!!

Here's some greats that haven't been named yet to start:

Charlie Parker
Son House
Jaco Pastorius
Dizzy Gillespie
Brahms
Borodin
Schubert
DeBussey
Vaughner
Hector Berlioz
Rashid Ali (he just died, one of John Coltraine's best drummers)
Elvin Jones
Mitch Mitchell
Ron Ashton
Jimmy Cobb
Charles Mingus
Eric Dolphy

This could take a year and is giving me a headache! May they all RIP, and Thank God fer vinyl!!!

PS - - Dancere just asked me to correct her listin'Buddy Guy, seeing as he just finished a big tour and is very much above ground breathing! Still alive and well, oh yeah!

Niccolo Paganini
Jacco Pastorius

And.. Dan Fogelberg

August 13, 1951 - December 7, 2007

Chet Atkins
Jerry Donahue
Pat Buchanon
Rory Gallagher
Dimebag Darrell
Robert Johnson
Freddie Everitt
etc. etc.

at least a musician's mucis can live forever.

Les Paul


R.I.P

Les Paul

Your sound
Your riff
Your tone

Killers all.....

So many
Tried to
Copy you

Axes that bear your name

You will never truly be gone

Your name will never fade

Les Paul is forever




Tammy

Richard Wright
John Bohnam
Frank Zappa