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Post by A Normal Pathfinder on May 26, 2013 19:08:16 GMT 1
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Post by Mister Buch on May 26, 2013 20:02:47 GMT 1
Oh that's a nice thing.
Most of my favourite musicians are dead! I'm old-fashioned with this sort of thing. But I'll pick two - Nina Simone and John Lennon. My favourites. What I wouldn't give to see one of those two play.
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Post by Clint Johnston on May 26, 2013 20:49:36 GMT 1
Most of my favorite musicians are dead.
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Post by A Normal Pathfinder on May 26, 2013 21:13:29 GMT 1
good classics
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Post by Cali on May 26, 2013 21:34:49 GMT 1
Peter Steele of Type O Negative, one of my favorite alternative/goth metal bands died in 2009, and I only heard about him then, and it tears me up that I didn't
This song is such a great melancholic tune, very appropriate for Peter's passing.
Bobby Darin, the musical everyman who respected both the old and the new ways.
Ronnie James Dio, who had a run with Black Sabbath, died a few weeks after Peter Steele due to stomach cancer. Without a doubt my favorite metal vocalist.
George Harrison, arguably the most gifted of all the Beatles.
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Post by A Normal Pathfinder on May 26, 2013 23:19:59 GMT 1
all good songs
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on May 26, 2013 23:46:15 GMT 1
These are some of my favorite songs:
Damn, I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson could... I wish I had just a fraction of that man's talent...
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on May 27, 2013 10:30:47 GMT 1
Randy Rhoads: founder of Quiet Riot and guitarist for Ozzy during the Blizzard of Ozz/Diary of a Madman era. 23 at the time of his death in a plane crash. He was one of the newer wave of neo-classical metal guitarists and helped re-define the virtuosity of heavy metal guitar.
These are studio outtakes of him recording "Dee": a composition he used to showcase his skills as a classical guitarist.
And my favorite song that Randy wrote, Mr Crowley.
In the same vein of virtuosos, you have Cliff Burton of Metallica. Died during their Master of Puppets tour in a bus crash. His bass playing ability was top-notch and was one of the best in his generation and rose to stardom alongside men like Les Claypool.
I'll end this one with another man who re-defined heavy metal guitar: "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott of Pantera/Damageplan. The godfather of groove metal, he took the highly technical styles associated with thrash metal, slowed them to mid-tempo, and played with a smoothness few could match. As a primarily thrash metal player, I liken trying to do a proper cover of songs like "Cowboys from Hell" to a drummer trying to keep up with Neal Peart on YYZed; it sounds like it shouldn't be that hard but then you actually try it and realize just how out of your league you are.
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Post by A Normal Pathfinder on May 27, 2013 14:55:49 GMT 1
yeah R.R will be missed
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on May 27, 2013 19:41:09 GMT 1
I'd also like to take a moment to pay tribute to one of the most skilled shred guitarists in history; Jason Becker. He is still living, however his career was cut drastically short due to the onset of Lou Gehrig's Disease which killed his ability to play and eventually took away even his ability to speak. However, he is still around and even manages to somehow keep composing new music via computer. The following video is probably his landmark work: Speed Metal Symphony which he did alongside future Megadeth lead guitarist Marty Friedman.
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Post by A Normal Pathfinder on May 27, 2013 21:57:10 GMT 1
thats almost worse than death
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Post by A Normal Pathfinder on May 27, 2013 23:13:47 GMT 1
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Post by Cali on Jun 26, 2013 21:58:09 GMT 1
One of my favorite drummers, Alan Myers of the band Devo, has died due to brain cancer. Whip that afterlife, whip it good, Alan.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jun 26, 2013 23:24:29 GMT 1
I hate cancer. All forms of it. Especially brain cancer... my grandmother died from brain cancer two years ago, after she had so many other cancers over the years since I was a little girl, and kept beating it every time, until the brain cancer was the final one... There needs to be a cure for cancer... I know chemotherapy can help, and there are treatments to stave it off, but... there needs to be a way to wipe it out and cure it completely.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jun 26, 2013 23:32:48 GMT 1
I hate cancer. All forms of it. Especially brain cancer... my grandmother died from brain cancer two years ago, after she had so many other cancers over the years since I was a little girl, and kept beating it every time, until the brain cancer was the final one... There needs to be a cure for cancer... I know chemotherapy can help, and there are treatments to stave it off, but... there needs to be a way to wipe it out and cure it completely. That will be one major milestone, since cancer is the poster child of lethal genetic diseases. I haven't heard much about the research on a cure lately, but last I knew, we're still at least a decade or two away.
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