When the Music's Over...

Man.. Ernie Ball and Johnny Ramone.... both gone this week... I better make a doctors appt and get a checkup...

I ran into my friend Nick this morning still jacked up on adrenaline and whatnot from last night, and then he dropped the bomb about Johnny. Damn.

Sucks.

Then what did you do last night? Doesn't sound like a couple of drinks.

Ah damn.

Got tattooed and hung out with a group of friends at a house that belongs to one of them. Then I crashed there.

Sounds like fun. What did you get a tattoo of?

I heard Wilson Pickett passed away today.

Sad. He was my favorite 'Motown' man.

Who can listen to Mustang Sally and not break into the boogaloo?

RIP, Wilson.

Frank Zappa, Jim Morisson, Jimi Hendrix and SRV for me

Hendrix, definitely. His career was way too short. If he could do what he did in the US in only a few years, one can only imagine the magnitude of what he could have done in 20 years...

For me it's Smashing Pumpkins, and Billy Corgan's genius more specifically. He's kinda lost it. Some of his new stuff is good but I've been listening to Siamese Dream nonstop the past few weeks and it's really really effected me..

Cliff Burton, man -- poor Cliff. If he was around today, Metallica would still be the kings of thrash, dominating the world of metal.

I've just seen this thread for the first time.

I totally agree with Animal, Cliff Burton was a hell of a bass player, damm good.

I also think that Freddie Mercury and Dennis Wilson (from the Beach Boys) should have lived more. They had great personalities apart from being wonderful musicians (Freddie more than Dennis but in the later years he was in the process of becoming a very good songwriter, though he would have never reached Brian's genius).

As a drummer, it is also sad that Bonham and Keith Moon passed away. It would have been fantastic seeing them playing live.

And last but not least... well, he's not dead and his mental breakdown pushed the rest of the Floyd to write their own material which really was a good thing but, I still wonder what things could have Syd done if he wouldn't have gone insane. After all he was very young when he lost it and I'm sure he could have evolved and done more interesting things than "The Piper" (being this already a good album as it is).

If the next PF albums had sounded like his solo ones, I think APFFN wouldn't exist and the all-mighty Floyd would have remained just an obscure 60's English band.

You're right, but then he already had serious mental problems when he recorded his two solo albums and it shows.

What I meant was that it would have been interesting that Syd could have developed a solo career on his own apart from the one that the Floyd began when he left.

It's a completely different thing, I know, but for the Genesis fans it is quite interesting that Steve Hackett continues recording albums (and very interesting ones) Anthony Phillips has also a good solo career and, of course, we've got Peter Gabriel. Imagine if Steve Hackett had disappeared from the scene after 1977, it would have been a loss.