Which Dead Musician Had The Biggest Future Ahead Of Them?
Rockadelic
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There are many, many musicians who died too young.....
Which of these do you think would have acheived even more fame than they had if they had not died?
Which of these do you think would have acheived even more fame than they had if they had not died?
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The thing about Fuller is that he died right when the music business was about to make a major paradigm shift (1966) - the psych movement was about to change the scene. While he lived long enough to see it happen (he dismissed it as a fad), he held on to his short hair and Buddy Holly-inspired sound. It would have been interesting to see how he would have dealt with the changes.
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Sam Cooke. He seemed so focused on his craft and already was a major player at the time of his death.
The thing about Cooke is that he died right when the music business was about to make a major paradigm shift (1964) - the soul movement was about to change the scene, and he was a major reason why. While Stax, Motown and the Chicago performers were already making inroads during his lifetime, they didn't really blow up until after he died. It would have been interesting to see him mentor an Otis Redding or a Curtis Mayfield.
These were two of the first three names I thought of......but I figured if I was going to go with Fuller I might as well just take Buddy Holly.
Sam Cooke is my frontrunner right now.....would have been great to see what he would have done if he walked down the 60's Marvin Gaye/Donny Hathaway path.
What about Donny Hathaway?
scott lafaro
glenn goins
Frankly, it's hard to tell with a guy who had been off the scene for years when he passed. He wasn't exactly cut down in his prime (although he was about to make a comeback, from the looks of things).
I thought about that too, but decided to go with Fuller.
See, if Holly hadn't gone down in that plane crash, I could still see him having at least four or five more years of hits just as he was.
However, the scene might have passed Fuller by if he didn't seriously modify himself in some way.
Fuller's world would have changed a lot more dramatically than Holly's did.
and Buddy Holly. i have a very odd friend who thinks that Paul McCartney is Buddy Holly, plastic surgery. he has an elaborate story to go with it and he twitches when he tells it.
Big L
Cougnut
Kid Hood
Dude had the voice for rap. No one sounded like him.
there was alot bubbling for him right before he was killed
I dont think one verse is enuff to gauge whether dude was going to have a 5 album solo career.
And judging from BIG L's first album im hesitant to think he would have grown out of the Hardcore set and survive during the Bling era. I dont know if he had the support that Biggie and Jay-Z did to make that adjustment.
That Scenario rmx verse was hard enough to make me want to hear more from dude and that never happened due to his death esp with him possibly rocking w/ Tribe at their apex dude could have been major IMO. I am including him whether he would have dropped one EP or five LP's.
the songs big l was dropping before he died (ebonics, the heist, flamboyance) werent very hardcore.
if people are gonna mention all these obvious names, ill say i was always very curious what couldve come from kurt cobain. if he wouldve made it to the session with michael stipe that month, i wonder what wouldve come out of those sessions
George Gershwin.