Favorite Songs of Artists that Were Taken from Us Too Soon

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I absolutely love that song. A lot of people, when they talk about Jimi, talk about him playing the guitar with his tongue or setting it on fire. Or playing the Star Spangled Banner with all the wild distortion at Woodstock.

For me, his best stuff was the slower, bluesier songs like that one and Hey Joe and Red House and a bunch of others. I never much cared for all the theatrics. I just like the music.

How about this one TJ

 

[Scott559]

I absolutely love that song. A lot of people, when they talk about Jimi, talk about him playing the guitar with his tongue or setting it on fire. Or playing the Star Spangled Banner with all the wild distortion at Woodstock.

For me, his best stuff was the slower, bluesier songs like that one and Hey Joe and Red House and a bunch of others. I never much cared for all the theatrics. I just like the music.

Agree 100%.

 

[markfromj]

Please explain.

He sucked.

(I’m of course in jest about the too late part. Hendrix sucked, but I am not glad he died early.)

 

[joelbc1]

Early death creates legends out of some OK performers. Janis Joplin is a bit overrated. So was Morrison.

Overrated?
Whew……..
So was Johnny Unitas…….
In my opinion, both were tremendous talents with a lot of personal baggage. Edgar Allen Poe like both heroine and alcohol……and they named a pro football team in his honor!
Life is all about perspective.

 

[joelbc1]

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Otis was a great one!
His “Try a Little Tenderness” is one of my Top 10 of all time favs!

 

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[CarolinaHawkeye]

Not taking away from her performing talent, but cliff claven told me that it is a little known fact that “Piece of My Heart" was written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns, and “Me and My Bobby McGee” was written by Kris Kristofferson.

"All Along the Watchtower" was written by Bob Dylan.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Early death creates legends out of some OK performers. Janis Joplin is a bit overrated. So was Morrison.

LOL

 

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I would have been interested to see if they would have blown up like the rest of the grunge scene. Obviously, there were a couple Pearl Jam members in this band.

i always tell my daughter(no pics) that I named her after this song. Not really true but I like the look on her face.

 

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[3 and Out on D]

Frank Sinatra never sang a song of his own…Didn’t Bob Dylan write “All along the Watch Tower”? These guys were musical geniuses who left us way too early…tremendous talents, all! (I absolutely loved JJ and her “bluesy voice”…I did see her in concert back in the day 55-60 years ago….she consumed a bottle of whiskey during her on stage performance…I wonder what went wrong?)

I saw Janis in The Grande Ballroom in Detroit. A great performance.