Pick who you wish was still alive

[thespricket]

It was hard, but i had to say Hendrix. I don't really like hendrix that much, but i think it would have been cool to see what he would have done with music.

[Yngwiestein]

Interesting because I thought Hendrix went as far as he could go.

[ratherdashing]

Interesting because I thought Hendrix went as far as he could go.

Really? Personally I think he was just getting started.

[guitfiddle]

Really? Personally I think he was just getting started.

+1...Hendrix was just getting wound up.

Still, I picked Duane Allman cause he brought a sweetness to the Les Paul that we have yet to see again.

[bungalowbill]

I voted for Lennon, mostly because he was murdered for no reason.

[pzaxtl]

I didn't vote -- don't want to skew the poll since I choose all of them. Death sucks. When the death is tragic (and what death isn't?) it sucks double! Dying is bad enough, but what comes after could be worse, and the way some of these boys lived -- I don't think they're having a picnic.

[phil_104]

I voted Lennon, but I am suprised no one voted Bonzo. If he hadn't passed away, Led Zep would of continued for a while and we would have more interesting material by one of the greatest bands ever.

[guitfiddle]

I voted Lennon, but I am suprised no one voted Bonzo. If he hadn't passed away, Led Zep would of continued for a while and we would have more interesting material by one of the greatest bands ever.

Or, Jimmy would have been too stoned to write, and they'd have put out annother In Through The Out Door, which has to rank as my least favorite Zep platter.

[That90'sGuy]

Layne Staley.

[SlyFoxx]

Poll choice...Bon. Not included in poll...Freddie.

[3'scompany]

Without Ernest P. Worrell this poll is invalid.

[DepecheMoses]

What, no love for Cobain?
Sike!
Seriously though, Duane. Because I love Duane. There are few people whose playing legitimately inspires me to get better. Duane is one of them.

[weisserj]

Though SRV is my fave guitar player of all time and I am always sad that I never got to see him live, John Lennon is one of my favorite songwriters of ALL time. It would be really interesting to hear his take on the modern world. His later music was angry but he would be really pi$$ed off nowadays...

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

I voted for Randy Rhoads. He was so young and surely had not even shown 25 per cent of what he would have been able to do musically by the time he died. Such an inspiration to aspiring virtuosos like myself.
In 2nd place, is Hendrix and 3rd, the amazing SRV.

[Gearjoneser]

It was a hard call between Jimi, Stevie, and Lennon, but I had to pick Stevie Ray Vaughan because he was at the top of his game in the blues world and got cut short. I think he would have been the most important guitar player of the 90's, swaying a lot more people back into the blues.

He cleaned up by this time too, so it's so ironic that he got killed in a helicopter, and didn't get the chance to be huge like Clapton, Page, VH, and BB King.

[Mike M.]

Not on the list, but I sometimes wonder how Jim Morrison would have turned out had he lived. Seemed like the guy was a rebel from the word go and was constantly testing everybody all around him. I can't help but wonder if he would have mellowed out in his old age had he lived or if he would have been the eternal wild child?

People do change and it would have been interesting to see how he would have changed, given the chance.

[Gearjoneser]

Not on the list, but I sometimes wonder how Jim Morrison would have turned out had he lived. Seemed like the guy was a rebel from the word go and was constantly testing everybody all around him. I can't help but wonder if he would have mellowed out in his old age had he lived or if he would have been the eternal wild child?

People do change and it would have been interesting to see how he would have changed, given the chance.

I would have loved to have seen him grow into an elder gentleman......the always cool, Jim Morrison at 65. Unfortunately, I could also see him living the life like Mickey Rourke.

[emilio]

where's dimebag?????

[Forbes]

Joe Strummer.

I know he didn't die as young as alot of these guys, but the last album he made, streetcore, that was completed after his death, is one of my all time fave albums, and i like to think he still had a couple of them left in him.

[Erlend_G]

Jaco.