# 5 Musicians You'd Love To Talk With **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308 "2019-08-27T12:04:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/1 "2019-08-27T12:04:50Z")
Jim Morrison John Lennon Roger Waters Jimmy Page David Gilmour ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/2 "2019-08-27T12:43:06Z")
Leonard Cohen Mozart Selena (Quintanilla-Perez) J.S. Bach Warren Zevon In no particular order. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/3 "2019-08-27T13:48:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Jim Morrison So, Jimbo, what was it like in the early days? \*I’m the fuckin’ Lizard King, man… \* I had a hard time thinking of musicians that’d be coherent, let alone up for witty banter: David Byrne Dave Brubeck Eric Clapton Patti Smith Neil Young ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/4 "2019-08-27T14:02:52Z")
Rachmaninoff Tchaikovsky Gershwin Itzhak Perlman Barbra Streisand ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/5 "2019-08-27T14:04:40Z")
Billie Holiday Robert Johnson Gram Parsons Jelly Roll Morton Fats Waller. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/6 "2019-08-27T14:09:37Z")
Bob Dylan Eric Clapton Tom Waits Van the man Leon Redbone ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/7 "2019-08-27T14:13:42Z")
Tom Paxton Kinky Friedman Leonard Cohan George Harrison Bob Dylan (though in talking to people who have actually talked to him, he is a very quiet person.) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/8 "2019-08-27T14:18:59Z")
Nina Persson Andrea Corr Susanna Hoffs Dolores O’Riordan Siouxsie Sioux A hot tub setting and some time travel might be involved. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/9 "2019-08-27T14:49:18Z")
Jim Morrison Glenn Danzig Paul McCartney Hank Williams Patsy Cline ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/10 "2019-08-27T14:52:17Z")
Diana Ross Fred Schneider Carole King Kate Bush Jim Croce ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/11 "2019-08-27T15:46:36Z")
J.S. Bach Mozart Schumann Wagner Mahler Shit. I’m gonna have to learn German. Otherwise it’s going to be really uncomfortable in there. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/12 "2019-08-27T16:05:23Z")
Benjamin Britten Vivian Stanshall Duane Allman Cole Porter Frank Zappa ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/13 "2019-08-27T17:15:51Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > J.S. Bach > Mozart > Schumann > Wagner > Mahler > > Shit. I’m gonna have to learn German. Otherwise it’s going to be really uncomfortable in there. Any folks you’d like to chat up (living or dead) who speak a language you can? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/14 "2019-08-27T17:48:11Z")
Frank Zappa D. Boon Mick Farren Sonny Sharrock Bill Laswell ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/15 "2019-08-27T18:25:37Z")
I’d like to chat with Dave Brubeck (who I have talked to in the past), Paul Desmond, Joe Morello and Eugene Wright in a room full of their instruments. Just for kicks, add Cleo Laine to the mix. My talking will be limited to making requests. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/16 "2019-08-27T18:44:23Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Jim Croce I forgot about Jim, I’ll bet he’d have some great stories. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/17 "2019-08-27T18:47:51Z")
Leonard Cohen Neil Diamond George Harrison John Mellencamp Florence Welch ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/18 "2019-08-27T19:45:26Z")
Michael Stipe Johnny Greenwood Miles Davis Beethoven Philip Glass ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/19 "2019-08-27T20:02:45Z")
I like plenty of music, musicians, and music makers but I don’t think I have much of a desire to talk to any of them. Besides saying I like their music I really don’t have much to tell them or ask them. Maybe Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes just because we’re close to the same age and grew up on the same side of Milwaukee. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/20 "2019-08-27T20:36:42Z")
I would like to talk to songwriters mostly, but it turns out the ones that come to mind are all notorious for being difficult characters, and maybe they all are not so keen on talking with a fan: Bob Dylan Neil Young Van Morrison Joni Mitchell Richard Thompson Elvis Costello I think the two I would like to talk to the most may also be the ones who would be a bit more open, but that’s just a guess (I always had the impression that both care about their fans: Pete wrote a whole double album about their fan base, and Ray the beautiful “Rock’n’Roll Fantasy” about the workings and frustrations of a band and their connection with the fans): Ray Davies Pete Townshend [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308.md?page=2)