# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/21 "2019-08-27T20:44:51Z")
All deceased, sadly. Hardy Fox Dave Schulthise Frank Zappa Captain Beefheart Syd Barrett ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/22 "2019-08-27T22:02:36Z")
I’d like to talk with Neil Peart, but he’d hate to talk to me. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/23 "2019-08-27T22:05:52Z")
> [@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. No problem. Everyone knows, when you’re dead, you speak English. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/24 "2019-08-27T22:52:08Z")
Jim Morrison Frank Zappa Pete Townshend John Lennon Weird Al ETA: Brian Wilson gets an honourable mention. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/25 "2019-08-28T00:28:57Z")
David Gilmour Benjamin Britten Tom Waits Aaron Copeland Ted Klein (he was my great uncle and played clarinet and saxophone in several popular jazz and swing bands in the late 1920s and ‘30s. He died young in the early 1940s and I never got a chance to meet him) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/26 "2019-08-28T00:38:13Z")
Without thinking too much: Frederick Chopin Oscar Peterson Carol Kaye Stewart Copeland Kevin Shields I’m sure if you gave me five minutes, I’d have five other people, but that’s off the cuff. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/27 "2019-08-28T00:45:25Z")
Paul McCartney Tom Lehrer Weird Al Don Henley Eric Johnson ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/28 "2019-08-28T00:56:04Z")
Dave Grohl Sting Carol King Eric Clapton Billy Joel ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/29 "2019-08-28T03:57:52Z")
Brian Wilson George Harrison Ian Underwood Keith Emerson Howard Kaylan ---
**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 28, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/30 "2019-08-28T10:08:47Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > All deceased, sadly. I wonder if you get to talk with them in their prime, as they were at the moment of their death, or as they are today (a mouldering zombie type thing). ---
**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 28, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/31 "2019-08-28T16:03:13Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > Any folks you’d like to chat up (living or dead) who speak a language you can? Okay. Jerry Garcia. He was wise. Oscar Levant. He was funny as hell. John Lennon and Bob Dylan, just because. Laura Nyro, because she was brilliant and beautiful and might have sex with me. Pre-1980s, because she was a lesbian after that. ---
**Author:** ![HaroldDix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@HaroldDix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HaroldDix)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/32 "2019-08-28T16:31:00Z")
1. “Dimebag” Abbott 2. James Hetfield 3. Rob Zombie 4. Johnny Cash 5. Willie Nelson ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/33 "2019-08-28T18:57:46Z")
> [@HaroldDix](#): > > 1. Willie Nelson I actually did get to talk with him. Very cool! ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/34 "2019-08-28T19:13:30Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > Paul McCartney > Tom Lehrer > Weird Al > Don Henley > Eric Johnson I actually had the chance to talk with Eric Johnson. Pleasant person. I tried not to ask him too many “fan” questions. My list Eric Clapton Kenny Wayne Shepherd Susan Tedeschi Derek Trucks Billy Gibbons ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/35 "2019-08-28T23:41:14Z")
[Moderating] > [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Nina Persson > Andrea Corr > Susanna Hoffs > Dolores O’Riordan > Siouxsie Sioux > > A hot tub setting and some time travel might be involved. We’re discussing “talk”, here. This isn’t the thread for “musicians I’d like to have sex with”. Believe it or not, it is possible to interact with women in the same ways as you’d interact with other human beings. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/36 "2019-08-29T01:06:17Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Billy Gibbons Got to talk to him, too. Also very cool. ---
**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 29, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/37 "2019-08-29T01:13:08Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > [Moderating]We’re discussing “talk”, here. This isn’t the thread for “musicians I’d like to have sex with”. Believe it or not, it is possible to interact with women in the same ways as you’d interact with other human beings. Well, fuck off, I refuse to drop **Laura Nyro.** I think she was a fascinating person as well as a Glorious Complete Sex Machine. I promise to talk but not touch. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/38 "2019-08-29T01:14:57Z")
Mike Nesmith Robert Fripp Ray Davies Christopher Guest Brian Kehew ---
**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 29, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/39 "2019-08-29T01:24:46Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Mike Nesmith > Robert Fripp > Ray Davies > Christopher Guest > Brian Kehew Oh, jeez. Just listening to **Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, part one.** I think I’ll drop Lennon and take Ray Davies instead. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-musicians-youd-love-to-talk-with/839308/40 "2019-08-29T02:24:44Z")
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