All deceased, sadly.
Hardy Fox
Dave Schulthise
Frank Zappa
Captain Beefheart
Syd Barrett
I’d like to talk with Neil Peart, but he’d hate to talk to me.
No problem. Everyone knows, when you’re dead, you speak English.
Jim Morrison
Frank Zappa
Pete Townshend
John Lennon
Weird Al
ETA: Brian Wilson gets an honourable mention.
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)
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.
Paul McCartney
Tom Lehrer
Weird Al
Don Henley
Eric Johnson
Dave Grohl
Sting
Carol King
Eric Clapton
Billy Joel
Brian Wilson
George Harrison
Ian Underwood
Keith Emerson
Howard Kaylan
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).
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.
- “Dimebag” Abbott
- James Hetfield
- Rob Zombie
- Johnny Cash
- Willie Nelson
I actually did get to talk with him. Very cool!
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
[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.
Got to talk to him, too. Also very cool.
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.
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.
[Moderating]
Ukelele Ike, you know that that’s not allowed outside of the Pit. This is an official Warning.