Bring back for good: John Lennon
Bring back for one gig: either Janis or Jimi
Since my first choice(s) have already been mentioned, I’ll go with Steve Marriott.
…but he isnt dead ( 
) . I’m guessing I’m younger than everyone else but I would have to go with Bradley Nowell of Sublime.
Jerry Garcia for one last Dead show.
Karen Carpenter.
Another vote for Jimi Hendrix
And I really miss Michael Hedges - saw him 3 times. I give extra credit to musicians who can play live better than than they can do studio work.
Johnny Thunders.
John Lennon. I was just thinking the other day–what would he be creating musically about now? if he were still around…
I’ve never quite understood the whole cult of Jim Morrison. I did, for a brief period in college, really, really like them. But then I actually started to listen to their musical catalog and, to be nice, was not all that impressed. But, even beyond that, his voice was mediocre at best and his lyrics are great only if you’re … in an altered state. But without the aid of alcohol or other substances, they’re complete crap. To me, Morrison was all image, with his “troubled genius poet” persona making up for a crappy voice and stupid lyrics.
But to each their own.
Give me Lennon or Cobain. I’d love to see what Lennon would have done in the 80’s, and Cobain had a ton of potential, I thought.
Ditto.
Nah. He’s my runner up. I’d love to see Sublime, but Queen just beats them in my book.
Rock star? Janis.
But if you said musician? Harry Chapin.
That’s not hijack–my best friend and I used to have car drive game we played.
I think I learned it from Good Times. We called it ‘Boat Water People’
You and two people in a rowboat that only takes two–Who Do You Pick?
(Real people you know can’t be used. And who you pick? You have to give a reason.)
The real goal is to try to pick two that makes the other person agonize.
One he did for me: Janis or Harry.
I picked Harry b/c Janis contributed to her pain and Harry died in a car wreck.
If I could have either I’d be blissed 
Freddie Mercury. I’d give anything to see Queen in concert.
How to pick just one? Freddie, Janis, Stevie Ray, Patsy Cline, Bessie Smith . . .
I gotta go with Janis Joplin for the zombie Rocker win.
Frank Zappa
I don’t know. When it comes to promising careers cut short, it’s hard to miss J.P. Richardson aka The Big Bopper. That voice was just charming.
Chantilly lace and a pretty face, and a pony tail hangin down …
That song just brings a smile to my face every time. It’s definitely my favorite 50’s classic.
ETA: Nat King Cole is way up there to.
My first thought was Freddie Mercury, that man could sing like no one else.
If it could be two, then I’d also go with the Beatles reunion of Lennon and Harrison.
Exactly what I say about Nirvana fans 
SRV, or Otis Redding if he counts as a rock star.
If I had that kind of (creepy) power, I’d have the power to position the players to make dreams come true.
I’d give up my chance and do it for someone else. I’d bring back Freddie Mercury just so Happy Rhodes could meet him and sing with him. She worshiped the ground he walked on and even though she’s never said so, I think singing with him even just once was a Holy Grail for her. To simply meet him would have been a dream come true for her. Even just to know that he knew she existed would have made her century. I’d bring back Freddie for Happy, because that would be the Ultimate Life Goal for her, while to me it would only pay back about 1% of all the joy her music has given me.
However, if I could do two, one for her and one for me, for myself, it’d be Jeff Buckley. I saw him in concert but I never got to meet him and I’d want to meet him and tell him how his music affected me. Plus, he went out of his way to attend a Happy Rhodes concert once and at the time I heard about it I swore that I would meet him one day and ask him about it. I never got that chance.
If I could do three, one for Happy, one for me and one for the world at large, the third would be Kirsty MacColl. I saw Kirsty live and got to meet her multiple times, so I have that already, but she died way too soon.
Asking for four is really pushing it, but I’d want Eva Cassidy to perform in front of the millions of fans she only got AFTER she died, to let her know that her voice didn’t die along with her, to be heard forevermore only by her friends and family and a handful of bar patrons in Washington, D.C.