# Living Dead Rock Stars! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2000, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561 "2000-06-16T08:32:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![argyle87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@argyle87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/argyle87)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/1 "2000-06-16T08:32:14Z")
If you could pick a rock star to bring back from the dead, if you could reunite that special band for one last show, what band or rock star would it be? And you can’t pick Elvis, Lennon, or The Grateful Dead! Me, I’d reunite the Dead Kennedys and have the original Misfits (with Glenn Danzig singing and Robo on drums) be the openers. Who would you bring back? ---
**Author:** ![realm505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@realm505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/realm505)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/2 "2000-06-16T08:41:29Z")
Maybe I would like to see Brad Nowell play again with sublime if Dennis was here to play for Social Distortion again And of coure Kurt Kobain (its late for me) ---
**Author:** ![argyle87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@argyle87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/argyle87)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/3 "2000-06-16T08:43:18Z")
I would be cool to have GG Allin back, too! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/4 "2000-06-16T09:32:23Z")
I’d say a certain mr. John Lennon would be nice. I would pay good money to see the Beatles play a reunion concert with Lennon. ---
**Author:** ![billehunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@billehunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billehunt)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/5 "2000-06-16T09:38:18Z")
SRV ---
**Author:** ![Needs2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Needs2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Needs2know)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/6 "2000-06-16T11:42:55Z")
Keith Richards…oh that’s right he’s not offically dead yet…just looks like he should have died years ago. Need2know…Oh and I vote for Stevie Ray Vaughn ---
**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:** [June 16, 2000, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/7 "2000-06-16T12:49:41Z")
Keith Moon ---
**Author:** ![Jo3sh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@Jo3sh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jo3sh)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/8 "2000-06-16T13:24:03Z")
Frank Zappa, without a doubt. At least we got 25 good years out of him. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/9 "2000-06-16T13:34:38Z")
Freddie Mercury, of course. I was all of seven years old when Queen played their last concert ('85). I’d kill to see them perform live. ---
**Author:** ![rundogrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@rundogrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rundogrun)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/10 "2000-06-16T13:48:12Z")
Some good choices, but you got throw Jim Morrison into the mix. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/11 "2000-06-16T14:54:42Z")
Coldy, I don’t think you could persuade John to reunite. When he was alive his attitude about reunion was always “Over my dead body!” Funny how that worked out… ---
**Author:** ![jcgmoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jcgmoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcgmoi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/12 "2000-06-16T15:01:25Z")
Jimi and the reunited Experience backing Janis. ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/13 "2000-06-16T15:03:03Z")
John Bonham I can remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. ---
**Author:** ![Greyson3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Greyson3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greyson3)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/14 "2000-06-16T16:19:48Z")
Paul McCartney. ---
**Author:** ![jayron\_32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jayron\_32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayron_32)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/15 "2000-06-16T16:21:54Z")
Duane Allman… He made some of the most beautiful guitar music imaginable, and his was perhaps one of the most innovative: he and the rest of the Allman Brothers Band (though mostly him) created the unique jazz/southern rock fusion not heard from before or since. He was Muscle Shoals session guitarist, and has appeared on many classic R&B tracks, working with Aretha Franklin and Wilson Picket among others. He was so good that he became the featured guitarist in Derek and the Dominoes. His solo instrumental “Little Martha,” a psothumous addition to Eat a Peach, recorded before but released after his tragic death, is perhaps the only insturmental piece to almost bring me to tears when I hear it. You can just FEEL the man play his guitar. His loss was one of the most tragic in the music world. ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/16 "2000-06-16T16:25:17Z")
When I saw this thread I thought it was going to be about The Rolling Stones. They are the living dead. I would rather bring back old bands than any particular person mostly because I have a belief that when someone dies they were supposed to. I would love to see the Byrds reunite. HUGS! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/17 "2000-06-16T16:36:07Z")
Zombie supergroup: Jimi and Stevie Ray would be playing absolutely beautiful music together, with Keith Moon or John Bonham on drums (or both, for a really wild show). Can’t think of any dead bass legends. Any suggestions? Is Donald “Duck” Dunn dead yet? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/18 "2000-06-16T16:44:34Z")
Hmmm . . . Either Buddy Holly and the Crickets, or The Mamas and the Papas (I’m a big Cass Elliott fan!). ---
**Author:** ![argyle87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@argyle87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/argyle87)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/19 "2000-06-16T17:40:28Z")
Sid Vicious could play bass in the Dead Supergroup. Granted, he was a terrible musician and an asshole at best, but he is a legend. ---
**Author:** ![SaintAlphonso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@SaintAlphonso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaintAlphonso)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561/20 "2000-06-16T17:50:47Z")
Gotta be Zappa. The man was simply incredible. Since I’m limited to one, I guess that leaves out Jimi, Janis, Stevie Ray, and Duane. Can I bring em all back? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-dead-rock-stars/22561.md?page=2)