In a follow-up post I will give the background for this poll, but for now choose no more than five from this list that you would raise from the dead so they could perform again and live longer.
Public poll on the way, multiple choice, no more than five please.
Would they continue from where they left off or from their prime
For example, I’d like to see a sober Jim Morrison and a 90’s era Michael Jackson.
Jimi Hendrix and it isn’t even close for me. I want to hear him play guitar with modern electronic equipment.
The idea for this SDMB poll came from today’s Yahoo! article: Music fans hanker for Ray Charles hologram which I merely alphabetized to avoid giving away their answers.
Lacking an “Other” option I would hope that the posts and votes in this preliminary poll might give us an even better view of how Dopers agree or disagree with whatever group voted in that Yahoo! poll.
Do add names that should be there, please!
I picked the four on the list that I would resurrect and I will add Jim Morrison, noting that like FoieGras above, for me it isn’t even close.
Hendrix, Joplin, Biggie.
The rest of them, they’d pretty much already given everything they had to give.
I think a Rat Pack “Retro Show” would pack 'em in at Vegas. I think shows would be sold out for a year or more.
I wouldn’t bring back performers who died in old age, even though I liked them. Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra were legends, but they had their time, and they changed music forever. But music would suffer if the old didn’t die and make way for the young.
No love for Stevie Ray Vaughan? That was a real tragedy, and a loss for music because of what might have been.
They might sound good, but the stank would be awful.
Cash, Hendrix, Marley.
I think a legends hologram show would do well in Vegas, for which I could make a much longer list. Which is entirely different from resurrecting performers from the dead.
He’s not on your list but I’m sure he’d be pleased to get one vote. Jerry Garcia.
As of Post #10 we would add:
Jim Morrison (2)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1)
Other names I’d want to see working again:
Chet Baker
Paul Desmond
Kenny Rankin
Old age didn’t get any of them, and they were far from having said it all. I could name others who weren’t quite as dear to me, but that’s just a sample.
Buddy Holly and Freddie Mercury would be my additions to the list.
I’d add John Denver to the list.
Jim Croce should be on this list too. (and I voted for Janis, Big shock, huh.)
Updating added names as of Post #15:
Jim Morrison (2)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1)
Jerry Garcia (1)
Buddy Holly (1)
Freddie Mercury (1)
John Denver (1)
Jim Croce (1)
From that list? Only John Lennon. But if we are going for anybody, then add Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Keith Relf to the list. Everybody else either had a full career or was a limited-talent hack, IMO.
Billie Holiday-such an amazing singer, the opposite of Whitney Houston, (limited range) but eerily similar in outcome.
Louis Armstrong - one of the most amazing musicians. I have read about him making multiple recordings of his solos and every one wouldbe different
Freddie Mercury - I don’t know if I could stand to watch him perform,the one vidio I have seen was so cheesey 80’sit was painful. I had to keepreminding myself it was in keeping with teh style.
From the list, I voted for Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Bob Marley.
I agree with everything you said, so another vote for Stevie Ray Vaughan. Also Buddy Holly.
From that list only Jimi Hendrix would make my first five choices. Say Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, John Coltrane, Sandy Denny, Hendrix.