Obscure Greats who died too soon.

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We all know that musicians drop like flys at young ages. I was thinking about this the other day and realized that there are a whole bunch of great musicians that never get talked about. So lets avoid naming classics here ( Hendrix, Morrison, Burton,Allman etc...) and focus on the lesser known greats that died way tooo young.

I'll start with Paul Kossoff from Free. This guy could play his ass off. One of the more original blues rock guitarists of the 70s, listen to Fire and Ice and tell me his licks aren't tasteful and unique. Unfortunately he was a hard partier and died way too soon. IMO beats Eric Clapton with a broomstick when it comes to guitar. If you haven't looked into Free, I highly suggest. RIP


So , have at it, and please try to avoid the more famous mentions that we all know about.

[AxtoOx]

Tommy Bolin? Is he too famous? Solo and Deep Purple when Blackmore left.
This is a tough one.

[superbassman2000]

Jeff Buckley died way too early imo

[Woodchuck]

Zachery Breaux (sp?), jazz guitarist.

[tappingtrance]

Alan Wilson the guitarist and harp player of Canned Heat - what a monster on the harmonica.

[MJ5150]

Andy Wood - singer for Mother Love Bone.

-Mike

[JimK]

Herbie Nichols....should be as well-known as Monk.

Jazz Bassists Jimmy Blanton & Jimmy Garrison.
Rock bassists Gary Thain & Dee Murray.
Jazz Guitarists Charlie Christian & Grant Green.
Motown Drummer Benny Benjamin.

[davetakis]

randy delay-drummer on songs "keep your hands to yourself" and honeysuckle blue"

don rich-guitarist for buck owens and his buckaroos-master of the telecaster.

felix papalardi[sp]-bassist
james jamerson

[d8g3jdh]

Bon Scott, or is he too famous?

[mike phillips]

cozy powell from rainbow.
ty longley from great white.

R.I.P. YALL

[Blackbird]

Elliot Smith

[BassChuck]

Terry Kath

[XavierG]

I thought this thread was about obscure musicians.(?) Some of the names mentioned are far from "obscure".

[Eric Cioe]

Jeff Buckley and Berry Oakley.

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Originally Posted by superbassman2000

Jeff Buckley died way too early imo

Whoa! He's dead? I'm gonna sound stupid , but I didn't know...

[XavierG]

...I was thinking more along the lines of... Miss. Roxas-Buttenberger.... my grade 4 and 5 music teacher who passed away in a car accident when I was in grade 7. She was all of about 28! There's obscure for you, and she seemed pretty great to me at the time

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Originally Posted by XavierG

...I with thinking more along the lines of... Miss. Roxas-Buttenberger.... my grade 4 and 5 music teacher who passed away in a car accident when I was in grade 7. She was all of about 28! There's obscure for you, and she seemed pretty great to me at the time

Well , it doesn't have to be that obscure.....maybe I was too strict with the first post.

[MJ5150]

Originally Posted by page

Well , it doesn't have to be that obscure.....maybe I was too strict with the first post.

I thought I came up with a good one. If I had left the band name off, I doubt anyone around here would have known who he was. Heck, they probably still don't without doing some research.

-Mike

[BassGod]

Maybe not obscure to the TB community, but no one around my town has heard of 'em:

Chuck Shuldiner, lead guitarist and vocalist from Death

Piggy, guitarist from Voivod

Graeme

[fookgub]

Bryn Jones (aka Muslimgauze). Cut somewhere around 200 albums, some of which haven't come out yet (his label is still releasing new material). Died in 1999 of a rare blood disease at the age of 37.