If you could bring a dead rock star back to life (1 Viewer)

[Eric Peterson]

I thought about this for awhile.....and there are just too many obvious choices that are way too-easy (Morrison, Moon, Bonham, Joplin, Hendrix, Cobain, Bon Scott, etc.....)

I'm going to go slightly off of the beaten path and say Cliff Burton. At this point there is nobody else that can possibly rescue Metallica from the pit of irrelevance in which they have been residing for nearly 20 years.

....or to go really off track, why not Mozart? He was certainly a rock-star of his era. I couldn't imagine what he would think of today's music.

 

[Matt Birchall]

GG Allin

 

[Lee Scoggins]

Keef Richards

 

[Matthew Brown]

GG Allin

I remember he used to take ads out in Flipside magazine asking people to kill in his name.

 

[Henry Gale]

Milton Brown died as a result of a car wreck at age 32.
Invented Western Swing.

 

[Blair G]

My first reaction was Lennon followed closely by Zappa and Zevon.

 

[DanFe]

Lennon, Harrison, Holly...and Keith Relf anyone?

 

[Mark Klaus]

So many, but I'll give mention to Duane Allman because he hasn't been mentioned yet.

But if I could play God this one time, no doubt I'm bringing back Stevie Ray Vaughan.

 

[John Gido]

That would make for one hell of a duet.

 

[Andrew 'Ange Hamm' Hamm]

My head says Keith Moon. My heart says Mark Heard and Rich Mullins.

 

[Ralphie_B]

How about 1990's Rivers Cuomo? (I realize Rivers is still alive, but I fear that part of him has died).

 

[Michael:M]

Yep, Rich would be my first vote, too.

Lennon and Bonham are a tie for second place for me, with Randy Rhoads in the honorable mention slot.

 

[Jeff Brooks]

SRV

 

[Brian Borst]

Syd Barrett please, in his relatively normal days. To see The Pink Floyd in his early years would be great. To have the classic Pink Floyd lineup (with Roger Waters and David Gilmour) would be excellent too. And still possible.
Of course The Beatles and The Who in their original lineup would go without saying, Pink Floyd's just a personal favorite of mine.

 

[Ruz-El]

What should happen is, THE WHO are short a bass player and drummer, so Paul And Ringo should join up to become the Whotles. I'd pay money for that.

 

[Ockeghem]

Brian,

Yes indeed! I love Pink Floyd ca. 1967-1968-ish. Some of their earlier work is very interesting sonically. But I love just about all of their albums.

Back in High School, I wished for a reunion of The Fabs many, many times. Heck, when I was in a rock band at that time (ca. 1972-73), a couple of us really thought that we were going to be 'the next Beatles.' We kind of fell short of that dream (just a tad).

 

[Todd Stout]

I'd bring back Layne Staley. I'd really love to see Alice in Chains live since I somehow missed them in my youth.

Hell... I'd also like to bring back Cliff Burton for one Metallica show. That man was one hell of a bass player. The first time I saw Metallica was in 1989 and although Jason Newsted was pretty damn good, he had a completely different style than Cliff.

 

[Brian Borst]

LOL, that would be great too . But I just don't see Ringo keeping up with the frenetic pace of some of The Who's songs, but it'd be great to look at.

 

[Mikael Soderholm]

The Whotels?! Brilliant

 

[Chris Cheese]

Sam Cooke