Who would you bring back?

If you could revive any two dead musicians from any period, who would they be, and why would you choose them? I'd choose Karen Carpenter and Nick Drake. Karen had such a beautiful voice, and Nick was so incredibly talented, had he not taken his own life, he would surely have been a household name by now. Also, were they alive today, they would have been able to get better help with their personal demons.

Mahler, so he could finish his Tenth and maybe compose a few more...

Fred Mercury. His ultra homo-erotic stage presence would make the modern day religious right cringe in agony.

charlie parker... because im curious what would have happened in jazz if he had a longer life
and also anton webern, I find him interesting

Lane Staley

Elliott Smith. And Nick Drake. And Hendrix. And they'd start a band. The weirdestandbest band in the world.

Hendrix and Miles Davis, because they were planning to collaborate on an album before untimely death kind of ruined it.

Cliff Burton- Maybe Metallica wouldn't suck so bad if he was still here.
Joey Ramone

Zombie Thunders, Zombie Morrison, and Zombie Cash.

Bob Marley
Frank Zappa

I'd bring back the Bach, just so the guy can know that all the work he did in his life was not in vain. In fact, most did not consider him to be influential until Mendelssohn found his works decades later in a storage closet.

And i'd bring back Miles Davis as well. He'd give modern jazz a good kick in the pants, and a shot and the arm, and a bag of chips. Ranch chips. The ones at the bottom with all the flavor on them. Yeah, you heard me. Mmmmmm.... ranch chips.

Louis Armstrong
Coleman Hawkins

But then who would Sonic Youth have an awesomely creepy obsession over?

Elliott Smith.

you'd take mahler's tenth over beethoven's??

D.Boon, he was an intelligent, passionate & unique musician & the world is a poorer (& dumber) place without him.

Frank Zappa, for the same reasons as D.Boon.

edited for spelling & grammer (I'm having a bad day!!!!)

[Edited on Sep 13, 2005 by joew]

i gotta third elliot smith. ian curtis also.

Cobain. It had to be said.

Oh hey, I get to bring back two? Okay...

Eazy-E. For the ladies.

Oh, and the Buckleys as well.

Kurt Cobain and John Lennon to stop all the ridiculous worship and legendary claptrap.

Yes. Take back the knife.

Also: Gram Parsons. (Yeah, I know. "Who???" Him.)

Eazy-E..so he coulda killed 2pac.


Big Pun..600 pound rappers are the shit.

[Edited on Sep 13, 2005 by Starhaad]

Robert Johnson and Warren Zevon