Great Dead Musicians you never heard of

[lawrocket 3]

I read a Fark article about "Bruddah Iz," a Hawaiian dude who sang pretty sweetly. I heard some of his stuff before, and thought his uke playing was pretty good. I had no idea he was getting that type of exposure now.

I also think of Nick Drake, a folky Brit who died in the early 70's, and was legitimately insane. He did some great tunes, and played a good acoustic guitar.

Roy Buchanan - some pretty nice and soulful stuff.

Danny Gatton - guitarists may know this axe slinger.

I'm interested in hearing of some more dead musicians who were wonderful and unheard of.

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[AggieDave 6]

Hey, I read the same article.

If anything I the the advent of easily downloaded music (free helps) has exposed people to a much wider variety of music and musicians. That's a good thing, raises music awareness over the population.

Maybe eventually people will have enough of the cookie-cutter pop crap that gets pumped out and played on the airwaves and we'll start hear real musicians on the radio again.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[lawrocket 3]

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we'll start hear real musicians on the radio again.

When I was in LA, there was one station that allowed a DJ to do free-form radio. Jim Ladd was GREAT. It was nice to hear songs from great bands that were rarely ever heard get played, i.e., 100,000 Years by KISS.

The radio monopolies control, and shove it down your throat. A damned shame...

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[PhillyKev 0]

If I never heard of them, how am I supposed to list them?

[Zenister 0]

Mark Sandman -lead musican and driving force behind Morphine proponent of 'low rock'

died from a heart attack on stage in Greece, July 3, 1999. I was fortunate enough to catch six shows in the southeast before they left for Europe and the music suddenly stopped....

not exactly 'unheard of' but if your only listen to radio you'd never know who he was, or all the great music he helped create..


"what if i wake up? and the music stops playing? and the records all done? but the red lights still on...."

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[PhillyKev 0]

Love Morphine. Saw them about a dozen times in the 90's.

[kallend 2,182]

How about Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf?

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[billo 0]

yo,

my fav dead musician is jeff buckley. i heard him when i was in high school (92-96) and was completely amazed. he ended up dying in 97. for those of you who want to hear some great guitar playing, pick up his first album "grace". if you need some more, grab "sketches for my sweetheart the drunk".

speaking of drunk, i need another beer...
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