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Lizzyb
Fifth Love
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 10/11/2004 : 20:32:34
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here's an odd one, bit bizzare I know
today's Guardian (UK newspaper) has a query on which band is the deadest, meaning has the fewest surviving members I think.
not sure whether they mean by proportion so 2 out of 6 = 1 out of 3.
they suggested Canned Heat... Jimi Hendrix experience maybe?
just wondered.
a steven king book has a guy considering the Best Dead Rock Band, currently playing Up There but that's another topic
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Tina
Old Love
United Kingdom
678 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2004 : 20:53:59
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What about Grateful Dead - they're all dead!! or at least dead heads
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Tina
Old Love
United Kingdom
678 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2004 : 20:58:12
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There are only two out of four Beatles left as well when I think about it
What about somebody like the Velvet Underground - huge numbers of them must have died??
Quite a few original Love mebers have died as well
Also just thought about the Glenn Miller Bnd - didn't a great chunk of them get killed in an aircrash??
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LarryNYC
Fifth Love
USA
310 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2004 : 21:15:21
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| Yes The Grateful Dead by default, then theres Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Faces,how many of T Rex are left ? Theres so many where one or two members are gone, I havent seen the article put I can think of 3 Canned Heat members that are no longer with us and I believe there are not many members of The Dave Clarke 5 left, they're all in Bits and Pieces lol. |
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Ben
Third Love
United Kingdom
58 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2004 : 21:49:59
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| The original Temptations are 80% dead and I seem to remember the Pretenders went through a bit of a sticky patch in the early eighties. |
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LarryNYC
Fifth Love
USA
310 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2004 : 22:10:43
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| How come Keith Richard is still alive ? |
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Tina
Old Love
United Kingdom
678 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2004 : 22:17:30
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Hey you're right, lynyrd Skynyrd is pretty hard to beat, they were all wiped out in an air crash weren't they
http://www.lynyrdskynyrd.com/
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Allan
Old Love
USA
560 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2004 : 22:53:38
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Interesting thread...a bit morbit, but...
Chicago Transit Authority or Chicago-I remember when their lead guitarist, Terry Kath, blew his brains out playing Russian roulette like in 1970. That was a shocker back then. How many originals could still be left of that group. Is Peter Cetera still alive?
LOVE-We all know about Kenny and Bryan. Even DC-although I really don't consider him as a LOVE member
Byrds-Graham Parsons, Mike Clark, Gene Clark, Kevin Kelley
Mountain-Felix Pappalardi
Wolfman Jack
Iron Butterfly-Eric Braun
The Ramones-I lost count!!
and so many more...
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LarryNYC
Fifth Love
USA
310 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2004 : 23:13:46
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| You forgot Clarence White from the Byrds Allan |
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LarryNYC
Fifth Love
USA
310 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2004 : 23:46:37
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SUPER GROUP FROM THE GRAVE
vocals John Lennon and Janis Joplin
guitars Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman
hammond organ Graham Bond
bass John Entwistle
drums Keith Moon
harmonica Little Walter |
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gordo
Third Love
United Kingdom
91 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 10:37:49
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| T.Rex only have Bill Legend left. Marc Bolan's dead. So are both bongo players, Steve Took and Mickey Finn. The bass player's dead too. |
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Lizzyb
Fifth Love
United Kingdom
470 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 23:42:16
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thanks very much for all those
so t rex is winning?
i heard K richards has frequent blood exchanges. like cars with engine oil hohoho
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Lizzyb
Fifth Love
United Kingdom
470 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 23:48:04
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David, my colleague who had nothing better to do today, looked it up when i mentioned it and he found The Great Site for this one
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/237911p-204188c.html
of course, I have nothing better to do than watch him browsing.
i was amused by the spinal tap drummers
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Tina
Old Love
United Kingdom
678 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2004 : 08:13:42
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Hey Lizzy, great stuff, I particularly like the survivors....
I have a client who used to live next door to Keith Richard and says he's a lovely man, very good to his family and active in the local community etc (when he's there)- perhaps that's his secret, he only pretends to be a hard living rocker and is actually a pillar or society!! |
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Ben
Third Love
United Kingdom
58 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2004 : 10:23:01
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In the interest of accurary may I point out that Keith Richards having his blood changed is an urban myth. He merely had it filtered.  |
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Gill
Fourth Love
United Kingdom
213 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2004 : 11:20:18
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Larry - I think all of Dave Clarke 5 are still alive although one of them is in "bits and pieces" after suffering a serious accident at his home in Spain last year. Mike Smith is paralysed from the neck down apart from some small movement in his left arm - he had been touring as Mike Smith's Rock Engine prior to the accident but is now in a hospital in the UK. It's very sad.
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