Chuck Schuldiner, frontman of death metal pioneers Death, dude died of cancer in 2001 at the age of 34. I never had the chance to see them play live but their records are incredible.
Cliff Burton, Bass player of Metallica, died when the band’s tour bus crashed and he was crushed underneath it. The band lost part of its soul and it took them a very long time to get over Cliffs death. Seeing videos of him playing live makes one understand what was lost, as he was an incredible musician.
On a more general note every artist that died very young, many made a big impact to their genre or even to a wider audience without it ever knowing.
Liszt.
Johann Pachelbel. So many modern songs reuse the melody from his Canon in D. I just think, it’d be fun to let him listen to them. Would probably blow his mind to listen to modern music, to begin with, and then to have it be his melody, too. 🙃
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and “The Big Bopper” J. P. Richardson
Would have liked to see what would have happened if they had continued making music.
Gotta go with chester, assuming you can bring them back with their health (mental and physical) “fixed” to a good massive balance.
Not because he’s any better than any of the other greats that have died. Not even the ones that killed themselves.
Just because there’s something about his death that makes his life feel more unfinished.
Out of any of the people listed here, I think he had the most undone. Not even in the musical sense alone, across the board.
