Poll: if you could change the past...

c1utch

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I'm going with Kurt. Nirvana had some of the best music when I was growing up. I still listen to their cd's from time and time again. Also I have a poster on my wall of Kurt, with the dates of his birth and death, with part of the lyrics to "dumb" on the bottom. Kurt was the man.
 

sheselectric

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i'm too young to really know about a lot of these people, so i picked Kurt. Come on though...Shannon Hoon? Hell no.
 

FoBoT

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<< But seriously, when I was young, I'd like Freddie Mercury to live. you don't have him on the list... >>



i almost put freddie on there and john lennon, but they were both over 40 when they died, so that isn't really dying young, i mean they probably lived at least half their "natural" lives
 

FoBoT

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<< i almost put freddie on there and john lennon, but they were both over 40 when they died, so that isn't really dying young, i mean they probably lived at least half their "natural" lives >>



Do yo think that a lil over 40 is old? ROFLMAO. Don't get me wrong, it's npt reasonable. 75, 80 is old. Anything less is OK IMO. 45 that's not old... :( Wish he lived longer...
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well, i had to make some type of cutoff and i'm 36 so, when i was debating lennon, i decided that was the cutoff, its arbitrary as i don't actually have a time machine :eek:
 

alrocky

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anyone who didn't have a hand in their own death. if the question was: "who was the best?", then a different answer.
 

gopunk

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i put buddy holly because of the musicians i knew, he was the only one that i know didn't die from drugs.
 

b0mbrman

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What about Ricardo Valenzuela, Big Bopper, or even Elvis? Elvis probably had plenty left...and any time was too soon for Frank Sinatra to go...

More recently, and in different genres of music: Kurt Cobain, Tupac, the Notorious BIG, Big Pun, Aaliyah, Brad Nowell, Left Eye...

[edit] I see that you *do* have Kurt :confused:
 

Kadarin

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<< i put buddy holly because of the musicians i knew, he was the only one that i know didn't die from drugs. >>



I picked Randy Rhoades, who died in a plane crash with the small plane he was in clipped Ozzy's tour bus and crashed into a house. Brilliant guitarist; who knows what classics he and Ozzy would have put out between the two of them if he'd lived.
 

slikmunks

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dude, if you could go back in time, wouldn't there be better things to do? like buy an a$$load of microsoft when it was like 2 dollars a share? how about pulling all ur stocks on 9-10, buying them back on 9-12? what about that one elusive girl of ur younger years? what if you could save your parents or a loved one?
 

slikmunks

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i would vote britney spears... i mean... she's hot!


















wait, you mean no one's killed her yet? nm then
 

hoihtah

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if i could go back in time... i most definately wouldn't use that opportunity to save these guys.
they had their fun. and died.

there are hundreds of thousands of people that don't make it like they did.

they had their moments.
 

Beau

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I wouldn't change a thing. I wouldn't even save my little bro that died when he was 2. The effects of this might be disaterous, kinda like the chais effect : A butterfly flaps it's wings in Pekin, and its rainy in New York instead of sunny. Too many little variables that play into it that you cannot predict that could drastically change the way the world would be today, good or bad. That's where quantum physics comes in and would have you believing in 4 dimensions of the universe: the physical 3 (x,y,z) and time. Since we cannot live in multiple time periods, there has to be an infinite number of coexisting "dimensions" in which there was something different that happened. That is to say that if you can to a fork in the road, and in this dimension you chose to go left, another dimension was created where you went right. So likely, there is a dimension out there where Hitler one, Jesus wasn't born, the WTC is still standing, and one where all of those artists are still alive.
 

yakko

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None of them. Not saying they are not great musicins but saving them may have a negative effect on who I listen to now.
 

trmiv

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Holy crap people, it doesn't have to be this complicated. All he's asking is what great dead musician would you like to see live today.
 

FoBoT

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<< Holy crap people, it doesn't have to be this complicated. All he's asking is what great dead musician would you like to see live today. >>



THANK YOU trmiv!

it has nothing to do with time machines or any of that carp, the point is who would you think it was cool if they had lived longer, sheesh
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i heard a jimi hendrix song on the radio and wondered what great songs he might have done if he hadn't croaked early
 

Instagib

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I wish I could pick 2: SRV and Jimi

Then I would make a wish that they would play together live.