Mitch Mitchell - DEAD.

[Mikey]

It will never get better.

[Tom In VA]

RIP



Look at the coffin, with golden handles
Isn't it grand, boys, to be bloody-well dead?

Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a bloody-good cry
And always remember: The longer you live
The sooner you'll bloody-well die

Look at the flowers, all bloody withered
Isn't it grand, boys, to be bloody-well dead?

Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a bloody-good cry
And always remember: The longer you live
The sooner you'll bloody-well die

Look at the mourners, bloody-great hypocrites
Isn't it grand, boys, to be bloody-well dead?

Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a bloody-good cry
And always remember: The longer you live
The sooner you'll bloody-well die

Look at the preacher, a bloody-nice fellow
Isn't it grand, boys, to be bloody-well dead?

Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a bloody-good cry
And always remember: The longer you live
The sooner you'll bloody-well die

Look at the widow, bloody-great female
Isn't it grand, boys, to be bloody-well dead?

Let's not have a sniffle, let's have a bloody-good cry
And always remember: The longer you live
The sooner you'll bloody-well die

[Terry in Crapchester]

Our peers are dropping like flies, Spray. We be gettin' old.

I thought Spray was about my age, more or less. I'm not quite as old as Mitch Mitchell, although I'm catching up at an alarming rate.

[Mikey]

My parents are gone.
My in-laws are gone as of last year.

Now my sister-in-law has cancer.

It's when your siblings start to go that it's time to feel really old.

[Shoalzie]

The Experience are back together up in Rock 'N Roll Heaven...didn't know that Noel Redding died back in 2003...was curious and looked that up.

How many great classic rock bands' entire lineup is no longer alive?
Conversely, how many bands still have every guy still alive?

Cream did a reunion show not too long ago with all three guys...they immediately come to mind as far as having every member still alive. Sabbath, The Yardbirds, The Beatles, Zeppelin, The Stones, The Who...they've lost a few guys but there are still some surviving members.

[smackaholic]

Will someone inform the stones that they may go ahead and die already. Yes keith, even you, you indestructible pos.

[Shoalzie]

Will someone inform the stones that they may go ahead and die already. Yes keith, even you, you indestructible pos.

For as good of shape Mick is in for his age...he'll probably croke before Keif. That guy defies medical science.

[BSmack]

Y' Know Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land
Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land, In This Land
Come To Your House, You Know He Don't Take Long
Look In Bed This Morning, Children Find Your Mother Gone.

I Said Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land.
Death Will Leave You Standing And Crying In This Land,
Death Will Leave You Standing And Crying In This Land, In This Land, Yeah!

Whoa! Come To Your House, Y' Know He Don't Stay Long,
Y' Look In Bed This Morning,
Children You Find That Your Brothers And Sisters Are Gone.
I Said Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land.

Death Will Go In Any Family In This Land.
Death Will Go In Any Family In This Land.
Come To Your House, you know he don't take long.
Look in the bed on the morning, Children Find That Your Family's Gone.

I Said Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land.
Death Will Leave You Standing And Crying In This Land,
In This Land. Whoa! Come To Your House,
Y' Know It Don't Stay Long, Y' Look In Bed This Morning,
Children Find That Your Brothers And Sisters Are Gone.

I Said Death Don't, Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land.

[smackaholic]

All this talk of dead rockers has me thinking, if I could play god and bring back 5, who would they be?

My 5 in order of importance .....

1. SRV- best blues geetarist, evah. Make that best geetarist period.

2. Jon Bonham- His passing brought to an end the best heavy metal band in history. I'd like to think that had he not went and got himself dead, heavy metal would not have gone to shit. And we might have been spared it's unfortunate offspring, big hair metal.

3. Jimi- Not as good as SRV, imo, but, without him we might not have an SRV.

4. John Lennon- Seemed like he was just getting back into the game when that crazy fukk offed him. I'd like to thing that maybe he and McCartney might have eventually patched things up once he realized that yoko was a no talent miserable cunt. Ofcourse if they did patch it up and the beatles got back together and spent 20 years sukking like the stones, I guess he's better off dead.

5. Hmmmm, I dunno. One of the dead alman bros, I guess.

[BSmack]

All this talk of dead rockers has me thinking, if I could play god and bring back 5, who would they be?

1. John Lennon
2. Frank Zappa
3. Jerry Garcia
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. John Bohnam/Kieth Moon

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

My parents are gone.
My in-laws are gone as of last year.

Now my sister-in-law has cancer.

You lucky bastard. Some guys have all the fun.

Sincerely, EmbalmingFluid42

[Mikey]

My parents are gone.
My in-laws are gone as of last year.

Now my sister-in-law has cancer.

You lucky bastard. Some guys have all the fun.

Sincerely, EmbalmingFluid42

Well, at least tardogenes is gone too.

(and I'm not AP)

[MuchoBulls]

All this talk of dead rockers has me thinking, if I could play god and bring back 5, who would they be?

No particular order

John Bonham
Keith Moon
Jimi Hendrix
Bon Scott
John Entwistle

[smackaholic]

All this talk of dead rockers has me thinking, if I could play god and bring back 5, who would they be?

1. John Lennon
agree, just wouldn't put him in the top spot. Dude pretty much sat out the 70s. That drops him down some
2. Frank Zappa
don't think frank really had much left in the tank, musically. He had moved on to politics.
3. Jerry Garcia
yeah, I needed him to hang around and play the same old shit a few million more times. thanks, but no thanks.
4. Jimi Hendrix
yup
5. John Bohnam/Kieth Moon
bonham, hell yeah. moon? the world already has too many burnt out drug addicts. if he had died in 1967, it would have been a loss to the musical world. 1980? nahhhh.

I based my list on what could have happened had these guys hung around. SRV was at the top of his fukking game and had a shitload more to do, imo. Everyone on your list made big contributions to rock, but, some of them weren't likely to do much more.

[smackaholic]

Y'all go to hell! I'm 44! :D

Top 5:

1. Duane Allman
2. Berry Oakley
3. Hendrix
4. SRV
5. Randy Rhoads

No, really, butsy. In human years?

nice list, btw. cept maybe RR. nice player, but, was he really that creative?

[BSmack]

I based my list on what could have happened had these guys hung around. SRV was at the top of his fukking game and had a shitload more to do, imo. Everyone on your list made big contributions to rock, but, some of them weren't likely to do much more.

Hey, when you've only got 5 golden tickets to hand out, there's going to be some quality left off the list. Also, I'm in no mood to assess what a man's musical motivation might be like after being raised from the dead, but I'm guessing it might very well lead to some serious creative outbursts regardless of what said dude was doing in real life when he kicked.

Besides, if you're playing God you can just time travel to see them whenever the hell you want.

[ChargerMike]

...I'm older than Mitchell

[Shoalzie]

Are we getting these people back at the age they died or what their age would be today?

At the time they died...
1. Jimi Hendrix...I just couldn't see him as an old man though. He was perfect for the 60s.
2. Stevie Ray Vaughan...would be my #1 choice if we went on their age today; he would still be the king of blues guitar if he were still alive today.
3. John Bonham...greatest rock drummer of all-time.
4. John Lennon...would be impactful musically and socially. He'd put Bono's bitch ass in his place.
5. Bon Scott...RACK Mucho on bringing up his name, good call!

Honorable Mention:
Keith Moon
Kurt Cobain...gotta have one from my generation. We wouldn't have Foo Fighters though and that would suck.

[BSmack]

...I'm older than Mitchell

Yet somehow the State of California will issue you a motorcycle license.

[ChargerMike]

...I'm older than Mitchell

Yet somehow the State of California will issue you a motorcycle license.

...naw, you don't need a license for this.. ca. 1973

[BSmack]

...I'm older than Mitchell

Yet somehow the State of California will issue you a motorcycle license.

...naw, you don't need a license for this.. ca. 1973

You look like the bastard love child of Evel Knievel and Mark Mosley.

[ChargerMike]

...Yea, pretty much..

[LTS TRN 2]

Mitch was a great drummer, and moreover the prime reason for Hendrix developing quickly into the real Jimi rather than a flash in the pan that he would have been with a boogaloo backbeat thumper like Buddy Miles. He understood jazz--and that Jimi's scope and vision required breaking out of the four-square parameters of rock 'n roll, etc.

[Diego in Seattle]

I'm betting where that pic was taken is now paved. :?

[ChargerMike]

I'm betting where that pic was taken is now paved. :?

...deep in the middle of the mojave desert so it's not paved yet, but it is closed to all racing thanks to the tree hugging sierra club.

[Mississippi Neck]

All this talk of dead rockers has me thinking, if I could play god and bring back 5, who would they be?

My 5 in order of importance .....

1. SRV- best blues geetarist, evah. Make that best geetarist period.

2. Jon Bonham- His passing brought to an end the best heavy metal band in history. I'd like to think that had he not went and got himself dead, heavy metal would not have gone to shit. And we might have been spared it's unfortunate offspring, big hair metal.

3. Jimi- Not as good as SRV, imo, but, without him we might not have an SRV.

4. John Lennon- Seemed like he was just getting back into the game when that crazy fukk offed him. I'd like to thing that maybe he and McCartney might have eventually patched things up once he realized that yoko was a no talent miserable cunt. Ofcourse if they did patch it up and the beatles got back together and spent 20 years sukking like the stones, I guess he's better off dead.

5. Hmmmm, I dunno. One of the dead alman bros, I guess.

1. John Lennon
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. George Harrison
4. Keith Moon
5. Kurt Cobain

[MuchoBulls]

Honorable Mention:
Kurt Cobain...gotta have one from my generation. We wouldn't have Foo Fighters though and that would suck.

Good call there. I thought about putting him on my list.

[Screw_Michigan]

Shannon Hoon
Doug Hopkins
In Tarddowen's honor: Brad Delp

[Nishlord]

Third Stone From The Sun is all you need to know about how SKILL Mitch Mitchell was. Both him and Noel Redding were criminally underrated, but then again, when you play with Hendrix, you're pretty much gonna be.

All of Sly and the Family Stone are still alive. Amazingly.

[Jerkovich]

About time