>>>why does the great ones die so early?
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>>What's a little spooky is how many of them died at age 27. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Brian Jones are all members of "the 27 club."
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>Yeah, but at least in the case of Cobain the worlds net pool of talent wasn't diminished ( yeah, that was deliberately inflammatory and I can already smell the spirited teens defended his tortured soul but he is my posterboy for overhyped art-schoolish poseur who was deified as a symbol rather than rightly admired as either musician or a poet of which he was clearly neither. <s> )


I could not disagree with you more strongly. IMO Nirvana was the last great rock band we have had or are likely to have.