>>>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> )
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>I could not disagree with you more strongly. IMO Nirvana was the last great rock band we have had or are likely to have.
Yeah, I kinda figured that. Obviously you are not alone in thinking that.
But his guitar playing was so pedestrian against real guitar players ( Jorma Kaukonen, Craig Chachico, Clapton on a good day, Hendrix, pretty much any jazz guitarist, all classical and flamenco guitarists etc. ) so then there are the lyrics ... maybe I'm just missing something but I sure never saw any sign of light there ( lots of self indulgent angst, not a lot of insight or poetry ) and then there was his completely disfuncitonal existence as a human coupled with the godawful art student form over function anything but real technical skill approach to success.
At least he and Courtney were well matched.
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