Dead Rock Stars/They Died Too Young

Elvis Presley - polydrugabuser of the Rx variety.

Bob Marley

Brian Jones
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
James Douglas Morrison - Rock Star, FrontMan, American Poet

What can I say that hasn't already been said. They died too young, in their late 20's.

They drowned in a pool or were murdered.
They vomited on their emesis.
They died of an overdose, her chemist was out of town and her heroin wasn't properly cut.
He had a heart attack. That's what the Parisian coroner said.

Once I became a parent, and I was older than these kids were when they died, I couldn't help but feel so sad that the parents of these deceased rock stars had to deal with the death of their precious children.

It is a shame, not that they die, but that they seldom reap, and not that they die, but that they die like sheep. Vachel Lindsay


My Son, My Executioner,
Donald Hall

My son, my executioner
I take you in my arms,
quiet and small
and whom my body warms
Sweet death
small son,
our instrument of immortality
your cries and hunger
document
out bodily decay
We, 25 and 27
who seemed to live forever
Observe enduring life in you
And start to die, TOGETHER

 

Please.. you seek fame and fortune, you find it and then you hate it, become depressed and sickly trying to meet the impossible demands of millions of fans and living a drug and alcohol fueled existence until your body finally gives out from exhaustion and weakness.

These people chose their fate and they should be given Darwin Awards.

 

Yeah, it didn't occur to some of them that being famous and a cause celebre' would turn out to be a drag of monumental proportions, in many ways, eh?

 

Its not just big fame. Small fame can do it.

Robert Johnson in 1938 died at 27 because his bottle of whiskey was poisoned by a barowner who didn't like the fact Johnson was porking his wife.

 

Tomorrow, Wednesday the 15th, will be the 47th anniversary of the passing of Nat King Cole.

And Sunday the 19th will mark the 32nd anniversary of the passing of Bon Scott of AC/DC.

 

Elvis Presley was not in his late twenties when he died, he was in his early forties.

 

Exactly! These people did it to themselves ... they weren't forced into the drug/alcohol world. They were all adults and they chose it........

 

Stone?

.......

 

What can ya say? Fans *shrug*

In the harmonica world there is Jason Ricci, all around considered one to top harmonica players in the world today, and the guy is a complete (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) bag.

He was just arrested last year for robbing the recording studio of a friend who took him in off the streets of instruments, amps, mics and other equipment and her purse and credit cards.

He's destroyed the lives of numerous gay lovers by robbing their bank accounts blind before splitting town. Is an admitted heroin junkie. Yet the harmonica players in the world refuse to judge him and send him money and stuff or his legal bills and "wish him the best in his hard times."

What a load of crap. A POS is a POS regardless of talent.

 

Jesus was a Rock Star

 

Never heard of this guy...... and your last sentence says it all......

 

Rock star Morrison lies in Pere Lechaise.

 

Huh?

No, he was born in 1935 and died in 1977. That's 42.

 

From my own research, I would say Jim Morrison, at least, was a POS. I don't really know much about the names listed, except that I doubt most people who know anything about Marley would call him a POS, nevermind the fact that he died of a malignant cancer starting from his toe, and not anything at all related to his religious use of marijuana.

 

Morrison was a genius not a POS.

Your research is lacking, keep researching.

 

Creative people, tend to not have much common sense.

They access a different portion of the brain and perceive drugs to help the creative process...many artists also think that suffering must be part of the creative process.

Brilliant writers like Ernest Hemingway, painters like Van Gogh...and in the musical world...
brilliant composers...

The common thread? Not much common sense....I suppose it is how they're wired.

 

It depends on the creativity.

Not everyone who is creative is bent on an early death or suicide.

 

This is True.....

 

A person can be both, you know. I enjoy his music and his poetry as much as anybody. I personally think he was the best band frontrunner that ever lived, bar none.

But he was also a POS. He dropped his band members against their will like they were worthless to him the moment he was bored with music and wanted to run away and write poetry in Paris (which apparently is just code for snorting and shooting lots of hard drugs and dying naked in a bathtub). He secretly married some witch in some kooky witch-ceremony while he's seeing Pamela, and then later ditches the witch, without any kind of divorce, to run off with Pamela to Paris. And if that's not enough to call him a POS, he went one time and smashed a bottle of Souther Comfort over poor Janis Joplins' head because he was kind of grossed out by her flirting with him.

Now I understand this is all a matter of opinion, and you may find that the above examples are the actions of a genius, and I'm fine with that. Personally, however, I consider them the antics of a POS.

 

Pfffttt....one person's genius is another one's POS. IT never ends does it?

 

A "stone" in his context is a 14lb unit of weight, estimating Elvis on death at 560 pounds, which isn't a healthy place to be.

 

Just YouTube Jason Ricci, you'll find out all you need to know.

 

What he said.

 

stars that died generally come from lower class upbringings and don't know how to mitigate their new lifestyles in a responsibile manner

that is why lottery winners end up losing their millions

 

what do you call lower class
whay irresponsible manner
what irresponsibilty

lottery winners aren't losers and
losers aren't winners