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What Artist passing affected you the most

hifitommy said:
Isao Tomita passed relatively recently. He certainly knew that we who have rear channels were in his target audience. He even released discrete four channel CD4 LPs. Try any of his records using DPL and adjust the rear channels to near inaudibility on most of the sound. When there is rear channel content, it will be plainly obvious.
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I didn't know he died. I have a few of his records (including one pressed on coral vinyl). He inspired me to try and build a synthesizer when i was a teen. It was never finished though. Many classical music snobs criticized him and considered his work sort of a joke but i knew this was very special work. Having to create his own musical language to be able to literally write synth. parts on paper. The layering of the tracks....I could go on and on. Fantastic!
 
my favorite is his pictures at an exhibition and that is my favorite pictures next to lorin maazel and the cleveland orch on telarc LP. it tas, the tomita is reviewed a long time ago by alice artz, a classical guitarist trained by segovia in a review of a solo guitar version by kazuhito yamashita. she criticizes yamashita for trying pix on guitar because it is really too big a work for guitar but then lauds his performance of it.

she then reveals that her favorite pix performance is tomita's just as is mine. for a classical guitarist to arrive at that conclusion is gratifying for me as i really prefer tomita's above all others.
 
Surprisingly Prince and I wasn't even a huge fan. Tom Petty though, the most. I followed him since HS when Damn the Torpedoes came out (on 8-track no less).
 
There are many recording musicians that I greatly enjoy that are no longer making new material. Not seeing live performances of many that are now gone will always be a regret for me. I certainly wonder what new music they could be giving us, but at least we have their recorded life's work to revisit whenever we want. Such is the substance of our hobby and the recorded music art form. Maybe this is selfish of me, but I think much of the passion for any artist is to live on through their creations after they are long gone. We honor them by listening to their music so they may live forever...

If an artist lives a full and fruitful life, I can't really say their passing effects me much. Sure I miss them, but much more I greatly appreciate the musical gifts they gave us during their lives and hope they find a good gig in the afterlife.

If an artist destroys themselves prematurely, well yes, I still miss them but try not to let their poor choices in life negatively effect me. My thoughts are more that it is such a waste. In these cases, I feel a little guilty when I enjoy the recordings from the fruits of their passion as the same passion probably also got the best of them. RIP.

What does effect me is when a gifted musician, who selfishly gave us all they had to offer during their life, and who clearly had so much more to offer, is abruptly stopped from giving us more by something entirely out of their own control.

I'm sure there are others, but one that will always be in my thoughts, and has greatly disturbed me:

John Lennon

I have a real simple theory about what represents the true value for each of our short times on earth. Either the world is a better place, the same place or a worse place because of your existence. I think in all cases, gifted musicians who shared their passion and talent with us, left the world a better place.

Amen.
 
HarmanKardon said:
Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa [...]!!!
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Captain Beefheart went down in 2010, may they be leaping in heaven with the Toads of the Short Forest......

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Probably Leonard Cohen, no particular reason other than he was such a one of a kind and his lyrics often resonated strongly with me. It was great to watch him play his last few concerts on DVD although a little sad too knowing that he was past his time but forced out of retirement due to being screwed over by a trusted friend.. I don't listen to him very often anymore but will again when the mood again strikes...
 
They're dropping like flies and you're asking me which affects me the most? Seriously, there's no entertainment in this op but a sombre expectation of the same for us. We who care about this question are close behind. The end of an era, clear and distinct. We're not even dead yet and they're hurling their negative superlatives thinking they're on par with the unapproachables. Yeah, that's right, like the laughable lowly Beatles. Eh? I guess Mozart belongs in that lowly category too.
 
Just saw the biopic preview of Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddy's passing should have had more impact for me. Such an enormously energetic creative person in retrospect.
 
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Dolores O'Riordan
I liked The Cranberries since I first heard them in my teens. I couldn't believe it when I heard she had died. That night I listened to their last album "Something Else" on Spotify. I admit it made me tear up. I just read the they will be putting out one more new album for the 25th anniversary of their first, since she had already recorded the vocals for it.

I was also saddened when I heard George Romero died. I had hoped he would make one more good zombie movie just to show the world he still could, since his last couple were total crap compared the trilogy of Night, Dawn, and Day.
 
Kurt Cobain was one.
Saw Nirvana a couple of months before their record broke, back in '92. They played the local heavy metal bar. Opening band was AC/BC.

I remember thinking "I like this band. Bands I like never 'make it'. Ergo, Nirvana will never 'make it'."

Oops, was I wrong!
 
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