Used to be that when a rock star died, we'd lament over how young he or she was. Now they are dying off in their 60s and 70s and we can't say that no more.
It's actually a sign of my own mortality. For decades, I've read about the deaths of jazz and big-band recording artists who had their heyday in the 1930s and 1940s. I had never heard their music and their names did not register with me.
Now it seems that everytime I turn around, somebody who contributed to the music that I grew up with has kicked the bucket in some manner. And it's not the "death by misadventure" that it used to be like drug overdose or driving a car too fast. Now it's heart attacks and other natural causes.
This is getting kind of depressing. I wish I could turn the clock back to say, 1972, and live this life all over again - knowing what I know now.
One thing I would do different, I would not buy a house with such a big lawn to mow.
IPOD engaged, earbuds in.
Let's Rock!!!
I can relate. I wish I could turn back the clock to 1969, when I greduated from High School and start over knowing what I know about life now. I think Keith Richards will outlive all of us.
Musicians we have lost in 2012 ALONE:
Whitney Houston
Ronnie Montrose - Montrose
Davy Jones - The Monkees
Billy Strange - (guitarist) - The Beach Boys, Nat King Cole, Nancy Sinatra
Michael Davis - (bassist) - MC5
Andrew MacNaughtan - (Music video producer/music photographer) - Rush, Michael Buble, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams
Dick Kniss - (bassist) Peter, Paul, and Mary
Mark Reale - (guitarist) - Riot
Robbie France - (drummer) - UFO, Diamond Head, Wishbone Ash
Tom Ardolino - (drummer) - NRBQ
Bob Weston - (guitarist) - Fleetwood Mac
Larry Reinhardt - (guitarist) - Iron Butterfly