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Most of us have, at one time or another, dreamt of the wild party lifestyle of our favorite rock musicians. As we grow older, most of us settle down, have a family, buy term life insurance, and go on to things like building a career and buying a home. These musicians, though they had a hell of a time while they were alive, never quite made it to the point where they could any of those things:
- Janis Joplin. The undisputed Queen of Rock ‘n Roll, Janis embodied the hippie movement of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Her soulful rock songs live on in the radio, but Janis died of an overdose in 1970.
- Keith Moon. Arguably the greatest party animal of them all, the original drummer for The Who loved to drink until he was sloppy drunk, used drugs with little regard for the consequences, and was famous for his orgies. He gained notoriety not so much for his wild drumming (which was unparalleled) as for his stage antics, including destroying his drum kit at the end of the set. For all his wild antics, he died rather ignobly, choking on his own puke.
- Jimi Hendrix. There’s never been a guitar player like his, either before or since. Many have tried to imitate him, but no one has truly been able to emulate him. Maybe it’s just because he was one of the first to play the psychedelic rock style that would influence so many later guitar players. At any rate, musicians agree that there was only one Jimi.
- Cliff Burton. Bass player for Metallica during their best years (early-mid ‘80s), Cliff Burton was known for virtuoso shredding. When the other members of Metallica first him playing the bass, they thought he was playing a 6 string guitar and were amazed to discover anyone could play so fast on the bass. He died when the band’s tour bus flipped over in 1986 in Sweden.
- Dimebag Darrrel. The man behind Pantera’s thundering guitar-driven sound, “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott was gunned down by a fan who was mad at him for breaking up Pantera. The real irony there is that Pantera had already decided to get back together, so the disenfranchised fan was the one who stopped the reunion he was willing to kill to see.
Music fans will no doubt be screaming at their computer screens at the exemption of guys like John Bonham and Randy Rhodes. But, we heard they didn’t have term life insurance, and we wanted to include only enough of the great ones who died too young to form a band. We don’t know about you, but we’d sell anything short of our souls to hear those 5 jam together.
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