Anybody read Hammer of the Gods, bout led zeppelin? They did some crazy s**t. And who thinks Hendrix and Jim Morrison commited suicide or not? I read an article in Rolling Stone that sortof implied that Morrison knew he was gonna die. But in the movie Hendrix, he didn't seem like he'd wanna die. What's up with all the early death in great rock artists? SRV, Bonzo, Kurt Kobain (we know what happened there), Hendrix, Morrison, Keith Moon, Janis Joplin, etc. etc. It's too much.

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Art is selling your wounds to those who will never experience calluses.

Art is not a mirror heald up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

If you think you're free, no escape is possible.

No matter where you go or what you do, you spend your entire life within the confines of your head.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

plane/car crashes in a few instances: SRV, Buddy Holly et al, Skynard, and others.

everything else comes down to substance abuse

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see my sale/trade thread

Speakin bout books, if anybody likes a funny realistic fiction book and is in to music, you should pick up Wishbones by Tom Petora. Great book.

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Art is selling your wounds to those who will never experience calluses.

Art is not a mirror heald up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

If you think you're free, no escape is possible.

No matter where you go or what you do, you spend your entire life within the confines of your head.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

Ever hear of the self fulfilling prophecy?


SRV - accident...
Bonzo - live hard, die in puke...
Cobain - suicide due to self fulfilling prophecy...
Hendrix - conspicuous consumption of items that can kill you...
Morrison - meh, wino in a hot tub, **** happens...
Moon - depression and alcolholism, a dangerous mixture...
Joplin - see Hendrix...
Entwistle - cocaine and **** stars, a true rock and roll death...
Buddy Holly - one poor decision too many. A great artist but should have known better than to fly in a puddle jumper in arctic conditions.

In the end it is the death that made them icons. Do you honestly think the Hendrix or Morrison would get the acclaim they do if they had lived? Morrison was washed up and washed out. Hendrix was most likely about to leave rock and roll and move on to more avant pursuits.

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"I'm not usually a praying man but-Save me Superman!"

"I think I brained my damage."

"O.K. brain, I don't like you and you don't like me. Let's just get this over with and I'll go back to killing you with beer."

"Stevie Ray Vaughn is dead, and we can't get John Bon Jovi on a helicopter! I know, we'll tell him there's a hairstylist on board. . . "
-Denis Leary.

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