A list of Blues/Rock musicians murdered by TPTB.....You wonder why music sucks now?

Not exactly true.

Look at pro baseball teams. They fly all the time, and no team has ever been in a crash.

Decade after decade.

If you took a commercial flight everyday, the odds are that it would take 85,000 years before you were in a fatal crash.

Most of all the musicians mentioned sucked anyway.

Golly gee, you just want to get a rise out of all the folks who DO know music.

Also Randy Rhoads, RIP.

You can know all you want, but they mostly sucked.

You're too young to remember when the majority of people were still in their right minds. Yes, the music you listen to does make a difference. Every generation has its own.

There's toe-tappin', dancing to the beat music.
There's mood music to relax by. Or go to sleep by.
There's tear-jerkin', cryin'-in-your-beer songs that make you sad.
There's happy music to move you to appreciate the good things, and music to bring about a sense of loyalty.

The power of music moves each and every one of us. It's used in grocery stores to get us to linger a bit and buy more. It's used as background sound in movies.

In short, music is used for the purpose of affecting our emotions and, thus, guide or ALTER our state of thinking, and it used in a powerfully, psychological manner to do just that.
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No, they had real talent in music.

Just curious how you know how old I am?

You just magically divined that?

I know well how music is used, thanks.

Most of that noise would make your ears bleed.

What doesn't make your ears bleed then?

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This would be a good start.

Consider Bach knew about electricity - would it change his music? He'd be exactly what Lady Gaga is.

Ah, a classical music lover. That's great, and it doesn't matter how old you are. I have an album of Strauss' waltzes. Also, albums of a couple of really talented German zither musicians that I truly enjoy.

We were discussing the songsters of yesteryear on this thread, but thank you for reminding us that the old German masters gave their music to the world, too. I don't think they were "accidented" as so many of our musicians have been.
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so what happened in 1979 that made TPTB stop killing musicians?

Thats just it. "Music" today is about who can be the biggest freak-show.

•Sony introduces the Sony Walkman

What about Rhoads, SRV, Cobain, Dimebag, MJ?..

Maybe some were "accidented", but Im guessing some just did have a heart attack or car accident.

Who knows?

Well, Bach and other popular composers used to be pop-music back then, too. :)

Tupac Shakur is one that comes to mind. Is it a coincidence that he was killed and the murder was never solved today...when he was making an album called "Killuminati"? They were pressuring him to cave in. They were scared of the power he was beginning to have over his fans.

Also, Lauryn Hill is another one. She had one of the best albums ever written and then went into an exile. She released a song called "I Get Out", which I think is interesting. Then we get news reports about her being mentally unstable. If they don't conform to TPTB, they're mysteriously killed, are deemed crazy or have something that happens and ruins their career.

I read sometime back that Country singers were "mules" for marijuana. Maybe those who refused to do that job, and knew too much, were offed. Today, they may be "asked" to carry heroin as they tour the countryside in their huge buses. Perhaps, that's why some singers lasted longer than others.

Patsy Cline and Porter Wagner went down in that plane crash together.

Marty Robbins died fairly young of a heart attack.

Country Charlie Pride just dropped out of the country music scene, too.

All four of these popular artists were cash cows for the recording industry. The real money was in drugs.
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There is a lot of black on black crime that is never solved.

Tupac hardly represented a threat to the TPTB.

People like to give him this mythical status.

He was a thug, likely done in by another thug.

Fascinating thread.

I actually bumped into a Zappa interview just a few days ago. Something he talks about, but I'd never realized is that they caught his cancer way too late to really do much for him. Even though he'd been going to the doctors for years with symptoms, they "didn't find it".

He talks about this at about 6:45
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John Lennon is a perfect example of someone being "removed". But I don't believe it has anything to do with anyone other than himself wanting it (just like most of the other people mentioned who were into drugs/depressed because they realized this world is a joke and they didn't want to participate in it in a sober way anymore):

John Lennon - Watching the Wheels

People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing
Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin
When I say that I'm o.k. well they look at me kind of strange
Surely you're not happy now you no longer play the game

People say I'm lazy dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
Don't you miss the big time boy you're no longer on the ball

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

Ah, people asking questions lost in confusion
Well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions
Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry
I'm just sitting here doing time

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go

"Watching the Wheels" is a 1981 single by John Lennon, released posthumously after his assassination the year before. It was the third and final single released from Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy album

Stevie Ray Vaughan in the late 80's and Randy California in the 90's. Randy was mentored by Hendrix, it's where he got his "stage name." He died saving his son from drowning.

Vaughan was just awesome with guitar grooves. He mysteriously died in a helicopter crash.

I got to meet both as an infant, along with B.B. King, but it's not as cool because he's still alive. :P

Cheers.

unrelated i think but joni mitchell has morgellons.

Maybe they all struck a deal with the Devil, for fame. Then wanted to break it.