Which musician do you really not want to die next?

[Minnie the Minx]

We're all a bit distraught at certain times when they shuffle off this mortal coil, but I got to thinking who would be the next person whos death would really affect me.

After long, morbid thought processes I came up with, David Bowie. I really would feel like a part of my life had gone.

So in that melancholy frame of mind, who would you like not to die next?

[Count Machuki]

Oddly, just today I was dreading the day that George Clinton will die.

[Billy]

Robert Wyatt -- the curmudgeonly old sod!



I mean what would the horse do?

[Brin]

I know im going to be gutted when Mr Dylan departs and probably David Crosby too as they have been there all my life.

[Snarfyguy]

Robert Wyatt

Yeah, that's going to bust me up.

Beefheart, too (who, not be morbid, is reported to not be in the best of health).

[Quaco]

Most gutted:
McCartney
Townshend
Roy Wood
Wyatt

I don't want any of them to die next because I don't want them to die at all...

[Bungo the Mungo]

Beefheart, of course. But it won't be a great surprise.

[The Modernist]

Charlie Watts.. he gets cooler as he gets older. Think how great he'll be at 90.

[the masked man]

Bowie would be my choice too. I don't think any one musician has shaped my personal aesthetic more than him; he's been a constant presence ever since I've been listening to music, so he'd be a real loss.

Other than that, I would be sad if Tom Waits died as well.

[Goat Boy]

Brian Wilson.

[Brin]

I wonder if there will be a copycat thread!

[Sneelock]

Joni Mitchell. she smokes like a chimbly.

[king feeb]

Beefheart, of course. But it won't be a great surprise.

I fear he's gonna go soon. It will be a very sad day.

I'll add Holger Czukay. He's getting up there in years, though when I saw him play a few years back, he still appeared to be in good health.

[Guy E]

Willy DeVille's death hit me. I always liked him and he continued to do excellent work up to and including last years' Pistola.

MOJO is going to have to start issuing Real Gone as a standalone supplement in the coming years. A lot of artists I love have died, but there are so, so many people whose music has affected me.

For me I think it's Dylan. The world won't be the same. I'm glad he recorded all those Theme Time Radio Hours... those will be a nice legacy to go along with the music.

[RcL]

Jackie Leven for me. He came to mind because, like me, he's an overweight Fifer, too fond of his beer. And he'll be 60 next year, and he's had a hard life: surviving a murder attempt and heroin addiction. I can't think of any rock musician who has had such a productive and impressive creative life in his 40s and 50s. Maybe he puts out too much - 24 albums since 1994! - but each of his records has something special on it and now and then, they are consistently good.

[Goat Boy]

Ray Davies

[The Slider]

Iggy

[Snarfyguy]

Mark E. Smith

It's tough to imagine a world without him.

[Bungo the Mungo]

Mark E. Smith

It's tough to imagine a world without him.

He'll be around for a long time. I'm quite confident of that.

[The Slider]

My world is totally without him.

Incidentally, can we vote for who we would like to see go next?
Lou for me please.
Miserable old cuntsack.