If you could travel back in time to save...
 

... an actor/author/musician from a premature death who would it be?*

And why?

The spin: What actor/musician would you rid the world of to replace them?








*...if this is a little too morbid for you to play, please refrain from saying that it is....thanks!

Duane Allman

And to replace him, Beiber

Heath Ledger - I think his passing was truly a tragic accident, and not self-inflicted like some of the druggies out there.

Replacement of: Lindsey Loho - what a waste of space.

Marvin Gaye.

To replace him, Faith Hill.

Freddie Mercury... Gone way too soon. What an incredibly talented man.

kesha can go.

Author version --

SAVE
Fitzgerald

REPLACE
Dan Brown

MICHAEL!!!!!!!!!!! :( (Maybe that wasn't far back enough.)

I'd try to save Marilyn Monroe. :o I just find her fascinating. And I'd put her in place of Angelina Jolie's overblown pathetically non-sexy self. :mad:

John Candy for Will Sasso

Save: Buddy Holly, Otis Redding

In Exchange For: Bob Seger, Kylie Minogue

Why? Well, Buddy Holly's sound was just so unique and evergreen. And Otis Redding should have been known for more than Dock of the Bay. Both geniuses.

Now as to why I'd off Bob and Kylie? Well, Bob because they overplay him on every classic station in every city of the world. Night moves, my ass. And nothing against Kylie, but do you know why Little Eva and Grand Funk Railroad did Locomotion? So she wouldn't have to.

FYI, there's a new book out about Buddy, "Hey Buddy: In Pursuit of Buddy Holly, My New Buddy John and My Lost Decade of Music," published last month, written by Gary Moore. I have a personal connection to the book, but I probably won't get my copy until I'm in the US this summer.

My "save" is Phil Hartman. What a comedic genius and had his fingers in SO many things.

"dump" oh, there are so many (hasn't Miley Cyrus used up her 15 minutes yet?) but I'd have to say Paris Hilton and that whole crowd of famous for being famous bimbos.

Michael Jackson, JFK, JFK, Jr. MLK, and Robert Kennedy.:(

Second this. Heath Ledger...I think it was an accidental overdose too and he had such potential.

Lohan (I'm sorry, your family sucks and you're young but there's no excuse for being THAT big of a fuck up), Ke$ha (Ok, I listen to a couple of those songs, but I think she's a Gaga wannabe...and she admits to smelling like ass...wtf?), John Mayer (all around asshat), or Taylor Momensen (sp?) (who has the worst case of "I'm a unique snowflake and have an overinflated ego" ever).

Ronnie Van Zant for Kanye West.

Obviously Heath Ledger.
Such a cutie.

Comedy:
Save Bernie Mac, get rid of Dane Cook.

Coaching:
Save Knute Rockne, toss Pete Carroll.

I'll keep Mozart around for another 30+ years.

Can I rid the world of Kenny G in return?

John Belushi

Get rid of Jack Black (that guy just irritates me)

Ditto for Lindsay Lohan for Heath Ledger

Y'all are BEGGING for bad karma!

John Lennon. Such an incredibly intelligent man; I think he still had so much to offer.

I don't want to say who I'd replace him with, though. Senusret has a point about the karma!

Yep to both.

- I'm surprised Lennon wasn't one of the first to be mentioned. I'd also like to see what Kurt Cobain would have done musically in a post grunge era.

But then again, if you kept Holly/Lennon/Mozart/Cobain, they might have turned into...umm...Kenny G.

Seriously, John Lennon has some freaking CHEESY songs that rival anything Paul's ever done in sap factor, and he gets away with it because he's dead.

Same with John Belushi...I like to think he'd have turned into Bill Murray...but he might have turned into...Jim Belushi.

Marvin wrote some awesome music, to be sure, but he could have shot every creative wad he had, spent the last 40 years of his life doing standards (instead of Rod Stewart) and I'm pretty sure that that would be o.k. fine with everyone.

Marilyn Monroe for Ke$ha

Tupac for Soulja Boy.

Kurt Cobain for Pete Wentz.

Yeah but that's not the point! I do believe that everything happens for a reason but this is fantasy, and in my fantasy The Beatles would have reunited in the 80s and made awesome music again. All of the former Beatles solo work sucked other than "my sweet lord" from Harrison but that's for another thread.

I was really thinking of a talent that was cut down way too early and the only one I could think of in recent times was Jay Reatard.

Save: Janis Joplin

There are way too many people who shouldn't be singing to name here.

Yes, please. He should at least get to finish his own Requiem. And Kenny G needs a requiem.

Holly/Lennon/Cobain, maybe.

But I don't see how Mozart could have turned into anything crappy. The stuff he wrote when he was 12 was worth listening to, and he had practically linear growth in the magnificence of his work through the last 15 or so years of his life.

Mozart might well have retired if he got rich, the way Shakespeare did. But there's no way that he was capable of writing dreck. So I'm definitely going with Mozart on this. I would sacrifice the later years of pretty much anyone who's ever lived, except Bach, in order to get more years out of Mozart.
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Brad Renfro. I thought he was a very talented actor with so much potential.

Let's knock off Justin Bieber, nice hair do, but his music sucks.

I forgot he was dead.:(

Imma go with Kurt Cobain, and replace him with Speidi (2 for 1 special)

Who knows, he could have had burnout and started writing drinking songs for the lute or something!

That's actually kind of what I was thinking. :D

Brian Wilson did an interview one time where he said that he does believe that songwriters (or artists of any stripe) can run out of material. I think he's right to a point...maybe not completely run out, but get to where consistency is a thing of the past.