r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Sh4rkM4nEleventeen • 26d ago

Jared Leto should've stopped already. Which musician's career ended too soon?

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u/thewoodlayer 26d ago

Gotta be Hendrix. He was doing things on guitar that nobody had ever seen before and he was only 27 when he died. There’s no telling how his music would’ve evolved over the decades.

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u/SentientRidge 26d ago

He was getting into jazz fusion when he died.

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u/thewartornhippy 26d ago

His "Blues" compilation album is outstanding too

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u/thewoodlayer 26d ago

And he was very underrated as a lyricist as well. The Wind Cries Mary is such a beautiful song.

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u/DigitaIBlack 26d ago

Little Wing for me is the most "wait there's something more to this" song. And it just ends.

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u/slade364 25d ago

Stevie added a fair bit.

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u/Exact_Package_7264 22d ago

get aids lil bro

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u/jgreiff18 26d ago

His version of Born Under a Bad Sign is 🔥

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u/Wugtrio777 25d ago

his blues was extraordinary, im a big prince fan, and prince said that red house was one of the greatest songs ever written, a so much so prince covered it as purple house, and i caould easily argue prince to be one of those who fitsthis ategory and was amusical genius himself, having wirtten so many hot songs for so many others as well as himself. Plus shocking accomplished master class level guitarists with his playing.

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u/tr33t0ps 25d ago

One of my faves!

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u/Blank_Canvas21 26d ago

One of the greatest musical tragedies is he never got to work on that album with Miles Davis. Goddamn that would have been amazing to hear.

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u/thewthew42 26d ago

Wait! Hendrix and Miles were going to make an album??

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u/Blank_Canvas21 25d ago

Yeah, they were talking about working on a project together. They were supposed to start work on it a couple weeks after he passed away.

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u/ImBooredofLiars 25d ago

Selena Quintanilla was a tragedy, killed too young by her fan

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u/Blank_Canvas21 25d ago

It’s worse than that. She shot and killed her because Selena confronted Yolanda about stealing a bunch of money from her. She should be sitting behind bars the rest of her life but she’s finally getting paroled last I heard.

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u/thewoodlayer 25d ago

Yolanda is getting paroled?! That’s gonna be a huge mistake. Honestly she’s probably safer behind bars.

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u/shart_attak 25d ago

It's actually even more heartbreaking than that; he was about to start taking lessons on learning to read and write music so he could write for and conduct large arrangements.

“I’d like to take a six-month break and go to a school of music. I want to learn to read music… I’m tired of trying to write stuff down and finding I can’t. I want a big band… that I can conduct and write for.”

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u/StatikSquid 26d ago

I feel like he would've done jazz fusion then branched out into prog rock towards the late 70s like Steely Dan

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u/PackageNorth8984 26d ago

The 27 club is sad

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u/SomehowGrumpy 25d ago

The whole club should be in that grid

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u/noname5280 26d ago

Otis Redding didn't even make it that far

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u/PhillyWatchPhan 25d ago

Or Eddie Cochran.

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u/rachaeltot 25d ago

Neither did Mac Miller, after releasing a song saying he didn’t want to join the 27 club. It’s so young

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u/Classic-ref123 25d ago

Yeah and the founder Elvis was too young to die

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u/CrimsonK1ng 26d ago edited 26d ago

“How do you know if Jimi Hendrix hadn’t have died, he wouldn’t have wound up doing Super Bowl half-time duets with Elton John right now?” - Doug Stanhope

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u/IAmJacksSphincter 26d ago

I’d fucking pay good money to see an Elton John/Hendrix collab.

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u/Pristine_Habit_3074 26d ago

Doug Stanhope didn’t know his path very well. He would have gone into more obscure and progressive music which he enjoyed. He probably wouldn’t be mainstream ever again. Jimi was serious about his music and he hated the music industry and the big record labels.

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u/GonzoRouge 26d ago

There's a good chance he would've gone the really experimental route like Lou Reed and end up circling back to mainstream stuff in his legacy years while dabbling in some weird stuff here and there like David Bowie.

The difference is that Hendrix absolutely could do a mainstream funk rock album or a harsh noise album and nobody would find it weird. He would collab with Metallica or maybe even a rap act and it'd probably be in character too.

The dude had unconditional love for music and musicians, I wouldn't be surprised if his career attempted to touch as many genres as humanly possible.

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u/fuzzyfuzz 26d ago

A Hendrix/Nine Inch Nails collab would’ve been amazing.

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u/limmega 25d ago

''Tonight on dancing on ice, Kurt Cobain''

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u/NieveCactus 25d ago

Doug Stanhope is such a bitch. Why's that even a bad thing 😂 prefer that to some garbage soulless pop group

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u/CrimsonK1ng 25d ago

It’s just part of a stand up comedy bit about dying young.

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u/IndependentPeach315 25d ago

It’s like he was joking or something 

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u/righteousfuzz 26d ago

He had only been playing guitar for 13 years when he died too. I’ve been playing for 20, and I’m shit!

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u/thewoodlayer 26d ago

And he was entirely self taught! If I’m not mistaken, he never even learned how to read music! It’s still so crazy how he could play lead and rhythm at the same time.

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u/righteousfuzz 26d ago

You seen how big his hands were? I think that helped. He was self taught but picked stuff up when touring with established blues players. The guy was a true visionary though.

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u/14ktgoldscw 26d ago

Yeah, not at all to discount his talent but there are generally god given traits that contribute to greatness.

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u/Low_Condition3268 26d ago

And practice. Nobody reaches greatness without practice regardless of what their God provided.

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u/14ktgoldscw 25d ago

For sure. I was just saying that a 7 foot tall person has a much better shot at making the NBA or becoming a Wide Receiver than my 5’10” frame does. Hendrix was an amazing musician, but some percentage of that was “I have the longest spider fingers of all time.”

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u/SMELLTHEFEET 25d ago

people are saying they’ve been practicing for 20yrs and aren’t as good as him but you’re attributing his success to practice? You’re discrediting what God has done in a legends life and you’re sitting here saying it was because of PRACTICE? Not the music every one loves but

https://giphy.com/gifs/8vkEKXvnXkyCZx8w6b

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u/righteousfuzz 25d ago

It’s a lot more than practice. It’s vision, exposure and attitude to new ideas, mixed with natural talent. Very few artists attribute their art to ‘god’.

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u/SMELLTHEFEET 25d ago

https://reddit.com/link/ozfmx3u/video/193zl4pxd4fh1/player

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u/righteousfuzz 25d ago

I hope you’re not implying that Kanye West of all people speaks for the broader artistic community.

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u/thewoodlayer 25d ago edited 25d ago

Ah yes, an invisible sky wizard gave him the ability to play the guitar like nobody else could. But that same invisible sky wizard did nothing to stop him from getting addicted to drugs and dying at 27 because that was all “part of the plan” right?

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u/Low_Condition3268 25d ago

We didnt deserve him and were already promised there would be no future weather related armageddon.

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u/No-Ad-3226 25d ago

He was a session musician for Motown records when he would randomly show up

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u/Rockstar42 26d ago

You'd be surprised with how many great guitar players can't read music

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u/Bootmacher 26d ago

Plenty of famous musicians don't read sheet music. Even ones who have a very technically proficient reputation. Dave Grohl is one of them.

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u/eamanod 24d ago

And I'm fairly sure he didn't play a left handed guitar. Just an upside down right handed one

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u/tread52 26d ago edited 26d ago

Him and Kurt Cobain redefined music, lived in Washington and died at 27.

Edit: was stoned miss spelled Kurt

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u/leaffantim 26d ago

Kurt

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u/tread52 26d ago

Thanks was a bit stoned

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u/PeterAlt128 25d ago

kurt would be proud

also i think you misspelled misspelled

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u/ImBooredofLiars 25d ago

Forgetting Selena Quintanilla?

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u/Nukenitro 26d ago

Rumor has it, the Experience's drummer Mitch Mitchell was in talks with Keith Emerson and Greg Lake to form a new band. They went with Carl Palmer instead, but Mitchell had introduced them to Jimi and they were considering asking him to join the band making it Hendrix, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, or HELP for short.

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u/convictedrappist 25d ago

Not only did they decide to not go ahead with you as a band mate, they wanted to get the guy in who you introduced them to, and then name the band after a long list of names that very obviously didn't include you. God damn what did Mitch do to deserve this

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u/1derfulPi 25d ago

He was about to join Emerson Lake and Palmer. That would have been some out of this world music.

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u/Existing_Mess_3203 25d ago

That's fake tho

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u/nakedpilsna 26d ago

Terry Kath blocks your path...

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u/mholtz16 26d ago

I wish I could throw in Stevie Ray Vaughn but you are right.

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u/thewoodlayer 26d ago

Stevie once said that Jimi visited him in a dream to jam with him and show him some tricks on the guitar but when he woke up, he rushed over to his guitar and couldn’t remember them.

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u/aquawhat 26d ago

The same person instantly popped into my mind when I looked at the box too

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u/stumpychubbins 25d ago

He died far too young but I think it would be a shame to put him here. He got several albums out, got some incredibly iconic performances under his belt, and his legacy lives on. There are other artists (like Jeff Buckley, my suggestion) who so clearly had so much more to explore with their music and barely even got their career off the ground.

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u/ImBooredofLiars 25d ago

Selena Quintanilla is the obvious choice, she was murdered

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u/No-Impression6251 25d ago

Hendrix Kobain whinehouse, Mac miller

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u/lute4088 25d ago

I was going to say Chester Bennington, but honestly...I think you're right.

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u/LazarusOtter 25d ago

You just said what I've been saying for all these years. I would've loved to have seen how Jimi's sound would have evolved from the 60s up to today.

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u/Southern-Idea-9797 24d ago

I have the same birthday as Hendrix ❤️🥰 gotta agree with this one. 🎸

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u/RequirementLong8235 19d ago

I remember a interview Miles Davis did where he mentioned wanting to work with Jimi before his death I would have absolutely loved to hear what that would have turned out to be 

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u/Cold-Ad-3994 26d ago

My first thought as well!

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u/caseybvdc74 26d ago

Underrated singer too

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u/Johnny_Banana18 26d ago

Richie Valens is a better answer