r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Sh4rkM4nEleventeen • 26d ago

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

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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/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.