Interesting thought, and perhaps a good companion thread: “those who achieved greatness, but then stuck around a little too long and wrecked it”.
I kind of wondered about what more Kurt Cobain would have achieved musically had he not killed himself. The grunge genre kind of fizzled out later on, would he have adapted or kept it fresh?
I remember Dave Grohl suggesting Nirvana was basically heading for a "break" at minimum and possibly disbanding. Without his suicide I feel like Nirvana would have broke up soon after and Kurt would have died of a heroine overdose in the coming years.
I remember Dave Grohl suggesting Nirvana was basically heading for a "break" at minimum and possibly disbanding. Without his suicide I feel like Nirvana would have broke up soon after and Kurt would have died of a heroine overdose in the coming years.
Kurt Cobain was apparently planning to do a project with Michael Stipe from R.E.M., which sure would have been interesting to listen to. They didn't get anything down yet, but according to Michael Stipe, they were planning to get it started in the months just after his death.
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I think this thread has nothing to do with the original idea behind it. Most people here are posting about people who already found greatness, and are just wondering what else they might have done.
Heck even the OP doesn't quite follow his "gone before greatness" idea by mentioning Freddie Mercury inspired this thread. gone too soon is way different than gone before greatness.
I think Roughneck had the right idea by mentioning Henry Moseley.
I'd say someone like Franz Kafka who was very influential for future generations but died almost unknown and before much of his work had been published.
I was hoping for a more names outside of Hollywood or music in general as I don't truly believe those people change the world aside from popularity. But I kept it open to that. Primarily I was hoping there would be some explanation of why they were destined for greatness so that I could look them up and read some bedtime material. Even Nichola Tesla or something like that.
Kurt wrote the most iconic, enduring and memorable music of the grunge era. Kids today don't care about pearl jam, soundgarden, STP or any other big grunge band, only Kurts music is enduring. There were a ton of bands that did unplugged sets and Nirvana's was the best and most popular.
So what if Nirvana emulated the Pixies? True originality is a myth and everything is derivative. Just because we aren't as familiar with the Pixies influences doesn't make them more original.
Rick Beato has done some really great analysis on what a melodic genius Kurt was: "He probably didn't know what a lydian #4 is, but he knew it sounded great"
This is as big of a nonsense post as Cali’s original one saying Nirvana was overrated,
Andrew Wood. Mother Love Bone’s debut was terrific. I always wonder what would have been.
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There is an conspiracy theory that the original Avril Lavigne died shortly after her major success, but the record company didn't want the Avril Lavigne brand to die, so they found a look-a-like and she took over the act.
Grant Imahara. I loved Mythbusters back in the day, and he was my favorite of all the crew members. Was totally gutted when he passed and wonder what he'd be up to if he were still around today
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I was hoping for a more names outside of Hollywood or music in general as I don't truly believe those people change the world aside from popularity. But I kept it open to that. Primarily I was hoping there would be some explanation of why they were destined for greatness so that I could look them up and read some bedtime material. Even Nichola Tesla or something like that.
That's pretty hard, as nobody has heard of the people who didn't end up becoming great since they died early.
Would one of the Humboldt Broncos players who died have ended up being a generational superstar? Maybe, we'll never know.
