<band> would have been huge if <member> didn't die

[AlexVonHaig]

Id like to say The Gits and Mia Zapata but the genre was too limiting so Mother Love Bone and Andrew Wood will do

[Whatever Happened To…]

Hanoi Rocks/Razzle

[Spongie]

I appreciate the Mia Zapata nod, but that band was never gonna be huge. But they were good, I still listen to them.

I think the eventual Beatles reunion would have been HUGE if John Lennon didn’t die. >>>Pedos worldwide celebrating children’s music.<<<

[HoldenSSV]

Hanoi Rocks/Razzle

One of the biggest bullshit myths in rock.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Hanoi Rocks/Razzle

One of the biggest bullshit myths in rock.

Yeah the drummer is the most replaceable part. They were never good.

MLB would've been interesting... grunge rock with a glam frontman... if they broke out, would the hair farmers have lived a little longer maybe?

[Rocker4Real]

Would Mother Love Bone be as big as Pearl Jam if that guy didn't die?

[Bono Nettencourt]

I don't think so.

[DemonFilth2001]

Would Mother Love Bone be as big as Pearl Jam if that guy didn't die?

No. Pearl Jam had great songs. MLB didn’t have anything worth note. Terrible band, but influential. I guess?

[GoodJudge]

Hanoi Rocks/Razzle

It's been said often enough here that they were already falling apart due to their various addictions. Vince just gave them an extra nudge.

[HoldenSSV]

Hanoi Rocks/Razzle

It's been said often enough here that they were already falling apart due to their various addictions. Vince just gave them an extra nudge.

And the songs weren't there, either.

[PBFSUCKS]

Hanoi Rocks/Razzle

It's been said often enough here that they were already falling apart due to their various addictions. Vince just gave them an extra nudge.

And the songs weren't there, either.

Agreed. Over rated. Not a Michael Monroe fan either. I respect his work ethic though.

[CrankerBait]

When I think of musicians who died young, the ones that come to mind were already famous/successful when they checked out. Solo artists were obviously finished, but some of the bands with dead members replaced lost members and remained huge, or turned into something different like Pearl Jam or New Order.

The one I think about sometimes is Sublime. It is impossible to know what would have happened if Bradley Nowell hadn't overdosed, but could Sublime have put out another couple of great albums with catchy singles that could have propelled them into the upper tier of rock bands? Or, did they just happen to put out one "right place, right time" album that would never be followed up? Impossible to know.

[LAglamrocker]

Cliff Burton alive would have made Metallica not laughing stock of heavy metal world…Black cd and everything lame after wouldn’t have existed..I like to think

1/2 empty Hollywood Palladium for Nirvana 2025 would have been fun

[Venus Flytrap]

Eddie & the Cruisers. Well, he didn't technically die. Eddie faked his death and became a construction worker in Canada under a new name. But had they kept recording.....

[Wiseacre]

Mentors.

Seriously though I’ll go with Jeff Buckley. The timing was right and he was a really talented guy with the looks to be famous.

[Wednesday 13 Fan]

Betty Blowtorch...

Well, I liked them anyway.

[Wednesday 13 Fan]

Hanoi Rocks/Razzle

So why didn't they do anything before Razzle died? Two Steps From The Move didn't do jack before or after Razzle, and that was their fifth album.

I like them just fine, but Hanoi is the most overrated band ever.

[Tommy]

Would Mother Love Bone be as big as Pearl Jam if that guy didn't die?

No. Pearl Jam had great songs. MLB didn’t have anything worth note. Terrible band, but influential. I guess?

You don't like Crown of Thorns or Stardog Champion?

[Tommy]

Tommy Bolin

[Bono Nettencourt]

Mentors.

Seriously though I’ll go with Jeff Buckley. The timing was right and he was a really talented guy with the looks to be famous.

Nah. If that was true, where was the follow-up?

[the_man_incognito]

Cliff Burton alive would have made Metallica not laughing stock of heavy metal world…Black cd and everything lame after wouldn’t have existed..I like to think

Or, he would have left. Either because James' writing was changing or he wanted a different musical challenge..
I really think that James was more on the bandwagon of thrash when Metallica formed and he was along for the ride...
After the influence of Mustaine (along with his riffs they wrote together) and Cliff faded away, the songwriting drifted to more of an organic place for James...more heavy metal/hard rock...

[Deege]

Cliff Burton alive would have made Metallica not laughing stock of heavy metal world…Black cd and everything lame after wouldn’t have existed..I like to think

Or, he would have left. Either because James' writing was changing or he wanted a different musical challenge..
I really think that James was more on the bandwagon of thrash when Metallica formed and he was along for the ride...
After the influence of Mustaine (along with his riffs they wrote together) and Cliff faded away, the songwriting drifted to more of an organic place for James...more heavy metal/hard rock...

I actually think Cliff would have embraced a direction change. He's frozen in time so we'll never know...but he's the one who had the band listening to Skynyrd, Thin Lizzy, etc....which is the influences that came into place during the Load era. People gave Hetfield shit for wearing a cowboy hat during that era too, meanwhile, Cliff wore a cowboy hat during the MOP era sometimes. The music definitely would have been different because he would have been allowed to contribute more than Jason, but I do think they'd have opened up their sound to different stuff than full on thrash, regardless of whether or not he passed away.