Hendrix vs. Stones graveyard
 

Anyone else wonder why ALL members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience are dead, yet the Stones are nearly all still alive?

The Stones had more members, but Keith Richards looks the living dead.

That's why i said the Stones are NEARLY alive. Charlie Watts, as much as i love his playing, has looked dead since, well, since forever :D

Simple, the experience died and the stones live. For one reason or another. They die like anyone else

No, not really - what I do wonder is why didn't Paul and Ringo joined up with Pete and Roger. The Who lost their rhythm section and there's Paul and Ringo just sitting about the house diddling the day away you would of thought they joined forces and do something.

It's a bit strange though because JHE were for the most part younger than the Stones, anyway don't forget Brian Jones was murdered - murder most fowl. Ian Stewart, Nicky Hopkins and Billy Preston were session musicians that played with the Stones that passed away. Being associated with the Stones doesn't make you invincible.

Great observation! Some fantastic sessions players they were too!

Though not official, I always thought of Ian Stewart as the 6th member of the group, there just was not enough room on the small stages.

look on the bright side:-

Elvis is dead

but Chuck Berry is still alive

I thought he looked like Jack Sparrow's father.

Thanks. I thought about Ian like that too, and I also like how the sax players were name Jim Horn and Bobby Keys - with names like that it was like they were born to play.

He drowned in his own swimming pool, i do not know who exactly was responsible.

What if Bobby Keys and Jim Horn did a tour as part of the Experience along with Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell. Sounds Rad!

Jagger and Richards in a way, as they conspired to remove him as the leader of the band. Brian Jones couldn't accept losing control of the band and went on a downhill spiral from which he never recovered. It was a cut throat business alright:o:

or...

What if Jimi Hendrix got together with Steve Winwood and called the band "Crosstown Traffic."

In the movie "Stoned" it portrayed Brian Jones truly living the life of "Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll" only to leave Rock and Roll behind in the sole pursuit of the other two. Just like all dramatisation they bend the facts for dramatic effect. It's like the old chicken and the egg argument: Did Brian spiral out-of-control because he was removed or was he removed because he was spiralling out-of-control?

Brian was the true multi-instrumentalist in the Early Stones. If Mick and Keith, or Brian himself, could keep him from going out of control, perhaps the Stones would have been (even) better in their heyday?

As a fan of Steve Winwood, it is wonderful to think of the Crosstown Traffic jams he and Hendrix could have together!:tramp:

Because of Brian they were a covers band, he chose the covers etc. When they started writing their own stuff, he lost leadership of the band.

i keep thinking about the album Jimi and Miles Davis would have made

if they were only going to do that, The Rolling Stones would have made as big an impact as the Searchers did

Jimi and winwood making a band called crosstown traffic. What a genius idea. Those two made a deadly combination.

I would sacrifice Keith, ****, I'd sacrifice all of the stones to have Hendrix back. And Mitch Mitchell.

Don't mess with Keef... he will cremate you... and snort you in his coke. :p:

I remember seeing a movie about Jimi and (they) made him seem nervous about the idea of playing with Steve Wniwood. It would had been awesome if they did get together for a album or something.

Have you heard the bootleg that is supposedly hendrix and traffic together? Crosstown traffic I guess you would call it :laughing:

Brian was brilliant, but like Syd Barratt, eventually couldn`t play due to his substance abuse. The rest of the band really had no choice but to sack him.
Rumours persist that his builder/minder Frank Thorogood was responsible for Brian`s death. I dunno-both men are dead and the true events of that July night in 1969 will probably never be known.