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Wait a minute.. I said Edison invented elelctricity. Now that I think about it, wasn't that Ben Franklin? Or I am right to begin with?
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Nobody "invented" electricity. You can't invent something that happens in nature. That'd be like inventing wind.
These are all musicians that I think still had great work ahead of them. I don't think resurrecting political leaders would do much, as history has tainted reputations so many ways that any real hold would be lost.
1. Frank Zappa - the man was just starting to release his orchestral material, which basically his entire career was leading up to.
2. Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix's best guitar playing is all on bootlegs that were recorded right before he died. He was about to turn a corner. I can't ever imagine what he might have released later.
3. John Coltrane - Miles Davis is probably more popular, but listen to Miles records before and after Coltrane played with him and you see who rubbed off on who. And really, everything released after
Pangaea was pretty shitty. I'd have loved to hear Coltrane's response to fusion. I didn't want to flood my list with jazz, so consider this a three-way tie with Albert Ayler and Eric Dolphy.
4. Roy Orbison - Sure, you could say his best work was behind him, but if you look at his output in the late eighties it was all quality stuff. I think he was on his way back.
5. John Bonham - For my money, the greatest rock n' roll drummer ever. Not for technique, not for speed, not for coordination, but just for sheer balls out power. No one put quite as much behind every swing as Bonham.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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