If you could only have ONE musical artist, it would be:

[ManyShadesOf]

(David Bowie my pic)

It's hard, huh!?!

[kas125]

1. Jerry Garcia, absolutely.

[Bennyboy]

55. Cuz Jerry don't have a bag.....

To Jerry, it is all music and it is all worth playing. The guy played it all from the Deep jazz of Ornette Coleman to bluegrass. He played with Ruben Blades, David Murray and Vassar Clements. He also covered the great American songbook as well as anyone ever has.

[Iggo]

2. Jimmy Page.

Badass electric chops and acoustic skills that make me cry.

[ManyShadesOf]

3. righteous!

[pipi_k]

30. Absolutely

The man is amazing.

I do have a short list of other guitar players I love, but he's #1.

[chollybocker]

4. Bowie.

Also.

[ManyShadesOf]

15. every time I hear him now

he seems like The Greatest

[lovemydog]

70. he's fantastic

have you heard his Ode to Bobby Zimmerman (on Hunky Dory)?

So many great artists are influenced by others, who I then learn about & admire too. I'm glad there isn't only one musical artist.

When I listen to Bowie, it also gets me interested again in listening to Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Mott the Hoople, T Rex, philly soul, and so much more!

[ManyShadesOf]

73. yes yes yes!

to all that, except haven't heard that Ode. Will google. Listening now. Yep, next stop Bolin or Hoople fa sho

[lovemydog]

76. and Lou Reed, Queen, Annie Lennox, so many others

that Bowie influenced and who influenced him.

Glad you found that song! I love all of Hunky Dory. Bob Dylan was a huge influence on David Bowie.

[tandot]

5. Eric Clapton :)

We went to his concert last year.

[ZombieHorde]

6. Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson

[ManyShadesOf]

18. when does the song start?

[ZombieHorde]

34. That is funny because I posted an altered version of the song. It has the really slow intro

cut off, which is about 90 seconds long.

[ManyShadesOf]

38. LOL

[ManyShadesOf]

51. okay I tried again I rilly rilly did!!

got another :50 further in than the first time. So slow it made my Long Attention Span Disorder kick in. OUCH.

Have you checked these folks out?

[Tom Ripley]

22. Rest In Peace

[ZombieHorde]

35. +666. nt

[lutefisk]

7. "have" as in the way a groupie would have an artist?

Or as in the only book one would "have" on a desert island?

The answers would be different.

[ManyShadesOf]

16. whichever floats your boat

maybe both

[Kablooie]

8. Jonathan Edwards

http://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Darlenes-Greatest-Darlene-Edwards/dp/B0000010KB/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1338622499&sr=8-4

Here's a sample:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/media/sample.m3u/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk6_smpl?ie=UTF8&catalogItemType=track&ASIN=B004KAH39W&CustomerID=A1ABBSP7O9IAJ7&DownloadLocation=CD

[ManyShadesOf]

17. nice touch

[Systematic Chaos]

9. For me it would be Gentle Giant, hands down.

Even when they tried going prog-pop on their last two albums, they were brilliant.

[vanlassie]

10. Van Morrison

Hands down!

[undeterred]

26. Great minds think alike!

I replied before I read the thread

[pink-o]

11. Do they have to be living?

Cuz if not, I choose Freddie Mercury

[ManyShadesOf]

13. nope, just lively

[harmonicon]

69. So I can't pick Leonard Cohen? (nt)

[ManyShadesOf]

72. ?!

...actually, he would be on my Top Ten ...

[ohiosmith]

12. Robert Johnson.

[ManyShadesOf]

14. oldskoo

[ohiosmith]

19. Way old!

[ManyShadesOf]

20. !

[byeya]

21. Thelonious Monk

On alternate days, it's Captain Beefheart.

[Tom Ripley]

23. Since I honestly can't decide between Miles Davis and Lou Reed, Bowie would be my default choice

if that makes sense

[ManyShadesOf]

24. it does! LOL

[undeterred]

25. Van Morrison

[vanlassie]

54. A Vanaddict?

Howdy!!

[pintobean]

27. Extremely boring.

[ManyShadesOf]

28. yes!

that's why versatile Bowie might work

[ArnoldLayne]

29. Roger Waters

[EastTennesseeDem]

33. Shocking

[TrogL]

41. +1

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

31. Frederic Chopin

or jazz pianist legend Bill Evans.

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[emilyg]

37. Yes.

[Burma Jones]

32. Johann Sebastian Bach

And, no, it wasn't hard......not if you can only have one. Now, five, that would have been hard......

so, I would add:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Louis Armstrong
Charlie Parker
Chuck Berry

[Flaxbee]

36. Yup, I agree on the first two: Bach and Beethoven

The rest I have no idea (if I had a choice of 5).

Probably Ray Charles, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, k.d. lang - anyone with a gorgeous, emotive voice.

[Art_from_Ark]

78. I'm listening to old JSB right now

Brandenburg Concerto #3, final movement. One of the all-time greatest pieces of music. Before that, Sonata for Harpsichord and Viola da Gumba in g minor, 1st movement. Perhaps Glenn Gould and Leonard Rose gave the most powerful performance of this latter piece, with Gould on the piano and Rose on the cello.

[kurtzapril4]

39. Old school....

Keith Moon

New-ish school....

Kurt Cobain

I'd have both of them, LOL!

[ManyShadesOf]

40. great combination

[opiate69]

42. Reverend Maynard.

[femmocrat]

43. "have" in the Biblical sense?

Jim Morrison

[ManyShadesOf]

45. LOL

hmmmmmmmm then hafta say .......... John Corbett!!! :

[lumpy]

44. Placido Domingo

Cause he's immortal

[ManyShadesOf]

46. interesting .....

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

47. He's a giant

I was just listening two days ago to his aria from the opera Carmen called the 'Flower Song'. It's so beautiful and his performance is so intense it takes my breath away. It's one of the most incredible things I've ever heard.

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[ManyShadesOf]

50. thank you going to listen now

[Manifestor_of_Light]

61. Mattinata (Morning Song) by Leoncavallo, by Domingo.

A lovely song by the author of the famous opera "I Pagliacci" (The Clowns).

Domingo is much better in his old age than Pavarotti was. Pavarotti was a great tenor in the 1970s but by the time he turned into a pop star, he had one volume level and that was "blast" or triple fortissimo.

[dana_b]

48. Eddie Vedder

yes, very difficult!!

[ManyShadesOf]

49. o man

desert island, one man and a uke? yeah, good call been a fave for 20 years, keeps gettin bettah Mr Vedder

[dana_b]

52. yes he does

he seems to be getting more eclectic with age and I love that. you have excellent taste, btw!

[ManyShadesOf]

53. speaks to the <3

[Scuba]

56. It's gotta be "Seastones"... All those great musicians - Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, David Crosby...

... Mickey Hart, Spencer Dryden, Grace Slick, Ned Lagin.

You just know with talent like that the music will rock your soul.

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At least that's what I thought when I bought the album!

[Ron Obvious]

57. Jimi Hendrix

Either my old mate Jimi Hendrix or Wolfy Mozart, of course. If I could have both, man wouldn't they have something to say to each other, eh?

[digonswine]

58. Tom Waits or Willie Nelson

[Samantha]

59. Eva Cassidy

A real musical one-of-a-kind. What a tragedy we lost her so early.

Sam

[Manifestor_of_Light]

60. Mozart, Kurt Weill and Pat Metheny.

Pat Metheny:

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Kurt Weill: Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet perform "Lost in the Stars":

Mozart: "La ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni. Or "Zerlina Baby Let's get it on in the Bushes". The acting is hilarious!!:

[sakabatou]

62. Yoko Kanno

[ManyShadesOf]

65. ok dunno

[sakabatou]

75. Just put her name into Youtube and you'll get some songs

She does an enormous range of styles.

[pa28]

63. Nick Drake.

Now leave me alone. I'm going to sit in the corner and drink some vodka.

[ManyShadesOf]

64. Ah

[pa28]

67. I'm all in favor of a Nick Drake awareness day.

His story seems a little like Vincent Van Gogh. He was a major talent who received no recognition at all in his own day.

Beautiful stuff!

[hyphenate]

66. David Lanz eom

[lovemydog]

68. bob d

my shakespeare

[DFW]

71. Leo Kottke

Nobody like him before or since.

[ManyShadesOf]

74. true dat

love him

[Dragonbreathp9d]

77. D Numbers

[fadedrose]

79. Frank Sinatra

Also like Madonna & Lady GaGa Very much.....

To never hear Celine Dione screaming would be nice...