What one musical death would have the biggest emotional impact on you?
All these musical deaths all the time, many I don't care about but sometimes I'll reflect and go to youtube and watch some videos or spend a whole evening listing to someone's music on Spotify as a rememberance of them. Got me thinking, what one musician death would have the biggest emotional impact on you?
Mine would definitely be Bob Dylan
Runners up: Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney
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I never saw Hedges live.
My brother turned me onto Kottke at Christmas, 1971. he got me the Armadillo album, and I was mesmerized.
I said that CAN'T be one guy doing that. Then I saw him in 1972. He was touring with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
EVERYBODY else there was going to see John McLoughlin. I was there to see Kottke. I just stared and was
hypnotized. He really WAS doing that. It got to the point that when I started working and could afford it,
I sought out Božo Podunavac, the guy who made Kottke's 12 string guitars, and blew 10% of my first year's
gross salary on a hand-made 12 string guitar (which I still have). I never came close to Kottke's proficiency,
but got good enough to tour on my own for a while in Europe, doing solo concerts, folk festivals, stuff like that.
Until my top brass reminded me that I did have a day job with a few responsibilities attached, none of which involved exposing myself to the German public under my real name doing folk concerts LOL!! Well, crap, how was I supposed to know?
Božo remains a friend to this day. He is in his 80s now, and his English STILL sucks (my Serbian is even worse,
but we manage between the two). He never learned to play the guitar himself, but MAN could he build them!
Here is a matching pair he made for me in 1999-2000:
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So Kottke got to claim the 12 string virtuoso title for the 20th century all for himself. Ah, it's just as well.
I was never going to catch up to him anyway.
OK, I'm a pearl addict. Not recovering, just an addict. Hell, I'm a banjo player!
Bake
His instruments also sound as beautiful as they look. He always made sure every detail was perfect.
here are a couple of close-ups from the 12-string:
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Typical of many artists, he had no idea of the true worth of his work. Back in the 1970s, he
used to charge $2800 for a cutaway 12-string guitar, full inlay. It took him $2000 for the
material and nine months to build one. I told him he was working for something like $1.37
an hour, but all he saw was an $800 profit, with no regard to time and expense. I told him
he was crazy to work for so little, and after about 35 years, I think he has finally figured it out.
Carlos Santana or Jimmy Page.
Yeah. I would be majorly bummed...
Tikki
Cheers for even mentioning this incredibly under-rated guitarist!!!!
I kind of grew up with Bebop Deluxe. I haven't bought that much of what Nelson has done over the years, but I haven't been disappointed with his output either. I'd love to be able to go to one of his Nelsonica events 
I really figured practically no one here would have heard of Bill Nelson, other than the senator, which this one most assuredly is not 
and yes, I want to get it. Another thing to put on the list of wants and/or needs
So now that I understand it, my answer would be Ray Davies. Luckily, he's in amazing health, which is more than you can say for Dave his brother, who had a stroke a few years ago and can't play anymore The drugs caught up to him, finally.
But my original answer would have been Freddie Mercury. I miss him to this day, 21 years later.
(Edited, because when I read it over, it sounded like I was saying Ray had died. Yoikes!! He's Welsh, so here's hoping for a long, Celtic life!!!!)
I have no intention of jinxing myself. 
it will be a very sad day when he passes
but i'll have to say neil young and elton john (oops, that's two!) they will soon be coming in thick and fast due to the high numbers of boomers
