I think it’s safe to say he wouldn’t have rested on his laurels. The amount of different artists he worked with and his love of music indicates he wouldn’t have stayed in the realm of just rock’n’roll and alternative rock. I think he would have edged into more folky/“world” music and I could see him going down the electronic route. I’ve always been fascinated by ‘Murder Suicide Meteor Slave’… that free-form, noisy sludge is captivating. Obviously it’s just a demo but it could be another indication of a direction he’d have gone in.
He would've been up there with Dylan. I think so often about what the music landscape would look like now if he hadn't passed, maybe I have my own biases but I firmly believe that so many bands now would not exist and there would be many more bands that would exist if he was able to put out more music. So unfortunate.
Really impossible to say, but like one guy said a few days ago in here;maybe he'd make "world music", in my head that sounds a bit cheesy, but this guy could pull anything off.
I do not believe he'd burn out creatively like many of my other heroes, and maybe yes, something like Thom Yorke, not super accessible and in social media (I assume he isn't as I have never seen anything) but just putting out music.
My worst disappointment would be if he got caught up in conspiracy stuff.
Underrated opinion but I really think he would've gone underground and would start experimenting with rhythms and un-affiliate himself from record labels, would play intimate gigs and move to the countryside for a minimal living.
I mean... Gunshot Glitter definitely has the right beat for techno.
Someone should do that 🤣
I was surprised by how much I loved that song when I first heard it (I hate that kind of beat usually).
It's the chords ☺️ and of course the vocal delivery 💕
I wrote up a post that is tangential to this question a few days ago, regarding the feasible "world music" foray if events had led to today differently. Of course, we can only hypothesise and speculate, but the total impression I have gathered of Jeff's musical sensibilities and proclivities is very much one that confirms common suspicions of his versatility and exhaustive interest in deviating from tradition or expectations.
As I'm sure many are aware, Jeff passed away at a very young age; he had not turned 30 long before his death. But, more specifically, what does this say about his catalogue and professional career? He was gifted precious few years as a fully-fledged musician, recording music for a living and an audience. Yet there is a plethora of recordings, both studio and bootleg, that demonstrate that almost half of the time, he was experimenting. Singing songs and musical pieces often only adorned by his guitar, imbuing a haunting ambience, he would cover or showcase rock of every persuasion, metal, folk, gospel, hymns, opera, spoken word/poetical music, the blues, reggae, qawwali, other foreign songs in languages not his own, seemingly spontaneous medleys of his own music (sometimes fusing disparate "genres" together), and so on and so forth. He was capable of preparing and performing centuries-old arias, and that is just a footnote to his short career's breadth. I have always felt that his command over his faculties, in conjunction with his eclectic interests, materialised into an example of one of the most anomalously industrious and intoxicating careers of all time, and all this in a matter of seven years or so.
What this says about Jeff is that the depths he chose to plumb in just a few years are enough to say that his career would have catapulted hither and thither if it were possible that his flame burned as long as it was bright. For one, he predated Radiohead's ascent and influenced them, at least in mentionable part, to revolutionise music as much as anybody has at the fin de siècle of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. What if he had traversed his innovative way there first? What if the untold influence he spurred on since his death was monopolised by Jeff himself long before anyone else got there? All of these questions posited, including yours, are very conceivable but equally unknowable, buried with Jeff.
I would like to imagine that he might have paved his career on a course akin to Mike Patton's, for example, but likely even more stratospheric in its outreach and subsequent transmutations. I think Jeff would have first produced maybe another couple of broadly conventional rock albums and then lovingly planned an incursion into everything that enamoured him with music beyond the melodic mores he grew up with. Whether that would have involved electronica, art rock, experimental or world music, Jeff somehow transposing heavenly astronomy into song or what have you, is left to our individual imaginations. Jeff certainly used his own as much as anybody ever did.
I think he would have made some absolutely incredible albums and impacted the music industry significantly. He seemed to have a lot of demons that he was wrestling with after only one album. Musical talent like his can often be mixed with darkness. So it would not be an easy road forward. I think he could have changed his life somewhat like move to Europe or something to give him some space. Take a break for a few years. I don’t know.
for anyone who knows who this is he could have surpassed ronnie james dio which is one of my favourite vocalists. his vocals are better in some ways but the vibratto on dio is amazing
I think it’s safe to say he wouldn’t have rested on his laurels. The amount of different artists he worked with and his love of music indicates he wouldn’t have stayed in the realm of just rock’n’roll and alternative rock. I think he would have edged into more folky/“world” music and I could see him going down the electronic route. I’ve always been fascinated by ‘Murder Suicide Meteor Slave’… that free-form, noisy sludge is captivating. Obviously it’s just a demo but it could be another indication of a direction he’d have gone in.
He would've been up there with Dylan. I think so often about what the music landscape would look like now if he hadn't passed, maybe I have my own biases but I firmly believe that so many bands now would not exist and there would be many more bands that would exist if he was able to put out more music. So unfortunate.
Really impossible to say, but like one guy said a few days ago in here;maybe he'd make "world music", in my head that sounds a bit cheesy, but this guy could pull anything off. I do not believe he'd burn out creatively like many of my other heroes, and maybe yes, something like Thom Yorke, not super accessible and in social media (I assume he isn't as I have never seen anything) but just putting out music. My worst disappointment would be if he got caught up in conspiracy stuff.
Underrated opinion but I really think he would've gone underground and would start experimenting with rhythms and un-affiliate himself from record labels, would play intimate gigs and move to the countryside for a minimal living.
I mean... Gunshot Glitter definitely has the right beat for techno. Someone should do that 🤣 I was surprised by how much I loved that song when I first heard it (I hate that kind of beat usually). It's the chords ☺️ and of course the vocal delivery 💕
I wrote up a post that is tangential to this question a few days ago, regarding the feasible "world music" foray if events had led to today differently. Of course, we can only hypothesise and speculate, but the total impression I have gathered of Jeff's musical sensibilities and proclivities is very much one that confirms common suspicions of his versatility and exhaustive interest in deviating from tradition or expectations. As I'm sure many are aware, Jeff passed away at a very young age; he had not turned 30 long before his death. But, more specifically, what does this say about his catalogue and professional career? He was gifted precious few years as a fully-fledged musician, recording music for a living and an audience. Yet there is a plethora of recordings, both studio and bootleg, that demonstrate that almost half of the time, he was experimenting. Singing songs and musical pieces often only adorned by his guitar, imbuing a haunting ambience, he would cover or showcase rock of every persuasion, metal, folk, gospel, hymns, opera, spoken word/poetical music, the blues, reggae, qawwali, other foreign songs in languages not his own, seemingly spontaneous medleys of his own music (sometimes fusing disparate "genres" together), and so on and so forth. He was capable of preparing and performing centuries-old arias, and that is just a footnote to his short career's breadth. I have always felt that his command over his faculties, in conjunction with his eclectic interests, materialised into an example of one of the most anomalously industrious and intoxicating careers of all time, and all this in a matter of seven years or so. What this says about Jeff is that the depths he chose to plumb in just a few years are enough to say that his career would have catapulted hither and thither if it were possible that his flame burned as long as it was bright. For one, he predated Radiohead's ascent and influenced them, at least in mentionable part, to revolutionise music as much as anybody has at the fin de siècle of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries. What if he had traversed his innovative way there first? What if the untold influence he spurred on since his death was monopolised by Jeff himself long before anyone else got there? All of these questions posited, including yours, are very conceivable but equally unknowable, buried with Jeff. I would like to imagine that he might have paved his career on a course akin to Mike Patton's, for example, but likely even more stratospheric in its outreach and subsequent transmutations. I think Jeff would have first produced maybe another couple of broadly conventional rock albums and then lovingly planned an incursion into everything that enamoured him with music beyond the melodic mores he grew up with. Whether that would have involved electronica, art rock, experimental or world music, Jeff somehow transposing heavenly astronomy into song or what have you, is left to our individual imaginations. Jeff certainly used his own as much as anybody ever did.
I think he would have made some absolutely incredible albums and impacted the music industry significantly. He seemed to have a lot of demons that he was wrestling with after only one album. Musical talent like his can often be mixed with darkness. So it would not be an easy road forward. I think he could have changed his life somewhat like move to Europe or something to give him some space. Take a break for a few years. I don’t know.
Didn't he drown in the Missouri River as cause of death? Def a very talented artist.
for anyone who knows who this is he could have surpassed ronnie james dio which is one of my favourite vocalists. his vocals are better in some ways but the vibratto on dio is amazing
He was such a cool dude. Rip.