If they were young in this day and age, I mean.
2007-05-31 06:35:20 · 25 answers · asked by Johnny's Girl 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
no.. they SET today's standards...
2007-05-31 06:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by Barack_O' Llama 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they would be popular but not the icons that they are now, which is sad to say as they were three timeless musical geniuses.
Janis Joplin would be a Indie Superstar today , she didn't really care what people thought of her looks and wasn't shy about singing and doing what SHE wanted to do, which is what made her great, but today's mainstream would be to busy bashing her looks than concentrating on the power of her music.
Hendrix would still be among the best guitarists in the world today, if not THE best, but I painfully think he'd be labeled a novelty today, he'd be a black man not rapping and actually playing an instrument , people would be impressed but would kinda write it off. There'll never be another Jimi but I hope someone can bring that fire back to guitaring again.
As for Morrison and the doors, I think they'd be a huge just-under-the-mainstream-radar type of band that would pretty much swallow the underground but would never quite get the mainstream attention they would need to really make an impact.
Kinda makes you even more disgusted at today's fickle media.
2007-05-31 08:24:05 · answer #2 · answered by Undead 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jimi Hendrix was a super talented guitarist in my opinion. I actually like Janis Joplin; she's definitely an acquired taste. I'm not as familiar with Jim Morrison's work other than the most famous Doors songs.
2016-05-17 21:58:26 · answer #3 · answered by kimiko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Morrison definitely would be and Hendrix would be popular but I don't know about Janis Joplin - today female entertainers have to be talented and attractive (emphasis on the looks over talent) and she wasn't exactly gorgeous.
I still love all of their music though
2007-05-31 06:45:42 · answer #4 · answered by Col 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a chance. They would never even be discovered. I know this will piss off allot of people, but the fact is they could only be popular in the sixties. If they didn't die when they did, their music would have. If they were alive today, they would be doing infomercials on late night T.V. for sixties compilation C.D.s with some old haggard D.J. like Cousin Brucie saying "Remember when we were cool, and had hair?" As they would say back then "To every season, turn turn turn" Music evolves, We might not always like how it evolves, But When the people who grew up listening to Elvis first heard Jimi, They would say the same thing we say about today's music.
2007-05-31 07:01:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not, if they did the exact same kind of music.
I say this because I'm a big music fan, and I'm older (39), and I listen to some bands, who I've found out about through the grape-vine, who are great bands by 1970s/1980s Rock standards, but no one gives them the time of day now.
Being dead is also really a help to one's career as a singer. I mean, they had to be somewhat popular when they were alive, but being dead really does lend some kind of a boost to their popularity, that likely wouldn't be there if they were alive.
Just look at the Beatles: everybody worships John Lennon because he was murdered twenty-seven years ago. But if you really listen to the Beatles music, and the solo music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, I really believe that Paul McCartney possessed the rarer talent that was more instrumental in the Beatles being as popular as they were in their day, and still are now.
Also look at people like: Michael Jackson, Peter Frampton, and the Bee Gees, who were massively popular in their heydays, but are now the butt of jokes, mostly because they are still alive (although I do think that one of the non-songwriting Bee Gees is dead now). If they had died young, people wouldn't dare put them down the way they do now. If Frampton had died at 30, he'd be the king now, and not some schmuck like he is commonly considered nowadays.
It's some kind of weird phenomenon, but most people over-inflate their opinion of the dead.
2007-05-31 06:51:41 · answer #6 · answered by billyrayhombre09 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course because todays music means nothing to the people who write it. All people want today is the quick buck! The 3 "J's" were very talented, although juiced up on a lot of drugs, they wrote about the things that ment to them and it was about the music, not the money.
They were real...
...not plastic.
2007-05-31 06:45:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know Hendrix would be. He is one of those musicians whose music and talents are timeless. I don't believe that the Doors and Joplin's music has held up quite as well.
2007-05-31 06:39:14 · answer #8 · answered by JeffyB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Today, doesn't have any standards. Can you even imagine any of the aforementioned on American Idol? That's just plain insulting to someone like Hendrix.
There is very few real talent out there today. Certainly not Kelly Clarkston or Carrie Underwood.
2007-05-31 06:38:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-05-31 06:37:52 · answer #10 · answered by fordperfect5 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes because we still like them now. Jimi is one of my favorite musicians. Morrison was a prick but had style, I think by pure drunken accident though
2007-05-31 06:39:50 · answer #11 · answered by Dr. Worm is back 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋