Wake music and the afterlife blues.

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1) If you could be granted a wish and choose the musician/band to play at your wake when you die who would it be?
2) Upon reaching the afterlife, which dead musician/band would you like to have playing for your arrival into eternity?
So essentially 1) living musician/band 2) dead musician/band.
 

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1. Paul MCartney

2. John Lennon and George Harrison


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I could see that applying to Keith Richards, but I thought it was generally agreed that Neil's actually still living. (He wouldn't conform to condition 2 to greet you in Heaven)

Keef may very well be dead, its just that nobody's told him yet.
 

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1. Ted Greene
2. Ted Greene

OK, this is getting ridiculous.

Pat Martino
"Martino had been performing until an aneurysm in 1980 left him with amnesia and no recollection or knowledge of his career or how to play the very instrument that made him successful. Martino says he came out of surgery with complete forgetfulness, learning to focus on the present instead of the past or what may lie ahead. He was forced to learn how to play the guitar from zero. This circumstance is crucial to understand his career and his particular way of thinking.[2][3]"
 

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1. Vince Gill - "High on the
Mountain"
2. Ray Price - "Wind Beneath.
My Wings"
 

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For an event of the magnitude of my wake, I'm sure Anonymous 4 would consider a reunion.

I'm not worthy but if J. S. Bach greeted me at the Pearly Gates I'd be pleased.

:)
 

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Weird Al
( No sad music out of him, I suspect )

John Denver
( If the wife beats me there, she would nix that idea. )
 

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OK, this is getting ridiculous.

Pat Martino
"Martino had been performing until an aneurysm in 1980 left him with amnesia and no recollection or knowledge of his career or how to play the very instrument that made him successful. Martino says he came out of surgery with complete forgetfulness, learning to focus on the present instead of the past or what may lie ahead. He was forced to learn how to play the guitar from zero. This circumstance is crucial to understand his career and his particular way of thinking.[2][3]"
Adorshki, why is the choice of Ted Greene ridiculous? I don’t get the connection to Pat Martino..enlighten me, please?
 

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Adorshki, why is the choice of Ted Greene ridiculous? I don’t get the connection to Pat Martino..enlighten me, please?

Hi Shihan:
Ted Green's not ridiculous, was only referring to the fact I'd just finished some repartee bout Antney's choice of Neil Young, when the original question specified somebody living for the wake, and dead for the welcome to "the afterlife".
And we all know what a stickler I am for rules. (Made to be broken!!! :glee:)
Apologies if it came out too strong, and Ted Green's a great musician.
Why Pat Martino? Because his aneurysm could be seen as a kind of symbolic death due to his loss of playing ability, that's why I hi-lit the passage "focus on the present instead of the past or what may lie ahead"
It reflected the same duality as the original question.
Yeah, I know, sometimes I just get way too obscure.
Please forgive me.
:emmersed:

Here's my official choices:
Wake:
The Bangles
Welcome to the Afterlife:
Frank Zappa. If he's there I'll know I'm actually in the right place.
 
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