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RE: Reaching for Heaven: Musicians with that magical spark that arrived, shone brightly, and was extinguished too soon...
With certain personality types, when a person dedicates their life to the love of music, you run the risk of early death and burn out. This also happened with the great classical composers, jazz musicians and so many others. You can also find this trend in artists and writers. It can be found in those with a creative brain type. They are so dedicated to their love that their life lacks the balance thus they burn out early. Their contributions are ingenious but at the cost of their life. Thanks for sharing @dwinblood
All of them I presented here died in a tragic death that was accidental before they could burn out. You are correct though.
Though in Hendrix and Burton if you watch them play there is some magic there. I can play some of their stuff. Yet that magic is not in me. I can watch other skilled people play their stuff and that magic is not there.
I mean Stevie Ray Vaughn did some good covers of Hendrix tunes and while they were damn good there was still something missing. Some spark. That spark is very rare.
There are still many creative people that are amazing, but I believe the people with that something special spark are a much rarer breed and they often move the needle on what is possible into new territories.
Though yeah I was also thinking of people like Mozart, Paganini, Robert Johnson, and others.
Some Jazz people are extremely skilled and can play anything, same with many modern metal musicians (especially if they are from the Prog Metal sub-genre or its offspring). Yet being able to play it doesn't always mean that magic is there. It is some little unteachable, unlearnable thing that is either there or it is not. Those that study can technically play it and it is still great. Yet that spark adds something extra that cannot be trained into existence.