Which musician retired too soon?

Tomryan- how dare you. What you're saying is insensitive and politically incorrect, but man it sure is refreshing. And yes had someone bashed Christians I don't think you'd have seen much said as that is now in vogue and accepted. Tom- expect to hear from the ACLU. I'm very happy to see Peter Green is back on the radar-hadn't heard from him since his problems in the late sixties. That is great news to me.

Yes, Peter did get a wonderful tone from his guitar and amp, didn't he? If you think about, a lot of the rock performers we've loved simply created a great great tone such as Jorma Karkaroun (sp?), Jerry Garcia, etc. Much of their doodlings were not interesting in and of themselves but sounded so nice and after a while, comfortable.

Ritchie Blackmore (from rock & roll). What a shame.

Blacmore's Night has done some incredible music. Candace Night is the best singer he's had since Ronnie James Dio. They still do Rainbow material in concert.

Gram Parsons
Jim Croce
Mike Bloomfield
I know they didn't "retire", but I wonder what they could've done under ideal conditions.