Yes… 2016 was not a good year for rock because of the many great artists passing away but it was a great year for Stones fans: tour in Latin America including playing is some countries for the first time, live dates in the USA, many releases of material from the vaults (Totally Stripped, Stones in Mono), new live album and movie (Havana Moon), a great documentary Olé Olé Olé, a great  new studio album, a video with Kristen Stewart, singles, exhibitionism etc

I don’t want to be pessimistic but realistic, wait for a worse year in 2017 in terms of musicians passing, the life expectative in Europe and the USA is 78 years, and if the distribution is normal, many people in between 74 and 82 years will pass next year. So be prepared!

Fortunately, the list for 2017 does not have any of the Stones current members and we will have them rocking live and in the studio, releasing more new stuff and cool stuff from the vaults

This is a normal distribution curve, just imagine that 78 years old is the point in the middle

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Wish you the best, be successful but specially be happy and make others happy you lovely B&B!

PS. Live your life to the extreme!

I agree, VooDoo.  2017 is going to suck, on many fronts.  It's time to batten down the hatches and hunker in for one FUCKED up year.  And I guarantee there will be no Rapture or return of J. Christ to save this stuff.  It's not in the cards. Fucking 2018 can't get here soon enough. 

I call Revolution.

Mick Jagger's father, Basil, lived to be 93 years old.  Also, Mick Jagger eats healthy and exercises regularly.  He does not smoke or drink alcohol.  He is a happy person with a positive outlook on life!  In other words, he is going to live forever!  Yay!

I'm just trying to stay optimistic and hope with all my might that 2017 will be easier, more fun and with less appearances by the Grim Reaper. Jesus, it has to be. Let's keep our fingers crossed!

ALLELUIA ! We "Rocks Offers" survived 2016! ALLELUIA
Bring it on ~ 2017!
we can only get tougher. Oh YAH

gorda wrote on Dec 28^th, 2016 at 12:18am:

Mick Jagger's father, Basil, lived to be 93 years old.  Also, Mick Jagger eats healthy and exercises regularly.  He does not smoke or drink alcohol.  He is a happy person with a positive outlook on life!  In other words, he is going to live forever!  Yay!

Keith and Ronnie on the other hand...!

Gazza wrote on Dec 28^th, 2016 at 8:28am:

Keith and Ronnie on the other hand...!

:whydontcha :scary

Charlie is gonna take care of Keith and the cockroaches!

Gazza wrote on Dec 28^th, 2016 at 8:28am:

gorda wrote on Dec 28th, 2016 at 12:18am: Mick Jagger's father, Basil, lived to be 93 years old.  Also, Mick Jagger eats healthy and exercises regularly.  He does not smoke or drink alcohol.  He is a happy person with a positive outlook on life!  In other words, he is going to live forever!  Yay! Keith and Ronnie on the other hand...!

Continue to defy science and logic..................Let's keep it that way. :willya :willya

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 27^th, 2016 at 10:56pm:

I agree, VooDoo.  2017 is going to suck, on many fronts.  It's time to batten down the hatches and hunker in for one FUCKED up year.  And I guarantee there will be no Rapture or return of J. Christ to save this stuff.  It's not in the cards. Fucking 2018 can't get here soon enough.

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It can only get better...It MUST...or else...the party comes to a halt!!!
It will be the 80s all over again...with having to put up with the 90s just to get to the naughts...thats too long to wait for a party

Well, this is the sad thing about the arts and culture.  You grow up watching and listening to talented people older than you, maybe even just a couple years older by the time you're a teenager, and you say, "That's what I want to do," or at least you decide that you want to make their work a part of your experience forever.  Sometimes the last part happens whether you intend it to or not.  Then, when you yourself are on the downslope, those people start "returning to nature," as they say - though not always in natural or pleasant ways.  And you feel somewhat betrayed by life.  This happened a bit to my mother when she was in her last years.  Yet 2016 seemed rather heavy-handed as far as star mortality goes, so the sense of betrayal seems a bit less irrational.  When Bowie went, people of all ages seemed to rebel against the very idea of mortality, so great seemed his vitality.

My mother, who died at 70 in 2003, loved Prince in the 1980s, and insisted on my taking her to one of the Purple Rain tour shows.  (At which we saw plenty of older people of all races, accompanied by younger family.)  She'd have been unhappy if he had passed before her, being younger.   She loved Debbie Reynolds, too, and turned me on to Singin' in the Rain.

Myself, I've tried to look at reality, and have steeled my heart a bit toward waking up one day and reading the news - oh, boy - that one of the Stones has passed, or Dylan.  But Bowie in the New Year was a sucker punch, being that the seriousness of his condition was not widely known.  Couple that with Prince by misadventure, and....  In some ways, all of us waking up to read about Bob Dylan's Nobel win was a way of seeing death cheated in this awful year.  But remember...in places like Aleppo, they don't have time for the luxury of such funereal pleasures. 

See also article in link below:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/27/the-guardian-view-on-celebrity-deaths-a-dramatic-meaning

andrews27 wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 9:00am:

Well, this is the sad thing about the arts and culture.  You grow up watching and listening to talented people older than you, maybe even just a couple years older by the time you're a teenager, and you say, "That's what I want to do," or at least you decide that you want to make their work a part of your experience forever.  Sometimes the last part happens whether you intend it to or not.  Then, when you yourself are on the downslope, those people start "returning to nature," as they say - though not always in natural or pleasant ways.  And you feel somewhat betrayed by life.  This happened a bit to my mother when she was in her last years.  Yet 2016 seemed rather heavy-handed as far as star mortality goes, so the sense of betrayal seems a bit less irrational.  When Bowie went, people of all ages seemed to rebel against the very idea of mortality, so great seemed his vitality. My mother, who died at 70 in 2003, loved Prince in the 1980s, and insisted on my taking her to one of the Purple Rain tour shows.  (At which we saw plenty of older people of all races, accompanied by younger family.)  She'd have been unhappy if he had passed before her, being younger.   She loved Debbie Reynolds, too, and turned me on to Singin' in the Rain. Myself, I've tried to look at reality, and have steeled my heart a bit toward waking up one day and reading the news - oh, boy - that one of the Stones has passed, or Dylan.  But Bowie in the New Year was a sucker punch, being that the seriousness of his condition was not widely known.  Couple that with Prince by misadventure, and....  In some ways, all of us waking up to read about Bob Dylan's Nobel win was a way of seeing death cheated in this awful year.  But remember...in places like Aleppo, they don't have time for the luxury of such funereal pleasures.  See also article in link below: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/27/the-guardian-view-on-celebrity-deaths-a-dramatic-meaning

Excellence in posting.

gorda wrote on Dec 28^th, 2016 at 12:18am:

Mick Jagger's father, Basil, lived to be 93 years old.  Also, Mick Jagger eats healthy and exercises regularly.  He does not smoke or drink alcohol.  He is a happy person with a positive outlook on life!  In other words, he is going to live forever!  Yay!

I'm pretty sure Mick enjoys a glass of wine in moderation.


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1.       Brian Jones (1942 - 1969)
2.       Ian Stewart (1938 -1985)
3.       Bill Wyman (1936 - 2018)
4.       Mick Taylor (1949 - 2020)
5.       Charlie Watts (1941 - 2026)
6.       Ronnie Wood (1947 - 2028)
7.       Mick Jagger (1943 - 2034)
8.       Keith Richards (1943 - 2062)

I find this thread to be in poor taste and vote to have it removed!

Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 5:41am:

I find this thread to be in poor taste and vote to have it removed!

The whole thread or just Pako Gerrte's forecast?

Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 5:41am:

I find this thread to be in poor taste and vote to have it removed!

Did someone say "VOTE"? http://debatepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/putin.jpg

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 8:43am:

Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 30th, 2016 at 5:41am: I find this thread to be in poor taste and vote to have it removed! The whole thread or just Pako Gerrte's forecast?

Since when have we ever had taste.............or wealth? :pullanolte :interestingstuffronnie

"Full" list for 2016, add Allan Williams manager of the early Beatles

JANUARY

4 – Robert Stigwood, Entertainment Manager – age 81

6 – Pat Harrington Jr., Actor – age 86

7 – Troy Shondell, Singer – age 76

7 – Kitty Kallen, Singer – age 94

9 – Angus Scrimm, Acto – age 89

10 – David Bowie, Musician – age 69

11 – David Margulies, Actor – age 78

13 – Brian Bedford, Actor – age 80

14 – Alan Rickman, Actor – age 69

14 – René Angélil, Singer / Manager –  age 73

15 – Dan Haggerty, Actor – age 74

15 – Noreen Corcoran, Actress – age 72

18 – Glen Frey, Singer / Songwriter – age 67

26 – Abe Vigoda, Actor – age 94

28 – Paul Kantner, Singer / Songwriter – age 74

28 – Mike Minor, Actor – age 75

FEBRUARY

2 – Bob Elliot, Comedian – age 92

3 – Maurice White, Musician / songwriter – age 74

3 – Joe Alaskey, Voice Actor – age 63

4 – Joe Dowell, Pop Singer – age 76

13 – Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice  – age 79

15 – George Gaynes, Actor – age 98

15 – Vanity, Actress/Singer – age 57

18- Tom Mullica, Magician – age 68

19 – Harper Lee, Novelist – age 89

22 – Yolande Fox, Singer – age 87

22 – Sonny James, Country Music Singer/Songwriter – age 87

24 – Lennie Baker, Musician – age 69

25 – Tony Burton, Actor – age 78

28 – George Kennedy, Actor – age 91

29 – Gil Hill, Police Commander/Actor – age 84

MARCH

4 – Joey Martin Feek, Country music singer/songwriter– age 40

6 – Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the U.S.(1981-1989) Husband, 40th President Ronald Reagan – age 94

8 – Sir George Martin, Producer for the “Beatles” albums – age 90

9 – Robert Horton, Actor– age 91

10 – Keith Emerson, Musician / keyboardist – age 71

13 – Adrienne Corri, Actress – age 85

16 – Frank Sinatra Jr., Singer– age 72

17 – Larry Drake, Actor – age 66

17 – Paul Daniels, Magician – age 78

18 – Joe Santos, Actor – age 84

21 – Peter Brown, Actor – age 80

22 – Rob Ford, Politician, mayor of Toronto – age 46

22 – Richard Bradford, Actor – age 81

22 – Phife Dawg, Singer – age 45

23 – Joe Garagiola, Baseball Player – age 90

23 – Ken Howard, Actor – age 71

24 – Earl Hamner, Jr., Writer/Producer – age 92

24 – Garry Shandling, Comedian – age 66

27 – Mother Angelica, Franciscan Nun – age 92

28 – James Noble, Actor – age 94

31 – Ronnie Corbett, Comedian/Actor, age 85

APRIL

6 – Merle Haggard, singer/songwriter – age 79

12 – Anne Jackson, Actress – age 90

17 – Doris Roberts, Actress – age 90

20 – Victoria Wood, English Comedian/Actress – age 62

20 – Chyna, WWE wrestler – age 46

21 – Prince, Musician – age 57

21 – Lonnie (Mack) McIntosh, Guitarist – age 74

23 – Madeleine Sherwood, Actress – age 94

24 – Billy Paul, Singer – age 81

MAY

8 – William Schallert, Actor – age 93

12 – Julius La Rosa, Singer – age 86

19 – Morley Safer, Journalist for CBS News for 52 years – age 84

19 – Alan Young, Actor  – age 96

24 – Burt Kwouk, Actor – age 85

27 – Mike Barnett, Singer – age 89

29 – Patty Duke, Actress/Singer – age 69

JUNE

3 – Muhammad Ali, Professional Boxer – age 74

10 – Gordie Howe, Hockey player for Detroit Red Wings – age 88

10 – Christina Grimmie, Singer – age 22

13 – Michu Meszaros, Actor / Circus Performer – age 76

14 – Ann Guilbert, Actress – age 87

14 – Ronnie Claire Edwards, Actress – age 83

16 – Jo Cox, British Labour Party Member of Parliament – age 41

17 – Ron Lester, Actor – age 45

19 – Anton Yelchin, Actor – age 27

27 – Mack Rice, Songwriter – age 82

28 – Scotty Moore, Guitarist – age 84

28 – Buddy Ryan, NFL Football Coach – age 85

28 – Pat Summitt, NCAA Basketball Coach– age 64

JULY

2 – Michael Cimino, Writer/Director – age 77

2 – Elie Wiesel, Jewish Writer/political activist – age 87

2 – Teddy Rooney, Actor/Musician – age 66

2 – Caroline Aherne, Comedienne/Actress – age 52

3 – Noel Neill, Actress  – age 95

6 – Danny Smythe, Musician – age 67

16 – Bonnie Brown, Musician  – age 77

19 – Garry Marshall, Writer/Producer/Actor – age 81

27 – Jerry Doyle, Actor– age 60

30 – Gloria DeHaven, Actress/Singer – age 91

AUGUST

2 – David Huddleston, Actor – age 85

3 – Ricci Martin, Entertainer – age 62

6 – Pete Fountain, Jazz Musician – age 86

10 – John Saunders, Sports journalist – age 61

11 – Glenn Yarbrough, Singer – age 86

11 – Alexis Arquette, Actress – age 47

13 – Michel Richard, Chef/Restaurateur – age 68

13 – Kenny Baker, Actor – age 81

14 – Fyvush Finkel, Actor – age 93

16 – John McLaughlin, Television host – age 89

17 – James Woolley, Musician – age 49

19 –Jack Riley, Actor – age 80

23 – Steven Hill, Actor – age 94

25 – Jeanne Martin, Model – age 89

25 – Marvin Kaplan, Actor – age 89

29 – Gene Wilder, Actor – age 83

SEPTEMBER

1 – Jon Polito, Actor – age 65

6 – Hugh O’Brian, Actor – age 91

9 – James Stacy, Actor– age 79

17 – Charmian Carr, Actress – age 73

24 – Bill Nunn, Actor –  age 63

25 – Jean Shepard, Singer/Songwriter – age 82

25 – José Fernández, Baseball player for Miami Marlins – age 24

25 – Arnold Palmer, Golfer – age 87

28 – Shimon Peres, Statesman – age 93

OCTOBER

12 – Thomas Ford, Actor – 52

21 – Kevin Meaney, Comedian –  age 60

23 – Pete Burns, Singer/Songwriter – age 57

24 – Bobby Vee, Singer – age 73

30 – Tammy Grimes, Stage Actress – age 82

NOVEMBER

3 – Kay Starr, Singer – age 94

7 – Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States 1993-2001 – age 78

7 – Leonard Cohen, Poet / Songwriter – age 82

11 – Robert Vaughn, Actor – age 83

13 – Leon Russell, Musician / Songwriter – age 74

14 – Gwen Ifill, Journalist  for “Washington Week” and “PBS NewsHour” on PBS – age 61

15 – Holly Dunn, Singer / Songwriter – age 59

18 – Sharon Jones, American soul and funk singer – age 60

24 – Florence Henderson, Actress / Singer – Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch” (1969 to 1974) – age 82

25 – Fidel Castro, Dictator – Prime Minister then President of Cuba from 1959-2008 – age 90

25 – Ron Glass, Actor – age 71

26 – Fritz Weaver, Actor – age 90

28 – Van Williams, Actor – age 82

28 – Jim Delligatti, McDonald’s franchisee/created The Big Mac – age 98

30 – Keo Woolford, Actor – age 49

30 – Grant Tinker, Television executive/Chairman and CEO of NBC (1981-’86) – age 90

DECEMBER

3 – Don Calfa, Actor – age 76

3 – Billy Chapin, Actor – age 72

5 – Rashaan Salaam, Former Bears RB and Heisman winner – age 42

7 – Greg Lake, Musician  – age 69

8 – Joseph Mascolo, Actor– age 87

8 – John Glenn, WWII & Korean War Fighter Pilot. Marine Colonel. NASA Astronaut. Senator from Ohio (1974-99) – age 95

12 – Jim Lowe, Singer – age 93

13 – Alan Thicke, Actor – age 69

14 – Bernard Fox, Actor – age 89

15 – Craig Sager, Sports Reporter – age 65

18 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian Actress and Socialite – age 99

18 – Gordie Tapp, Entertainer –  age 94

20 – Michèle Morgan, French Actress –  age 96

24 – Rick Parfitt, Musician/Songwriter –  age 68

24 – Liz Smith, Actress – age 95

24 – Richard Adams, Author – age 96

25 – George Michael, Singer/Songwriter – age 53

26 – Rickey Lopez, Actor – age 54

26 – George S. Irving,  Actor – age 94

26 – Ricky Harris, Actor – age 54

27 – Carrie Fisher, Actress – age 60

28 – Debbie Reynolds, Actress – age 84

30 - Allan Williams, first manager for the Beatles, the one who took them to Hamburg

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 27^th, 2016 at 10:56pm:

I agree, VooDoo.  2017 is going to suck, on many fronts.  It's time to batten down the hatches and hunker in for one FUCKED up year.  And I guarantee there will be no Rapture or return of J. Christ to save this stuff.  It's not in the cards. Fucking 2018 can't get here soon enough.

moondrop, believe that shit if you must. I refuse to accept that. 2017 best ever!!

moy wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 2:58pm:

"Full" list for 2016, add Allan Williams manager of the early Beatles JANUARY 4 – Robert Stigwood, Entertainment Manager – age 81 6 – Pat Harrington Jr., Actor – age 86 7 – Troy Shondell, Singer – age 76 7 – Kitty Kallen, Singer – age 94 9 – Angus Scrimm, Acto – age 89 10 – David Bowie, Musician – age 69 11 – David Margulies, Actor – age 78 13 – Brian Bedford, Actor – age 80 14 – Alan Rickman, Actor – age 69 14 – René Angélil, Singer / Manager –  age 73 15 – Dan Haggerty, Actor – age 74 15 – Noreen Corcoran, Actress – age 72 18 – Glen Frey, Singer / Songwriter – age 67 26 – Abe Vigoda, Actor – age 94 28 – Paul Kantner, Singer / Songwriter – age 74 28 – Mike Minor, Actor – age 75 FEBRUARY 2 – Bob Elliot, Comedian – age 92 3 – Maurice White, Musician / songwriter – age 74 3 – Joe Alaskey, Voice Actor – age 63 4 – Joe Dowell, Pop Singer – age 76 13 – Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice  – age 79 15 – George Gaynes, Actor – age 98 15 – Vanity, Actress/Singer – age 57 18- Tom Mullica, Magician – age 68 19 – Harper Lee, Novelist – age 89 22 – Yolande Fox, Singer – age 87 22 – Sonny James, Country Music Singer/Songwriter – age 87 24 – Lennie Baker, Musician – age 69 25 – Tony Burton, Actor – age 78 28 – George Kennedy, Actor – age 91 29 – Gil Hill, Police Commander/Actor – age 84 MARCH 4 – Joey Martin Feek, Country music singer/songwriter– age 40 6 – Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the U.S.(1981-1989) Husband, 40th President Ronald Reagan – age 94 8 – Sir George Martin, Producer for the “Beatles” albums – age 90 9 – Robert Horton, Actor– age 91 10 – Keith Emerson, Musician / keyboardist – age 71 13 – Adrienne Corri, Actress – age 85 16 – Frank Sinatra Jr., Singer– age 72 17 – Larry Drake, Actor – age 66 17 – Paul Daniels, Magician – age 78 18 – Joe Santos, Actor – age 84 21 – Peter Brown, Actor – age 80 22 – Rob Ford, Politician, mayor of Toronto – age 46 22 – Richard Bradford, Actor – age 81 22 – Phife Dawg, Singer – age 45 23 – Joe Garagiola, Baseball Player – age 90 23 – Ken Howard, Actor – age 71 24 – Earl Hamner, Jr., Writer/Producer – age 92 24 – Garry Shandling, Comedian – age 66 27 – Mother Angelica, Franciscan Nun – age 92 28 – James Noble, Actor – age 94 31 – Ronnie Corbett, Comedian/Actor, age 85 APRIL 6 – Merle Haggard, singer/songwriter – age 79 12 – Anne Jackson, Actress – age 90 17 – Doris Roberts, Actress – age 90 20 – Victoria Wood, English Comedian/Actress – age 62 20 – Chyna, WWE wrestler – age 46 21 – Prince, Musician – age 57 21 – Lonnie (Mack) McIntosh, Guitarist – age 74 23 – Madeleine Sherwood, Actress – age 94 24 – Billy Paul, Singer – age 81 MAY 8 – William Schallert, Actor – age 93 12 – Julius La Rosa, Singer – age 86 19 – Morley Safer, Journalist for CBS News for 52 years – age 84 19 – Alan Young, Actor  – age 96 24 – Burt Kwouk, Actor – age 85 27 – Mike Barnett, Singer – age 89 29 – Patty Duke, Actress/Singer – age 69 JUNE 3 – Muhammad Ali, Professional Boxer – age 74 10 – Gordie Howe, Hockey player for Detroit Red Wings – age 88 10 – Christina Grimmie, Singer – age 22 13 – Michu Meszaros, Actor / Circus Performer – age 76 14 – Ann Guilbert, Actress – age 87 14 – Ronnie Claire Edwards, Actress – age 83 16 – Jo Cox, British Labour Party Member of Parliament – age 41 17 – Ron Lester, Actor – age 45 19 – Anton Yelchin, Actor – age 27 27 – Mack Rice, Songwriter – age 82 28 – Scotty Moore, Guitarist – age 84 28 – Buddy Ryan, NFL Football Coach – age 85 28 – Pat Summitt, NCAA Basketball Coach– age 64 JULY 2 – Michael Cimino, Writer/Director – age 77 2 – Elie Wiesel, Jewish Writer/political activist – age 87 2 – Teddy Rooney, Actor/Musician – age 66 2 – Caroline Aherne, Comedienne/Actress – age 52 3 – Noel Neill, Actress  – age 95 6 – Danny Smythe, Musician – age 67 16 – Bonnie Brown, Musician  – age 77 19 – Garry Marshall, Writer/Producer/Actor – age 81 27 – Jerry Doyle, Actor– age 60 30 – Gloria DeHaven, Actress/Singer – age 91 AUGUST 2 – David Huddleston, Actor – age 85 3 – Ricci Martin, Entertainer – age 62 6 – Pete Fountain, Jazz Musician – age 86 10 – John Saunders, Sports journalist – age 61 11 – Glenn Yarbrough, Singer – age 86 11 – Alexis Arquette, Actress – age 47 13 – Michel Richard, Chef/Restaurateur – age 68 13 – Kenny Baker, Actor – age 81 14 – Fyvush Finkel, Actor – age 93 16 – John McLaughlin, Television host – age 89 17 – James Woolley, Musician – age 49 19 –Jack Riley, Actor – age 80 23 – Steven Hill, Actor – age 94 25 – Jeanne Martin, Model – age 89 25 – Marvin Kaplan, Actor – age 89 29 – Gene Wilder, Actor – age 83 SEPTEMBER 1 – Jon Polito, Actor – age 65 6 – Hugh O’Brian, Actor – age 91 9 – James Stacy, Actor– age 79 17 – Charmian Carr, Actress – age 73 24 – Bill Nunn, Actor –  age 63 25 – Jean Shepard, Singer/Songwriter – age 82 25 – José Fernández, Baseball player for Miami Marlins – age 24 25 – Arnold Palmer, Golfer – age 87 28 – Shimon Peres, Statesman – age 93 OCTOBER 12 – Thomas Ford, Actor – 52 21 – Kevin Meaney, Comedian –  age 60 23 – Pete Burns, Singer/Songwriter – age 57 24 – Bobby Vee, Singer – age 73 30 – Tammy Grimes, Stage Actress – age 82 NOVEMBER 3 – Kay Starr, Singer – age 94 7 – Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States 1993-2001 – age 78 7 – Leonard Cohen, Poet / Songwriter – age 82 11 – Robert Vaughn, Actor – age 83 13 – Leon Russell, Musician / Songwriter – age 74 14 – Gwen Ifill, Journalist  for “Washington Week” and “PBS NewsHour” on PBS – age 61 15 – Holly Dunn, Singer / Songwriter – age 59 18 – Sharon Jones, American soul and funk singer – age 60 24 – Florence Henderson, Actress / Singer – Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch” (1969 to 1974) – age 82 25 – Fidel Castro, Dictator – Prime Minister then President of Cuba from 1959-2008 – age 90 25 – Ron Glass, Actor – age 71 26 – Fritz Weaver, Actor – age 90 28 – Van Williams, Actor – age 82 28 – Jim Delligatti, McDonald’s franchisee/created The Big Mac – age 98 30 – Keo Woolford, Actor – age 49 30 – Grant Tinker, Television executive/Chairman and CEO of NBC (1981-’86) – age 90 DECEMBER 3 – Don Calfa, Actor – age 76 3 – Billy Chapin, Actor – age 72 5 – Rashaan Salaam, Former Bears RB and Heisman winner – age 42 7 – Greg Lake, Musician  – age 69 8 – Joseph Mascolo, Actor– age 87 8 – John Glenn, WWII & Korean War Fighter Pilot. Marine Colonel. NASA Astronaut. Senator from Ohio (1974-99) – age 95 12 – Jim Lowe, Singer – age 93 13 – Alan Thicke, Actor – age 69 14 – Bernard Fox, Actor – age 89 15 – Craig Sager, Sports Reporter – age 65 18 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian Actress and Socialite – age 99 18 – Gordie Tapp, Entertainer –  age 94 20 – Michèle Morgan, French Actress –  age 96 24 – Rick Parfitt, Musician/Songwriter –  age 68 24 – Liz Smith, Actress – age 95 24 – Richard Adams, Author – age 96 25 – George Michael, Singer/Songwriter – age 53 26 – Rickey Lopez, Actor – age 54 26 – George S. Irving,  Actor – age 94 26 – Ricky Harris, Actor – age 54 27 – Carrie Fisher, Actress – age 60 28 – Debbie Reynolds, Actress – age 84 30 - Allan Williams, first manager for the Beatles, the one who took them to Hamburg

Wow.  :Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey :spooky

Yes! Time to kick 2016 out on its ass!

Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 5:41am:

I find this thread to be in poor taste and vote to have it removed!

I AGREE

[quote]Wish you the best, be successful but specially be happy and make others happy you lovely B&B!

PS. Live your life to extreme![/ quote] voodoo

ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP ME GUESSING
WTF is B&B?
bed & breakfast! Hmmm

lavendar wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 2:02pm:

ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP ME GUESSING WTF is B&B? bed & breakfast! Hmmm

Just following the Rolling Stones examples of BB (Between the Buttons, Beggars Banquet, Black & Blue, Bridges to Babylon, A Bigger Bang, etc.) this is  for BITCHES AND BASTARDS, I can't call our lovely female regulars bastards, you know…

2016 Got You Down? Trash All Your Woes on Good Riddance Day


Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2016-got-you-down-trash-all-your-woes-good-riddance-day-180961583/#okrUmxkDq8xFLKSy.99

lost an uncle by cancer now just one left and his son within a few weeks. my cuz in his late 5os' crushing. even mom did a stint in the hospital. a drink to toast your health and wishing a happy new year to all

Why 2016 Is Only the Most Recent Worst Year Ever


Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-2016-only-most-recent-worst-year-ever-180961609/#ixsA6e6J0VqHSKTr.99

Edith Grove wrote on Jan 1^st, 2017 at 9:19am:

Why 2016 Is Only the Most Recent Worst Year Ever Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-2016-only-most-recent-worst-year-ever-180961609/#ixsA6e6J0VqHSKTr.99

Oh Happy Day!!
Please...pass the arsenic...what troubled time we live in indeed!!!
Where are the flying cars...erradicated diseases...the silver jumpsuits...the floating cities? WHERE HAVE ALL THE GOOD TIMES GONE?

Paranoid Android wrote on Jan 1^st, 2017 at 11:24am:

Where are the flying cars...erradicated diseases...the silver jumpsuits...the floating cities?

I'd be OK with just one of these to clean up after me!:


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lavendar wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 1:54pm:

Steel Wheels wrote on Dec 30th, 2016 at 5:41am: I find this thread to be in poor taste and vote to have it removed! I AGREE

I repeat myself... The whole thread or just Pako Gerrte's forecast?

Death is real and each second it is a second closer, so my guess is that 2017 will have more farewells of rock stars and growing each year until 2023 and then less and less but the highest will be around 2023

Sorry but that’s a rule of life and life is a bitch or a bastard

mojoman wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 8:09pm:

lost an uncle by cancer now just one left and his son within a few weeks. my cuz in his late 5os' crushing. even mom did a stint in the hospital. a drink to toast your health and wishing a happy new year to all

Damn Mojo. That's rough. Wishing all the best to you and yours.

mojoman wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 8:09pm:

lost an uncle by cancer now just one left and his son within a few weeks. my cuz in his late 5os' crushing. even mom did a stint in the hospital. a drink to toast your health and wishing a happy new year to all

So sorry to hear that mojo, really

thanks voo. my uncle was a huge music fan from a different generation. he loved jazz used to travel to ny among many other places from switzerland to listen in clubs which are all gone all now. he also spent alot of time in Cambrils which he considered his second hometown and where i have a picture of him in his garden. he loved music, travel, good food and drinking. it runs in the family. his son in his spare time also was in a band.

it don't mean a thing
if it aint got that swing

Another one, Deke Leonard of the Welsh band "Man" just passed away

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/B9AA/production/_93903574_deke.jpg

Now we have Deke, Leonard, Butch Trucks and John Wetton in the list of rock musicians and more in the list of actors, actresses, etc.

Another one's gone

RIP Al Jarreau 1940-2017.

http://time.com/4668488/al-jarreau-best-performances-songs-tracks-jazz-greatest/

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Feb 13^th, 2017 at 5:51pm:

Another one's gone RIP Al Jarreau 1940-2017. http://time.com/4668488/al-jarreau-best-performances-songs-tracks-jazz-greatest/

Damn, might as well call this the death thread. :wtf3

http://www.thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2016b.html


I use to look at this every few months, but it looks like they stopped updating this back in September 2016.

Bluzdude wrote on Feb 14^th, 2017 at 9:27am:

but it looks like they stopped updating this back in September 2016

Yes, surely they quit as nowadays it's really hard to maintain it!

RIP Larry Coryell

https://i.cbc.ca/1.3991840.1487653286!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/larry-coryell.jpg

RIP Leon Ware 1940-2017

RIP James Cotton 1935 - 2017

http://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/cms/6884/home_jamescotton.jpg


https://youtu.be/9FQT8zrsLzE

RIP Chuck Berry (of course we have more threads about it) so continue there...

https://youtu.be/wzKd0aiaK4c

Not RnR but Robert Osborne from TCM deserves a mention.  Passed March 6th. Master of Classic Movies and a class act.  When I only had basic cable TCM was my commercial free go to channel...loved that guy  RIP!

Boston Drummer Sib Hashian Collapses, Dies on Rock Cruise Ship

http://www.tmz.com/2017/03/23/boston-drummer-sib-hashian-dead/

RIP Jim Marshall

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Apr 7^th, 2017 at 9:12am:

RIP Jim Marshall

He died in 2012 Voo.  :-/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Marshall_(businessman)

No the photgrapher died in 2010... No idea who is the "businessman" above

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Marshall_(photographer)

I saw the news on Facebook and now I can't find them... I'm talking about the inventor of the Marshall Amps

You're right he passed away in 2012

Unfortunately this one is not fake. All too real. RIP J Geils.  :'(
http://www.vanyaland.com/2017/04/11/report-j-geils-band-guitarist-j-geils-found-dead-at-home/

This sucks! I saw him with the J. Geils Band at the MSG in 1982 and later in 1994 at the Bottom Line in NYC with Magic Dick. A Great player

RIP J.

https://youtu.be/BSJUdmgl4t8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6yfR701oQ...................Somebody help me. Somebody help me. Somebody help me find  my baby right now.

RIP, thanks for your Music!

Other who passed this week was David Peel

Mick Jagger appears on his album "The Pope Smokes Dope"

https://youtu.be/oSfmSM2ZDcs

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/arts/music/david-peel-dead-composer-of-i-like-marijuana.html?_r=0

David Peel, Downtown Singer and Marijuana Evangelist, Dies at 74
By WILLIAM GRIMESAPRIL 9, 2017

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/04/10/arts/10PEELobit-web-1/08PEELobit-web-1-master768.jpg
David Peel with a poster in front of John Lennon’s Rolls-Royce in New York in June 1984. Yoko Ono donated 123 of Lennon’s personal items to be auctioned with the proceeds going to a foundation to benefit children suffering from the plight of war or poverty. Credit Frankie Ziths/Associated Press

Lick here for mo' https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/arts/music/david-peel-dead-composer-of-i-like-marijuana.html?_r=0

https://youtu.be/_hghUdXKykM

Up against the wall Motherfucker !!



https://youtu.be/zPB-lb9HDTk

wasnt lucky enough to have attended one of the re-unions especially at fenway. been a long time but what a powerful band. america's stones some say maybe not quite the catalog but delivery was over top. rest in peace JGEILS

The header for J. Geils

http://www.rocksoff.org/headers2017/i7-stoneswithjgeilsband83.jpg
In Memory of J.  Geils - The J. Geils Band with the Rolling Stones and George Thorogood during the 1982 European Tour © Denis O'Regan

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Apr 11^th, 2017 at 7:49pm:

This sucks! I saw him with the J. Geils Band at the MSG in 1982 and later in 1994 at the Bottom Line in NYC with Magic Dick. A Great player RIP J.

saw a couple shows on that 81/82 tour. not msg though!!

http://www.rocksoff.org/headers2017/i7-mickandjohn-davidpeelssessions.jpg
In Memory of David Peel - Mick Jagger and John Lennon - Apple Promotional 8x10" photograph for "The Pope smokes dope" © Apple Records

http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1492286656

Another great passed out

Allan Holdsworth, Progressive Guitar Virtuoso, Dies at 70

http://variety.com/2017/music/news/allan-holdsworth-dead-dies-progressive-fusion-guitar-1202031666/

Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Others Pay Tribute to Allan Holdsworth
http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news/joe-satriani-steve-vai-and-others-pay-tribute-allan-holdsworth/31043

The list so far, rock and related musicians

John Wetton            Family, King Crimson, UK, Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, Asia, solo, etc
Butch Trucks            Allman Brothers
Al Jarreau               Solo
Larry Coryell            Free Spirits, 11th House, Fuse One, solo
Leon Ware               The Romeos, solo
James Cotton          Solo and guest for many greats
Chuck Berry            Solo
Deke Leonard          Man
Sib Hashian             Boston
David Peel               David Peel & the lower east side
J. Geils                   J. Geils Band
Allan Holdsworth      Gong, UK, Soft Machine, solo

I vote to have this thread removed because it's too depressing.

Well... I see your point but this is to commemorate the LIFE of those who are passing and there are much more to come.

At least most of these are old and they all left a lot of his Works for us to enjoy, no more "27 Club" etc

Joseph Rascoff, Who Had Rolling Stones’ Tours Under His Thumb, Dies at 71

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/business/media/joseph-rascoff-dead-business-manager-for-rolling-stones.html?_r=0&referer=https://t.co/a5jYZXwkIl

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9g0lrPXsAEkTCQ.jpg

Joseph Rascoff, Who Had Rolling Stones’ Tours Under His Thumb, Dies at 71


https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/business/media/joseph-rascoff-dead-busines
s-manager-for-rolling-stones.html?_r=0&referer=https://t.co/a5jYZXwkIl

tried to temper their spending! lol.

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Apr 17^th, 2017 at 8:03pm:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9g0lrPXsAEkTCQ.jpg

Just goes to show you about Mick. Even his blow up doll has to be ridiculously expensive. What a show off.

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Apr 17^th, 2017 at 1:57pm:

Another great passed out Allan Holdsworth, Progressive Guitar Virtuoso, Dies at 70 http://variety.com/2017/music/news/allan-holdsworth-dead-dies-progressive-fusion-guitar-1202031666/ Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Others Pay Tribute to Allan Holdsworth http://www.guitarworld.com/artist-news/joe-satriani-steve-vai-and-others-pay-tribute-allan-holdsworth/31043

saw him once with chick corea up in boston years ago. outstanding player. sad both him and former UK bandmate wetton gone so close together.

Steel Wheels wrote on Apr 17^th, 2017 at 6:37pm:

I vote to have this thread removed because it's too depressing.

It's a hell of a lot better than the Joey thread............Or the politics thread. :kissmyass

Jonathan Demme, 'Silence of the Lambs' director and friend of New Orleans, dies at 73


http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2017/04/jonathan_demme_silence_of_the.html#incart_river_home

Every morning I open the papers and say, O bitch, this be thine obituary.

When I was little, my Polish-American great-aunt thought obituary was a dirty word. 

Today I suspect it's geographical: the Obituary Peninsula.  The Obituary Islands.

Molto obituario, signore!

This was last year but was not mentioned, Signe Anderson, Jefferson Airplane's first Singer passed away on January 28

Bruce Hampton, 'granddaddy of the jam scene,' dies after gig

By Lisa Respers France and Stephanie Gallman, CNN
Updated 1936 GMT (0336 HKT) May 2, 2017

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/02/entertainment/bruce-hampton-obit/

Atlanta (CNN) — Death came for Bruce Hampton as he celebrated his 70th birthday doing what he did best -- jamming on stage.

Hampton, known as the "granddaddy of the jam scene," collapsed on stage while rocking out Monday night during a concert held in his honor in Atlanta.

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170502105501-bruce-hampton-dead-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg

His agent, Micah Davidson of Midwood Entertainment, confirmed to CNN that the musician died. He gave no further details.

Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers Band guitarist who was on stage performing with Hampton, posted a statement Tuesday on his official Facebook page asking for privacy for Hampton's loved ones.

"After collapsing on stage surrounded by his friends, family, fans and the people he loved, Col. Bruce Hampton has passed away," the statement said. "The family is asking for respect and privacy at this difficult time."

The all-star event, held at Atlanta's Fox Theatre, was billed as "Hampton 70: A Celebration of Col. Bruce Hampton."

The stage was packed with performers -- including Dave Schools of Widespread Panic, Phish drummer Jon Fishman and Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell -- when the seasoned musician appeared to take a knee, then lay down as 14-year-old guitarist Brandon "Taz" Niederauer shredded chords on one of Hampton's favorite songs, "Turn on Your Love Light."

Some in the audience thought the guitarist's actions were a part of the show.

Those on stage continued to perform. They included actor Billy Bob Thornton, who cast Hampton in a small role in his critically acclaimed 1996 film "Sling Blade," Blues Traveler frontman John Popper, and Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks of the Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Then people came out from the wings and carried Hampton off stage. The song abruptly ended

An ambulance arrived shortly thereafter and took Hampton away as dozens of fans watched quietly.

Born and raised Gustav Valentine Berglund III in New York City, Hampton was beloved in the music industry as a founding member of the rock blues quintet the Hampton Grease Band, which got its start in Atlanta.

While the band released only one album, "Music to Eat" in 1971, it developed a bit of a cult following, and Hampton went on earn a reputation as one of the best jam musicians in the industry.

He was the subject of a 2012 documentary, "Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton."

Hampton he gave an interview in 2015 to the site Live For Live Music in preparation for his reunion tour with the Aquarium Rescue Unit.

He spoke of his extensive career, which stretched from playing in bands in the 1970s to doing voice-over work in commercials for brands such as Popeyes fried chicken and Motel 6.

"I was a lasso instructor and a lariat importer, and they were all weird, fleeting jobs," he told the site. "I've been fortunate to do music all my life, and I've done enough acting to make it fun."

Fans, including a few famous ones, grieved Hampton on Tuesday.


"So so sad to say goodbye to the great & wondrous Col. Bruce Hampton," Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes and Chris Robinson Brotherhood told CNN in a statement. "The music world lost one of a kind last night, a true original, a man who heard the light! God speed Col. Bruce, we miss you."

Added longtime friend Oliver Wood of The Wood Brothers, "Just by example, he taught us to challenge our ideas about music and what it's for. Bruce was equal parts prankster and mystic. He was serious about music, but also taught us not to take ourselves too seriously. He was a one of a kind human. What an honor to be with him on his final night."

Vocalist and saxophonist Karl Denson called Hampton "the poet of some undefined movement that all the artists came to for wisdom and clarity."

"Once you connected with him, you felt inspired not to be jive, to know what was important and take chances," Denson said in a statement. "Most of all, he made us supremely happy."

Leavell, the keyboardist who tours with The Rolling Stones and was part of the Allman Brothers Band in the 1970s, said Hampton died doing what he loved.

"A poetic exit," said. "And I'm sure if he had written the script himself, that would've been the last page of the last chapter."

CNN's Jason Morris contributed to this report.

https://www.facebook.com/warrenhaynes/photos/a.391202017798.173031.26679772798/10154649536022799/?type=3&theater

He passed away doing what he loved, jamming!

During his last minutes of life he played Rip This Joint with Chuck Leavell playing too

https://youtu.be/OpN7r0v9JzU

https://youtu.be/EpttQlf1yFo

The sad moment...

https://youtu.be/sfA9TJwhhwg

Wow, that's grim. RIP Col.

rip colonel

andrews27 wrote on Apr 29^th, 2017 at 10:47pm:

Every morning I open the papers and say, O bitch, this be thine obituary. When I was little, my Polish-American great-aunt thought obituary was a dirty word.  Today I suspect it's geographical: the Obituary Peninsula.  The Obituary Islands. Molto obituario, signore!

;D My Polish friend called a pedestrian crossing, a Presbyterian crossing, for years. In Australia, we refer to the hard shoulder of a road as the hard edges, or according to Barbara; our Polish friend, the hard eggs darggiling. ;)

Sad to add Chris Cornell to this list

Technically speaking this was an outlier, too Young to die

RIP Chris

The thread for Chris here http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1495101151/all

Sad to add Greg Allman too

RIP Greg!

The thread for Greg here

http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1495914436

RIP Geri Allen (1957-2017)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geri_Allen

RIP Chester Bennington (1976 - 2017) too Young to die

Just in case... He was the lead singer of Linkin Park

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 9:35pm:

RIP Chester Bennington (1976 - 2017) too Young to die Just in case... He was the lead singer of Linkin Park

Supposedly good friends with Chris Cornell, and died in the same way on Cornell's birthday. Weird.

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 9:35pm:

RIP Chester Bennington (1976 - 2017) too Young to die Just in case... He was the lead singer of Linkin Park

Very sad. :'(

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2017 at 4:19pm:

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Jul 20th, 2017 at 9:35pm: RIP Chester Bennington (1976 - 2017) too Young to die Just in case... He was the lead singer of Linkin Park Very sad. :'(

townsend dedicated a song to him last night. he praised them as an outstanding rock band that his son was a fan of

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sam-shepard-pulitzer-prize-winning-playwright-and-oscar-nominated-actor-dies-at-73/2017/07/31/3116f4ca-7603-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.9f258774f97e

Oh no! There goes Tokyo!!




Haruo Nakajima, the First Actor to Play Godzilla, Dies at 88


https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/09/world/09nakajima-1/09nakajima-1-master768.jpg
Haruo Nakajima, who played Godzilla, at his home in Sagamihara, Japan, in 2014. To perfect the monster’s notoriously destructive gait, he spent hours at the zoo, studying how elephants and bears walked. Credit Junji Kurokawa/Associated Press


HONG KONG — Haruo Nakajima, the Japanese actor who played the movie monster Godzilla in a dozen films and whose booming steps in a 200-pound rubber suit sent the denizens of Tokyo running into cinematic history, died on Monday. He was 88.

Mr. Nakajima died of pneumonia, according to his daughter, Sonoe Nakajima.

In 1954, Mr. Nakajima, then a 25-year-old stunt actor who had previously appeared in just four movies, was cast in what are perhaps Japan’s two most famous films of that era. In Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, “Seven Samurai,” Mr. Nakajima had only a bit part. But in “Godzilla,” he played the titular character: a gigantic, irradiated lizard whose mutated form and destructive power symbolized the potency of nuclear weapons.


https://youtu.be/VKrj1ymJzmo
Video by TheSerenityEnd


Mr. Nakajima would eventually don the heavy rubber monster costume 12 times from 1954 to 1972, turning Japan’s postwar nuclear anxieties into an international phenomenon.

In an era before computer-generated effects, the international success of Godzilla kicked off Japan’s golden age of tokusatsu, or “special-filming” movies, in which rubber-costumed actors typically destroyed scale-model sets.

“We had to improvise, and make it all look real on screen,” Mr. Nakajima told The New York Times in a 2013 interview.

In that interview, Mr. Nakajima recalled Godzilla’s creator, Eiji Tsuburaya, struggling amid Japan’s postwar shortages and rationing to find enough rubber and latex to construct the costume.

“You don’t learn this from a textbook but by doing,” Mr. Nakajima said of those early days. “There is no chance to learn now.”


https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/09/world/09nakajima-3/09nakajima-3-master180.jpg
Mr. Nakajima in 1966. He donned the Godzilla rubber monster costume 12 times from 1954 to 1972. Credit Kyodo, via Reuters



At the end of a day of shooting, Mr. Nakajima would later recall, he typically sweat so much inside the hot, heavy suit and beneath the soundstage’s bright lights that he was able to wring enough sweat from his undershirt to fill half a bucket.

To perfect the monster’s notoriously destructive gait, Mr. Nakajima spent hours at the zoo, studying how elephants and bears walked. In interviews, the actor said that he had wanted to make sure the monster was believable and to enable viewers to connect with it on an emotional level.

Mr. Nakajima was born in Yamagata, Japan, on New Year’s Day in 1929. He was 16 when Japan surrendered to the Allies at the end of World War II and appeared in his first credited role in “Sword for Hire” in 1952, when he was 23.

As a contract actor for the Japanese studio Toho, Mr. Nakajima starred in dozens of other monster movies, including as King Kong in the 1967 film version.

He retired from acting in 1973 and is reported to have briefly taken a job at the bowling alley on the Toho studio lot. Beginning in the 1990s, he made frequent appearances at conventions for comic book and movie fans.

“Godzilla,” the first film in the franchise, was released nine years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and was a not-so-thinly-veiled fable about the dangers of nuclear weapons.

“One might regard him as a symbol of Japanese hate for the destruction that came out of nowhere and descended upon Hiroshima one pleasant August morn,” The Times wrote in a 1956 review of “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” the English-dubbed version of the film released in North America. “But we assure you that the quality of the picture and the childishness of the whole idea do not indicate such a calculation. Godzilla was simply meant to scare people.”

Mr. Nakajima was the first iteration of Godzilla to scare people, but not the last. Toho produced 27 more Godzilla films after Mr. Nakajima hung up his rubber suit in 1972. Since then, Hollywood has produced three “Godzilla” movies. The next in the franchise will star Ken Watanabe and is scheduled for release in 2019.


Follow Russell Goldman on Twitter @GoldmanRussell.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/world/asia/godzilla-actor-haruo-nakajima-japan.html

RIP Goldy McJohn (keyboard player of Steppenwolf and also Humble Pie in 1982), he passed away on August 1

Rest in peace, Glen Campbell


http://media.pitchfork.com/photos/592f54ac1a11d7432ef65fb2/master/w_790/d0fd1cc3.jpg


1936 - 2017

Rest in peace, John Abercrombie
1944-2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abercrombie_(guitarist)

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2017 at 9:27pm:

Rest in peace, John Abercrombie 1944-2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abercrombie_(guitarist)

one less great guitar playing

RIP Walter Becker (Steely Dan) 1950 - 2017

a dedicated thread for him is HERE

Or use this link http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1504448929

rest in peace Dave Hlubek

Yes Mojo, it sucks, he was only 66

http://wror.com/2017/09/05/molly-hatchets-dave-hlubek-dead-66/

another master

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/09/06/arts/ap-eu-germany-obit-czukay.html

Yes it sucks

I have the "tago mago" and the "ege bamyasi" albums since they came out, never bought another but recorded in tapes many others... later albums were not good in my opinion, too much for me. Quit buying; just recently I bought some new editions of unreleased stuff from that era, great band and great musicians

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Sep 8^th, 2017 at 8:41pm:

Yes it sucks I have the "tago mago" and the "ege bamyasi" albums since they came out, never bought another but recorded in tapes many others... later albums were not good in my opinion, too much for me. Quit buying; just recently I bought some new editions of unreleased stuff from that era, great band and great musicians

yes those are considered the best works, monster movie and future days my favorites. even flowmotion is fun. went to see a solo show by him a number of years back and he spoke with several after the show. very thoughtful and well spoken and unassuming

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-murray-lerner-20170906-story.html

Rip Don Williams 78
Tulsa Time

RIP, Grant Hart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7QMDPj2byo

  :(  http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harry-dean-stanton-dead-paris-texas-star-91-766020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3iWpp_52sA

rip harry! :'(

.

Well; goodbyye Mr. Hefner. 




R.I.P. Hugh Hefner




"Hugh Hefner, the man whose synthesis of cultural curation, in-depth interviews, and softcore pornography made Playboy one of the most iconic publications of the 20th century, has died. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hefner was ninety-one years old, and reportedly died of natural causes in his home, the famous Playboy Mansion.

"More details to come…" avclub.com

Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards pays witty tribute to Hugh Hefner


http://www.ajc.com/entertainment/rolling-stones-keith-richards-pays-witty-tribute-hugh-hefner/kR5P6c8xtGGOUyIehKbOaK/

Has nobody mentioned the Isley Brothers/Santana album from this album?

??

My rock and roll idols need to stop dyeing.  :aimama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbdlHgyIZfM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIexKj-bWQ4

I am absolutely shocked by his sudden death.  This is a tremendous loss for rock music.  Tom Petty was an American treasure.   RIP Mr. Tom Petty and thank you for the music.

I am heartbroken.

RIP Tom...

We have a thread in his honor here http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1506972723

RIP Gord Downie (1964 - 2017) too young to die!

He was the frontman of The Tragically Hip

RIP Fats Domino (1928 - 2017)

A special and deserved thread for him HERE http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1508942880

http://www.rocksoff.org/headers2017/i7-rip-malcolm-young.jpg
In Memory of Malcolm  © Kevin Mazur

A thread in his honor here http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1511018627

RIP Mel Tillis

A thread for him here http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1511119908

The list continues...

RIP David Cassidy

A thread for him is open here http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1511131753

Lil Peep died November 15, 2017.  OD allegedly...he had just turned 21.

RIP Lil Peep

R.I.P David Cassidy--now he has passed. 

Thank you for the music.

You were such a stud muffin back in the day, a true heartthrob.

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 8^th, 2017 at 4:02pm:

Rest in peace, Glen Campbell http://media.pitchfork.com/photos/592f54ac1a11d7432ef65fb2/master/w_790/d0fd1cc3.jpg 1936 - 2017

Dolly Parton recalls 1st time seeing 'good-looking' Glen Campbell, Alice Cooper on their unlikely friendship


http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dolly-parton-recalls-1st-time-good-glen-campbell/story?id=51624197

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSLHnPCX4AA4czU.jpg

https://youtu.be/oRPSm5IS3H4

"Baby" Rose Marie as a six-year-old in 1929:


https://youtu.be/3Q_Nxs_n7Zk

Rip In Peace
"What's a Dick Van Dyke"
Miss "Sally" Rose Marie

Rose Marie’s Sprawling Legacy as Told Through the Artifacts She Left Behind

The late actress sang for mobsters, toured New York nightclubs and wisecracked her way through a career that spanned nine decades


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/curator-rose-marie-sprawling-legacy-180967679/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20171229-daily-responsive&spMailingID=32418205&spUserID=NzQwNDU3MzQzMjYS1&spJobID=1183521477&spReportId=MTE4MzUyMTQ3NwS2

RIP Ray Thomas of the Moody Blues (1941-2018)

A thread for him here http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1515429511

RIP "Fast" Eddie Clarke 1950-2018

Motörhead guitarrist between 1976 and 1982

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Jan 12^th, 2018 at 10:20am:

RIP "Fast" Eddie Clarke 1950-2018 Motörhead guitarrist between 1976 and 1982

dem was da years. fast forever!!

RIP Dolores O'Riordan  (Cranberries) only 46 years young

Howe did she die? Anyone heard?

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/15/entertainment/dolores-o-riordan-cranberries-singer-dies-intl/index.html

Man, this would make the soundtrack of my college years, that's for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kspj3OO0s

Dolores O'Riordan (1971-2018) by Nico Zentgraf (thanks)

Nico's website http://nzentgraf.de/books/zent.htm and Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1017382281643830/

RIP Dolores, thanks Rogerriffin and Sue for heads up

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(Olympiastadion Berlin, supporting the Stones in 2003. Foto: N. Zentgraf)

Very sad to hear.  Talented, attractive woman.  RIP

Mark E Smith: British rock's cult hero


By Ian Youngs
Arts & entertainment reporter



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Mark E Smith was regarded as a poet and a flawed genius by his devoted fans


Mark E Smith, the snarling singer and single-minded leader of Manchester post-punk group The Fall, was a rock hero whose drinking and fighting - as well as his ragged but rare musical artistry - became the stuff of legend.



Over the past 40 years, great bands have come and gone. Musical trends have waxed and waned.

But The Fall - basically Mark E Smith and whoever he hadn't fallen out with at the time - remained belligerently immoveable as the unfashionable but unshrinking mob in the shadows of the music scene.

In that time, he hired and fired more than 60 bandmates and released 30 albums of music that normally featured frayed, repetitive guitars and Smith's caustic stream of semi-consciousness.

His pronounced sing-slur made him unlike any other frontman, and he inspired devotion among fans who were drawn to his singular presence and rambling poetry.


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Mark E Smith with then-wife and bandmate Brix on The Tube in 1985


Mark Edward Smith grew up with a love of literature and named his band after an Albert Camus novel.

He had been a shipping clerk at Salford docks but was inspired to take music seriously after watching a now-legendary gig by The Sex Pistols in Manchester.

"When I first saw The Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in 76, I thought, my lot are not as bad as that," he wrote in his 2008 autobiography Renegade. "We're better."

He paid for his band's rehearsal space by playing pool and doing tarot readings, and their debut album, Live at the Witch Trials, came out in 1979.

It got good reviews, but Smith thought it had been misunderstood. "They thought it was too serious, overlooking the humour of it all," he said. "That's the story of my life, actually."


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He says he turned down deals with record labels Virgin and Factory, but found a home - for a few years - with indie stable Rough Trade.

He also found a champion in BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who called The Fall "the band against which all others are judged". When all the band's Peel Sessions were compiled and released as a box set in 2004, they ran to seven hours.

Between 1984 and 2004, 27 songs by The Fall reached the top 100 of the UK singles chart.

Only two went higher than number 40, though, and they were both covers - There's A Ghost In My House and Victoria.


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Smith's third wife Elena Poulou was in the band from 2002-16


But some of their songs reached mainstream consciousness, such as 1988's Hit The North, whose howl of pride is about as catchy as The Fall got and made it a sort of national anthem for the north of England, being played at the home of Smith's beloved Manchester City FC.

Another track, Theme From Sparta FC, was used to introduce the football scores on BBC television - leading Smith to be invited to read the classified results in his distinctive drawl one Saturday afternoon.

And Hip Priest (with the repeated wailed lyric "he-ee-ee's not appreciated") was used in the soundtrack of The Silence of the Lambs.

But perhaps more famous than any of their songs is the fact that Smith got through so many bandmates over the years.


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"If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's The Fall"


He was the only constant member and Wikipedia has an intricate graph showing the tenures of all the musicians who came and went over four decades.

Explaining that it mattered little who else was in the group, he once said: "If it's me and yer granny on bongos, it's The Fall."

The past band members included Marc Riley, who went on to become a BBC 6 Music DJ - who Smith sacked on his wedding day.

Smith was an autocrat as well as an auteur. "It's a bit like a football team," he once said of his management style. "Every so often you have to get rid of the centre-forward."

The singer said he got rid of Riley because he didn't like the fact Riley was questioning the writing credits, or the fact he danced to Deep Purple in a nightclub while on an Australia tour in 1982.

He told him: "Get in the hotel, and stay there till I tell you. You don't need to be dancing to Smoke on the Water." A fist fight ensued.

Riley told the Guardian he was sacked for hitting Smith back after the singer punished the band for an "average" gig by slapping each musician in turn.


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The Fall released almost a studio album a year on average


At an infamous show in New York in 1998, there was another "onstage disagreement" - as Smith put it - with the band.

"They all started throwing punches," he wrote in his book. "But I gave them a few left hooks back. They got worse than they gave me." The singer ended the night in jail.

Even if he did end up on the losing side, that didn't alter the fact that, in his eyes, whatever the quarrel, he was always right.

So he didn't see anything wrong with his lifelong heavy drinking.

"If anybody says to me I've got a problem with the drink, I tell them I do have a problem - like where to get it from after 11 o'clock," he once said.

"I've stopped drinking anyway - stopped half an hour ago."

There has never been anyone quite like Mark E Smith in British music, and there never will be again.


http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42193911

I found The Fall utterly unlistenable but Smith was a wonderfully unique hilarious curmudgeon.  I just cant help but like someone so arrogant that he dismissed Bob Dylan by claiming that 'he can't write for toffee'

Belfast punk impresario Terri Hooley shared this surreal story by the NME's Stuart Bailie on facebook earlier about an incident a few years ago when a Fall gig in Belfast got cancelled at the eleventh hour - a night when about 200 people tried to tip the tour bus over after the show was called off and the venue manager handed Smith a mop and bucket and ordered him to clean up his dressing room after he'd trashed it by smashing a bottle of tomato ketchup against the wall....


WHAT A CORK-UP!: TOUR FALLS APART

The immediate future of THE FALL is in doubt after MARK E SMITH sacked his band following a spectacular, drink-fuelled bust-up in Belfast last Saturday evening (November 8). The band's gig at the Empire Music Hall that night was subsequently cancelled mere minutes before stagetime. Uncertainty also surrounds the 15 outstanding dates on the band's current UK tour.

Smith reportedly arrived at Belfast's Empire in poor spirits. The venue's stage manager, Mark Erskine, told NME: "He was giving the band hell. He walked off the tourbus, straight onto the stage and started kicking stuff about and decking mikes. He sacked the band and they went." Smith also upset the staff of the venue by flinging a bottle of ketchup against a backstage door. The manager, Mike Gatt, gave Smith a mop and ordered him to clean it up.

In an attempt to try to calm the singer, staff at the venue rang Terry Hooley, founder of Belfast's Good Vibrations record label. Hooley promoted The Fall's early gigs in the city and has remained in touch with Smith ever since.
According to Hooley, Smith had been drinking champagne and was difficult to reason with. At one stage, Hooley grabbed the singer by the neck to restrain him. The singer thought he was about to get punched, and asked if he could remove his false teeth first. Hooley removed his own glass eye instead. "I'm not gonna hit you," Hooley insisted.

Smith then hit upon the idea of going onstage and playing an a cappella set of Beach Boys covers with Hooley and another friend. Smith called the Empire the next day, looking for his passport and a collection of demo tapes. He told the manager that he would try to make amends at a later date. A Fall spokesman told NME: "This has surprised us as much as it probably surprised Mark. This might end up being resolved although I'm sure he did sack them at the time. As long as he regains his passport, the tour will continue in typically maverick Fall fashion, even as a solo acoustic show!"

Groupies are part or rock history; they were the fuel for many rockers touring on a bus without conditioned air all over during hot summer days.

RIP Barbara Cope

A thread in her honor HERE

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Barbara Cope and Joe Cocker, with whom she toured in 1970
(Barbara Cope's Facebook page)

Robert Arthur, Man Behind the Music on 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' Dies at 89

by Mike Barnes



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From left: Robert Arthur, producer Bob Precht and Ed Sullivan in 1968 on the set of the variety show.



The songwriter-composer worked with all the artists, including The Rolling Stones, and adjusted the lyrics to "Let's Spend the Night Together."



Robert Arthur, the longtime music coordinator on The Ed Sullivan Show who famously tweaked the lyrics to "Let's Spend the Night Together" so The Rolling Stones could perform in 1967 on the iconic CBS variety show, has died. He was 89.

Arthur died Jan. 21 at his Topanga Canyon home in Los Angeles, his wife, Jeanne, told The Hollywood Reporter.

A songwriter and composer, Arthur worked with newspaper columnist-turned-TV host Ed Sullivan from 1952, when he was hired to assist the Toast of the Town music director, until The Ed Sullivan Show (thus renamed in 1955) departed the airwaves for good on June 6, 1971.

As a vital behind-the-scenes player on the Sunday night staple, Arthur handled all the music for Sullivan, arranging and composing songs for and working with such guests as The Beatles, Judy Garland, Sly Stone, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, Kate Smith, Count Basie, Perry Como, Bill Haley & His Comets, Harry James, Diana Ross, Itzhak Perlman, Edith Piaf, The Platters, The Vienna Boys' Choir, Connie Francis, Bo Diddley, Mitzi Gaynor — and that's just a sample.

"Ed's main interest was in booking the show and finding the acts. … It was sort of up to us to figure out exactly what that person might do on the show," Arthur told Vanity Fair's Nick Tosches in 1997.

The Stones, who had been on the show before, were booked for Jan. 15, 1967, and wanted to perform a new song, the sexually charged (well, in those days, at least) "Let's Spend the Night Together." That line would not go over well with the CBS censors.

"Well, at that time, that was absolutely … it would be like saying, 'Fuck, fuck, fuck.' People's eyes would roll in their heads at the network," Arthur said. "So I was sent to deal with them, because I was also a songwriter … and I came up with a phrase that was almost the same thing and sounded almost the same, and it was, 'Let's spend some time together.' Mick Jagger agreed."

Jagger appeared to roll his eyes as he sang the substituted line, and one wonders how many in the screaming audience noticed the difference.

Arthur was born in New York on May 10, 1928, in the Queens neighborhood of Flushing. He learned to play the piano as a youngster, and at Colgate University, he majored in economics and Spanish and wrote two musicals.

After graduation in 1949, he became an accompanist, conductor and arranger, then served as a bayonet instructor during the Korean War. Back in New York, Arthur was hired by famed arranger and orchestra conductor Ray Bloch to work on the CBS shows hosted by Sullivan and Jackie Gleason.

After the end of the Sullivan program, Arthur moved to Los Angeles, where he helped Dick Clark launch the American Music Awards. He also produced videos that Michael Jackson showed during his concerts; co-wrote the Natalie Cole hit "All About Love;" and had his tunes performed by Tony Bennett and Johnny Mathis.

In addition to his wife of 20 years, survivors include his son Adam; brother Peter; sisters-in-law Anne and Elisabeth; and niece Jacqueline. His wife asks that in lieu of flowers, a donation be made to a favorite charity.


https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-arthur-dead-man-behind-music-ed-sullivan-show-was-89-1078785

RIP Jim Rodford (Kinks, Animals II, Zombies, Argent) [1941-2018]

Jim Rodford - 1941-2018 Obituary: The Kinks and Zombies bassist

JIM Rodford may have spent the majority of his career as a member of The Kinks but, amazingly, playing the bass in one of Britain’s most iconic bands for 18 years was not his most significant musical achievement.

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He was also a founding member of the rock group Argent, playing with them from 1969 until 1976 and performing on their hits God Gave Rock And Roll To You and Hold Your Head Up, which reached No 5 in the singles charts on both sides of the Atlantic and sold more than a million copies.

But it is as the “hidden” driving force behind 1960s psychedelic group The Zombies that he was most infl uential.

Despite declining an invitation to join the band set up by his cousin Rod Argent in 1958, Rodford was instrumental in their development, lending them equipment and even helping Argent with their breakthrough 1964 hit She’s Not There.

That band’s 1968 album Odessey And Oracle was later voted as one of the best 100 albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

When The Zombies broke up the following year, Argent again looked to Rodford, with the pair using Argent’s name for their new band.

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After they disbanded he joined The Kinks in 1978, becoming an integral member of the group for 18 years until their retirement in 1996.

Following his death, The Kinks’ Dave Davies tweeted: “I’m just devastated... I’m too broken up to put words together it’s such a shock... great friend great musician great man – he was an integral part of The Kinks’ later years.”

Born in St Albans, James Walter Rodford took up the bass as a teenager, forming popular skifflegroup The Bluetones with some of his mates from the local Pioneer Club.

It was due to this band’s success that he turned down Argent’s pleas to join The Zombies, though he was happy to act as mentor for the group.

Rodford said in 2014: “Rod used to come to watch The Bluetones perform and in 1961 said he wanted to form a band, so I took them to the club and set them up.That was the first time The Zombies played together and they went on to conquer the world.

“I remember they won a rock contest at Watford Town Hall and the first prize was a recording session at Decca and Rod wrote She’s Not There for it – it went straight to the top of the US

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As for turning down his chance to be in The Zombies Rodford said: “I was in the biggest band in the area, so why would I want to play with some young kids?”

He later went on to join The Mike Cotton Sound and then formed Argent with Rod, recording the original version of God Gave Rock And Roll To You.

By the time he joined The Kinks the band was past its 1960s heyday but still managed one last classic, the 1983 hit Come Dancing, which became their biggest chart success since 1972.

Finally, in 2004, Rodford joined the reunited Zombies and, along with son Steve on drums, toured with them until his very last performance at a Songwriters Festival in Florida just six days before he died following a fall.

He is survived by wife Jean and sons Steve and Russell.

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Kinks and Zombies bassist Jim Rodford dies aged 76

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The Kinks bassist Jim Rodford has died at the age of 76.

The British musician, who spent 18 years with the band from 1979, also played with Argent and The Zombies.

His cousin and fellow bandmate, Rod Argent,  paid tribute on Facebook to the "magnificent bass player", who died following a fall on the stairs.

He also highlighted his commitment to the music scene in St Albans where he had lived all his life, playing with family members in The Rodford Files.

"He gave us absolutely unflagging commitment, loyalty and unbelievable energy... Our gratitude is beyond measure," Argent said.




"To the end, Jim's life was dedicated to music," Argent continued, in a lengthy tribute posted on Saturday. "He will be unbelievably missed."
◾Paul Weller on heroes The Zombies

The Kinks' Dave Davies paid tribute to his former colleague, who played with the band between 1979 and 1993, writing that he was "devastated by Jim's sudden loss".

"I'm too broken up to put words together, it's such a shock, I always thought Jim would live forever in true rock and roll fashion - strange - great friend, great musician, great man - he was an integral part of the Kinks later years. RIP," he wrote on Twitter.


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Rodford was playing with The Bluetones when his cousin, Argent, first asked him to join his then-band The Zombies, alongside singer Colin Blunstone.

Rodford declined, but Argent in his Facebook tribute said he was "inextricably bound to the story of The Zombies" and credited him as being "an enormous enabler" for the band who went on to have a major US hit with She's Not There in 1964.

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After a stint with the Mike Cotton Sound, the bassist did eventually agree to join his cousin as a founding member of Argent, who are best remembered for the songs Hold Your Head Up and God Gave Rock and Roll to You.

When the Argent split in 1976, Rodford was recruited by the Kinks after the departure of John Dalton, performing on every album from 1979's Low Budget to 1993's Phobia.

"It is with deep sadness that we have learned that Jim Rodford passed away - he toured and recorded with the Kinks for many years and will be greatly missed. He was much loved by all of us," said an official statement from the Kinks on Twitter.


Rodford joined the revived Zombies in 1999 alongside his son, drummer Steve Rodford, touring until his death, most recently in Florida this month.

He was presented with an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the University of Hertfordshire last year.

RIP Dennis Edwards (1943-2018)

Former Temptations Singer Dennis Edwards Dies at Age 74

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Some covers of the Temptations by the Stones:

• My Girl   
  
• Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)   
  
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg   
  
• I Can't Get Next to You   

The evidences (in the above order)

https://youtu.be/d636ucMFEzc

https://youtu.be/qH3oVVtw4b4

https://youtu.be/S4z_HAizHWY

https://youtu.be/_qhpc2GP_4I

papa was a rollin stone

Mickey Jones, Drummer Turned Character Actor, Is Dead at 76
By PETER KEEPNEWSFEB. 8, 2018
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Mr. Jones, a professional drummer before he took up acting, backing Bob Dylan in Manchester, England, in 1966. Credit Mark Makin/Associated Press 


Rock drummer and 'Home Improvement' actor Mickey Jones dies at 76
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Micky Jones had a recurring role in "Home Improvement" and once played in Bob Dylan's band. (Steve McCrank)
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Overheard on the set between takes...


"So...have you always been in the business?"

"Yeah, bit not always acting..."

"What else is there?"

"I was Bob Dylan's drummer in his absolute heyday."

RIP MR JONES!!
Thank You for Manchester 1966
(both the real one and the assumed one)!!!

RIP JOHN PERRY BARLOW (1947 - 2018)

We forgot about the time: Fare thee well, John Perry Barlow
http://buffalonews.com/2018/02/13/we-forgot-about-the-time-fare-thee-well-john-perry-barlow/

John Perry Barlow’s Last Words
https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/02/13/john-perry-barlows-last-words/

Phil Lesh, Eric Krasno, & Terrapin Family Band Offer Heartfelt John Perry Barlow Tribute [Full Show Video]
Ming Lee Newcomb  | Saturday, February 10th, 2018



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Set 2


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Tribute to Mark E Smith painted on side of hill monument

White Nancy, which sits at the top of Kerridge Hill, has been decorated with the face of The Fall singer Mark E Smith


https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/tribute-mark-e-smith-painted-14378394

Nokie Edwards, the Ventures' Lead Guitarist, Dead at 82


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Nokie Edwards, whose guitar playing in the Ventures helped define surf rock and earned the group a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died on Monday. He was 82 years old.


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https://youtu.be/XjiOtouyBOg


https://youtu.be/5Jkhs_1FBcE


https://youtu.be/aQSPivbWwuY



https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nokie-edwards-the-ventures-lead-guitarist-dead-at-82-w517837

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Hc5abSVHA&list=RDW-Hc5abSVHA

The also helped bring the advent of Hip-Hop/Rap even closer when they released their own version of Apache

A Little late here with this....

RIP Skip Prokop (1943-2017)

He was the drummer of the GREAT Canadian band Lighthouse... listening while writing

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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Mar 30^th, 2018 at 11:17am:

A Little late here with this.... RIP Skip Prokop (1943-2017) He was the drummer of the GREAT Canadian band Lighthouse... listening while writing http://www.lighthouserockson.com/uploads/3/3/0/4/3304640/skip-drums-regent-theatre-crop2_orig.jpg

Damn they used to play at our high school concerts.....in Canada late 60's

Cecil Taylor, Jazz Icon Of The Avant-Garde, Dies At 89
RIP Cecil Taylor 1929 - 2018
April 6, 2018·9:51 AM ET 

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April 14, 2018 12:38AM PT
Milos Forman, Oscar-Winning Director of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ Dies at 86
By Richard Natale and Carmel Dagan      

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Czech-born director Milos Forman, who won best directing Oscars for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” has died. He was 86.

Forman died Friday in the U.S. after a brief illness, his wife, Martina, told the Czech news agency CTK. She said that “his departure was calm, and he was surrounded the whole time by his family and his closest friends.”

Having made just one American film at the time, the ironic comedy “Taking Off” (1971), which won critical acclaim but failed to connect with audiences, Forman seemed an unlikely choice to direct the adaptation of Ken Kesey’s countercultural novel “Cuckoo’s Nest.” But he brought a balance and objectivity to the film, which could easily have descended into histrionics. The critically lauded and immensely popular film starring the fast-rising Jack Nicholson struck a nerve in 1975, and on Academy Awards night it became the first film since 1934’s “It Happened One Night” to sweep the top five Oscar prizes: best picture, director, actress, actor and screenplay (adapted).

To shoot “Amadeus,” Forman returned to his native Czechoslovakia in 1983 and used little-known theater actors to play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Thomas Hulce) and his rival Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), Forman created a compelling and cogent adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s award-winning stage play — helped in great measure by the magnificent Mozartian score. Again, Forman ruled the Oscars, taking another director trophy as the film also drew awards for picture, actor (Abraham), and screenplay, winning eight awards in all. The film was also his most financially successful after “Cuckoo’s Nest.”

With a style that film historian David Thomson said stressed the everyday over the melodramatic and a flair for improvisation, Forman had flourished as a young director in Czechoslovakia with such satirical films as 1966’s “Loves of a Blonde” and 1968’s “The Firemen’s Ball,” the latter of which was refused a showing in his native country because of its satire of bureaucratic thinking.

Forman was in Paris in August 1968 when Russian tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia, ending the Warsaw Pact country’s brief artistic renaissance. Soon thereafter he moved to New York, joining another celebrated Czech director, Ivan Passer, who had penned “Loves of a Blonde” with Forman and others. Forman’s first U.S. film, “Taking Off,” was similar in approach and style to his earlier work, and while it was praised by critics, it did little to establish him as an American director. He also took on “The Decathlon” episode of “Visions of Eight,” a compilation documentary of the Olympics by an octet of different helmers.

Over the years Forman directed few films, and his American track record was mixed. Though “Cuckoo’s Nest” transformed him into an A-list director, he waited four years before his next film, tackling another challenging piece of material, “Hair,” based on the ’60s smash hit musical. But 10 years later, the episodic piece seemed passe onscreen, and Forman’s simple approach was ill-suited for the musical material. He did better with 1981’s “Ragtime,” a mostly successful adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s bestseller centered on intersecting lives in the early 20th century. The film did not score at the box office, however.

He attained commercial and critical success once more with “Amadeus” but never quite scaled those heights again.

Forman appeared next in 1989 with “Valmont,” an adaptation he co-penned of the French period novel “Les Liaisons dangereuses” starring Colin Firth and Annette Bening. While graceful and witty, the film suffered from comparison to the more melodramatic “Dangerous Liaisons,” released the previous year and starring John Malkovich and Glenn Close.

He didn’t direct again until he issued two other satirical pieces in the late ’90s, the first of which was “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” a well-reviewed comedy about the First Amendment controversy stirred up by Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, embodied in the film by Woody Harrelson. While reviews were strong, the film did only moderately well at the box office. But it brought Forman another director nomination in 1996. The reception to his 1999 film “Man on the Moon,” about the offbeat comic Andy Kaufman, was mixed, though lead Jim Carrey pulled in great notices. Again, audiences seemed indifferent to the subject matter.

After an absence of seven years, Forman returned in 2006 with “Goya’s Ghosts,” in which he sought to wed the Inquisition, the life of the painter Goya and the Napoleonic Wars. Implausibilities frustrated critics, but Forman did pull an affecting performance from Natalie Portman, if not from Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgard or Randy Quaid as the king of Spain.

In 2009 Forman directed, with his son Petr, the Czech-language “A Walk Worthwhile,” a remake of his earlier 1966 work for Czech television.

Forman collaborated with Vaclav Havel on the adaptation of a novel about the Munich Agreement, through which Hitler annexed Czechoslovakia’s Sudentenland in 1938, but the project did not come to fruition. He also had in development as a directing project the story of Charles Ponzi, the early 20th century fraudster who lends his name to the Ponzi scheme.

In addition to his directing chores, Forman was co-director of the film program at Columbia U. and appeared as an actor in such films as “Keeping the Faith,” “Heartburn” and “New Year’s Day.”

Born in the town of Caslav (also spelled Kaslov), near Prague, Jan Tomas Forman was raised by an uncle and in foster homes following the death of his parents in WWII concentration camps. After graduating from the Prague Film Faculty of the Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1957, he wrote sketches for the mixed media Laterna Magika, which was celebrated at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. After departing the group in 1961, he was hired by the Czech state film studio, where he came to attention with two medium-length films, 1961’s “The Talent Competition” and “If There Were No Music.” His feature debut in 1963, “Black Peter,” won the top prize at the Locarno Film Festival and led to such internationally acclaimed efforts as “Loves of a Blonde” and “The Fireman’s Ball.”

Forman was jury president at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985 and the Venice Film Festival in 2000.

In Czechoslovakia Forman was married twice, first to actress Jana Brejchova (his lead actress in “Loves of a Blonde”) and then to Vera Kresadlova, who was the mother of his twin sons Peter and Matej. In 1998 he had another set of twins, Andrew and James, by his third wife, Martina Zborilova.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/milos-forman-dead-dies-director-one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest-1202753397/

Not rock, but R Lee Ermey has passed away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu37X1JvVJM

Starbuck wrote on Apr 15^th, 2018 at 10:33pm:

Not rock, but R Lee Ermey has passed away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu37X1JvVJM

Vietnam veteran and a great guy:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/16/602756607/r-lee-ermey-full-metal-jacket-sergeant-dies-at-74

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RIP Bob Dorough 1923 - 2018

'Schoolhouse Rock' composer and musician Bob Dorough dies at 94

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/04/24/schoolhouse-rock-composer-and-musician-bob-dorough-dies-94/545879002/

A song by him "Comin' Home, Baby" appears in the "new" CD+3-DVDs set "Kings of Rhythm, Vol. 4: Race With the Devil" by Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings released last year

He was "touring" last year!!!

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Charles Neville, smiling saxophonist of the Neville Brothers, dies at 79


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http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2018/04/charles_neville_smiling_saxoph.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/obituaries/tom-wolfe-pyrotechnic-nonfiction-writer-and-novelist-dies-at-88.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

ABsolutely rock related mojo...

I read one of his book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" I still have it a cpuple of years ago I started a second read, I have it in Spanish Spanish (I mean spanisg from spain) I want it in English, directly from Tom to Voodoo

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I don't know if any of y'all remember that besides being in love with Sir Mick Jagger, I used to have a crush on Anthony Bourdain from the Travel Channel.  I stopped following his career when he moved to CNN.  Still, I was a fan.  I even bought a used copy of his book Kitchen Confidential. I'm crushed because he ended his life this morning!  So, so sad!  He was only 61!  May he rest in peace! 🌹

Bastards & Bitches!

Mental illness sucks, but it can be treated.  Reach out with compassion not with hostility. 

Danny Kirwan, the former Fleetwood Mac guitarist who played on five of the British band's albums, died Friday at the age of 68.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/former-fleetwood-mac-guitarist-danny-kirwan-dead-at-68-w521317




Mick Fleetwood, who recruited the then-18-year-old Kirwan to join Fleetwood Mac in 1968, confirmed Kirwan's death with a tribute on the band's Facebook. No cause of death was announced.

"Today was greeted by the sad news of the passing of Danny Kirwan in London, England. Danny was a huge force in our early years. His love for the Blues led him to being asked to join Fleetwood Mac in 1968, where he made his musical home for many years," Fleetwood wrote.

"Danny's true legacy, in my mind, will forever live on in the music he wrote and played so beautifully as a part of the foundation of Fleetwood Mac, that has now endured for over fifty years. Thank you, Danny Kirwan. You will forever be missed!"

Kirwan joined Fleetwood Mac following the release of 1968's Mr. Wonderful – his first appearance with the band was their Number One single "Albatross" – and would record five albums with the band while serving as guitarist and singer: 1969's Then Play On (the band's last Peter Green album) and Blues Jam at Chess, 1970's Kiln House (the first Mac album to feature Christine McVie), 1971's Future Games and 1972's Bare Trees.


Due to his alcoholism, Kirwan was fired from Fleetwood Mac during the tour in support of Bare Trees in 1972. Over the second half of the Seventies, Kirwan released four solo albums. However, Kirwan's next few decades were reportedly marred by bouts of mental health issues and homelessness.

"I've been through a bit of a rough patch but I'm not too bad," Kirwan told the Independent in a rare interview in 1993, after Mick Fleetwood asked the Missing Person Bureau to seek out his former guitarist. "I get by and I suppose I am homeless, but then I've never really had a home since our early days on tour. I couldn't handle it all mentally and I had to get out. I can't settle."

For his contributions to Fleetwood Mac, Kirwan was among the eight members of the band – along with Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Green, John McVie, Christine McVie and Jeremy Spencer – that were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998; Kirwan did not attend the induction ceremony.

RIP Danny!


Here the solos by Danny

https://youtu.be/xmbFG2QnD1g


Well... this is not with Danny but "ooooooh yeaaaaaah"


https://youtu.be/ZXM3nBdiHck

Danny

https://youtu.be/LRbt8K4d7qk

https://youtu.be/S5jh73353KA

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those five lps what a run. thank you mr kirwan

Can't believe he was homeless at the end while his bandmates are millionaires

Rock rules but pop pays

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/obituaries/jon-hiseman-73-drummer-who-melded-rock-jazz-and-blues-dies.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

D.J. Fontana, drummer who helped launch rock 'n' roll as Elvis Presley's sideman, dead at 87


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Longtime Elvis Presley drummer D.J. Fontana performs at the 50th anniversary celebration concert of Presley's first performance at the Louisiana Hayride in Sherveport, La. on Oct. 16, 2004. (Robert Ruiz/The Shreveport Times via AP)


https://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2018/06/dj_fontana_drummer_who_helped.html

The whole band now gone to that great gig in the sky.

Truly, the original 'Fab Four'

Good excuse to bust out this gem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0jpqF1uolk

Edith Grove wrote on Jun 14^th, 2018 at 10:02am:

D.J. Fontana, drummer who helped launch rock 'n' roll as Elvis Presley's sideman, dead at 87 https://image.nola.com/home/nola-media/width600/img/entertainment_impact_music/photo/dj-fontana-2002891635785f2b.png Longtime Elvis Presley drummer D.J. Fontana performs at the 50th anniversary celebration concert of Presley's first performance at the Louisiana Hayride in Sherveport, La. on Oct. 16, 2004. (Robert Ruiz/The Shreveport Times via AP) https://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2018/06/dj_fontana_drummer_who_helped.html

One of The Greats!
I got to meet this gentlemen!
Great person and great Drummer!
RIP in Peace Mr. Fontana. Yes The Band is back together again

RIP Vinnie Paul

Vinnie Paul, Pantera Drummer and Co-Founder, Dead at 54

Damageplan and Hellyeah drummer died in his sleep, yet no cause of death has been determined

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/vinnie-paul-pantera-drummer-and-co-founder-dead-at-54-w521897

RIP Ed King 1949 – 2018)

https://pagesix.com/2018/08/23/lynyrd-skynyrd-guitarist-ed-king-dead-at-68/

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Rest in peace, Ed.


Just posted this the other day:

https://youtu.be/MBftFjxWbN0

Leslie 'Lazy Lester' Johnson, architect of Louisiana swamp-blues, dies in California at age 85





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https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_f5008af2-a6f6-11e8-a6be-e79cdba7af55.html

Edith Grove wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2018 at 3:41pm:

Rest in peace, Ed. Just posted this the other day: https://youtu.be/MBftFjxWbN0

Yes I saw it last Saturday, spooky!

Please consider not to post more LOL

I just Looked at this the other day!
RIP Mr. King!

You Guys Rocked Thank you so much for
the music!

RIP Randy Weston (1926-2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/obituaries/randy-weston-dead.html

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-randy-weston-20180904-story.html

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This is another really sad news to me as Jefferson Airplane was one of my top bands!

RIP Marty Balin (1942-2018)

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/09/28/bay-area-music-icon-marty-balin-co-founder-of-jefferson-airplane-has-died/

https://variety.com/2018/music/news/marty-balin-jefferson-airplane-starship-dies-dead-1202961978/


The good old times, this was Marty you B&B

https://youtu.be/WL7HiGD0JcQ

Same song, now with video

https://youtu.be/gpYJTLbLwsw

This is rock you B&B!


https://youtu.be/NIZMdanCZtM

rip marty thanks for all the great music. only saw him a couple of times once with the reunited airplane in 89 and years before in a club solo. what a voice

One question Mojo, that reunited airplane released a GREAT álbum with Nicky Hopkins on piano, the question is... Did they "toured" with Nicky in support of the álbum in 1989???

Other Article, this better https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-marty-balin-dead-76-730912/

RIP Marty...always a casual fan of JA ans JS...but always enjoyed what I heard...

I think I saw him once with Electric Hot Tuna...cant be sure

But... Comin' Back To Me ...is one of the most beautiful songs written...its mood and transcendence is very similar to what Jagger/Taylor do in Winter. Balin plays and sings this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hziG-cLZW1Y

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Sep 28^th, 2018 at 7:58pm:

One question Mojo, that reunited airplane released a GREAT álbum with Nicky Hopkins on piano, the question is... Did they "toured" with Nicky in support of the álbum in 1989??? Other Article, this better https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-marty-balin-dead-76-730912/

dont recall him being there

https://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/jefferson-airplane-greek-theater-1989-a-183859.html

Thanks Mojo, too bad, he did great pianos with the Jefferson Airplane

BTW... Pako Gertte is there, the avatar I created is there used by Gagi

Otis Rush, Influential Blues Singer and Guitarist, Is Dead at 83



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Otis Rush and his band performed at Pepper’s Lounge in Chicago in December 1963.CreditCreditRay Flerlage/Cache Agency




By Bill Friskics-Warren
Sept. 29, 2018

Otis Rush, a powerful blues singer and innovative guitarist who had a profound influence not just on his fellow bluesmen but also on rock guitarists like Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, died on Saturday. He was 83.

His wife, Masaki Rush, announced the death on Mr. Rush’s website, saying that the cause was complications of a stroke he had in 2003. She did not say where he died.

A richly emotive singer and a guitarist of great skill and imagination, Mr. Rush was in the vanguard of a small circle of late-1950s innovators, including Buddy Guy and Magic Sam, whose music, steeped in R&B, heralded a new era for Chicago blues.

While Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, his predecessors from the city’s South Side, popularized an amplified update of the bare-bones sound of the Mississippi Delta, Mr. Rush’s modernized variant — which came to be called the West Side sound because of its prevalence in nightclubs in that part of town — was at once more lyrical and more rhythmically complex.

“The sound was a radical departure from the down-home records that dominated the market at the time,” the producer Neil Slaven, contrasting Chicago’s West Side sound with its South Side counterpart, observed in the notes to a compilation of Mr. Rush’s 1950s recordings for the independent Cobra label.

Mr. Rush’s output for Cobra showcased his lacerating, vibrato-laden electric guitar lines and his gritty, gospel-inspired vocals — throaty mid-register groaning, thrilling leaps of falsetto. Holding sway beyond Chicago, his adopted hometown, this early body of work served as a rich repository of material for the blues-rock bands of the 1960s.

The British group John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, which featured Mr. Clapton on lead guitar, included a version of Mr. Rush’s slow-burning 1958 shuffle, “All Your Love (I Miss Loving),” on its 1966 album, “Blues Breakers.” Led Zeppelin reimagined Mr. Rush’s grinding 1956 hit, “I Can’t Quit You, Baby,” on its debut album, “Led Zeppelin”; the Rolling Stones updated the same song in 2016 on their album “Blue and Lonesome.”

The Texas guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan named his band after Mr. Rush’s minor-key tour de force “Double Trouble.” Virtuoso rock guitarists including Johnny Winter and Duane Allman have also cited Mr. Rush as an influence.

Mr. Rush’s guitar technique owed a debt to the discursive single-string voicings of jazz players like Kenny Burrell and jazz-inspired bluesmen like T-Bone Walker and B. B. King. But it was also attributable to the fact that Mr. Rush played his instrument left-handed and upside down. Curling the little finger of his pick hand around the bottom E string of his guitar enabled him to bend and extend notes, to dazzling emotional effect.

“When you play lefty, you’re pulling that vibrato down to the floor,” Mr. Rush told Vintage Guitar magazine in 1998, referring to the tremolo arm, or whammy bar, of an electric guitar. “That makes things a lot easier in terms of pressure and control.

“Pulling down makes more sense, to me anyway,” he added, “and I can work it stronger and get it to sustain better.”



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Mr. Rush after receiving a Grammy Award in Los Angeles in 1999 for best traditional blues album, for “Any Place I’m Going.”CreditSam Mircovich/Reuters




The critic Robert Palmer, in his book “Deep Blues” (1981), wrote rapturously of Mr. Rush’s musicianship. “His guitar playing hit heights I didn’t think any musician was capable of: notes bent and twisted so delicately and immaculately,” he wrote, “they seemed to form actual words, phrases that cascaded up the neck, hung suspended over the rhythm and fell suddenly, bunching at the bottom in anguished paroxysms.”

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 1968, the guitarist Michael Bloomfield said that white blues bands hoping to prove themselves in the 1960s “had to be as good as Otis Rush.”

In 2015 Rolling Stone ranked Mr. Rush 53rd on its list of “100 Greatest Guitarists.”

He was born on April 29, 1935, in Philadelphia, Miss., one of seven children of O. C. and Julia (Boyd) Rush. Reared by his sharecropping mother, Otis and his brothers and sisters were often kept out of school to work in the fields to make ends meet. Otis dabbled on the harmonica before he began teaching himself the rudiments of the guitar at age 8.

He moved to Chicago in 1949 after visiting one of his sisters there and seeing the likes of Muddy Waters and Little Walter perform in the city’s South Side clubs. He found work in the local steel mills and stockyards and as a truck driver, and began taking guitar lessons from a local musician, Reggie Boyd.



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Mr. Rush first appeared in public in 1953, performing unaccompanied and billed as Little Otis. Three years later he was leading a trio at Chicago’s celebrated 708 Club, where he impressed the bluesman Willie Dixon, then working as a talent scout for the West Side businessman Eli Toscano. Mr. Toscano signed Mr. Rush to his newly founded Cobra label in 1956.

A series of commercial and financial setbacks followed. Several record deals unraveled, including the one with Cobra, which went bankrupt in the late 1950s, a casualty of Mr. Toscano’s mounting gambling debts.

In what would prove to be a streak of unusually bad luck, Mr. Rush’s subsequent recordings, for respected blues labels like Chess and Delmark, were often unreleased or delayed. Most notable was “Right Place, Wrong Time,” an album postponed five years before its release in 1976 on the tiny Bullfrog label.

Ultimately acknowledged by fans and critics as a classic, the album might have brought Mr. Rush greater acclaim had it enjoyed the promotional backing of its original, more powerful label, Capitol Records.

Exacerbating misfortunes like this was Mr. Rush’s reputation as a moody and erratic live performer who could enthrall audiences one night but seem lackluster and aloof the next. Some of his recordings were uneven as well, marred by lesser material and slapdash production — a far cry from his peak work for Cobra and Chess.

Weary and disillusioned, Mr. Rush retired from performing in the late 1970s. He staged a comeback in the ’80s and, though he recorded only sporadically after that, he did win a Grammy Award, for best traditional blues album, for “Any Place I’m Going” in 1999. That same year he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. He did not make another studio album but continued to tour until he had a debilitating stroke in 2003.

Mr. Rush and Masaki Rush had two daughters, Lena and Sophia, as well as several grandchildren. He also had two sons and two daughters from an earlier marriage. Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.

Though unquestionably a progenitor of an important strain of Chicago blues, Mr. Rush, in an online interview, denied having had any part in coining the term “West Side sound” to describe his music.

“The public came up with this, not me,” he said. “You know, they had the West Side, South Side and North Side. They started naming it Chicago blues. I don’t know: Chicago blues, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York. Who cares? It’s blues, you know?”


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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/arts/music/otis-rush-dead-chicago-blues-singer-guitarist.html

Shit more bad news

BTW "I can't quit you baby" credited to Willie Dixon/Otis Rush, covered by Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones and many more was written long time before by "someone" else


Ronnie and Mick Taylor have covered Otis Rush

mojoman wrote on Sep 28^th, 2018 at 7:38pm:

rip marty thanks for all the great music. only saw him a couple of times once with the reunited airplane in 89 and years before in a club solo. what a voice

RIP Marty. One of the all time great singers.

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Sep 30^th, 2018 at 12:00pm:

Shit more bad news BTW "I can't quit you baby" credited to Willie Dixon/Otis Rush, covered by Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones and many more was written long time before by "someone" else Ronnie and Mick Taylor have covered Otis Rush

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/arts/music/otis-rush-dead-chicago-blues-singer-guitarist.html

another goodbye to another good friend

RIP Wah Wah Watson, (1950-2018) too young to die I think

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/wah-wah-watson-guitarist-dead-746962/

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R.I.P. Tony Joe White

Thanks lotsajizz! One more the same day! This sucks

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-foo-fighters-letterman-747418/

BTW... on October 2 Geoff Emerick passed away, he made sound engineering for many including the Beatles

Damn…

……………………………………………………………………...


http://californiarocker.com/2018/10/30/rip-hardy-fox-co-founder-and-composer-for-the-residents-dies-at-73/


RIP: Hardy Fox, Co-Founder and Composer for The Residents Dies at 73

October 30, 2018 News RIP, The Latest 0 Comments

By JOHN DALY


Hardy Fox, co-founder of the band The Residents, passed away from brain cancer. He was 73.

Fox was the primary composer for the group, known for its performance art and timely, often anti-establishment songs.

Fox grew up in Texas and attended college in San Francisco in the late 1960s.

Hardy had not played with The Residents since 2015, when he retired. He did continue to write music until his passing.

A lover of music aside from his work with The Residents, Fox also recorded under other pseudonyms, including Sonido de la Noche, TAR, Chuck, Charles Bobuck among others.

A statement on The Residents website said Fox was a “source of joy to those around him.”

It also reads: “As president of the corporation from 1982-2016, the company benefited from Hardy’s instinct for leadership and direction, but his true value came from his longtime association with The Residents. As the group’s producer, engineer, as well as collaborator on much of their material, Fox’s influence on The Residents was indelible; despite any formal training, his musicality was nevertheless unique, highly refined and prolific.

“Blessed with a vital sense of aesthetics, a keen ear, and an exquisite love of the absurd, Hardy’s smiling face was a constant source of joy to those around him. He will be missed. After a series of recent health problems, Hardy succumbed to a brief illness. He is survived by his husband, Steven Kloman.”

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Country musician Roy Clark, of 'Hee Haw' fame, dead at 85

by Kelcie Willis, Cox Media Group National Content Desk, NCD




Grammy-winning country musician Roy Clark, best known for co-hosting "Hee Haw," has died at age 85.

His publicist said in a news release that he died from complications from pneumonia in his Tulsa, Oklahoma, home.

In addition to work on "Hee Haw," Clark was a Country Music Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry member. USA Today reported he played multiple instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica.

In TV, he was a frequent guest host for Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show." He co-hosted "Hee Haw" for the program’s entire 24-year run.

Clark is survived by his wife of 61 years, Barbara, his sons  Roy Clark II and wife Karen, Dr. Michael Meyer and wife Robin, Terry Lee Meyer, Susan Mosier and Diane Stewart, his grandchildren Brittany Meyer, Michael Meyer, Caleb Clark, Josiah Clark and his sister Susan Coryell.

Variety reported that a memorial will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A date has not yet been announced.


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https://youtu.be/g42ZsbVwNAI

Clark was a big part of the DC Bluegrass scene...when DC was the Bluegrass capital of the US...he was from Anacostia...SE DC

What a talent.  Sad to hear but he led a wonderful life.

RIP, Mr Roeg (who co-directed "Performance".)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46329949

Director Nicolas Roeg dies aged 90

Director Nicolas Roeg, whose films include Don't Look Now and Performance, has died aged 90, his family says.

In a career spanning six decades, he was celebrated for his original and controversial film-making.

His 1973 psychological thriller Don't Look Now caused controversy for its graphic sex scenes.

Roeg also directed Mick Jagger in the crime drama Performance and David Bowie in the science fiction movie The Man Who Fell To Earth.

His son, Nicolas Roeg Jr, said his father died on Friday night. "He was a genuine dad. He just had his 90th birthday in August," he said.

Edgar Wright, the British director of Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver, was among those who paid tribute to "a master of the art".



edgarwright
✔  @edgarwright 

Farewell to the extraordinary cinematic talent, director Nicolas Roeg. His films hypnotized me for years and still continue to intrigue. Along with classics like Performance & Walkabout, I could watch Don't Look Now on a loop & never tire of its intricacies. A master of the art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr76UV4sESg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1AISYKpxmZBEaY7U-0IBh2noGWYwqmh69HdfESUYsVFEzkNhOey0ooDuc

MrPleasant wrote on Nov 24^th, 2018 at 9:44am:

RIP, Mr Roeg (who co-directed "Performance".) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46329949 Director Nicolas Roeg dies aged 90 Director Nicolas Roeg, whose films include Don't Look Now and Performance, has died aged 90, his family says. In a career spanning six decades, he was celebrated for his original and controversial film-making. His 1973 psychological thriller Don't Look Now caused controversy for its graphic sex scenes. Roeg also directed Mick Jagger in the crime drama Performance and David Bowie in the science fiction movie The Man Who Fell To Earth. His son, Nicolas Roeg Jr, said his father died on Friday night. "He was a genuine dad. He just had his 90th birthday in August," he said. Edgar Wright, the British director of Shaun of the Dead and Baby Driver, was among those who paid tribute to "a master of the art". edgarwright ✔  @edgarwright  Farewell to the extraordinary cinematic talent, director Nicolas Roeg. His films hypnotized me for years and still continue to intrigue. Along with classics like Performance & Walkabout, I could watch Don't Look Now on a loop & never tire of its intricacies. A master of the art.

remember going to see Walkabout with my brothers and mom when it was released. i was quite young and the opening with the car fire blew me away as a youngster. what an amazing career. rest in peace mr roeg

Paranoid Android wrote on Nov 15^th, 2018 at 4:48pm:

Clark was a big part of the DC Bluegrass scene...when DC was the Bluegrass capital of the US...he was from Anacostia...SE DC

Yes He was a great, and yes he lived in DC but sorry we are very proud of the fact, he was from/born in Sweet Virginia,  Meherrin, VA! His Family Moved to the DC area when he was 11.

I'm writing a new verse to Paint if Black.
Like a old man dying, it just happens every day

Dr. Hook’s Ray Sawyer, ‘Cover of Rolling Stone’ Singer, Dead at 81


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dr-hook-ray-sawyer-dead-773938/

RIP Clydie King (1943 - 2019)

Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, HUmble Pie, and many many more

Well, some samples (in addition to some of the best songs on Ecila on Main Street

https://youtu.be/8z9wni2uzR8

https://youtu.be/PbveLDvePDQ

https://youtu.be/4nph9B2dSXk

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/04/1c/2f/041c2f310708ce69515667225f8777df.jpg

Her Works with the ROlling Stones courtesy of Nico Zentgraf (the link is page 1 of 2, at the bottom click for the second page)

http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=8976589&pid=r&mode=ALL&query=Clydie+King+&t=s

Dylan's personal life after he divorced Sara in 1977 is shrouded in lots of mystery and rumour but its been long speculated that he may have been married to Clydie in the early 80's and/or had a child with her.

He later (in 1986) did marry and have a child with another backing singer, Carolyn Dennis, although the marriage ended in the early 90s.

She was a wonderful singer. Really enjoyed her contribution to his gospel era records and shows.

Until yesterday, I never knew that the backing singers on 'Sweet Home Alabama' were Clydie, Merry Clayton and Al Kooper.

Clydie full credits according to All Music

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/clydie-king-mn0000133688/credits

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Jan 9^th, 2019 at 9:19pm:

Her Works with the ROlling Stones courtesy of Nico Zentgraf (the link is page 1 of 2, at the bottom click for the second page) http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=8976589&pid=r&mode=ALL&query=Clydie+King+&t=s

https://youtu.be/DyQ7YVXrCk4

A Rolling Stone Article

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/clydie-king-ray-charles-bob-dylan-singer-dead-777417/

Wow...this one stings.

Not sure if we still have an obit thread anymore, but it deserves its own thread, no?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/peter-tork-monkees-dead-at-77-obituary-797269/?fbclid=IwAR35p6XKpaVV0FNDDUjddVzm-DI3B8IbIeX4YaJ74Nv8SQ2TGFvW2Se3Qlo

Used to watch The Monkees every Saturday morning as a kid.

RIP Peter

RIP Mr Tork...never a Monkees fan but they (and Neil Diamond) had some good pop songs.

Great 60s pop, no matter howe you look at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_XEIlMje64

May he rest in peace. His music will never die.

RIP Peter, I already mentioned that when I was a kid the Monkees were big, and I was a 10 YO kid when they started, they have a TV series, a comic magazine and records, I had some of my first Picture sleeves singles by them. I felt I was groovy LOL one day my older brother and some of his friends when to my house and they said something like “Come on, do you have records of the Monkees? they are bull shit” then I started to listen to my brothers albums and discovered the difference, then I started to listen psychedelic music, blues and classic rock instead of that bubble gum and sunshine commercial pop.

Again RIP Peter

Some facts: The Jimi Hendrix Experience was their opening act in a tour and they interacted with the Beatles and Frank Zappa

my wife thought you were the cutest. thanks for the memories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQMuIvF_Si8

RIP Peter.
Responsible for many smiles...

BTW...Good friends with Stephen Stills (Stills was offered and passed on the part of Pete and referred Tork)

Paranoid Android wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2019 at 9:14am:

BTW...Good friends with Stephen Stills (Stills was offered and passed on the part of Pete and referred Tork)

Actually, the producers rejected Stills because of his teeth or something like that. When he got rejected, he let Peter know about it.

Paranoid Android wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2019 at 9:14am:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQMuIvF_Si8 RIP Peter. Responsible for many smiles... BTW...Good friends with Stephen Stills (Stills was offered and passed on the part of Pete and referred Tork)

Jeez, I haven't heard this since I was 12 years old and AM radio was about to be defeated by FM.  It's so manufactured that it calls 3/4 of The California Sound into question, including Love, Buffalo Springfield, and CSNY.  2:29 of this kind of work invites its own backlash.  Sadly, I love it and miss it.

fleabit peanut monkey?

https://youtu.be/vmWEEawpU2s


LOL I watched this video from the forst article (Rolling Stone link above) and found that Peter looks like our veruy own fleabit peanut monkey

And now mark hollis from talk talk… only 64.....

RIP Hal Blaine
February 5, 1929 – March 11, 2019
One Of The Greatest Drummers of our Time!

https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/f167/t56g13h9/DRUMMERS/.highres/HalBlaine.jpg


https://youtu.be/N0KwNDEwm1Y

Too bad

Just in time some days ago Charlie Watts recorded for a documentary for Hal

http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1549487741

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Mar 11^th, 2019 at 10:00pm:

Too bad Just in time some days ago Charlie Watts recorded for a documentary for Hal http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1549487741

Thanks Voodoo, I couldn't remember where I came across
The Video on Hal's Drums. I should have figured it was here and You! Rocks Off Rules! I love this place!

you made the world a better sounding place thanks for all that magic!

Dick Dale, king of surf guitar, dead at 81

by Jared Leone, Cox Media Group National Content Desk, NCD



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Dick Dale, whose airy guitar licks became the foundation of the surf rock genre, died Saturday at 81.

Sam Bolle, a bassist who performed with Dale, confirmed his death to The Guardian. Dale suffered from various health issues. His cause of death was not released.
Dale’s 1962 hit "Miserlou" re-found fame decades later as the opening credit song for the movie "Pulp Fiction."


https://youtu.be/ZIU0RMV_II8


His 1961 single "Let’s Go Trippin’" is considered the first instrumental surf rock song.
Dale’s distinct playing style led to his unique sound. It also led to his work helping Leo Fender design the Stratocaster guitar.
"(Fender) used to say: ‘When it can withstand the barrage of punishment from Dick Dale, then it is fit for the human consumption.’ So I blew up over 50 amplifiers. And that’s why they call me the Father of Heavy Metal," Dale told the Miami New Times in 2011.

Dale stopped performing in the mid 1970s but was playing again by the 1980s and continued touring into the 21st century. Although he had health insurance, it did not provide coverage to pay to replenish supplies to keep his stoma infection-free, BIllboard reported in 2015. Dale suffered from Diabetes and had post-cancer treatments.
"I can’t stop touring because I will die. Physically and literally, I will die," Dale said.


http://myconnection.cox.com/article/trending/8d57f9c4-4900-11e9-9141-e7c0f39f42aa/



https://youtu.be/yjXXKxbUG8s

Kilroy wrote on Mar 11^th, 2019 at 9:49pm:

RIP Hal Blaine February 5, 1929 – March 11, 2019 One Of The Greatest Drummers of our Time! https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/f167/t56g13h9/DRUMMERS/.highres/HalBlaine.jpg https://youtu.be/N0KwNDEwm1Y

Watts, who took part in an L.A. event celebrating Blaine’s 90th birthday last month, issued a statement that reads, “Godspeed Hal. He gave us all so much. Feeling very blessed to have celebrated his life with him.”


Brian Wilson, Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts among stars paying tribute to legendary drummer Hal Blaine

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http://rock107.com/brian-wilson-ringo-starr-charlie-watts-among-stars-paying-tribute-to-legendary-drummer-hal-blaine/

Edith Grove wrote on Mar 17^th, 2019 at 6:58pm:

Dick Dale, king of surf guitar, dead at 81 by Jared Leone, Cox Media Group National Content Desk, NCD http://cciservices.coxmediagroup.com/rf/image_lowres/CMGT/Wires/NCD/CmgSharedContent/2019/03/17/Images/GettyImages-95785962.jpg Dick Dale, whose airy guitar licks became the foundation of the surf rock genre, died Saturday at 81. Sam Bolle, a bassist who performed with Dale, confirmed his death to The Guardian. Dale suffered from various health issues. His cause of death was not released. Dale’s 1962 hit "Miserlou" re-found fame decades later as the opening credit song for the movie "Pulp Fiction." https://youtu.be/ZIU0RMV_II8 His 1961 single "Let’s Go Trippin’" is considered the first instrumental surf rock song. Dale’s distinct playing style led to his unique sound. It also led to his work helping Leo Fender design the Stratocaster guitar. "(Fender) used to say: ‘When it can withstand the barrage of punishment from Dick Dale, then it is fit for the human consumption.’ So I blew up over 50 amplifiers. And that’s why they call me the Father of Heavy Metal," Dale told the Miami New Times in 2011. Dale stopped performing in the mid 1970s but was playing again by the 1980s and continued touring into the 21st century. Although he had health insurance, it did not provide coverage to pay to replenish supplies to keep his stoma infection-free, BIllboard reported in 2015. Dale suffered from Diabetes and had post-cancer treatments. "I can’t stop touring because I will die. Physically and literally, I will die," Dale said. http://myconnection.cox.com/article/trending/8d57f9c4-4900-11e9-9141-e7c0f39f42aa/ https://youtu.be/yjXXKxbUG8s

caught hiim live a couple of times. dude was a force of nature. rip kahuna

Starting now and for the next hour a webradio tribute to Dick Dale

https://ibero909.fm/playlist-9091

Mexican rock musician appears to kill himself after #MeToo claim

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/1/armando-vega-gil-botellita-de-jerez-bass-player-ap/

Russ Gibb — Detroit rock visionary, schoolteacher and 'Paul is dead' prankster — dies at 87


https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2019/04/30/russ-gibb-detroit-grande-ballroom-paul-mccartney/3635010002/

Minnesota blues hero Tony Glover, an influence on Dylan and the Stones, dies at 79


After his '60s trio Koerner, Ray & Glover, the harmonica blower went on to become an esteemed music writer and radio host but was still often called on stage by Patti Smith, Beck and others.

By Chris Riemenschneider Star Tribune  MAY 30, 2019



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He was the harmonica player Mick Jagger enlisted for a lesson, and the Doors, Patti Smith and Beck all invited on stage to perform with them in Minneapolis; the Minnesota music hero honored by both Bob Dylan and the Replacements in concerts at St. Paul’s Midway Stadium; the writer and musicologist who penned blues tomes, magazine articles and Dylan liner notes.

To the close friends and family mourning Tony Glover this week, he was also just an ultracool, storied but laid-back guy they relished hanging around.

Glover died Wednesday afternoon of natural causes after being hospitalized since May 13. He was 79.

Using the bluesman pseudonym “Little Sun,” Glover made his earliest and best-known mark on music in the early-1960s acoustic blues and folk group Koerner, Ray & Glover. The trio’s three albums for Elektra Records — especially their 1963 debut “Blues, Rags & Hollers” — were cited by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Doors, Bonnie Raitt and many more as an influence on their music.

In a 2002 interview shortly before his longtime bandmate Dave “Snaker” Ray lost his cancer battle, Glover said, “Ragged but right; that’s what we always aimed for.”

A Minneapolis native who grew up loving Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson and Leadbelly alongside Ray (his classmate at University High School in Dinkytown), Glover became emblematic of the white kids whose reverence of African-American blues musicians shaped rock music through much of the 1960s.

“If three white kids from the Midwest could make a record that sounds that black and deep and soulful, that really was inspirational,” Rolling Stone’s esteemed senior editor David Fricke told the Star Tribune. “It became a foundation for so much of what came after it.”

Glover and Ray continued to perform and record together up through Ray’s passing. In the 1980s they opened for the likes of B.B. King and John Lee Hooker and kept a house gig at the 400 Bar that brought new life to Minneapolis’ old West Bank music scene. Another mainstay of that scene and era, Willie Murphy, died in January.

In the 1990s, Ray and Glover recorded albums for the hip indie-rock labels Rough Trade and Tim/Kerr and were championed by younger trendsetters like Lucinda Williams and Beck, each of whom asked them to perform at their early First Avenue concerts.

The duo would also intermittently rejoin with Spider John Koerner, now the sole survivor of their legendary trio. Koerner is currently traveling abroad but checked in back home to hear the sad news.

Glover’s reputation among other musicians and musicheads extended well past his own musicianship.

He brought a hip veneer to top 40 radio station KDWB as a late-night host in the late-’60s, for which he landed interviews with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend when they performed in Minneapolis. He also wrote articles for Rolling Stone, Creem and Crawdaddy magazines in the 1960s and ’70s that helped prototype rock journalism.

Glover also became a leading commentator on the music of Dylan, whom he first met as a University of Minnesota “student” and later hung out with in New York, including a trip together to visit a hospitalized Woody Guthrie in 1963. He penned liner notes for the landmark Dylan concert recording “Live 1966: The ‘Royal Albert Hall’ Concerts” and is featured throughout Martin Scorsese’s definitive Dylan docuseries “No Direction Home.”

Dylan, in turn, wrote of “One Foot in the Grave,” a 1996 Koerner, Ray & Glover album, “Exactly like you’d think it would be, stunning. Every time they play the lights shine.”

During a Midway Stadium concert in 2005 — not far from the house where Glover and his wife lived in St. Paul — Dylan mumbled a shout-out to his old friend on stage and visited with him backstage. A decade later in the same stadium, Paul Westerberg invited Glover to play harmonica in Jimmy Reed’s “Going to New York” during the Replacements’ lone hometown reunion concert.

While he also took on the arduous task of learning to play sitar during a brief relocation to Berkeley, Calif., Glover was steadfast about blues harmonica. That led to him writing three instructional books and co-authoring a 2002 biography of blues music’s most revered harp blower, “Blues With a Feeling: The Little Walter Story.”

His writing duties also included more liner notes for albums by John Lee Hooker, John Hammond, Lazy Bill Lucas, Willie & the Bees, the Jayhawks and many more.

After Ray’s death, Glover kept up appearances on Twin Cities stages with a new trio, V3, featuring Galen Michaelson and Jon Rodine. He also reiterated his folkier side in a Woody Guthrie tribute show that also starred Charlie Maguire and Pops Wagner.

Glover and Koerner sporadically performed together again during the late-’00s, including a semiregular return to the West Bank gig that led to the 2009 album “Koerner & Glover: Live at the 400 Bar.”

Looking back on his 40- to 50-year relationship with his Koerner, Ray & Glover bandmates in 2002, the blues stalwart said their connection was more about a love for the music than it was friendship.

“I can probably count on one hand the number of times we’ve gotten together socially, where it wasn’t related to a gig or something work-related,” Glover said. The upside to that, he added, “is that when we do get together, it’s always fun. That may be part of our chemistry.”



http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-blues-hero-tony-glover-an-influence-on-dylan-and-the-stones-dies-at-79/510605432/

I gotta admit, never heard about him, so I searched and looks like a cool cat. He released two albums in 1963 and 1965

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ByTRmd5tL._SY355_.jpg

RIP Roky Erickson, 1947 - 2019... from the The 13th Floor Elevators, a sike-ay-delic band from Austin, Texas. Love their sound, get high and listen in his memory

Anybody remember this band?

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/31/728821278/roky-erickson-of-the-13th-floor-elevators-dies-at-71

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/roky-erickson-psychedelic-rock-icon-with-the-13th-floor-elevators-dies-at-71

https://youtu.be/a6JLKbSjH3E

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Jun 1^st, 2019 at 1:42pm:

RIP Roky Erickson, 1947 - 2019... from the The 13th Floor Elevators, a sike-ay-delic band from Austin, Texas. Love their sound, get high and listen in his memory Anybody remember this band? https://www.npr.org/2019/05/31/728821278/roky-erickson-of-the-13th-floor-elevators-dies-at-71 https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/roky-erickson-psychedelic-rock-icon-with-the-13th-floor-elevators-dies-at-71

of course!! pyschedelic warrior.was lucky enough to have seen him perform about a dozen years back in battery park. true legend. rest in peace

RIP Dr, John

A thread in his memory here http://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?num=1559863605/all

I hope the Stones do something in New Orleans to recognize the recently departed icons of NOLA rock-n-roll.





Dave Bartholomew, Mainstay of New Orleans R&B, Dies at 100



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Fats Domino, left, and Dave Bartholomew, who co-wrote and produced many of Mr. Domino’s hits. “Dave was one of rock ’n’ roll’s first great producers,” one expert said.CreditCreditCharles L. Franck/Franck Bertacci Photograph Collection, via Historic New Orleans Collection



By Bill Friskics-Warren
June 23, 2019



Dave Bartholomew, the producer, arranger, composer, trumpet player and bandleader who had a major hand in the shaping of New Orleans rhythm and blues and early rock ’n’ roll, died on Sunday in New Orleans. He was 100.

His death was confirmed by his son Ron.

An influential figure who worked mainly behind the scenes, Mr. Bartholomew was best known for the hits he produced for and wrote with Fats Domino, including “Ain’t That a Shame” (originally released under the name “Ain’t It a Shame”) and “Blue Monday.”

Under Mr. Bartholomew’s direction, Mr. Domino placed 65 singles on the Billboard pop chart from 1955 to 1964. Among rock ’n’ roll singers, only Elvis Presley had more during that period.

Mr. Bartholomew’s musical reach extended well beyond his collaborations with Mr. Domino. He also produced and arranged signature hits by Lloyd Price (“Lawdy Miss Clawdy”), Shirley and Lee (“Let the Good Times Roll”) and Smiley Lewis (“I Hear You Knocking”). “My Ding-a-Ling,” Chuck Berry’s only No. 1 pop single, was an adaptation of “Little Girl Sing Ding-a-Ling,” a recording Mr. Bartholomew made under his own name in 1952. Elton John, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Hank Williams Jr. and Cheap Trick, among many others, have recorded material associated with Mr. Bartholomew.

“His importance cannot be overstated,” Dr. Ira Padnos, a practicing anesthesiologist and the founder of the Ponderosa Stomp, a national touring revue and foundation that recognizes and promotes the work of American roots music pioneers, said in an interview for this obituary in 2010.



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Mr. Bartholomew in 1972 performing during the Newport Jazz Festival. He earned the nickname Leather Lungs for his ability to hold a note.CreditDon Hogan Charles/The New York Times



“Dave was one of rock ’n’ roll’s first great producers,” Dr. Padnos said. “And he created what might have been the first rock ’n’ roll record with ‘The Fat Man,’ ” a hit for Mr. Domino in 1949. “There was nothing else like it at the time. He put a heavy backbeat behind an old blues tune, and it became rock ’n’ roll.”

That “big beat,” as it came to be known, was supplied by the drummer Earl Palmer, one of several unerringly funky musicians whom Mr. Bartholomew recruited to work in his band. (Others included the saxophonists Lee Allen and Alvin (Red) Tyler.)

Besides appearing on his sessions, this tight ensemble played on Little Richard’s volcanic mid-50s hits “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally.” It also backed Sam Cooke, with a young Allen Toussaint on piano, during his 1960 tour of the United States.

Fusing Mardi Gras parade rhythms, jump blues, big-band jazz and Tin Pan Alley pop, Mr. Bartholomew and his band created a Crescent City groove that became as enduring a part of rock ’n’ roll vernacular as Bo Diddley’s “shave-and-a-haircut” beat and Mr. Berry’s “ringin’ a bell” guitar.

No less remarkable was the fact that Mr. Bartholomew, a black man, achieved such prominence working in the Jim Crow South. “He was operating in a very segregated environment,” John Broven, the author of “Rhythm & Blues in New Orleans,” said in an interview. “You had to be somebody special to rise to the top.”



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Mr. Bartholomew, left, shakes hands with Fats Domino in 1999 at the 50th anniversary observance of Mr. Domino’s first recording session in New Orleans.CreditJennifer Zdon/The Times-Picayune, via Associated Press




Dave Bartholomew was born on Dec. 24, 1918, in Edgard, La. (Some sources say the year was 1920, but the family said 1918 is correct.) The son of a jazz trumpet player, he grew up in a musical home and learned to play the tuba before moving on to trumpet.

He earned the nickname Leather Lungs for his ability to hold a note, and by the time he was a teenager he had spent time in a number of the region’s most popular bands, including those led by Joe Robicheaux and Papa Celestin. He later worked briefly with Jimmie Lunceford’s big band, and with a military band while serving in the Army, where he began writing and arranging music.

After serving in World War II he formed his own group, which appeared in New Orleans night spots like the Club Tijuana and the Dew Drop Inn, before meeting the record mogul Lew Chudd, who signed Mr. Bartholomew to his label, Imperial.

Mr. Bartholomew was working for the label as a talent scout when he first heard Mr. Domino perform, at the Hideaway Club in New Orleans. “The Fat Man,” the first single the two men made together, became a national hit and offered early proof of Mr. Bartholomew’s astute mix of commercial and artistic instincts.

“He was smart enough to know you couldn’t get a song named ‘Junker Blues’ played on the radio,” Dr. Padnos explained, referring to the drug-themed song on which “The Fat Man” was based, “so he came up with ‘The Fat Man’ instead. With Fats he wrote stuff that was accessible enough that the kids would buy it.”

The genial, steady-rolling arrangements Mr. Bartholomew wrote for Mr. Domino all but ensured the mainstream appeal of his music. The records Mr. Bartholomew released under his own name had more of a Caribbean or Afro-Cuban feel than his collaborations with Mr. Domino and the other youth-oriented performers whose sessions he produced. With titles like “Shrimp and Gumbo” and “Carnival Day,” these recordings were evocative of local New Orleans culture.

A broad cross section of Mr. Bartholomew’s music, including his work with renowned blues musicians like T-Bone Walker and Roy Brown, was presented in “The Spirit of New Orleans: The Genius of Dave Bartholomew,” a two-CD set released by Capitol Records in 1993.

Mr. Bartholomew’s name was linked to steadily fewer hit records as the 1960s gave way to the ’70s, but he remained active into his 80s. His 1998 studio album, “New Orleans Big Beat” (Landslide), featured “Jazz Fest in New Orleans,” which became the unofficial anthem of the city’s annual Jazz and Heritage Festival.

He was given a Trustees Award, for lifetime achievement, by the Recording Academy in 2014.

Survivors include his wife, Rhea (Douse) Bartholomew; his daughters, Diane Wilson and Jacqueline Temple; his sons, Dave Jr., Don and Ron; three stepchildren, Alvin LaBeaud, Darrell LaBeaud and Deborah Hubbard; a sister, Thelma Cooper; 25 grandchildren; and many great-grandchildren.

Mr. Bartholomew’s compositions have been included on the soundtracks of music-themed movies like “The Girl Can’t Help It” (1956) and “American Graffiti” (1973). A member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, he was elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.

That he was inducted in the “nonperformer” category was appropriate but perhaps misleading, Mr. Broven said. In addition to being “the one who organized all the musicians and whipped everyone into shape in the studio,” he noted, “he was a great musician himself, a red-hot trumpeter.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/obituaries/dave-bartholomew-dies-at-100.html

RIP Dave Bartholomew, 100 years!!! WOW

https://youtu.be/LCWGb5mO4kM

https://youtu.be/LNjuxtjtuWg

RIP Gary Duncan from Quicksilver Messenger Service

https://youtu.be/olnbwZxjcbI

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New Orleans legend Art Neville, founder of the Meters and Neville Brothers, dies at 81



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https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/keith_spera/article_4059d432-ac9f-11e9-9615-9f5f01d9ebd6.html

rest in peace mr neville what a career. did the stones have anything to say?

I was lucky to get to see The Meters' last club gig:



https://youtu.be/psPFhu4kKgw

May I call you one lucky bastard?

Rip Peter Fonda.....Yes, it's rock related!  ::)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnGzl-OEyGE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0VodxmVyWbMdB3AWb7h1jJyuL9uTHFEu88RcPIWR54aqgdIrIGGLlUkDE

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Aug 16^th, 2019 at 10:38pm:

Rip Peter Fonda.....Yes, it's rock related!  ::) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnGzl-OEyGE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0VodxmVyWbMdB3AWb7h1jJyuL9uTHFEu88RcPIWR54aqgdIrIGGLlUkDE

enjoy your ride thru eternity peter!

RIP Larry ‘The Mole’ Taylor

Canned Heat’s Larry ‘The Mole’ Taylor has died aged 77
by PAUL CASHMERE on AUGUST 20, 2019

http://www.noise11.com/news/canned-heats-larry-the-mole-taylor-has-died-aged-77-20190820?fbclid=IwAR2THCzcSWsjS7YufLzCdQ_4rDQubeBX6h1c_LJs4Rt55A5WQITT957k_DU

"To Have A Good Boogie You Got Have a Bottom"
and That's what The Heat Had
Larry The Mole Taylor!
      https://youtu.be/OogS5So-VZ4
Rip and THank you!

Swampers guitarist Jimmy Johnson has died




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Swampers guitarist Jimmy Johnson.




By Matt Wake | [email protected]


He played guitar on Aretha Franklin hits, recorded iconic Rolling Stones tracks and co-founded one of America’s most storied studios.

And now today, Jimmy Johnson, original member of The Swampers sessions musicians group that played a massive role in giving Muscle Shoals its out-sized musical magic, has died.

Johnson was 76.

His son, Jay Johnson, announced Jimmy’s passing on Facebook. “He is gone. Playing music with the angels now,” Jay wrote in his Facebook post.

Jimmy Johnson leaves behind a recording legacy that’s as rich as they come.

His work with Franklin alone is towering. Johnson played guitar on essential Aretha songs including "Respect," "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You," "Think" "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)." "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man." And that's just the hits.

After Franklin died in 2018, Johnson told me her gospel-style piano playing was the secret to her sound. “I think that added a lot to her songwriting and also to her vocals," he said back then. "It was the thing that made (The Swampers) gel with her.”

Johnson's recording credits extend miles beyond Franklin.

He laid down guitar tracks on all-time cuts by Etta James (“Tell Mama”), Wilson Pickett (“Mustang Sally,” “Land of a 1000 Dances”), Paul Simon ""Kodachrome," “Loves Me Like a Rock”), Staple Singers (“I’ll Take You There," ”Respect Yourself"), Jimmy Cliff (“The Harder They Come”), Arthur Conley (“Sweet Soul Music”) and on and on.

Johnson was also an accomplished engineer. He recorded Percy Sledge’s “When A Man Loves A Woman” at Sheffield’s Norala Sound Studio. “At that time Percy had never sung on a record before,” Johnson told me in 2016. “And the performance he gave was so pristine and so good that it was almost hard to believe that was his first time. I think he was pretty scared to death when he came there that day. But I tell you what, that vocal on there ...”

Johnson would go on to engineer many more sessions at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, which he founded in Sheffield with his fellow Swampers - bassist David Hood, keyboardist Barry Beckett and drummer Roger Hawkins - also known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Probably the most famous is The Rolling Stones’ December 1969 sessions at Muscle Shoals Sound. The Stones sessions produced blues-rocker deluxe " Brown Sugar" and country ballad “Wild Horses,” as well as gritty blues cover “You Gotta Move.” Those three songs were released on the 1971 album “Sticky Fingers,” widely considered to be one of The Rolling Stones’ best ever.

In 2014 Johnson talked with me about recording The Stones: “All of a sudden 12 hours before the session I found out I’ve gotta do it. We had to get those songs cut within about five hours (each). The songs were not even finished written, two of them, ‘Brown Sugar’ and ‘Wild Horses,’ they wrote them as we were doing them.”

The biggest challenge Johnson recalled in recording the Stones was “the fact that Keith (Richards, Stones guitarist) liked to play on ’10.' Loud.”

Growing up, Johnson played in local bands include The Del-Rays. His first paying gig was at age 15 at the Tuscumbia National Guard Armory, earning a princely $10. Johnson’s session musician career first took off in the mid-60s at Muscle Shoals’ FAME Recording Studios, where he worked for producer Rick Hall, the father of “the Muscle Shoals sound,” a tight but loose approach sometimes described as country-funk.

He was Hall’s first paid employee at FAME, sweeping floors and making coffee. After Hall’s first house rhythm section left FAME to move to Nashville for work, Johnson, Beckett, Hawkins and Hood became FAME’s second rhythm section - and would go on to become that studio’s most famous. In addition to all the wonderful music they helped record, The Swampers profile received a major boost when they were given a shout-out in one of rock’s most enduring anthems, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1974 hit “Sweet Home Alabama”: “Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers/And they’ve been known to pick a song or two.”

At FAME, The Swampers became known for their song-first mentality and soulful playing on R&B hits by the likes of Franklin, Pickett and James, among many others.

In 1969, Johnson, Beckett, Hawkins and Hood opened their own recording studio, which became Muscle Shoals Sound, in a former coffin factory located across from a cemetery. The cinder block building may have been humble but soon even the address there, 3614 Jackson Hwy., would become well-known among musicians and fans. In addition to The Stones, other now-classic artists to record at Muscle Shoals Sound during the studio’s 10 year prime - both at the 3614 original and lesser known 1000 Alabama Ave. location - included Rod Stewart, Paul Simon, Cher, Bob Seger and Bob Dylan.

For recording sessions, Johnson often played a Telecaster, Strat or orange Gretsch 6120 guitar through a Fender Vibrolux amp. His guitar style was focused on rhythm. It was clever, funky and sharp. Just the right chord or simple-tasteful lick at just the right moment on a track. And knowing how to let a song breathe.

In 2013, there was renewed interest in Johnson and The Swampers, with the release documentary film “Muscle Shoals,” which chronicled Hall and The Swampers’ intertwined paths. In recent years, music fans were able to see Johnson, who mostly focused on studio work, perform live more often, at gigs with the Muscle Shoals Revue, playing onstage versions of Shoals-made classics.

Hood was visiting Johnson in the hospital just an hour before Johnson’s passing. Later, after hearing his friend of 60 years - not just his longtime musical and business partner - had died, Hood says, “I was devastated. Jimmy was a brother to me. I would not be in this world of music if not for Jimmy and his encouragement. From the first time I ever touched a bass he encouraged me. I would not be doing what I’m doing if not for Jimmy Johnson."

Johnson also was important to a new generation of Muscle Shoals musicians. After news of Johnson’s death broke, Grammy winning singer, songwriter and guitarist Jason Isbell posted on Isbell’s Twitter account, “The mighty Jimmy Johnson has passed. A lot of my favorite music wouldn’t exist without him, and he was always kind to me. Hard times for the folks back home.”

A few years ago, Muscle Shoals Sound's interior was restored to its vintage look, including a tufted green and gold striped ceiling. The double-8-shaped white Styrofoam sound proofing is also period-correct, as are various musical instruments in the main room. Behind big glass windows, there's a control room with recording console and analog tape machine.

Johnson enjoyed stopping by the studio during tours. He loved to interact with visitors from around the world eager to learn about Muscle Shoals Sound mojo, and get to know the studio’s tour guides.

“Jimmy was a great storyteller,” recalls Muscle Shoals Sound executive director Debbie Wilson.

And the people at Muscle Shoals Sound are determined to continue to tell Jimmy Johnson’s story. Even if today is a hard one to get through.

“We look at his guitar and cry,” Wilson says. “We look at the control board and cry. But the music, legacy and his spirit will live on and we are honored to make sure it does.”


https://www.al.com/life/2019/09/swampers-guitarist-jimmy-johnson-has-died.html

Influential photographer Robert Frank dead at 94



https://www.latimes.com/la-me-robert-frank-snap-story.html

Thanks Edith, well, 94 and active is a great way

Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer
Was 94
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/arts/robert-frank-dead-americans-photography.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&fbclid=IwAR3Bc92f38x_YoXbOcC38ri4JdK2gAx-5hv8O4XT6csLQ4lp2WLn5G7Sv3k

https://youtu.be/_lNP-x94-SE

Looks as if nobody has as of yet marked the passing of Eddie Money.

Cancer can suck my testicles.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/13/entertainment/eddie-money-cancer-death-trnd/index.html

https://youtu.be/-WiKhTfeZ9EEddie was great, Saw him at Champagne Jam 1978 in Atlanta, he played with every one that played that day. Mother's Finest, Doobie Brothers, Atlanta Ryhthm Section
He seem to be a hard workin Party loving Rockin Roller! RIP Eddie! Thank you

Ric Ocasek of the Cars has now died as well

https://pagesix.com/2019/09/15/the-cars-frontman-ric-ocasek-found-dead-in-manhattan-townhouse/?fbclid=IwAR3lRe0nDaWV0r32lsdZlozeWBG_5iKWKdqxUJuD6_jpUi1qrot41ry85KI

Ric Ocasek, the lead singer of iconic new-wave rock band The Cars, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on Sunday, law enforcement sources told The Post. He was 70 years old.

Ocasek was discovered unconscious and unresponsive at around 4:14 p.m. inside his Gramercy Park pad by his estranged wife, Paulina Porizkova, sources said.

He appeared to have died from natural causes, sources added.

Ocasek and his seminal new wave band The Cars shot to fame with their self-titled hit album in the 1978, which included hits such as “My Best Friend’s Girl” and “Just What I Needed.”

The singer reflected on his years in the band when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year.

“It’s certainly a wonderful feeling to be accepted by peers and you see the people that are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, who gets inducted, it’s a positive feeling that you get,” Ocasek said in an interview with Rolling Stone.

From 1978 to 1987, the band churned  out six records — “five of which are good-to-great,” said Erik Adams, an AV Club music critic, in a 2018 article.

“And then there are The Cars, the type of band that put out a perfect debut record, and then had the audacity to not pack it in after that,” the critic wrote.

In 1984, the band received another notable accolade, winning MTV’s “Video of the Year” award for its hit song off its 5th album, “You Might Think.”

After a long hiatus, the band reunited in 2011 and released an album called “Move Like This.” It was the band’s first, and only, album without late- bassist Benjamin Orr, who died in 2000.

Ocasek had recently placed the home where he was found on the market after he and Porizkova announced their split in May 2018.

The pair — who shared two children together — had been together for 28 years when they separated.

Gazza, this is a tough one.

Honk.
He may not have closed his own car door (like Meghan Merkel) and may not even be barely remembered by many, his first and perhaps greatest mistake was naming his band as he did, rather than as The Coupes, Our Motors, The Floats, The Shitboxes or The Wagons.

RIP RO...(not RocksOff!)

I re-discovered The Cars about 4 years ago when I started my Spotify membership.

I urge everyone to listen to the First Album, The Cars- Deluxe Edition.
It has of course the first album, but it also includes all the demos of the songs, before they are all tightened/produced/minimized to the sounds we all know today.

Those guys were real rockers...

Their live album Live At The Agora is also excellent and shows how good they were live at the start of their career.

My fave is Candy-O

Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead Collaborator and Lyricist, Dead at 78


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788/

RIP Robert

https://youtu.be/Ht_BfhweF4I
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It must be getting early
Clocks are running late
Paint by numbers morning sky
Looks so phony

Dawn is breaking everywhere
Light a candle, curse the glare
Draw the curtains, I don't care
'Cause it's alright

I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive

I see you got your list out
Say your piece and get out
Yes I got the gist of it
But it's alright

Sorry that you feel that way
The only thing there is to say
Every silver lining's got a
Touch of grey

I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive

It's a lesson to me
The Ables and the Bakers and the C's
The ABC's
We all must face
And try to keep a little grace

It's a lesson to me
The Deltas and the East and the Freeze
The ABC's
We all think of
And try to keep a little love

I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright

Cows are giving kerosene
The kid can't read at seventeen
The words he knows are all obscene
But it's alright

I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive

The shoe is on the hand it fits
There's really nothing much to it
Whistle through your teeth and spit
'Cause it's alright

Oh well a touch of grey
Kind of suits you anyway
That was all I had to say
It's alright

I will get by
I will get by
I will get by
I will survive

We will get by
We will get by
We will get by
We will survive

We will get by
We will get by
We will get by
We will survive

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Fare you well, Mr. Hunter. We love you more than words can tell...

For a man who provided us with so many meaningful words, the soundtrack to our lives, he's left us a bit speechless with his passing. For more than 50 years, since his first lyrical contributions to the Grateful Dead in 1967, Robert Hunter has been just as integral a part of the legacy of the Grateful Dead as those who recorded the music to accompany his words, those who walked out on stage to bring his words to life. More than 2,000 times 1967-1995, these six (or five or seven) proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow, plus countless thousands of times since then by other performers, the Grateful Dead have brought Hunter's words to life in front of all of us as their witness. Not a single day has gone by since 1984 that Hunter's words haven't been a part of my world; I've heard Jerry, Bob and others sing his words literally every day for the past 35 years.

When the final Fare Thee Well show ended in Chicago in 2015, Mickey Hart famously sent us on our way by asking us to "please, be kind," and that lesson along with its lyrical brethren written by Hunter, "ain't no time to hate," and "are you kind?" are some of the truest words to live by. No matter what meaning, solace, lesson you find in Hunter's lyrics, please go out and do some good with them.

David Lemieux

Ginger Baker, wild and brilliant Cream drummer, dies aged 80

Drummer who straddled jazz, blues and rock ‘passed away peacefully’


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hftgytmgQgE&feature=player_embedded


Ginger Baker, one of the most brilliant, versatile and turbulent drummers in the history of British music, has died aged 80.

His family had previously made it public that he was critically ill and asked fans to “please keep him in your prayers”. His Facebook page said he “passed away peacefully” on Sunday morning.

Paul McCartney was among those paying tribute, writing on Twitter: “Great drummer, wild and lovely guy … Sad to hear that he died but the memories never will.”

Baker was born in 1939 in Lewisham, south London, and grew up amid the blitz; his father was killed in action in 1943. He began drumming in his mid-teens, remembering in 2009: “I’d never sat behind a kit before, but I sat down – and I could play! One of the musicians turned round and said, ‘Bloody hell, we’ve got a drummer’, and I thought, ‘Bloody hell, I’m a drummer!’”

Early work came with the jazz guitarist Diz Disley – which ended when an 18-year-old Baker set fire to a hotel while on tour in Europe – and with bandleader Terry Lightfoot. He played blues in Blues Incorporated – including guest appearances with an early incarnation of the Rolling Stones – and US R&B with the Graham Bond Organisation, both alongside Jack Bruce on bass guitar.

Despite considerable friction between Baker and Bruce, the pair in 1966 formed Cream with Eric Clapton, who had previously played with the Yardbirds and John Mayall. Cream helped define the psychedelic rock sound of the decade, with Baker bringing both a jazz sensibility – Toad, from debut album Fresh Cream, features one of the first ever drum solos in rock – and a hard-hitting style, using two bass drums, that pointed towards heavy metal.

Cream sold more than 15m records worldwide and had hits including Sunshine of Your Love, Strange Brew and White Room; three of their four albums reached both the US and UK top five.

The band split in 1968, releasing a final album in 1969. A reunion in 2005 ended in animosity, with Baker and Bruce shouting at each other on stage in New York. In 1969, Baker and Clapton formed the short-lived band Blind Faith with Steve Winwood and Ric Grech, and the latter pair joined Baker in his next project, jazz-rock band Ginger Baker’s Air Force.

Baker moved to Nigeria in 1971 and set up the Batakota recording studio in Lagos, which hosted local musicians as well as established stars (McCartney’s band Wings recorded part of Band on the Run there). He performed with Nigerian star Fela Kuti – “he understands the African beat more than any other westerner,” said Kuti’s drummer Tony Allen – and went on to collaborate or perform with a hugely varied array of musicians: Public Image Ltd, Hawkwind, hard rock band Baker Gurvitz Army, and jazz performers Max Roach, Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. In 1994, he formed a jazz trio with Charlie Haden and Bill Frisell.


He had spells living in Italy, California, Colorado and South Africa, and developed a passion for polo. In 2008, when living in South Africa, he was defrauded of more than £30,000 by a bank clerk he had hired as a personal assistant. He also suffered from various health issues, including respiratory illness and osteoarthritis, and underwent open heart surgery in 2016. “God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can,” he said in 2009.

That wickedness perhaps included his notorious temper – “I used to be mean – I’d deliberately mess up recording sessions with my temper and go mad at the slightest thing,” he said in 1970. He was married four times – “If a plane went down and there was one survivor, it would be Ginger. The devil takes care of his own,” first wife Elizabeth Ann Baker said in 2009 – and used heroin on and off since the mid-60s: he told the Guardian in 2013 that he relapsed “something like 29 times”.

A documentary, Beware of Mr Baker, was made about his life in 2012. He is survived by his three children, Kofi, Leda and Ginette.



https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/06/ginger-baker-wild-and-brilliant-cream-drummer-dies-aged-80

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Charlie keeps on ticking. Thank the lord!

Very gracious of Mick in light of Ginger Baker being an absolute knob towards him:

https://twitter.com/MickJagger/status/1180898674873905152

Some more tributes including Mick's here

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/06/entertainment/cream-drummer-ginger-baker-tributes/index.html

RIP Mr. Baker
You Made It Hard For Us Mortal Drummers

Today at 10:00 AM CST (in about one hour and a half) I will be live on the radio making a tribute to Ginger Baker, in case you want to listen just click HERE, it will be in Spanish

https://ibero909.fm/playlist-9091

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Oct 11^th, 2019 at 6:28am:

Today at 10:00 AM CST (in about one hour and a half) I will be live on the radio making a tribute to Ginger Baker, in case you want to listen just click HERE, it will be in Spanish https://ibero909.fm/playlist-9091

EXCELENTE PROGRAMA AMIGO!!
BIEN HECHO!!

Thanks Paul.... I shout it out "Rocks Off rules you bastards" and then "hi to Paul"

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Oct 11^th, 2019 at 12:32pm:

Thanks Paul.... I shout it out "Rocks Off rules you bastards" and then "hi to Paul"

I heard it...it was AWESOME!!
Thanks for the honor!

Here's the link to the Ginger Baker tribute we made

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E_SFN3cEk17nwfUaxd5iQBMDyHzuXXb5/view?usp=sharing

Ed Cherney, Grammy-Winning Engineer for Bonnie Raitt & The Rolling Stones, Dies at 69


Ed Cherney, a Grammy and Emmy-winning engineer, who worked on such seminal works as Bonnie Raitt’s Nick of Time, Eric Clapton’s "Tears in Heaven," The Rolling Stones’ Bridges to Babylon, Willie Nelson’s My Way and hundreds more, died Tuesday (Oct. 22) from cancer. He was 69.


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Other artists he worked with included Bob Dylan, Bette Midler, Elton John, Sting, Etta James, Bob Seger and Jackson Browne, among others.

Cherney, who worked out of The Village Studios in Los Angeles, was known for his quick-witted, jolly manner. The Chicago-native enjoyed a great conversation or golf game as much as finding the perfect sound.

After Cherney’s wife, former Record Plant head Rose Mann-Cherney, announced news of his death on Facebook Tuesday morning, tributes began pouring in from fellow engineers and producers, as well as artists like Slash, Keith Richards, Jann Arden and Raitt.

https://twitter.com/officialKeef/status/1186765812096491520

Cherney, who was nominated for five Grammys, snagged his first win in 1995 for best engineered album/non- classical for Raitt’s Longing in Their Hearts. That year, he engineered three of the five nominees in the category. He won again in 2003 for best traditional blues album for Buddy Guy’s Blues Singer and in 2016 for the best traditional pop vocal album with Willie Nelson’s Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin, an award he won again in 2018 for Nelson's My Way.  In 2015, he won an Emmy for HBO’s Bessie Smith film Bessie.


In an oral history celebrating the 30th anniversary of Raitt's Nick of Time, Cherney told Billboard about the precision required to get just the right sound, especially on "Thing Called Love." "It may have taken me five or fix times to nail the mix on that, because where it sounded great was on the head of a pin. It was that delicate."  When the album went on to win album of the year at the 1990 Grammys, Cherney said, "It came out of nowhere -- this was just a little record. No one was expecting that at all. I may have cried. I may have just broken down and cried."

Engineer Ann Mincieli, best known for her work with Alicia Keys, was a close friend of Cherney's. She tells Billboard, "From the Rolling Stones to Bonnie Raitt and everyone in between, Ed Cherney defined his sound and left us with a sonic imprint we will never forget. Ed and his wife Rose helped raise the bar of every aspect of the music industry and mentored several people like myself. As [Recording Academy] Producers & Engineers Wing co-chairs, we walked the halls of Congress, sat behind a console, lobbied for credits and high-resolution audio and the list goes on and on."

Appropriately enough, his email address was "mixerdudeman." And fitting of his humility, on his website instead of tributes from the superstars he worked with, he had a quote from his dog, Archie: “Cherney is one of the great music engineers of all time. And then there’s bacon.”

His mantra, also on his website, best expressed his approach. Even though, by his own admission, he was obsessed with tech, he wrote: “Ultimately, mixing is about heart -- nobody leaves a session dancing to what kind of gear you used.”


https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8539954/ed-cherney-engineer-bonnie-raitt-rolling-stones?fbclid=IwAR1ZCgRARUhsqyuPBVBo_kU3wBHkx7u6p-cfWy7SSYjc6lA50NCGIQF7NaY

From Keith on Ed Cherney:

https://mobile.twitter.com/officialKeef/status/1186765812096491520

How late Muffs frontwoman Kim Shattuck made final album while secretly battling ALS: ‘Nothing would stop her from doing what she loved to do’

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/how-late-muffs-frontwoman-kim-shattuck-made-final-album-while-secretly-battling-als-nothing-would-stop-her-from-doing-what-she-loved-to-do-173820922.html

ICONIC photographer Terry O'Neill has died aged 81.



https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/4963681/terry-oneill-dead-photographer-who-worked-with-beatles-and-rolling-stones-dies-aged-81-after-prostate-cancer-battle/

One of the greatest! He was at the right time in the right place

Via his works he has been here more than many of our regulars

Fuck! Since this is a Lazy Sunday I just copy and paste one of the images in the article and used as a header but it was really big so here it is while I search for another

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In memory of Terry O'Neill... Thanks for all you did for us © Terry O'Neill with thanks to Edith Grove

Another great rock photographer, Michael Putland, has also left us. Responsible for quite a few iconic Stones shots

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In Memory of Michael Putland © Michael Putland with thanks to andrews27

RIP Neil

Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for rock band Rush, dies at 67

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/neil-peart-drummer-lyricist-rock-band-rush-dies-67-n1113861

Tom wrote on Jan 10^th, 2020 at 4:14pm:

RIP Neil Neil Peart, drummer and lyricist for rock band Rush, dies at 67 https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/neil-peart-drummer-lyricist-rock-band-rush-dies-67-n1113861

:Youmakeagrownmancrylikejoey

Charlie meets Neil (backstage SARS)

https://youtu.be/7rs2JOMoYss

RIP Wes Wilson

One of the best  designers of psychedelic posters.im the 60s

Ivan Kral of Patti Smith Band Dies Aged 71



http://www.noise11.com/news/ivan-kral-of-patti-smith-band-dies-aged-71-20200203

Buddy Cage steel guitarist extraordinaire  :'(

RIP Kenny Rogers

On March 20, 2020, Rogers died under hospice care at his home in Sandy Springs, Georgia, a representative for the singer said in a statement.[45][46] Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the family is planning a small private service with a public memorial planned for a later date

King Crimson's Bill Rieflin just passed away

RIP Bill

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/king-crimsons-bill-rieflin-on-summer-tour-bowie-cover-bands-future-112092

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/john-prine-obit-253684/amp/

One of America’s greatest voices was hoping he would pull through this but in his weakened state he couldn’t. Was gonna see him this June been to long since the last. Godspeed Mr Prine

Rip John

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/john-prine-25-essential-songs-974926/

mojoman wrote on Apr 7^th, 2020 at 11:13pm:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/john-prine-obit-253684/amp/ One of America’s greatest voices was hoping he would pull through this but in his weakened state he couldn’t. Was gonna see him this June been to long since the last. Godspeed Mr Prine

Damn that sucked. Great musician.

RIP Dave Greenfield, keyboard player with The Stranglers. Dead at 71 from covid-19

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52537293

There's not many songwriters who can claim that they had a no.2 hit single with a song about heroin.

One of the great pioneers of rock has passed.

RIP Little Richard. He was 87.

Rick

https://youtu.be/hrgXa-sL5dU

Thats a bummer, if not really unexpected. Co-headlined the first ever tour that the Stones did, along with The Everly Brothers and Bo Diddley

Jerry Lee Lewis really IS the 'Last Man Standing' now.

RIP Mr Penniman

So many stories he could tell...inspirational to so many artists

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