Shine On - Musicians RIP Thread

[Cliff Hanger]

Phil Spector has died at 81. No eulogy for a murderer, but very few producers have left as much of a mark.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/phil-spector-dead-obit-67459/

[(BP)]

 

[Curt McGirt]

A few? Only Johnny.

There was an anecdote (I think it was in Please Kill Me) about Dee Dee wondering what was the mysterious liquid in the goblet Spector kept drinking from all the time, then when he was out of the room he tried it and it was just Manischewitz. 

[Shartnado]

On 1/5/2021 at 2:03 AM, Curt McGirt said:

RIP Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom, age 41

Not much of a COB fan myself (did own the debut album for a few years back in the day) but this guy was indeed one of the biggest, most successful musical exports Finland has seen on "popular" music front. He lived a rough life and apparently paid the price quite early. It's unlikely that an extreme(ish) metal band from Finland will ever reach such global (or international at least) success and popularity, again.

[Curt McGirt]

I didn't want to speak ill of the dead but he ruined Impaled Nazarene when he introduced that melodic style to them. Not that Mika's homophobia and nationalism didn't do the same thing...

[Shartnado]

15 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

I didn't want to speak ill of the dead but he ruined Impaled Nazarene when he introduced that melodic style to them. Not that Mika's homophobia and nationalism didn't do the same thing...

IN didn't need ruining for me. I have disliked them quite strongly ever since I became aware of them. The album cover of Mötorpenis is the only redeeming quality I can think of. It made me LOL in a record store when I first laid my eyes upon it. Other than that, fuck them!

[Lamp, broken circa 1988]

If you don't mess with pop or electronic music, I don't know how to begin to explain the impact SOPHIE has had on music in the last decade, or how that influence fucking exploded across the world of electronic and marginalized artists after this record, but if you'd like to start to understand then spin this today.

RIP SOPHIE

[Curt McGirt]

RIP Hilton Valentine 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hilton-valentine-animals-guitarist-dead-obit-1121412/

[Zimbra]

Ricky Powell, the photographer known for documenting the New York hip hop scene and for being  the "fourth Beastie Boy" has died.

[Execproducer]

Sad news to wake up to. RIP Mary Wilson.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/arts/music/mary-wilson-dead.html

Edited February 9, 2021 by Execproducer

[Pete]

 

[Pete]

 

[DEAN]

6 minutes ago, Pete said:

 

Oh man, on my 15th birthday,  I saw Return To Forever with Chick Corea, Lenny White, Stanley Clarke and Al De Miola at Chrysler Hall in Norfolk.  He was awesome.

[Death From Above]

 

[Death From Above]

 

[Dolfan in NYC]

Nicki Minaj's father was killed earlier this weekend in a hit and run on Long Island.  

Police are investigating. 

[Dolfan in NYC]

Salsa music legend Johnny Pacheco passed away today at 85.

 

 

[colonial]

Music producer and rapper Prince Markie Dee, best known in the 80s for being one-third of the Fat Boys, has died at 52.

 

Fat Boys The Twist - YouTube

 

Fat Boys - Baby, You're a Rich Man (Disorderlies 1987) - YouTube

[RIPPA]

I watched Disorderlies so much when I was a kid

I can't believe he was only 52

[supremebve]

Prince Markie Dee wrote and produced Mary J. Blige's "Real Love."  That's one of those before and after songs.  Everything before that was New Jack Swing, but everything after moved more into Hip-Hop Soul.  That's a huge contribution to the culture, on top of everything he did with The Fat Boys.

[OSJ]

Always thought we were about the same age, 52 is way too young to check out.

[J.T.]

Damn, Stick 'Em was an anthem on my block back in the day.

RIP Markie Dee.

[Zimbra]

Bunny Wailer, the last surviving original member of Bob Marley & The Wailers, has passed away at age 73.

[J.T.]

I think I have seen The Wailers live more than any other band I am fond of.  

RIP.

[Cliff Hanger]

This missed getting widely reported as it happened. Gene Taylor, pianist for the Fabulous Thunderbirds and the Blasters, died of exposure to the cold on 2/20 while the power was out here in Austin. He was 68.

 

https://www.austin360.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/02/21/gene-taylor-austin-pianist-fabulous-thunderbirds-and-more-dies/4535083001/