Shine On - Musicians RIP Thread

[supremebve]

11 hours ago, The Natural said:

Wall to walk coverage in the UK yesterday over Liam Payne's death. How was it in America?

I have to tell you, there are maybe 10 singers who America would pause for at this point and Taylor Swift is probably the only one under 40.  I feel like we've made music so disposable that not many new artists get the foothold they would need to get wall to wall coverage if they died.  Seriously, if Beyonce died or Mariah Carey, we'd get wall to wall coverage, but it's a pretty small group.  

[Pete]

Ugh. Think of how good he was, only for Bruce to take Maiden into the stratosphere. RIP.

[Travis Sheldon]

1 hour ago, Pete said:

Ugh. Think of how good he was, only for Bruce to take Maiden into the stratosphere. RIP.

Paul had been in ill health for a long time, sad he went so young.

I seem to recall the last new song of his being pretty decent, think it came out earlier in the year.

Last interview with him I saw was a video on YouTube, back in the summer, with Paul and Bruce speaking before a show.

[Curt McGirt]

Absolutely crushed right now. 

God, he was so fucking good. And Clive Burr ruled the world too. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Y-EOnOilY

A friend of mine snuck in the back door of a venue once and found Paul giving an interview with a young student for probably his school newspaper. The kid left and Paul said "The kids are gone, let's drink!" and drank Jameson with him and told stories all night, signed autographs for people, no ego at all. He might've been a fuck-up -- and this is coming from a bona-fide fuck-up -- but he tried his entire life to maintain and hold that energy from his youth. It's admirable beyond words. 

Rest in Power, Paul. 

 

[zendragon]

His most recent band; Warhorse had dropped a new album and it seemed his health was on the upswing for a bit. Sad news, he canceled a couple of gigs near me about a decade ago so I was always hoping I'd get a chance to see him play live

[zendragon]

https://open.spotify.com/track/4T2sBVK98WGUmenZyv33r5?si=c92aba7470d74262

He recently released a best of his solo work

[Chaos]

For us Deadheads on the board, it was just announced that Phil Lesh passed away this morning. 

[Travis Sheldon]

Can't claim to be the biggest Deadhead, but I did enjoy his playing.

His autobiography, Searching for the Sound: My Life with The Grateful Dead, was a great read.

R.I.P.

[Chaos]

5 minutes ago, Travis Sheldon said:

Can't claim to be the biggest Deadhead, but I did enjoy his playing.

I waited until my 30s to get into the Dead, and I jokingly say the only substances involved were beer while cleaning the house. A band that kind of started my habit of making most of my distance runs and workouts to jam band sets via Nugs, Relisten, Spotify, etc. Otherwise, I'm usually running to podcasts. 

[Johnny Sorrow]

I saw the news about Phil 20 minutes ago and it hit me like a gut punch.  It's hard for me to put it all into words right now, but if there was ever a life well lived in its second act it was Phil. He almost died in 1998 from hepatitis and survived thanks to a liver transplant. From that day on he was an advocate for organ donation. At every Phil and Friends show or when he'd join up with the rest of the boys for reunion gigs, there was always a table set up for folks to sign up for their organ donation cards. Before the encores he'd give what Heads called "The Donors Rap" to the crowd to spread the word in support of the cause. 
Phil played his last show just a couple of weeks ago with his long time band of rotating young musicians who he loved playing with and teaching.
Phil was a one of a kind bass player, learning the instrument when he helped form the band in 1965. He had been a violin player and then a jazz trumpet musician before then. And he also was studying music theory and experimental jazz at the time. His style as a bassist was unique unto him and itself. At Dead shows it was always a treat to be sitting in The Phil Zone where all his Phil Bombs would resonate in you from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. 
84 years old is a hell of a run and nothing to truly be too sad over, and knowing he was surrounded by his family as he peacefully passed is a comfort.

RIP Phil. You were the best.

 

Edited October 26 by Johnny Sorrow

[Johnny Sorrow]

Me and my gang were at this show in Landover. It was a three night run and the second night was Phil's 50th birthday. The crowd tried to coordinate singing Happy Birthday when we realized Phil was gonna sing. 
We also were assaulted by the Maryland State Police the next night for the crime of waiting with our pal Jessica for AAA after the show. We were staying at a pal's place a half hour away with a cold keg waiting for us. We wanted nothing more than to leave after the show.
 We didn't want to leave her alone in a gravel overrun parking lot outside of DC in the middle of the night. Apparently that's grounds for being attacked by Pigs on Horseback . 

It was a scene. Worth it though. All in all, it was a great time.

 

Edited October 26 by Johnny Sorrow

[Shartnado]

On 10/21/2024 at 8:34 PM, Pete said:

Ugh. Think of how good he was, only for Bruce to take Maiden into the stratosphere. RIP.

Sort of surprised he was only 66 at this point, but this is truly sad news as the first two Maiden albums still hold a very special place in my heart. I suppose I should give his solo material a chance, which up until this point, I haven't.

[zendragon]

Well he just released a new album along with a comp of his earlier solo work. I might go back and listen to Battlezone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsxFyR666o

[Travis Sheldon]

I never found Di'Anno to be the weak link in his solo stuff, it was always the Maiden cover acts that brought those albums down.

[Curt McGirt]

On 10/25/2024 at 10:19 PM, Johnny Sorrow said:

a gravel overrun parking lot outside of DC in the middle of the night

Is DC like Baltimore where it just stops dead at 2 AM and they will sweep down on the streets with a vengeance for no reason? (This makes no sense to me because of the continual drug trade but I suppose it is just the bars. The cast of The Wire complained about it in the Wire book.)

Edited October 29 by Curt McGirt

[Johnny Sorrow]

6 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Is DC like Baltimore where it just stops dead at 2 AM and they will sweep down on the streets with a vengeance for no reason? (This makes no sense to me because of the continual drug trade but I suppose it is just the bars. The cast of The Wire complained about it in the Wire book.)

Landover isn't in DC, it's just not that far from it.

[dogwelder]

RIP Quincy Jones

[supremebve]

I should probably star an individual thread about Quincy Jones, but seeing that I'm the first reply after 8 hours I won't.  

Quincy Jones is probably the second most important American musician of the post-Rock & Roll era behind James Brown.  Every single pop song you listen to that has come out after 1960 or so has a Quincy Jones influence.  Almost every song you hear from the biggest pop hit, to the background music in your favorite movie has his fingerprints on it.  He's probably most famous for his Michael Jackson hits, but he either produced, composed, conducted, or arranged for everyone from Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Little Richard, Donna Summer, Sarah Vaughan, Andy Williams, and Dizzy Gillespie.  That list doesn't even consider his solo work that goes back to 1955, or the television and movie soundtracks that produced.  You don't have to even know he existed to be familiar with countless songs that he had his hands on.  Where James Brown's influence is based mostly on people who built on the foundation that James Brown built, Quincy Jones' influence is based on the fact that he was in the studio with an insane percentage of the most popular American musicians of all time.  He is quite possibly the most ubiquitous American musician of all time, despite the fact that most of his contributions do not have his name on them.  Rest in Peace to an absolute legend, who everyone knows is a legend, but most don't know the half.  There will not be another Quincy Jones, he is the very definition of a one of one.

[odessasteps]

This will likely be the most enduring memory from Quincy Jones for most people. 

 

[odessasteps]

Or maybe this 

 

[Curt McGirt]

3 hours ago, supremebve said:

I should probably star an individual thread about Quincy Jones, but seeing that I'm the first reply after 8 hours I won't.  

Quincy Jones is probably the second most important American musician of the post-Rock & Roll era behind James Brown.  Every single pop song you listen to that has come out after 1960 or so has a Quincy Jones influence.  Almost every song you hear from the biggest pop hit, to the background music in your favorite movie has his fingerprints on it.  He's probably most famous for his Michael Jackson hits, but he either produced, composed, conducted, or arranged for everyone from Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Little Richard, Donna Summer, Sarah Vaughan, Andy Williams, and Dizzy Gillespie.  That list doesn't even consider his solo work that goes back to 1955, or the television and movie soundtracks that produced.  You don't have to even know he existed to be familiar with countless songs that he had his hands on.  Where James Brown's influence is based mostly on people who built on the foundation that James Brown built, Quincy Jones' influence is based on the fact that he was in the studio with an insane percentage of the most popular American musicians of all time.  He is quite possibly the most ubiquitous American musician of all time, despite the fact that most of his contributions do not have his name on them.  Rest in Peace to an absolute legend, who everyone knows is a legend, but most don't know the half.  There will not be another Quincy Jones, he is the very definition of a one of one.

I reposted this on Facebook, hope you didn't mind (better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And if you want credit you are free to receive it. Thank you for your words, they are wonderful.)

Edited November 4 by Curt McGirt

[supremebve]

1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:

I reposted this on Facebook, hope you didn't mind (better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And if you want credit you are free to receive it. Thank you for your words, they are wonderful.)

No problem at all.

Odessa, those are very well-known Quincy Jones songs, but he produced almost every hit Michael Jackson had as a solo artist.  His first major hit as a producer was "It's My Party," by Lesley Gore.  

[odessasteps]

Yeah, we were discussing that at work tonight. I asked someone (40 ish white lady) first thing she thought of with Quincy Jones and she said Michael Jackson and then mentioned some 60s stuff, including Leslie Gore. And we are the world. I did have to remind her he was Rashida Jones' dad.

And some people would say his arrangement of Fly Me to the Moon for Frank Sinatra and Count Basie.

And prob other stuff would be the answer for other people. Lots of "right answers." 

 

Edited November 5 by odessasteps

[HarryArchieGus]

R I P Q...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpbK4tLQH_s