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  • rostasi said:

    I was playing Spiral while out for a walk just two days ago. I was thinking that even though they are a bit "clunky" if you will I still love his run of 1970's RCA albums. Him and Elvis one name RCA stars.
  • edited May 2022
    Been away a few days….iPod still being mourned and no love for Vangelis?
    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vangelis-oscar-winning-composer-chariots-of-fire-blade-runner-dead-obit-1355854/
    ETA I see he popped up on the now listening thread.
  • Did you look 2, 3 and 4 comments above your own?
  • RIP Cathal Coughlan at just 61


    Was once nearly arrested when I was singing one of his songs out loud as I walked down the street and two police officers appeared around a corner. Angel's Delight from Viva Dead Ponies.




  • My mp3 with 128gb card, means enough music for me. Just swopped it over for one of my older cards this week, discovering some great albums I have heard in ages.
  • I have all my music up on iCloud so have access to my over 550GB of music via my iPhone when in range or have access to wifi. When I don't have access to the Cloud, I use my 2 heritage 256GB iPods plus the 64GB storage on my iPhone and 128GB on my iPad.
  • rostasi said:
    Did you look 2, 3 and 4 comments above your own?
    Ha, must have been half awake. Glad it was noted.
  • edited May 2022
    I've still got two iPods, a Classic with 30GB memory, rarely used nowadays, and a 120GB Touch. The battery doesn't last as long as it used to, but is still has its uses. For example, when I had an operation with epidural anaesthtic three months ago I didn't want to use bluetooth headphones so i set up a three hour playlist. But nowadays most of my music is played through my iPhone. I bought as big memory as I could get on the SE (320 GB) so many album choices available to me.I use either Sony XM3 headphones or a Bose speaker set up, both connected by bluetooth. Our cars both have bluetooth connectivity too.The idea of a 1TB player appeals but not the cost!!
  • https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2022/0526/1301437-andy-fletcher-of-depeche-mode-has-died/

    UK band Depeche Mode have announced that their keyboard player Andy Fletcher has died at the age of 60.

    No cause of death has been shared at this time.

    In a statement released on Thursday night on Twitter, the band said, "We are shocked and filled with overwhelming sadness at the untimely passing of our dear friend, family member and bandmate Andy "Fletch" Fletcher.
  • Grachan Moncur III
    His “New Africa” album got a lot of play when I was a youngster.
  • rostasi said:
    Grachan Moncur III
    His “New Africa” album got a lot of play when I was a youngster.

    Dang. His is the Mosaic Select set that I play the most - not that I own a lot.
  • edited January 2023
    ROACHARCHIE - Charcoal Lane - Amazoncom Music

    Archie Roach was one of Australia's top folk singers who died yesterday at the age of 66.

    He was aboriginal and was part of the "Stolen Generation", aboriginal children who were removed from their parents without their agreement. His songs came from the heart and the words still have great importance and meaning.

    AMG says "Acclaimed Australian singer/songwriter fuses a folk-inspired sound with the traditions of his indigenous heritage."

    His story is best told through his most renowned song "Took the Children Away".

    This story's right, this story's true
    I would not tell lies to you
    Like the promises they did not keep
    And how they fenced us in like sheep.
    Said to us come take our hand
    Sent us off to mission land.
    Taught us to read, to write and pray
    Then they took the children away, 
    Took the children away, 
    The children away.
    Snatched from their mother's breast
    Said this is for the best
    Took them away.

    The welfare and the policeman
    Said you've got to understand
    We'll give them what you can't give
    Teach them how to really live.
    Teach them how to live they said
    Humiliated them instead
    Taught them that and taught them this
    And others taught them prejudice.
    You took the children away
    The children away
    Breaking their mothers heart
    Tearing us all apart
    Took them away

    One dark day on Framingham
    Come and didn't give a damn
    My mother cried go get their dad
    He came running, fighting mad
    Mother's tears were falling down
    Dad shaped up and stood his ground.
    He said 'You touch my kids and you fight me'

    And they took us from our family.
    Took us away
    They took us away
    Snatched from our mother's breast
    Said this was for the best
    Took us away.

    Told us what to do and say
    Told us all the white man's ways
    Then they split us up again
    And gave us gifts to ease the pain
    Sent us off to foster homes
    As we grew up we felt alone
    Cause we were acting white
    Yet feeling black

    One sweet day all the children came back
    The children come back
    The children come back
    Back where their hearts grow strong
    Back where they all belong
    The children came back
    Said the children come back
    The children come back
    Back where they understand
    Back to their mother's land
    The children come back

    Back to their mother
    Back to their father
    Back to their sister
    Back to their brother
    Back to their people
    Back to their land
    All the children come back
    The children come back
    The children come back
    Yes I came back.




  • The wonderful trumpeter Jaimie Branch, only 39 years old. This is a tough one...Before every performance or recording, you wondered "What's Jaimie up to this time"? https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1119174908/jaimie-branch-trumpet-obituary

  • Yeah, that was a real  surprise. Don’t know the cause.
  • Doofy said:
    The wonderful trumpeter Jaimie Branch, only 39 years old. This is a tough one...Before every performance or recording, you wondered "What's Jaimie up to this time"? https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1119174908/jaimie-branch-trumpet-obituary


    Been away from home for a few days but yes this hit hard. So much promise.

  • RIP Joey DeFrancesco. Amazing organist, trumpet and sax player, and all around musical phenom from my hometown of Philadelphia. Only 51 years old.
  • Another good one to add to a bad week. Sorry to hear this.
    I have to say that some emails have been passed back and forth here
    at home since the death of Jaimie Branch about musicians with weight issues
    (I mentioned enjoying Tyshawn Sorey while we can). Do we know his cause of
    such an early death?
  • My main introduction to Joey DeFranesco was this album with Van Morrison, not that long ago

    Youre Driving Me Crazy Van Morrison albumjpg

    It'll b on my playlist later
  • Sorry to hear about Joey D. - Glad I got to see him a couple times. Didn't realize he was quite so young
  • RIP Pharoah Sanders he's stepped onto the cosmic rainbow.



  • Yeah, that's a big one. Made my life grand while driving family members over the edge when I was growing up.

  • Jazz also recently lost Ramsey Lewis and Sue Mingus.
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