I found it quite a shock to hear Jon Lord had died. Although I haven't listened to Deep Purple for years I remember way back when one of their LPs - Deep Purple in Rock - played a major part of my lisening life
Duck Dunn, and now Bob Babbitt. The world has gotten a lot less funky in the past two months. Props to the man who could step in for James Jamerson and not miss a trick. RIP.
I was saddened by both Lol Coxhill's and Bill Doss's.
I saw a bunch of those Elephant 6 bands in Denver back in the nineties. I saw Olivia Tremor Control at the Bluebird Theater, and I saw, hm, Elf Power or Neutral Milk Hotel or, shit, don't remember, but a couple bands at this dive bar at the edge of downtown, called something like the 15 St. Tavern, right near Glenarm & 15th. I heard it became a hipster enclave, then just an all-around hoppin' place, but back in the day, it was for us drunks, from all cross-sections of society. I had a really nice Christmas dinner there. They prepared a turkey and fixin' in the back kitchen area, gave it free to all the regulars... who, now that I think upon it, would be the only ones at that bar on Christmas day. $1.25 draws of Bud Light, which doesn't taste as bad when it's all you can afford. I loved that little bar, and I always get sad when places like that change.
Anyways, I saw several of the Elephant 6 (and related) acts go through there when they started booking music on the weekends. Good stuff. Elephant 6 was one of those collectives that didn't revolutionize anything but really made their mark. They were different, did things different, music sounded different. A nice reminder that the Industry Behemoths don't really control it all.
I hadn't heard that Scott Mckenzie had died whist I was away. I remember that song well, quite influential to me then, and I'm still waiting to go to SF! But I don't have as much hair as I did then, so I am not sure about putting flowers in it!!
Lyricist Hal David of Bacharach/David. Among others:
Alfie
Anyone Who Had a Heart
Blue on Blue
Close to You
Do You Know the Way to San Jose
I Say a Little Prayer
One Less Bell to Answer
Promises, Promises
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
The Look of Love
There's Always Something There to Remind Me
This Guy's in Love With You
To All the Girls I've Loved Before
Walk on By
What the World Needs Now is Love
What's New Pussycat?
Wishin' and Hopin'
Wives and Lovers
You'll Never Get to Heaven (If you Break My Heart)
Ought to mention Andy Williams RIP here. Too much middle of the road for today's taste, but I remember way, way back when his TV show was one of the few places on UK TV that you could watch American artists on TV - so far back that MTV had not been conceived and we had very, very little popular music on our television. Great voice in his prime.
For me Elliott Carter was one of those 20th century composers whose music I had heard a few times, but never with pleasure. Maybe, since my discretion continues to evolve, although slowly, I might give it another try.
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Duck Dunn, and now Bob Babbitt. The world has gotten a lot less funky in the past two months. Props to the man who could step in for James Jamerson and not miss a trick. RIP.
Only 43 years old. The world just got a little less sunny...
I saw a bunch of those Elephant 6 bands in Denver back in the nineties. I saw Olivia Tremor Control at the Bluebird Theater, and I saw, hm, Elf Power or Neutral Milk Hotel or, shit, don't remember, but a couple bands at this dive bar at the edge of downtown, called something like the 15 St. Tavern, right near Glenarm & 15th. I heard it became a hipster enclave, then just an all-around hoppin' place, but back in the day, it was for us drunks, from all cross-sections of society. I had a really nice Christmas dinner there. They prepared a turkey and fixin' in the back kitchen area, gave it free to all the regulars... who, now that I think upon it, would be the only ones at that bar on Christmas day. $1.25 draws of Bud Light, which doesn't taste as bad when it's all you can afford. I loved that little bar, and I always get sad when places like that change.
Anyways, I saw several of the Elephant 6 (and related) acts go through there when they started booking music on the weekends. Good stuff. Elephant 6 was one of those collectives that didn't revolutionize anything but really made their mark. They were different, did things different, music sounded different. A nice reminder that the Industry Behemoths don't really control it all.
RIP.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/arts/music/marvin-hamlisch-composer-dies-at-68.html
A video with a surprising cover of one of his songs
An older hit song I never knew he wrote. This video makes me embarrassed to admit that I used to watch Shindig religiously.
Alfie
Anyone Who Had a Heart
Blue on Blue
Close to You
Do You Know the Way to San Jose
I Say a Little Prayer
One Less Bell to Answer
Promises, Promises
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
The Look of Love
There's Always Something There to Remind Me
This Guy's in Love With You
To All the Girls I've Loved Before
Walk on By
What the World Needs Now is Love
What's New Pussycat?
Wishin' and Hopin'
Wives and Lovers
You'll Never Get to Heaven (If you Break My Heart)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/joe-south-singer-songwriter-from-the-1960s-and-70s-dies-at-72-wrote-games-people-play/2012/09/05/ddd3f7b8-f7a9-11e1-a93b-7185e3f88849_story.html
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-dee
Sing it if you know it!
(I'm surprised we missed this one.)
- The music universe has lost a brilliant contributor, - and way too soon.
Great guitar player - I have this great album on vinyl:
How do you call your lover boy?...and if he still doesn't answer?