TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum
November 10, 2024, 10:41:27 AM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News:
 
   Home   Help Calendar Login Register  
Pages: 1 ... 174 175 [176] 177 178 ... 210   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: RIP- musicians  (Read 1994131 times)
John From Austin
Donovan is my new texting buddy
Folkcorp Guru 2nd Dan
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1158
Loc: Austin


« Reply #3500 on: December 01, 2022, 03:58:23 PM »

I got to see Christine a grand total of four times, three with Fleetwood Mac and once with Lindsey Buckingham. My fondest memory is my earliest: On December 1, 1987, the band (Christine, Stevie, Mick, John, Billy Burnette and Rick Vito) played the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. The third and final song of the encore, as I recall, was Christine alone at the piano singing "Songbird" to a hushed crowd of 12,000.

For no good reason (probably poverty), I missed Texas shows in 1982 and 1997.  Sad
Logged
Dan O.
Ken Bruce gets it out every year
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 2065



« Reply #3501 on: December 01, 2022, 05:20:36 PM »

Incredibly sad news, losing someone whose music you've been listening to for nearly 40 years is hard to take in.

However, as shown by this quote from an interview Christine did with Rolling Stone back in June this year, maybe some of the clues were already there ? :

"Mick Fleetwood has been open about his hopes to see the Rumours lineup come back together for a grand farewell tour, but Christine McVie is highly dubious. “I don’t feel physically up for it,” she says. “I’m in quite bad health. I’ve got a chronic back problem which debilitates me. I stand up to play the piano, so I don’t know if I could actually physically do it. What’s that saying? The mind is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

In theory, McVie could sit at the keyboard to make it easier for her to get through a show, but she says that wouldn’t work in practice. “I couldn’t sit at the rig I play,” she says. “You have to stand up to play the piano and the Hammond Organ is beneath that, so it’s a bit difficult to think about sitting down and doing it. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to do that.”

According to McVie, bassist John McVie is in a similar predicament. “I don’t think John’s up for another tour,” she says. “He’s got health issues, so I don’t know if he would be up for it. You’d have to ask him.”

If a tour does somehow happen, McVie hopes that they’ll find a way to bring Buckingham back into the fold. “I’d always want Lindsey back,” she says. “He’s the best. Neil Finn and Mike Campbell were such a cheerful couple, but Lindsey was missed.”

“But I’m getting a bit long in the teeth here,” she continues. “I’m quite happy being at home. I don’t know if I ever want to tour again. It’s bloody hard work.”

This may disappoint Fleetwood Mac’s legions of fans, not to mention some of her own bandmates, but they’ll be relieved to know she’s not closing the door on a tour completely. “I really can’t say for sure,” she says, “because I could be wrong. So I’ll just leave it open and say that we might.”
Logged
bassline (Mike)
the Spens is mightier with the Swarb
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 2123
Loc: Wolverhampton



« Reply #3502 on: December 01, 2022, 05:21:11 PM »


I got to see Christine a grand total of four times, three with Fleetwood Mac and once with Lindsey Buckingham. My fondest memory is my earliest: On December 1, 1987, the band (Christine, Stevie, Mick, John, Billy Burnette and Rick Vito) played the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. The third and final song of the encore, as I recall, was Christine alone at the piano singing "Songbird" to a hushed crowd of 12,000.

For no good reason (probably poverty), I missed Texas shows in 1982 and 1997.  Sad


To experience that moment was the sole reason I debated with myself about buying a Mac ticket the last time the Rumours line up came around.
I decided that it was worth the money, but I didn't have it available.
The fact that nobody will hear her sing it live again is undescribably sad.
 Cry




Logged

Well I never did..
davidmjs
less Yes than I probably should do
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 14088
Loc: Penrith(ish)



WWW
« Reply #3503 on: December 08, 2022, 05:46:31 PM »

Jet Black of the Stranglers...84.  An elder statesman of 'punk'.
Logged

Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Jules Gray
Go on, groove my truffles
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 12031
Loc: Cheltenham


What makes the buzzard buzz?


WWW
« Reply #3504 on: December 08, 2022, 05:49:37 PM »


Jet Black of the Stranglers...84.  An elder statesman of 'punk'.


Jet's been ill for a very long time, but this is still sad news. I love The Stranglers.

Jules
Logged

Now be thankful for good things below
Lubiloo (Lorna)
Google that lot, Bob!
Folkcorp Guru
*****
Offline Offline

Posts: 837


« Reply #3505 on: December 08, 2022, 06:03:04 PM »



Jet Black of the Stranglers...84.  An elder statesman of 'punk'.


Jet's been ill for a very long time, but this is still sad news. I love The Stranglers.

Jules


Very sad...Me too.
Logged
mickf
I'm old enough to have been one!
Folkcorp Guru 2nd Dan
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1546
Loc: Blackwood, South Wales



« Reply #3506 on: December 08, 2022, 06:49:55 PM »

Oh, that's sad.
Logged

If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink!
davidmjs
less Yes than I probably should do
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 14088
Loc: Penrith(ish)



WWW
« Reply #3507 on: December 08, 2022, 06:53:47 PM »

Weird think he was in his 40s when they were at their biggest.  Not sure I ever noticed that at the time tbh.
Logged

Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
ColinB
a better way to put it
Folkcorp Guru 2nd Dan
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1833
Loc: Lancaster



WWW
« Reply #3508 on: December 08, 2022, 08:24:09 PM »

I saw The Stranglers numerous times in the 80s and 90s including Hugh's final gig with them at Ally Pally. Jet had had health problems on and off for quite a number of years. At one gig in Manchester in the mid 90s he came on briefly midway thru the show and did a rendition of Old Codger. Just checked my list of gigs and see it was the 6th December 1993.

Listening to The Raven as I type this. RIP Jet Black.
Logged

Listen to my Off The Beaten Tracks radio shows on Mixcloud
https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/
Dan O.
Ken Bruce gets it out every year
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 2065



« Reply #3509 on: December 09, 2022, 11:00:36 AM »

Very sad news, Jet was iconic and a great drummer. Apparently, it was a source of personal pride to him that he'd outlived far more rock 'n roll figures such as David Bowie, Lemmy and Lou Reed...
Logged
ColinB
a better way to put it
Folkcorp Guru 2nd Dan
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1833
Loc: Lancaster



WWW
« Reply #3510 on: December 09, 2022, 11:26:57 AM »


Very sad news, Jet was iconic and a great drummer. Apparently, it was a source of personal pride to him that he'd outlived far more rock 'n roll figures such as David Bowie, Lemmy and Lou Reed...


And he was three years older than Charlie Watts.
Logged

Listen to my Off The Beaten Tracks radio shows on Mixcloud
https://www.mixcloud.com/cmbertram/
davidmjs
less Yes than I probably should do
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 14088
Loc: Penrith(ish)



WWW
« Reply #3511 on: December 09, 2022, 08:15:21 PM »

Tony Hill of The Answers, The Misunderstood and High Tide
Logged

Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Col D
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 497
Loc: South Cheshire


« Reply #3512 on: December 10, 2022, 05:03:50 PM »


Tony Hill of The Answers, The Misunderstood and High Tide


Between The Misunderstood and High Tide he was also part of a trio with David Bowie and his girlfriend Hermione Farthingale, originally Turquoise and later Feathers. He left to form High Tide after only a few months which might not have been the best career decision he ever made.
Logged
PaulT
Up pops Paul with the Flowerpot Men
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 3167
Loc: Gloucester



« Reply #3513 on: December 11, 2022, 02:21:01 PM »

Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records...

Jim Stewart started Satellite Records in 1957 with help from his sister Estelle Axton. She mortgaged her house to buy an Ampex 350 console recorder for the studio. He said of that first studio in Brunswick, Tenn.: "We were so close to the railroad tracks, when the trains came by we had to stop recording. We did not have an insulated building".

They started Stax Records in 1961, the new name taken from the first two letters of their last names. They moved to Memphis and converted an old cinema to a recording studio.

In need of cash, they replaced the concession stand with a record store. And then the hits started coming.
Logged

Flobbadob!
davidmjs
less Yes than I probably should do
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 14088
Loc: Penrith(ish)



WWW
« Reply #3514 on: December 12, 2022, 11:00:06 AM »

The great Manuel Göttsching is being widely reported on social media although I'm not sure if it's confirmed yet.  Krautrock legend, and electronic pioneer of course...
Logged

Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
garrypbrooks
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 392


« Reply #3515 on: December 12, 2022, 11:07:22 AM »

They're dropping like flies this week!
Logged
GubGub (Al)
and that is where it gets a bit cheesy
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 7804
Loc: West Sussex


« Reply #3516 on: December 12, 2022, 11:07:38 PM »

Just months after Julee Cruise, the great Angelo Badalamenti has left us, aged 87.
Logged
wayne stote
Many thanks for the Doobies advice
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Posts: 446


« Reply #3517 on: December 16, 2022, 12:49:42 AM »

Savoy Brown's Kim Simmonds, sadly. Cancer, apparently.
Logged
John From Austin
Donovan is my new texting buddy
Folkcorp Guru 2nd Dan
******
Offline Offline

Posts: 1158
Loc: Austin


« Reply #3518 on: December 16, 2022, 03:20:11 PM »


Savoy Brown's Kim Simmonds, sadly. Cancer, apparently.


So sad to hear. I finally crossed Savoy Brown off my bucket list weeks before the pandemic cancellations starting coming in waves, back in February 2020. I would gladly have seen him again. R.I.P.
Logged
Bob Barrows
Give me time ... it will wear on me
Folkcorp Guru 3rd Dan
*******
Offline Offline

Posts: 2159
Loc: Auburn, MA USA


Bob


WWW
« Reply #3519 on: December 18, 2022, 05:55:45 PM »

Dino Danelli, original drummer of the Young Rascals
Logged
Pages: 1 ... 174 175 [176] 177 178 ... 210   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.176 seconds with 19 queries.