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« Reply #3600 on: February 09, 2023, 03:38:10 PM » |
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RIP Burt Bacharach, 94.
A true giant of the industry.
He had a good, long life. Mrs. J From A and I saw him with the Austin Symphony at the Long Center in November 2014. As I recall, he played piano and introduced all the songs. I can't recall if he sang anything, or turned everything over to guest singers. The songs, needless to say, were incredible. |
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« Reply #3601 on: February 09, 2023, 05:01:27 PM » |
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« Reply #3602 on: February 09, 2023, 05:20:58 PM » |
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I was very much hoping that they'd been in touch before his passing. Jules |
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« Reply #3603 on: February 09, 2023, 06:35:33 PM » |
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The genius of Burt Bacharach has left us mere mortals.
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« Reply #3605 on: February 19, 2023, 05:07:11 PM » |
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Hammond wizard Don Shinn. A big influence on Keith Emerson and Tony Kaye who used to regularly check him out at the Marquee and copy his moves, supposedly Kaye stole his trademark one-hand-in-the-air-and-one-on-the-keyboard from him that wound up his bandmates in Yes so much. Played with a huge and varied range of people from Rod Stewart, Dusty Sprigfield, Elkie Brooks (in Dada), Renaissance and James Taylor to Engelbert Humperdink and made a couple of highly collectable solo albums.
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« Reply #3606 on: February 21, 2023, 12:27:16 AM » |
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Hammond wizard Don Shinn. A big influence on Keith Emerson and Tony Kaye who used to regularly check him out at the Marquee and copy his moves, supposedly Kaye stole his trademark one-hand-in-the-air-and-one-on-the-keyboard from him that wound up his bandmates in Yes so much. Played with a huge and varied range of people from Rod Stewart, Dusty Sprigfield, Elkie Brooks (in Dada), Renaissance and James Taylor to Engelbert Humperdink and made a couple of highly collectable solo albums.
I used to listen to a lot of Don Shinn when I was a developer. For some reason his playing helped me concentrate. A virtuoso of the keyboard. RIP |
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« Reply #3607 on: February 21, 2023, 07:46:45 AM » |
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Bruce Barthol - Country Joe & The Fish/Formerly Fat Harry et al. All round decent bloke and a long time visitor to these shores.
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« Reply #3608 on: February 21, 2023, 09:19:42 AM » |
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Bruce Barthol - Country Joe & The Fish/Formerly Fat Harry et al. All round decent bloke and a long time visitor to these shores.
RIP Bruce - I have very fond memories of Country Joe McDonald & his band's * remarkable Thursday headline set at Cropredy 2005. * in a nutshell - Country Joe without Barry "The Fish" Melton |
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« Reply #3609 on: February 28, 2023, 03:52:09 PM » |
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Hammond wizard Don Shinn. A big influence on Keith Emerson and Tony Kaye who used to regularly check him out at the Marquee and copy his moves, supposedly Kaye stole his trademark one-hand-in-the-air-and-one-on-the-keyboard from him that wound up his bandmates in Yes so much. Played with a huge and varied range of people from Rod Stewart, Dusty Sprigfield, Elkie Brooks (in Dada), Renaissance and James Taylor to Engelbert Humperdink and made a couple of highly collectable solo albums.
Oh no, I have his two solo albums on nice re-issues that came out a few years ago. Good stuff! |
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« Reply #3610 on: March 01, 2023, 10:41:16 AM » |
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Bluesman Victor Brox, aged 81.
From The Oldham News:
Victor, described as 'probably one of the most underrated champions of the British Blues scene and its unsung hero', was massively popular in Oldham, having played countless gigs in the town over the years.
He had worked with Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Charlie Mingus, Memphis Slim, Dr John, Aynsley Dunbar, Graham Bond, Alexis Korner, John Mayall, Country Joe McDonald, Peter Bardens, Keith Moon and Dave Wood.
Victor was reportedly described by Jimi Hendrix and Tina Turner as their favourite white blues singer.
He was also the lead singer of The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation in which he also played keyboards, and sometimes the cornet.
He was still on the road playing pubs with locally recruited musicians as recently as the Spring of last year.
RIP
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« Reply #3611 on: March 01, 2023, 01:54:08 PM » |
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Bluesman Victor Brox, aged 81.
From The Oldham News:
Victor, described as 'probably one of the most underrated champions of the British Blues scene and its unsung hero', was massively popular in Oldham, having played countless gigs in the town over the years.
He had worked with Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Charlie Mingus, Memphis Slim, Dr John, Aynsley Dunbar, Graham Bond, Alexis Korner, John Mayall, Country Joe McDonald, Peter Bardens, Keith Moon and Dave Wood.
Victor was reportedly described by Jimi Hendrix and Tina Turner as their favourite white blues singer.
He was also the lead singer of The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation in which he also played keyboards, and sometimes the cornet.
He was still on the road playing pubs with locally recruited musicians as recently as the Spring of last year.
RIP
I heard some of his stuff on Cerys Matthews' Blues Show on Radio 2 last night. His was not a name I was familiar with, I'm afraid, but it was nice to hear his music. |
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« Reply #3612 on: March 01, 2023, 05:20:08 PM » |
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Bluesman Victor Brox, aged 81.
From The Oldham News:
Victor, described as 'probably one of the most underrated champions of the British Blues scene and its unsung hero', was massively popular in Oldham, having played countless gigs in the town over the years.
He had worked with Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Charlie Mingus, Memphis Slim, Dr John, Aynsley Dunbar, Graham Bond, Alexis Korner, John Mayall, Country Joe McDonald, Peter Bardens, Keith Moon and Dave Wood.
Victor was reportedly described by Jimi Hendrix and Tina Turner as their favourite white blues singer.
He was also the lead singer of The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation in which he also played keyboards, and sometimes the cornet.
He was still on the road playing pubs with locally recruited musicians as recently as the Spring of last year.
RIP
I heard some of his stuff on Cerys Matthews' Blues Show on Radio 2 last night. His was not a name I was familiar with, I'm afraid, but it was nice to hear his music. I read some funny anecdotes by him regarding his time with Nico in Ibiza in the late '50's. |
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« Reply #3613 on: March 01, 2023, 07:53:57 PM » |
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Bluesman Victor Brox, aged 81.
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He was still on the road playing pubs with locally recruited musicians as recently as the Spring of last year.
RIP
Ah, that's sad. He was the uncle of one of my good friends while I was a student in Manchester in the 1980s. He regularly played at Band On The Wall and we would go and see him every time we could. I used to take photos of gigs for our Student Newspaper, and have a collection of Victor Brox playing. I would always give him copies, then see them crop up on the covers of the cassettes he used to sell at gigs. RIP Victor. You were great! |
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« Reply #3614 on: March 01, 2023, 08:04:33 PM » |
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Was it Victor Brox and the night train?
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« Reply #3615 on: March 01, 2023, 09:14:00 PM » |
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Victor Brox, the deep-bass voiced High Priest Caiaphas on the original album, Jesus Christ Superstar. R.I.P.
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« Reply #3616 on: March 02, 2023, 05:56:02 PM » |
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« Reply #3617 on: March 02, 2023, 07:11:06 PM » |
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Steve Mackey, Pulp bassist, age 56.
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« Reply #3618 on: March 02, 2023, 09:31:31 PM » |
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« Reply #3619 on: March 03, 2023, 10:14:28 AM » |
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Steve Mackey, Pulp bassist, age 56.
Grim news, I saw it last night. He had opted out of Pulp's 2023 shows, and now we know why😔 |
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