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« Reply #4240 on: February 07, 2025, 10:05:36 PM » |
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Saw them at the National Theatre. Took the then 5year old. We passed Brian Glover on the way to the loo in the interval. She said" Mummy why is God wearing slippers " !
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« Reply #4241 on: February 08, 2025, 08:11:02 AM » |
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Not strictly a musician, but intimately linked with many from the Fairport/Steeleye/Albions/Home Service family - playwright Keith Dewhurst, who gave us The Mysteries and Lark Rise.
I don't think he did The Mysteries - that was Tony Harrison and Bill Brydon, but certainly the early Steeleye collaberations Corunna! and Kidnapped and the wonderful stage adaptations of Lark Rise and Candleford. A good playwright. RIP. |
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« Reply #4242 on: February 09, 2025, 11:26:48 PM » |
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Mike Ratledge, Soft Machine keyboardist.
Just got the email. That mustn't leave many Soft Machine members . The odds on Wyatt being the last original member must have been pretty low! A sad loss...I've always wondered why he 'retired' at such a 'relatively' early age... I don't think he did retire. He worked on some film soundtracks, then pursued other musical interests - advertising, I believe, and he worked with Jenkins on Adiemus. Up until 2017 he was the director of a company (Some sort of media consulting.) I just watched 'Riddles of the Sphinx' - he did the music for that. It's very odd. |
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« Reply #4243 on: February 09, 2025, 11:30:21 PM » |
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Mike Ratledge, Soft Machine keyboardist.
Just got the email. That mustn't leave many Soft Machine members . Ha, given how many people have been through that band there are still quite a few around. Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Allan Holdsworth and John Marshall have all gone. Quite a few later members are still around. The current lineup features John Etheridge from the 1970s. The rest are newcomers. I saw them years ago when they had Legacy on the end of the name - Hugh Hopper, John Marshall and John Etheridge were present with Theo Travis replacing Elton Dean. Ironically, they were called Soft Machine Legacy when they had more ex-softs in the lineup than they do now! |
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« Reply #4244 on: February 10, 2025, 07:41:27 AM » |
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Mike Ratledge, Soft Machine keyboardist.
Just got the email. That mustn't leave many Soft Machine members . The odds on Wyatt being the last original member must have been pretty low! A sad loss...I've always wondered why he 'retired' at such a 'relatively' early age... I don't think he did retire. He worked on some film soundtracks, then pursued other musical interests - advertising, I believe, and he worked with Jenkins on Adiemus. Up until 2017 he was the director of a company (Some sort of media consulting.) I just watched 'Riddles of the Sphinx' - he did the music for that. It's very odd. That's why I wrote 'retire' as I did. He went very low key for sure... My understanding is there was (presumably family?) money so he didn't need to work. |
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« Reply #4245 on: February 18, 2025, 07:28:07 AM » |
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Jamie Muir - mercurial percussionist, briefly a member of King Crimson on Larks' Tongues
From Bill on FB
Jamie Muir died today 17.02.2025 in Cornwall, UK, with his brother George by his side. From Bill:
Jamie was the drummer/percussionist with whom I worked on the King Crimson album ‘Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973). He had a volcanic effect on me, professionally and personally, in the brief time we were together many years ago – an effect which I still remember half a century later. I’m sorry we lost touch, but his departure from our working relationship was so sudden and unexpected, I sort of assumed he didn’t want anything more to do with me and my colleagues in King Crimson!
He was a lovely, artistic man, childlike in his gentleness. There was probably a dark side underneath. It could be be glimpsed as he climbed the PA stacks in a wolf’s fur jacket, blood (from a capsule) pouring from his mouth, on a rainy Thursday night in Preston, Lancs., to hurl chains across the stage at his drumkit. One of these Robert Fripp will tell you, only narrowly missed him.
His conversations with Jon Anderson at my 1973 wedding party, in Jon’s words, ‘changed my life’. Jamie also changed mine.
I consider it a privilege to have known, and benefitted from the company of, a man of such quiet power, even briefly. He struck me as one of those about whom one might truthfully say he was a beautiful human being. He will be much missed. Goodbye, Jamie.
Image: Collaborating in Covent Garden, London 1972. L-R Jamie Muir, Robert Fripp, David Cross, Bill Bruford. Image by Barrie Wentzell.
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« Reply #4246 on: February 18, 2025, 07:52:55 PM » |
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Jam drummer Rick Buckler at just 69 😢
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« Reply #4247 on: February 18, 2025, 07:56:38 PM » |
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Jam drummer Rick Buckler at just 69 😢
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« Reply #4248 on: February 18, 2025, 07:57:18 PM » |
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Jam drummer Rick Buckler at just 69 😢
Oh no! I have been listening to The Jam a lot recently.  |
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« Reply #4249 on: February 18, 2025, 08:16:32 PM » |
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Just heard myself. Very sad news. Christ, we're all so old...
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« Reply #4250 on: February 23, 2025, 10:34:19 AM » |
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Singer/songwriter Bill Fay, 81.
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« Reply #4251 on: February 24, 2025, 03:57:07 PM » |
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Roberta Flack, aged 88. "Killing Me Softly" was inescapable on radio when I was a kid. R.I.P.
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« Reply #4252 on: February 24, 2025, 04:30:01 PM » |
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Singer/songwriter Bill Fay, 81.
Jules
Oh no...I love Bill Fay. That's sad news. 'I hear you calling'...has me in tears every time. RIP Bill x |
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« Reply #4253 on: February 24, 2025, 05:31:37 PM » |
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Roberta Flack, aged 88. "Killing Me Softly" was inescapable on radio when I was a kid. R.I.P.
Such a beautiful voice! |
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« Reply #4254 on: February 24, 2025, 06:33:54 PM » |
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Beautiful songs 😥
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« Reply #4255 on: March 01, 2025, 04:10:06 PM » |
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David Johansen of the New York Dolls.
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« Reply #4256 on: March 01, 2025, 06:43:01 PM » |
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David Johansen of the New York Dolls.
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Was he the last of them? |
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« Reply #4257 on: March 01, 2025, 08:36:07 PM » |
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David Johansen of the New York Dolls.
Was he the last of them? Sadly, yes. Jules |
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« Reply #4258 on: March 01, 2025, 10:11:22 PM » |
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« Reply #4259 on: March 02, 2025, 12:17:22 PM » |
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Joey Molland of Badfinger.
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