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Post by Kapitan on Apr 26, 2024 21:46:20 GMT
I've never been a Moody Blues fan, myself, but knowing some of you are, I thought I'd post this remembrance of Mike Pinder from Doug Helvering, who is a more classically oriented musician who does reactions/analyses of pop music. I've enjoyed some of his videos. (I think I've shared some of his Queen videos before.) I have not watched this, but just saw it recommended and thought some of you might enjoy.
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R.I.P.
May 1, 2024 20:31:37 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on May 1, 2024 20:31:37 GMT
After celebrating his 86th birthday last Thursday, Duane Eddy died peacefully on Tuesday 4/30/24 surrounded by his family in Franklin Tennessee.
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Post by jk on May 1, 2024 22:05:40 GMT
After celebrating his 86th birthday last Thursday, Duane Eddy died peacefully on Tuesday 4/30/24 surrounded by his family in Franklin Tennessee. One of the very last of the classic rock and rollers. In the early 1960s, my brother borrowed a pile of Duane Eddy 45's from a schoolfriend. The one I felt stood out head and shoulders from the rest, good as many of them were, was "Peter Gunn". I played it for his birthday and now I'm playing it in his memory. Rest easy, Guitar Man.
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R.I.P.
May 8, 2024 18:50:27 GMT
Post by Kapitan on May 8, 2024 18:50:27 GMT
Steve Albini, a recording industry giant of the past 30-40 years, died of a heart attack yesterday at his Chicago recording studio. He was 61. Albini--who referred to himself as a recording engineer--produced countless albums of diverse styles, but is best known for his work on "alternative" albums. The Pixies' Surfer Rosa, Nirvana's In Utero, PJ Harvey's Rid of Me, and the Breeders' Pod are some of those albums, but he also worked on the Jimmy Page/Robert Plant reunion album in the 90s and singer-songwriter-harpist Joanna Newsom's Ys in the 00s. While he probably would have scoffed at the term, he was an interesting philosopher of recording music, believing strongly in both recording artists as they actually sounded in the room (rather than imposing a sound onto them) and in the virtues of physical media over digital recording. There are numerous interviews with him on YouTube that I think are well worth the time of anyone interested in such things, even casually, and even if one doesn't like many or most of the artists he recorded. Albini's noise rock band, Shellac, has its first album in a decade scheduled for release next week. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/arts/music/steve-albini-dead.html
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