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Jan 12, 2020 17:22:19 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jan 12, 2020 17:22:19 GMT
Musicians react to Neal Peart's passing:
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Jan 16, 2020 18:42:08 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jan 16, 2020 18:42:08 GMT
R.I.P. Steve Martin Caro (October 12, 1948 - January 14, 2020), who was the lead vocalist and guitarist of The Left Banke. "Walk Away Renee" was The Left Banke's biggest hit, but "Pretty Ballerina" is a great song, too, reaching No. 15 in 1967.
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Jan 16, 2020 23:11:44 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 16, 2020 23:11:44 GMT
R.I.P. Steve Martin Caro (October 12, 1948 - January 14, 2020), who was the lead vocalist and guitarist of The Left Banke. "Walk Away Renee" was The Left Banke's biggest hit, but "Pretty Ballerina" is a great song, too, reaching No. 15 in 1967.
That's my favourite of theirs--what a gorgeous song! So sad to learn of SMC's death.
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Jan 18, 2020 15:25:10 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jan 18, 2020 15:25:10 GMT
Steve Fataar, member of the group Flame and brother of Beach Boy Ricky Fataar, passed away this morning at age 76. R.I.P. Steve.
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Jan 18, 2020 16:09:40 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 18, 2020 16:09:40 GMT
Steve Fataar, member of the group Flame and brother of Beach Boy Ricky Fataar, passed away this morning at age 76. R.I.P. Steve.
That's pretty close to home. Very sad.
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Jan 21, 2020 21:49:29 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 21, 2020 21:49:29 GMT
On the subject of The Flame, does anyone here have any inside information regarding the non-release of their second album? It seems SWD played the tapes at a BB convention years ago and it sounded better than the first. I've already asked him (online elsewhere) but he seems a little elusive these days...
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Jan 21, 2020 22:01:44 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jan 21, 2020 22:01:44 GMT
On the subject of The Flame, does anyone here have any inside information regarding the non-release of their second album? It seems SWD played the tapes at a BB convention years ago and it sounded better than the first. I've already asked him (online elsewhere) but he seems a little elusive these days... This article has a list of songs for the proposed second album:
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Post by jk on Jan 21, 2020 22:12:57 GMT
On the subject of The Flame, does anyone here have any inside information regarding the non-release of their second album? It seems SWD played the tapes at a BB convention years ago and it sounded better than the first. I've already asked him (online elsewhere) but he seems a little elusive these days... This article has a list of songs for the proposed second album:
Many thanks, Sheriff!
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Jan 21, 2020 23:32:43 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Jan 21, 2020 23:32:43 GMT
I might be crazy, but it seems to me that in the 00s there was talk of some imminent release of both albums. Obviously that didn't happen.
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Jan 25, 2020 22:56:22 GMT
Post by jk on Jan 25, 2020 22:56:22 GMT
This is what SWD has to say on the subject of The Flame's second album. It won't link here so I'll risk excommunication and reproduce it in full:
JK: Mr. Desper ... This is about The Flame's unreleased second album. I'm told you played the tapes at a Beach Boys convention years ago and it sounded better than their first. If it's that good, it's odd that it's still unreleased. Do you have any ideas why?
COMMENT to JK: I would agree . . . that as the group and each member of the group continued to compose, play and record they most definitely developed their respective talents. This is most evident with any listen to the second album. The sophistication of arrangement, hooks, performance and recorded sounds, as captured in the second album, leave little doubt that the group matured in many ways.
The development and improvements and not limited to The Flame, but also to Carl Wilson as a producer and myself as engineer. The second album was written and recorded during the same time that Surf's Up was being recorded. This was a time when all the flowers of this musical bouquet reached there full bloom, exhibiting much color and creativity, over flowing all expectations the label had anticipated.
Why it was not released is one of the great tragedies of Beach Boy history. Carl as producer and Blondie, Rickie, Steve, Brother and myself were peaking in our respective abilities. But none of this was distend to reach the public due to legal confusion and, from what I understand, contractual ambiguity concerning the ownership of the product between BRI and StarDayKing, the original distributor of the first album. As far as I know, and from my own experience it has yet to be resolved. I became so frustrated that this wonderful second album was not being released took two deals to BRI lawyers for consideration -- one deal especially was promising and had a large sum of money earmarked for promotion -- something that was lacking for the first album and one major reason that it did not do well in sales. But the lawyers could not seem to get their respective acts together and each deal finally died over continuous haggling. Don't quote me, but as I have been told, members of the group (FLAME) themselves wanted a larger portion of the pot and killed future attempts to release the album on BRI.
And so there it all sits on a shelf somewhere. The album is complete. Carl, the group and I mixed down all the songs, and they are all recorded in virtual surround and sound fantastic. Whenever I play my copies for friends they can't believe this stuff was recorded so long ago and sound's like it was recorded today. Most people for whom I play the unreleased songs have never heard of The Flame and think it is some unknown recording by The Beatles.
I think the real disaster is that Carl never lived to see his work get any public credit or praise. Now with both Brother and Steve gone, this catastrophe of non-events grows. Even the write-in efforts by concerned fans and continuous appeals from many in the BB organization doesn't seem to go anywhere.
Alan Boyd and myself got permission to play the tapes at a BB convention in Massachusetts some years ago, so that some fans did, in fact, get to hear (over headphones) this marvelous album, but that's about it--and that's about all I can tell you in answer to your question.
Hang in there, maybe someday, perhaps when everyone connected with the project is dead, it will finally become available. Too much, too late. Sad. ~swd
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Feb 8, 2020 17:05:08 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 8, 2020 17:05:08 GMT
I'm posting this R.I.P. here even though it's not really music-related.
Back in the 1960's and 1970's, actor/writer/comedian Orson Bean was a mainstay on TV game shows like To Tell The Truth, and also on TV talk shows like The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson. Orson always had something witty or interesting to say. He was a great "guest", and I always enjoyed his humor. I saw that Orson Bean died yesterday at the age of 91. At first I assumed, due to his age, that Orson passed away naturally. But, sadly he was hit by two cars while out walking. R.I.P. Orson, and thanks for the many laughs.
with wife, Alley Mills.
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Feb 9, 2020 23:59:09 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Feb 9, 2020 23:59:09 GMT
Robert Conrad passed away yesterday of heart failure at the age of 84. Robert appeared in many TV shows over the years including Hawaiian Eye, The Wild Wild West, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and Centennial. My favorite Conrad role was as the murderer, Milo Janus, in a 1974 Columbo episode. Maybe you remember his famous line in the Eveready battery commercials - "I dare you to knock this off" (his shoulder). Did you know that Robert Conrad was also a popular singer? He recorded several singles in the early/mid-1960's. R.I.P. Robert.
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Mar 7, 2020 1:12:19 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 7, 2020 1:12:19 GMT
McCoy Tyner, one of the absolute greats of jazz piano.
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Mar 7, 2020 9:22:49 GMT
Post by jk on Mar 7, 2020 9:22:49 GMT
McCoy Tyner, one of the absolute greats of jazz piano. I had a conversation about him only yesterday, the day he died. I'm not a jazz buff but back in early 1965 I was knocked out by this extended piece I heard on a French jazz and pop station. It was Coltrane's "Afro Blue" from his Live at Birdland LP. Admittedly it was Elvin Jones's insane salvo of toms and cymbals in the coda that grabbed me first. Later I came to appreciate what McCoy was doing--the build-up in his long solo is white-knuckle stuff, underpinned by Jones's "thrashing and cursing", as Leroi Jones describes it in the excellent liner notes. RIP, sir. www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/arts/music/mccoy-tyner-dead.html
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Mar 21, 2020 13:07:33 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 21, 2020 13:07:33 GMT
Kenny Rogers passed away last night at age 81.
One of my first favorite songs was his "The Gambler." My parents had a record that included it (probably Greatest Hits), and I listened to it all the time as a very young kid, 4, 5 years old.
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