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on: May 22, 2023, 10:42:28 PM
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Bonamassa is a bit special. The keyboard player was in Double Trouble, Stevie Ray Vaughans band. Different gravy Tikay, such a great show. If you like Bonamassa check out Walter Trout on YouTube Walter Trout! I used to play the album Life in the Jungle alot, an excellent musician. Have you seen him live? He's so good. Alas no. I saw a couple of shredders live back in the day but the only bluesy guitarist was Gary Moore.
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on: May 20, 2023, 07:59:32 PM
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Bonamassa is a bit special. The keyboard player was in Double Trouble, Stevie Ray Vaughans band. Different gravy Tikay, such a great show. If you like Bonamassa check out Walter Trout on YouTube Walter Trout! I used to play the album Life in the Jungle alot, an excellent musician.
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on: May 20, 2023, 07:36:57 PM
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Andy Rourke bassist of The Smiths has died at 59 of pancreatic cancer.
So many tributes paid by musicians from every corner of the rock world on Friday morning (May 19) as fellow musicians honoured the musician, it goes without saying just how good he was.
Johnny Marr said of him it was on those Smiths records that Andy reinvented what it is to be a bass guitar player,” he said.” I was present at every one of Andy’s bass takes on every Smiths session. Sometimes I was there as the producer and sometimes just as his proud mate and cheerleader. Watching him play those dazzling baselines was an absolute privilege and genuinely something to behold. But one time which always comes to mind was when I sat next to him at the mixing desk watching him play his bass on the song The Queen Is Dead. It was so impressive that I said to myself ‘I’ll never forget this moment.’”
R.I.P. Andy
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on: April 13, 2023, 03:20:30 PM
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One that got away….. R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto who passed on March 28th of cancer. Composer, record producer and actor. I couldn’t even attempt to condense an epitaph for who was to me a legend, so sad that this maestro has left us. He wrote some of the most beautiful orchestral music I have had the pleasure to hear as well as pioneering electronic fusion, electro and hip hop. His Wiki is inspiring. Sayōnara Sakamoto-san https://youtu.be/RRutSMI9ulA
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on: February 20, 2023, 03:32:06 PM
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My mum liked him, follwed by Des Lynam ofc. I preferred Grandstand but my best friend at the time was Lyndsey Hussey, sister to Mark "Rollerball" Rocco and daughter of Big Jim Hussey famous wrestlers who lived in the pub across the road at the time so WOS won out. The first thing that came into my head when I heard of DD's death was Half Man Half Biscuit's Dickie Davies Eyes. https://youtu.be/SwG414rpqmQ R.I.P. Dickie Davies
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on: February 10, 2023, 03:41:24 PM
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We have lost the legend that was Burt Bacharach aged 94.
I'm not ashamed to say that I loved quite a few of his songs. Billboard called him a titan having charted in some capacity in the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, and then, largely via samples and covers, in the ‘90s, ’00s and ‘10s.
From their website the Grammy and Academy Award winner wrote or co-wrote seven No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 in his lifetime, and they reigned in four distinct decades. Here’s a rundown, listed chronologically:
Herb Alpert, “This Guy’s in Love With You” (No. 1 for four weeks, beginning June 22, 1968) B.J. Thomas, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” (four, beginning June 3, 1970) Carpenters, “(They Long To Be) Close to You” (four, beginning July 25, 1970) Christopher Cross, “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)” (three, beginning Oct. 17, 1981) Dionne & Friends (Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder), “That’s What Friends Are For” (four, beginning Jan. 18, 1986) Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald, “On My Own” (three, beginning June 14, 1986) Twista feat. Kanye West & Jamie Foxx, “Slow Jamz” (one, Feb. 21, 2004)
Two of my favourite versions of his songs were Walk on By - The Stranglers & I just don't know what to do with myself by both Dusty Springfield and the one by the White Stripes.
R.I.P. Mr Bacharach.
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