Chris from Fieldtown
Sorry Bob
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Loc: Fieldtown, Oxon
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« Reply #4340 on: June 11, 2025, 10:47:53 PM » |
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Complex and creative man. I read a wonderful biography about him which explored his mental problems and how Landy managed to treat him and help him begin to regain something of a normal life. I have heard that many people judge Landy's involvement very negatively as they believe he was controlled by Landy to an unhealthy extent. However I wonder if Brian would have survived long without Landy's intervention. I need to read more.
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Jules Gray
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« Reply #4341 on: June 11, 2025, 11:26:41 PM » |
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Complex and creative man. I read a wonderful biography about him which explored his mental problems and how Landy managed to treat him and help him begin to regain something of a normal life. I have heard that many people judge Landy's involvement very negatively as they believe he was controlled by Landy to an unhealthy extent. However I wonder if Brian would have survived long without Landy's intervention. I need to read more.
There's also the 'should Brian have still been going on stage when he was clearly so fragile' debate. No clear cut answers to that one either. Very often life is far from black and white. Jules |
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Now be thankful for good things below
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Delfini (Diane)
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« Reply #4342 on: June 11, 2025, 11:52:25 PM » |
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Sad news. Another voice of my youth.
I ‘enjoyed’ the Cropredy set but (probably because I was a speech and language therapist) I found his voice very hard to listen to because of its quality.
Rest well and thank you for the legacy of music.
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and all I really know is that kindness is better than any sort of terror, any kind of spite (Martyn Joseph)
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Gouty (Gary)
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« Reply #4343 on: June 12, 2025, 01:44:49 AM » |
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The legendary Sly Stone, 82.
Jules
Dance to the Music was a sort of precursor to Come All Ye, in a way. |
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'Eggs, bread, cigs, milk...'
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« Reply #4344 on: June 12, 2025, 02:20:59 PM » |
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I never got to see him live. The time he played Cropredy (2018) was one of the times I missed it!
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If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink!
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Tasha
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« Reply #4345 on: June 12, 2025, 04:41:10 PM » |
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I never got to see him live. The time he played Cropredy (2018) was one of the times I missed it!
cant believe it was that long ago... how time flies! |
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They broke my heart and they killed me, but I didn't die. They tried to bury me, they didn't realise I was a seed.
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« Reply #4346 on: June 12, 2025, 04:54:39 PM » |
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I never got to see him live. The time he played Cropredy (2018) was one of the times I missed it!
I was lucky enough to see him twice - at Glasgow in 2000 and in Nottingham in 2002. Both were utterly exquisite, I thought, but I made a conscious choice not to repeat the exercise after seeing a concert he'd done on tv about 5 years later. Many clips from later years make me wince. |
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Amethyst (Jenny)
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« Reply #4347 on: June 12, 2025, 05:11:38 PM » |
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Sad news, a real legend has gone, how lucky we were to see him with his Boys at Cropredy in 2018.
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Farnsfield Acoustic ... Notts
Thank you to everyone that has ever been to a FarnsAc gig, and to all our wonderful performers since 2005
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garrypbrooks
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« Reply #4348 on: June 12, 2025, 07:10:16 PM » |
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Only just learned that Bob Andrews of Brinsley Schwarz and The Rumour has passed away. Six days ago, apparently.
Jules
Sad to hear this. GP was never as good after Bob left his band. |
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David (terrrrrrrr)
I'm all out for the cidre...
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C'est moi... (and my wife)
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« Reply #4349 on: June 12, 2025, 08:23:56 PM » |
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Brian Wilson. He had his problems, but the music he gave us sumptuous and occasionally baffling. He was who could be genuinely talked about as being as influential as The Fabs. RIP Mr Wilson.
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Time it was, and what a time it was
A time of innocence, A time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories; They're all that's left you.
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John From Austin
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« Reply #4350 on: June 12, 2025, 08:53:35 PM » |
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So sad about Brian Wilson. We saw him once with the Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Tour, and five times as a solo performer with Al Jardine, sometimes Blondie Chaplin or David Marks, and even Jeff Beck. We even got to have our photo made with him twice, in Houston October 1, 2013, and in Austin May 13, 2017. He was a good sport, although I've read that he was painfully shy and I presume he did not enjoy these photo ops. My fondest memory is how he blushed and looked away every time he caught Mrs. J From A's eye in the front row in Austin. R.I.P. and thanks for the music.
Had no idea that Jeff Beck tour was a thing... It was an interesting idea but hardly a musical match made in heaven. Jeff played lead guitar on a couple of songs during Brian's encore, then played a complete set with his own bassist/drummer. Disparate styles of music. I read a later interview where Jeff complained about having to join the photo ops, and also observed that Brian was distant and seemed not really "there" during a subsequent studio session. He strongly implied Brian was being propped up by others. I suspect Jeff's frank public remarks led to his exclusion from Brian's ensuing album. P.S. - The Houston photo op included autographs. The ex-Beach Boys autographed my Pet Sounds and Sounds of Summer CD booklets, whereas Jeff Beck scrawled a signature on the back of my ticket, I think. |
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Alan2
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« Reply #4351 on: June 13, 2025, 09:37:12 AM » |
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Brian Tawn is reporting on FB that Simon House (Hawkwind, Bowie et al) has died
Well, bugger. Yes also of Third Ear Band apparently. Just on Macbeth, I think? I've l discovered he was also on a TEB album The Magus which remained unreleased for some years. |
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« Reply #4352 on: June 13, 2025, 09:47:19 AM » |
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Brian Shuel.
Not a musician, but a photographer of note who photographed many famous folk in the business.
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« Reply #4353 on: June 16, 2025, 11:52:54 AM » |
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Dill Katz.
Long standing bass player with Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia.
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« Reply #4354 on: June 16, 2025, 06:17:12 PM » |
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Dill Katz.
Long standing bass player with Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia.
Sad news - excellent bassist. Recently bought their reissued 1980 Live In Concert album (had it on vinyl for years, first time issued on cd), and Dill's the featured bassist...and he certainly is featured ! |
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« Reply #4355 on: June 16, 2025, 08:22:30 PM » |
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Dill Katz.
Long standing bass player with Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia.
Sad news - excellent bassist. Recently bought their reissued 1980 Live In Concert album (had it on vinyl for years, first time issued on cd), and Dill's the featured bassist...and he certainly is featured ! Yes that's a favourite live album of mine. I still.have my vinyl copy. |
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« Reply #4356 on: June 17, 2025, 01:47:34 PM » |
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From Merry Hell on FB today. Tim Howard of The Tansads.
Yesterday started with sadness and ended with laughter. We said goodbye to Tim Howard, our former guitarist and bandmate in both Tansads and the first line up of Merry Hell. The sadness came from marking his sudden passing at the far too young age of 60, whilst the laughter came later as we joined with friends and family in remembering the good times we shared with Tim. He was a remarkable musician and a man for whom the term 'bon viveur' could have been invented. Wherever there was a good time to be had, he would likely be at the heart of it, and wherever Tim was, there was likely to be a good time. He had a phenomenal sense of fun, often laced with a little danger and a fair degree of alcohol. Tim features on our first album 'BLINK.... and you miss it' and played our first few gigs with us. He was then commissioned to carry out some sound related work in Dubai, went for a couple of weeks and stayed for 13 years.
Tim Howard: 1964 - 2025 - taken way too soon. Our thoughts and love are with his family.
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Lubiloo (Lorna)
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« Reply #4357 on: June 19, 2025, 02:08:12 PM » |
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James Prime, just 64…founder member and keyboard player of Deacon Blue.
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Dan O.
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« Reply #4358 on: June 19, 2025, 06:35:49 PM » |
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James Prime, just 64…founder member and keyboard player of Deacon Blue.
Deacon Blue aren't altogether my bag, but this is sad news. Especially as James Prime is the second member of the band to die from the Big C (original guitarist Graeme Kelling who was in the band during their hitmaking period, passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2004). |
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Lubiloo (Lorna)
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« Reply #4359 on: June 19, 2025, 07:27:16 PM » |
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James Prime, just 64…founder member and keyboard player of Deacon Blue.
Deacon Blue aren't altogether my bag, but this is sad news. Especially as James Prime is the second member of the band to die from the Big C (original guitarist Graeme Kelling who was in the band during their hitmaking period, passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2004). They might not have been mine, except they bring great nostalgia about my college days, so that is wht they mean something to me. Sounds like it was a sudden illness, very sad. 64 seems no age, now. |
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