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krj
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response 3 of 106:
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Nov 30 16:58 UTC 2001 |
By now everyone who has looked at a news web site probably has
learned that George Harrison is dead. (The inner grump says:
so much for this summer's vigorous denials of how sick Harrison was...)
I dug out the chintzy BEST OF GEORGE HARRISON cd that Capitol/EMI put
out some years ago: seven of his Beatles songs, and just six songs
from his early solo career. So we had a little memorial listening party
on the drive to work this morning. That compilation lacks my
favorite Harrison Beatles song, a single B-side called "Old Brown
Shoe" which is on the PAST MASTERS v.2 set. I also need to dig out
the Travelling Wilburys discs.
Harrison's fall from commercial favor is kind of surprising;
IIRC, several of his solo albums were never released on CD and
most seem currently out of print. (I'll have to dust off the
turntable if I want to hear "33 1/3" which was highly regarded
among my friends when it was released.) Maybe Capitol can put
together a nice tombstone set, a 2-cd compilation including *all*
of Harrison's Beatles recordings, and a more generous selection
of his solo work including the CLOUD NINE singles.
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bruin
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response 4 of 106:
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Nov 30 19:48 UTC 2001 |
For more discussion and rememberance of George Harrison, please go to
the Music Conference, item 59.
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richard
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response 5 of 106:
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Dec 1 04:05 UTC 2001 |
Of course George Harrison's best friend was fellow guitar god Eric Clapton,
and there is the famous story how how they were both in love with the same
woman. She married Harrison. Clapton went on a drug binge and wrote
a song about his heartbreak over losing her, that of course being "LAYLA"
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tpryan
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response 6 of 106:
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Dec 1 15:57 UTC 2001 |
Harrison knew and married Patty Boyd before both meet Clapton.
With Olivia, I think Harrison got the best of deal of Patty being
stolen from him.
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krj
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response 7 of 106:
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Dec 18 03:10 UTC 2001 |
The Guardian reports the death of Stuart Anderson, the (former?)
leader of the band Big Country. He was found dead in a hotel in
Hawaii. Age, 43.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,620182,00.html
and that leads to a number of other links.
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mcnally
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response 8 of 106:
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Dec 18 06:39 UTC 2001 |
Under the circumstances, I'd say it's definitely safe to remove
the question mark following the word "former."
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anderyn
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response 9 of 106:
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Dec 18 19:44 UTC 2001 |
Damn.
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orinoco
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response 10 of 106:
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Dec 19 08:55 UTC 2001 |
Re #8: Well, there's former and then there's even formerer.
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krj
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response 11 of 106:
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Dec 19 18:43 UTC 2001 |
Usenet newsgroup rec.music.celtic carries a notice of the death
of Tony Cuffe, who was the leader of the fine 70s-80s Scottish
folk group Ossian. Death from cancer. I saw Ossian live once
in the early 1980s, they were quite impressive.
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resp:7 :: argh, his name was Stuart Adamson, not Anderson.
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anderyn
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response 12 of 106:
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Dec 20 12:35 UTC 2001 |
Damn. Damn. Damn. Tony Cuffe too? I always loved Ossian.
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cyklone
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response 13 of 106:
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Dec 20 13:32 UTC 2001 |
Yesterday I saw an obit for the singer in Big Country. Can't remember his
name, though.
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micklpkl
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response 14 of 106:
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Feb 14 02:54 UTC 2002 |
I was just driving back home from downtown, listening to KGSR, and heard that
Waylon Jennings died this afternoon. I haven't searched yet to get more
details, but I believe the cause was complications from diabetes. He was in
his mid-60s. There will be a tribute tonight on KGSR, in the Eleventh Hour
(CST), in case anyone's interested. http://www.kgsr.com
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goose
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response 15 of 106:
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Apr 22 04:30 UTC 2002 |
Layne Staley, 34, singer of Seattle rock band Alice In Chains was found dead
in his house late last week.
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mcnally
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response 16 of 106:
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Apr 22 05:58 UTC 2002 |
Have they positively identified the body as Staley? Initial reports here
in Seattle were quite tentative -- they just said that a body had been
found in his house in the U District and that it was believed to be Staley.
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dbratman
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response 17 of 106:
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Apr 22 20:52 UTC 2002 |
Quotes from Staley about the tragedy of Kurt Cobain's death were hauled
out and were effectively ironic.
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katie
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response 18 of 106:
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Jul 21 05:15 UTC 2002 |
Dave Carter of Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer died yesterday at age 40.
Heart attack. (Does anyone know if Dave and Tracy are husband and wife?)
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anderyn
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response 19 of 106:
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Jul 21 14:08 UTC 2002 |
Damn. And I've missed them every time they were at the Ark. They were a
really good duo, and it's really sad that he died so young.
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krj
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response 20 of 106:
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Jul 21 16:21 UTC 2002 |
Wow, that's a shock. They were just starting to peek in along the edge
of my awareness.
NPR and the New York Times ran substantial obituaries on Alan Lomax,
who died this week at 87. Alan Lomax was a folksong collector and
promoter of folk music, very important in the history of American music.
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krj
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response 21 of 106:
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Sep 13 05:30 UTC 2002 |
He's not dead yet, but Wired and Rolling Stone report that
Warren Zevon has been diagnosed with untreatable lung cancer.
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mcnally
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response 22 of 106:
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Sep 13 13:20 UTC 2002 |
Bummer. <must resist the urge to make jokes about needing a
"Miracle of Science" or about poor, poor, pitiful he. There's
not much funny about lung cancer.>
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krj
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response 23 of 106:
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Sep 13 20:48 UTC 2002 |
Zevon's comment was that it would be a bummer if he didn't last
long enough to see the next James Bond film.
(which is due in November or December.) The stories say he is
continuing to work on recording and on spending time with his kids.
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mcnally
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response 24 of 106:
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Sep 14 02:02 UTC 2002 |
oops.. now that I re-read my response, I think "Miracle of Science"
was a Marshall Crenshaw album, not Warren Zevon. I don't know why I
sometimes confuse those two.. I'll have to remember to listen to
the "Excitable Boy" album when I get home..:
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dbratman
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response 25 of 106:
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Sep 25 16:34 UTC 2002 |
I'm sorry that this Warren Zevon guy is terminally ill, but I wonder
why I've never heard of him before, if he's as ubiquitous a cultural
icon for the post-60s generation as people are now saying.
I've certainly seen his song titles used as catchphrases, but up until
last week I never knew those were song titles at all, let alone whose;
and somehow his name never came up.
As someone whose friends introduced him to Talking Heads back when they
were still an obscure NYC art band (and this was apparently right
around when Zevon was making his big impact), I didn't think I was that
culturally obtuse.
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mcnally
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response 26 of 106:
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Sep 25 17:54 UTC 2002 |
"ubiquitous cultural icon for the post-60s generation" is definitely
stretching it a bit, but he did have a successful career and a dedicated
following, despite the fact that his starkly cynical songs often weren't
very radio-friendly.
It's hard to believe you didn't at least hear *some* of his work
("Werewolves of London", anyone?) without knowing whose it was, and likely,
too, that you often heard his songs covered by other performers without
knowing they were his (e.g. Linda Ronstadt's cover of "Poor, Poor,
Pitiful Me")
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anderyn
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response 27 of 106:
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Sep 25 18:01 UTC 2002 |
The only reason I ever heard Warren Zevon was because of my gaming group.
(They also introduced me to Blue Oyster Cult...) Of course, once I did hear
him, I became a fan, but I don't think he was ubiquitous unless you happened
to be in circles that had a reason to have heard of him.
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