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Post by RocDoc on Oct 7, 2009 17:01:51 GMT -5
not that any of it was THAT bad or even offensive.
it WAS however just a bit embarassing.
congrats on the self-absolution.
well played.
(*rolls eyes*)
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Post by Ayinger on Oct 14, 2009 15:35:04 GMT -5
so, so hard to take,,,,,, *choke* ,,,,,, if any of you need to talk, you have my number...... |
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Post by RocDoc on Oct 14, 2009 20:35:22 GMT -5
albano?
oh NO!
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Post by RocDoc on Oct 14, 2009 20:44:32 GMT -5
IS that lou albano? ~ the new york fucking times: Dickie Peterson, Singer for Rock Band Blue Cheer, Dies at 63  By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: October 13, 2009
Dickie Peterson, whose screaming vocals and pounding bass lines helped push the psychedelic blues-rock trio Blue Cheer into the musical territory that would later be called heavy metal, died Monday in Erkelenz, Germany. He was 63 and lived in Erkelenz and Cologne.
The cause was liver cancer, said Ron Rainey, his manager.
Blue Cheer, a San Francisco group formed in late 1966, took its name from a street brand of LSD but never exuded the peace and love vibe of groups like Jefferson Airplane or the Grateful Dead. It stood for raw, animalistic power, on full display in the raucous, hard-driving “Summertime Blues,” the group’s biggest hit.
Pitted against Paul Whaley’s savagely thrashing drums and Leigh Stephens’s screeching guitar, Mr. Peterson, the group’s lead singer, adopted the only possible vocal strategy: he opened his mouth wide and emitted primal sounds at top volume.
“People keep trying to say that we’re heavy metal or grunge or punk, or we’re this or that,” Mr. Peterson told the Web site Stoner Rock in 2005. “The reality is, we’re just a power trio, and we play ultra blues, and it’s rock ‘n roll. It’s really simple what we do.”
Richard Allan Peterson was born on Sept. 12, 1946, and grew up in Grand Forks, N.D. He started playing bass guitar at 13, influenced by his brother, Jerre, who played guitar in an early, six-member version of Blue Cheer.
Mr. Peterson moved to San Francisco in the mid-1960s and, with his brother, began playing with Group B. He was thrown out of the band for insisting on a hard-rock style, which he indulged to the fullest with Blue Cheer.
Blue Cheer’s six-member configuration was quickly reduced to three to achieve a heavier sound, Mr. Peterson told Rocktober Magazine in 2007. In 1968, the group released the album “Vincebus Eruptum,” generally regarded as its best. It included the band’s cover version of the Eddie Cochran hit “Summertime Blues,” which reached No. 14 on the Billboard charts. The album rose to No. 11.
The group released several more albums in quick succession, notably “Outsideinside” (1968), “New! Improved! Blue Cheer” (1969) and “Blue Cheer” (1969), before breaking up in 1972.
Mr. Peterson’s first marriage ended in divorce. He is survived by his second wife, Ilka, of Erkelenz; a daughter, Corrina Peterson Kaltenrieder of Fort Worth, Tex.; and a grandson.
In various configurations, but always with Mr. Peterson, new versions of Blue Cheer recorded many studio and live albums over the years. Mr. Peterson recorded two solo albums in the 1990s, “Child of the Darkness” and “Tramp,” and toured frequently with Blue Cheer in the United States and Europe.
A version of this article appeared in print on October 14, 2009, on page A24 of the New York
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/arts/music/14peterson.html?_r=1&hpw
...there ain't no cure for the summertime blues...or for liver cancer either, UNfortunately for dickie.... |
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Post by RocDoc on Oct 14, 2009 20:51:41 GMT -5
Al Martino, ‘Godfather’ Singer, Dies at 82 
By A. E. VELEZ
Published: October 14, 2009
Al Martino, the baritone renowned for a string of hits, including the sentimental ballads “Spanish Eyes,” “Volare” and “Speak Softly Love,” and for his role as the wedding singer in “The Godfather,” died Tuesday in Springfield, Pa., The Associated Press reported. He was 82.
Mr. Martino was one of the most recognizable Italian-American pop singers of the 1950s and ’60s. Influenced by Perry Como and Al Jolson, he had a career that spanned nearly five decades. He leaves behind several celebrated songs, including his breakthrough hit, “Here in My Heart,” for the small BBS label. Released in 1952, it rose to No. 1 in the United States and later became the very first No. 1 single in Britain. It also won him a contract with Capitol Records.
Mr. Martino had an influential and encouraging childhood friend in Mario Lanza, the American opera singer who became a Hollywood movie star in the 1940s and ’50s. Lanza was slated to record “Here in My Heart” himself but dropped his plans after Mr. Martino explained that his own debut recording would be neglected if he did.
In the mid-1960s, with rock music dominating the charts, Mr. Martino and his “olive oil voice” (in the words of a character in “The Godfather”) helped reintroduce classic pop romanticism to trans-Atlantic audiences. Between 1963 and 1967 he had nine Top 40 singles, of which the most enduring proved to be “Spanish Eyes.” The vocal version of a song composed and first recorded by Bert Kaempfert as “Moon Over Naples,” it became something of a standard and was later recorded by both Elvis Presley and Wayne Newton. Mr. Martino returned to the charts in 1975, when he recorded a disco version of the Italian singer Domenico Modugno’s signature song, “Volare.”
One of the most prominent of the old-guard Italian-American romantic crooners, Mr. Martino found his image permanently embedded in pop culture when he played the singer Johnny Fontane in Francis Ford Coppola’s celebrated 1972 movie, “The Godfather.” (He would reprise the role in 1990 in “The Godfather: Part III.”)
The character, loosely based on Frank Sinatra, is a famous crooner and washed-up movie star. There are four instances in the movie in which Don Vito Corleone, Fontane’s godfather and the head of a major Mafia crime family, intervenes to help his career, most memorably in the scene in which a horse’s head is place in the bed of a movie producer who would not hire Fontane.
In a singing career that can best be described as a roller coaster, Mr. Martino encountered both highs and lows. In 1972 he stormed off the stage of the Persian Room at New York’s Plaza Hotel with some bitter remarks about the city and canceled the rest of his booking there because of a disagreement with the hotel’s staff.
Born on Oct. 7, 1927, in Philadelphia, Mr. Martino was just 15 when he joined the Navy in 1943. He completed basic training in New Orleans, where he developed a love for country music. “I took the heart of country singing with me into Italian romantic pop,” he said.
After shipping out to Iwo Jima and becoming a signalman on Mount Suribachi, he suffered a shrapnel injury and was given orders to return home. In 1947 he moved to New York City to pursue a career in show business, and earned his break as a winner on the CBS show “Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts.”
Always the classy dresser, Mr. Martino said in 2009 that he hoped today’s youth would be able to have its own romanticism in future recordings. “I can’t sell records in stores anymore; everything is online and I don’t have access to younger audiences,” he said. “But 20 or 30 years from now, how are kids going to feel romance?”
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/arts/music/15martino.html?hpwa real goombah and a seriously underrated singer....
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Post by maarts on Oct 20, 2009 5:54:18 GMT -5
It's a bad time, innit? Captain Lou was one part of the eighties I won't forget easily. Legend. Blue Cheer- time for a thorough review methinks! Saw that Ludovic Kennedy, grand doyen of British journalism died recently too...one of the fe journalists who literally can claim to have contributed in a magnanimous way to society... news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8314778.stm |
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Post by RocDoc on Oct 22, 2009 23:48:28 GMT -5
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Post by Ayinger on Oct 23, 2009 7:19:05 GMT -5
not Soupy!?
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Post by maarts on Oct 24, 2009 5:19:45 GMT -5
Flowered Up's singer Liam Maher passed away on Tuesday (October 20), reports confirmed by the band's former record label Heavenly.
No more details about the circumstances of Maher are yet known, but are expected to be known today (October 21).
Flowered Up only released one album, 'A Life With Brian' in 1991, but were best known for their Heavenly singles "It's On" and "Weekender", the latter charted at No.20 on its release in 1992.
After the band's split in 1994, Maher was next known, in 2001, to be working with Alan McGee and was set to release new tracks through the Poptones label, but nothing materialised.
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Post by Ayinger on Nov 16, 2009 23:04:29 GMT -5
 Ken OberWill have to say that at the time REMOTE CONTROL was about the only thing that I found worth watching on MTV.... |
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Post by JACkory on Nov 24, 2009 17:52:24 GMT -5
A little late here, but I agree...Remote Control was just about all the network had going for it at the time...but it got old fast, IMO. After a few weeks I couldn't stand it.
The only consistently good show the MTV ever aired was 120 Minutes, and I don't know if that qualifies as a "show".
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Post by rockkid on Nov 24, 2009 18:00:38 GMT -5
Canuck so you may not know him.
Juno Award-winning artist Haydain Neale of the R&B band Jacksoul died Sunday at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital after a private, seven-month battle with lung cancer.
Neale's family announced his death on his website Monday.
The Hamilton-born Neale, 39, was the lead singer of the Toronto band, which resurrected classic soul songs such as Can't Stop and Still Believe in Love and put its twist on works by Radiohead, Curtis Mayfield and Sam Cooke.
In 2004, Neale performed the Guess Who song These Eyes in a tribute to the band as it was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
Jacksoul won a SOCAN Award for R&B song of the year, a Canadian Urban Music Award for songwriter of the year and a 2007 Juno for best R&B recording for mySOUL.
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Post by Ayinger on Dec 3, 2009 21:24:52 GMT -5
Alan Parsons Project member Eric Woolfson dies
Songwriter, keyboardist and singer had been suffering from cancer
NME news
The Alan Parsons Project founder member Eric Woolfson has died aged 64.
Woolfson, who formed The Alan Parsons Project with Parsons in 1975, passed away in London on Tuesday (December 1), after suffering from cancer.
The Glasgow-born musician was largely a self-taught pianist and had been on the fringes of the music business for some years before finding fame with The Alan Parsons Project.
As a songwriter Woolfson was signed up by The Rolling Stones' producer Andrew Loog Oldham. He went on to pen songs for Marianne Faithfull, Chris Farlowe and Frank Ifield. He later turned to management and looked after Alan Parsons before the duo decided to make music together. They released ten albums together before splitting in 1990.
Speaking of his death, friend Deborah Owen praised Woolfson's talent.
"Eric was very much a self-made man. He couldn't read music but if you asked him to play anything he could do it straight away," she told BBC News. "He had an extraordinary gift."
Woolfson was the singer on many of The Alan Parsons Project's best-known songs, including 'Time' and 'Eye In The Sky'. After The Alan Parsons Project split, he moved into writing for musicals.
He is survived by his wife Hazel and the couple's two daughters.
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Post by maarts on Dec 4, 2009 4:48:56 GMT -5
God dammit!  |
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Post by RocDoc on Dec 4, 2009 10:13:37 GMT -5
branches of the pink floyd tree keep getting snipped...pruned.
'time' indeed.
like chrissie hynde described it, '...the avenger'.
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