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Title: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Denis on February 07, 2016, 06:03:09 PM: To put it brutally, the musicians in bands I grew up listening to have been dying since the 1960s. That many of them lived until the past year or so is simply the realization that some of them made it. In the early days they died of drug overdoses, extreme alcoholism, accidents, sometimes suicide or murder.

Some died later on from the same things.

Some died later from the lingering affects of one resulting from the other.

These days, cancer and simply old age are taking their toll. It's really sad to say but we can expect this to become more frequent in the next few years. We're lucky to have had some of them stuff performing as long as they have.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Dave W on February 08, 2016, 08:55:00 PM: So true.

Here we mostly talk about rockers who have died. As someone who grew up on country music in the 50s and 60s as well as early rock and roll, I've lost count of the country stars of my youth who have passed on in the past ten years. Most of the rest are in their late 70s to their late 80s. Some are still touring but it can't go on forever.

And if they're old, I'm old too.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: rahock on February 09, 2016, 04:41:27 AM: Yep, you guys pretty much said it all.
Rick
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: slinkp on February 09, 2016, 07:09:58 AM: I panicked lately when I was in a store and heard a Who song playing, then went to the store next door and heard a solo Peter Townshend song. Turned out to be coincidence... But that is gonna be a sad day for me when it comes.

I used to think it was funny when every time I saw my in laws they talked about who died recently. Doesn't seem so comical anymore.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Highlander on February 09, 2016, 12:37:35 PM: As a biology student, I (successfully) argued for an eighth "characteristic of life", which was "All living things die..."
My lecturer couldn't deny it, and for that day, she accepted that there were eight characteristics of life...

All the acts and artists we have loved will come to pass; some before us; some after us...
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: gweimer on February 09, 2016, 03:35:26 PM: Quote from: slinkp on February 09, 2016, 07:09:58 AM
I used to think it was funny when every time I saw my in laws they talked about who died recently. Doesn't seem so comical anymore.

In his last year, my dad commented that a month/week didn't go by when someone he knew had passed away.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Pilgrim on February 09, 2016, 04:59:32 PM: I remember when my dad hit about 70, one day in a down mood he commented "all my friends have died." Not a happy thought to reflect on.

It does lead one to wonder what position we will occupy in the process of all our friends passing. At times it's hard to decide whether you want to be among the last or not.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: 4stringer77 on February 09, 2016, 06:49:49 PM: The good news for followers of Hinduism is that they'll be back and maybe even better in their next lives. I'm not sure if that's the reality but it makes for a pleasant consideration.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Grog on February 09, 2016, 07:32:52 PM: Up until about two years ago, I had what I called, "The Wall of Dead Bass Players" on a wall in my work area. I taped obituaries & newspaper articles of Bass players that had passed away in the last twenty years, even the bass player for the Cowsills! It ended up being a fairly massive collection of musicians. Management eventually decided that it had no value for the company & I was asked to remove it. Taking it down was another reminder of how many had passed....................
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: nofi on February 10, 2016, 07:31:39 AM: it's no secret that the life of a pro musician is not exactly conducive to good health. being in a band that's on the road a lot only compounds the problem. but then again there is willie nelson...
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: gweimer on February 10, 2016, 01:20:07 PM: Quote from: nofi on February 10, 2016, 07:31:39 AM
it's no secret that the life of a pro musician is not exactly conducive to good health. being in a band that's on the road a lot only compounds the problem. but then again there is willie nelson...

...and Keith
...and Ozzy
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Alanko on February 10, 2016, 01:30:13 PM: Quote from: gweimer on February 10, 2016, 01:20:07 PM
...and Keith
...and Ozzy

They have the same bodies, muscles and organs as the rest of us. It is a nice idea, but they certainly aren't immortal.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: gweimer on February 11, 2016, 03:32:33 AM: Quote from: Alanko on February 10, 2016, 01:30:13 PM
They have the same bodies, muscles and organs as the rest of us. It is a nice idea, but they certainly aren't immortal.

Nobody is immortal. Why some of us survive after the abuse we put ourselves through is still a mystery. Isn't Ozzy part of a scientific study around that subject?
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: nofi on February 11, 2016, 07:50:46 AM: sounds like an urban myth. genetics is everything.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: wellREDman on February 23, 2016, 01:41:54 PM: Quote from: gweimer on February 11, 2016, 03:32:33 AM
Isn't Ozzy part of a scientific study around that subject?
dunno what happened to it,it was an article in new scientist a couple of years ago, cant remember whether it was an actual study or just an idea, but the premise was that we could probably learn more by studying people who took really bad care of themselves but still thrived than by looking at those who succumbed.
BTW Lemmy was the other one mentioned alongside Ozzy in the article
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: gweimer on February 24, 2016, 04:13:16 PM: A few decades back, Pete Townshend was part of a scientific black box therapy linked to some of his lifestyle problems.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: uwe on February 25, 2016, 04:10:55 AM: Given his own child molestation experiences as a victim - Tommy is crammed to the hilt with references -, I'm sure he has had a few more therapies since then, hopefully successful.
Title: It's the 27 curse, it must be...
Post by: Highlander on March 12, 2016, 10:52:39 AM: Just a random thought...

With yet another significant musician leaving us it just sprang into my mind that if you break the numbers of the year up you get 20+1+6 which equals 27...
Yes, it could also add up to 36, or 9 or a bunch of other stuff...

Heading back to my box... :o
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: rahock on March 13, 2016, 04:42:36 AM: No one gets out of this thing alive. Tick, Tock.
Rick
Title: Re: It's the 27 curse, it must be...
Post by: uwe on March 13, 2016, 05:08:10 AM: Quote from: Highlander on March 12, 2016, 10:52:39 AM
Just a random thought...

With yet another significant musician leaving us it just sprang into my mind that if you break the numbers of the year up you get 20+1+6 which equals 27...
Yes, it could also add up to 36, or 9 or a bunch of other stuff...

Heading back to my box... :o

Just when you thought the makeup of this forum couldn't be any worse we have our first numerologist outing ... ;D
Title: Re: It's the 27 curse, it must be...
Post by: rahock on March 13, 2016, 11:34:10 AM: Quote from: uwe on March 13, 2016, 05:08:10 AM
Just when you thought the makeup of this forum couldn't be any worse we have our first numerologist outing ... ;D

Reminds me of a quote from Slip Mahoney of the Bowrey Boys, " my brudder-in-law who happens to be a mathemagician could recite you Einstiens fear of relatives frontways and backwards practically at the same time".
Title: Re: It's the 27 curse, it must be...
Post by: Dave W on March 13, 2016, 08:47:43 PM: Quote from: rahock on March 13, 2016, 11:34:10 AM
Reminds me of a quote from Slip Mahoney of the Bowrey Boys, " my brudder-in-law who happens to be a mathemagician could recite you Einstiens fear of relatives frontways and backwards practically at the same time".

Wow, Rick, you're channeling Leo Gorcey!
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: rahock on March 14, 2016, 03:33:08 AM: Yeah, I have the gift :P
Rick
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: patman on March 14, 2016, 05:07:16 AM: I loved the Bowery Boys.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Highlander on March 16, 2016, 04:18:41 PM: Am I allowed out of the box yet please...?

Numerology...?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiKcd7yPLdU

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hWWe-ts2s

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbiN9mdZRk0

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWm03wYBTbM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZuFq4CfRR8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6An7KGK6U3c

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8QypoBpQqI
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: gweimer on March 16, 2016, 05:56:10 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIxgBMNhsKU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZARDae4VzTA
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: westen44 on March 16, 2016, 11:55:21 PM: Golden Earring--Another 45 Miles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts_H0R_EckQ

Chicago--25 or 6 to 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUAYeN3Rp2E
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: nofi on March 17, 2016, 06:28:05 AM: as you guys know that is just a list of random numbers in song titles. this the real explanation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: 4stringer77 on March 17, 2016, 06:58:22 AM: Numerology is a big tradition in Jewish culture as well. They call it Gematria. Any slipknot fans?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSDwgb8ZIyk
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: westen44 on March 17, 2016, 08:48:02 AM: I have an in-law who believes in numerology. But I've never been interested in it and don't plan to. He talked about it so much his wife just automatically started asking him to be quiet about it.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: uwe on March 17, 2016, 11:13:46 AM: "Any Slipknot fans?"

Grunt-roaaaaaarrrrr!
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Psycho Bass Guy on March 17, 2016, 08:43:07 PM: I got yer numbers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxzXx-DK9MY

Quote from: uwe on March 17, 2016, 11:13:46 AM
"Any Slipknot fans?"

Grunt-roaaaaaarrrrr!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEEasR7hVhA
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: gearHed289 on March 18, 2016, 07:30:46 AM: Numbers eh? OK, I'll play. Gotta love bad 80s videos. Actually, no you don't, but here you go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Dju2i4FZw
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Highlander on March 18, 2016, 04:00:11 PM: Mein Gott...! Vot haf I schtarted...? :mrgreen:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx-9b13wsXQ

and lets have some more prog...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZm1_jtY1SQ
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: gweimer on March 18, 2016, 04:34:21 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpJDOXxuSLo
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Dave W on March 18, 2016, 05:02:58 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeolH-kzx4c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHgWsRkwsvA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0fLg17PaRg
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: gweimer on March 18, 2016, 05:39:36 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Cw4mZq1q8
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: wellREDman on March 19, 2016, 04:27:58 AM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGNkm-SFsAY
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Dave W on March 19, 2016, 11:45:29 AM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSR5A--rSOs
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Highlander on March 20, 2016, 01:22:54 AM: Going old-OLD-school... :mrgreen:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOUldTrk-A
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: uwe on March 21, 2016, 09:05:17 AM: Ok, groan ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHeKEakqfdw

I can't believe, no one has posted this yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnN05vOuSM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6I6yr7WDeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGoEmhQP774

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o3DIEL9LT0
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Dave W on March 21, 2016, 03:41:04 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70oBKmBqd7k
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: gweimer on March 21, 2016, 04:52:05 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yesyhQkYrQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4Dcd1aUcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKAgJV8QPI
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Rob on March 21, 2016, 06:42:05 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhX4liVtuCc
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: westen44 on March 21, 2016, 09:03:52 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFponF9A86c
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: uwe on March 22, 2016, 04:30:53 AM: Not much of a slap fan, but I love what Hungate does here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyLoEPQxy3I

Are really only women allowed at Bryan Adams concerts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgpcwYooLO0

This is soooooooooooooooo uncanny here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWW67dkq-M8
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Dave W on March 22, 2016, 02:51:56 PM: I loved this when I was a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYATUWV0skY
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Pilgrim on March 22, 2016, 04:32:00 PM: Quote from: Dave W on March 22, 2016, 02:51:56 PM
I loved this when I was a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYATUWV0skY

I wonder if that's where Monty Norman (although many think it to be John Barry) got the chord sequence for the James Bond theme?
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Dave W on March 23, 2016, 06:38:38 AM: Quote from: Pilgrim on March 22, 2016, 04:32:00 PM
I wonder if that's where Monty Norman (although many think it to be John Barry) got the chord sequence for the James Bond theme?

Possible, I suppose. The song is from '56.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: uwe on March 23, 2016, 07:22:43 AM: Dave's senior year in high school. :popcorn:
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: uwe on March 23, 2016, 07:26:00 AM: Quote from: Dave W on March 23, 2016, 06:38:38 AM
Possible, I suppose. The song is from '56.

A disturbing chromatic shift back and forth (or forth and back) that we all have been conditoned to identify with crime/thriller/mystery.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: gweimer on March 23, 2016, 02:00:49 PM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE8kGMfXaFU
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Dave W on March 23, 2016, 03:27:08 PM: Quote from: uwe on March 23, 2016, 07:22:43 AM
Dave's senior year in high school. :popcorn:

Fourth grade. :P

My cello years.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: uwe on March 23, 2016, 04:10:06 PM: Cello? :o Yet another mosaic piece of intrigue (along with revolutionaries on fridge doors, Hollywood actresses, Vladimir Lenin High School etc ...) in your chequered past!

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/80/44/31/80443192f100f40bf9729bb039dbbea9.jpg)
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Dave W on March 23, 2016, 08:49:36 PM: I know I've mentioned starting on cello before. It may have been a long time ago.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Highlander on March 24, 2016, 01:42:39 PM: They call him mello-cello... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: westen44 on March 24, 2016, 02:03:46 PM: Starting on cello and then moving on to bass certainly worked for Jack Bruce.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Rob on March 24, 2016, 06:05:59 PM: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Quote from: Highlander on March 24, 2016, 01:42:39 PM
They call him mello-cello... :mrgreen:
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: Dave W on March 25, 2016, 05:04:48 PM: Quote from: westen44 on March 24, 2016, 02:03:46 PM
Starting on cello and then moving on to bass certainly worked for Jack Bruce.

Unfortunately Jack didn't will me his talent.
Title: Re: A brief comment about all the musician deaths here lately.
Post by: westen44 on March 26, 2016, 01:15:07 AM: Quote from: Dave W on March 25, 2016, 05:04:48 PM

Unfortunately Jack didn't will me his talent.

I can't even imagine what it would be like to have Jack's talent.