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The Outpost Cafe / Also....Buffin and Dallas Taylor
« on: January 18, 2016, 07:43:50 PM »
This has been the week when we realize that we, and all those musicians we grew up listening to, are in the autumn of our lives.

RIP Dale Griffin aka Buffin (Scott has already been posting on FB.  I'm a huge Mott fan from way back,  and got to see them live)

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35342699

RIP Dallas Taylor. (sigh...I'm getting old, and everyone is posting all over.  This was a year ago today.)

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-dallas-taylor-20150119-story.html

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: RIP David Bowie
« on: January 12, 2016, 02:06:41 PM »
Quote from: uwe on January 12, 2016, 09:51:08 AM
Bowie was a great artist, to many people who knew him he was not the nicest person on earth. Always in search of inspiration, he had the habit of finding people, befriending them, sucking them out and then discarding them. But great art and a less than Nobel Prize-winning character is hardly a rare combination, more de rigueur if you look at people like Picasso or Miles Davis.

I am convinced my office stereo has psychic powers: Among the 10.000 or so tracks it has, all of the sudden (on random) Bowie's Word on a Wing (or WORDONAWING if you use the STATIONTOSTATION spelling!) comes on, now I feel bad.  :-X

I recall an old interview with Mick Ronson, where he describes Bowie as wandering, trying to find a direction.  I'm convinced that once Ronson was onboard, Bowie realized the importance of the singer/guitarist dynamic, and never worked with anyone that wasn't stellar again.

The other story I recall was the Carlos Alomar connection.  Alomar was doing the sessions for Young Americans (?) and Bowie was pretty strung out.   If I have this right, Carlos took him home and made him a real home-cooked meal, and became Bowie's guitarist over the next decade as a result.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: RIP David Bowie
« on: January 11, 2016, 06:26:34 PM »
This is the one that stayed with me a lot, and I think it finally surfaced on a record somewhere, but it was years after this show was broadcast.



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The Outpost Cafe / Re: RIP David Bowie
« on: January 11, 2016, 03:55:52 AM »
We will be doing these more frequently, I fear, and we'll never be accustomed to it.  I remember my dad, in his last year, saying that a month (or week) didn't go by when a friend of his passed away. 

RIP to a true music icon.



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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Lemmy passes away
« on: January 09, 2016, 07:47:29 AM »


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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Robeet Stigwood... RIP
« on: January 05, 2016, 04:06:09 AM »
He made stars out of a lot of people, Cream at the top of my list.  I recall reading that he built grueling tour schedules for all his acts, and that's probably a factor in why a lot of them are legendary.  I think the Bee Gees were also in his stable.   Wasn't he also married to Yvonne Elliman?

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: 2016
« on: January 03, 2016, 09:04:05 AM »
Happy This Year, everyone...


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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Distractions!
« on: January 01, 2016, 03:29:46 PM »
Nice!  Looks great as is, too.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Lemmy passes away
« on: December 31, 2015, 09:15:34 AM »
Cancer took my dad after three years, a partial lung removed, as well as a kidney.  He was in a lot of pain, and the pain medication took away his sense of taste.  They offered him "maybe" five more years if he went to chemo, and after one session, he said screw it.  He got a couple more years anyway.
To give you, and most of us probably have a story like this, an idea of how quick some cancer can be - a 10 year old boy in the school where my kids were complained of stomach pains one day, and couldn't keep food down.  Ten days later, he had died of cancer that basically overtook his body.

To be honest, once the disease is going to take you, I consider it a blessing to have it come quick and be done.  Seeing prolonged suffering is much harder than a sudden death.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Lemmy passes away
« on: December 28, 2015, 06:29:48 PM »
TMZ reports that he died at home while playing a video game, and that he had just been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer only two days ago.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Happy Christmas to all.
« on: December 24, 2015, 11:46:33 AM »
Merry Christmas, every one of us.

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Scott Weiland Dead
« on: December 08, 2015, 04:09:31 AM »
I always thought he was one of the best vocalists rock had to offer.  He had a way of weaving into the songs of STP like a singer should.  Even that band hinted of the burden that came with that talent.  Here's another interesting read from his ex-wife.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/scott-weiland-s-family-dont-glorify-this-tragedy-20151207?page=2

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: "Light" camera on sale
« on: November 30, 2015, 08:58:41 PM »
Patience is a virtue - "The Light L16 Camera will ship in Autumn of 2016"

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The Outpost Cafe / Slade article in the Guardian
« on: November 27, 2015, 10:11:21 AM »
For those of us who haven't seen it.  Fun read.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/26/noddy-holder-people-think-i-live-in-a-cave-all-year-and-come-out-in-december-shouting-its-chriiisstmaaasss?CMP=share_btn_fb

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Song Suggestions Please?
« on: November 21, 2015, 03:53:06 AM »
Anything Joan Jett?

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