The Great Gig in the Sky Thread

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busapilot

Discussion Starter · Feb 5, 2016

With so many of the greatest musicians recently passing, I thought I'd start a common thread and get all the good memories in one place.

RIP Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind and Fire.
This sound really makes me pine for the good old days of realistic expectations and minimal responsibility.

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woodsman

· #143 · 5 mo ago

Tinsnips said:
Rest in Peace Jeff Beck. huge loss.

This Seems appropriate. This is Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones pre Zeppelin, Keith Moon pre The Who amd Jeff Beck before joining The Yardbirds.

He was one-of-a-kind. With some friends we will pour a few, toast and get Wired.

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woodsman

· #148 · 5 mo ago

Classic250 said:
Only half way through January and some of the greats already gone.

Add to the list Jet Black, drummer for The Stranglers, back a in December. Great British band. The debut album Rattus Norvegicus (the rat that carried plague) is excellent and they only got better. I was lucky enough to catch them at the Masonic Temple in TO in the early '80's

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woodsman

· #151 · 5 mo ago

Classic250 said:
Had heard of them but never really listened to them, was never really into punk, but will check them out - thanks for the tip.

Punk era but much more accomplished.

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woodsman

· #155 · 5 mo ago

Classic250 said:
I guess that I can believe that. I recently read an article about Billy Idol, calling him a punk rocker.

I'm like ...

I thought that he was a rock and roll/pop singer.

So I guess that the genre of 'punk' has pretty broad boundaries.

I have always had a problem with the boxes genres create. There was so much music coming out of the UK from the late '60's to the early '80's that you would have needed 100 genre to cover all of the individuality. And you would still have the problem of, where do we put Eno?

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woodsman

· #158 · 5 mo ago

steveo said:
My favourite band from that time was The Jam. No idea if they were known outside the UK, but they are well worth a look.

I have a couple of their albums, All Mod Cons is one.

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woodsman

· #160 · 5 mo ago

steveo said:
All Mod Cons is a great album. Have you listened to Setting Sons?
It's scary to think they were released nearly 45 years ago.

I will have heard Setting Sons but I can't say I know it. Sound Affects is the other that I have. I am still in painting mode so they are both getting played today.
We were blessed to live in a small city with one of the great record shops of the world (in my mind). Mooney, the guy that owned the shop, was always on top of what was new from the UK, or at least as new as you got in Canada at the time. He had us listening to bands that no one on this side of the pond had caught on to. City Boy was one of my favorite bands that know one here heard of, RIP Lol.
Yep, we are closer to the end than the beginning Steveo but, I honestly think we got to grow up through the greatest time in popular music there has been or is likely to be. The recording equipment, the electric instruments, the ideas, were all new and fresh. We were born to the coffee shops and pubs with folk and blues, lived through the birth of R n'R , with all of the different evolution's and revolutions of the '60's, '70's and '80's music. And ended the carefree days as Rap exploded onto the scene. Our generations were the ones "stoking the star making machinery behind the popular song"

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woodsman

· #166 · 5 mo ago

o1marc said:
David Crosby just died, from Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Maybe Ted Nugent can finally get in to the Rock and Roll HOF.

A real, old guard loss with Crosby's passing.

Having been to the R&R HoF, I don't see the problem with putting Nugent in. My impression was that you don't have to have anything to do with R&R or actually have made a difference to the genre and there isn't any quality standard for entrance. I wouldn't recommend the place, it's a cluttered cash cow.

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woodsman

· #167 · 1 mo ago

The incomparable Gordon Lightfoot passed at 84. One of the great singer songwriters and pure Canadian story teller headed to the "carefree highway".

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