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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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steveo
I had the chance of seeing The Specials play at Colchester Institute in 1979, really can't remember why I didn't go, but wish I had.
R.I.P Terry Hall.
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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.

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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.

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He was one-of-a-kind. With some friends we will pour a few, toast and get Wired.
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o1marc
We lost a great one with the passing of Jeff Beck. Now I'm feeling old.
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Right on the heels of losing Jeff Beck. Robbie Bachman, drummer for Bachman Turner Overdrive has passed. Rest in Peace Sir.

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Classic250
Only half way through January and some of the greats already gone.
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Lisa Marie Presley just passed away - aged 54.
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Classic250 said:
Only half way through January and some of the greats already gone.
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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 said:
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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Had heard of them but never really listened to them, was never really into punk, but will check them out - thanks for the tip.
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Classic250 said:
Lisa Marie Presley just passed away - aged 54.
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So sad....and young.

Didn't know til I read this post.

She's been broken hearted ever since her sons death
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Had heard of them but never really listened to them, was never really into punk, but will check them out - thanks for the tip.
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Punk era but much more accomplished.
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woodsman said:
Punk era but much more accomplished.
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I guess that I can believe that. I recently read an article about Billy Idol, calling him a punk rocker.

I'm like :unsure:...

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

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

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

So I guess that the genre of 'punk' has pretty broad boundaries.
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He was the frontman for Generation X in the mid 70's.
It's fair to describe them as punkish.
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steveo said:
He was the frontman for Generation X in the mid 70's.
It's fair to describe them as punkish.
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Yep. On researching - you are correct. Thanks for pointing that out.

Wikipedia has a good coverage of the bands history.

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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 :unsure:...

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

So I guess that the genre of 'punk' has pretty broad boundaries.
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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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TrialsRider
I like all music

Anybody heard from Soldering or know how to find out if he is ok?

long time CR members will remember him
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Yep. On researching - you are correct. Thanks for pointing that out.

Wikipedia has a good coverage of the bands history.

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