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Post by MartinT on Mar 20, 2024 17:40:24 GMT
Jim Hastings - Caravan
"It's with great sadness we say goodbye to Jimmy Hastings who has played on the first album and the last, and been such an integral part for so long. Jimmy was a very accomplished jazz musician and also taught at the London College of Music as well as being a Professor of Saxophones for the Royal Marines School of Music in Portsmouth. His brother Pye dubbed him their 'One take wonder' for his amazing ability. RIP Jim"
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 20, 2024 19:34:36 GMT
RIP Jim
Some wonderful work
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Post by Mr Whippy on Mar 21, 2024 7:02:17 GMT
RIP Paul Messenger I cannot count how many reviews and articles of his I have read over the years I was thinking about him just recently. Editor of Hi-Fi Answers before Keith Howard. Preferred the Fons CQ30 to a LP12 at one point. Sad news. I was wrong. Actually, it was Paul Benson that was editor before Keith Howard. Paul M did use a Fons in favour of the Linn, however.
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Post by Slinger on Mar 30, 2024 23:02:20 GMT
RIP Gerry Conway.
Gerry was "THE" folk rock drummer of the late '60s ‘70s and ‘80s, playing with Eclection, Al Stewart, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Sandy Denny, Fotheringay, Kate & Anna McGarrigle and Cat Stevens.
Conway joined Jethro Tull for their album The Broadsword and the Beast and also played on their Grammy Award-winning album Crest of a Knave (possibly my favourite Tull album).
Although he appears on none of his studio albums, Conway was a member of Richard Thompson's live band for several years in the 1980s, appearing on the tours for the albums Hand of Kindness, Across a Crowded Room and Daring Adventures. Some songs from these sessions appear on the compilations Watching the Dark and Live at the BBC.
He played on until last year, playing session work, and drums in the reformed Pentangle, of whom his wife, Jacqui McShee was a member.
He was a superb drummer providing a rock solid structure for the brilliant musicians he worked with.
Conway died on 29 March 2024, at the age of 76, having been diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2022
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Post by Slinger on Apr 2, 2024 15:38:36 GMT
Ultravox star Chris Cross, who co-wrote hit Vienna, dies aged 71 Bass guitarist who helped write some of the group’s biggest hits is described by former bandmate as ‘the glue that held the band together’ OBIT
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Post by Slinger on Apr 19, 2024 16:57:30 GMT
The Allman Brothers Band co-founder Dicky Betts dead at 80. RIP Dicky. OBIT
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Post by Slinger on Apr 25, 2024 18:12:00 GMT
R.I.P. Mike Pinder. Moody Blues’ Founding Member and Innovative Mellotron Player, Dies aged 82. OBIT
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