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Obituaries Jan 22, 2016 15:51:09 GMT

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The odd thing to me is those who are still around. I'm glad they are

Who would have put money on Joe Walsh outlasting Frey ?!

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Obituaries Jan 25, 2016 19:08:30 GMT

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This year is tuning out to be a real bad one for musicians passing on to the great gig in the sky

Sad to say another one has left us yesterday Jimmy Bain a great Scottish bassist played with Rainbow/Dio and many others

Jimmy Bain RIP

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John Administrator Posts: 16,169	Obituaries Jan 25, 2016 19:13:55 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by John on Jan 25, 2016 19:13:55 GMT I will listen to Long Live Rock n Roll tonight
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Slinger Rank: Composer Posts: 25,500	Obituaries Jan 26, 2016 18:29:52 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Slinger on Jan 26, 2016 18:29:52 GMT R.I.P. Colin Vearncombe. You might not know the name but he's the bloke singing on this 1987 hit. Grauniad Obit
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Deleted Deleted Member Posts: 0	Obituaries Jan 26, 2016 19:36:26 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 19:36:26 GMT Still play his first album. Very sad loss

ChrisB Administrator Posts: 19,882 Member is Online	Obituaries Jan 29, 2016 7:16:35 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ChrisB on Jan 29, 2016 7:16:35 GMT Paul Kantner, guitarist and singer, founder of Jefferson Airplane. Rolling Stone magazine obituary: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-paul-kantner-dead-at-74-20160128
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MartinT Administrator Posts: 56,945	Obituaries Jan 29, 2016 16:31:17 GMT via Tapatalk Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MartinT on Jan 29, 2016 16:31:17 GMT Gosh. Grace Slick looks like an old grandma these days, too.
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alaska Rank: Trio Posts: 187	Obituaries Jan 29, 2016 16:54:59 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by alaska on Jan 29, 2016 16:54:59 GMT Jan 29, 2016 16:31:17 GMT MartinT said: Gosh. Grace Slick looks like an old grandma these days, too. Be fair... she is 77!!!

MartinT Administrator Posts: 56,945	Obituaries Jan 29, 2016 18:29:02 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MartinT on Jan 29, 2016 18:29:02 GMT Yes, you're right. I forget how old she is. She was in a documentary recently and I was shocked.
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Slinger Rank: Composer Posts: 25,500	Obituaries Jan 31, 2016 16:23:41 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Slinger on Jan 31, 2016 16:23:41 GMT Signe Anderson - original vocalist with the Airplane also died on the same day as Paul Kantner. ultimateclassicrock.com/signe-anderson-dies/
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ChrisB Administrator Posts: 19,882 Member is Online	Obituaries Jan 31, 2016 16:32:31 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ChrisB on Jan 31, 2016 16:32:31 GMT Bloody hell. The lyrics to this are even more appropriate now.
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MartinT Administrator Posts: 56,945	Obituaries Feb 15, 2016 8:09:17 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MartinT on Feb 15, 2016 8:09:17 GMT Viola Beach. We'll never know how good they might have been, but too young to die for sure.
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Obituaries Feb 15, 2016 8:49:20 GMT

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Tragic

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Obituaries Mar 6, 2016 11:55:27 GMT

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Post by ChrisB on Mar 6, 2016 11:55:27 GMT

I've just learnt that Roy Allison died last week.
Gosh - he was involved in some really genuinely ground breaking stuff that is nowadays standard issue in hi-fi. There's a really nice tribute to him by Tom Tyson, here on the Classic Speaker Pages

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A Tribute to Roy F. Allison

1927-2016

By Tom Tyson

Acoustics researcher, writer and loudspeaker designer, Roy Allison, age 88, died March 1 in Manchester, New Hampshire after a long illness.

Allison was born in Milford, Connecticut on May 6,1927. He was the oldest in family of 12 children. Upon graduation from high school, Allison enlisted in the US Navy Reserve and served from 1944-1946; he spent his first year of duty in intensive electronics training and for the remaining year and a half, he was a a radar-electronics instructor.

Following his service, he attended the University of Connecticut from 1946-1949, majoring in electrical engineering, leaving one year shy of a degree in order to support his wife and new baby. He was subsequently recalled to the Navy in 1951 to serve for eight months during the Korean conflict.

In 1949, Allison became a draftsman and staff writer for Radio Communications (Radiocom, Inc.) and was named editor in 1951. Radiocom changed to "Audiocom, Inc" and began publishing High Fidelity magazine in 1953. He became a contributing editor to High Fidelity while continuing to be editor to other trade publications, including TV and Radio Engineering, and Communications Engineering, and beginning in 1955, Audiocraft magazine. By 1954, Allison had become associate editor of High Fidelity and audio editor in 1957. By 1959, however, High Fidelity magazine moved on to new owners and was sold to Billboard Publishing, but Allison had elected to stay with his original publishing company, Audiocom, Inc.

Allison's writing clarity and electronics knowledge led to a meeting with Acoustic Research co-founder and president, Edgar Villchur; in March, 1959, Allison joined AR as "assistant to the president." This position was to be as public-relations assistant to Villchur, but soon after working in AR's repair department, customer service and production engineering, he solved several large production/shipping issues that developed with the AR-2 speaker, and he became chief engineer in 1961. After plant manager Harry Rubenstein left AR to return to teaching in the fall of 1964, Allison assumed this position. Abe Hoffman, former AR president and Allison Acoustics Vice President, commented in 1962 that Roy Allison and Gerald Landau (sales and marketing) were brought into Acoustic Research as understudies who could step into management at the appropriate time, and this proved to be forward thinking on the part of Edgar Villchur.

In 1967, at the time of AR's acquisition by Teledyne, Inc., Allison was made vice president of engineering and manufacturing, a position he held until he resigned from the company in 1972. During these years, Allison established AR's renowned quality-control program, warranty policies and designed (or managed the development of) the AR-3a, AR-4, AR-4x, AR-2x, AR-2ax, AR-5, AR-6, AR-7 and AR-LST loudspeakers in addition to the line of electronics products, including the AR Amplifier, FM Tuner and Receiver and the hugely successful AR-XA Turntable.

In late 1972, Allison left Acoustic Research and spent approximately a year studying the interaction of loudspeakers and rooms. With new-found knowledge of the effects of room boundaries on loudspeakers—now well-known as the Allison "boundary dip"—he felt that he could use this knowledge in the design of a new line of loudspeakers that would address these issues, and co-founded—and became president of—Allison Acoustics, Inc. in March, 1974. He subsequently filed for a patent on his design, US Patent 3,983,333 and published disclosure articles on his research and findings. During this time, Allison also designed a new midrange and tweeter unit with exceptionally wide dispersion, and a patent was applied for this design as well. Allison was responsible for the development and production of Allison Acoustics loudspeakers that were considered to be among the highest-quality products available at that time, including such models as the Allison: One, Two, Three and Four, and subsequent models of that range. Leading high-fidelity publications, as well as consumer-testing organizations such as Consumer Guide and Consumer Reports, consistently rated Allison speakers at or near the top in performance and quality. In the late 1980s, Allison's new flagship model, the IC20, received France's Dispason d'Or top award for excellence. Allison Acoustics closed in 1990.

Roy Allison continued with speaker design into the early 1990s, forming RDL (Room-Designed Loudspeakers) and subsequently RAL (Roy Allison Labs), a mail-order organization. By 1993, Allison retired from the day-to-day grind of loudspeaker engineering and production, and he began outside consulting work in the loudspeaker industry with clients such as JBL, Cambridge Acoustics and BIC.

Allison was intelligent, clear-thinking and largely self-taught in acoustics and mathematics. He was an excellent and precise writer, and during his career, he authored over 100 articles in audio trade magazines and papers in peer-reviewed audio and engineering journals, such as the Journal of Audio Engineering Society (JAES) and the Journal of Acoustical Society of America (JASA). In 1962, he wrote a fine book, High Fidelity Systems: A User's Guide, first published by Acoustic Research and later reprinted by Dover Publications in 1965. In 1973, Allison was elected a life Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society for his contributions to the understanding of interaction of loudspeakers and room acoustics. As well, Allison was an IEEE member.

Through the years, Mr. Allison was highly regarded in his industry and characterized by a kind, soft-spoken and self-effacing demeanor—always thoughtful and generous. He put the customer first, always, and he will be missed in the high-fidelity loudspeaker industry as one of the premiere designers of the formative audio years.

—Tom Tyson March 4, 2016

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MartinT Administrator Posts: 56,945	Obituaries Mar 6, 2016 23:00:25 GMT via Tapatalk Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MartinT on Mar 6, 2016 23:00:25 GMT A really sad loss to the hi-fi world.
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ChrisB Administrator Posts: 19,882 Member is Online	Obituaries Mar 9, 2016 7:56:14 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ChrisB on Mar 9, 2016 7:56:14 GMT I woke up this morning to the news that George Martin has died.
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Obituaries Mar 9, 2016 7:57:22 GMT

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George Martin RIP

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35761464

The 5th Beatle indeed. One wonders what music would have done without his input. Not as good IMO

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Slinger Rank: Composer Posts: 25,500	Obituaries Mar 9, 2016 11:43:50 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Slinger on Mar 9, 2016 11:43:50 GMT R.I.P. George. "A legend in his own lifetime" is a much misused phrase, but I genuinely think it applies to George Martin.
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MartinT Administrator Posts: 56,945	Obituaries Mar 9, 2016 13:55:00 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MartinT on Mar 9, 2016 13:55:00 GMT Nice chap, well spoken, great memories of meeting The Beatles for the first time. I'm sure Paul and Ringo are quite sad, only two of them left now.
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Obituaries Mar 9, 2016 15:20:46 GMT

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The recent programme will be repeated soon I'm sure. BBC4 think it was, may come on BBC1 or 2

A good watch, reinforcing what a nice, honest guy he was

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