R.I.P.

[JozoMujica]

8.12.1980 - 8.12.2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg

[Milosh76]

Lennon

[johnnioza]

Captain Beefheart Dead at 69

[Indy]

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous! got me? RIP Captain Beefheart

[Calavera]

RIP :(

[DarkAttraktor]

.. :(

[Indy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQs8dka52H4

[DarkAttraktor]

Top 14 Reasons Why Captain Beefheart Was a True American GeniusA Don Van Vliet Atomizer Air-bulb InventionBy Rob Chalfen"We're matter - the stars are matter - but it doesn't matter"14. a fine artist before he was a musician, after his musical career ended he resumed painting and achieved an international reputation.13. at 11 had his own show sculpting animals on LA TV. Won a scholarship to study art in Europe, but his folks wouldn't let him go, as all artists were 'fags'. Folks moved to Lancaster to get him away from the decadent element. There he met Frank Zappa12. saw Gregory Corso read in LA at 13.11. with Zappa reconfigured R&B along lines of monster movie fanzines & MAD.10. in the late 60s fused delta blues, beat poetics, Dada/Surrealist techniques, avant jazz, R&B & the kitchen sink into a metaphysics of the imagination that tore a giant hole in the ozone of pop-artistic possibility. Like an American Van Gogh he seemed to open up new landscapes of consciousness as much as of music.9. claimed shamanistic & supernatural abilities; on one occasion the drummer in my band, following around Don & Dr John, witnessed the glass panes of a hotel lobby mysteriously turn opaque as they passed. He was a life-long defender of the rights of animals & wildlife.8. ran his band as a sort of hothouse commune/cult of domineering personality, one veteran later describing the experience as "my Vietnam". He communicated musical ideas via cassettes of his piano playing, singing and late night whistlings over the phone. The musicians were then expected to transcribe these fragments verbatim, and assemble them perfectly into intricate 4-dimensional musical constructions.7. he composed implausibly complex solo guitar pieces like modern acid madrigals6. Zappa produced the Magic Band's masterpiece, Trout Mask Replica, in 1969, initially as a sort of Folkways-type anthropological field recording at the band's commune. Later Don insisted that it all be re-recorded in the studio, convinced that Zappa had been trying to do it on the cheap. (some of the home tapes made it onto the record anyway) . In the studio, he refused to wear phones, syncing his vocals with the band only via the faint leakage through the thick plate glass.5. opening acts, in Boston at any rate, included Mississippi Fred McDowell, the NY Dolls, Larry Coryell, Bonnie Raitt/Dave Maxwell, Dr. John & a trained monkey vaudeville act. "Did you like the Dolls? Oh, balls!"4. in the mid 70s he wandered in an aesthetic wilderness - his label dropped him, he fell in with some sharp operators connected with the band Bread (!) and tried to record 'safe' pop. His Magic band left him, and he toured with a pick up group. One older cat Ellis Horn had played clarinet with Lu Waters Jazz Band in the 40s and had a feature playing 'Sweet Georgia Brown" on an old albert-style clarinet, upturned at the bell. "He sucked up a cosmic particle into his horn," opined Don.3. Zappa helped jumpstart his career, incorporating him into his touring ensemble, though complained Beefheart couldn't cut the arrangements. Several of Zappa's sidemen later defected to the Magic Band.2. In 1976 I interviewed Stiv Bators of the Dead Boys, who very enthusiastically claimed Don as a key influence. "A case of the punks!"1. his 1970 & 1982 music videos, both rejected by tv as too far out, are both in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art.

[Indy]

Jazz musician Billy Taylor dies at 89

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billy Taylor, a leading jazz musician and composer who introduced the genre to wider audiences as a TV broadcaster, teacher and booster of new talent, died Tuesday in New York of heart failure, age 89.The Kennedy Center for the performing arts in Washington, D.C., where Taylor had been the artistic director for jazz since 1994, called him "a great statesman and ambassador for jazz throughout the world.""We are grateful for Dr. Taylor's devotion, friendship and his influence on jazz," Darrell Ayers, vice-president of education and jazz at the Kennedy Center, said in a statement.Representatives for Taylor cited his daughter, Kim Taylor-Thompson, as saying the cause of death was heart failure.Taylor was born in Greenville, North Carolina in 1921 and made his way to New York where he played with jazz greats Ben Webster, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald among others.He began playing professionally in 1944, and as the head of his own trio, Taylor composed over 300 songs and supported future legends such as Charles Mingus.His song "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free," became an anthem for the civil rights movement. But Taylor became famous less as a performer than as one of jazz music's most vocal proponents.On TV and radio, Taylor developed jazz programs, profiled musicians and broadcast music across the United States. He also taught jazz to people through a variety of means including grass-roots programs, and seminars at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he got his PhD and taught as a professor.Throughout his career, Taylor was awarded the 1992 U.S. National Medal of Arts, was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and received over 20 honorary degrees.Taylor, who lived in Riverdale, New York, is survived by his wife, Theodora, and daughter. His son, Duane, died in 1988.(Reporting by Basil Katz; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brBtTluod_w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeXtfmAwvvY

[MrX]

Bobi Farel umro u Rusiji. :( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg

[Indy]

Umro je na goisnjicu Ra-ra-ra-spucinove smrti, koja se takodje zdesila u Sankt Petersburgu.

[assück]

is it safe to say that he also was, errr... gifted?

[Indy]

Gerald "Gerry" Rafferty (16 April 1947 – 4 January 2011)

Rafferty played with Billy Connolly's folk outfit The Humblebum and co-founded the soft-rock group Stealer's Wheel in 1972.The band's debut featured Stuck In The Middle With You, which was later featured in Quentin Tarantino's film, Reservoir Dogs.Rafferty went on to enjoy a successful solo career.Baker Street appeared on Rafferty's 1978 album City To City and was still netting more than 80,000 pounds a year 30 years on.In recent years, Rafferty was better known for alcohol-fuelled incidents than his music.His last album, Another World, was released in 2000.

EDIT. videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMAIsqvTh7g Edited January 4, 2011 by Indy

[Indy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkS169P_Eeo :(

[yolo]

u beogradu zivi bivsa zena saksofoniste koji je odsvirao verovatno najpoznatiji solo na tom instrumentu u novijoj istoriji pop muzike - "baker street". nebitna prica ali znam da sam bio iskreno fasciniran tom trivijom kada sam je upoznao.