The "classic" lineup of Motörhead (Lemmy, Fast Eddie Clarke, Philthy Animal Taylor) are all dead.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:58 (six years ago) link
There's a thread for this iirc.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
Bands in which all of the main members are deadBands formed in the 60s or later, with every single member dead
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 14 June 2018 13:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/619932066/elvis-presleys-longtime-drummer-d-j-fontana-has-died
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 June 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
Leslie Grantham
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Friday, 15 June 2018 12:02 (six years ago) link
civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/dorothy-cotton-civil-rights-leader-and-confidante-to-martin-luther-king-jr-dies-at-88/2018/06/12/0f3e402c-6e4d-11e8-bf86-a2351b5ece99_story.html
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 June 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
Dot Cotton and Leslie Grantham on the same day!
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 15 June 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
Sorry Morbs, that'll mean nothing to you.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 15 June 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
June Brown still alive, don’t DO that!
― suzy, Friday, 15 June 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
Seeing Nick Knox, drummer for the Cramps and Electric Eels.
― nickn, Friday, 15 June 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
Yup, seeing that too. Damn shame, what a drummer and a performer.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 June 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Matt "Guitar" Murphy
https://deadline.com/2018/06/matt-guitar-murphy-dies-blues-brothers-guitarist-and-noted-sideman-was-88-1202411826/
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 June 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link
;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2018 03:28 (six years ago) link
aw damn
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Saturday, 16 June 2018 07:39 (six years ago) link
remember him this wayhttps://www.music-graffiti.com/thumbnails/tn_215BLUES_BROTHERS-159.jpg
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Saturday, 16 June 2018 07:40 (six years ago) link
and this wayhttps://youtu.be/rT8D_L2bBGQ
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 June 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
that's excellent
― Stanley Therapy (stevie), Saturday, 16 June 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
Thank you for posting that, VG.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 16 June 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
That's some absolutely masterful riffing
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 16 June 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
damn that dude could play
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 16 June 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
I could be wrong, but didn't Murphy play w/Sonny Boy Williamson II on "Bring It On Home" and "Help Me"?
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 June 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
I'd think Lorraine Gordon and Matt Murphy could tell you some stories. Those are a couple of people that were first hand witnesses and participants in a whole lot of good music.
For those NYC ILXORs, have you been to the Village Vanguard and what is it like today? It seems that it is still a pretty key jazz club in that music scene even today.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 June 2018 06:36 (six years ago) link
Beautiful, re Nick Knox: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155280445832016&set=a.236094977015.147373.560312015&type=3
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 17 June 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor noted for his advocacy of Dmitri Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina, among others:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/17/gennady-rozhdestvensky-obituary
― pomenitul, Sunday, 17 June 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
xpost Went a few times in the mid 2000s when a good friend's band had a mini residency there. Iconic, subterranean and you could literally hear a pin drop in between tunes ( after applause). I was in awe of the place. Also very small.
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 17 June 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I've been there a half dozen times or so over the last 20 years (first show: Cecil Taylor, 1997). It's exactly the same room it was in the 1930s, 40s, 50s...they've upgraded the sound system, I guess, and probably bought new furniture a time or two, but that's pretty much it. It's a small triangular room, one flight down from the street, with almost no good sight lines unless you're directly in front of the stage. It's not very tourist-friendly, so the people that are there are usually attentive listeners rather than folks on dinner dates. You can hear the sound of the subway mixing with the band sometimes. I think they're pretty testy about people taking pictures during the show, too; I rarely see any on social media, though I see lots of pictures from places like the Jazz Standard, Smalls, the Jazz Gallery, etc.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 17 June 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
XXXTentacion, according to Stereogum.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 18 June 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
Apparently confirmed. Damn - shot.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 18 June 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
(confirmed by the sheriff's office, that is:
#BreakingNews The adult male that was taken to the hospital has been pronounced dead.— Broward Sheriff (@browardsheriff) June 18, 2018
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 18 June 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
It is.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 June 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
https://www.voanews.com/a/leo-sarkisian-voa-music-time-in-africa-program-dies/4432645.html
97 year-old ethnomusicologist, I saw him give a talk at age 77. Smart, nice guy who had traveled the mid-east and Africa, played music himself and spoke numerous languages. His radio program was popular throughout Africa from the 1960s onward.
Sarkisian arrived in Africa as a soldier in the U.S. Army. In 1961, a fateful encounter changed the course of his life. Edward R. Murrow, newly minted as the director of the U.S. Information Agency, came to Sarkisian's apartment in Conakry, Guinea, and asked if he'd like to join The Voice of America. Four years later, he went on the air with "Music Time in Africa."
He spent the next 47 years traveling the continent with his wife, Mary, whom he married in 1949. Together, they met thousands of local musicians and gave their art a global stage.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link
Stanley Cavell
― woof, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
RIP. He was a hero.
― jmm, Wednesday, 20 June 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
Very cool thinker, RIP
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 20 June 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
Koko the sign-language gorilla
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:36 (six years ago) link
nooooooo :(
― topless from 11am (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:47 (six years ago) link
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 June 2018 10:56 (six years ago) link
Volunteer: Where do gorillas go when they die?
Koko: Comfortable hole bye.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:02 (six years ago) link
Aww. I was recently pleasantly surprised to learn that Koko was still alive.
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 June 2018 12:04 (six years ago) link
So many articles with headlines saying that Koko "learned sign language" or "mastered sign language" - really reflects how generally poor reporting on science is. Koko did not learn or master sign language, Koko learned a limited set of signs, Koko never demonstrated any understanding of grammar, without which there is no language.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
can't believe you're maggie thatcher-ing koko
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 June 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
Whatever criticisms you may have about the quality of the reportage, the one thing you have to admit is that Koko sure knew her sign language.
― Rep. Bob Excellentfrappuccino (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 June 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
This tweet is amazing. (And BTW, if you can lie, you understand a language.)
Koko the gorilla once ripped a sink out of the wall and, when her keepers confronted her about it, she blamed her kitten, signing "cat did it." That HAD been my favorite Koko story, until I saw this:RIP to an absolute legend pic.twitter.com/sH6mGQVVZ3— Red Durkin (@RedIsDead) June 21, 2018
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
Nothing against this perfectly nice gorilla, who absolutely did not "master" any kind of language.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
The tweet is bullshit
She may have signed 'cat' but there is no evidence she ever stitched together a sentence in ASL.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
Yeah, yeah, intelligence on the wrong end of the telescope and all that, but to the lay readers of press about Koko, “language” means “being able to communicate in a human like medium” and she certainly did that. Two year olds have little grammar at first but their parents don’t stand back and say “well it’s not actually language.” The value of Koko is to publicise the notion that other species may have cognition and understanding. Which is demonstrably true.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
I am beginning to suspect a gorilla used sign language to lure mfktz into an alley for unsavory purposes. Thus, pity not scorn is the correct response here.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
lol
― tired culché (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
A forty year experiment to see if gorillas can acquire language had the same overwhelming result that every other experiment of its sort has had, that animals cannot acquire language, but nobody wants to accept this, it's too appealing to imagine they can. Nobody is talking about whether gorillas have "cognition" - not sure there is even a good working definition of what that means. How about we don't judge animals by our own standards, they aren't any worse than humans for not having language. "Language" does have a very specific meaning, and it's ridiculous how people who respect science in other areas seem to think they intuitively understand linguistics when they apparently know nothing about it.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 June 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link