Dropping Like Flies
Bad freaking week for hockey. Hang on, Gordie!!!!
Clive Palmer, founding member of The Incredible String Band (amongst several other bands)
http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Musicians-pay-tribute-Cornish-folk-scene-legend/story-24675230-detail/story.html
http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Musicians-pay-tribute-Cornish-folk-scene-legend/story-24675230-detail/story.html
Poet Laureate Mark Strand
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.
When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.
We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.
Bobby Keys
The Brady Hoke era of Michigan Football
Bagley wrote:
Bobby Keys
:(
loved hearing the stories in Keef's bio
never knew he played in buddy Holly's band
^from keith
RatBastard wrote:I'm going to say again, "Hang on, Gordie!"
Jean Beliveau
Julian, wrote:RatBastard wrote:I'm going to say again, "Hang on, Gordie!"
Jean Beliveau
Unfortunately t will not be much longer. I believe he had yet another set back very recently.
RatBastard wrote:Yes, he had another massive stroke Monday, apparently.Julian, wrote:RatBastard wrote:I'm going to say again, "Hang on, Gordie!"
Jean Beliveau
Unfortunately t will not be much longer. I believe he had yet another set back very recently.
So much for that reunion. . . I guess Rod will have to go on being schlocky. . .
IAN McLAGAN
http://www.ianmclagan.com
IAN McLAGAN
http://www.ianmclagan.com
very sad
bobby keys and ian maclagan die within a day of each other….
not a good week for the new barbarians
i met maclagan two or three years ago at jammin' java….nice guy….
very sad loss…
not a good week for the new barbarians
i met maclagan two or three years ago at jammin' java….nice guy….
very sad loss…
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/local-news/grammywinning-engineer-and-producer-john-hampton-dies_15797095
John Hampton engineer/producer at Ardent Studios, worked with The Replacements, White Stripes, B.B. King and the Cramps, George Thorogood and the Afghan Whigs etc.
John Hampton engineer/producer at Ardent Studios, worked with The Replacements, White Stripes, B.B. King and the Cramps, George Thorogood and the Afghan Whigs etc.
Neil Reshen
Neil Reshen, a New Yorker whose fierce negotiating with record labels helped a couple of twangy Texans named Waylon and Willie become the iconoclastic voices of ?outlaw? country music, died on Dec. 6 in the Bronx. He was 75. His daughter Dawn Reshen-Doty said the cause was complications of Alzheimer?s disease.
By the early 1970s, Waylon Jennings had grown tired of the constraints of the so-called Nashville Sound ? sweet strings, bland themes, hair spray. After 15 years in the music business, his star was fading and he was deep in debt. When he asked his record company for more money and more creative control, it ignored him.
Then a friend urged Mr. Jennings to talk to Mr. Reshen, warning that he might not actually like him. Mr. Reshen was not a lawyer, not a certified public account, and he was by no means Southern. He had a funny beard and had studied accounting at City College before working his way into the good graces of music executives and performers ? including Ken Glancy, the president of RCA, and Miles Davis during his fusion phase ? by doing their income taxes. In time, he began representing a diverse range of artists and entertainers, including Mr. Davis, Frank Zappa, the Velvet Underground and Peter Max.
However wary Mr. Jennings may have been, he was quickly convinced after he saw the fearlessness with which Mr. Reshen confronted executives at RCA, the label where he had been under contract. After a few memorable meetings ? tense silences, the occasional outburst and well-timed walkouts were among Mr. Reshen?s tactics ? Mr. Jennings?s new manager helped him obtain a substantial advance and something perhaps more priceless: artistic freedom.
?He was,? Mr. Jennings later wrote, ?like a mad dog on a leash.?
Over the next several years, Mr. Jennings became a superstar, releasing a string of hit albums, including ?Lonesome, On?ry and Mean,? ?Honky Tonk Heroes,? ?Dreaming My Dreams? (his first No. 1 hit on the country charts, in 1975) and ?Ol? Waylon,? in 1977.
Not long after Mr. Reshen began working with Mr. Jennings, he also started managing Mr. Jennings?s good friend, a respected songwriter who had never made it big as a singer: Willie Nelson. He, too, wanted more freedom.
The first album Mr. Nelson recorded under a contract that Mr. Reshen helped negotiate with Columbia was called ?Red Headed Stranger.? Spare and dark and recorded in just four days in January 1975, the album was not well received by Columbia executives. They delayed its release, proposing changes to make it more marketable.
Mr. Jennings, concerned for his friend, joined Mr. Reshen in a meeting with the label ? and they both walked out, demanding that the label release the record as it was. Released in May, ?Red Headed Stranger? rose to No. 1 on the country charts and No. 28 on the pop charts. Mr. Nelson, too, became a superstar.
Neil Reshen, a New Yorker whose fierce negotiating with record labels helped a couple of twangy Texans named Waylon and Willie become the iconoclastic voices of ?outlaw? country music, died on Dec. 6 in the Bronx. He was 75. His daughter Dawn Reshen-Doty said the cause was complications of Alzheimer?s disease.
By the early 1970s, Waylon Jennings had grown tired of the constraints of the so-called Nashville Sound ? sweet strings, bland themes, hair spray. After 15 years in the music business, his star was fading and he was deep in debt. When he asked his record company for more money and more creative control, it ignored him.
Then a friend urged Mr. Jennings to talk to Mr. Reshen, warning that he might not actually like him. Mr. Reshen was not a lawyer, not a certified public account, and he was by no means Southern. He had a funny beard and had studied accounting at City College before working his way into the good graces of music executives and performers ? including Ken Glancy, the president of RCA, and Miles Davis during his fusion phase ? by doing their income taxes. In time, he began representing a diverse range of artists and entertainers, including Mr. Davis, Frank Zappa, the Velvet Underground and Peter Max.
However wary Mr. Jennings may have been, he was quickly convinced after he saw the fearlessness with which Mr. Reshen confronted executives at RCA, the label where he had been under contract. After a few memorable meetings ? tense silences, the occasional outburst and well-timed walkouts were among Mr. Reshen?s tactics ? Mr. Jennings?s new manager helped him obtain a substantial advance and something perhaps more priceless: artistic freedom.
?He was,? Mr. Jennings later wrote, ?like a mad dog on a leash.?
Over the next several years, Mr. Jennings became a superstar, releasing a string of hit albums, including ?Lonesome, On?ry and Mean,? ?Honky Tonk Heroes,? ?Dreaming My Dreams? (his first No. 1 hit on the country charts, in 1975) and ?Ol? Waylon,? in 1977.
Not long after Mr. Reshen began working with Mr. Jennings, he also started managing Mr. Jennings?s good friend, a respected songwriter who had never made it big as a singer: Willie Nelson. He, too, wanted more freedom.
The first album Mr. Nelson recorded under a contract that Mr. Reshen helped negotiate with Columbia was called ?Red Headed Stranger.? Spare and dark and recorded in just four days in January 1975, the album was not well received by Columbia executives. They delayed its release, proposing changes to make it more marketable.
Mr. Jennings, concerned for his friend, joined Mr. Reshen in a meeting with the label ? and they both walked out, demanding that the label release the record as it was. Released in May, ?Red Headed Stranger? rose to No. 1 on the country charts and No. 28 on the pop charts. Mr. Nelson, too, became a superstar.
^thanks for posting that..
I recently read a willie nelson bio and Reshen's in it of course…
how weird.. as i type i 'm listening to the last song on Willie Nelson Christmas
I recently read a willie nelson bio and Reshen's in it of course…
how weird.. as i type i 'm listening to the last song on Willie Nelson Christmas