Patrick Adams, disco producer/impresario
Dropping Like Flies
Kept meaning to post about Patrick Adams, whose name and who he worked with didn’t ring a bell. But, people I follow on Twitter mentioned his passing several time.
The only record I caught he was involved with I was aware of was Eric B & Rakim’s album Follow The Leader
Correction he worked on all three of Eric B & Rakim’s records as well as Salt-N-Pepper
The only record I caught he was involved with I was aware of was Eric B & Rakim’s album Follow The Leader
Correction he worked on all three of Eric B & Rakim’s records as well as Salt-N-Pepper
Full disclosure as a impressable teen in late 70s I fell under the spell of the Disco Sucks movement, even had a Disco Sucks t-shirt that featured three musical figures presumable showing their disapproval. The only figure I remember for sure on it was Beethoven…
The movement start in Detroit as that's where Steve Dahl was at the time, he being of course later had the infamous Disco Demolition event in Chicago.
At the time my exposure to Disco was really just Saturday Night Fever and not much more, not realizing it was a much wider movement that had be co-opted by the white mainstream which resulted in that movie and the Bee Gees, etc doing disco tunes.
I've now of course come to learn a lot of the Disco Sucks movement was also deeply rooted in Racism and Homophobia, as Disco came via Gay Black clubs, etc.
I mention this of course as this movement really did kill an otherwise vibrant music scene… I on occasion will come across a thoroughly enjoyable complication of Underground Disco to further my exposure to the good stuff…
The movement start in Detroit as that's where Steve Dahl was at the time, he being of course later had the infamous Disco Demolition event in Chicago.
At the time my exposure to Disco was really just Saturday Night Fever and not much more, not realizing it was a much wider movement that had be co-opted by the white mainstream which resulted in that movie and the Bee Gees, etc doing disco tunes.
I've now of course come to learn a lot of the Disco Sucks movement was also deeply rooted in Racism and Homophobia, as Disco came via Gay Black clubs, etc.
I mention this of course as this movement really did kill an otherwise vibrant music scene… I on occasion will come across a thoroughly enjoyable complication of Underground Disco to further my exposure to the good stuff…
Missed this one, last month
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/06/03/songwriter-paul-vance-dies/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/06/03/songwriter-paul-vance-dies/
Off-season wrote:Leader of the Laundromat! one of my favorite songs as a kid
Missed this one, last month
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/06/03/songwriter-paul-vance-dies/
This was on heavy rotation on my first record player…heavy rotation
I think I can still sing some of these songs from start to finish
vansmack wrote:Hilarious.
Lawrence Pfaff, Sr.
vansmack wrote:damn…
Lawrence Pfaff, Sr.
It will be challenging to miss Lawrence, Sr. because he was narcissistic. He was incapable of love. Lawrence, Sr.'s passing proves that evil does eventually die, and it marks a time of healing, which will allow his children to get the closure they deserve. Lawrence, Sr. can be remembered for being a father to many, and a dad to none.
I wrote:
Lawrence, Sr. can be remembered for being a father to many, and a dad to none.
devastating
James Caan
Actor in Godfather, etc
82
Actor in Godfather, etc
82
Geez poor Shinzo Abe…hope he makes it
Just shocking from Japan a country that had 6 gun deaths in a recent year (where we had 33000)
Just shocking from Japan a country that had 6 gun deaths in a recent year (where we had 33000)
Shinzo Abe did not survive the assassination
Not my favoritte Abe ever assassinated, but may he RIP.
Not a good week for Prime Ministers.
Julian, wrote:always comes in threes…who's next!
Not a good week for Prime Ministers.
I wrote:If its Xavier Espot Zamora, Julian's America will be plunged into chaos.Julian, wrote:always comes in threes…who's next!
Not a good week for Prime Ministers.
Julian, wrote:I wrote:If its Xavier Espot Zamora, Julian's America will be plunged into chaos.Julian, wrote:always comes in threes…who's next!
Not a good week for Prime Ministers.
well there is this
andorra had the highest life expectancy in the world at 81 years
TIL about andorra
Larry Storch, famously of the show 'F Troop', 6 months shy of his 100th.