The day the music died.

[mjarrels]

Anita Bryant who seemed to sing an orange juice commercial several times a day has died at 84.

Sam Moore of Sam and dave hold on i coming at 89
mark

 

[jjeff]

Bob Ueker "get up, get outta here, gone"AKA Mr baseball, grew up as I'm sure many have from the Midwest listening to him announce brewers baseball games on the radio. Not a musician, but a voice and humor that coincided with the mostly lackluster Brewers, Milwaukee and Wisconsin. RIP.

 

[stuckmotor]

Melba Monygomery

The narration might get on your nerves. I think it's a bot.

 

[Tinhack]

Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary died today.

The first and only concert I ever went to was Peter, Paul and Mary. My high school girl friend bought the tickets. I look back on a path not taken.

 

[RayIN]

That was of course the day that Buddy Holley died. Lately though, we are losing some of what I would term "our generations" greats. David Bowie, Glenn Fry and a number of actors.

With a leap of faith, I get the feeling that many of the members are more or less my vintage (65)? If so, going back to the crazy days of the late sixties and early seventies, no matter what, we had some great music. Certainly much better than what IMHO is being made today. It seems like rock songs try to hard to cover to many themes, country is for those that cannot make it in the rock world, etc, etc.

Anyway, we are barely into the new year and everyday we hear of someone that once was (or perhaps still is) relavent passing on. RIP

Don't leave out Rod Stewart.

 

[MossRoad]

Don't leave out Rod Stewart.

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He's still alive and performing.

 

[RayIN]

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He's still alive and performing.

That's not what I call what he's doing today. His music used to be great.

 

[caver]

RIP John Sykes former Whitesnake guitarist. This was a shocker to me. I saw an older video of him doing Whitenake song AND singing just as good as Coverdale.

 

[PJSprog]

The only time I ever got to see Sykes live was at a small venue in the St. Louis area when he was touring (playing guitar and singing) with Thin Lizzy. He was definitely one of those severely under-appreciated guitar players.

 

[WinterDeere]

...one of those severely under-appreciated guitar players.

So many of those. My personal top three would be:

1. Alex Lifeson - Rush
2. Andrew Latimer - Camel
3. Steve Hackett - Genesis

Lifeson is obvious, absolute force of nature virtuoso. Easily as great or better than Steve Howe or Jimmie Page, but overshadowed by the nature of being in a band with two other guys so far above the state of the art, that by sheer comparison to Geddy and Neil, he goes less noticed.

Latimer is amazing, but Camel never really reached mainstream popularity, so he never had an equal chance to shine.

Hackett is the most interesting, since tunes like The Firth of Fifth show he has the chops, but he rarely lets them show. He seems to be always trying to be "in" the mix, rather than out in front of it.