Paul Di’Anno, former vocalist of Iron Maiden, passed away at 66.
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Sad news, Killers is a great album. My favourite.
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Sad news and, again, not that old. Killers is excellent.
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Ah siht! One of my all time faves as a nipper. RIP Ron and thanks for the memories.
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Phil Lesh, founding member of the Greatful Dead passed away aged 84. RIP
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He was great. And of course Jerry Garcia
Me … wasn’t a Deadhead but was a fan of their music back then. At the time those and Zappa.
Favourite album was def Mars Hotel.
Such a long time ago.
I bought a couple of Dead albums, Grateful Dead and American Beauty. For such a large ensemble l was surprised and disappointed at how thin and lacking of substance their music sounded. As a result l turned away from listening to them before Mars Hotel.
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For any Trekkies
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Had no idea Phil Lesh was that old… would have made him the oldest member I think.
Not really a huge deadhead either but I have come to like a few of the poppier songs, which I guess makes me less of one. My brother is the drummer in a GD tribute act and I’ve seen it a couple of times, so I’m nothing if not familiar with a lot of it. Even as a prog rock nut it’s tough for me to digest stuff going past 10-15 minutes especially if it is solos.
I did think he was an interesting bass player though, at least.
R.I.P. PHIL !
He had a very personal sound on bass guitar. He played it like a low-pitched version of the trumpet he started out playing.
Here’s a new stealie for Phil :
And here’s the obituary from Dead.net - written by the three surviving members of the Dead:
Today we lost a brother. Our hearts and love go out to Jill Lesh, Brian and Grahame. Phil Lesh was irreplaceable. In one note from the Phil Zone, you could hear and feel the world being born. His bass flowed like a river would flow. It went where the muse took it. He was an explorer of inner and outer space who just happened to play bass. He was a circumnavigator of formerly unknown musical worlds. And more.
We can count on the fingers of one hand the people we can say had as profound an influence on our development - in every sense. And there have been even less people who did so continuously over the decades and will continue to for as long as we live. What a gift he was for us. We won’t say he will be missed, as in any given moment, nothing we do will be without the lessons he taught us - and the lessons that are yet to come, as the conversations will go on.
Phil loved the Dead Heads and always kept them in his heart and mind. The thing is… Phil was so much more than a virtuoso bass player, a composer, a family man, a cultural icon…
There will be a lot of tributes, and they will all say important things. But for us, we’ve spent a lifetime making music with Phil Lesh and the music has a way of saying it all. So listen to the Grateful Dead and, in that way, we’ll all take a little bit of Phil with us, forever.
For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago…
- Mickey, Billy and Bobby
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That’s a lovely obit from the remaining members.
I was a real fan for a while after hearing American Beauty while under the influence, but they had a lot of limitations. Their vocals were pretty poor and they often sounded a bit sloppy. American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead were great albums though.
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You’ve missed the point of the Dead, I think, Cap. Never mind their studio sessions - they were a LIVE band. Check out some of their live recordings on archive.org. My favourite period is the 1980s (from 1979 to 1990) when the amazing Brent Mydland was on keys.
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I’ve heard plenty of live Dead. I had a couple of live albums
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I know what you mean about them being a live band. I was just disappointed as the 2 albums l had are widely considered their best studio albums.
That’s sad. Whenever I hear anything related to the Grateful Dead I have an almost Pavlovian response to go and look up their “Wall of Sound” (PA system developed for their live gigs in the early 70s.) Some of the principles developed from it form the backbone of audio in multi million-dollar stadium tours and installations all over the world today. They’ve been a lot more influential than most people realise.
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I just wanna say I’m thinking of @Maxx
Biggest Dead Head I’m aware of on here.
Hope he’s fully immersed in some prime live Dead right now.
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Yep, and it was their bespoke guitars and basses that eventually became the Alembic company.
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