The RIP thread

What a shame - very influential and very good in their day.

RIP.

Alfa Anderson (Chic) (78)

Jim Beard (Steely Dan) (63)

Dickie Betts (The Allman Brothers Band) (80)

Frankie Beverly (Maze) (77)

Angela Bofill (jazz singer) (70)

Paul Brett (rock guitarist) (76)

Mike Brewer (Brewer & Shipley) (80)

Anita Bryant (singer) (84)

Jon Camp (Renaissance (75)

Eric Carmen (Raspberries) (74)

Chris Cross (Ultravox) (71)

James Darren (actor & singer) (88)

Paul Di'Anno (Iron Maiden) (66)

Duane Eddy (rock & roll guitarist) (86)

Joe Egan (Stealers Wheel) (77)

Frank Farian (Boney M) (82)

Herbie Flowers (Sky) (86)

Nick Gravenites (guitarist) (85)

Francoise Hardy (French singer) (80)

Steve Harley (Cockney Rebel) (73)

John Hawken (Renaissance) (84)

Roy Haynes (jazz drummer) (99)

Clarence 'Frogman' Henry (blues singer) (87)

Cissy Houston (soul singer) (91)

Frank Ifield (country singer) (86)

Doug Ingle (Iron Butterfly) (78)

Tito Jackson (The Jackson Five) (70)

Jack Jones (lounge singer) 86)

Quincy Jones (record producer, songwriter & arranger) (91)

Chris Karrer (Amon Duul II; Embryo) (76)

Greg Kihn (The Greg Kihn Band) (75)

Kris Kristofferson (actor & outlaw country singer) (88)

Leah Kunkel (singer/songwriter) (76)

Linda LaFlamme (It's a Beautiful Day) (85)

Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead) (84)

John Mayall (John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers) (90)

Sergio Mendes (bossa nova musician) (83)

Zoot Money (Zoot Money's Big Roll Band) (82)

Mike Pinder (The Moody Blues) (82)

Mike Pinera (Iron Butterfly) (76)

Catherine Ribeiro (Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes) (82)

Melanie Safka (folk singer) (76)

David Sanborn (saxophonist) (78)

Marlena Shaw (jazz singer) (84)

Peter Sinfield (lyricist for King Crimson) (80)

David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) (80)

JD Souther (singer/songwriter) (78)

Russell Stone (R & J Stone) (77) 

Damo Suzuki (Can) (74)

Richard Tandy (Electric Light Orchestra) (76)

Evelyn Thomas (disco singer) (70)

RIP to Miles Walsh. His wife posted on Facebook that he passed away on March 14. Miles is represented on Prog Archives under his solo project Milo Black, and as a member of the band Osiris The Rebirth.

I first met Miles online at the old mp3.com website, which was at the time a haven for independent, unsigned artists. Miles had loaded up his Milo Black recordings to this site around the year 2000, at about the same time I uploaded my first Superluminal Pachyderm album. Miles graciously accepted my offer to guest on my Prum album, playing electric guitar on the song "Hippopotamus" along with singer Kim Novak. He reciprocated by giving me the honor to contribute to one of his songs on his Ringworld album. We were both members of the Artists Helping Artists collective which tried to promote each others music on the mp3.com website. We both joined Kim's Strange Sandwich Music collective in which we all donated tracks to compilation CDRs manufactured by mp3.com to raise money for charities. Miles also worked with Kim on the Raspberry Silk project and teamed up with singer Duane Tate for the Grumpy & Lumpy project. We gathered monthly for streaming radio broadcasts run by member James Albert (whose Mountains of Madness project was also at mp3.com).

After the demise of mp3.com in 2003, we continued on at Strange Sandwich Music for a couple of years, but without a viable independent artists website, we drifted apart. I later reconnected with Miles on Facebook. At the time he was a member of the Hawkwind covers band Assassins of Silence. Fellow member Dave Adams and Miles joined together to form the band Osiris The Rebirth. Miles hadn't posted anything on Facebook since 2022 and I had no idea he was ill. Although we never met in person, I considered him a dear friend. RIP Miles. 

Some of his music and various projects are on his Bandcamp page:

Sadly, he never re-posted his 1991 album The Tail of Oskar the Fish. I could only find one song from it still on YouTube:

Thats sad news, the Damned were my favourite 'Punk' band by miles and 'New Rose' the best punk single of all time (which he wrote). RIP Brian

And as i'm on the RIP page i'd like to say 'Cheerio, thank you and lots of love' to my father in law who passed away about an hour ago at the age of 92 of scepsis.

Just yesterday evening I was watching the members list, looking at the nicknames that I knew and are missing since years for various reasons. I remember him. 

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I was very young when "Killing Me Softly" was a hit, but I loved it then and still do.