The RIP thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

^ Wayyyyy too young

Greg Lake dead.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/greg-lake-emerson-lake-palmer-co-founder-dead-at-69-w454546

He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!

How strange, I mentioned something about the sound engineer of Jorge Palma's debut on another thread, only to find out a bit later that he passed away this weekend. Hugo Ribeiro was THE Portuguese sound engineer in the 70's/80's. He recorded all the better known Portuguese Prog artists: José Cid, Tantra, Quarteto 1111, Banda do Casaco and Petrus Castrus.

Edited by Meltdowner - December 05 2016 at 07:11

progresssaurus wrote:

... Radim Hladík ... died today ... aged 69 ...

Hadn't heard, wonderful player.

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy

Composer and electronic music pionner Pauline Oliveros dies at 82

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/arts/music/pauline-oliveros-composer-who-championed-deep-listening-dies-at-84.html?_r=0

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/27/503520832/remembering-pauline-oliveros-composer-known-for-deep-listening

...and it was last week, and I can't believe no one on this site talked about it...

The very fine American actor Fritz Weaver passed away. His style was more British. A finely tuned voiced, an aristocratic sculpted face and demeanor, but a human character, flawed and curious. He did tons of things, but I loved his role as Vulcan in the first Man From U.N.C.L.E. broadcast episode and his scientist part in Nicolas Roeg's DEMON SEED, opposite Julie Christie and Robert Vaughn.

R.I.P. Ron Glass from Barney Miller

Awaiting confirmation in a few days but

R.I.P. "Tappy" Wright

Hendrix Roadie.

Dean wrote:

I was very saddened at the news of Robert Vaughn's death. I had a tremendous amount of respect for this

man. Although in my teen years I emulated David McCallum's Illya look: bowl cut blond hair, much too long

for restrictive dress code fascist John A. Rowland High School, Rowland Heights, California, with turtleneck, always being suspended from class, till I cut it and looked closer to the "Let's hit the beach, Marines" style of '60s Amerika.... I found that the politics of Vaughn were closer to mine than the apparent jazz loving Russian. In other words, Vaughn was a Kennedy Democrat and later I found out McCallum was Bush & Bush supporting Scots Conservative/Tory. I was fortunate to meet both of them as a writer on the U.N.C.L.E. set in 1966.

Vaughn was going to go into politics, running for California senator on the Democratic ticket, but got scared by the Storm Trooper faction who threatened him off camera. I think he would have done a good job. R.I.P.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Damn sad, love his music.

I'm damned sad and I didn't like his music. He was a brilliant poet and lyricist, though.

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