The RIP thread

Wow.....we lost Jack Bruce.What a huge loss,rest in peace Jack. 

Edited by TheProgtologist - October 25 2014 at 12:28

Rest in piece Jack Bruce, on of the greatest and most influentual bass players of all time, inspiration to so very many meldodic and dynamic bass-players all over the world.

R.I.P. Fantastic British producer and serious gentleman John Acock !!
John Acock co-produced nine of Steve Hackett’s solo albums.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-acock-mn0000214613/credits

This is from a recent post from Yellow Shark Recording Studios in England:
It is with great sadness that we have to report that one of our regular engineers and producers,John Acock has died after losing his battle with cancer.
John was a very good friend to Yellow Shark having been involved in many of our best sessions,he was a gifted sound engineer and producer having worked with many great artists.
We shall miss his kindness and generosity of spirit greatly and would like to take this opportunity to wish his family our sincerest condolences and sympathy at this difficult time. Jeremy, Malaki and Diten

I am a lifelong Californian guitarist from Los Angeles.I was in a famous Swiss progressive rock band Flame Dream.
John produced,mixed our albums on Vertigo Records Phonogram.
John was such a lovely clever,dry humored gent I got to know working with him in a little Swiss village outside of Luzern called Weggis;also a fantastic studio in Geneva,Switzerland where Flame Dream mostly recorded at owned by Swiss legendary keyboardist Patrick Moraz.
John was always soo inspirational and positive with me as a young 25 year old guitarist.
John was a great man I always loved and look up too that taught me soo many things;and I am truly sorry I will not see him ever again.
John always told me to never stop playing guitar.

R.I.P. John Acock.
Many thanks John for teaching me as a youth...!!
Dale in sunny San Diego,California. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=52-YiwokMO0

Edited by DaleHauskins - October 21 2014 at 15:30

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RIP Paul Revere, frontman of Paul Revere & The Raiders.

Intruder wrote: Jazz giant Kenny Wheeler......RIP

I imagine a lot of prog fans (I, at least) became acquainted with his work through Bill Bruford’s “Feels Good to Me” and his ECM releases like “Deer Wan” and “Gnu High.” Great talent.

RIP U Shrinivas, better known as Mandolin Shrinivas, whom the Western audience would be familiar with as a part of the last incarnation of Shakti.  He was however well known in his own right in India as a prodigious Carnatic musician who performed Carnatic music with an instrument - electric mandolin - that, in the words of John McLaughlin, was neither Carnatic nor Hindustani.  I had the privilege of watching Shakti a couple of years back and they both matched each other very closely and it would have been churlish to regard one as the better performer than the other, at least in that concert.  McLaughlin has hinted that it's hard to imagine a Shakti without him and indeed his unfortunate and untimely death - he was just 45 and the victim of a failed liver transplant - may have drawn curtains on the band for good. 

Edited by rogerthat - September 21 2014 at 04:54

A Roxy bassist gone? 

RIP John Gustafson, formerly of Quatermass, Hard Stuff, The Big Three, Baltik, Roxy Music, and others.