The RIP thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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

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

Geoffrey Holder dead: James Bond’s Baron Samedi dies, aged 84.

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

Slartibartfast wrote:

Geoffrey Holder dead: James Bond’s Baron Samedi dies, aged 84.

Damn

RIP

New album!
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385

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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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.

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

Edited by TheProgtologist - October 25 2014 at 12:28

I'd been on a serious Jack Bruce kick for the past few years - I'd been hoping to catch a Jack Bruce show of any kind.....wot a musician! He was a master bassist and sang like an angel.

I highly recommend the Spirit box set of BBC shows, especially the 1975 band with Carla Bley.

Yeah, jammum, he's been on the turntable so often lately that I feel a personal loss.

I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....

R. I. P to my father - in - law...

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."

Music Is Live

Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.

Keep Calm And Listen To The Music…
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Larree wrote:

^ Just heard from a friend. What a drag.

Here's the TMZ article.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/05/20/ray-manzarek-dead-the-doors-cancer/

I missed this one ... goodness.

All in all, and I enjoy The Doors as one of the best rock bands ever, I'm saddened to see this happen, but as is the norm these days (I'm almost 64), some of our best friends end up leaving us sooner or later, regardless of us liking them or not.

I thought he did great with the band, because Jim had the visions and the ideas and knew the road, but after Jim left us, Ray kinda lost most of these moments, and sadly enough, he turned down my being able to use 30 seconds of The Doors work, in an obscure moment from "an American Prayer" that no one plays, for a film. That, kinda killed the film for me, because the ending piece was the most important part of the whole film, and I had blown out the class and the professor with the film's visuals and it's choices of music and sound effects.

It's OK now, I'm not angry ... just saddened that some people can not understand a child's creation and inspiration, and they proceed to kill it, instead of helping it more. I would have gone on to do some videos for some Doors material, just for fun, and the one I wanted to do most of all ... "The Soft Parade". i wrote it down, and on that day I cried, I buried that script 6 ft under and that was that! Goodbye Doors and inspiration ... and I know who the real writer and poet was in the group ... Jim!

But your additions to the work was very nice indeed, Ray ... RIP!

Edited by moshkito - November 16 2014 at 12:14

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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RIP Mike Nichols, great director whom many films i have watched, over the years admired.