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    Posted: October 05 2011 at 05:20
A few days after David Bedford, Bert departed for that great gig in the sky...
 
A huge loss!!Cry
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Points: 14472 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 05:24
Another great guitarist gone. Rest in Peace.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 06:06
Hugely influential singer/songwriter & a marvellous guitarist:



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Points: 490 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 06:21
I can't believe it... this morning I read about David Bedford and now Bert Jansch...
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Points: 105 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 06:30
Very sad news
Pentangle was a great discovery for me, and some of Jansch's solo albums are also great.
R.I.P

Thank you for your music
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Points: 22774 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 07:13
That's sad. I was actually just given a recommendation to listen to The Pentangle.
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My love of the acoustic guitar came almost directly from Jimmy Page, and much of the best of Jimmy's acoustic sound came directly from Bert Jansch. "Black Mountainside" is really a cover of a Jansch song, with some modifications. When I discovered the Pentangle it was like a flash of brilliance that I'd been looking for my whole life. I've gotten some of Bert's solo stuff, and he truly was a great ambassador of the instrument.
 
RIP, thanks for the music.
You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Points: 2555 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 08:37
Wait! Seriously? F**k! The death has a lot of work again.Unhappy R.I.P. He was a great artist. 

Edited by Prog Geo - October 05 2011 at 08:38
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Another great musician passed away.
 
R.I.P.
 
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He was only on tour recently with Neil Young, what a double bill that must've been.  Incredible guitarist, lovely man and composer of Needle Of Death, just about that the only anti-drugs song that ever gave one pause for thought, such is the rawness of the emotion contained in it.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 10:42
Obituary by the BBC

Couldn't have put it better myself - will listen to 1974's LA Turnaround this evening...

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Tear in the eye when i found out, One my all time Fav artist's    Love his music to bits   R.I.P  Bert .Cry
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Pentangle was a relative minor period for  the one of Britiain's master guitarists of the last 50 years. Especially  during the late 60's when Jansch produced a number of excellent solo albums for the Transatlantic label.
 
Influential, imitated? - absolutely!. Both by the folk fraternity in the UK and numerous rock guitarists, not least Jimmy Page who lifted Jansch's arrangement of the traditional folk song Blackwater Side/Slide for the first Led Zeppelin album (and then claimed composership - as Paul Simon had also done of Martin Carthy's arrangement of the traditional tune Scarborough Fair). Ironically Steve Morse on his first tribute album, cites Jimmy page in the liner notes while seemingly unbenown to him, the associated tune he plays (attributing Page and LZ)  echoes Bert Jansch!!
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 14:56
Another of the greats gone, RIP.

We seem to have had rather a lot of RIP threads this year.
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Scottish singer-guitarist Bert Jansch dies at 67.

Mr.Jansch died of lung cancer Wednesday,was seriously a true virtuoso,founder of the band Pentangle,an innovator of the time,hailed by the likes of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page;Canadian rocker Neil Young and Johnny Marr of the Smiths as a force to be reckoned with,and learned from.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/10/british-folk-guitarist-bert-jansch-dies-at-67.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/bert-jansch?newsfeed=true

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Points: 2546 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 15:14
RIP Bert - a truly great musician who will be sadly missed! 

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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 15:57
One of the true greats - time to dig out some of my old Pentangle albums.
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Points: 4675 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 16:13
Not the best singer, but a fabulous musician.
RIP Bert
Property of Queen Productions...
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Points: 103 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2011 at 16:44
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/10/05/141076128/guitarist-bert-jansch-is-dead-at-67?sc=fb&cc=fmp
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