John Mayall.

Don't really know a lot about his music other than that so many future stars seemed to have cut their teeth playing with the Bluesbreakers (as with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated), but I did learn from reading the obituaries that we shared a birthday.

HeavenIsInYrBeard wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2024 8:19 am John Mayall.

Don't really know a lot about his music other than that so many future stars seemed to have cut their teeth playing with the Bluesbreakers (as with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated), but I did learn from reading the obituaries that we shared a birthday.

When I first heard the Bluesbreakers with Cl*pt*n, I finally realized why people talked about him as a talented player. Dunno what happened after that, though.

Abdul "Duke" Fakir, final surviving original member of the Four Tops.

"Walk Away Renee" is such a pretty and pastoral song but the Four Tops rendition is just aces. Great production, vocals, soulful instrumental passage from the Funk Brothers, just aces. 60's soul guard is dying.

Martin Phillipps of The Chills.

Goddamn it.

Just woke up to this.

Crap.

I didn't hear Heavenly Pop Hit until much later in life. It was one of those songs that immediately took hold and left me over the moon.

RIP Martin Phillipps

Just woke up to the news as well. I know he hadn't been well for some time but he seemed to be doing better. I had only just heard him on the radio a couple of weeks ago announcing that he was selling off his music collection. There's a new album of old songs due to come out soon.

https://www.thepress.co.nz/culture/3503 ... ouse-order

Chino XL. Loved his early stuff.

susan wojcicki died at 56. her husband says it was cancer, but nobody can verify that. she made google + youtube into what it is today. i'll let you decide what all that means. i still have a lot to learn about her.

her sister was a guest shark on shark tank. her son overdosed in february.

rsmurphy wrote: Sun Jul 28, 2024 10:59 am I didn't hear Heavenly Pop Hit until much later in life. It was one of those songs that immediately took hold and left me over the moon.

RIP Martin Phillipps

Same for me, but it was a combo of the Pink Frost and House with a Hundred Rooms singles.

I obsessed over Hundred Rooms trying to figure out what was going on with those chord changes all the little flourishy riffs.

I was off on my own early on at college, a hick from MT in the big city, poor as fuck among loads of rich kids, and the peculiar, beautiful melancholia of that song just really got under my skin. Played it over and over again in the audition room at WNUR. Magic.

Brave Words is a truly wonderful record, a masterpiece.