RIP - Music related

axolotl said:
Do tell.

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ETA: If you move this, I will delete my response. It's like it never happened.
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If you read the obit, you will see that he was also a musician and led the Harry Dean Stanton Band.

Yes, I actually read the articles I post links to. Who'da thunk it?
 
I always thought that the comparisons between Tom Petty and Roger McGuinn were flattering to both singers. McGuinn must have felt the same way. In a 2014 interview he said:

“When I heard ‘American Girl’ for the first time I said, ‘when did I record that?’ I was kidding but the vocal style sounded just like me and then there was the Rickenbacker guitar, which I used. The vocal inflections were just like mine. I was told that a guy from Florida named Tom Petty wrote and sings the song, and I said that I had to meet him.

“I liked him enough to invite Petty and the Heartbreakers to open for us in 1976. When I covered ‘American Girl’ I changed a word or two and Tom asked me if it was because the vocal was too high and I said ‘yes.’ I had fun with Tom’s song. Over the years I’ve gotten to know him really well. He’s great, and he’s been kind enough to say what kind of an impact I had on him.”

http://www.kansas.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/article1142008.html

Hat tip to Instapundit for this link.
 
R.I.P. Gord Downie of the Hip

Gordon Edgar Downie CM (6 February 1964 – 17 October 2017) was a Canadian rock musician, writer, occasional actor, and activist. He was the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, which he fronted from their formation in 1984 until his death in 2017.He died of brain cancer.
 
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Nickyboy said:
"Fats" Domino, age 89. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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In 1953, in Down Beat magazine, the Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler made a bold-sounding prediction that turned out to be, in retrospect, quite timid. “Can’t you envision a collector in 1993 discovering a Fats Domino record in a Salvation Army Depot and rushing home to put it on the turntable?” he wrote. “We can. It’s good blues, it’s good jazz, and it’s the kind of good that never wears out.”
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I was too young to throw away my Pat Boone singles when I heard Fats. Pat was long since dethroned. But Fats, not Robert Johnson, was the gateway drug to my lifelong infatuation with black music.
 
Ojai Sam said:
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I was too young to throw away my Pat Boone singles when I heard Fats. Pat was long since dethroned. But Fats, not Robert Johnson, was the gateway drug to my lifelong infatuation with black music.
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Did you burn your Pat Boone singles when you got older?
 
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