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Foo Fighters are bad, but the guy was a good drummer. That's way too young.

My friend Eric grew up with Taylor in Laguna beach - friends thru high school. One of their other high school friends was Jon Davison - the current singer for Yes. Yes played Northerly a while back with Toto as opener (really good show haters). Eric got me a ticket / backstage pass for the show. We were talking with Jon who is about the sweetest, nicest guy you could meet. Eric and Jon kept talking about "have you heard from Taylor" and talking about how he's always on the road, etc. I had to interrupt - Taylor who? It was right around the time that a video of Taylor's hight school band playing the talent show was making the rounds. I think they were juniors and they were jokingly talking about how "Taylor was too talented for us and had to play with the seniors".

Haven't seen a bad word about him in the last 24 hours. Sad to hear of anyone passing at 50 - way to young. RIP.

Very sad to read of Philip Jeck's passing. His music was immensely important to me when I was starting to try to find my own way. It was extremely liberating at the time to hear a sort of open experimental music that somehow wore its heart on its sleeve, was not needlessly overintellectualised and was in no hurry. By all accounts, he was a wonderful guy. Too young at 70, but he obviously managed to touch a lot of people and move admirably in this world. Rest in peace.

jimmy spako wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 5:40 am Very sad to read of Philip Jeck's passing. His music was immensely important to me when I was starting to try to find my own way. It was extremely liberating at the time to hear a sort of open experimental music that somehow wore its heart on its sleeve, was not needlessly overintellectualised and was in no hurry. By all accounts, he was a wonderful guy. Too young at 70, but he obviously managed to touch a lot of people and move admirably in this world. Rest in peace.

Oh no. Sorry to hear.

we lost Mira Calix, who was a very foundational and important figure to Warp Records, and by proxy to the London electronic music scene, throughout the 90s til now. married to Sean Booth of Autechre.

My hometown homeboy. Vale, Chris Bailey.

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speedie wrote: Mon Apr 11, 2022 2:29 am My hometown homeboy. Vale, Chris Bailey.

I know Chris Bailey had a hand in plenty of other songs and albums, the bulk of which I haven't explored, but man is "(I'm) Stranded" one of THEE GREAT rock singles! A high-water mark of post-Stooges, high-octane punk-y music. Not a lot comes close. I love how it keeps going, on and on, and is all the better for it. Was playing it last night in between "Hip Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop)" and some other tunes unrelated. If you knew him personally, you should be proud.

R.I.P.

RIP. I had (I'm) Stranded on last Sunday, and didn't even know he had died.

Gilbert Gottfried, damn.

Yeah, I'm bummed about that one. Steve Bannon still walks freely, but Gilbert is gone.