loved that song Blackwater.
RIP
RIP. 1990 Live version of China Grove where he was on drums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hnPlSQWcxE
You don’t see a lot of bands with two drummers anymore.
Used to be that when a rock star died, we'd lament over how young he or she was. Now they are dying off in their 60s and 70s and we can't say that no more.
It's actually a sign of my own mortality. For decades, I've read about the deaths of jazz and big-band recording artists who had their heyday in the 1930s and 1940s. I had never heard their music and their names did not register with me.
Now it seems that everytime I turn around, somebody who contributed to the music that I grew up with has kicked the bucket in some manner. And it's not the "death by misadventure" that it used to be like drug overdose or driving a car too fast. Now it's heart attacks and other natural causes.
This is getting kind of depressing. I wish I could turn the clock back to say, 1972, and live this life all over again - knowing what I know now.
One thing I would do different, I would not buy a house with such a big lawn to mow.
Never heard of him.
Should I care?
Aw man. My first and second concerts.
I guess I’ve become “My Parents”.
Back in the “Golden Age of Rock and Roll” it took actual talent to get on top, and stay on top. Back in the 70’s - 90’s the competition was fierce, over 300% more fierce than what is found today - and those who made it - flourished. Beatles, Chicago, Supertramp, Doobies, Fleetwood Mac, Alan Parsons, Styx, Queen, The Who, ABBA, Bob Seger, ELO, Elton John, Beach Boys and many more. Back when there were ‘real’ drummers, ‘real’ harmony and you couldn’t get rich by showing a video with a artificial booming base with scantily clad women with big ‘attributes’ as the only thing to sell your song.
The Doobies had hit after hit, album after album; and they sold their music without the need for a video. I mourn the passing of a great artist; but moreso, I miss the fact that there are entire generations of people who have no clue as to what musical artistry is, what a real harmony sounds like, what a counter-melody is and how it interplays with a melody; and moreso - that you don’t need pornography set to music, in order to be enjoyable.
I’m wondering if there isn’t some subtle wordplay going on. Michael Hossack having his picture taken with a hassock as a prop?
Sad to hear this... RIP
... I couldn't understand the rest ...
RIP.