Bob Shane, last original member of Kingston Trio, 85 https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/new...n-trio-folk-group-dies-at-85/ar-BBZobcM?pfr=1
"Scotch and soda Mud in your eye" They won a country and western Grammy once-- because the folk category hadn't been invented yet... "Hang down your head, Tom Dooley Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head, Tom Dooley Po' boy, you bound to die..."
Reed Mullin, Corrosion of Conformity drummer. Back in the day, he and I were in a circle of friends for about 2-3 years. Early 90s. Good dude, ALWAYS smiling. He got me in free to see Sonic Youth rock the cradle. (If you have Dirty, you get the reference. This one makes me feel really old. Damn.
Orson Bean, fatally struck by a car - 91 https://people.com/tv/orson-bean-dies-fatally-struck-vehicle/
He's worth a video from me as well, but I can't find the album that made me love the PMG (Travels) on YT. Damn licensing crap... I don't want to sell anything bootleg- I just want to listen.
NO! Seriously, for me it's been Travels, First Circle and 80/81. I have to accept that the recordings on those albums are the best renditions of his composing to that point, IMO, and every version I hear afterward gets negatively compared to these. Song For Bilbao, Phase Dance, San Lorenzo, As Falls Wichita, Are You Going w/Me, Tell It All, Yolanda, You Learn... I know Pat and Lyle's solos from these albums by heart, and when newer live recordings of the same tunes come across YT, they just don't measure up. Travels was made up of the very best takes from one or two tours back in the early 80s. And Pat quotes all the time from his earlier solos, which makes comparisons difficult not to engage in. Saw him in Birmingham a few years ago and I felt like he mailed it in. He had done no such thing, of course- it was and is just that he can't do better than he did on Travels, and it was me who didn't realize this until that moment. I still have the utmost respect for him as a player- I just wish he'd do more standards so he could get away from having to remake his earlier tunes that are perfect as they were (like the dumb call/response thing he did with Bilbao a while back- it took ALL the gravity out of the tune).
Sorry-- I thought you meant the compositions from "Travels," not the exact versions. And, God, are there a lot of people covering them on YT...
Travels really is the gold standard for those tunes in my mind. It's kind of like how you can hear several different versions of My Funny Valentine, but only a few times did Miles himself play as well as his sidemen. That's why the '58 take is so popular, IMO.
It's 4:30 in the morning and I can't sleep and got on the computer and, on another web forum, found out about this. This one hurts a lot.
I always thought Heatwave's lead vox was his (earlier deceased) brother Johnny. One of the great slow jams of my childhood. He sings the line, "And I know tomorrow" a lot like I think Nat King Cole would have done