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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (14 Viewers)

Sadly this last weekend the music world lost a great one ..... Kofi Burbridge. He was the keyboard and flute player for Tedeschi Truck Band. Derek Trucks Band before that. Another great out of the Col. Bruce Hampton School of Music. His brother Oteil is current bass player for Dead and Company. Derek Trucks has had a rough couple of years with some of his collaborators and bandmates passing - The Colonel, Leon Russell, Gregg Allman, his uncle Butch Trucks and Kofi.

https://relix.com/news/detail/kofi-burbridge-has-passed-away/

https://youtu.be/HIsf_OseKic

 
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ffldrew said:
Sadly this last weekend the music world lost a great one ..... Kofi Burbridge. He was the keyboard and flute player for Tedeschi Truck Band. Derek Trucks Band before that. Another great out of the Col. Bruce Hampton School of Music. His brother Oteil is current bass player for Dead and Company. Derek Trucks has had a rough couple of years with some of his collaborators and bandmates passing - The Colonel, Leon Russell, Gregg Allman, his uncle Butch Trucks and Kofi.

https://relix.com/news/detail/kofi-burbridge-has-passed-away/

https://youtu.be/HIsf_OseKic
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Thanks for posting this. Angel From Montgomery is such a great song. Glad to see bands like TTB giving it some play. 

RIP Kofi

 
wikkidpissah said:
Something charming about the "i'm just happy to be here" guy in a boy band, which must be the reason my 'awwww' was so big & sincere when i saw this, half a century past relevance. RIP -
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After a week of kids home being sick and and snow days, I remember back to my school days off in the late 70s, early 80s, and The Monkees show was fun to watch when I was in elementary school.

I was thinking more of this because another friend posted something about a horror movie being made based on The Banana Splits. Now I have their theme song stuck in my head!!

 
wikkidpissah said:
Something charming about the "i'm just happy to be here" guy in a boy band, which must be the reason my 'awwww' was so big & sincere when i saw this, half a century past relevance. RIP -
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He did only get in the Monkees because the producers turned down Stephen Stills (bad hair and teeth), who recommended Tork as his somewhat lookalike replacement.

To be fair though, Tork was a superior musician compared to the rest of the band.

 
zamboni said:
He did only get in the Monkees because the producers turned down Stephen Stills (bad hair and teeth), who recommended Tork as his somewhat lookalike replacement.

To be fair though, Tork was a superior musician compared to the rest of the band.
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All four were pretty artistic in their own way. Dolenz turned out to be a pretty fine rock & roll singer, and he was probably the least talented of the bunch.

Anyway, caught their show when I was a wee lad and it was continually on reruns as I grew older. I caught a stray episode a few years ago for the first time in forever and thought it was still pretty clever.

It's also funny how critical view of the Monkees changed over the years - in the 60s & 70s, they were decidedly unhip, a rip off, untalented, a fraud because they didn't write/play all their own songs (go look at who played on the hippie-folk-Rolling Stone fave Byrds' first records and get back to me with THAT complaint). Turned around the last couple of decades, though.

RIP, Peter. 

 
Huge fan of the Monkees, definitely unfairly maligned and belong in the RnR HoF over a lot of acts already enshrined.   Peter was an excellent musician and came up with the catchy piano intro on "Daydream Believer".   RIP

 
Uruk-Hai said:
All four were pretty artistic in their own way. Dolenz turned out to be a pretty fine rock & roll singer, and he was probably the least talented of the bunch.

Anyway, caught their show when I was a wee lad and it was continually on reruns as I grew older. I caught a stray episode a few years ago for the first time in forever and thought it was still pretty clever.

It's also funny how critical view of the Monkees changed over the years - in the 60s & 70s, they were decidedly unhip, a rip off, untalented, a fraud because they didn't write/play all their own songs (go look at who played on the hippie-folk-Rolling Stone fave Byrds' first records and get back to me with THAT complaint). Turned around the last couple of decades, though.

RIP, Peter. 
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True, Dolenz was a fine singer, considerably better than Davy Jones.

I thought they became very interesting when they embraced the prevailing psychedelic movement with the movie Head, in particular the Carole King/Gerry Goffin penned "Porpoise Song (Theme From Head)". 

 
Walking Boot said:
This friend-of-a-friend old lady I know is a huge Monkees fan. I'm sure she's down today. But she had the best story...

We're talking one day about "first concerts", everyone telling the story of the first band they saw live, and trying to one-up each other. This old lady stays quiet. We're throwing out names, Motley Crue, New Kids on the Block, Frampton, whatever. She's quiet. Once everyone's said theirs, she pipes up. "I got you all beat."

She's a nice Southern church lady type. Knows her manners. Loves the Monkees, has all their albums, all their merchandise, ever since she was a child. Adores them, and the Osmonds, so we knew it was going to be one of the two. Sure enough... "The first concert I ever went to as a kid was The Monkees"... and we all kind of roll our eyes at her. I mean, we all had our first concerts with some big name bands of the 70s, 80s, 90s... and she thinks she's going to top us with the friggin Monkees...

Then she says, "...the opening act was Jimi Hendrix."

Jaws drop. "You win."
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She wins for sure.

https://abagond.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/hendrix-monkees.jpg

 
Walking Boot said:
This friend-of-a-friend old lady I know is a huge Monkees fan. I'm sure she's down today. But she had the best story...

We're talking one day about "first concerts", everyone telling the story of the first band they saw live, and trying to one-up each other. This old lady stays quiet. We're throwing out names, Motley Crue, New Kids on the Block, Frampton, whatever. She's quiet. Once everyone's said theirs, she pipes up. "I got you all beat."

She's a nice Southern church lady type. Knows her manners. Loves the Monkees, has all their albums, all their merchandise, ever since she was a child. Adores them, and the Osmonds, so we knew it was going to be one of the two. Sure enough... "The first concert I ever went to as a kid was The Monkees"... and we all kind of roll our eyes at her. I mean, we all had our first concerts with some big name bands of the 70s, 80s, 90s... and she thinks she's going to top us with the friggin Monkees...

Then she says, "...the opening act was Jimi Hendrix."

Jaws drop. "You win."
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Nice.  June-July 1967 IIRC

 
the only Monkee that I met.  I didn't remember it for a few days as I was completely smashed at a small bar in the village.  My friend recalls that I just kept saying "Peter Tork.  Peter ####ing Tork."

Anyway, Monkees have a nice catalog.  Their top 20 tunes rival many. 

Interesting to read in Tork's wiki that Nesmith claimed "had the live performance lineups been based solely on playing ability, it should have been Tork on guitar, Nesmith on bass, and Jones on drums, with Dolenz taking the fronting role"

 
Stanley Donen , director

Gene Kelly's creative partner thru his greatest years, director of Singin' in the Rain and On the Town for him and musicals like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers & Pajama Game once he went out on his own. One of the few directors of musicals to do dramas and comedies as well, he did such varied flicks Charade, Bedazzled, The Little Prince and even Blame it on Rio. He was also a great mentor & friend to my director cousin Rob. RIP -

 
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Epic Problem said:
Mark Hollis, frontman on Talk Talk passes away at 64
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Bummer, I liked his voice.

They did two videos for "It's My Life" and I found this out years and years later, I kind of stumbled upon or rediscovered Talk Talk a few years ago, I don't recall being into them back in the 80's, I quite like them now though.  Anyway, on one of the videos, most of the video is footage from wildlife documentaries and when you do see Mark Hollis, his lips aren't moving, sometimes there are hand drawn images over his lips but all of this to take a jab or make a statement against lip-synching videos that were all the rage back then.  

 
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Sullie said:
Bummer, I liked his voice.

They did two videos for "It's My Life" and I found this out years and years later, I kind of stumbled upon or rediscovered Talk Talk a few years ago, I don't recall being into them back in the 80's, I quite like them now though.  Anyway, on one of the videos, most of the video is footage from wildlife documentaries and when you do see Mark Hollis, his lips aren't moving, sometimes there are hand drawn images over his lips but all of this to take a jab or make a statement against lip-synching videos that were all the rage back then.  
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That video always stuck with me because of the wildlife footage. Never knew the reason for the odd lip edits.

 
Epic Problem said:
Mark Hollis, frontman on Talk Talk passes away at 64
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Was a big fan of their post-success more idiosyncratic stuff (as well as their early more straight ahead early stuff)- thought they hit their peak with Laughing Stock and Spirit of Eden. Can't remember if he was part of O.rang which was cool, but went a  little more out there than my tastes. Loved they constantly pushed the music rather than worry about sales...and just had a great lead vocal tone. RIP

 
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