How About An Obituary Forum? (Today's Obit - James Garner)

[Old Moparz]

Another great musician is gone, Paco de Lucía.      RIP Paco.

Paco de Lucía, Master Flamenco Guitarist, Dies at 66

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/27/arts/music/paco-de-lucia-flamenco-guitarist-dies-at-66.html?_r=0

Paco de Lucía, who was born into a musical family and grew up to become one of the world's greatest guitarists, mastering flamenco music and finding new audiences by blending it with jazz and other genres, died on Wednesday in Mexico. He was 66.

His death was confirmed by a municipal official in Mr. de Lucía's native city, Algeciras, on the coast of southern Spain.

Gaspar Armando García Torres, the Quintana Roo state attorney general, told Mexico's Enfoque Radio that Mr. de Lucía had had a heart attack while on vacation at the Caribbean resort town of Playa del Carmen and died in a hospital, The Associated Press reported.

[Mopar Nut]

R.I.P. Paco

[Old Moparz]

I can't recall if I had the chance to see Paco play. Back in the 80's I saw Al Di Meola a couple of times & also Return to Forever, but I couldn't tell you if he was with any of them.   

[Nacho-RT74]

the most famous Paco's music Theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNMne7U4GY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9aHdr7EvUw

with Al Di Meola y John McLaughlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwfyxpriAM

I think they played sometime with Jaco Pastorius too

R.I.P. Paco de Lucia

[Mytur Binsdirti]

Forget Paco, whoever he was; Jim lange waas far more important. Poor Jim had a date with death and they really hit it off........





http://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/27/jim-lange-dating-game-dies/

[Old Moparz]

Forget Paco, whoever he was;

You might have known who he was if you had steered clear of all the Justin Beiber stuff. 

[Mytur Binsdirti]

And you have this poor guy.....


http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/miss-man-declared-dead-wakes-body-bag-funeral-153326365--abc-news-health.html?vp=1

[Bob T]

I can't recall if I had the chance to see Paco play. Back in the 80's I saw Al Di Meola a couple of times & also Return to Forever, but I couldn't tell you if he was with any of them.   

Bob, Paco Pena is playing out here next month, I might have to get along to see him as he's getting old now...legendary player

[Old Moparz]

I had the chance to see Johnny Winter play years ago & always liked his music. He & his brother Edgar each had their own band that night & then jammed together for the encore.......RIP Mr. Winter   


http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/17/332226923/blues-guitarist-johnny-winter-dies-at-70

Blues Guitarist Johnny Winter Dies At 70

Texas blues legend has died, ending a long and expansive career that included working alongside bluesman Muddy Waters and playing at the Woodstock festival. Winter, who was 70, had been set to release a new album this fall.

Winter's death was confirmed by his publicist, who issued a statement saying, "His wife, family and bandmates are all saddened by the loss of one of the world's finest guitarists."

Winter reportedly died in his hotel room in Zurich, Switzerland. A cause of death has not been provided. He had maintained a busy touring schedule, with dates in the U.S., Canada, South America and Europe scheduled for a four-month tour that was to begin this month.

As a guitarist, Winter was adept at both finger-picking blues grooves and rock-star pyrotechnics, building on the talents that had marked both him and his younger brother Edgar as musicians early in their lives — they formed their first band when Johnny was 15.

Both brothers were born with albinism, and as adults, they grew their white hair long, making them a striking presence on stage.

Winter emerged on the national scene in 1968 after being featured in a Rolling Stone article. That same year, he released his first album, The Progressive Blues Experiment. One year later, he released his self-titled album, and then a follow-up called Second Winter.

The songs on those albums were a mix of originals and standards — but they were all defined by the liquid speed Winter was able to pour out of his guitar.

In the rankings of the all-time greatest guitarists, Winter was named No. 67 by a Guitar World reader poll, and No. 63 by Rolling Stone.

calls Winter "the clear link between British blues-rock and American Southern rock (a la the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd)."

Winter has said he benefited from being exposed to many styles of music as a kid, particularly the blues music he would hear in clubs in his native Beaumont, Texas. And it seems that even in the racially charged era of the 1950s and 60s, the albino kid was seen as just another person who loved the blues.

"Nothing ever happened to me," Winter said on his website. "I went to black clubs all the time, and nobody ever bothered me. I always felt welcome."

"Not many white people in Beaumont cared about the blues," he . "I just liked the emotion and the feeling in the music. It was the most emotional music I'd ever heard."

A longtime fan of Muddy Waters, Winter produced and played guitar on Waters' Grammy-winning album Hard Again in 1977, along with three other Grammy-nominated records. The two met when Winter was around 17 — after the teenager bugged the bluesman to let him play with him on stage.

"He gave me his guitar and let me play," Winter said. "I got a standing ovation, and he took his guitar back."

Of Winter, , "That guy up there onstage — I got to see him up close. He plays eight notes to my one!"

[maxwellwedge]

I'm sorry I never got to see Johnny perform. He was a pretty darned good player. I always forget about him when talking about good guitarists.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

While we're at it, Rosalind Joel has assumed room temperature.


http://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/billy-joel-s-mother-rosalind-nyman-joel-dead-at-92-1.8799868

[Mopar Nut]

R.I.P. Rosalind and Johnny

[Old Moparz]

While we're at it, Rosalind Joel has assumed room temperature.


http://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/billy-joel-s-mother-rosalind-nyman-joel-dead-at-92-1.8799868

Clearly you didn't see the rule about dead unknowns, did you?   

[Bob T]

Got a few good Johnny Winter albums, he made some great tunes.

[TUFCAT]

I'm saddened by the loss of Jim Rockford 

[Mopar Nut]

I'm saddened by the loss of Jim Rockford 

Me too.