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re: Endless Sleep - The Obituary Thread
Posted by bleeng on 6/26/26 at 10:52 am to hogcard1964
David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett, (September 13, 1941 – June 24, 2026) Blood, Sweat & Tears singer has died. He was 84.
The voice behind hits including “You Make Me So Very Happy” and “Spinning Wheel” is said to have died peacefully at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto on Wednesday. A spokesman didn’t give a cause of death.
One of his two Grammy Awards was for the band’s self-titled record, which topped the Beatles “Abbey Road,” Johnny’s Cash’s live album from San Quentin, the 5th Dimension’s “Age of Aquarius” and Crosby, Stills & Nash’s debut to win album of the year in 1970.
Clayton-Thomas was a petty hoodlum in Canada before he found his calling as a musician. Despite leading a nine-piece band complete with a horn section, Clayton-Thomas said in 2023 that he considered himself a blues player.
“Give me three chords and I’ve got a song,” he told bestclassicbands.com.
Clayton-Thomas was onstage with Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1969 when they were one of the bigger acts at Woodstock. The band performed nine songs including the aforementioned hits. They also providing music for the 1970 Barbra Streisand movie “The Owl and the Pussycat.”
Clayton-Thomas left the group in 1972. He recorded more than a dozen solo albums and toured on his own.
He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996.
That organization’s website describes him as “a homeless street kid” who ran away from an abusive home as a teenager and learned to play guitar in jail when a fellow inmate left his instrument behind.
Clayton-Thomas headed to New York City in 1966, where he got noticed by Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer Bobby Colomby and joined the band.
He discovered he needed surgery to fix a defective heart valve in 2010 while performing in Toronto. That scare is credited with inspiring him to make positive lifestyle changes.
“Through the years, he lost none of the attributes that made him one of the greatest vocalists of his generation,” the Canadian Hall of Fame notes. “That unmistakable voice is soaring and sunny, but a dark, sombre shade of blue.”
The voice behind hits including “You Make Me So Very Happy” and “Spinning Wheel” is said to have died peacefully at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto on Wednesday. A spokesman didn’t give a cause of death.
One of his two Grammy Awards was for the band’s self-titled record, which topped the Beatles “Abbey Road,” Johnny’s Cash’s live album from San Quentin, the 5th Dimension’s “Age of Aquarius” and Crosby, Stills & Nash’s debut to win album of the year in 1970.
Clayton-Thomas was a petty hoodlum in Canada before he found his calling as a musician. Despite leading a nine-piece band complete with a horn section, Clayton-Thomas said in 2023 that he considered himself a blues player.
“Give me three chords and I’ve got a song,” he told bestclassicbands.com.
Clayton-Thomas was onstage with Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1969 when they were one of the bigger acts at Woodstock. The band performed nine songs including the aforementioned hits. They also providing music for the 1970 Barbra Streisand movie “The Owl and the Pussycat.”
Clayton-Thomas left the group in 1972. He recorded more than a dozen solo albums and toured on his own.
He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1996.
That organization’s website describes him as “a homeless street kid” who ran away from an abusive home as a teenager and learned to play guitar in jail when a fellow inmate left his instrument behind.
Clayton-Thomas headed to New York City in 1966, where he got noticed by Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer Bobby Colomby and joined the band.
He discovered he needed surgery to fix a defective heart valve in 2010 while performing in Toronto. That scare is credited with inspiring him to make positive lifestyle changes.
“Through the years, he lost none of the attributes that made him one of the greatest vocalists of his generation,” the Canadian Hall of Fame notes. “That unmistakable voice is soaring and sunny, but a dark, sombre shade of blue.”
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re: OU Baseball Team
Posted by bleeng on 6/23/26 at 10:26 pm to Jauquismos
Just watched game 3 tonight and congrats to the Sooners. Hard to stay off the sports channels and websites even for a day and not catch any spoilers.
re: Make A Musical Mt. Rushmore
Posted by bleeng on 6/23/26 at 6:55 pm to Red Boarman
Jazz Rock/Fusion
Return to Forever
Weather Report
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Larry Coryell/Eleventh House
Return to Forever
Weather Report
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Larry Coryell/Eleventh House
The 1972 movie The Night Stalker is a fun watch.
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The best locations are the ones in the small towns that are the size of an actual gas station and aren't infested with people.
Eagle Lake and Giddings Texas. Get your gas, Dr Pepper, sandwich, jerky, and bathroom break-in and out in 10 minutes.
Walter Parazaider (March 14, 1945 – June 17, 2026) was an American woodwind musician who was a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He was best known for being one-third of Chicago's brass/woodwind section alongside Lee Loughnane and James Pankow.
Parazaider was a multi-instrumentalist. He played a wide variety of wind instruments, including saxophone, flute, and clarinet. He also occasionally played guitar.
Inspired by the Beatles hit "Got to Get You Into My Life", Parazaider became enamored of the idea of creating a rock 'n' roll band with horns. Early practice sessions at Parazaider's house included guitarist Terry Kath and drummer Danny Seraphine, who were both friends during his teenage years. Another friend who became involved was future Chicago producer James William Guercio.[citation needed]
The band, originally called The Big Thing, eventually became Chicago with the addition of Lee Loughnane on trumpet, James Pankow on trombone, Robert Lamm on keyboards, and Peter Cetera on bass. Parazaider's primary musical role in the band has consisted of playing woodwinds on James Pankow's horn arrangements. Never a prolific writer, Parazaider's compositional contributions ("It Better End Soon: 2nd Movement", "Free Country", "Aire", "Devil's Sweet", "Window Dreamin'") have been few relative to the other members.
Parazaider performs the highly recognizable flute solo in the Chicago hit "Colour My World", which became a popular 'slow dance' song at high school proms during the 1970s. The band's 1973 hit "Just You 'n' Me" also features a Parazaider solo, on soprano sax.
Parazaider was a multi-instrumentalist. He played a wide variety of wind instruments, including saxophone, flute, and clarinet. He also occasionally played guitar.
Inspired by the Beatles hit "Got to Get You Into My Life", Parazaider became enamored of the idea of creating a rock 'n' roll band with horns. Early practice sessions at Parazaider's house included guitarist Terry Kath and drummer Danny Seraphine, who were both friends during his teenage years. Another friend who became involved was future Chicago producer James William Guercio.[citation needed]
The band, originally called The Big Thing, eventually became Chicago with the addition of Lee Loughnane on trumpet, James Pankow on trombone, Robert Lamm on keyboards, and Peter Cetera on bass. Parazaider's primary musical role in the band has consisted of playing woodwinds on James Pankow's horn arrangements. Never a prolific writer, Parazaider's compositional contributions ("It Better End Soon: 2nd Movement", "Free Country", "Aire", "Devil's Sweet", "Window Dreamin'") have been few relative to the other members.
Parazaider performs the highly recognizable flute solo in the Chicago hit "Colour My World", which became a popular 'slow dance' song at high school proms during the 1970s. The band's 1973 hit "Just You 'n' Me" also features a Parazaider solo, on soprano sax.
re: The College World Series | Tuesday
Posted by bleeng on 6/16/26 at 5:38 pm to Recognizable Poster
They gave away that game against North Carolina with 2 errors.
re: Ulysses S. Grant put Robert E. Lee into Check on this day 162 years ago...
Posted by bleeng on 6/15/26 at 1:08 pm to RollTide1987
We just visited Cold Harbor last week. It's forest and fields now. But a lot of the original trenches are still in place on both sides. I just stood there and imagined those men living in the trenches and absorbing cannon and rifle fire for 2 weeks. It gave me chills to think of that even 162 years ago. A small portion of the 1.5 million casualties and estimated 600-700,000 deaths (2% of the entire USA population).
David John Greenslade (born January 18, 1943 - June 14, 2026) was an English composer and keyboard player. He played with Colosseum from their formation in 1968 until their farewell concert in 2015, and also from 1973 in his own band, Greenslade, and others including If and Chris Farlowe's Thunderbirds.
Greenslade was recruited by Clive Burrows to join Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band in August 1968. Four months later, he left the Ram Jam Band to form Colosseum. Greenslade was a constant member of the band until 2015. He joined the band If for a year in 1972, touring with them in Italy, but left before an American tour to form his own band, Greenslade in 1970
The Greenslade band lasted for four years, producing four studio albums and disbanding in 1976. After the band, he focused on his own solo albums. Among his solo works are Cactus Choir (1976), The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (1979; with art by Patrick Woodroffe) and From the Discworld (1994). Greenslade's television work includes music for the BBC series Gangsters (1975–1978), Bird of Prey (1982–1984) and A Very Peculiar Practice (1986), the theme to which was sung by Elkie Brooks.
Greenslade has mentioned the following pianists as influences: Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck and Joe Zawinul.
“I live within the concept of time. We all live within it, within its restrictions. It’s an important thing: it’s the only thing we’ve all got while we’re still alive. So we have to make the most of it,” Dave Greenslade.
Greenslade was recruited by Clive Burrows to join Geno Washington & the Ram Jam Band in August 1968. Four months later, he left the Ram Jam Band to form Colosseum. Greenslade was a constant member of the band until 2015. He joined the band If for a year in 1972, touring with them in Italy, but left before an American tour to form his own band, Greenslade in 1970
The Greenslade band lasted for four years, producing four studio albums and disbanding in 1976. After the band, he focused on his own solo albums. Among his solo works are Cactus Choir (1976), The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (1979; with art by Patrick Woodroffe) and From the Discworld (1994). Greenslade's television work includes music for the BBC series Gangsters (1975–1978), Bird of Prey (1982–1984) and A Very Peculiar Practice (1986), the theme to which was sung by Elkie Brooks.
Greenslade has mentioned the following pianists as influences: Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck and Joe Zawinul.
“I live within the concept of time. We all live within it, within its restrictions. It’s an important thing: it’s the only thing we’ve all got while we’re still alive. So we have to make the most of it,” Dave Greenslade.
re: Endless Sleep - The Obituary Thread
Posted by bleeng on 6/14/26 at 12:46 pm to Perfect Circle
Dexter Gilman Wansel (August 22, 1950 – May 31, 2026) was an American R&B and jazz fusion singer, arranger, musician, composer, conductor, synthesist and A&R director.
Dexter Wansel was born in Philadelphia on August 22, 1950. He began as an errand boy backstage at the Uptown Theater in Philadelphia[2] from 1959 through 1963 for his step-uncle Georgie Woods. There he met many great artists who encouraged him to pursue music. During high school, he and his friend, Stanley Clarke, performed in bands together.
In 1970, after being honourably discharged from the United States Army, Wansel quietly joined the ranks of synthesists like Wendy Carlos and Dick Hyman, when he began programming the EMS VCS 3 'Putney' and the ARP 2600 for sessions at Sigma Sound Studios both credited and uncredited. From the early to mid 1970s, Wansel also played keyboards for groups such as Instant Funk, Yellow Sunshine, and MFSB. After signing with Philadelphia International Records, as in-house songwriter/producer/arranger, he established a songwriting relationship with the lyricist Cynthia Biggs.
He also collaborated with other writers such as Bunny Sigler, T. Life, Vinnie Barrett and Kenneth Gamble.[2] Wansel produced, wrote, arranged, played keyboards and synthesized hits for artists at Philadelphia International Records as well as numerous other labels. In 1977, he produced the Grammy-winning album Unmistakably Lou by Lou Rawls.
Dexter Wansel was born in Philadelphia on August 22, 1950. He began as an errand boy backstage at the Uptown Theater in Philadelphia[2] from 1959 through 1963 for his step-uncle Georgie Woods. There he met many great artists who encouraged him to pursue music. During high school, he and his friend, Stanley Clarke, performed in bands together.
In 1970, after being honourably discharged from the United States Army, Wansel quietly joined the ranks of synthesists like Wendy Carlos and Dick Hyman, when he began programming the EMS VCS 3 'Putney' and the ARP 2600 for sessions at Sigma Sound Studios both credited and uncredited. From the early to mid 1970s, Wansel also played keyboards for groups such as Instant Funk, Yellow Sunshine, and MFSB. After signing with Philadelphia International Records, as in-house songwriter/producer/arranger, he established a songwriting relationship with the lyricist Cynthia Biggs.
He also collaborated with other writers such as Bunny Sigler, T. Life, Vinnie Barrett and Kenneth Gamble.[2] Wansel produced, wrote, arranged, played keyboards and synthesized hits for artists at Philadelphia International Records as well as numerous other labels. In 1977, he produced the Grammy-winning album Unmistakably Lou by Lou Rawls.
re: No thread on new Death Cab for Cutie album?
Posted by bleeng on 6/12/26 at 5:55 pm to PenguinNinja
Just listened to it today on CD. I enjoyed it and will give it a few more spins.
And I think Plans is better than Transatlanticism, (although both are excellent). I generally like DCFC-it's a nice offbeat group...
And I think Plans is better than Transatlanticism, (although both are excellent). I generally like DCFC-it's a nice offbeat group...
re: What touring artist that are pretty old now still sound awesome live?
Posted by bleeng on 6/4/26 at 12:45 pm to Ramblin Wreck
I've seen in the past couple of years-not necessarily all vocalists.
All are well past 60 years of age:
Gino Vanelli
Ed Kuepper
Al DiMeola
The Damned (Dave Vanian is 69 and sounds awesome and Captain Sensible is 72 and still shreds)
Terry Chambers (XTC drummer)
Rick Wakeman (solo)
Johnny Marr (only 62!)
Beat (Adrian Belew, Tony Levin (80)
Thijs van Leer (Focus-78 now)
Hoping that Guess Who in August still rocks..
All are well past 60 years of age:
Gino Vanelli
Ed Kuepper
Al DiMeola
The Damned (Dave Vanian is 69 and sounds awesome and Captain Sensible is 72 and still shreds)
Terry Chambers (XTC drummer)
Rick Wakeman (solo)
Johnny Marr (only 62!)
Beat (Adrian Belew, Tony Levin (80)
Thijs van Leer (Focus-78 now)
Hoping that Guess Who in August still rocks..
Robert Peapo "Peabo" Bryson (April 13, 1951 – June 2, 2026) the veteran R&B singer best known as the singer behind the Disney film hits “Beauty and the Beast” and “Whole New World,” has died, according to a statement from his family. No cause of death was cited, although the family said he had a stroke on Sunday.
Best known for his smooth voice and duet hit ballads, Bryson, 75, scored hits with the above two songs — duets with Celine Dion and Regina Belle, respectively from hit Disney films — as well as “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love,” “You’re Looking Like Love to Me” and “As Long as There’s Christmas.”
Yet his association with those films belies his long career as an R&B singer. A native of South Carolina, Bryson came up in the 1970s as a member of the group Moses Dillard and the Tex-Town Display. He was signed to the Atlanta indie label Bang Records as a solo artist and released his first album in 1976, and upscaled to Capitol the following year. A long string of R&B hits ensued, including 1977’s “Feel the Fire” and “Reaching for the Sky” and “I’m So into You” and “Crosswinds” the following year. In 1984 he scored his first Top 10 pop hit, “If Ever You’re in My Arms Again,” and followed with “Show and Tell” and “Can You Stop the Rain.”
In 1985, he appeared on the soap opera “One Life to Live,” adding vocals its theme song; that version was subsequently adapted as the show’s main theme and ran on every episode for the next seven years.
Best known for his smooth voice and duet hit ballads, Bryson, 75, scored hits with the above two songs — duets with Celine Dion and Regina Belle, respectively from hit Disney films — as well as “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love,” “You’re Looking Like Love to Me” and “As Long as There’s Christmas.”
Yet his association with those films belies his long career as an R&B singer. A native of South Carolina, Bryson came up in the 1970s as a member of the group Moses Dillard and the Tex-Town Display. He was signed to the Atlanta indie label Bang Records as a solo artist and released his first album in 1976, and upscaled to Capitol the following year. A long string of R&B hits ensued, including 1977’s “Feel the Fire” and “Reaching for the Sky” and “I’m So into You” and “Crosswinds” the following year. In 1984 he scored his first Top 10 pop hit, “If Ever You’re in My Arms Again,” and followed with “Show and Tell” and “Can You Stop the Rain.”
In 1985, he appeared on the soap opera “One Life to Live,” adding vocals its theme song; that version was subsequently adapted as the show’s main theme and ran on every episode for the next seven years.
Update.11 Below is closing this location on Spring Cypress in Spring TX as of May 31 and consolidating into B52 in Conroe.
True. We visited Yosemite a few weeks ago and just a back of the hand calculation I think half of the tourists were foreigners. Lots of Indians. It used to be mostly Japanese with the cameras back in the day. Then the Chinese have started coming here. Now Indians everywhere. Euros are there but they blend in better for some reason. No one seems to be scared off because of the false narrative that the USA is crime mecca.
Richard Hell and the Voidoids..such a great album
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (September 7, 1930 – May 25, 2026) one of the greatest jazz saxophonists of all time, has died aged 95. No cause of death was given but the statement said “the Saxophone Colossus” died at his home in Woodstock, New York, on Monday afternoon. The statement quoted Rollins reflecting on death: “I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn’t feel like that.”
With a catalog of more than 60 albums released from the late-1940s onwards, including collaborations with Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and others.
In a seven-decade career, Rollins recorded more than sixty albums as a leader. His 1956 album Saxophone Colossus was selected for preservation by the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2016. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards. Rollins was often called "the greatest living improviser". Rollins was the last survivor of the 57 jazz musicians depicted in the 1958 photograph A Great Day in Harlem.
Wiik page for more details
With a catalog of more than 60 albums released from the late-1940s onwards, including collaborations with Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and others.
In a seven-decade career, Rollins recorded more than sixty albums as a leader. His 1956 album Saxophone Colossus was selected for preservation by the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2016. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards. Rollins was often called "the greatest living improviser". Rollins was the last survivor of the 57 jazz musicians depicted in the 1958 photograph A Great Day in Harlem.
Wiik page for more details
re: Endless Sleep - The Obituary Thread
Posted by bleeng on 5/23/26 at 2:59 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
Richard Parry (December 22, 1942 – May 22, 2026) was an English saxophonist. During his career, he appeared as a session musician on various albums, most notably with Pink Floyd on the songs "Money", "Us and Them", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Wearing the Inside Out". He also played on the Bloodstone album Riddle of the Sphinx.
My dear friend Dick Parry died this morning,” Gilmour wrote on Instagram. “Since I was seventeen, I have played in bands with Dick on saxophone, including Pink Floyd. His feel and tone make his saxophone playing unmistakable, a signature of enormous beauty that is known to millions and is such a big part of songs such as Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Wish You Were Here, Us and Them and Money.
Parry started his career as a saxophonist in The Soul Committee, a band based in Cambridge that was active in the mid-1960s. He was a lifelong friend of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.
Gilmour asked him to play on Pink Floyd studio albums, including The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), and The Division Bell (1994), as well as in every Pink Floyd live performance between 1973 and 1977, and the 1994 world tour.
Parry also played additional keyboards during Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I, VI and IX on Pink Floyd's 1977 In the Flesh Tour. He also toured as part of the Who's brass section on their 1979–1980 tours.
Parry appeared at the Pink Floyd reunion at Live 8, where he played his saxophone part on "Money". In 2009, he toured Europe and South Africa with the Violent Femmes.
My dear friend Dick Parry died this morning,” Gilmour wrote on Instagram. “Since I was seventeen, I have played in bands with Dick on saxophone, including Pink Floyd. His feel and tone make his saxophone playing unmistakable, a signature of enormous beauty that is known to millions and is such a big part of songs such as Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Wish You Were Here, Us and Them and Money.
Parry started his career as a saxophonist in The Soul Committee, a band based in Cambridge that was active in the mid-1960s. He was a lifelong friend of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.
Gilmour asked him to play on Pink Floyd studio albums, including The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), and The Division Bell (1994), as well as in every Pink Floyd live performance between 1973 and 1977, and the 1994 world tour.
Parry also played additional keyboards during Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I, VI and IX on Pink Floyd's 1977 In the Flesh Tour. He also toured as part of the Who's brass section on their 1979–1980 tours.
Parry appeared at the Pink Floyd reunion at Live 8, where he played his saxophone part on "Money". In 2009, he toured Europe and South Africa with the Violent Femmes.
Elton John-Elton John (better than Empty Sky)
Chicago is touring with Styx this summer. Lee Loughnane is the only original band member still left that is touring. So is it really Chicago?? Or a cover band??
re: What is happening in Houston?
Posted by bleeng on 5/22/26 at 1:03 pm to LemmyLives
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Beer gardens, even if they're not a brewery, where kids can run around, are *packed* in the burbs.
11 Below on Spring Cypress in Spring TX follows the same model since they moved from their Bourgeois/Cutten location last year. The old Fortress brewery location is better set up for families/kids.They are usually doing a brisk business when I am there on random Fridays.
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