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Combine Harvester - The Wurzels

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FORMER Wurzels banjo player Reg Quantrill has died aged 77.
He was one of the original members of the cult West Country band best known for their 1976 chart-topper Combine Harvester.

Reg left The Wurzels in 1974. He went on to play in other bands and acted in TV dramas including Casualty and BBC children’s show Maid Marian And Her Merry Men.

Reg, of Warmley, Gloucs, suffered a major stroke in 2009. He died after he was admitted to Southmead Hospital in Bristol with pneumonia several weeks ago.

His partner Margaret Sweet said: “He had a very good life and will be very sadly missed.”

The Wurzels — dubbed a “Scrumpy and Western” band — were founded by the late Adge Cutler in 1966 and still perform gigs today.
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Pete Cosey, jazz guitarist, dies at 68

Cosey played on some of Miles Davis' most experimental albums
Pete Cosey, a jazz guitarist who was best known for his work in Miles Davis' electric band in the 1970s has died aged 68.

His daughter said he died at a Chicago hospital of complications from surgery on 30 May.

During the 1960s Cosey was a member of the studio band for Chess Records, playing for the likes of Etta James, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.

But it was his creative sound that attracted the attention of Davis.

He liberally applied the distortion pedal to his licks, punctuated by wah-wah effects, and appeared on some of Davis' most experimental albums including Agharta, Pangaea, Get Up With It and Dark Magus.

"Pete's sound was something quite amazing," Wendy Oxenhorn, from the Jazz Foundation of America told the Chicago Tribune.

"He took blues, funk, rap and jazz and combined it into a new sound."

In recent years, Cosey had suffered from health problems, but the musician had been playing music in children's hospitals and schools.

He also featured in Martin Scorsese's 2003 blues documentary, The Blues: A Musical Journey.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2012 07:29 schreef Karina het volgende:
Reg Wurzel (77)

Ik moet bekennen dat ik even niet wist wie het was, maar dit nummer ken ik WEL.

Combine Harvester - The Wurzels

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Brand New Key

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Op maandag 16 juli 2012 20:06 schreef Baba-O-Riley het volgende:
Jon Lord, de toetsenist van Deep Purple is vandaag overleden. Hij leed aan alvleesklierkanker. Hij is 71 jaar geworden.

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Op maandag 16 juli 2012 20:47 schreef Litpho het volgende:

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Hoop dat hij nog wat van zijn pensioen heeft kunnen genieten .

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Bob Babbitt, Funk Brothers bassist at Motown, dies at 74

By Terence McArdle, Wednesday, July 18, 1:15 AM

Bob Babbitt, a bassist for Motown Records and key accompanist to some of the recording studio’s biggest stars, including Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and the Temptations, died July 16at a hospice near his home in Nashville. He was 74.

His wife, Ann Kreinar, confirmed the death and said the cause was a brain tumor.

Mr. Babbitt was part of a core group of Motown musicians nicknamed the Funk Brothers for their dazzling way with hook-laden rhythms. The group — they were almost never credited on records — included bassist James Jamerson, guitarists Robert White and Joe Messina, keyboardists Joe Hunter and Earl Van Dyke, and drummers Benny Benjamin, Richard Allen and Uriel Jones.

Along with guitarists Messina and Dennis Coffey, Mr. Babbitt was one of the few white members among the predominantly African American group. In the acclaimed 2002 documentary “Standing in the Shadows of Motown,” which tells the saga of the Funk Brothers, Mr. Babbitt remarked, “There was such a closeness. When Martin Luther King died, they never expressed to me any kind of hostility. And I felt as sad as they did.”

Mr. Babbitt came to Motown in 1967, when the label was shifting away from its shuffle and cha-cha-based rhythms into more syncopation and psychedelic soul. He credited Jamerson with bringing him to the label’s staff. The two bassists met during sessions at Golden World, a studio that briefly competed with Motown in Detroit and was later purchased by Motown President Berry Gordy Jr.

Mr. Babbitt’s bass playing was featured on Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ “Tears of a Clown,” Edwin Starr’s “War,” the Temptations’ “Ball of Confusion,” Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)” and Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours.”

In addition, his credits outside of the Motown studio included the Parliaments’ “(I Wanna) Testify” (1967), the first national hit for George Clinton’s P-Funk acts; the Capitols’ “Cool Jerk” (1967) and pop singer Del Shannon’s “Little Town Flirt” (1963).

Mr. Babbitt played solo for nearly 90 seconds on bass guitar on Coffey’s funk instrumental “Scorpio” (1971), a Top 40 radio hit.

When the Motown company left Detroit for California in 1972, Mr. Babbitt came east, where his New York City credits included sessions with Elton John, Barry Manilow and Gladys Knight and the Pips’ “Midnight Train to Georgia” (1973). He later worked for producer Thom Bell as part of the studio group MSFB in Philadelphia and toured with folk entertainer Joan Baez and rock singer Robert Palmer.

Mr. Babbitt found that the key to his work in the studio was blending in — and not just musically. He recalled a three-week period in the early 1970s when he did sessions for soul vocal group the Spinners in Los Angeles, hard rocker Alice Cooper in Toronto and then the basic instrumental tracks for a Frank Sinatra record in New York.

“For Frank I wore a suit jacket,” he told a trade journal for New York musicians. “I had jogging clothes on in L.A., and in Toronto I wore a pair of pants that were ripped and some funky old rock-and-roll jacket.”

“Some of the [bass] lines might have been different,” he added. “But the main difference was in the styles, and the way I dressed, which had nothing to do with the record, of course.”

Mr. Babbitt was born Robert Kreinar in Pittsburgh on Nov. 26, 1937. His father, a Hungarian immigrant, was a bricklayer. As a youngster, Mr. Babbitt studied classical upright bass but, as a teenager, his tastes drifted toward rhythm-and-blues. He began performing in nightclubs on the louder and more portable electric bass guitar.

In 1961, he moved to the Detroit area, joined the local band The Royaltones and played on its instrumental hit “Flamingo Express.” The Royaltones later became the touring band for singer Del Shannon.

In the mid-1980s, Mr. Babbitt attempted to establish himself in Nashville and said his Motown credits did not automatically translate to studio work in the country music capital.

“I couldn’t get producers on the phone,” he told the Nashville Tennessean in 2003. “My friend [drummer] Larrie London said, ‘You’ve got to start eating lunch at the San Antonio Taco House, because that’s where all the writers and producers hang out.’ I said, ‘What do I do, strap my bass on, get some business cards and sit there at a little table?’ ”

He added that his expertise in groovy rhythm-and-blues did not favor the slower and simpler country music sound.

“If I had it to do all over again, I would have moved to Nashville and used Kreinar as my name and not tell anybody anything about Motown,” he told the Tennessean. “I’d just be a bass player in town.”

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2012 23:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Bill Doss van Olivia Tremor Control is dood.

The Olivia Tremor Control - A Peculiar Noise Called Train Director

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Op donderdag 2 augustus 2012 10:14 schreef Bosbeetle het volgende:
Tony Sly (No Use For A Name) onverwachts overleden
41 das wel oud voor een punker, meneer rotten niet meegerekend

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Scott Mckenzie, de zanger van het ultieme hippie lijflied San Francisco, is afgelopen zaterdag op 73-jarige leeftijd overleden. McKenzie overleed in een ziekenhuis in Los Angeles, waar hij twee weken geleden was opgenomen.

Scott Mckenzie werd op 10 januari 1939 geboren als Philip Blondheim. Blondheim groeide op in Virginia en raakt daar bevriend met John Phillips. Het tweetal speelde samen in bands als The Abstracts, The Smoothies, The Locals en The Journeymen. Als Phillips in 1964 The Mamas and the Papas opricht gaat McKenzie solo verder. In 1967 schrijft Phillips het nummer San Francisco (be sure to wear some flowers in your hair) voor McKenzie. Het nummer zal in vele landen, waaronder ook Nederland, op de hoogste plek in de hitlijsten staan. Van de single worden wereldwijd meer dan vijf miljoen exemplaren verkocht.

In 1988 schrijft McKenzie samen met John Phillips de hit Kokomo voor The Beach Boys. In 1998 ging de muzikant en componist met pensioen.

San Francisco - Scott McKenzie

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Op maandag 20 augustus 2012 06:59 schreef tong80 het volgende:
Ultieme hippie-lied

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Op maandag 20 augustus 2012 21:04 schreef Berkery het volgende:
Ik ben er nog niet uit welk nummer ik erger vind, San Francisco of Kokomo, maar RIP