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RE: Born on this day ... - Ruby - 22-10-2025
Greg Hawkes (Gregory A. Hawkes to be precise) was born on this day in 1952, in Fulton, Maryland, USA.
He's a multi-instrumentalist and is best known for his keyboard work as a founding member of The Cars.
He has also released two solo albums as well as having been affiliated with other outfits along the way. Not my preference, this super synth laden / new wave / pop stuff, (with one or two exceptions - Ultravox for e.g.) but it's all a learning curve I guess and new wave was a step along the way! One thing leads to another.
I don't think he wrote many tracks with The Cars, but this is one he did - with Ric Ocasek ...
RE: Born on this day ... - James Otto Sweet Heart - 24-10-2025
Happy 69th birthday to Dwight Yoakam!
God bless you and him always!!!
Holly (a girl who was raised on his music)
RE: Born on this day ... - Ruby - 22-11-2025
Happy Birthday to Tina Weymouth who was born on this day in Coronado, California in 1950. She became the bass player for Talking Heads semi-reluctantly, not knowing a single thing about playing that instrument, and apparently David Byrne was not overly excited about the idea when it was first proposed by Chris Frantz - drummer and her boyfriend at the time. They later married (and are still joined at the hip) and also went on to form the Tom Tom Club after Talking Heads split up.
She is untutored but clearly not without musicality and it seems to me, the success of the band might be in large part due to her interpretive basslines. Jeepers - must have been exhausting performing these numbers live - you have to keep spot on timing and she really held it together.
I was interested to read this Guitar World interview by Scott Rowley - https://www.guitarworld.com/features/tina-weymouth-talking-heads-remain-in-light - excerpt as follows ....
“In my own playing,” she told me, “I was trying to pay attention to both melody and rhythm as a means to tie together the drums and David’s extremely bright, no mid-range guitar and vocals. With the addition of Jerry Harrison [Harrison joined in 1976, after their first single] and, finally, the big band, I would go for the deeper tones of reggae. I would need to get out of the middle frequencies to leave room for more players, more layers.
“It came very naturally, organically. It was a sort of deconstructive minimalism: playing well-constructed, simple parts with perfect time and a whole lot of feeling, avoiding flabby bombast. Originality was crucial too. To create new sensations it was a matter of slamming divergent elements and song structures together to see if something good would happen.”
RE: Born on this day ... - Ruby - 20-12-2025
Can't believe that it's been an entire decade since this Happy Birthday post to Alan Parsons which I am re-posting sans glitchy things that appeared when the site was transferred to the new platform. He has since received the OBE and released two 'solo' albums, neither of which have anything close to the appeal of his earlier stuff, IMHO.
"Happy Birthday to Alan Parsons who was born on this day in 1948, in London, England; musician, composer, producer and engineer extraordinaire.
He started out as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road - his first album credit is on Abbey Road, an auspicious start to a stellar career! He has the gift of being able to envision and then execute exceptional quality work. To name a sample list of credits, he was responsible for engineering and producing Al Stewart's Year of the Cat, he engineered Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon (as well as working on one or two others, but he ultimately chose to focus on his own Alan Parsons Project instead of continuing with them), worked on Roy Harper's brilliant Stormcock, John Miles's Rebel and Stranger in the City, with Pilot, some Paul McCartney/Wings albums, a couple of releases for Steve Harley, The Hollies, etc., etc. He has also, together with Julian Colbeck, made an instructional video series about recording titled The Art & Science of Sound Recording (ASSR). I'm sure it's worth delving into, if that's what you do, however, I am not qualified to comment since I know precisely zero about the process!
Nobody's perfect and he's had his fair share of mediocre offerings along the way, but on the whole, I remain a committed fan - his music is exactly my thing and long may his creativity continue.
The Alan Parsons Project was basically a studio project created by AP and Eric Woolfson which used a rotating cast of musicians and singers - some more regular than others, Ian Bairnson (update: now sadly departed, R.I.P.), for example. Some favs - by no means comprehensive, or exclusive ...
From APP's most excellent debut album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Alan Poe - this track chosen for two reasons: AP's voice on EMI's then new vocoder (Leonard Whiting is the singer), one of the first rock albums to feature the use of the device, and the fact that his voice is heard at all, a rare occurrence on any of his albums ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLUeXkzUjM
From I Robot - "Some Other Time" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8TAn-zUQk0
From Pyramid - "In the Lap of the Gods" - (instrumental) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUZ3tijNe3A
From Eye in the Sky - "Silence and I" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76n_uE_W31A
From Ammonia Avenue - "Dancing on a Highwire" .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZwsr2iUgCg
From A Valid Path - "Return to Tunguska" ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlOwosCbW6Y
... and from Turn of a Friendly Card, something none of us has enough of "Time"!"
... in 2025 adding in another of my favourites - this one from Pyramid ... Colin Blunstone - marvelous voice ...
RE: Born on this day ... - James Otto Sweet Heart - 05-01-2026
January 4th:
Patty Loveless (69)
Deana Carter (60)
God bless you and the legendary ladies always!!!
Holly
RE: Born on this day ... - CRAZY-HORSE - 09-02-2026
CAROLE KING (84)
RE: Born on this day ... - James Otto Sweet Heart - 11-02-2026
I'm a day late, but yesterday was the 63rd birthday for country singer Travis Tritt.
God bless you and him always!!!
Holly
RE: Born on this day ... - James Otto Sweet Heart - 21-02-2026
Happy 68th birthday to Mary Chapin Carpenter.
God bless you and the country lady legend always!!!
Holly
RE: Born on this day ... - James Otto Sweet Heart - 29-03-2026
Happy birthday to Reba McEntire and Rodney Atkins.
God bless you and them always!!!
Holly
RE: Born on this day ... - James Otto Sweet Heart - 08-04-2026
Happy 66th birthday to John Schneider!
God bless you and him always!!!
Holly