Died on this day ...

[Lovely Linda]

Great interview with Waylon that Bobby Bare did!
https://youtu.be/ZBDv8fInSW0

[Music Head]

Nat King Cole - Alabama native died on this day in 1965 at the age of 45, of cancer

[video=youtube;NIDX18Xl16s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIDX18Xl16s[/video]

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Nat is truly unforgettable.

[Ruby]

Mike Bloomfield died on this day in 1981 – he was 37 – it was an overdose.

From Wiki – “American musician, guitarist, and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess, since he rarely sang before 1969 and 1970. Respected for his fluid guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues legends even before he achieved his own fame, and was one of the primary influences on the mid-to-late 1960s revival of classic Chicago and other styles of blues music. In 2003 he was ranked at number 22 on Rolling Stone’s "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and 42nd in 2011 by the same magazine. He was inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012 and with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.”

From the short-lived Electric Flag, ‘cause I have this album – Cass Elliott on backing vocals -

[video=youtube;XiXp2RObKPk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiXp2RObKPk[/video]

[Music Head]

Lesley Gore - NYC native died on this day in 2015 at the age of 68, of cancer

didn't know she was a lesbo

#2 in 1964

[video=youtube;4QEqLTbEXy0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QEqLTbEXy0[/video]

[CRAZY-HORSE]

so Les was a Les???

[CRAZY-HORSE]

....or as Jazzbo would say: what the hell's that got to do with anything?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

2014:Bob Casale,
best known as a guitarist and keyboardist in the new wave band Devo died of heart failure in Los Angeles, California aged 61.
I don't need an excuse to play a Devo single...

[video=youtube;g4-2onb62y8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4-2onb62y8[/video]

[Ruby]

Kevin Ayers died on this day in 2013 – in his sleep. He was 68. This, from Allmusic “Kevin Ayers was one of rock's oddest and more likable enigmas, even if he often seemed not to operate at his highest potential. Perhaps that's because he never seemed to have taken his music too seriously -- one of his essential charms and most aggravating limitations. After the late '60s, he released many albums with a distinctly British sensibility, making ordinary lyrical subjects seem extraordinary with his rich low vocals, inventive wordplay, and bemused, relaxed attitude. Apt to flavor his songs with female backup choruses and exotic island rhythms, the singer/songwriter inspired the image of a sort of progressive rock beach bum, writing about life's absurdities with a celebratory, relaxed detachment. Yet he was also one of progressive rock's more important (and more humane) innovators, helping to launch Soft Machine as their original bassist, and working with noted European progressive musicians like Mike Oldfield, Lol Coxhil and Steve Hillage.”

There was this comment too, on Wiki – “BBC DJ John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it.”

In the latter years of his life, Ayers became reclusive, tucking himself away in the south of France, but he was tempted out of seclusion by a bunch of admirers and musical peers who’d heard some demos of his occasional solo jamming sessions which were mostly conducted at an artist friend’s kitchen table. The result (with an impressive listing of contributors, including Roxy Music’s Phil Manazera), was his final, very personal album, released in 2007 – The Unfairground. This is from that …

[video=youtube;1m0lCuQvnHI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m0lCuQvnHI[/video]

[Lovely Linda]

Johnny Paycheck, one of my favorites died this day in 2003 of emphysema and asthma :frown:

https://youtu.be/hE_6gU10ftc