The RIP thread

Slartibartfast wrote: Geoffrey Holder dead: James Bond’s Baron Samedi dies, aged 84.

Geoffrey Holder dead: James Bond’s Baron Samedi dies, aged 84.

RIP Paul Revere, frontman of Paul Revere & The Raiders.

Intruder wrote: Jazz giant Kenny Wheeler......RIP

I imagine a lot of prog fans (I, at least) became acquainted with his work through Bill Bruford’s “Feels Good to Me” and his ECM releases like “Deer Wan” and “Gnu High.” Great talent.

RIP U Shrinivas, better known as Mandolin Shrinivas, whom the Western audience would be familiar with as a part of the last incarnation of Shakti.  He was however well known in his own right in India as a prodigious Carnatic musician who performed Carnatic music with an instrument - electric mandolin - that, in the words of John McLaughlin, was neither Carnatic nor Hindustani.  I had the privilege of watching Shakti a couple of years back and they both matched each other very closely and it would have been churlish to regard one as the better performer than the other, at least in that concert.  McLaughlin has hinted that it's hard to imagine a Shakti without him and indeed his unfortunate and untimely death - he was just 45 and the victim of a failed liver transplant - may have drawn curtains on the band for good. 

Edited by rogerthat - September 21 2014 at 04:54

A Roxy bassist gone? 

RIP John Gustafson, formerly of Quatermass, Hard Stuff, The Big Three, Baltik, Roxy Music, and others.

One of the other singers for LADIES CODE that was in critical condition finally succumbed to her injuries from that van crash.

Edited by Prog Sothoth - September 07 2014 at 20:36

RIP. 

RIP Argentinean rock start and leader of legendary Argentinan rock band Soda Stereo Gustavo Cerati.