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b_olariu
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Topic: Brian Davison Posted: April 16 2008 at 16:24 |
Yesterday at 9.30 died one of the best drumers of his generation. He was in The Nice and Refugee. Some words about this great and never forgotten man and musician.
Admin note - this report has not yet been substantiated, see below. Edited by Easy Livin - April 17 2008 at 03:46 |
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Atavachron
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 16:29 |
oh, sad news, very under-appreciated ..BTW, I think it's Davison, not Davidson
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proggy
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 16:53 |
Refugee is a prog classic.....Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Lee Jackson also deceased........
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 17:02 |
I like the nice. Keith Emerson ftw.
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Easy Livin
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 17:17 |
I cannot see any reports of Davison's death on the net although I see Wiki has been updated. Can anyone provide a link?
Lee Jackson is still very much alive. Edited by Easy Livin - April 16 2008 at 17:23 |
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micky
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 17:20 |
he was no Carl Palmer... but his death would have had something... Googled.. nothing either. So let's turn this into an appreciation thread of the man who did more than anyone to show us just how good Carl Palmer truly is hahahha
Edited by micky - April 16 2008 at 17:21 |
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 18:00 |
His solo in the Heat Goes On from asia on the live stream last nice was amazing... |
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1800iareyay
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 18:03 |
Wikipedia just got changed. It no longer has a death date.
Never trust Wikipedia. I remember checking Jimmy Page's page one day and someone had added a date of death (that day). I freaked out and checked every news source, found nothing, figured it must be fake, then saw that it had been removed. |
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ClassicRocker
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 18:46 |
I think the death dates are frequent "jokes" on the site. Early April, William Shatner's death date was listed as the first |
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febus
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 19:00 |
At least this ''error'' gives an opportunity for us to remember the drummer of the NICE.....not that there were many threads dedicated to DAVISON before this one on PA.....this is a start..
......i am going now listen to CRY OF EUGENE.......beautiful song
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BroSpence
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Posted: April 16 2008 at 22:07 |
Refugee was cool, but the Nice was so awesome!
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Easy Livin
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Posted: April 17 2008 at 03:41 |
Cheers guys, I've changed the thread title pending clarification. B_olariu, can you clarify where this information came from, or substantiate it please?
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paulindigo
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Posted: April 17 2008 at 03:53 |
I'm sorry to say that the news seems to be true, at least according to what some (apparently) weell-informed sources are stating on a thread in www.progressiveears.com
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b_olariu
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Posted: April 17 2008 at 06:01 |
here is what i'm talking about: i take the information from here
groups.google.com/group/rec.music.progressive/
Brian Davison, drummer with late 60s/early 70s British proto-
prog bands; The Mark Leeman Five, The Nice and Every Which Way sadly passed away during the evening of Tuesday 15 April 2008. Brian had been ill since before Christmas, with a brain tumour Following the break-up of The Nice in 1970, Brian's musical Brian was an under-rated drummer who deserved more success than |
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b_olariu
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Posted: April 17 2008 at 06:18 |
Taken from www.progressiveears.com
From ELP_DISC:
------------------ I've just had a phone call from Lee Jackson to tell me that Brian died last night around 9.30pm. Brian had been ill since before Christmas with a brain tumour and secondaries in his liver and was already in a very poor state by the end of January. Lee told me that Keith was on the phone to him when he got the call from Bazz on his landline. with the sad news, so they both found out at the same time. I'm sure all are thoughts will be with Brian's wife Terri at this sad time. Brian was a very under-rated drummer who deserved much more success than he got imho -- David Bentley |
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Drachen Theaker
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Posted: April 17 2008 at 08:46 |
Seems to be true and if so it's very sad, the tough times he had since his music career declined seem to have caught up with him. He was an excellent drummer. His best work IMHO came on Credo from the Refugee album and on the Nice's Ars Longa Vita Brevis, especially Karelia and Brandenburger. He got a superb drum sound on those two albums.
RIP |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: April 17 2008 at 09:42 |
Why isnt Every Which Way in this poll???
RIP, Brian!!! Edited by Sean Trane - April 17 2008 at 12:11 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Easy Livin
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Posted: April 17 2008 at 10:11 |
Cheers guys. I'm sure you'll appreciate that with a sensitive topic such as this, we need to be sure we have our facts right.
Strange how little information there is about it yet.
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tuxon
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Posted: April 17 2008 at 11:04 |
http://www.keithemerson.com/MiscPages/RememberingBrianDavison.html
I'm sorry to hear this, I'll play some Nice albums in his memory.
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elpprogster
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Posted: April 17 2008 at 12:07 |
I first saw the terrible news about "Blinky" death, yesterday on the ELP`s Yahoogroups mailing list. Then it also was spoted and commented on the The Tangent list (Andy Tillison is a The Nice fan).
He was more than a competent drummer and made an even greater work on Refugee than he managed to do on The Nice (according to the liner notes on the Refugee Live Newcastle 1974 CD, one person that was at the time overwhelmed about the band and Davison´s perfomance, was Keith Emerson: he could´t believe that Brian could play so fast. |
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