RIP Bert Jansch (of The Pentangle)
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Topic: RIP Bert Jansch (of The Pentangle)
Posted By: Sean Trane
Subject: RIP Bert Jansch (of The Pentangle)
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 05:20
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A few days after David Bedford, Bert departed for that great gig in the sky...
A huge loss!!  ------------- 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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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 05:24
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Another great guitarist gone. Rest in Peace. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 06:06
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Hugely influential singer/songwriter & a marvellous guitarist: Rest In Peace -------------  Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 06:21
| I can't believe it... this morning I read about David Bedford and now Bert Jansch... |
Posted By: Verwuestung
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 06:30
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Very sad news Pentangle was a great discovery for me, and some of Jansch's solo albums are also great. R.I.P Thank you for your music |
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 07:13
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That's sad. I was actually just given a recommendation to listen to The Pentangle. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 08:27
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My love of the acoustic guitar came almost directly from Jimmy Page, and much of the best of Jimmy's acoustic sound came directly from Bert Jansch. "Black Mountainside" is really a cover of a Jansch song, with some modifications. When I discovered the Pentangle it was like a flash of brilliance that I'd been looking for my whole life. I've gotten some of Bert's solo stuff, and he truly was a great ambassador of the instrument.
RIP, thanks for the music. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 08:37
Wait! Seriously? F**k! The death has a lot of work again. R.I.P. He was a great artist.
------------- Sonorous Meal show every Sunday at 20:00 (greek time) on http://www.justincaseradio.com |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 08:43
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Another great musician passed away.
R.I.P.
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Posted By: Sherpa Relaxing
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 09:47
| He was only on tour recently with Neil Young, what a double bill that must've been. Incredible guitarist, lovely man and composer of Needle Of Death, just about that the only anti-drugs song that ever gave one pause for thought, such is the rawness of the emotion contained in it. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 10:42
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15179959" rel="nofollow - Obituary by the BBC Couldn't have put it better myself - will listen to 1974's LA Turnaround this evening... ------------- Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 11:29
Tear in the eye when i found out, One my all time Fav artist's Love his music to bits R.I.P Bert .
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 12:23
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Pentangle was a relative minor period for the one of Britiain's master guitarists of the last 50 years. Especially during the late 60's when Jansch produced a number of excellent solo albums for the Transatlantic label.
Influential, imitated? - absolutely!. Both by the folk fraternity in the UK and numerous rock guitarists, not least Jimmy Page who lifted Jansch's arrangement of the traditional folk song Blackwater Side/Slide for the first Led Zeppelin album (and then claimed composership - as Paul Simon had also done of Martin Carthy's arrangement of the traditional tune Scarborough Fair). Ironically Steve Morse on his first tribute album, cites Jimmy page in the liner notes while seemingly unbenown to him, the associated tune he plays (attributing Page and LZ) echoes Bert Jansch!! ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 14:56
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Another of the greats gone, RIP. We seem to have had rather a lot of RIP threads this year. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005  |
Posted By: DaleHauskins
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 15:09
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Scottish singer-guitarist Bert Jansch dies at 67. Mr.Jansch died of lung cancer Wednesday,was seriously a true virtuoso,founder of the band Pentangle,an innovator of the time,hailed by the likes of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page;Canadian rocker Neil Young and Johnny Marr of the Smiths as a force to be reckoned with,and learned from. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/10/british-folk-guitarist-bert-jansch-dies-at-67.html" rel="nofollow - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/10/british-folk-guitarist-bert-jansch-dies-at-67.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/bert-jansch?newsfeed=true" rel="nofollow - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/bert-jansch?newsfeed=true ˜”*°•♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ☆★♫♪♫♪•*♥✿*•.¸.•*★☆Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄♥•°*” |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 15:14
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RIP Bert - a truly great musician who will be sadly missed! -------------  "Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 15:57
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One of the true greats - time to dig out some of my old Pentangle albums. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 16:13
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Not the best singer, but a fabulous musician. RIP Bert ------------- Property of Queen Productions... 
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Posted By: GypsyJoker
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 16:44
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/10/05/141076128/guitarist-bert-jansch-is-dead-at-67?sc=fb&cc=fmp" rel="nofollow - http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/10/05/141076128/guitarist-bert-jansch-is-dead-at-67?sc=fb&cc=fmp |
Posted By: GypsyJoker
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 21:51
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/pentangle-bert-jansch-dies" rel="nofollow - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/pentangle-bert-jansch-dies |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 06 2011 at 07:36
Then I guess you haven't heard many who sang in the tradition - Al Stewart, Roy Harper, Nick Drake for instance are more the exception - check out Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick for comparison, i.e. who were once called the finger-in-one-ear brigade. Or the lady folk vocalists, e.g. the much praised recent release of the Unthanks represents the N.E English branch of new and old traditions of Anglo Celtic folk fused:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/B004JPI1P8/ref=dp_image_z_0?ie=UTF8&n=229816&s=music" rel="nofollow">  ------------- The best eclectic music on the Web,8-11pm BST/GMT THURS. CLICK ON: http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php - http://www.lborosu.org.uk/media/lcr/live.php Host by PA's Dick Heath. |
Lizzy wrote:Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: October 06 2011 at 09:34
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His guitar mastery speaks for itself, but that voice - deep and pained yet soft and welcoming. In my opinion, the ideal UK folk vocalist.....the whole of the Pentangle, really. Fabulous instrumentalists and vocalists (did Terry sing?). We missed the tour with Neil Young last year because of work....another reason to quit that frankin' job. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: October 06 2011 at 12:31
| Very sad. I was lucky enough to see him in Pentangle a few years. What a stunning performance! |
Posted By: colorofmoney91
Date Posted: October 06 2011 at 19:40
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I've been listening to Cruel Sister all day. ------------- http://hanashukketsu.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - Hanashukketsu |
Posted By: Lizzy
Date Posted: October 07 2011 at 04:15
As a matter of fact, I have listened to every single one of those mentioned in your list, since folk is my main interest here. However, I still stand by my initial statement. If I don't consider him a good singer, that does not mean I don't acknowledge his overall musical talent. Quite the contrary. ;) ------------- Property of Queen Productions...
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