The RIP thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

^ Amen brother! I consider him to be one of the best metal guitar players ever, such a shame he died like that.

RIP Mr John Lennon who died 34 years ago today. How time flies.

Help me I'm falling!

RIP, Ian McLagen of Small Faces, legend

Edited by Icarium - December 03 2014 at 19:13

Atavachron wrote:

Icarium wrote:

RIP Mike Nichols, great director whom many films i have watched, over the years admired.

Absolutely, a remarkable talent-- most probably know him as a director but he was also a great sketch and improve guy with his wife Elaine May, also a gifted performer and director (e.g. the original Heartbreak Kid with Charles Grodin) .

i have seen lot if ItAS and also with Mike Nichols and ive seen James Lipton outlive many of those guests he has, and Lipton is like 86 years old, he will never die...

RIP Mike Nichols, great director whom many films i have watched, over the years admired.

Larree wrote:

^ Just heard from a friend. What a drag.

Here's the TMZ article.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/05/20/ray-manzarek-dead-the-doors-cancer/

I missed this one ... goodness.

All in all, and I enjoy The Doors as one of the best rock bands ever, I'm saddened to see this happen, but as is the norm these days (I'm almost 64), some of our best friends end up leaving us sooner or later, regardless of us liking them or not.

I thought he did great with the band, because Jim had the visions and the ideas and knew the road, but after Jim left us, Ray kinda lost most of these moments, and sadly enough, he turned down my being able to use 30 seconds of The Doors work, in an obscure moment from "an American Prayer" that no one plays, for a film. That, kinda killed the film for me, because the ending piece was the most important part of the whole film, and I had blown out the class and the professor with the film's visuals and it's choices of music and sound effects.

It's OK now, I'm not angry ... just saddened that some people can not understand a child's creation and inspiration, and they proceed to kill it, instead of helping it more. I would have gone on to do some videos for some Doors material, just for fun, and the one I wanted to do most of all ... "The Soft Parade". i wrote it down, and on that day I cried, I buried that script 6 ft under and that was that! Goodbye Doors and inspiration ... and I know who the real writer and poet was in the group ... Jim!

But your additions to the work was very nice indeed, Ray ... RIP!

Edited by moshkito - November 16 2014 at 12:14

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R. I. P to my father - in - law...

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I'd been on a serious Jack Bruce kick for the past few years - I'd been hoping to catch a Jack Bruce show of any kind.....wot a musician! He was a master bassist and sang like an angel.

I highly recommend the Spirit box set of BBC shows, especially the 1975 band with Carla Bley.

Yeah, jammum, he's been on the turntable so often lately that I feel a personal loss.

I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....

Wow.....we lost Jack Bruce.What a huge loss,rest in peace Jack. Cry

Edited by TheProgtologist - October 25 2014 at 12:28

Rest in piece Jack Bruce, on of the greatest and most influentual bass players of all time, inspiration to so very many meldodic and dynamic bass-players all over the world.