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    Posted: May 22 2010 at 09:57
Originally posted by XunknownX XunknownX wrote:

They're starting to die one by one...
and it's gonna get worse...  :-(
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2010 at 13:28

He and Pierre Moerlen did some great work with Mike Oldfield - now they´re both gone. Two fantastic percussionists who will be missed.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2010 at 16:52
He made Peter Gabriel's third album extra special.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2010 at 15:31
Mr.Pert was a awesome percussionist;and a hell of a very funny gifted human being...
This Los Angeles guitarist had the pleasure to hang and laugh with him(and Mr.Collins) and the Brand X crew backstage a few nights as they sold out 3 nights performing at The Roxy in Hollywood,southern California.

God protect your soul Mr.Pert forever!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2010 at 21:02
They're starting to die one by one...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2010 at 13:32
Sad news - many too many of them lately
yet you still have time!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2010 at 09:21
he played with the Mike Oldfield band for a while.  I have a video from 1980 that I think he is in.  Sad
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2010 at 08:53
He was my grandmother's cousin's son. Therefore, one set of my great-great-grandparents were Morris Pert's great-grandparents.

As for the music, I've heard some of the albums of Brand X and Peter Gabriel that he played on.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2010 at 08:26
This is sad to hear. All his great work with Stomu Yamashta and Brand X !  One of my favorites.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2010 at 08:04
http://www.morrispert.com

This guy played on some of the albums by prog and prog-related artists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Pert

He was a distant relative of mine, although I never actually met him.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2010 at 21:37
R.I.P Morris PertUnhappy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2010 at 20:58
I am sorry to hear of this just now-i had only been familiar with one of his recordings-the first Sun Treader album from 1973 entitled Zin-Zin with the great J. Peter Robinson. This album, though only a bit of his work, has always been very special to me, almost in a class of its own.
    Co-incidentally, just today i bought a copy of Brand X's Morrocan Roll.
          May his music live on.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2010 at 20:21
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Terrible news. Always meant to check out his solo work...maybe now I actually will....Brand X being played tonight.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2010 at 17:42
That is sad news. Unhappy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2010 at 11:28
Originally posted by Adams Bolero Adams Bolero wrote:

What an awful week for prog. Enrique Jardines from Absolute Zero, Bo Hansson and now Morris Pert.
There deaths will go unnoticed in mainstream music circles but they will be remembered by those that matter: the people who appreciated their music.

let's face it: they will happen more and more often. after all, it has been more than 40 years since prog started. sad but true


Edited by BaldJean - April 29 2010 at 11:29


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2010 at 11:16
What an awful week for prog. Enrique Jardines from Absolute Zero, Bo Hansson and now Morris Pert.
There deaths will go unnoticed in mainstream music circles but they will be remembered by those that matter: the people who appreciated their music.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2010 at 10:45
sad news indeed. R.I.P., Morris.

and, since no-one mentioned it yet: the best album he appeared on, in my opinion, is "Xitintoday", a solo album of Hawkwind's sax and flute player Nik Turner, which also has half of Gong (Steve Hillage, Tim Blake, Mike Howlett, Miquette Giraudy) on it


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2010 at 10:32
First Bo now Morris not a good week.
I was listening to Oldfield last week and Pert was a part of that lineup,but then he was involved with a lot of projects over the years.
RIP Morris.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2010 at 07:35
Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

He was splendid on Livestock - especially Isis Mourning parts 1 and 2. Thanks for posting the info, Hugues - I hadn't realised just how many different projects he'd been invovled in over the years
 
Hey, I had  even forgotten that we could also find his works on PA with Stomu Yamashta in the Red Buddha Theater project as well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2010 at 07:12
Brand X was at its finest with Morris.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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