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Philip Paul
August 11, 1925 – January 30, 2022

American Musician | Drummer | Studio Musician
Jazz | R&B | Blues | Jump Blues

Mr. Paul played with (among others):
Arthur Prysock | Bud Powell | Dizzy Gillespie | Tiny Bradshaw |
Freddie King | John Lee Hooker | Little Willie John | Hank Ballard and the Midnighters |
Wynonie Harris | Grandpa Jones | The Stanley Brothers | Jimmy Smith |
Nat Adderley | Herbie Mann | George Weins' Newport Jazz All-Stars

Philip Paul was Cincinnati's King Records "go-to" Studio Drummer from 1952 to 1965

Philip Paul, Drummer on the Original Versions of ‘Fever’ and ‘The Twist,’ Dead at 96 - UltimateClassicRock

Legendary R&B and Jazz Drummer Philip Paul Dies at 96 - Soultracks

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Tiny Bradshaw - The Train Kept a-Rollin' (1951)
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Personnel:
Tiny Bradshaw: Vocals
Jimmy Robinson: Piano
Red Prysock: Tenor Saxophone (Solo)
Rufus Gore: Tenor Saxophone
Leslie Ayers: Trumpet
Lester Bass: Trumpet
Andrew Penn: Trombone
Ted "Snooky" Holbert: Alto and Baritone Saxophones
Rufus Gore: Tenor Saxophone
Clarence Mack: Bass
Philip Paul: Drums

Recorded:
@ The King Records Studios
in Cincinnati, Ohio USA
on October 6, 1951

Released:
in December of 1951

King Records

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Sandy Nelson
Sander Lloyd Nelson
December 1, 1938 - February 14, 2022

American Musician | Drummer/Percussionist | Recording Artist
Session Musician | Solo Artist | Composer | Producer

Sandy Nelson: December 1, 1938 - February 14, 2022 - DrummerWorld

A Tribute to Sandy Nelson - Boulder City Review

Sandy Nelson - Wikipedia

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Sandy Nelson - Let There Be Drums (1961)
Sandy Nelson / Richard Podolor
from:
"Let There Be Drums" / "Quite a Beat" (Single)
"Let There Be Drums" (LP)

Instrumental | Rock Instrumental

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Personnel:
Sandy Nelson: Drums
Richie Podolor: Guitar
Bill Pittman: 6-String Bass

Produced by Sandy Nelson / Richard Podolor

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Emile "The Cat" Francis
Emile Percival Francis
September 13, 1926 - February 19, 2022

Canadian Hockey Player (Goaltender), Coach and General Manager
New York Rangers' Coach | GM
Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee

Emile Francis Dies at 95; Rebuilt N.H.L.’s Rangers as Coach and General Manager - NYT

Rangers Legend Emile Francis Dead at Age 95 - NY POST

Emile Francis Dies at 95, Built 1960's Rangers into Contender - NHL.Com
Hockey Hall of Famer led New York Rangers to '72 Cup Finals

Emile Francis - Wikipedia

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Procol Harum Frontman Gary Brooker Dead at 76

Procol Harum frontman Gary Brooker, who led the band throughout their 55-year history and co-wrote and sang their 1967 classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” died at his home from cancer on Saturday, Feb. 19. He was 76.

“His first single with Procol Harum, 1967’s ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale,’ is widely regarded as defining ‘The Summer of Love’, yet it could scarcely have been more different from the characteristic records of that era,” Procol Harum said in a group statement. “Nor was it characteristic of his own writing. Over thirteen albums Procol Harum never sought to replicate it, preferring to forge a restlessly progressive path, committed to looking forward, and making each record a ‘unique entertainment’.”


“He lit up any room he entered, and his kindness to a multilingual family of fans was legendary,” they continued. “He was notable for his individuality, integrity, and occasionally stubborn eccentricity. His mordant wit, and appetite for the ridiculous, made him a priceless raconteur (and his surreal inter-song banter made a fascinating contrast with the gravitas of Procol Harum’s performances).”

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Gary Brooker
May 29, 1945 – February 19, 2022

British Musician | Singer | Songwriter | Pianist
Founder and Lead Singer of Procol Harum

Member of the Order of the British Empire

Procol Harum Frontman Gary Brooker Dead at 76 - RollingStone
The singer-songwriter and pianist co-wrote and sang the band’s 1967 classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale”

Procol Harum Singer Gary Brooker Dies at 76 - BBC

Procol Harum Lead Singer Gary Brooker has Died, Aged 76 - NME
Procol Harum described Brooker as "a brightly shining, irreplaceable light in the music industry"

Gary Brooker, Lead Singer of English Band Procol Harum, Dies, Aged 76 - TheGuardian
His band pays tribute to musician ‘notable for his individuality, integrity, and occasionally stubborn eccentricity’

Gary Brooker - Wikipedia

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Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale (Stereo) (1967)
(Unreleased Stereo Version)
Gary Brooker / Keith Reid / Matthew Fisher
from:
"Procol Harum: 30th Anniversary Anthology" (1997)
(CD 3: Singles A & B Sides | Outtakes | Alternative Takes)
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Grunge Pioneer Mark Lanegan Dead at 57

Mark Lanegan, the gruff-voiced singer who fronted Screaming Trees before embarking on a successful solo career, died Tuesday at his home in Killarney, Ireland. “No other information is available at this time,” a rep for the singer wrote. “The family asks everyone to respect their privacy at this time.” Lanegan was 57.

Lanegan rose to prominence in the late Eighties and early Nineties as frontman for Screaming Trees, the psychedelic-leaning, Ellensburg, Wash., hard-rock group that foreshadowed grunge. His deep, dramatic voice gave weight to guitarist-songwriter Gary Lee Conner’s compositions in the band’s early days before he took more of an active role himself.

The group scored Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Modern Rock chart with the singles “Nearly Lost You” and “All I Know.” During his time in Trees, Lanegan launched a concurrent solo career, beginning with 1990’s The Winding Sheet, an album that featured guest appearances by Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. He continued with his solo career after the dissolution of Screaming Trees in 2000, frequently making guest appearances with Queens of the Stone Age and teaming with former Belle and Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell, Duke Garwood, and the Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli. The latter duo billed themselves as the Gutter Twins.

Lanegan detailed his formative years in vividly gritty detail in his 2020 memoir Sing Backwards and Weep. Behind the scenes, he grappled with alcoholism and heroin addiction while maintaining his musical career. He cleaned up for the first time after Courtney Love paid to send him to rehab. In a Rolling Stone interview after the book came out, he explained why Love helped him. “I remember Courtney leaving me a letter saying, ‘Kurt loved you as a big brother and would have wanted you to live. The world needs you to live,'” he said. “That was powerful because I hadn’t done any good for anybody in years.” He subsequently connected with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, (who performed as a second guitarist in Screaming Trees) and toured with that group while painting sets for television shows. His most recent solo album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, came out in spring 2020.

“Mark Lanegan was a lovely man,” former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook tweeted. “He led a wild life that some of us could only dream of. He leaves us with fantastic words and music! Thank god that through all of that he will live forever.”

“May you truly rest in peace, big brother,” former Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel tweeted.

“I can’t process this,” John Cale wrote on Twitter. “Mark Lanegan will always be etched in my heart — as he surely touched so many with his genuine self, no matter the cost, true to the end.”

Mark William Lanegan was born in Ellensburg, Washington, about 100 miles southeast of Seattle, on Nov. 25, 1964. Both of his parents were schoolteachers who divorced when Lanegan was young. He claimed in his memoir that his mother was verbally abusive toward him, so he opted to live with his dad. “My father spent scant time trying to parent me,” he wrote. “Due to his own prodigious drinking schedule and his lifelong interest in playing cards all night with his pals and chasing women, he quickly gave up trying to enforce any kind of control.”

Lanegan became enamored with punk and reconnected with childhood friend Van Conner. When he learned that Van, his brother Gary Lee, and Pickerel had a band, Gary Lee suggested that Lanegan record some vocals over some of the songs he’d written, and Screaming Trees were born.

Screaming Trees’ debut, Clairvoyance, was released in 1986 to little fanfare. The music was a psychedelic swirl of guitar, church organ, and Lanegan’s reedy vocals. After signing to SST, the band released similar-sounding albums every year through 1989, during which time it built up a steady local following.

One person introduced himself to Lanegan after a concert, saying, “I’m a huge fan of yours. If you ever need an opener or want to do something musical together, please give me a call.” It was Cobain, who was also a fan of Jamboree, the 1988 Beat Happening album Lanegan and Gary Lee had co-produced. In his memoir, Lanegan recalled a moment later on when Novoselic asked to join the Trees but Lanegan counseled him to stay with Nirvana. “The difference between Nirvana and the Trees was so clear to me,” he wrote. “Nirvana were who they were from the first time I saw them: great songs, great singer, great look, everything.”

Feeling constricted artistically in Screaming Trees, Lanegan starting writing his own songs for what would be his solo debut, 1990’s The Winding Sheet. (Cobain ended up singing on two of the album’s songs, “Down in the Dark” and a cover of Lead Belly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” that also featured Novoselic.) The following year, Nirvana became a worldwide phenomenon and Lanegan felt some of the success both from interest in The Winding Sheet and with the release of Screaming Trees’ Uncle Anesthesia.

The band scored the biggest hit of their career when “Nearly Lost You” was included on the soundtrack for Cameron Crowe’s love letter to Seattle, Singles. By this point, Lanegan had discovered heroin and was drinking again. When he looked back on the genesis of “Nearly Lost You,” which also appeared on the Trees’ Sweet Oblivion album, in a 2012 interview with Spin, he cringed. “It’s one of those songs I hope to never hear again,” he said. “Why? Because it was specifically written to be a single. It’s a corny, cheesy tune. But, you know, whatever. It is what it is.” When asked if fans at his solo shows ever requested it, he said no. “Luckily they have better taste than that.” (Despite Lanegan’s take, Sweet Oblivion has become a grunge touchstone; when Rolling Stone ranked the 50 Greatest Grunge Albums in 2019, it ranked Number 17.)

Screaming Trees put out one more album, 1996’s Dust, which contained the singles “All I Know” and “Sworn and Broken,” but continued to tour through 2000. Meanwhile, Lanegan continued releasing solo albums. In January 1994, he released one of his best, Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, which contained more sophisticated and emotional songs than The Winding Sheet. A few months later, Cobain died by suicide, causing Lanegan to increase his drug use. “When a drug addict loses a friend, they just do more drugs,” he told Rolling Stone.

The next year, Lanegan collaborated with Alice in Chains vocalist Staley on “I’m Above” and “Long Day Gone,” two songs that would appear on Above, the debut album by Mad Season. (The supergroup that also featured Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and Screaming Trees’ Barrett Martin.) “I was not a great influence on Layne, but [drugs] were a mutual thing,” Lanegan told Rolling Stone. “I put it like this in my lyric book: ‘Kurt was like a little brother, Layne was like a twin.'”

Lanegan cleaned up when life in Seattle, where he had moved in the Nineties, no longer became safe. He had double-crossed a drug dealer and had a cop looking for him, so he looked into an organization, the Musicians’ Assistance Program, in California that Courtney Love had told him about. “They paid for my rehab,” he told Rolling Stone. “But I realized I needed a lot more than just that, and Courtney ended up paying for my rent there for months. I was also unemployable and a mess physically after all the years of doing damage to myself. I remember waking up in rehab and the room was filled with bags of new clothes that she had sent in.”

After rehab, Lanegan moved into a halfway house and worked construction until Guns n’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, a longtime fan, gave him a job looking after his home. He reconnected with Homme, who had formed Queens of the Stone Age, and sang lead vocals on a few songs on the band’s Rated R and Songs for the Deaf albums, as well as records by the Twilight Singers, Greg Dulli’s post-Afghan Whigs band. In 2004, Lanegan put out Bubblegum, a critically acclaimed solo offering that featured appearances by Homme, PJ Harvey, Chris Goss, McKagan, Izzy Stradlin, and many others. Songs like “When Your Number Isn’t Up” and “Hit the City,” with Harvey, were brooding, dark, and beautiful. That same year, he fell back into drugs.

“I relapsed and immediately went into a coma for, like, 10 days or something. I almost died,” he told Rolling Stone. “When I came out of it, I can’t explain it, but music was completely drained from me. It was the most fucked-up thing. I got no pleasure or anything out of music: Music that I had loved before, new music, music on the radio, any kind of music — I did not want to hear it. I couldn’t hear it, and I certainly couldn’t fucking write or sing it. I was like, ‘What the fuck am I gonna do now?'”

While supporting himself by painting sets for television shows, he slowly got back into music by touring with Dulli and Queens. His 2012 solo album, Blues Funeral allowed Lanegan to explore his interest in electronic music — but in his typically brooding way — and he would continue exploring those types of sounds throughout his career.

Lanegan’s last decade would prove especially prolific artistically. He formed his own record label and put out albums every few years. He collaborated with Garwood and guested on songs by Earth, Neko Case, Manic Street Preachers, and many others. In 2018, one of Lanegan’s heroes, Marianne Faithfull, asked him to write lyrics for “They Come at Night,” a song for her Negative Capability album that addressed the 2016 terrorist attack on Paris’ Bataclan venue. “He’s one of the most brilliant composers there is,” Faithfull told Rolling Stone at the time. “And he did a brilliant job. It was like it was written for him.” Last year saw the release of his final album, a dark, electronics-imbued collaboration with the Icarus Line’s Joe Cardamone.

In spring 2020, Lanegan was living in rural Ireland with his wife, Shelley, when he contracted the coronavirus. He was placed in a medically induced coma but survived. “It was definitely in my top five worst experiences,” he told iNews in December 2021. “But I finally turned a corner recently and I’m feeling pretty normal, so it looks like it’s behind me.” He chronicled the experience in another memoir, Devil in a Coma, that came out that same month.

“I feel incredibly blessed,” he told iNews. “For a person like me to have been to the places I’ve been, and have the opportunity to bring something to other people’s lives, it’s an amazing gift.”

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One of my all time favorite wrestlers.

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I will flick a toothpick, in honor of the old Razor.

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Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, or the moving image file format that transformed the way people communicate on the web, has died of complications from COVID-19. He was 74.

Wilhite died on March 14 at a hospital in his home town of Milford, Ohio, according to an obituary and to his wife Kathleen who spoke to The Verge.

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Shocking news from 45 minutes ago...

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died, band says

(CNN)Taylor Hawkins, the drummer for the legendary US rock
band Foo Fighters, has died, the band said Friday. He was 50.

"The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins. His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever," the band said in a statement. "Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family, and we ask that their privacy be treated with the utmost respect in this unimaginable difficult time."

On Friday, the band was scheduled to perform in Bogotá, Colombia, for the Festival Estereo Picnic followed by Lollapalooza Brasil on Sunday, according to its website.

The band also announced Thursday that it would take the stage at the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on April 3.

This is a breaking news story. Please check back for more details

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