apparently Keith Emerson passed away this week – so sad! Another one of the great musical talents passes on…..RIP.

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saw The Brothers Comatose at The Tractor last night – great band! They are on an album release tour – check ’em out – tour dates here.

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this really seems like watching the Spinal Tap scene where they read the album reviews…..

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Yet another of the truly great ones has passed. 2016 is turning out to be a tough year for music fans. Ever since hearing ‘Fantasy’ back in junior high, i’ve liked EWF, but never more than now as the years go by. And MW said himself that he wanted their music to be an inspiration to others. To me personally, he succeeded way beyond what he may have meant. The words, the music – it all WORKS, period.

As Orlando Jones said in Drumline – ‘in the beginning, there was Earth, there was Wind, and there was Fire.’ RIP.

Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, dead at 74

this one is actually 3 parts – Steve Harvey hits it right on the head:

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Lost one of the great ones over the weekend. So sad. Sleep well, Major Tom.

great Sean Nelson article in The Stranger:

In Death as in Life, David Bowie Remains the Master of Self-Invention

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I’ve now lived in Seattle over 20 years (doh! twenty!) and have seen many bands (kind of a ‘Seattle requirement’, similar to having work to do with technology or building airplanes, and drinking a LOT of coffee) – but aside from visiting bands from other places, there have been a few local bands that rose way above the pack. Manooghi hi was definitely one of them, but only 1.5 albums came out and they seem to have disappeared….I think the drummer lives in SF, I have seen one of the singers around locally but not sure about the rest….sad…. 🙁

here’s one from their prime…besides the links above from when we saw them live – got to see them at least 3-4 times, so that was at least something……

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Went over to Boise this weekend, to see family and to see Heartless Bastards at the Neurolux in downtown. What a great time, and a great show!

I’ve known about HB for some time but every time they’ve come to Seattle I’ve missed them for one reason or another. They just put out a new album, and so a new tour, and we thought it would be great to head over to ID instead of seeing them finally here – well worth it, definitely a Top 10 concert for me. And definitely a band that rises above studio recordings – you really only get the ‘whole picture’ watching them live.  Erika Wennerstrom has such a great (and unique) voice – the only singer I can think of remotely similar is Chrissie Hynde – who is weirdly enough, also from Ohio, where the HB’s got their start. The musicians are all very, very good, the drummer in particular puts in all sorts of fills and extra stuff you’d not expect from straight-ahead rock music like this but i’m sure not complainin!

Here’s a bunch of their music on YouTube, including apparently a video from their 2010 Boise visit….

we also got to spend time with my sister’s family and an unexpected treat to see another cousin who happened to be in town for a few days too – great stuff!

until we hopefully get back over there to ski this winter….

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I certainly missed this one (he passed away in January of this year) – RIP to one of the real pioneers of electronic music, period. My friend and I saw them back at the Schnitzer in Portland I think around college timeframe – lot of the maui-wowie being smoked in THAT show, to be sure… 🙂

Tangerine Dream Founder Edgar Froese Dead at 70

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is apparently about to leave again soon on runway 911. New plane, too? Maniacs. Go big or go home, indeed…..!

IRON MAIDEN AND THE BOOK OF SOULS GO JUMBO ON MASSIVE 2016 WORLD TOUR

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RIP, Chris Squire

One of the great ones passed away earlier this month. I first started listening to Yes back in high school and while it’s been somewhat sporadic of late, those early albums (and to some degree, even the 80s stuff that finally came closer to making them a household name for a bit) were very near and dear.

Rest in peace, master of bass……

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