{"id":5024,"date":"2013-12-25T05:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2013-12-25T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T10:30:28","slug":"those-we-lost-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/25\/those-we-lost-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Those We Lost in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, we lose treasured members of music&#8217;s history. This year, three of those who passed away were important figures I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing. Click on a name for the full feature.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/alvin_lee_woodstock.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"280\" height=\"386\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=2956\"><strong>Alvin Lee<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThough he came to fame with his band <strong>Ten Years After<\/strong> via a bravura performance at Woodstock, he remained musically active right up until the very end. I spoke with him about what would become his final album, <em>Still On the Road to Freedom<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/bill_kopp_and_richie_havens.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"425\" height=\"287\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=429\"><strong>Richie Havens<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nQuite possibly the nicest public figure I have ever met, Havens too remained very active recording and performing right up until his death this year at age 72. An autographed copy of his <em>Mixed Bag<\/em> LP is among my most treasured mementos. I spoke with him ahead of an Asheville concert date, and then met him in person at the show.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/ray_manzarek2.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"280\" height=\"371\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4090\"><strong>Ray Manzarek<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nI took the opportunity to interview the former <strong>Doors<\/strong> keyboardist in connection with his involvement in the (somewhat dubious) <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=591\"><strong>Sly Stone<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=591\"> \u201ccomeback\u201d album<\/a>. But after reminding me that he was in a well-known band back in the day, Ray was generous with his time, telling me a few stories from the old days.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, we lose treasured members of music&#8217;s history. This year, three of those who passed away were important figures I had the pleasure and honor of interviewing. Click on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,41],"tags":[175,705,1793,1839,2126],"class_list":["post-5024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-list","category-interview","tag-alvin-lee","tag-doors","tag-ray-manzarek","tag-richie-havens","tag-ten-years-after","cat-8-id","cat-41-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}