{"id":9879,"date":"2016-01-18T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T05:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9879"},"modified":"2016-01-11T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T13:32:59","slug":"those-we-lost-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/18\/those-we-lost-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Those We Lost in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the passing of <strong>David Bowie<\/strong> this week, I&#8217;m reminded that we&#8217;ve long since entered the time in which heroes from the rock era start passing away from natural causes (as opposed to the premature-by-far ODs and such). Of the musician deaths of which I&#8217;m aware in 2015, <b>Chris Squire<\/b> is the only one I can claim to have met and interviewed. But I&#8217;ve written about and\/or seen several others in concert. All are missed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9881\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bill_kopp_chris_squire.jpg\" alt=\"bill_kopp_chris_squire\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bill_kopp_chris_squire.jpg 500w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bill_kopp_chris_squire-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Squire \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/05\/yes-a-history-of-perpetual-change\/\">I interviewed the Yes bassist<\/a> in 2011.<\/li>\n<li><b>Ornette Coleman<\/b> \u2013 I had the privilege of seeing the jazz legend onstage in 2007, and reviewed a reissue of his 1958 LP <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/28\/concords-jazzapalooza-2011-part-two\/\"><i>Something Else!!!!<\/i><\/a> in 2011.<\/li>\n<li><b>BB King<\/b> \u2013 I&#8217;ve reviewed one of his last releases, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/25\/album-review-bb-king-one-kind-favor\/\">One Kind Favor<\/a><\/i>, in 2008, reviewed the BB King <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/10\/dvd-review-bb-king-live-in-africa-74\/\"><i>Live in Africa<\/i><\/a> concert DVD in 2009, reviewed a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/15\/album-review-bb-king-and-his-orchestra-live\/\">live album reissue<\/a> that same year, and covered <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/28\/dvd-review-bb-king-the-life-of-riley\/\"><i>The Life of Riley<\/i><\/a> biopic in 2015.<\/li>\n<li><b>Edgar Froese<\/b> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/31\/moogfest-recap-day-1-part-1\/\">I saw him onstage<\/a> with <i>Tangerine Dream<\/i> at 2011&#8217;s Moogfest.<\/li>\n<li><b>Daevid Allen<\/b> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/17\/album-review-gong-i-see-you\/\"><i>I See You<\/i><\/a>, <b>Gong<\/b>&#8216;s last album with Daevid Allen is a really good one.<\/li>\n<li><b>Michael Brown<\/b> \u2013 <b>The Left Banke<\/b> never got the recognition they deserved. Neither did <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/hundred-word-reviews-for-may-2015-part-8\/\"><b>Stories<\/b><\/a>, another group with Brown&#8217;s involvement.<\/li>\n<li><b>Preston Ritter<\/b> \u2013 A key member of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/25\/never-had-it-better-a-chat-with-james-lowe-of-the-electric-prunes-part-one\/\"><b>The Electric Prunes<\/b><\/a> in their heyday, Ritter passed away this year. He was briefly involved in the recording of their latest album.<\/li>\n<li><b>Cynthia Robinson<\/b> \u2013 I was fortunate enough to see the trumpet player a couple of years ago with <b>The Family Stone<\/b>. Of course <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/01\/in-search-of-sly-stone-part-one\/\">Sly wasn&#8217;t there<\/a>, but they were still great.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the passing of David Bowie this week, I&#8217;m reminded that we&#8217;ve long since entered the time in which heroes from the rock era start passing away from natural causes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879","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=9879"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10125,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9879\/revisions\/10125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}