Greatest tragedies in music

[Idris2002]

The Miami Showband, or to be precise, what happened to them.

 

[butchersapron]

Always got to win haven't you Idris?

 

[Idris2002]

You're darn tooting!

I heard Dickie Rock for the first time ever on the Sounds of the Sixties show yesterday - much better than I expected.

My Da used to rave about the showbands - yours must have done so too, I'll wager.

E2A: Last time I was in Beal Feirste the Irish News had an interview with one of the only survivors of the massacre. He reported hearing a guy walk around and talk in clipped, upper-class tones - and he's convinced it was Nairac.

 

[Wookey]

I absolutely agree about Jackson.

To me, even as a Jackson fan (and yes, I was a 'fan' for years ) he has become a monster, so he's a tragedy crossed with a monster, which is like Frankenstein, and we are the doctors who created him. Fame and money made that, unlimited access to both. And we played our part. I played mine anyway, I still have the posters and the keyrings and the t-shirts.

 

[Idris2002]

At least his body parts were not strewn hither and yon across the landscape by a prematurely exploding bomb.

 

[Wookey]

At least his body parts were not strewn hither and yon across the landscape by a prematurely exploding bomb.

Yet.

 

[butchersapron]

You're darn tooting!

I heard Dickie Rock for the first time ever on the Sounds of the Sixties show yesterday - much better than I expected.

My Da used to rave about the showbands - yours must have done so too, I'll wager.

E2A: Last time I was in Beal Feirste the Irish News had an interview with one of the only survivors of the massacre. He reported hearing a guy walk around and talk in clipped, upper-class tones - and he's convinced it was Nairac.

It's solid that it was in my circles.

 

[Idris2002]

Pheonix magazine were claiming that Nairac had gone off the reservation and become the 6 counties very own Col. Kurtz - i.e. he was operating out of the chain of command by the time his karma caught up with him. Any truth in that, do you think, or would it just be MI5 disinformation?

 

[Dubversion]

Tammi didn't die on stage, she was diagnosed and died years later. Still sad though.

you're right - she collapsed in his arms and then, as you say, was diagnosed. sorry

 

[butchersapron]

Pheonix magazine were claiming that Nairac had gone off the reservation and become the 6 counties very own Col. Kurtz - i.e. he was operating out of the chain of command by the time his karma caught up with him. Any truth in that, do you think, or would it just be MI5 disinformation?

I reckon it's true in the esstential details. Public school arrognace can get you into trouble as well as helping your career. Good riddance.

 

[Shreddy]

On the subject of tragic accidents that actually took place onstage, let's not forget about Curtis Mayfield.

More than halfway through a brilliant and influential career ("Superfly" soundtrack, "People Get Ready", etc.), but still touring strong, a huge piece of light rigging fell on him mid-performance in 1990, resulting in paralysis from the neck down for the rest of his life.

To his credit, he kept plugging away at it, releasing the odd album with him writing, arranging and singing, and hiring friends to do the playing (he used to do everything himself in the studio; he was self-taught on keys, guitar, etc.)...but his body just gave out by 1999. At least, though wheelchair bound, he was around for all the awards/recognition he was deservedly given out during the late '90's.

Man...Curtis, Marvin, Gil Scott...the young un's of today got fucking nothing on these guys. (To be fair, Gil Scott Heron's inabilty to stay off crack as we speak is probably a tragedy-in-the-making...)

 

[butchersapron]

On the subject of tragic accidents that actually took place onstage, let's not forget about Curtis Mayfield.

More than halfway through a brilliant and influential career ("Superfly" soundtrack, "People Get Ready", etc.), but still touring strong, a huge piece of light rigging fell on him mid-performance in 1990, resulting in paralysis from the neck down for the rest of his life.

To his credit, he kept plugging away at it, releasing the odd album with him writing, arranging and singing, and hiring friends to do the playing (he used to do everything himself in the studio; he was self-taught on keys, guitar, etc.)...but his body just gave out by 1999. At least, though wheelchair bound, he was around for all the awards/recognition he was deservedly given out during the late '90's.

Man...Curtis, Marvin, Gil Scott...the young un's of today got fucking nothing on these guys. (To be fair, Gil Scott Heron's inabilty to stay off crack as we speak is probably a tragedy-in-the-making...)

Excellent call Shreddy.

(GSH, i think the thing is wrote).

 

[rekil]

Grant McLennan?

David McComb too.

The decline of the music press is something of a tragedy.

I read that Bo Diddley is strapped for cash. Is this true?

 

[butchersapron]

Yep, McComb too. That was actually one that i forgot. I just checked and i would have swore before that it was in the last 3 years. Fucking hell.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Malcolm Owen from the Ruts.

Who knows what the band would have achieved had he lived.

 

[The Groke]

The death of Mel.




Poor Kim - her subsequent, short-lived solo career was never going to produce another "Respectable" but it didn't stop her trying.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/crash.htm

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

On March 18, 1982, in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pendergrass was involved in an automobile accident when the brakes failed on his Rolls-Royce and he hit a tree leaving him paralyzed from the waist down with a spinal cord injury.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

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

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[twistedAM]

Eric Bachmann's gradual progression toward porch song folk.

 

[Pigeon]

had he not developed his mental illness we may never have seen Dark side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here or The Wall....or even Animals

Fuckin g tragic indeed.

 

[starfish]

Not sure many will agree but i thought Stuart Adamson hanging himself was tragic.

 

[Megaton]

David Bowie and Mick Jagger's cover of "Dancing in the Street" was REALLY tragic.

 

[Pigeon]

The Ramones' story is fucking tragic.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Not sure many will agree but i thought Stuart Adamson hanging himself was tragic.

Loss of a great guitarist who never really fulfilled his potential. You only have to listen to his playing on "Scared to Dance" to know he was capable of much more than he ever did with Big Country etc.

 

[souljacker]

The Ramones' story is fucking tragic.

The biggest tragedy is that they were so influential in hindsight, but no-one at the time gave a fuck or bought their records.

The other great rock tragedy, in my opinon, was that Keith Moon died, but Roger Daltrey is still alive and fishing.

 

[Flashman]

Billy Mackenzie, in a shed, in Dundee, is a sad 'un.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Billy Mackenzie, in a shed, in Dundee, is a sad 'un.

For that matter Alex Harvey too.

 

[GroovyCrimes]

Malcolm Owen from the Ruts.

Who knows what the band would have achieved had he lived.

Well said