People Who Died (3 Viewers)

[David Kronenbourg]

this guy

 

[therealjohnny]

New York Dolls Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain Dead at 69

“His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision,” Lenny Kaye writes of pioneering musician who had been battling cancer

www.google.com

 

[GO]

RIP Sylain.

A sad day for guitar lovers everywhere. I've done some amount of air guitaring to this mans records over the years.

 

[Unicron]

New York Dolls Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain Dead at 69

“His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision,” Lenny Kaye writes of pioneering musician who had been battling cancer

www.google.com

Nice

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Only Johanson left now. Rip

 

[Cormcolash]

Flashback, one day before his move back to Ireland

 

[dudley]

Phil Spector dead: Music producer behind Wall Of Sound dies aged 81 in prison

PHIL SPECTOR - a legendary music producer and convicted murderer of actress Lana Clarkson - has died in prison aged 81, after reportedly contracting coronavirus.

www.express.co.uk

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Bbc headline not going down well Jailed music producer Phil Spector dies at 81

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Oh it previously said talented but flawed producer

 

[ann post]

Oh it previously said talented but flawed producer

Yeah saw that before the correction. You'd not see that if it was a talented but flawed provo.

 

[Cormcolash]

Obviously instead of 'Jailed music producer' they meant to say "Violent Murderer"

 

[magicbastarder]

there's a good bit of that going on.

 

[ann post]

 

[Lili Marlene]

He single-handedly changed the sound of pop music. I don't know if he was a genius but he had a sound in his head and he made it happen, which is something.

He once gave Ronnie Spector children as a Christmas present. And i mean literally, "Merry Christmas I've adopted two children, you have to take care of them now".

 

[ann post]

I've no idea how society can reconcile something like that. Like he killed one woman and basically imprisoned at least one other. The cops shoulda been called but i suspect there was money and power involved and everyone stood by until it cost someone their life. I don't see 'Let it be' being withdrawn over that though? We don't get to have one without the other. A rough read on him is that his mind was never capable of dealing with drugs or women.

 

[Lili Marlene]

I've no idea how society can reconcile something like that. Like he killed one woman and basically imprisoned at least one other. The cops shoulda been called but i suspect there was money and power involved and everyone stood by until it cost someone their life. I don't see 'Let it be' being withdrawn over that though? We don't get to have one without the other. A rough read on him is that his mind was never capable of dealing with drugs or women.

I read a bunch of biographies about him years ago, his story is relatively straight forward:

Dweeby kid with a gift for music, a hangup over his father's suicide, and a smart mouth always getting him in trouble. His insecurities led to control freakery both over how he made music and in relationships.

He made a lot of people a TON of money so they overlooked his mostly feigned eccentric manner and completely enabled his worst tendencies. He got into pointing guns at people as a powerplay and realized that they were a leveller. The drugs were there but i dont think they were much of a factor.

The most surprising thing is that it took 30+ years before someone was killed by him.

 

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[rettucs]

hell has another 'angel'

 

[Unicron]

The songs were great, the singers were great, the bands were so great that Hal Blaine possibly messed up and stumbled on one of the great drums beats. He was just the tape op.

That's how I can reconcile myself to still enjoying the music he made, by not celebrating him or his part in making it.

 

[Lili Marlene]

The songs were great, the singers were great, the bands were so great that Hal Blaine possibly messed up and stumbled on one of the great drums beats. He was just the tape op.

That's how I can reconcile myself to still enjoying the music he made, by not celebrating him or his part in making it.

I would strongly argue that that is not the case.