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Been around from the beginning, but only recently volunteered as an editor.
Someone submitted this via upstart:
Iconic rock guitarist, Jeff Beck, has died:
Jeff Beck, the British rock-blues guitar innovator, has died after a brief struggle with bacterial meningitis. He was 78 years old.
Beck was an 8-time Grammy nominee and a two-time inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. His work with the Yardbirds, and his own Jeff Beck Group, was profoundly influential to generations of musicians that came after him.
His family released a statement on Wednesday:
"On behalf of his family, it is with deep and profound sadness that we share the news of Jeff Beck's passing," Beck's family said in a statement. "After suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis, he peacefully passed away yesterday. His family asks for privacy while they process this tremendous loss."
On social media, Beck's fellow Yardbird and longtime friend, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, wrote:
The six stringed Warrior is no longer here for us to admire the spell he could weave around our mortal emotions. Jeff could channel music from the ethereal. His technique unique. His imaginations apparently limitless. Jeff I will miss you along with your millions of fans. Jeff Beck Rest in Peace.
As a teenager I picked up Blow By Blow and it blew me away. I quickly got Wired and Beck, Bogert & Appice. They were staples on my turntable until I stopped using my turntable. If you're not familiar with his playing, the linked article has a YouTube link to the track Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. It seems everything he did was wonderful, and he never really sought out the limelight.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19, @05:07AM (1 child)
> the linked article has a YouTube link to the track Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Had not heard the Jeff Beck version before, thanks for the suggestion. He does a pretty good job with this Mingus tune, trying to make his guitar sound like a languid jazz horn.
Now, listen to the horns on the original, for me this version is much richer, with Mingus playing bass under the horns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWWO_VcdnHY [youtube.com]
Jeff Beck, RIP.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 22, @02:57AM
For that melancholy weekend, A Half-Dozen Beck Albums [archive.org] all in one big pile of MP3 files. At least the tracks are numbered.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19, @12:24PM
Definitely the better player of the Yardbirds triumvirate, despite Clapton and Page enjoying greater commercial success. I used to get puzzled looks from guitarists for saying that. The proof was "you can do a convincing impersonation of Clapton or Page but try playing like Jeff Beck'". Rhett Shull really nails that sentiment here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cKfnoMtA0hA [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20, @03:06AM (2 children)
- Rocker David Crosby from Crosby, Stills & Nash Dead at 81 [breitbart.com]
Used to store stuff right next to Crosby and Stills. There they would be, doing guy stuff, playing with motorcycles and an old pickup truck. And Crosby would stare, like, "Okay, you gonna recognize me, or not?" Dunno, maybe it was reverence, but you just smile and give 'em their space. Yeah, they looked like album covers... album covers sure looked scruffy, back then.
Teach your children well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20, @03:33AM
Nice long obit & bio in NY Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/arts/music/david-crosby-dead.html [nytimes.com]
Paywalled? Try https://archive.is/DOsoz#selection-667.43-667.59 [archive.is]
A middle school music teacher (late 60's) broke out of a rut of playing us show tunes and European classical...by playing the Byrds one day. I don't know what happened to that teacher, but he really opened my ears.
Not all that much later, we about wore out a copy of the CSNY live album, Four Way Street, still nice listen to after all these years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @03:23AM
- David Crosby Cause of Death Revealed: Coronavirus [breitbart.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20, @07:51AM (9 children)
SoylentNews is no longer asking for community subs, when the queue falls below twenty? Is this because no further community subs are wanted? Is SN shutting down, in the very near future? Intubating minds want to know!
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday January 20, @09:07PM (8 children)
No, it is because of a bug.
We always want submissions. Those we get from community members take priority over those provided by bots.
You are still a prat.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 20, @09:23PM (7 children)
What is a "prat"? Is this a witty Anglicism? And who is it that is one? And why all the UK-centric front page stories? I thought this was an American site, to Make America Soylent Again (MASA).
(Score: 3, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday January 21, @06:14AM (1 child)
Well it appears that you were wrong again. It is a site for English speaking people from all over the world. We have community members from Europe, Australasia, India, Canada, Africa, South America and elsewhere too. The staff over the last 9 years or so has been equally diverse and remains so today. It happens that we are hosted in the USA but that could change if we felt that the aims and ethos of the site were being compromised by US law and we found somewhere better suited to us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 22, @10:46AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F75d01l5AxM [youtube.com]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21, @06:50AM
Right the first time, MASA! SoylnetNews is dead. Or at least taken over by Brits.
Gee, I hope janrinok don't dox me! Please don't throw me into the briar patch, English type! (Seems they never get enough American culture to understand the references. But, then, they do have keep up with the Indian, Tongan, South African, and Manchester cultures. )
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday January 21, @10:06AM (2 children)
prat(n) - derogatory•informal: an incompetent or stupid person; an idiot.
Alternatively:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21, @07:19PM
See... no sense of humo[u]r at all. Not that I'm defending your personal nemesis or your quest to down-mod the down-trodden. However...
• He was joking! Funny or not, it was trying to be a joke!
• If you don't get a joke, just ignore it.
• Never try to explain a joke that you don't understand!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 21, @09:53PM
When it comes to the racist trolls your policy is to just ignore them. Aristarchus has gotten so far under your skin you lash out whenever you suspect a post coming from them. Pretty sad, get a grip and do some self reflection about why you tolerate fascism but not an annoying user that lightly teases you. Pretty sad for an older gent that should have matured past this, maybe it indicates a latent immaturity that accompanies so many boomers? Discussions seem a little calmer, but now just mcgrew and a few others trying to maintain sanity.
Wonder how long till they get frustrated constantly correcting the Fox viewing fascists?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 22, @10:29PM
You forgot the prefix "Anti-"