The last couple of years have been really big on celebrity deaths. What’s been odd for me is that I realized I don’t really understand what emotional profile an artist has for me until he or she is gone. This is all the worse with rock stars, who project an image of eternal youth andContinue reading “Gratitude while they’re still alive…”
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R.I.P. Alan Rickman
2015-2016 is turning out like 1970-71, when Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison all died within a few months of each other. I can’t imagine anyone else playing Snape, or the caterpillar in Alice, or Marvin the paranoid android. When he played a role, he owned it.
Sleep Well, Christopher Lee
He owned every part that he played.
RIP: Johnny Winter
Great blues and rock guitarist Johnny Winter passed away at age 70. I’ve always loved his cover of “Highway 61 Revisited” And I love how much he uses the lower registers in his lead guitar here: His most famous song is probably “Rock and Roll Hootchie Coo,” but many of us under 50 or soContinue reading “RIP: Johnny Winter”
Song du jour: Stevie Nicks, etc., “When Will I Be Loved”
Fantastic lineup for a tribute concert to Linda Ronstadt:
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 