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  • 'Gatemouth' Brown, legendary singer and guitarist, dies

    09/11/2005 10:41:12 AM PDT · by weegee · 5 replies · 372+ views
    Associated Press via Houston Chronicle ^ | 9, 11, 2005 | By DOUG SIMPSON
    'Gatemouth' Brown, legendary singer and guitarist, dies Musician fled to Orange before Hurricane Katrina wiped out his Slidell, La., home BATON ROUGE, LA. - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown , the singer and guitarist who built a 50-year career playing blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died Saturday in his hometown of Orange, where he had gone to escape Hurricane Katrina. He was 81. Brown had been battling lung cancer and heart disease, said Rick Cady , his booking agent. Cady said the musician was with his family at his brother's house when he died. Brown's home in Slidell, La., a bedroom...
  • Synthesizer Innovator Robert A. Moog Dies

    08/22/2005 7:13:05 AM PDT · by Borges · 56 replies · 1,044+ views
    RALEIGH, N.C. - Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71. Moog was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, detected in April. He died Sunday at his home in Asheville, according to his company's Web site. A childhood interest in the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, would lead Moog to a create a career and business that tied the name Moog as tightly to synthesizers as the name Les Paul is to electric guitars. As a Ph.D student in engineering physics...
  • One more Real Deal is gone from the music world

    05/12/2005 7:45:22 AM PDT · by weegee · 8 replies · 430+ views
    Relish ^ | Thursday, May 12, 2005 | By Ed Bumgardner
    Hasil Adkins. That's pronounced "hassle." Never has a name been more apropos - and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Adkins, who died April 26, was his own beast, musically and socially. Adkins was one of rock 'n' roll's great characters, the cultural missing link between Ernest T. Bass and Jerry Lee Lewis, replete with a downwind slaughterhouse whiff of Hank Williams and Sid Vicious. He was a brawling boozehound and a law-breaking hellion who lived in rural West Virginia, a musical menace from the cinematic fringes of Deliverance. He was also the unwitting archetype of the doublewide, downwardly mobile...
  • Artist Will Eisner has died

    01/04/2005 9:23:22 AM PST · by Borges · 27 replies · 1,532+ views
    One of the seminal American comic artists. He also did training guides for the U.S. Army during WW2.