Musicians Lost in 2018

[Echoes]

I looked for a posting on this but couldn't find one. By and large, 2018 was a good year for musician deaths in that not many musicians from the prog zone left the planet. We did our own Echoes in Memoriam in this weeks Podcast.
In the Echoes Podcast, we remember those we've lost. They include Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dolores O'Riordan, Ray Thomas, Glenn Branca and more. Get it from Apple Music, in the Echoes App or right here. https://wp.me/p4ZE0X-f9J

[Buddhabreath]

Thanks!

Peter Hammill has also been temporarily lost since about 4:00 in the afternoon. He was last seen stumbling out of the Raven pub on Queen Street in Bath after imbibing several real ales...

If you see him, please tell him to phone home.

[spacefreak]

By and large, 2018 was a good year for musician deaths

Ray Thomas
Jeffrey Ralph Cotton
"Fast" Eddie Clarke
Jimi Panousis
Dolores O'Riordan
Christian Burchard
Gavin Allardyce (Gavin Da Blitz)
Dave Holland
Jim Rodford
Mark E. Smith
Jeremy Inkel
Dennis Edwards
Tom Rapp
Klaasje van der Wal
Leonidas Alachadamis
Didier Lockwood
Craig McGregor
Adelbert von Deyen
George Young
Bill Flores
Jochen "Zeno" Roth
Liam O'Flynn
Charlie Gonzalo "Chalo" Quintana
Frank "Killjoy" Pucci
Mike Harrison
Martin Cockerham
Jacques Higelin
Yanis Koutouvos
Brian Hooper
Gerard Hourbette
Glenn Branca
Jon Hiseman
Josh Martin
Danny Kirwan
Nick Knox
Nikos Aggelis
Vinnie Paul
Fred Chalenor
Steve Soto
Johnathon Stewart
Fedor Frešo
Oldřich Vaselý
Martin Thurn-Mithoff
Bret Hoffmann
Mark "The Shark" Shelton
Alfred Morris
Randall Desmond Archibald (Randy Rampage)
Aretha Franklin
Jill Janus
Ed King
Rose Podwojny (Rose Laurens)
Hardy Fox
Chas Hodges
Marty Balin
Takehisa Kosugi
Arthur van Berkel
Todd Dillingham
Al Simones
Tony Joe White
Erik Lindmark
Ramsay MacKay
Carsten Otterbach
Pete Shelley
Jutta Taylor Nienhaus
Claudio Canali
Ray Sawyer

[Mister Triscuits]

Dave Holland

NOT the bass player. Had me scared for a minute there. (Was just listening to Uncharted Territories last night.)

[bRETT]

Todd Dillingham

This true? I can find no mention online of him dying.

[Echoes]

Spacefreak, you're point is taken, but if you look at 2016, there were many higher profile passings, especially in Prog. Here's just a snippet from 2016. Other than Aretha this year, I think there are few who rise to this level in 2017 in an objective sense.
David Bowie (aged 69)
Glenn Frey (aged 67)
Prince (aged 57) ...
Merle Haggard (aged 79) ...
Maurice “Moe” White (aged 74) ...
Leonard Cohen (aged 82) ...
Keith Emerson
Pete Burns (Dead or Alive)
George Martin
George Michael
Pierre Boulez
Sharon Jones
Mose Allison
Gato Barbieri
I could go on but I trust this makes the point. 2018, fortunately, just doesn't compare.

[arturs]

This true? I can find no mention online of him dying.

That one (Todd Dillingham) jumped out at me as well. He's pretty obscure and has minimal online presence. So it's certainly possible, but I hope not!

Wilde Canterbury Dream is an absolute lo-fi amateur classic.

[spacefreak]

This true? I can find no mention online of him dying.

I got the following note from his wife: "It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my husband, soul mate and friend Todd Dillingham. He passed away peacefully in his sleep at 2:10 a.m. eastern standard time on October 21, 2018..."

[spacefreak]

NOT the bass player. Had me scared for a minute there. (Was just listening to Uncharted Territories last night.)

The Dave Holland I mention was in Judas Priest, Trapeze and Justin Hayward's band.

[Fracktured]

At the risk of sounding insensitive, which I don't mean to be, most of the people on that list I'm not familiar with. Unlike other years when they were high profile people like Emerson and Bowie.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Fedor Frešo
Oldřich Vaselý

They both passed aways this year?! With Radim Hladik's passing in December '16 this would in fact suggest that only Semelka remains from the creative core of M. Éfekt. That's pretty damn devastating!

[moecurlythanu]

I had no idea that Liam O'Flynn, Todd Dillingham and Al Simones had passed.

[mogrooves]

Jazz Division:

Randy Weston
Cecil Taylor
Sonny Fortune
Hamiet Bluiett
Tomasz Stanko
Hugh Masekela
Perry Robinson
Roy Hargrove

[GuitarGeek]

NOT the bass player. Had me scared for a minute there. (Was just listening to Uncharted Territories last night.)

No, it was Judas Priest's old drummer, which as far as I'm concerned is even worse. I somehow managed to miss the news about his passing. Likewise of Zeno Roth.

[GuitarGeek]

At the risk of sounding insensitive, which I don't mean to be, most of the people on that list I'm not familiar with. Unlike other years when they were high profile people like Emerson and Bowie.

Fast Eddie Clarke played guitar in the classic lineup of Motorhead (all of whom are now gone)
Ray Thomas was The Moody Blues flute/tambourine player
Jim Rodford was The Kinks bassist during the late 70's and 80's
Vinnie Paul was Pantera's drummer
Zeno Roth was a great German guitarist and the younger brother of Uli Jon Roth
Dave Holland was Judas Priest's drummer
Sonny Fortune played woodwinds in Miles Davis' circa 73-75 band, you can hear him on Pangaea and Agharta
Didier Lockwood was a French jazz violinist, played with Magma circa 75-76
Danny Kirwan played guitar with Fleetwood Mac in the early years
Ed King was in both the Strawberry Alarm Clock and Lynyrd Skynyrd
Pete Shelley was in The Buzzcocks and also wrote and recorded the solo hit Homosapien
Hardy Fox was one of the Residents

I recognize a few some of the other names, but those are the ones I didn't have to Wiki or Google (well, I had to Google Dave Holland, since as has been noted there's also a bassist by that name).

Two that Spacefreak left out were guitarists:

Reggie Lucas also played in the Dark Magus/Pangaea/Agharta era Miles Davis band
Nokie Edwards was one of the original members of The Ventures.

[GuitarGeek]

I could go on but I trust this makes the point. 2018, fortunately, just doesn't compare.

Maybe not too you doesn't compare, but this year, we lost:
Two members of Miles Davis' best electric ensemble
one of The Kinks
one of The Ventures (leaving only Don Wilson from the classic lineup)
one of Motorhead (we've now lost two of their guitarists, and all of the classic Lemmy/Clarke/Taylor lineup)
one of Judas Priest (drummer on some of my favorite albums, btw)
one of Lynyryd Skynyrd (leaving only Gary Rossington and Artimus Pyle left from the 70's era lineups)
one of The Moody Blues
one of the Residents
one of Jefferson Airplane (the guy who founded the damn band, and got his ass kicked by the Hells Angels)

Maybe to you that's not "significant", but to me it is.

[Buddhabreath]

Sigh. Saddest thread ever. My attempt to preempt it with comic relief was a complete fail. It’s nice to acknowledge the passing of those we value and care about but it does remind me of watching TV with my grandma who assiduously kept track of who was alive and who was not to the point that several times every night she would say something like “See him! He’s dead now!”.

[Garyhead]

Sigh. Saddest thread ever. My attempt to preempt it with comic relief was a complete fail. It’s nice to acknowledge the passing of those we value and care about but it does remind me of watching TV with my grandma who assiduously kept track of who was alive and who was not to the point that several times every night she would say something like “See him! He’s dead now!”.

Yes, my Mother has that uncanny ability to remember dead vs. alive. At 84 she says the local newspaper obituary column looks like her address book!

She has an old Movie Star Book from the late 70's and for decades would update it in pencil with the death dates of the actors. I had to create shortcuts on her desktop to the local newspaper obits and the Wikipedia "recent deaths" link. She forwards all musicians passing to me....

While 2018 has its sad moments....it was not as bad as previous years when I would hesitate to come here to see seemingly endless RIP Threads.

[Shadow]

[chescorph]

Leon Ndugu Chandler, drummer extraordinaire, also died in 2018.

[Skullhead]

Leon Ndugu Chandler, drummer extraordinaire, also died in 2018.

If you are still listening to their music, they are as alive as they ever were. It's only when you stop listening to them that they die.
Uncle Ted said, "I got news, you never got to go...."

[GuitarGeek]

Uncle Ted said, "I got news, you never got to go...."

Derek St. Holmes said it, actually. But the point still remains valid and you're absolutely correct. As long as there's someone remembering you, you're never dead.

[spacefreak]

I had no idea that Liam O'Flynn, Todd Dillingham and Al Simones had passed.

Sadly yes...

[spacefreak]

Leon Ndugu Chandler, drummer extraordinaire, also died in 2018.

Didn't know that. I remember him playing with Santana and in a Weather Report album as well...

[Dave (in MA)]

Derek St. Holmes said it, actually.

Actually, Nugent supplied the vocals for that verse.