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| :: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Sep 22, 2006 |
Details are now coming in surrounding the untimely death of ex-King Crimson singer and bassist, Boz Burrell who passed away yesterday.
I spoke to guitarist Neil Warden who told me that Boz had died at his Spanish home in Puerto Banus, Marbella, and not Edinburgh as had previously been reported. Singer Tam White with friend Billy had been visiting Boz, and all three were ready to go out to a small party to play a few tunes with some friends.
Neil went on to say “Tam was sitting in Boz’s apartment singing when Boz picked up a guitar and sat back in his seat, and slumped over and passed away. Efforts were made to revive him before the emergency services arrived but no luck.” Neil went on to pay tribute to his fellow musician and friend. "Very sad, I’m very upset to say the least. Boz was one of the good guys, I’ll never forget that impish smile and crazy humor, a sad loss indeed. I used to stand next to him on stage in ’The Groove Connection’ and have a great laugh.
He was a great musician and a cool guy to say the least. He was like a long lost older brother to me; we were both into the same music and hit it off from first meeting. A sad loss indeed. I can’t stop thinking of him at present; my heart goes out to Kath his wife.” Neil understands that the funeral will be held in Edinburgh although clearly no date has been set. We’ve set up a tribute page on the site where people can offer their thoughts and memories of Boz, and where you can download a free remix of the studio version of Ladies of the Road that was done at the time of the FxF box set but unused.
 Boz on stage with Mel and Ian - their final gig with Crimson on April 1st, 1972 at the Municipal Auditorium, Birmingham, Alabama
(photo by Chuck Bryant)
I’ve added my own thoughts on Boz and his passing over on the blog.
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RF Talks To The FT
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Fri., Aug 3, 2012
Long-term readers of RF's diary will know that he reads the Financial Times on his visits to Blowers bistro. Well, tomorrow he'll be reading an interview that he did with the FT recently. Now published online ahead of tomorrow's print edition, you can check it out here.
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Tony's iPad Book Funded
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Aug 2, 2012
Just days after it was launched on Kickstarter, Tony's electronic version of his Crimson Chronicles has been funded. You can read about the book in this piece. Elsewhere, progress on pledge funding the new album by Stick Men is going well and there's still time for you to get in on the act. Check it out here.
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And Through The Wires
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Aug 2, 2012
Trey Gunn has been preparing for his appearance as part of the Security Project alongside Peter Gabriel alumni Jerry Marrotta and Last Fast. Writing on his Facebook page, Trey notes. "Worked through a gear-related anxiety attack today. For the last several
years, I have gone completely digital with my setup (Ableton Live with
plugins.) But for The Security Project I wanted to get my bass side
happening purely analogue and bypass the computer entirely.
I had also been experimenting with the top (guitar) side being done
only with analogue pedals and thought I could pull that off until last
night. My pedal board was a shambles and I was trying to squeeze as many
pedal as possible on it so that I could ditch the computer. But seeing
the computer coming back into the system in order to pull off the guitar
sounds meant I was going to end up having to bring even more gear than I
had room for -- pedalboard full of pedals for the analogue bass, plus
all the digital interfacing to make the laptop run right.
THEN...today, I thought "screw it", if I'm bringing the laptop I might
as well revert to my completely digital system and get rid all the
pedals. At least I know I will sound great -- both bass and guitar side.
Meanwhile, I am still trying to get a grip on the all the material.
This stuff is far more unusual that I had even thought. Not to mention
learning extra guitar parts and backing vocals.
But,
thankfully, I have had a great afternoon and have tweaked out the
analogue pedals again and the computer will stay off the stage. Plus I
learned three more old tunes (1st and 2nd disc) and I am feeling more
ready.
Full panic averted!
Now I can spend most of tomorrow actually building the pedal board... off to band rehearsals for Sunday."
For more details about the Security Project's up and coming live date in New York nip over to their main site.
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Jakszyk Collins & Fripp Giveaway
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jul 29, 2012
JFC’s A Scarcity Of Miracles is one of the albums used to test drive this speaker system. All of which is a timely reminder that we have a copy of the special edition of the CD/DVD-A version of the album to give away.
All you have to do to get your mitts on this little beauty is to answer this simple question: What was the name of the Jakko’s 2006 solo album reissued by Panegyric in 2009? Once you’ve got the answer to that pop it in an email to competitions@dgmlive.com marked JFC and don’t forget to leave your postal address as well. The lucky winner will be announced on Sunday 5th August.
You can read my take on the album over on the blog.
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ITCOTCK Best Progressive Of All Time
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jul 29, 2012
That's according to this list on the Music Advisor site. There's quite a few other KC titles in there making the list as well as JFC's A Scarcity Of Miracles.
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Olympic Heroes
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Jul 28, 2012
Last night at the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, Great Britain's team marched into the stadium to the sound of Heroes by David Bowie, featuring the anthemic surging lead guitar lines of Robert Fripp. For viewers able to access BBC iPlayers the Fripp-led team can be seen at around 2hour and 55minute mark.
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OMG It's The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jul 26, 2012
Industry journal CMU is running this story today about the UMG / EMI takeover. The piece also runs links to Declan Colgan's article on DGM Live earlier this week about the detrimental effect the bid will have on the industry. Elsewhere, The Guardian's Hellenne Lindvall has this piece running today. Robert Fripp's notes from the speech he gave at the AIM conference last week are now available in his updated diary.
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