R.I.P

John Lodge, bassist and one singer in The Moody Blues, has passed away age 82.

ultimateclassicrock.com/moody-blues-john-lodge-dies/

Justin Hayward is now the only remaining member of the best-known lineup of the band.

Almost doesn’t seem right putting in a Rest in Peace thread but fotmer Lost Prophets lead singer and notorious paedononce Ian Watkins has been murdered in prison.

RIP D'Angelo. I liked a few of his tunes.

RIP D'Angelo. I liked a few of his tunes.

A friend of Prince's.

51 is no age to die from cancer.

R.I.P

In death, the longest life is equal to the shortest life.

From Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Though thou shouldest be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which is past is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one take this from him? These two things then thou must bear in mind; the one, that all things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle, and that it makes no difference whether a man shall see the same things during a hundred years or two hundred, or an infinite time; and the second, that the longest liver and he who will die soonest lose just the same. For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.

RIP D'Angelo. I liked a few of his tunes.

51 years old. Goddamn, that shit ain't right.   

https://blabbermouth.net/news/ace-frehley-dead-at-74

This one hurts a lot. Ace was my first rock n roll hero. A little kid in the late 70’s staring at my older brother’s Kiss Alive 2 album.

RIP Ace

A little more on the passing of Ace Frehley for me

This death kinda rocked me in a weird way. It kinda feels like I lost part of my youth. I have 3 older brothers, and when I was growing up we all loved sports and music.

In the late 70’s I was a little kid and my oldest brother is 10 years older than me. At the time I couldn’t really get into the music he was listening to like Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, etc.. but the one band I could get into that he liked was Kiss. The image was a huge factor for me as a kid, and Ace was my hero at a young age.

My brother put a big Ace poster on my wall, and hung the pictures of the 4 solo album covers in the corner of my room. I would listen to Kiss Alive, Destroyer, Kiss Alive 2 all the time. I didn’t really know what Love Gun or Rocket Ride were all about, but it sounded cool. For Halloween I’d get the Kiss costume and did Kiss air band in elementary school.

As I got older I discovered other artists that I liked more than Kiss, but I could always go back and enjoy the music. As much as people put them down, they had a ton of basic fun great rock tunes. The curse of the makeup is that people wouldn’t give the music a chance. I was listening to a tribute on Sirius radio on the weekend and they had a number of guitar players including John 5, Tom Morello, Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Bonammessa, and others say that the reason they picked up a guitar was because of Ace. They all mentioned that Ace best attribute, aside from the swagger/coolness factor, was that his solos were a song within the song, melodic and hummable, which isn’t an easy thing to do.

All weekend I had Kiss on in the background, bringing back memories of being in my basement with my brothers and playing air guitar to Detroit Rock City.

Thanks Ace