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Goodbye, Bernie Marsden

August 25, 2023

“I’ve always been conscious of writing the best songs I can,” Bernie Marsden many years ago, and songs were indeed everything the legendary English guitarist cared about – that and his friends about whom he was always much more ready … Continue reading →

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Mo Foster Passed Away

July 3, 2023

A genuine gentlemen and a professor of bass: those were the two phrases one’s mind evoked during any communication with the great who passed away today at the age of 78 after a brief, if fierce, fight with cancer. A … Continue reading →

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Tony McPhee Has Split From This Earth

June 7, 2023

The great Tony McPhee, one of the most influential – if rarely mentioned in this capacity – British guitarists, passed away today at the age of 79. T.S., as he used to be known, was different from other purveyors of … Continue reading →

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Pete Brown’s Wagon’s Left The City

May 20, 2023

There have been a few lyricists who rose to poetic heights, yet Pete Brown was possibly the only verse-weaver who started out as a poet and remained a poet even when his lines would be wrapped in melodies and sometimes … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, John Giblin

May 16, 2023

There are musicians who belong to the class of their own, and John Giblin, who passed away on May 14th at the age of 71, was one of those. Bass guitarist extraordinaire, he’s most famous for session work preserved for … Continue reading →

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