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Post by chiyankee on Apr 18, 2024 13:13:35 GMT -5
RIP to Dickey Betts and thanks for all the great music.
The drummer, Jaimoe is now the only founding member of the the Allman Brothers band that's still with us.
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Post by fwclipper51 on Apr 19, 2024 17:24:43 GMT -5
Former Pirate hurler Odell Jones Passes Away at 71 MLB Rumors By Darragh McDonald | April 19, 2024 at 4:29pm CDT
Former big league right-hander Odell Jones has passed away, per John Perrotto of Pittsburgh Baseball Now. No cause of death was given for Jones, who was 71.
Born in California in 1953, Jones was signed by the Pirates as an undrafted free agent in 1971. He made his MLB debut with that club in 1975 but tossed just 3 innings. He got a more proper run of play in the show in 1977, tossing 108 innings for the Bucs in a swing role. He posted an earned run average of 5.08 over 15 starts and 19 relief appearances.
Jones would go on to bounce around the league, serving in various roles. He was traded to the Mariners in 1978 and then back to the Pirates in 1980. He went to the Rangers in the 1982 MLB Rule 5 Draft and recorded 10 saves for them in 1983. He later signed with the Orioles and Blue Jays, though he didn’t make it to the majors with the latter club.
For many baseball fans, Jones is best known for one magical night where almost everything lined up for him. He was with the Brewers in 1988 as a 35-year-old journeyman. Teddy Higuera was supposed to start against Cleveland on May 28th but was dealing with some back spasms, per JD Radcliffe of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which led to Jones taking the ball instead.
Though he wasn’t even the scheduled starter, Jones had the best performance of his life that night. He was perfect through 7, until he issued a 1-out walk to Mel Hall. He kept his no-hitter going into the 9th, until it was broken up by a 1-out single off the bat of Ron Washington, now the manager of the Angels. Dan Plesac came into to get the final 2 outs as the Brewers beat Cleveland 2-0 (boxscore here at Baseball Reference).
That was the final big league season for Jones, who finished his career with a 4.42 ERA in 549 1/3 innings over 9 different major league seasons. MLBTR joins the baseball world in sending our condolences to the Jones family as well as his fans and friends throughout the game.
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Post by inger on Apr 20, 2024 8:29:23 GMT -5
Journeyman 1B-OF Dave McCarty, who batted right but threw lefty has passed away at only 54 years of age.
McCarty spent time with 7 different teams between 1993 and 2005, and was a member of the champion Red Sox in 2004…
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Post by fwclipper51 on Apr 20, 2024 8:43:42 GMT -5
Former Red Sox 1B/OF Dave McCarty Passes Away at 54 By Anthony Franco | April 19, 2024 at 5:50pm CDT MLB Rumors
Former major league first baseman/outfielder Dave McCarty has passed away after a cardiac event, the Red Sox announced. He was 54.
A Stanford product, McCarty was the 3rd overall pick in the 1991 MLB Amateur Player Draft by the Twins. Baseball America ranked the 6’5″ right-handed hitter as a top 25 prospect in the sport over the next 2 seasons. McCarty reached the majors in May 1993. He played parts of 3 seasons in Minnesota, hitting .226/.275/.310 before being traded to the Reds. Cincinnati would flipped McCarty to the Giants around 6 weeks later. He played parts of 2 seasons with San Francisco before again finding himself on the move, this time to Seattle.
McCarty had his most MLB productive year in 2000 with the Royals. He appeared in a career-high 103 games and turned in a .278/.329/.478 batting line with 12 HRs. He bounced to the Devil Rays and A’s before landing with the Red Sox on a waiver claim in 2003. McCarty played in 89 games as a role player for the World Series winning team the following season. He hit 4 HRs, including a walk-off shot to center field against the Mariners in May. He would finished his playing career after the 2005 season and worked as an analyst on NESN for the next few years.
Over parts of 11 years in the majors, McCarty played in 630 games. He hit .242/.305/.371 with 36 HRs, 68 doubles and 175 RBIs. He suited up for 7 teams, saw some action in the postseason in 2003 and collected a World Series ring the following year. MLBTR joins others around the game in sending our condolences to the McCarty family, his friends and former teammates.
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Post by 1955nyyfan on Apr 20, 2024 10:29:16 GMT -5
Bill Toben who famously asked "who the hell is Mel Kiper" passed away at 83.
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 20, 2024 21:21:56 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Apr 26, 2024 12:57:48 GMT -5
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 26, 2024 16:47:06 GMT -5
I remember Larry Brown. A weak hitter who nevertheless parlayed his defensive skill, and as you noted, his versatility into a 12-year major league career. The main thing I remember about him was how grateful he was to the Orioles for the way they handled the situation with his brother, catcher Dick Brown. Dick Brown was set to become the Orioles starting catcher in 1966 when he developed a brain tumor that took his life at age 35 in 1970. The Orioles voted him a full World Series share even though he didn't play for them at all that season and then kept him on the payroll as a scout up until his death. I remember hearing Larry Brown talk about that during an interview with Chuck Thompson. He outlived his brother by 54 years. RIP Larry Brown.
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Post by inger on Apr 26, 2024 18:49:31 GMT -5
I remember Larry Brown. A weak hitter who nevertheless parlayed his defensive skill, and as you noted, his versatility into a 12-year major league career. The main thing I remember about him was how grateful he was to the Orioles for the way they handled the situation with his brother, catcher Dick Brown. Dick Brown was set to become the Orioles starting catcher in 1966 when he developed a brain tumor that took his life at age 35 in 1970. The Orioles voted him a full World Series share even though he didn't play for them at all that season and then kept him on the payroll as a scout up until his death. I remember hearing Larry Brown talk about that during an interview with Chuck Thompson. He outlived his brother by 54 years. RIP Larry Brown. From all accounts, Dick Brown was a fine individual that caught a bad break in life. Coincidentally the same bad break my father, brother, and sister caught. Seeing three people go through basically the same stages of the same disease was something that I just can’t even explain to you. Right down to being able to figure out their life was at the end..,
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Post by fwclipper51 on Apr 28, 2024 16:53:21 GMT -5
OBITUARY from Rolling Stone Magazine Mike Pinder, the Moody Blues Keyboardist and Founding Member, Dead at 82 A pioneer of the Mellotron, Pinder contributed to Rock Hall-inducted band's first nine albums, from their 1965 debut with Denny Laine to 1978's Octave
BY DANIEL KREPS APRIL 25, 2024 Mike Pinder, the Moody Blues Keyboardist and Founding Member, Dead at 82
Mike Pinder, the Moody Blues keyboardist and the last surviving founding member of the Rock Hall-inducted band, has died at the age of 82.
Pinder’s family announced his death in a statement shared with Pinder’s former Moody Blues bandmate John Lodge, noting that Pinder “passed peacefully” Wednesday “surrounded by his devoted family” at his Northern California home. No cause of death was provided.
In their tribute to the “musician, father, cosmic philosopher & friend,” Pinder’s family wrote, “His final days were filled with music, encircled by the love of his family. Michael lived his life with a childlike wonder, walking a deeply introspective path which fused the mind and the heart.”
Pinder was among the founding members of the Moody Blues — along with Denny Laine, Graeme Edge, Ray Thomas, and Clint Warwick — in 1964. That lineup released their breakthrough single, a cover of “Go Now,” that same year. On the band’s 1965 debut album, The Magnificent Moodies, Pinder is responsible for co-writing (with Laine) all the band’s original songs on the LP. However, after the success of “Go Now,” “Our management had disappeared with the money. One day, we went to the office, and they had basically vanished. They had gone bankrupt, and we were broke,” Pinder told Rolling Stone in 2018.
Soon after, Laine and Warwick left the Moody Blues, and it was Pinder who is credited with enlisting Laine’s replacement, singer Justin Hayward, who, with also-added bassist John Lodge, would form the Moody Blues’ “classic” lineup. “I’d written some songs and sent them to Eric Burdon [of the Animals]. Unbeknownst to me he passed them to Mike Pinder in the Moodies and soon I had a call from Mike. I came up to London to meet him and we got on,” Hayward told Rolling Stone.
That quintet — Pinder, Hayward, Lodge, Thomas, and Edge — would record the band’s next eight albums together, stretching from 1967’s Days of Future Passed to 1978’s Octave, with Pinder contributing piano and keyboards while pushing the Moody Blues toward progressive rock with his pioneering use of the Mellotron.
“The Mellotron enabled me to create my own variations of string movements. I could play any instrument that I wanted to hear in the music. If I heard strings, I could play them with the Mellotron. If I heard cello, brass, trumpets or piano, I could play them,” Pinder told Rolling Stone in our oral history of the band’s “Nights in White Satin,” which featured Pinder’s recitation of the Edge-penned poem “Late Lament.”
“With the ‘Tron I could develop melodies and counter melodies within the Moody Blues’ songs. When you become the orchestra, I think you become the arranger by default. I could create the backdrops and the landscape for the melodies that the guys were writing.”
Other notable Pinder-penned tracks from his decade-and-a-half tenure with the Moody Blues include “A Simple Game,” “Om,” “Have You Heard,” and “The Best Way to Travel.” “The Sixties and Seventies were very unique for the artist as well as for the listener,” Pinder told Rolling Stone. “I think the fans in those days were just as creatively turned on by the evolution of our music and our message as we were turned on by creating it.”
Following the Moody Blues’ mid-Seventies hiatus — during which Pinder released his solo album The Promise — the band reunited with Pinder returning in a limited role for 1978’s Octave. Having moved to California and opting not to tour with the band in support of the LP, Pinder was ultimately replaced by keyboardist Patrick Moraz, putting an end to the group’s “Core Five” lineup.
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Post by fwclipper51 on May 1, 2024 16:12:19 GMT -5
Duane Eddy, twangy guitar hero of early rock, dead at age 86
Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road" and “Cannonball” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen an... ByThe Associated Press May 1, 2024, 4:23 PM National headlines from ABC News
NEW YORK -- Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as "Rebel Rouser" and “Peter Gunn” helped put the twang in early rock 'n' roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86.
Eddy died of cancer Tuesday at the Williamson Health hospital in Franklin, Tennessee, according to his wife, Deed Abbate.
With his raucous rhythms, and backing hollers and hand claps, Eddy sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and mastered a distinctive sound based on the premise that a guitar's bass strings sounded better on tape than the high ones.
"I had a distinctive sound that people could recognize and I stuck pretty much with that. I'm not one of the best technical players by any means; I just sell the best," he told The Associated Press in a 1986 interview. "A lot of guys are more skillful than I am with the guitar. A lot of it is over my head. But some of it is not what I want to hear out of the guitar."
"Twang" defined Eddy's sound from his first album, "Have Twangy Guitar Will Travel," to his 1993 box set, "Twang Thang: The Duane Eddy Anthology."
"It's a silly name for a nonsilly thing," Eddy told the AP in 1993. "But it has haunted me for 35 years now, so it's almost like sentimental value — if nothing else."
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Eddy and producer Lee Hazlewood helped create the “Twang” sound in the 1950s, a sound Hazlewood later adapt to his production of Nancy Sinatra's 1960s smash “These Boots Are Made for Walkin.'” Eddy had a five-year commercial peak from 1958-63. He said in 1993 he took his 1970 hit "Freight Train" as a clue to slow down.
"It was an easy listening hit," he recalled. "Six or seven years before, I was on the cutting edge."
Eddy recorded more than 50 albums, some of them reissues. He did not work too much from the 1980s on, "living off my royalties," he said in 1986.
About "Rebel Rouser," he told the AP: "It was a good title and it was the rockest rock 'n' roll sound. It was different for the time."
He scored theme music for movies including "Because They're Young," "Pepe" and "Gidget Goes Hawaiian." But Eddy said he turned down doing the James Bond theme song because there wasn't enough guitar music in it.
In the 1970s, he worked behind-the-scenes in music production work, mainly in Los Angeles.
Eddy was born in Corning, New York and grew up in Phoenix, where he began playing guitar at age 5. He spent his teen years in Arizona dreaming of singing on the Grand Ole Opry, and eventually signed with Jamie Records of Philadelphia in 1958. "Rebel Rouser" soon followed.
Eddy later toured with Dick Clark's “Caravan of Stars” and appeared in "Because They're Young," "Thunder of Drums" among other movies.
He moved to Nashville in 1985, after years of semiretirement in Lake Tahoe, California.
Eddy was not a vocalist, saying in 1986, “One of my biggest contributions to the music business is not singing.”
Paul McCartney and George Harrison were both fans of Eddy and he recorded with both of them after their Beatles' days. He played on McCartney's "Rockestra Theme" and Harrison played on Eddy's self-titled comeback album, both in 1987.
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Post by fwclipper51 on May 7, 2024 15:52:00 GMT -5
May 1,2024-Former San Francisco Giants (1958-1960) and the 1963 Chicago White Sox Pitcher Joe Shipley had passed away at the age of 88. He had a 0-1 record with a 5.93 ERA in 29 games.
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Post by fwclipper51 on May 7, 2024 16:12:54 GMT -5
Influential ‘80s rock band’s singer dead at 71Updated: May. 07, 2024, 10:37 a.m.|Published: May. 07, 2024, 10:31 a.m. By Saleah Blancaflor | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Gary Floyd, frontman of Texas punk-rock band The Dicks, has died. He was 71. The Austin Chronicle reported Floyd died Friday. He was taken off life support at the hospital after suffering from congestive heart failure.
Jesse Lally is ‘Super Happy’ with Lacy Nicole Some musicians in the industry shared their condolences and tributes on social media once news of Floyd’s death. Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum shared a painting of Floyd and a heartfelt message.
“Gary Floyd left us last night,” the caption read. “I met Gary through Lynn, my SF sister, who plays drums and bass and sings in Imperial Teen but before that she played drums in the Dicks. Gary was the singer and they went on to play together in Sister Double Happiness. Gary was a hero, hilarious and proud, and put gay punk rock on the map before any of us. He was an artist and a friend and an inspiration. Gary was San Francisco in a twisted fruity nutshell. Thank you Gary for changing everything and being there for all of us. Love.”
Floyd was born in Palestine, Texas, and lived in Houston for a few years before moving to Austin in 1974.
The Dicks was formed in 1980 with Floyd as the lead singer, bassist Buxf Parrot, drummer Pat Deason, and guitarist Glen Taylor as the original members. Floyd was openly gay and would perform in drag during the band’s concerts. Many of their songs were political including “Anti-Klan (Part 1),” “No Nazi’s Friend,” “No F-----’ War,” “I Hope You Get Drafted” and “Bourgeois Fascist Pig.”
The Dicks influenced many punk bands that became popular around the ‘80s like the Dead Kennedys.
When the band eventually broke up in 1986, Floyd performed in other bands, including Sister Double Happiness (which toured with Nirvana and Soundgarden), Black Kali Ma, and the Buddha Brothers, as well as a San Francisco variation of the Dicks, according to Pitchfork.
Floyd was also a published author having wrote 2 books including his memoir “Please Bee Nice : My Life Up ‘Til Now: A Gary Floyd Memoir” and “I Said That: Volume 1: The Dicks,” which is a compilation of lyrics.
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Post by pippsheadache on May 7, 2024 16:24:00 GMT -5
May 1,2024-Former San Francisco Giants (1958-1960) and the 1963 Chicago White Sox Pitcher Joe Shipley had passed away at the age of 88. He had a 0-1 record with a 5.93 ERA in 29 games. This one is gold, Clipper. I remember Joe Shipley from the Topps 1959 Sporting News Rookie Star cards. Some of the other guys in that series were Bob Hartman, Dan Dobbek, Lou Jackson, Dick Ricketts, Charlie Secrist, Chuck Coles, Ron Conley, Jim McDaniel, Dom Zanni and Ed Sadowski. None of them got within a thousand light years of Cooperstown. On the other hand, a few of them at least had reasonably long careers -- Johnny Callison, Ron Fairly, Bennie Daniels. Great memories, and a tip of the topper to you for recording it.
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Post by inger on May 8, 2024 14:57:09 GMT -5
Not meaningful in the big picture of baseball, but a fellow that grew up in Cecil County MD. and got to try his hand at baseball for a couple of seasons had passed away. Eddie Lynch was a really nice kid. He and his brother “Dickey” were avid baseball players with a hard-nosed father that would take a belt to them after they went home if they had struck out or made an error in a Little League game. Eddie was 67. I hadn’t seen him since we were kids… www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=lynch-001edw
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