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05-27-2011, 09:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | RIP Gil Scott Heron
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Originally Posted by THand  Really, what I keep thinking is:
put "getting drunk with GE" on bucket list:D | Taking parts donations for another Drunk Rock bass. FS/FT Montreux Little Buffer Ben Lindsey Jazz |
05-27-2011, 09:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | Was just about to start a thread about Gil.
R.I.P
Another one gone.
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05-27-2011, 09:51 PM
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05-27-2011, 09:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | | I was surprised at his age too. Far too young.
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05-27-2011, 10:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: SF Bay Area | | | This is so sad. Too soon to die. RIP
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05-28-2011, 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese He was only 62, | Indeed... I didn't realize he was so young. RIP.
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05-28-2011, 09:05 AM
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devil bless you
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05-28-2011, 09:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Arras - Northern France | | | Really sad news. Really liked this guy! RIP
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05-28-2011, 09:54 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | | I still play "Is that Jazz" as one of my warm up tunes. Loved his stuff in the day.
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05-28-2011, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese He was only 62, | Quote:
Originally Posted by Shakin-Slim Far too young. | Quote:
Originally Posted by rosanne Too soon to die. RIP |
uh, not if you live like he did ... which was a damned shame as he was an amazing talent.
Saw him at UConn after "The Revloution Will not be Televised" Student Union show and I was just blown away ...
RIP Gil. Peace now.
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05-28-2011, 11:26 AM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | | Part of the soundtrack of my life in the 70's, protest with a groove!
Fly on Gil.............
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05-28-2011, 01:38 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Much respect, RIP.
His '90s album "Spirits" gets overlooked a lot, but it has some incredibly powerful songs and some great bassy music. |
05-28-2011, 02:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | Gil was a great poet, composer, musician and activist. Here's is one of my favorite tracks with the amazing Robert Gordon on bass: YouTube - ‪gil scott heron - waiting for the axe to fall (1980).wmv‬‏
R.I.P., Gil...........
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05-28-2011, 03:22 PM
|  | Hard rockin' stay-at-home dad | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The soggy state of Oregon | | | I doubt if the latest generation of hip hop and rap artists have any clue about his work.
RIP Gil. |
05-28-2011, 04:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Wellington, New Zealand | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BartmanPDX I doubt if the latest generation of hip hop and rap artists have any clue about his work.
RIP Gil. | He does appear on Kanye's album. I don't really consider him an artist though. I'm pretty sure real hip hop artists like Madlib etc sample him and The Last Poets quite a bit.
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05-28-2011, 05:31 PM
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Applications Engineer, QSC Audio | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Costa Mesa, Calif. | | | RIP. I heard about it this morning. |
05-28-2011, 05:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Québec | | | RIP , a true legend & innovator.
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05-28-2011, 09:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BartmanPDX I doubt if the latest generation of hip hop and rap artists have any clue about his work.
RIP Gil. | The guy that introduced me to him was a hip hop producer. 
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Originally Posted by THand Really, what I keep thinking is:
put "getting drunk with GE" on bucket list:D | Taking parts donations for another Drunk Rock bass. FS/FT Montreux Little Buffer Ben Lindsey Jazz |
05-29-2011, 12:07 AM
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Definitely part of the soundtrack of my adolescence. "Johannesburg" and "The Revolution will not be Televised", "We Almost Lost Detroit".
The politics of protest, the music of the resistance.
We miss you.
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