Ravi Shankar, RIP

[logdrum]

Anoushka is incredible. Her and Norah work great together too.

I do not want to see her live no more. Too beautiful and I go from her beauty distracting the music to her music distracting her beauty. Specially when she had short hair.

I saw Norah here in New Mexico, before she got too big in a smaller venue called the Kimo theater. Val Kilmer was in the audience. My wife spoke with her, but sadly not I. I had to accompany our daughter to the bathroom

 

[Jeff Scott]

In other news, Abraham Lincoln died earlier today after being shot in the head....

That's sad to read as we are going to DC this summer and were hoping to see Abe while there. He's still there, isn't he?

 

[Koshchei]

Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar dies

RIP Maestro. 2020 is off to a really bad start.

 

[londonbasshead]

His official death was reported on December 12, 2012
It's more than likely that OP was mistaken, albeit their was heart in the right place.

Link to BBC article

 

[Pirate Captain]

you know...it doesn't really matter if Shankar died in 2012 or 2020. What we can all agree on is that he was a phenomenal and truly innovative bass player, and that his groundbreaking contributions to the art of bass playing will live on for ever.

 

[roccobass]

He'll never catch Generalissimo Francisco Franco.

Dang it! Somebody beat me to the punchline again!

 

[BassBrass]

you know...it doesn't really matter if Shankar died in 2012 or 2020. What we can all agree on is that he was a phenomenal and truly innovative bass player, and that his groundbreaking contributions to the art of bass playing will live on for ever.

Ravi had a C# 2 octaves below middle C. Most tune to C but RS liked the C#, and his low register playing was some of his best

 

[Pirate Captain]

Ravi had a C# 2 octaves below middle C. Most tune to C but RS liked the C#, and his low register playing was some of his best

so does a piano

 

[Son of Wobble]

you know...it doesn't really matter if Shankar died in 2012 or 2020. What we can all agree on is that he was a phenomenal and truly innovative bass player, and that his groundbreaking contributions to the art of bass playing will live on for ever.

Ravi even appeared on the Beatles b-side "You Know My Name." He's playing Paul's Ric on the track. George Harrison wanted to make Ravi a "Permanent Fab," but Beatles keyboardist Billy Preston, a British loyalist whose great-grandfather had been killed in the Anglo-Indian wars, refused the new member in a move that within six months led to the end of the Fab Five.

 

[5StringBlues]

Dang it! Somebody beat me to the punchline again!

Yes, but I have no life.

 

[ElectroVibe]

He definitely helped transform rock and roll into "rock" music, via his influence on the Beatles and the Byrds. Same with Coltrane.

 

[ElectroVibe]

Ravi Shankar is cool and all, but he's no Keith Richards.

Can you believe even Keith Richards' DAD just recently passed away?

 

[ElectroVibe]

I just saw the name "John Kennedy" in a 1950's movie about the assassination of Lincoln. As if there weren't enough scary parallels between those two already.