Unfortunately I have heard nothing about Doc Neeson (1947-2014)
while I haven’t seen this video in which four Australian underground bands
(Fait Accompoli, The Rumours, Lepers and Crooks, Dead Bear)
perform together one of his songs

Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again

to pay tribute to him. Yes, he really is a rock’n’roll legend in Australia.

Jazz singer Little Jimmy Scott died at his age of 88. His most famous performance was in the last episode of Twin Peaks, where he has sung Sycamore Trees. Lyrics: David Lynch, Music: Angelo Badalamenti

He suffered from Kallmann’s syndrome, a rare hereditary condition, that preventing him from reaching puberty, he stopped growing, and his voice never changed from a boy soprano’s. He got his start singing in the church choir. He first rose to fame when he sang lead in the Lionel Hampton Band for 1950’s hit „Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool.” He went in solo in 1951. Along the way, he gained the praise of such peers as Ray Charles, Billie Holiday and Nancy Wilson. His career faded by the late 1960s and he returned to his native Cleveland to work as a hospital orderly, shipping clerk and as an elevator operator in a hotel. He came back in the limelight in the 1990s through Lou Reed, who recruited him to sing back-up vocals on his song „Power and Glory” on his album Magic and Loss.  Throughout his six-decade-plus career, Scott also performed with the likes of Michael Stipe, Antony & the Johnsons, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus and Quincy Jones, among many others.

Gary Burger the frontman of The Monks (and mayor of Turtle River, Minnesota) has died. He was 72. The Monks were one of the best and most influential garage rock bands ever

It was founded by American soldiers in 1964 in Germany. They released only one album until the disband in 1967. There were two reunion tours in 1999 and 2006-2007. A film about the band

The drummer of Stooges, Scott Asheton has died in unspecified illness. He was 64.

Gert Krawinkel played on guitar in Trio. A Yoko Ono cover

He was 66

Travis Jackson, musician, who drummed in the garage-punk band The Points

promoter, and founder of Windian Records was killed on Wednesday night in an accident. (More)

He was 34.

Travis Jackson Memorial Fund

Forever transformed today.

Born between 1921-25 in Mississippi. Had been working in various blue collar jobs. Was in jail many times. Once he was sentenced to 10 years on chain gang for murder. But released after 2 years. He had 5 wives and has 26 children. A self-taught, juke joint, itinerant musician. Was discovered in the early 90s. Then he was about 70

T-Model Ford died yesterday. He was about 90.

Ah! I almost forgot about his favourite saying: „It’s Jack Daniels’ time!”

Flavor Flav a Public Enemy-ből, 2013-ban is fájlalja ám nagyon…

Flavor Flav from the Public Enemy is still regretting his buddy’s death

 …hogy elpusztult a haverja, ez a gazdag fehér nő az egykor szegény, néger kisfiú.

who was a poor black kid and became a rich white woman.

The Ramones artistic director is dead. He designed the Ramones’ logo. He said from it:
„I saw them as the ultimate American band. To me, they reflected the American character, in general — an almost childish, innocent aggression. Then the first time I went to Washington, D.C., I was impressed by the official atmosphere…I thought, ‘The Great Seal of the President of the United States would be perfect for the Ramones, with the eagle holding arrows — to symbolize strength and the aggression that would be used against whomever dares to attack us — and an olive branch, offered to those who want to be friendly . But…instead of the olive branch, we had an apple tree branch, since the Ramones were American as apple pie. And since Johnny was such a baseball fanatic, we had the eagle hold a baseball bat instead of the arrows.”

He was 65.

Live in Arturo’s loft, 1975: