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terryc
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Username: terryc

Post Number: 2332
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Monday, March 16, 2015 - 1:24 am:   Edit Post

Another sad loss at a relatively young age, a great player in a great band.
jcdlc72
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Username: jcdlc72

Post Number: 418
Registered: 11-2009
Posted on Monday, March 16, 2015 - 8:34 am:   Edit Post

This is sad, real sad. Now thatīs some news I wasn't really prepared for, even knowing of his illness, somehow you always expect "that day" is always far ahead. Thank you, Mike, for all the good music you played on!
bigredbass
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Username: bigredbass

Post Number: 2343
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Monday, March 16, 2015 - 11:07 am:   Edit Post

One of my all-time favorite Toto grooves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDzhAAgmqPU

. . . . with Mike and Jeff, one of those big rhythms that makes me visualize a large ship engine, the huge visible crank and con rods . . . this just makes me sad to see these two wonderful players in their day, no longer with us.

Last week also saw the passing of Jimmy Greenspoon, longtime keyboard player for Three Dog Night, whose Wurlitzer and Hammond work drove those records. I've always felt they were utterly overlooked by being hung with that 'Pop' label. Three terrific singers, and that band, especially with Floyd Sneed's unique drumming are long past deserving their due. Somehow that they used the same pattern so many artists have used (great frontmen/singers, hot band, hand-picked big money songwriters with a hot producer) left them standing on the sidelines. And, they cut those records themselves, where lots of 70's records were the stomping grounds of the A-Team in those days, played all of it themselves when they cut. I've never understood it.

Here's 'FireEater', a rare TDN instrumental. It sounds very 'period correct', and I love this because of it: Go to see a hot band back in the day, and this sort of instrumentation, the whole way it sounds, is the way it was, if you were lucky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gFI1hhns-s

Joey

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hankster
Advanced Member
Username: hankster

Post Number: 392
Registered: 6-2004
Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 4:32 pm:   Edit Post

That is such a drag. What a rhythm section.

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