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I personally include krautrock as a form of prog or prog-ish music, so I thought I would just post this here:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/07/all-gates-open-story-of-can-rob-young-irmin-schmidt-review

 

This article states that Damo Suzuki of Can has got colon cancer. I was aware that he had been ill, but didn't know it was cancer. One to watch for 2019 maybe?

 

I also have Irmin Schmidt, the keyboardist from Can who is 81 this month, on my own personal list this year - stupidly I put him where Mark E. Smith should have been!

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Hm. Wonder how long he had the cancer in him...

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For some reason I was waiting for news like this. I was surprised he survived Jaki Liebezeit and Holger Czukay.

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Former Hawkwind drummer Martin Griffin has died, according to the band.

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Juan Alderete, bassist of The Mars Volta, was involved in bicycle accident and remains in coma.

 

 

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Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has revealed in a video interview on Dan Rather’s XS TV series The Big Interview that he suffers from an “incurable” lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which he believes is a result of playing shows with smoke machines for 50 years.

 

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-reveals-hes-living-with-an-incurable-lung-disease/?fbclid=IwAR1K7WEtkH9ETI-_6WVsa1e9vkSvYMb3wyIUig5D60r-2lK9ATInb4hmzMo

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25 minutes ago, ObakeFilter said:

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has revealed in a video interview on Dan Rather’s XS TV series The Big Interview that he suffers from an “incurable” lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which he believes is a result of playing shows with smoke machines for 50 years.

 

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-reveals-hes-living-with-an-incurable-lung-disease/?fbclid=IwAR1K7WEtkH9ETI-_6WVsa1e9vkSvYMb3wyIUig5D60r-2lK9ATInb4hmzMo

Wonder if an aqualung will help him?

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25 minutes ago, ObakeFilter said:

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has revealed in a video interview on Dan Rather’s XS TV series The Big Interview that he suffers from an “incurable” lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which he believes is a result of playing shows with smoke machines for 50 years.

 

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-reveals-hes-living-with-an-incurable-lung-disease/?fbclid=IwAR1K7WEtkH9ETI-_6WVsa1e9vkSvYMb3wyIUig5D60r-2lK9ATInb4hmzMo

 

*shakes fist at sky*

 

GOOSEBERRY!!!!

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1 hour ago, ObakeFilter said:

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has revealed in a video interview on Dan Rather’s XS TV series The Big Interview that he suffers from an “incurable” lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which he believes is a result of playing shows with smoke machines for 50 years.

 

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-reveals-hes-living-with-an-incurable-lung-disease/?fbclid=IwAR1K7WEtkH9ETI-_6WVsa1e9vkSvYMb3wyIUig5D60r-2lK9ATInb4hmzMo

Do you mean this Ian Anderson? Those darn smoke machines should be outlawed or at least  come with stern warnings.

 

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I knew about those smoke machines when I was younger, but we just called them cigarettes.

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8 hours ago, Skinny kiltrunner said:

Do you mean this Ian Anderson? Those darn smoke machines should be outlawed or at least  come with stern warnings.

 

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Probably.

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Producer Derek Lawrence died yesterday aged 78. Credits include Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash and Jethro Tull amongst others (including Freddie Starr in his merseybeat era).

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On 12/05/2020 at 15:38, ObakeFilter said:

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson has revealed in a video interview on Dan Rather’s XS TV series The Big Interview that he suffers from an “incurable” lung disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which he believes is a result of playing shows with smoke machines for 50 years.

 

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/jethro-tulls-ian-anderson-reveals-hes-living-with-an-incurable-lung-disease/?fbclid=IwAR1K7WEtkH9ETI-_6WVsa1e9vkSvYMb3wyIUig5D60r-2lK9ATInb4hmzMo

Update, he already had COPD for 14 months, but it only seems to be the early stages so far

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2 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

Update, he already had COPD for 14 months, but it only seems to be the early stages so far


Many years (15-20?) back he was giving PSAs for Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) checkups, as he had been diagnosed and living with it for years.  So along with his lungs, his circulation sucks.

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Roger Trigaux, main guy behind the Belgian avant-prog act Present, has reportedly died.

 

 

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On 09/03/2021 at 08:04, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

Guitarist James McGaw of Steve Davis-beloved French prog-jazzers Magma has died of a brain tumour.

 

Half of France seems to have been a member during their 300-year existence and 2,657 line-up changes.

 

 

Indeed - national service for hippies and head-cases!

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Come on, Alan White's death surely goes here too!

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