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David Lindley, Mike Rhodes and now Gary Rossington?? The last original member of Skynard is gone. Died yesterday from a heart attack at 71.
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These tend to happen in threes..... Press the reset button.
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We are mostly senior citizens as are and were the musicians we have followed for so many years.
So it goes with the territory.
I haven't gotten over Tom Petty and Glen Frey and the number keeps growing ... exponentially,
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The older you get the more of your musical friends die and just leave you here, alone, in the dead open street! Not fun! Not fair, but better than the alternative.
At least we get to listen to their recordings and remember the time when we....
There was a book written by someone from the University Of Houston chronicling the lives of about two hundred and fifty black blues musicians from the nearby area. Tayna, the black girl bass player I have been best friends with and played with for years said "Between the two of us we have played with at least two hundred of these people and they are all dead now".
She looked at me and said, " Billy I guess you and me are the last two Nword standing".
It has been my great privilege to be accepted into the black community.
I have not spoken to Tayna in a while. I think I will call her before one or both of us leave the stage.
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“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”
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RIP Gary We are mostly senior citizens as are and were the musicians we have followed for so many years.
So it goes with the territory.
I haven't gotten over Tom Petty and Glen Frey and the number keeps growing ... exponentially,
Bud So true. Although I will miss those big stars I miss my local musician friends a lot more. I have been to at least 10 wakes/funerals of either close musician friends or band mates. At times getting older is not fun!
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These people were all suffering from a terminal condition called "life." It is invariably fatal; no cure exists.
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If I can borrow the quote, " none of us are going to get out alive".
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When my peers are dying, I feel a bit sad for them, and it also reminds me of my own mortality, but I also feel like a survivor because I'm still here (for now).
When I was younger, and my peers left the stage, it was a plane crash like Otis, or a gunshot like Marvin, but now they are dying of old people diseases, and that's an entirely different story.
Both my parents are dead, that makes me an orphan, but my siblings are still here. When one of those goes, I'll really feel on thin ice (and that one could be me).
We have spent a lifetime learning things, and when we go it'll be all gone. So it's our duty to pass on what we have learned to the young.
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asking "What's going on?" implies the need for an explanation. I think it's not just a matter of age. 71 is nowhere close to the average life expectancy in 2023. When you look at a bell-shaped curve, the vast majority of samples cluster around the average, and the outliers at the edge (in this case, those who live shorter or longer lives than average) tend to be different for a reason. In the case of musicians dying at ages that are statistically premature, my guess is that the assignable causes are alcohol, drugs and touring. Even for the ones who curbed their habits years ago, their bodies were likely compromised already. Consider the Average Life Expectancy
The Social Security Administration maintains a life expectancy calculator that will tell you the average number of additional years a person with your date of birth and gender can expect to live. Using this calculator, a 65-year-old woman born on Jan. 1, 1955, has a life expectancy of 86.6 years. And if she makes it to age 70, her life expectancy increases to 87.6 years. A man the same age has an average life expectancy of 84.1 years.
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I don't really pay much attention to those calculators, they are usually wheeled out when the government wants to do something like increase the age that one is entitled to the state pension or something else, and they try to justify it by stating as we may well live to be 100 the government needs to save money.
The way I look at it is, the old three score and ten rule applies a lot of the time, and over the age of seventy I consider it "bonus years"
Living is a dangerous game, and enjoy each day as it comes as my partner says is the best way to do it.
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My father died at 72 and he was no rock star. He didn't drink much, didn't tour, didn't smoke, but was overweight due to his love of sweets. Obesity related diseases killed him.
Read "Today's Birthdays" in the local e-newspaper every day, and you will read rock stars of our generation who are celebrating birthdays in their 80s, and aren't done yet.
John Cale and Mark Lindsay are 81 today. Robin Trower is 78. Mickey Dolenz hit 78 yesterday. Also yesterday, Sax man George Coleman hit 88, Carole Bayer Sager 79, and Randy Meisner 77.
Those who go to the great gig in the sky make the headlines, but there are others in no hurry to get there.
I've lived most of my life so far as a pro musician. I toured, but only for 5 or 6 years, I did more than my share of recreational drugs, 'dated' more than my share of girls, drank a lot, and ate fast food too.
After all that, I'm still gigging, but I don't do the drugs anymore, I eat sensibly, and my alcohol intake is moderate.
Now I am healthier than most people of my generation. I had tests done, and my heart and circulatory system are that of a healthy person 20 years younger than myself. I am on zero prescription medications, and I am gigging 19 times this month.
For all those leaving the stage, there are some who are still doing it.
So we have the early ones to go, like Buddy Holly, and we have the ones who hang on, like Willie Nelson. The rest are somewhere in the middle. I hope to be in the Willie Nelson category, because gigging is the most fun I can have with my clothes on.
We miss the ones that pass earlier than we do, but there will also be some who are here when we are gone.
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