GFM fam we had to take a little time out today to pay homage to one of the greatest and most melodic bass players to ever record, none other than James Jamerson who died on this day in 1983. As one of the core members of Motown’s storied session musicians “The Funk Brothers” James Jamerson played on countless hit records and developed a personal style that is unmistakable from the first note. (more…)
Photo: Lianne Milton / Special to The Chronicle
I came across this article in the San Francisco Chronicle a while back and it really caught my attention. It speaks to a post written earlier by Ivan Orr, regarding the lack of bands in today’s music scene as well as the harsh realities of the music business and life itself. Of course, being a huge Maze fan, I took an even more personal interest in the story. 30 years with Maze, embarking on a solo career, battling cancer, finding Christ and now “back in stride”. Whew! Sounds like a VH1 behind the music episode waiting to happen.
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For Robin Duhe, the disease that threatened to kill him was a “godsend.” Until then, he had been living a dream.
After riding a 30-year wave of success with a famed R&B band, he chucked it all to embark on a promising solo career. But everything he’d worked for came crashing down when life threw him a curveball.
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By Matt Schudel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Wayman Tisdale, who scaled the heights in two high-profile careers as a professional basketball player and a chart-topping recording star, died May 15 of cancer at a hospital in Tulsa. He was 44.
Mr. Tisdale first gained renown in the 1980s as a three-time All-American basketball player at the University of Oklahoma. As a 6-foot-9 power forward with a soft left-handed shot, he was practically unstoppable during his college career, averaging 25.6 points a game.
In 1984, he was a member of the gold-medal-winning U.S. Olympic basketball team, which included Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing. Mr. Tisdale was a first-team All-American and the Big Eight Conference player of the year in each of his first three years at Oklahoma before leaving the university in 1985 to enter the NBA draft. The Indiana Pacers selected him as the second player in the draft, after Georgetown University’s Ewing. He and Ewing remain the last college basketball players to be three-time All-Americans.
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