RIP

[Danzik]

Oh c'est moche ! Respect.

Très en vue surtout dans les 80's (?) Patrick Verbeke * je dirais avec d'autres illustres bluesmans made in France !


*(Alan Jack Civilization, Bistrock, Hydravion, Magnum (21), Miguel Flores & Pyramid, Tribu)

[Algernon]

Complètement. Un nom que je lis dans les revues depuis très longtemps, Patrick Verbeke : ça parle. Le Blues français
Belle carrière, riche et talentueuse.
Son fils Steve est harmoniciste et son album de 2002 porte le titre de "Montreuil Boogaloo" (...)

[Harvest]

De très bons disques à son actif. Vu en concert. Dont une fois avec son pote Benoit Blue Boy.

Particulièrement recommandé, son premier de 81 sur Underdog, Blues on my soul.

[Jo Bolais]

Vu aussi en concert, aux 4 écluses à Dunkerque. Un pédagogue aussi, de l'histoire du blues et des instruments

[Punker paname]

Décidément cette nuit, le blues prend toute sa signification. Patrick Verbeke était né le 13 avril 1949 à Caen (Calvados), il avait 72 ans.

Ha M.... un grand du Blues Rock made in fRance

[Slade]

Eric Wagner , Trouble et The Skull emporté par le covid

https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2021/08/ ... kQ5WMCV8YI

[Jo Bolais]

Fichtre ! Quelle sale journée !

[Punker paname]

Fichtre ! Quelle sale journée !

Je ne vous le fait pas dire

Former Trouble and current The Skull vocalist Eric Wagner has died of pneumonia brought about by Covid-19. His son, Luke Wagner, confirmed on social media. It is impossible to estimate the devastation that Wagner’s loss means to the international underground community at large, but it nearly goes without saying that he was a legend in his own time with a career spanning more than 40 years behind him, as well as someone continuing to do pivotal work in doom metal today.

As part of Trouble, Wagner was essential in defining the trajectory of American doom. Early albums through Metal Blade Records like 1984’s Trouble/Psalm 9, 1985’s The Skull and 1987’s Run to the Light set forth a blueprint that many still follow today, and even as Trouble shifted into more heavy rock and classic rock-minded fare on their 1990 self-titled, their efforts remained no less crucial, with Wagner’s Beatles influence becoming all the more defining on 1992’s Manic Frustration and 1995’s Plastic Green Head, which would be his final album with the band until 2007’s Simple Mind Condition.

Always creative and a songwriter in his own right, Wagner would work across multiple outfits at a time, whether it was the collaboration Lid with Daniel Cavanagh of Anathema or his 2004 participation in Dave Grohl’s Probot project, which helped introduce his voice and style to a broader audience prior to his return to Trouble for what would be his last full-length with the band. In the years following his departure from Trouble, Wagner went on in 2012 to found The Skull alongside guitarist Lothar Keller and fellow Trouble veterans Ron Holzner (bass) and Jeff Olson (drums), first as an homage project and later one with original material.

The Skull’s two full-lengths, For Those Which Are Asleep and The Endless Road Turns Dark, would see release in 2014 and 2016, respectively, through Tee Pee Records. Blackfinger, which would become something of a side-project as The Skull took priority, also released two albums, in 2014’s self-titled and 2017’s When Colors Fade Away, with the acoustic solo collection, Highdeas Vol. 1, arriving in 2015.

It was reported late last week that Wagner, who contracted Covid-19 while on a co-headlining tour with The Skull and fellow landmark outfit The Obsessed, had entered the hospital with Covid pneumonia and that remaining live dates including a slated appearance at Psycho Las Vegas were canceled. He was, again reportedly, unvaccinated.

He was someone whose work was immediately identifiable, and his influence is spread across generations of music from all over the world. It is impossible to hear his voice and not know who’s performing, and on stage, he brought a sense of character and even at times humor to his presence that was inimitable and spoke to his Chicago roots. He may be best remembered as Trouble’s singer, but the arc of his career would find him inspiring others multiple times over, and his passion for what he did was no less inimitable than the voice that was so much his own. If it is impossible to rank the scale of his influence, that is because it continues to spread.

As somebody fortunate enough to interview Wagner on several occasions and to see him live on many more, I offer sincere condolences on behalf of myself and this site for whatever that’s worth to Wagner’s friends, family, bandmates, and any other associates. In my experience, he was a sweet, humble man who understood his place and at least some of what his work meant to others. Of his feelings on Trouble after leaving the band, he told me in 2011, “Those four guys are the only ones who know what it was like to do what we did… I can talk to them and they know exactly what I mean and what it felt like and what we went through.” It was a moment of rare perspective that still resonates a decade later.

He will be dearly missed. It is a tragic loss.

[Piranha]

Ouch

Patrick Verbeke, un des seuls bluesmen français que j'écoutais (merci Zégut pour la découverte, dans ma jeunesse)

Eric Wagner, était tout simplement mon chanteur de doom préféré (Trouble étant mon groupe de doom favori)
J'avais eu la chance de voir The Skull il y a 2/3 ans, qui reprenait du Trouble sur scène. Un vrai plaisir




R.I.P

[Titis]

Oh merde, j'aime bien Patrick Verbeke, je l'ai jamais vu sur scène.
Je possède trois Lp de lui dont le génial "tais-toi et rame"

[andy]

merde verbeke ca me rend triste , vu en 1ere partie de johnny winter a balard , puis rencontré lorsque qu il racontait l histoire du blues aux enfants , il avait repéré mon pin s de dr feelgood ! j avais pu causer un moment avec lui , tres sympa

[Algernon]

Charlie Watts
...

Purée ! J'étais en train d'écouter The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions

[Echoes]

Ah ben zut, on les croyait presque immortels les Stones ….

[Algernon]

Ben, le dernier (précédent), ça remontait à très loin. Tout de même.

[Jo Bolais]

Les Stones vont rouler beaucoup moins bien, forcément !

[Algernon]

Et dire que c'était peut-être le plus sobre.

[Algernon]

le 5 août 2021
Le batteur des Rolling Stones, Charlie Watts, a dû se retirer de la prochaine tournée américaine du groupe en raison d’une procédure médicale dont il doit se remettre.
Un porte-parole du musicien a affirmé que son médecin lui avait conseillé de prendre un temps de repos à la suite de la procédure, au sujet de laquelle on ne donne pas davantage de précision.
"Je travaille fort pour revenir en pleine forme, mais j’ai accepté les conseils de spécialistes qui disent que ça va prendre du temps", a affirmé le batteur dans un communiqué.
Steve Jordan, un ami du groupe qui a notamment travaillé en studio avec Keith Richards, prendra la relève de Charlie Watts à la batterie pour la tournée qui doit débuter en septembre.

[Jo Bolais]

Et dire que c'était peut-être le plus sobre.

Si on s'en tient au niveau du jeu de Watts, "s'éclaire" ! L'opposé de Keith Moon. Pas d'esbroufes, pas de démonstrations. Un métronome de première le Charlie !

[Monsieur-Hulot]

Les Stones vont rouler beaucoup moins bien, forcément !

[Titis]

Merde alors, je savais qu'il ne ferait pas la tournée, c'est le plus âgé du groupe