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Herbie Flowers, bassist on Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side, dies aged 86 | Music | The Guardian.

Walk On The Wild Side - The story behind the classic bass intro featuring Herbie Flowers.

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First became aware of the name in 1980 when, playing tuba with Sky2 (with John Williams) :smiley:

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Well ,that info let me look up some new things…Too busy this morning to look further, but I never knew what I had already seen in 10 minutes of searching :smiley:

At 3:20 :scream: …
Some very bad lies work out very well :joy: :sunglasses:

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Ooo, this brings back some wonderful memories…

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Just woke to see this Shane, sad news but a long life. RIP

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I’ve never been really into American country music (it’s not insanely popular in Eastern Europe) so I knew about Kristofferson mostly from movies, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid and Heaven’s Gate being prime examples. But he seemed somehow more likable than “typical” country artists the same way as Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson had a wider appeal. Maybe it’s time for me to check out his works.

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Actually, throw in Waylon Jennings and the 4 of them made up the country supergroup The Highwaymen. Very likeable!

I have never listened to Kristofferson much as a performer, but for my money he wrote two of the greatest songs in any genre: Me and Bobby McGee and Sunday Morning Comin’ Down. For those alone, he deserves the highest accolades. My go-to versions of those songs are by The Grateful Dead (Janis Joplin’s is fantastic, also) and Johnny Cash, respectively, but I will check out Kris Kristofferson’s versions today.

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RIP Kris: here’s one of his best performances

Brian

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:cry:

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I saw him with Iron Maiden at Middlesbrough Town Hall in 1980 - the time of their first album.
‘Eddie’ T-shirts were all the rage among the crowd.
It was a hot and sweaty affair down the front in with the headbangers.

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Wow Richard bet that brings back memories, you must have an old photo for the community :+1:

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Hehe, nobody took photos at gigs in the 80s. We just burnt our fingers on lighters :rofl:

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I like it Brian haha, I meant in general with his T-shirt, no phones those days mate

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10 posts were split to a new topic: Show us your earliest photo of you with a guitar

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A fitting tribute to Paul from the Irons !

PGA - couple of naughty words.

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I can’t believe he was that young, I grew up listening to Maidan and had no idea there were only 8 years between us.

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Wow, 84 is an admirable age

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