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Originally Posted by RM
So.....what's the problem ? Why isn't he receiving the recognition that many feel he deserves ?
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speaking of unrecognized talent, in recently reminiscing with long lost musical friends, it came up that an unheralded guitar hero (no, not that, a real guitarist...self-indulgent, LindseyBuckingham-ish) and impeccable harmony singer had died suddenly while returning home from a gig back in 2006...an eccentric who had really raised my eyebrows during a few Grant Ave studio sessions, yet, like so many studio musicians, never to be known to the masses and probably just missed 'that' career changing break a few times
on the contrary, the local awards show that year was dedicated to him so that his local industry peers might tip their caps...they also awarded to him the guitarist of the year award...of Lightfoot note, Bob Doidge (good guy, Harmony & APPT producer, studio co-founder, multi-talent, etc, etc) took bassist of the year (pictured with Amy King, slick engineer & multi-talent)
to get back on track/thread, The Hawk was honoured with Lifetime achievement award at that function (his joy is captured in this pic)
ok, to get back off track, I thought this link was something that might touch our unsung musicians - although Mark was more or less a stranger (a tad strange also
) to me, I'm glad he went out in song and that his naive cousin was able to partially fill in those missing years
http://www.tcn.net/~severn/cousinmark.html
ps) good article, Earl (that aside, I've never been a big Earl fan)