The R.I.P. Thread
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We need one of those obituary threads.
Very saddened to wake up this morning, after an off-grid weekend in the mountains, to discover that Rick Davies died on Saturday, age 81. Rick Davies is the co-founder of Supertramp, my alltime favourite band.
I knew he got sick with myeloma in 2015, but I was under the impression he was on the mend. A Davies/Hodgson reunion was never gonna happen anyway, but it’s still a considerable chunk of my formative years that died this weekend. I wouldn’t be here without them – prog rock, and Supertramp primarily among it, was an important gateway into film music for me.
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Wowow! That is really sad.
The split of Supertramp was a great loss for the music world. Even though each of the two wrote their songs separately and they published them anyway and I wouldn’t like to have missed a great album like Brother Where You Bound, still the swing of that band and the music missed out on something. Not even talking about all those miserable attempts of the band to replace Hodgson with another singer.
R.I.P. Rick.Yeah, nothing against Mark Hart (he did okay with a group like Crowded House), but another Hodgson he was not. The group was vibrant when it had that interplay between Hodgson’s natural, poppy falsetto (Hart’s is more strained) and Davies’ hoarse, bluesy, low-register voice.
Always sad to hear. Although I like Supertramp I primarily know the “best of” only… And was not really aware of the issues between the two…
Never heard of Mark Hart before. I liked the first 3 albums of Crowded House a lot – stil listen to them occasionally – but after the 4th I lost track of them…
Thor, I don’t know how often you visit FSM nowadays, but your old thread about deceased former members has been… resurrected… with the addition of a few more names.
Thor, I don’t know how often you visit FSM nowadays, but your old thread about deceased former members has been… resurrected… with the addition of a few more names.
Thanks for the heads-up, Graham! Very sad to hear about Thomas/Tom “sdtom” Kiefner, in particular, who was a regular primarily on Maintitles and a long-time cyber-friend. He even posted a brief “hello” on this board, back in 2018 in the welcome thread, under the username “max steiner”. I knew he was ill, and for the last couple of years, he didn’t respond to anything on Facebook or elsewhere, so I had a feeling it was getting worse.
Robert Redford has died. What an icon! My mom had a crush on him for, like, forever, and everytime he was on the telly, I always shouted out that she had to come see.
Probably the Hollywood actor with the very best instinct on picking his roles.
Every movie was worth watching.I think, even I got a crush on him in “Barefoot in the Park”.
His last great role was in ALL IS LOST (2013) — great physical acting. Seen that film probably 5 times, it’s very much up my alley (sheer survival, almost no dialogue, closed quarters, great mood, lots of weather). In fact, it’s probably my favourite film with Redford.
Other favourites are THE CHASE, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN and SNEAKERS.
His last great role was in ALL IS LOST in 2013
I liked his THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN and OUR SOULS AT NIGHT (which also has probably the last Goldenthal score to a film that is not by his wife). Of course all nowhere near the classics.
Other favourites are THE CHASE, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN and SNEAKERS.
Good list. I would add THREE DAYS OF CONDOR and especially THE STING which is a favorite since childhood days.
Damn, very sorry to read that Klaus Doldinger has died, age 89. 🙁
THE NEVERENDING STORY is one of my favourite scores of all time, and DAS BOOT is obviously a classic. As we’ve discussed in the “German film music” thread.
I’ve sampled some other bits and bobs over the years, but always had the intention to dig deeper — into both the Passport stuff and other scores (like TATORT, whatever is available), but never got around to it. Now is a good opportunity to do so.
Indeed sad! Too few of his film or tv scores are released, often mostly some (even new recorded) themes only. I think we mailed about that I was thinking about attempting an incomplete filmography overview for next year actually expected 90th anniversary… I already collected some series and films to create some suites (if possible if not much SFX). Maybe I should try a discopgraphy roudup instead… AS you know around 30 years ago I last time wrote some few reviews for a German fanzine named LIMITED EDITION. I even did a short review for DAS BOOT if I recall right.
There is a older portrait on Youtube on the channel of one of our public broadcasters. Sadly no subtitles:
His 1983 album Constellations seems like a TD/Jarre clone!
Nice one, I didn’t know that. I do know the track Connstellation 5 from somewhere else not knowing it is Doldinger (although you can actually hear it). I am sure that track was used somewhere in some TV series or else but I don’t remember yet where.
The Passport album “ATARAXIA” from the same time is also pretty synthy.
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