Allen Lanier – This is one of ours, Queens guitarist who graduated from Soft White Underbelly to Blue Oyster Cult, dating Patti Smith somewhere along the way before scoring big time metal hit “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”, dead at 67 years old from lung disease. Bummer.
Regina Resnik – Gotta love them Mezzo-Soprano, if only for the depth of their voices. I was just listening to the late Ms. Resnik sing Bizet and she was pretty incredible. She joined the fledgling New York Opera in 1945 and stayed there, teaching a master class in opera. According to Wikipedia: “She has recorded all her great signature roles: Carmen (Thomas Schippers), Klytemnestra (Georg Solti), Mistress Quickly (Leonard Bernstein), Orlovsky (Herbert von Karajan), “Pique Dame” Countess (Mstislav Rostropovich) and Sieglinde (Clemens Krauss), among many others. She became the only singer in operatic history to have sung both the soprano and mezzo leads in much of her repertory.” And I saw her as Miss Schneider in “Cabaret” in the 000s. Resnik died earlier this month at the age of 90.
Jon Brooks – Was the drummer with the tinged by tragedy Madchester also rans rock band the Charlatans, who neither fell apart or broke away, but remodeled into a more standard rock and roll band and kept on after the loss of their keyboard playeri Rob Collins in a car crash in 1996. Brooks was diagnosed with a brian tumor in 2010. He was 44 years old.
Tompall Glasser was a country singer and songwriter who never peaked any higher than # 21 in the country charts with “Put Another Log On The Fire”. A journeyman country boy, he was 79 years old.
Jason Rosenthall – Guitarist and singer with On the Might of Princes and Vehicles and The Brass died lastw eek. He was 35 years old. Try “No Sign Of The Messiah (Part II)” an instrumental and the more recent “…And The Hat Stays On”