MUSICIANS WHO DIED IN JUNE 2019
MUSICIANS WHO DIED IN JUNE 2019
JUNE 4
MIKEY DEES (48) / (MIKEY NELSON) AMERICAN HARDCORE PUNK SINGER AND GUITARIST. LEAD SINGER AND CO-FOUNDER OF FITZ OF DEPRESSION AND MEMBER OF THE STUNTMEN (ON BASS). DEES FORMED FITZ OF DEPRESSION IN OLYMPIA, WASH. IN 1988 WITH JIM KOONTZ AND CRAIG BECKER. DEBUT SELF-TITLED ALBUM IN 1991 (MEAT), THEN LET'S GIVE IT A TWIST (1995) AND SWING (1996) BOTH ON OLYMPIA INDIE LABEL K RECORDS.
JUNE 6
DR. JOHN (77) / (MALCOLM JOHN REBENNACK) AMERICAN SINGER AND SONGWRITER, WHOSE MUSIC USED BLUES, JAZZ, POP, BOOGIE-WOOGIE AND ROCK AND ROLL. A POPULAR SESSION MUSICIAN ALL HIS LIFE (BEGINNING IN THE LATE 1950's), MADE HIS DEBUT ALBUM AS A LEADER IN 1968 (GRIS-GRIS ON ATCO). IN 1973 HAD A TOP-10 HIT SINGLE "RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME", LOTS OF GREAT COVER SONGS LIKE "SUCH A NIGHT", "SEASON OF THE WITCH", "JUNCO PARTNER", "GOODNIGHT IRENE". HAD A TRIO CALLED TRIUMVIRATE WITH MIKE BLOOMFIELD AND JOHN HAMMOND, JR. WORKED WITH LEON REDBONE, THE ROLLING STONES, CANNED HEAT, VAN MORRISON, RINGO STARR, B.B. KING, JIMMY SMITH, DAVID "FATHEAD" NEWMAN, JOHNNY WINTER, JIMMIE VAUGHAN, BENNIE WALLACE, LEVON HELM, HANK CRAWFORD, DONALD HARRISON, NICHOLAS PAYTON, MARCUS MILLER, THE BLUES BROTHERS BAND, DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND.
JUNE 9
BUSHWICK BILL (52) / (REAL NAME RICHARD STEPHEN SHAW) JAMAICAN-AMERICAN RAPPER AND RECORD PRODUCER. ONE OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE PIONEERING HIP HOP / HARDCORE HIP HOP BAND FROM TEXAS CALLED GETO BOYS (INITIALLY GHETTO BOYS). BUSHWICK BILL TOGETHER WITH SCARFACE AND WILLIE D. (BOTH OF WHOM JOINED IN 1989) MADE THE CLASSIC LINEUP OF THE GROUP.
JUNE 13
NATURE GANGANBAIGAL AKA NATURE G (29) / CHINESE-MONGOLIAN SINGER AND THROAT SINGER, MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST (GUITAR, MORIN CHUUR, DOMBRA) AND FILM MUSIC COMPOSER. FOUNDER AND FRONTMAN OF MONGOLIAN FOLK-METAL BAND TENGGER CAVALRY. BORN IN CHINA, BASED IN NEW YORK, HE FOUNDED TENGGER CAVALRY IN 2010. THE BAND COMBINED TRADITIONAL MONGOLIAN FOLK MUSIC WITH BRUTAL NOMADIC HEAVY METAL. NORTHERN MEMORY (VOL.1), THE BAND'S LATEST ALBUM, WAS DEVOTED TO THE NOMADIC TRIBES OF THE HUNNU AND KHITAN PEOPLE WHO MOVED INTO NORTHERN CHINA AND MONGOLIA. NATURE GANGANBAIGAL SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION, HAD SUICIDAL THOUGHTS AND MOST PROBABLY COMITTED SUICIDE. NATURE'S BODY WAS FOUND ON JUNE 13 AND HIS DEATH ANNOUNCED ON JUNE 24.
JUNE 18
MARIA GIUSEPPA ROBUCCI (116) / ITALIAN SUPERCENTENARIAN FROM APULIA, THE OLDEST PERSON IN EUROPE. LIVED 116 YEARS AND 90 DAYS.
JUNE 23
DAVE BARTHOLOMEW (100) / AMERICAN MUSICIAN (TRUMPETER, TUBIST), COMPOSER, BANDLEADER, ARRANGER AND RECORD PRODUCER. COMPOSED FOR R&B, SWING, BIG BAND, DIXIELAND AND ROCK AND ROLL PERFORMERS. WROTE MANY GREAT HIT SONGS LIKE "AIN'T THAT A SHAME", "I'M WALKIN'", "THE FAT MAN" (ALL WITH FATS DOMINO), "I HEAR YOU KNOCKING", " MY DING-A-LING" OR "ONE NIGHT". "THE FAT MAN" WAS FATS DOMINO'S DEBUT SINGLE AND IT SOLD ONE MILLION COPIES. "AIN'T THAT A SHAME" - ANOTHER MILLION COPIES AND BILLBOARD #1. IT WAS LATER COVERED BY PAT BOONE (1955), FOUR SEASONS (1963), JOHN LENNON (1975), CHEAP TRICK (1978) AND ALSO HANK WILLIAMS Jr., TANYA TUCKER, BROWNSVILLE STATION, MUD AND WAS USED IN FILMS, COMMERCIALS AND VIDEO GAMES. " MY DING-A-LING" WAS COVERED BY CHUCK BERRY IN 1972 BECOMING BILLBOARD #1 HIT. AS A PIONEER OF ROCK AND ROLL, DAVE BARTHOLOMEW WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME.
JUNE 29
GARY DUNCAN (72) / (REAL NAME GARY RAY GRUBB) AMERICAN ROCK GUITARIST AND SINGER. AS GARY GRUBB STARTED PLAYING WITH THE RATZ, BEING ALSO A SUPPORT ACT FOR THE BYRDS AND THE ROLLING STONES. IN 1965, AS GARY COLE, JOINED THE BROGUES. BUT THE REAL FAME CAME WHEN, AS GARY DUNCAN, HE BECAME A MEMBER OF QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE IN 1965. TOGETHER WITH OTHER GUITARIST JIM CIPPOLINA, DUNCAN CREATED A UNIQUE PSYCHEDELIC SOUND WITH THEIR TWIN-GUITAR IMPROVISATIONS. AFTER THEIR 1968 EPONYMOUS DEBUT ALBUM THEY PUT OUT HAPPY TRAILS IN 1969, A LARGELY LIVE LP MADE AT THE FILLMORE WEST AND THE FILLMORE EAST, WHICH BECAME A GOLD ALBUM IN THE US. AND THEN DUNCAN LEFT, BEING REPLACED BY ENGLISH KEYBOARD PLAYER NICKY HOPKINS.
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