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Associated Press Wed  3-JUN-1987 08:05                           Obit-Segovia

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   Andres Segovia Dead At 94
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   MADRID, Spain (AP) - Andres Segovia, acclaimed as the world's
premier classical guitarist for his flawless precision and perfect
sound, has died at his home in the Spanish capital. He was 94.
   Luis Galve, a concert pianist and friend of Segovia's for 51
years, told The Associated Press today the guitarist died of heart
failure Tuesday. Segovia had been hospitalized in New York last
month during a tour with what his doctor called cardiac
irregularities.
   Segovia established the guitar as a concert instrument. He was
self-taught and gave his first concert at the age of 14.
   His body was to lie in state in Spain's Royal Academy of Fine
Arts on Thursday. King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia were expected to
visit the academy to express their condolences, the state radio
said.
   Segovia was born Feb. 18, 1893 in in the southern Spanish city
of Granada, where the guitar was played by gypsies who performed
flamenco music in taverns. His father wanted Andres to follow him
in the legal profession.
   Segovia began violin lessons at the age of 6 but abandoned them
because his teacher had terrible tone and pitch ``and pinched me
whenever I played a bad note.'' He then took up the guitar.
   ``I was my own pupil and my own maestro,'' he told an
interviewer. ``We have travelled all through life without a single
quarrel.''
   Segovia once compared the guitar to ``a small orchestra - an
orchestra seen through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.''
   He liked to explain at length the guitar's capacity for harmony
and counterpoint, which he said gave it a range beyond that of the
violin or the cello.
   He disdained the use of a pic and, in his later years, dismissed
the electric guitar as ``not being a guitar at all.''
   When Segovia began his career, he saw himself as a missionary
trying to prove that the guitar belonged on the concert stage.
   He performed in Barcelona in 1916 and then in Madrid. After
touring Spain he went to Latin America.
   Segovia's international reputation was established following a
performance at the Paris Conservatory in 1924. Soon afterwards he
arrived in the United States, where he made his debut at a sold-out
concert at New York's Town Hall.
   He was one of the few classical guitarists to have earned a gold
record for having sold a million copies of a single recording. His
record interpreted works by Purcell, Scarlatti and Handel.
   Segovia lived in New York during the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War,
and did not return to Spain until 1952 ``when all the political
passions were cooling.''
   ``I am interested in the welfare of my country but without
mixing in politics,'' he said.
   When he reached his late 70s, Segovia limited his public
appearances but still managed about 60 concerts a year, most of
them outside Spain.
   He lived abroad about six months of the year but maintained his
apartment in Madrid and a home on the Mediterranean near Nerja.
   In 1961, Segovia married Emilia Corral, a former pupil. Nine
years later at the age of 77 he became the father of a son, Carlos
Andres. He had a son from a previous marriage.
   In 1981 King Juan Carlos named him Marquis of Salobrena in
recognition of his contributions to music. The Segovia
International Guitar Competition for Young Guitarists began the
same year. Segovia held scores of honorary degrees from
universities.
   Segovia told an American interviewer in 1980 he was happy to have
fulfilled the four tasks he assigned himself for his career: ``to
redeem the guitar from its flamenco associations, to develop a real
musical repertoire for it, to travel to all civilized countries and
play there is order to gain a following for it and to influence
conservatories to take the guitar into their curriculum at the same
dignified level as the piano, the violin, the cello or the voice.''

    		Sad news from a San Francisco Radio Station
    
    	The station reported the death last evening of Jaco Pastorius,
    apparently he was trying to get in to an after hours club in Florida
    and died from a beating he received. The club manager has been charged.
    	The report also stated that Jaco jumped on to the stage of a
    Santana concert earlier in the evening and had to be removed.
    
    

    
    According to the new Guitar Player, guitarist Jesse Ed Davis, who
    had worked with Taj Mahal, George Harrison and John Lennon is dead
    at the age of 43.
    
    Apparently Davis had been recovering from a stroke and was working
    at a drug/alcohol rehabilitation clinic for American Indians.

    Davis will probably be best remembered for his work on the first
    three Taj Mahal albums, where he showed a wide diversity of styles
    form country to blues to rock and roll.  He performed at the Concert
    for Bangla Desh and was the main guitarist for John Lennon during
    his "Walls and Bridges" period.
    
    Sadly, while his career was sidetracked by his own drug and alcohol
    abuses, Davis was reportedly beginning to work again and a new album
    was being readied for release when he died.
    
    
    

	Anyone familiar with the Grateful Dead may be interested in knowing
    that Brent Mydland, Keyboardist with the band since 1979, Died last
    Thursday, in what authorities are calling an accidental death. He was
    only 38 years old.

	The Dead had just completed a nationwide tour a few days before
    Brent's passing. The future for the band is in question. What's gonna
    happen next is anybodys' guess.    

	There are several notes about Brent in the Grateful dead notes file.
    The Dead conferance is at CSCMA""::GRATEFUL.
    
    
    	Mark
    

 
	EAST TROY, Wis. (UPI) -- A helicopter carrying Grammy-winning blues
guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and four other people crashed early Monday
following a concert at Alpine Valley Music Theater, killing all aboard,
officials said.
	Vaughan, 35, had just finished a performance that included rock
legend Eric Clapton and other elite contemporary bluesmen -- Robert Cray,
Vaughan's brother, Jimmie, and Buddy Guy. The guitarists had finished
the show with a rousing jam on ``Sweet Home Chicago.''
	Among the victims was Clapton's booking agent, Bobby Brooks, said
spokesmen for the companies Strike Force Management and Creative Artists
in Los Angeles.
	A spokesman for Alpine Valley said the other victims were two
members of the Clapton crew and the helicopter pilot. Walworth County
officials said the names of the victims would be released officially in
the afternoon.
	Charles Comer, a spokesman for Vaughan in New York City, said
authorities told him Vaughan was on the helicopter that crashed and that
there were no survivors.
	``Stevie and his brother, Jimmie, and Jimmie's wife, Connie, were
there (backstage after the concert),'' Comer said. ``Peter Jackson, Eric
Clapton's manager, came in and said there might be some spare seats. He
came back later and said, `I'm really sorry but there's only one seat.'
Stevie said, `Do you mind if I take the seat? I really need to get
back.'
	``It's such a shame,'' Comer said. ``He was such a kind, creative
young man.''
	The Vaughan brothers' long-awaited collaboration album ``Family
Style'' is due out Sept. 25 and Stevie Ray Vaughan was to start a
European tour next week.
	Vaughan, whose style combined the best of Jimi Hendrix and the old
blues masters, normally was not part of the Clapton tour but was added
to the Alpine Valley show Saturday and Sunday. The Saturday night show
was sold out -- about 40,000 people attended -- and about 35,000 attended
Sunday.
	When Clapton announced the concert-ending jam Sunday, he said,
``These are the greatest guitar players in the world.''
	Stevie Ray Vaughan had two solos during the jam and stood alongside
his brother on the right side of the stage, with Clapton in the middle.
	``They jammed together at the end,'' said Debbie Arnold, 29,
Calumet City, Ill. ``That was terrific. They had you up singing and
dancing.''
	The Bell 206 helicopter was chartered from Omni Flight Helicopters
in Chicago. The company would not comment on the crash Monday morning
and said a statement would be released Monday afternoon.
	Four helicopters were being used to shuttle band members back to
Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Capt. Polly Robinson of the
Wisconsin Civil Air Patrol said Vaughan's helicopter hit a ski hill
about 100 feet down from the top in a clearing east of the ski slope.
The hill is an estimated 1,000 feet high in a wooded area about
three-quarters of a mile southeast of the theater.
	``There is debris spread about 200 feet,'' she said. She said the
crash apparently happened shortly after the concert and an emergency
locator transmitter signal was received about four hours later.
	Three officials from the Federal Aviation Administration were on
the scene, as were investigators from the National Transportation Safety
Board.
	Two bodies were taken to Lakeland Medical Center in Elkhorn from
the crash scene about 10 a.m. and the other three were en route from the
crash site, said Jim Wincek, public information officer with the center.
	Clapton is touring to support his latest album, ``Journeyman,'' and
his show featured songs from that album as well as his older hits.
	Vaughan and his older brother, Jimmie, developed a love of the
blues by listening to their parents' records while growing up in Dallas.
They became teenage guitar prodigies, playing into the early morning
hours at rough nightclubs they were too young to be in legally.
	Jimmie moved to Austin, Texas, in the mid-1970s and started The
Fabulous Thunderbirds, a neo-blues band, and Stevie Ray soon followed,
playing in Storm and the Cobras before putting together his own trio,
Double Trouble, with drummer Chris ``Whipper'' Layton and bassist Tommy
Shannon.
	In the early 1980s the band was playing tiny nightclubs but a few
years later Vaughan, in his trademark bolero hat and battered
Stratocaster, and Double Trouble were a headline act in arena shows.
	The Vaughan brothers occasionally appeared onstage together but
their work in separate bands had prevented them from fulfilling plans to
make an album together until this year. The record, ``Family Style,'' is
scheduled to be released Sept. 25. The brothers also play on Bob Dylan's
upcoming album.
	Vaughan had trouble with alcohol and drugs in the past but had been
sober for almost four years and a song on his most recent album, ``In
Step,'' was about his recovery.
 
 
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    I heard on the radio that Tom Fogerty, from Creedence Clearwater
    Revival (Brother of John Fogerty) died recently, from tuberculosis.
    I have no other details. 
    
    Mark
    

    Roy Buchanan
    Jimi Hendrix
    T-Bone Walker
    Randy Rhodes
    
    Elvis Presley (reportedly a guitar player; reportedly dead)

    
    re:  "Elvis Presley (reportedly a guitar player; reportedly dead).
    
    James Burton, noted session ace, noted Master of the Telecaster,
    replaced Scotty Moore in Elvis' band.
    
    He recalls Elvis as a "surprisingly good guitar player."  Burton
    said that Elvis would occasionally pick up an electric and play
    the blues during "down times" at the studio and on the road.
    
    FWIW,
    
    Brian

    
    	Hopefully not diverting the topic too much...
    
	James Burton and Scotty Moore -- Yea!  Say what you will about Jimmy
	Page but he has some very fine influences to name but two.

	- Jim

    I was in a bookstore the other day and picked up this great big
    fairly recent hardcover book entitled something like "ELVIS".
    Anyway, I flipped open to a color photo in the center somewhere
    of a promo shot showing Elvis and Ann Margret and Elvis was holding
    a late '50' sunburst Stratocaster with a maple neck. Great Picture.

    john campbell - bluesman, died of heart failure in july.
    

    
    Laurindo Almeida, 77, classical/jazz guitarist
    
         The VERY fist classical guitar cassette I ever picked up
    was one by this man which included some compelling Renaissance
    performances (as well as some Sor, Ponce) on one side, and some
    of his own works on the other.  I loved the tone he got on this
    recording:  very, very full and rich, as if everything was dolce-
    plucked in and around the 12th fret.
    
    R.I.P.
    Kev --
    

    
    Jerry Garcia died this morning of natural causes according to the AP

    sounds like an oxymoron to me.  He died in a rehab center didn't he?

Mike, it sounds like you need a refresher on your Dale Carnegie course.

-Hal

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>    sounds like an oxymoron to me.  He died in a rehab center didn't he?

    Personal opinon does *not* constitute truth.  The guy was an
    inspiration to many people (stoned and sober)... too bad you
    missed out on the ride.
    
    mark

    We're not talking about music though.  We're talking about the oxymoron
    of him dying of natural causes in a rehab center.

    Oh - I guess they should have said he died of natural effects
    rather than of natural causes.  

    BANG BANG deadhead's silver hammer came down upon MIke's head...

>    Oh - I guess they should have said he died of natural effects
>    rather than of natural causes.  
    
    I don't know, did he use EFX too?

    Are you guys "dissin'" the dead????(no pun intended). 

    Geeeez... it was getting pretty tear rendering till the mention of
    Gerry... guess some of us dont like being dead...or the dead... how
    "ungreatful" .. no pun..
    
    anyone else died this year... no more bashings please..