Post by petrolino on Apr 15, 2017 17:22:52 GMT
It's been reported yesterday that musician Bruce Langhorne has passed away following a long period of illness. He was 78. Langhorne worked with countless artists from the folk circuit and was a core member of the Greenwich Village scene in New York. He composed film music for William Asher, Peter Fonda, Bob Rafelson and Jonathan Demme.
"The spread of the drug culture. It was when everybody got high, and you knew that all of your brothers and sisters got high. And everyone was a brother and sister 'cause they got high with you. It was them and us. It was the creative people who really propelled this movement forward, like with Woodstock and all kinds of things. There were like the Beatles bringing in Indian music, and then everyone was influenced by music from everywhere at that point. There was really a total synthesis. I was in New York for part of that time -- well, probably for all of that time. And I got to play with Hughie Masekela from South Africa, and I got to work with Belafonte, who was doing music from the Caribbean and all over the place, and I got to play -- 'cause a lot of people who were experimenting, who were folk people, who were experimenting with electronic music. I did an interview with some magazine, I think it might have been Sing Out!, but I don't really remember if it was Sing Out! or another magazine. Someone asked me what I thought, and what I heard for the future. And I said, I hear a synthesis. I hear a... everyone's going to take the aesthetics from all different types of music, and put 'em together..."
- Bruce Langhorne speaking with Richie Unterberger
Rest in Peace
"The spread of the drug culture. It was when everybody got high, and you knew that all of your brothers and sisters got high. And everyone was a brother and sister 'cause they got high with you. It was them and us. It was the creative people who really propelled this movement forward, like with Woodstock and all kinds of things. There were like the Beatles bringing in Indian music, and then everyone was influenced by music from everywhere at that point. There was really a total synthesis. I was in New York for part of that time -- well, probably for all of that time. And I got to play with Hughie Masekela from South Africa, and I got to work with Belafonte, who was doing music from the Caribbean and all over the place, and I got to play -- 'cause a lot of people who were experimenting, who were folk people, who were experimenting with electronic music. I did an interview with some magazine, I think it might have been Sing Out!, but I don't really remember if it was Sing Out! or another magazine. Someone asked me what I thought, and what I heard for the future. And I said, I hear a synthesis. I hear a... everyone's going to take the aesthetics from all different types of music, and put 'em together..."
- Bruce Langhorne speaking with Richie Unterberger
Rest in Peace