R.I.P. Grant

It's been confirmed that former drummer and co-vocalist of Husker Du Grant Hart has passed on today and to say that it's deeply saddening to myself is an understatement.

That song right there is the song that got me into Husker Du and to this day remains honestly one of my favorite pieces of music to ever be put to tape and the fact that the man responsible for belting that awe inspiring piece of work is no longer with us tears me up because Grant spent his whole post Husker Du career battling addiction and life threatening diseases that no person really deserves to deal with and at the very least I can accept the fact that he's in a better place not having to live with the demons that haunted him his whole life but still one of my musical icons is now gone and watching that performance just makes me swell up in a way that I haven't in a long time I'm listening to Sorry Somehow as I type this out and I'm at a loss for words.

It's a sad day indeed and I'm for lack of a better way to put it shook up and ready for a drink or 7 but I can at the very least know that Grant Hart your music is truly some of the most important discoveries of my life and I very much appreciate your life's work and will continue to hold the songs and the memories attached to them close to me and as I willow in a pool of sadness tonight I'll know for sure that he'll continue to be a source of not only inspiration but joy.

R.I.P. Grant you were an underappreciated legend of your time and I can only hope that people will now take the time to truly come to appreciate the phenomenal catalog of music you've made.

R.I.P. Prince 1958-2016

This year's been rather tough on music with David Bowie passing on at the beginning you'd think it couldn't get any worse and yet another legend has passed on this day and it's saddening to say that I'll never get to see the majesty of one Prince live but he's hopefully in a better place now and the fact that his legacy of amazing music will now be even more immortalized is a thing.

I know I've joked in the past with an exaggerate love for Purple Rain but it really is true that I do find it to be one of the greatest songs ever written and I've played it quite a bit tonight and while I can't really post up some of his amazing work I can at the very least have a moment of silence for a man who put a voice to some of the best pop music of an entire lifetime....

R.I.P. Your royal awesomeness...

R.I.P. David Bowie 1947-2016

So one of the pillars of modern music has passed on to the other side today after an 18 month battle with cancer and only a few day's after his 69th birthday and release of his newest album and it's quite crazy to think about when you sit back and realize just how much of an influential and important artist he really was for modern music as a whole across a wide range of genres from glam, alternative, industrial, pop, and everything in between this man dipped his toes into everything and managed to leave an impactful mark on music as a whole that I'm pretty sure will pretty soon be recognized beyond the mans wildest dreams in terms of just how much he really did.

Now with that in mind there's not a whole lot I can really say compared to the variety of touching tributes I've seen all around social media so I think the best thing I really can do is post my personal favorite and the track that got me into this musical chameleon in the form of this timelessly BAD ASS rocker in the form of everyone's favorite fictional rock star.

R.I.P. Bowie The Stars look very different today......

R.I.P. Leonard

So While I was never really into the science fiction phenomena that was Star Trek it is saddening to hear that one of Hollywoods leading science fiction juggernauts has passed on and while this may seem odd to point out on here he did actually record music and I was always more fond of a lot of his vocal work for various animated projects and the Videogame Seman but all that aside let's take a minute to geek out for a day and respect a very respectable actor....