Dan Fogleburg has passed

mtfallsmikey

I didn't mention it in my post, (maybe 'cause I wasn't totally awake!)but that was the same concert I went to! I remember J. Brown's speech, and was that the pre-Joe Walsh version of the Eagles?

Wayco Wayne_2

My wife heard on the radio

that artist Dan Fogleburg has passed after a long fight with cancer. I don't know the details but a bright light in our lives has gone out. His music was the connection for me and my wife when we met. He wasn't that well known yet but we both knew his music and liked it a lot. He started his career as a studio guitarist in Nashville and then worked on his own stuff and made quite a splash with his second album Souveniers, which included the hit, "Part of the Plan." It's sad and makes me feel old that he's gone. WW

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realolman

that's terrible

I am very saddened to hear that.

He was one of my favorites... some of the most original, beautiful, and profound stuff you ever heard.

"await your arrival with simple survival and someday we'll all understand."

I think he understood a great deal before his arrival.

John Barba

The Raven flies away...

...and if you can listen to "A Place In The World For A Gambler" without getting a little emotional, you're made of sterner stuff than I. Another voice for rock and roll Heaven...

JMB

Tombig_2

Fogelberg

How sad. I hope he faught the good fight and came to grips with his mortality. A long fight tends to do that. "As the Raven Flies" is one one of my favorite all time songs. Joe Walsh provided the guitar work for the song.

Denis Leary has a bit about heavy metal and it's effect on youth in a court case. He mused about suing Dan Fogelberg for turning him into a flower toting wimp in the 1970's. I loved the Leary bit and it never diminished Dan in my mind. Another great American singer-songwriter passes to the next. I'll play him in honor tonight. Thanks for the notification.

Edit: After pulling out the CD I forgot he wrote a song about my home state...Illinois...good stuff!!

Tom G.

mtfallsmikey

The only time I saw him in concert

Was in '73 (or '74??)when he opened for the Eagles in D.C. at the 'ole Capital Centre. He actually got BOOED!..Couldn't hardly hear him for all of the raucous noise everyone made, but he was a great writer and musician. Was on stage all by himself, no backup!

Wayco Wayne_2

I saw him

at the Capitol center too. I had never heard of him before. I was a benefit concert for Cal. Gov Jerry Brown's run for President. Gov Brown was dating Linda Ronstat at the time and she gathered Jackson Brown and the Eagles and Dan Fogleburg together for the show. I don't remember any booing but I remember him singing Place in the World for a Gambler. I was asking folks, who is this guy? He's not bad. The Eagle played as Linda Ronstats band for the show, which was ironic since previous to being the Eagles they were a band called the Stone Ponys, and the Stone Ponys were Linda Ronstats band. WW

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Unknown

yup,,,

JUST picked up a copy of Souvenirs. Great album, errr CD

Didn't know he was ill, sad...

John Barba

Remember his album with Tim Weisberg -- "Twin Sons From Different Mothers"? He jumped into the pop-jazz world with both feet, with nice results. That one came out in '79...they did a follow-up album in '95 called "No Resemblance Whatsoever."

McKern_2

The Leader of the Band

--the song played at my dad's funeral.

Dad was one of you guys, i.e., he owned a plumbing-heating wholesale business, which he sold about the time he turned 60. After this "retirement" he got his plumber's license, took on an apprentice, and continued working for several years. Actually, he never "officially" stopped working and continued to meet with his plumbing/heating friends several times a week. (Whether they were on a job or whether they were playing cards is really nobody's business.)

Dad passed on June 30th, after a mercifully brief "battle" with pancreatic cancer. More than 600 people came to the visitation the evening before the funeral--some folks said they waited in line for 1 1/2 hours. A passer-by, who didn't know Dad, saw the crowd, asked who he was/what he did, and was noticeably surprised at the answer. Perhaps she never lost heat in the middle of the night in the dead of winter.

"My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man..."

Joannie_15

Mine, too

"Leader of the Band" played at my Dad's funeral, too. My parents both came from very musical families, and they made sure to pass it on to all five of their girls. With all the musical instruments in our house, people used to call Dad "The leader of the band" and to this day it's hard not to tear up when I hear that song.

I can't believe what Mom and Dad must have lived through while we were all learning and practicing LOUDLY. And they never asked us to stop or even shut doors....that's LOVE (especially when it's reed instruments...SQUEAK!)

"I am the living legacy to the leader of the band."