Glen Campbell

[casapete]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/glen-campbell-in-final-stages-of-alzheimers-disease-20160308

So sad, a legend.

[KevB]

Well respected session guitarist before he became a star in his own right and went on to have a glorious career. It's a terrible shame when a disease like this just takes away the person the family has grown up loving. I was reading about his current state in the paper yesterday, he can't really recognise what a guitar is for anymore let alone play it. Very sad indeed.

[casapete]

According to Wiki, he was a member of 'The Wrecking Crew', and also played bass for the Beach Boys and Ricky Nelson.
[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Campbell"]https://en.wikipedia...i/Glen_Campbell[/url]

Edited March 27, 2016 by casapete

[RhysP]

A superb guitarist, singer & songwriter.
I've seen him live a few times over the years, and he really cuts loose on guitar in concert.
I saw him on his farewell tour, after his Alzheimers had been made public (His family had decided to announce it as he was beginning to forget lyrics & things when playing live, which led to stories about him starting to drink heavily again).
I've never been to a gig where there was so much love shown for the person on stage. It was a very moving & poignant evening as his band is made up mostly of his children who were all looking after him. By the end of the night there really wasn't a dry eye in the house.

[leftybassman392]

Yes - a very skillful all-round musician and a much better guitarist than people gave him credit for:

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Edited March 27, 2016 by leftybassman392

[Twincam]

A real legend and his music brings back a lot of fond memories for me.
Think I might have to have a listen later on.

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Yet another legendary name from my childhood sad ;(

Edited March 27, 2016 by RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

[leschirons]

Saw him doing a guitar duel with Jerry Reed on a show years ago. A lot of non musos sadly seem to to remember him just a singer songwriter but he was a serious musician. Real shame.

[blue]

Glen has always been a top of the heap guy, light years ahead of most.

Fasinating to watch.

Blue

[JapanAxe]

His 2008 covers album Meet Glen Campbell is excellent - great choice of material, quality delivery.

A true musician.

[spectoremg]

Wichita Lineman on the radio when I was a kid - still one of my favourite songs.
Saw him on Later a couple of years ago after he'd been diagnosed and he was still great.

[FlatEric]

[quote name='spectoremg' timestamp='1459171957' post='3014057']
Wichita Lineman on the radio when I was a kid - still one of my favourite songs.
Saw him on Later a couple of years ago after he'd been diagnosed and he was still great.
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Me too.

Also saw him in the UK on his tour after he was diagnosed.
Even then, made the hairs on my arms stand up.
Brilliant!
A true star and a true musician.