From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #302 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, October 29 2002 Volume 08 : Number 302 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: Yahoo! News Story - Producer Who Had Role on 'Layla,' 'Respect' Dead [Neb Rodgers ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:26:59 -0800 (PST) From: Neb Rodgers Subject: Fwd: Yahoo! News Story - Producer Who Had Role on 'Layla,' 'Respect' Dead Tom Dowd has passed on. One of the best record producers, ever. He will be missed. - -Neb > --- Yahoo! News wrote: > > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:09:10 PST > > From: Yahoo! News > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Producer Who Had Role on 'Layla,' 'Respect' Dead > > > > > > > ============================================================ ===== _________________________________________________________________ Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:44:58 -0800 (PST) From: Neb Rodgers Subject: Fwd: Yahoo! News - Producer Who Had Role on 'Layla,' 'Respect' Dead Well, I don't think the link I sent for this article made it thru intact, so here's the print version. - -Neb > Subject: Yahoo! News - Producer Who Had Role on 'Layla,' 'Respect' Dead > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 20:39:39 -0500 > > > Producer Who Had Role on 'Layla,' 'Respect' Dead > Mon Oct 28,10:30 AM ET > > MIAMI (Reuters) - Tom Dowd, a legendary record producer and engineer who > worked with Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton (news), and a host of other stars > spanning jazz, soul and rock over 50 years, has died in south Florida at age > 77. > > Among the numerous hits he had a hand in was Derek and the Dominos' "Layla," > the rock classic featuring the dueling guitars of Clapton and the late Duane > Allman. > > Dowd died on Sunday morning at a nursing home in Aventura after fighting a > respiratory disease for two years, his daughter, Dana Dowd, said. > > "His contribution to music was immense. He covered so many genres over so > many years and touched so many lives. He loved what he did," she said. > > Dowd worked at Atlantic records for more than 20 years before becoming a > sought-after independent producer in the mid-1960s. The roster of artists he > recorded with included jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, engineering "Giant > Steps" and "My Favorite Things," and Charles Mingus. > > Soul diva Franklin was one of his personal favorites. Among the hits he > helped her create was "Respect." He recorded other black artists such as > Wilson Pickett, Ray Charles, Otis Redding and James Brown in Florida and > Memphis for Atlantic. > > His relationship with Clapton was one of his most enduring, lasting from the > British guitarist's days with Cream through Derek and the Dominos and his > later solo successes. Clapton called him "the ideal recording man" in a 1996 > interview. > > He also produced the Allman Brothers Band in the southern rockers' heyday. > Their "Live at Fillmore East" was probably the recording he liked most that > he had worked on, he told Reuters in 2000. > > Dowd, who worked out of the famed Criteria Studios in Miami for many years, > also recorded Neil Young , Rod Stewart,and Lynyrd Skynyrd, including the > ill-fated band's anthem "Freebird." > > He was considered a pioneer in the studio and is credited with introducing > the first eight-track recording machine into a major studio in 1957. > > In later years, he lamented what he thought was the sorry state of the > modern pop music industry he saw as lacking in real talent and overly driven > by commercial interests. > > He was recently honored with a National Academy of Recording Arts and > Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award. > > -------------------------------------------------- > Copyright ) 2002 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. ===== _________________________________________________________________ Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:40:15 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Upcoming Tori US TV appearances Hi, Vickie posted: >Hey there Tori fans, according to my Tivo: A good page to keep an eye on is: http://thedent.com/tvwatch.html If it's not posted there, there's a good chance it's not happening. Torifans are an intrepid bunch (I should know, I live with one :). NYC tickets go on presale tomorrow morning ... for both the November 13th Riverside Church show, and Radio City Music Hall in March (I think it's March 3rd?). Password is "amber" (but sshhh, you didn't hear it from me ;). ============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ============================================== Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://muzak.smoe.org ============================================== ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #302 **************************