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Title: Mike Melvoin dies of cancer Post by: Jason on February 24, 2012, 05:53:53 PM http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-mike-melvoin-20120224,0,2738819.story
Shame. Great pianist. Played on Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations, plus countless others. Title: Re: Mike Melvoin dies of cancer Post by: Mikie on February 24, 2012, 06:29:23 PM Wow. Melvoin passed away the day after Billy Strange. Mike played the piano and harpsicord on Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations, didn't he?
Title: Re: Mike Melvoin dies of cancer Post by: Joshilyn Hoisington on February 24, 2012, 07:39:53 PM Oh, no. A bad week.
Title: Re: Mike Melvoin dies of cancer Post by: Ron on February 24, 2012, 08:03:35 PM ... if you believe in forever..... then life is just a 1 night stand.....
Title: Re: Mike Melvoin dies of cancer Post by: Jason on February 24, 2012, 11:48:04 PM Wow. Melvoin passed away the day after Billy Strange. Mike played the piano and harpsicord on Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations, didn't he? That is correct. He was also the musical director and pianist on Tom Waits' The Heart of Saturday Night and Nighthawks at the Diner LPs. He played lots of jazz sessions as well. Title: Re: Mike Melvoin dies of cancer Post by: c-man on February 25, 2012, 09:37:46 AM A shame. I really enjoyed hearing Mr. Melvoin's contributions and interactions with Brian on the SMiLE sessions tapes while compiling the box set sessionography last year.
Title: Re: Mike Melvoin dies of cancer Post by: guitarfool2002 on February 25, 2012, 02:08:33 PM Oh no, another passing to report this week. And like Billy Strange, another musician who we've all heard many, many times and had mostly remained anonymous unless you really dug into liner notes and all that stuff.
Some of my favorite work from him...The Partridge Family albums. He and Larry Knechtel did some terrific keyboard work for those soundtracks. Ironically, Billy Strange and Mike both did some arranging for the first Partridge album. His credits are found here: http://www.mikemelvoin.com/history.htm (http://www.mikemelvoin.com/history.htm) Interesting notes: His daughter Wendy was one half of "Wendy And Lisa", the duo who played with Prince in The Revolution. Her twin sister, songwriter/musician Susannah was engaged to Prince, also worked with him in the 80's, and was the inspiration for the song "Nothing Compares 2 U". His son Jonathan was a keyboard player who died of an overdose in the presence of Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain in a hotel room as he was on tour backing the Pumpkins. Another sad loss in the world of music. It's impossible to calculate how many millions of listeners have enjoyed his work and have no idea who the musician was. |