In Memoriam
What is remembered, lives.
Where we remember those who have recently passed into the next world after having made this one a better place. Please send tributes to “In Memoriam.”
One of a select few who took the sounds of New Orleans, two-fisted boogie-woogie piano, and rhythm and blues and gave birth to rock and roll. Hugely influential, Domino has left a legacy in music equal to none. The man who made the music live is gone.
We will let his music speak for him…
“Blueberry Hill” music by Vincent Rose, lyrics by Larry Stock and Al Lewis.
Tom Petty joins his friends George Harrison, Roy Orbison and John Lennon at the “End of the Line” for his life here on Earth. Just a week before Tom Petty passed he completed a successful concert tour, surrounded by family, friends and fellow musicians which is one of the highest achievements a 66 year old musician can attain. Yes, musicians are just like other people who feel all the little pleasures in life; so in this sense Tom Petty’s life was cut short at age 66. Musicians are also unlike other people because they thrive in an atmosphere where competition, cooperation, and communication through music is a central part of their being. In this sense Tom Petty completed his musical life on a high note and did not suffer the ‘slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’. Tom Petty will be missed, but you can see him again in this telling and appropriate video “The End of the Line” — Steve Blomerth, Regular Contributor
We will let his music speak for him…
Tom Petty: rocker. The music of my generation: screaming guitars, a back beat, and truthful lyrics sung in a voice that carries across stadiums. Unapologetic, rebellious, loud. Music that says, you: live, dance, move, embrace life, because you are alive. Live fully as you are. Love with abandon. The music of flying free and alive at the edge. On the edge. Tom Petty. Rocker.
One day I heard a song and it spoke to me. An “…American Girl/ raised on promises/She couldn’t help thinkin’ that there/Was a little more to life/ Somewhere else …” Goodbye Mr. Petty, you will be missed. And, remembered by this American Girl. — Lezlie A. Kinyon, Coreopsis Editor.
American Girl
Well, she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn’t help thinkin’
That there was a little more to life somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
And if she had to die tryin’
She had one little promise she was gonna keep
O yeah, all right
Take it easy, baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well it was kind of cold that night,
She stood alone on her balcony
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by,
Out on 441 like waves crashin’ on the beach
And for one desperate moment
There he crept back in her memory
God it’s so painful when something that’s so close
Is still so far out of reach
O yeah, all right
Take it easy, baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Raymond Buckland
August 31, 1934 – September 27, 2017
After a long illness, controversial author and founder is Seax-Wicca, Raymond Buckland died Wednesday, September 27, 2017 after being hospitalized for chest pain. Ray, as he was called by his close friends and family, is largely considered responsible for introducing the U.S. to Gardnerian Wicca.
“Be true to yourself. By that I mean to remember the Wiccan Rede and apply it to yourself as much as to anyone else. … If you want to be a Witch, then be a Witch in the truest most honest sense of the word. Don’t be coerced into doing anything that you don’t want to do, and don’t try to coerce anyone else into doing what they don’t want to do.”
Charles Bradley
November 5, 1948 – September 23, 2017
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Influential soul singer Charles Bradley was diagnosed in 2016 with liver and stomach cancer and passed on September 23 surrounded by family and friends including members of the bands he worked closely with: Menahan Street Band, His Extraordinaires, Budos Band and the Jimmy Hill Allstarz–his band from his time performing as Black Velvet.
Mr. Bradley is missed by all who loved his music and his music will speak for him. Where Do We Go From Here? The song that inspired Coreopsis’ Editorial for this issue.
Drummer and singer of Hüsker Dü, died on September 13. Hart had been battling cancer. Hart, alongside bandmates Bob Mould and Greg Norton, released six albums from 1983’s Everything Falls Apart to 1987’s Warehouse: Songs and Stories. Their 1984 recording Zen Arcade is considered a classic of the Punk genre.
The Hon. Counsel Dana D. Eilers, JD Pagan civil rights advocate died unexpectedly of a heart attack in her sleep at home surrounded by her beloved dogs. Dana Eilers is the author of Practical Pagan (2002) and Pagans and the Law: Understanding Your Rights (2003). “The community of people who have worked tirelessly for Pagan rights were blessed to have her among their ranks. Lady Liberty League worked with Dana on several religious rights cases over the years ranging from rights for students in educational settings, custody issues, advisement on employment issues, and also on the quest for our military veterans to have their sacred religious symbols on their government issued headstones. She will be missed by many people around the world. Her work touched, trained and educated us all … ” – Rev. Selena Fox for Circle Sanctuary.