? RIP on John PHI⑊PIN

Tue, 26 May 2026 20:05:11 +1200

🪦 Et tu Sonny? Thank you for visiting us.

Sat, 23 May 2026 08:03:50 +1200

🪦 Farewell Dick - you will always remind me that just one ‘small’ contribution can change everything.

Thu, 21 May 2026 09:09:28 +1200

🪦 RIP Barney - you gave ’em hell - so I’ll assume you are heading to the other place. Deserved.

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:12:02 +1200

🪦 and so farewell Dave .. Trusting that the Traffic you’re in to reach your destination is near perfect .. it always was.

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:53:11 +1200

🪦 97 is a hell of a run Len. You can stop now.

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:30:42 +1200

🪦 Any regrets Chuck❓

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:54:54 +1200

🪦 Robert❗️As if the world wasn’t bad enough already 😢 So sorry.

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 05:59:31 +1200

🪦 Sorry to read the news Sly.

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:20:47 +1200

🪦 Weir all sorry to see you move on to the great gig in the sky Bob. Thank you for your earthly contributions.

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:54:39 +1200

🪦 Oh no Brigitte - I thought you were immortal.

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 06:42:30 +1200

🪦 Goodbye Mick … ‘This Was’ sad news.

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:52:31 +1200

🪦Sorry to REAd that Chris.

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:40:41 +1200

🪦 We often read ‘too soon’ .. but hell fire Rob … too soon and most certainly not like this. One of the greats.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:08:20 +1200

🪦 Looks like Tom stopped. His legacy lives on. Thank you Tom.

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:54:15 +1200

🪦Wait - et tu Rick? Last month? I am clearly behind on the news. Your early years were absolutely super - and foundational to my musical explorations and development.

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:49:28 +1200

🪦Wait - John? Really? I’ll put on some Blues - so I don’t get moody. Thankyou sir.

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 07:38:44 +1200

🪦 Oh no! Dianne❓Thank you.

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:03:50 +1200

🪦 A good life Jane - a very good life - thank you for your work.

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:51:14 +1200

🪦Oh no … Robert? Missing you already.

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:13:57 +1200

🪦 So sorry Terence. So sorry.

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 06:55:35 +1200

🪦 … and so farewell Ozzy – thank you for asking that question at the very beginning. It is often my only one. 🎵

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:30:47 +1200

🪦 Thankyou for the music Brian.

Tue, 27 May 2025 16:52:42 +1200

🪦 Builder.AI

Imagine if all that money had been given to someone who is trying to make a difference in the world - someone like, oh - I don’t know …. 🔗🙋🏼‍♀️ Jax Harrison? … instead the money is just chasing mo’ money.

🔗 This is why I am with Jony Ive on the state of Silicon Valley.

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:12:44 +1200

🪦RIP Clem .. another rhythm section is down by one.

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:48:04 +1200

🪦 oh no! Say it ain’t so Val. And just 65 😔

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 09:31:56 +1200

🪦.. and so farewell Herb . Thanks for all the pictures .. you put us on the map.

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 05:55:27 +1200

🪦 Thank you Athol - in the hope that your truths aren’t buried with you.

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:33:08 +1200

Oh SHIT

🔗 🪦 Kevin Drum

I will write more. Not today.

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:51:49 +1200

🪦 Thank you Gene. You did it. Again and again. Marvellous.

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 07:25:55 +1200

🪦 Oh no Roberta .. gone … softly. Thank you.

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 05:05:13 +1200

🪦 RIP Mike. Loved you since ‘1’ - though missed by many and not called that. Your legacy lives on. As will you.

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:25:36 +1200

🪦 Oh Marianne - please please say it ain’t so 😢

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 06:49:55 +1200

Nine years ago - remembering eleven years before that - and I still miss him.

🔗 🪦Harry Fenik - it happened 20 years ago this month.

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:08:51 +1200

🪦 It was time Jimmy. It was time. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 03:45:42 +1200

🪦 Too soon Olivia. Sorry.

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:30:13 +1200

🪦 so long Pete - thank you - I guess you’re now on the inside - looking outside - is it very different?

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:31:01 +1200

🪦 A great run Quincy .. thank you for the music.

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:04:39 +1200

🪦 ‘Pharewell Phil’ .. say hi to Jerry.

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:01:18 +1200

🪦 Farewell Kris - taking your own last ride - but nothing like Casey’s.

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:33:02 +1200

🪦 Late to the news - just wanted to say goodbye to Herbie.

TIL you wrote ‘Grandad’ .. but otherwise what a superb life journey.

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 23:46:31 +1200

🪦 Sorry to read the news Maggie. Thankyou.

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:09:48 +1200

🪦 May the force be with you James. A great life. Thank you.

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:58:21 +1200

🪦 Bob - I only just realized. I hadn’t seen the news - but it does explain why my YouTube feed was full of some of your classics. Thank you. I have laughed with you for years. So did my Mum and Dad. You were THAT good.

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:52:22 +1200

🪦 A force of nature. A musician’s musician. A great ride and a phenomenal catalogue. You gave us you .. and everyone else. Farewell John and thank you.

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:57:48 +1200

🪦 Thankyou Donald .. what a career. Barely a dud.

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:19:46 +1200

🪦 I didn’t know Joe Gannon - met him a couple of times at ‘Joe’s’ back in the day - ate at his wife’s restaurants, but not ‘know’.

94 years old, just discovered that he died in January of this year.

What a life. RIP Joe.

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:07:42 +1200

🪦 Thankyou Richard. It clearly was ‘time’.

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 14:04:47 +1200

🪦Oh no … John? Who will pick up the mantle? Who is left and prepared to be counted?

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:11:30 +1200

🪦 Sorry to read the news Jacques. I wonder if it all turned out as you planned? Love to know. #AskingForAFriend

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 06:44:47 +1200

🪦 Farewell Tom .. it was a long time ago, but you made me laugh.

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:04:20 +1200

🪦 Oh .. so sorry Laura. Clearly too early.

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 07:19:53 +1200

🪦 Safe travels Shirley … you made some wonderful films.

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 12:21:21 +1200

🪦 Ryan … good bye … thank you.

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 06:04:18 +1200

🪦 Norman? It’s an epidemic! Sorry to see you go, but still .. a long and good life had, I guess it was time.. Thankyou for your fun times.

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:15:32 +1200

🪦 Oh no … Denny? Thankyou for the 🎵 music.

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 10:19:46 +1200

🪦 Farewell Sandra.

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 10:17:02 +1200

🪦 🎵 Ba Ba Ba .. and another one bites the dust …

Bye George.

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:59:19 +1200

🪦 OH NO … not you Shane! Thankyou. Be at peace.

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:10:18 +1200

🪦🖇️ Et tu Henry?

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:46:23 +1200

🪦 Farewell Charlie - a good run.

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:08:20 +1200

🪦 RIP Geordie Walker 🎵

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:21:23 +1200

🪦 Sorry Matt … 54 is too young …. Your demons were too many.

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 05:23:08 +1200

🪦 Sleep well Richard - the real Shaft.

Sun, 22 Oct 2023 23:13:35 +1200

🪦 Goodbye Bobbie … not a ⚽️ fan … but for you I made an exception.

Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:54:17 +1200

🪦 Keep playing great 🎵 in the sky Carla, we’ll keep listening.

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:14:29 +1200

🪦 Goodbye 🎵 Rudolph. Gone at 84, married for 68 of them. Congratulations on a good life. A well lived life.

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 21:57:16 +1200

🪦Oh no … Dumbledor?

Thankyou Michael … and not just for showing Harry the way.

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:29:40 +1200

🪦 Bye Bye Google Podcasts … catch you over the next YouTube? Because of course that’s where I really want to listen to my podcasts.

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:35:06 +1200

🪦 RIP John Marshall (1941-2023). A tribute by Theo Travis.

A sad loss to the 🎵industry.

(Originally shared by @artkavanagh on Substack)

Sun, 03 Sep 2023 15:03:07 +1200

🪦 Jimmy? So young. Enjoy ‘Heavenville’.

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 07:09:41 +1200

🪦 Bye Bob … a good run. Just like your show.

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:16:32 +1200

🪦 Farewell Mr Warnock, I am old enough to remember talk as to whether the ‘portable document format’ was going to become a defacto standard (it wasn’t a slam dunk) .. you did good.

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:47:08 +1200

🪦 Robbie … thanks for the music … and for ‘The Band’ … keep playin’ up there.

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 10:17:14 +1200

🪦 Yikes … Pee-wee - I didn’t see that coming … hope the journey was fun.

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:54:07 +1200

🪦 56 is way too young Sinéad - so sorry that you are no longer with us.

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 03:22:39 +1200

🪦 Tony … What a life. Congratulations. ’Knock ’em dead’ at the next gig.

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:57:16 +1200

🪦 Et tu Jane? So it seems.

Farewell. We all knew you. I know we didn’t.

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 03:27:40 +1200

🪦 Farewell Alan .. loved your work. You will be sorely missed.

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 03:36:17 +1200

🪦 Goodbye Glenda … miss you already, but a great run.

Fri, 26 May 2023 03:06:55 +1200

🪦 Sorry to read the news Tina. Thanks for the songs. For the moves. For the entertainment. A great ride … now it’s time to R.I.P.

Sun, 21 May 2023 09:56:16 +1200

🪦 Sorry to see the news about Martin Amis 📚 … thankyou for the stories sir … now may you rest in peace … no cancer is good … that cancer is particularly horrendous.

Wed, 03 May 2023 14:15:01 +1200

🪦Et tu Gordon. I didn’t believe it when I read it .. but yes it is true. 84 … not a bad run.

Thank-you for the 🎵music.

🔗 A wonderful tribute.

If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video might me giving an 'error'. That is generally because the creator wants you to go to YouTube to watch it. To do that - click on the link above.

🪦 RIP Cable News

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:28:57 +1200

Cable News (1980-2023) by Dana F. Blankenhorn has a very relevant 🎵 track that opens the post.. You can find the 🔗 lyrics here.

Who “wins,” i.e., who is the last one standing? Probably NBC. Comcast has cash flow. NBC has learned how to segment the market with MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Now, NBC News and Local Now. That’s five bites at the remaining cable apple, five channels they can sell to the “skinny bundle” boys like YouTube Plus. And the cost is nominal – a few sets at the NYSE and 30 Rock. Reporters are no longer stars at any of those shops. CNN and Fox are out in the cold. Their owners are going to squeeze all the juice out for profit until there’s nothing left, then throw the remaining goodwill at one of the big boys.

💬 Dana Blankenhorn

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 02:37:02 +1200

🪦 RIP Harry … I hardly knew ye … but my dad did. This is for him.

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 01:31:57 +1200

🪦 Farewell Dame Edna, Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and of course ‘Bazzer McKenzie’ … I miss you all.

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 07:43:05 +1200

I just read @colinwalker ’s 🔗 post re Ryuichi Sakamoto’s passing …

Sharing a 🎵 perfectly elegant beautiful piece of music that he wrote over 40 years ago.

Farewell Ryuichi and thankyou.

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 23:55:54 +1200

🪦 Farewell Gordon. Thankyou.

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:42:54 +1200

🪦 … and yet another … Farewell Raquel

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 04:09:58 +1200

🪦 Farewell Burt. You had a great run. Thank you. Your music inspired many and was appreciated by so many more … even people who didn’t know you, knew your songs.

Maybe a surprising example of such inspiration

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:53:15 +1200

🪦 WAIT … now Tom Verlaine?… what the hell is going on … another awesome musician we lay to rest.

R.I.P. Tom.

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 15:35:20 +1200

🪦 I Died Today.

… not me - someone else.

P O W E R F U L

I will come back to this at some point because I want to say something - but not right now. 🚧

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:16:49 +1200

🎵 R.I.P. Mr. Crosby … Thankyou for the music.

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:56:49 +1200