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Title: RIP Matt Guitar Murphy
Post by: funkyjazzjunky on June 18, 2018, 05:28:45 PM
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/16/entertainment/blues-brothers-matt-murphy-obit/index.html
VMG
Title: Re: RIP Matt Guitar Murphy
Post by: David Houck on June 18, 2018, 05:45:54 PM
Thanks for posting this.

Sitting here, thankful for the music.
Title: Re: RIP Matt Guitar Murphy
Post by: elwoodblue on June 18, 2018, 07:03:39 PM
I hadn't heard, thanks for the post.
 

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Title: Re: RIP Matt Guitar Murphy
Post by: hieronymous on June 18, 2018, 08:39:00 PM
I really like this performance (Willie Dixon on bass! I skipped it so it goes right to the song but the intros might be interesting):

https://youtu.be/jaanoFEK_zU?t=1m23s (https://youtu.be/jaanoFEK_zU?t=1m23s)
Title: Re: RIP Matt Guitar Murphy
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on June 19, 2018, 04:11:58 AM
I really like this performance (Willie Dixon on bass! I skipped it so it goes right to the song but the intros might be interesting):

https://youtu.be/jaanoFEK_zU?t=1m23s (https://youtu.be/jaanoFEK_zU?t=1m23s)

Who needs a guitar face when you've got an eyebrow like that??

Peter
Title: Re: RIP Matt Guitar Murphy
Post by: dead_head on June 19, 2018, 01:14:13 PM

I saw Matt Murphy play with James Cotton at Brown University's Meehan Auditorium back in 1970. I was right directly in front of the stage.
It was fantastic!  Rest In Peace, Matt...
Title: Re: RIP Matt Guitar Murphy
Post by: smokin_dave on June 19, 2018, 03:00:11 PM
Yeah.That is very sad news but I didn't realize that he was 88yo.About 15 years ago he hired the band I was playing with to back him up for a show and he was the nicest person.Just a gem of a human being and WOW.What an entertainer/guitarist.Hell of a golfer too.  A few years ago he suffered a stroke and I didn't hear a whole lot from him.


R.I.P. Matt "Guitar" Murphy.See ya' on the other side.
Title: Re: RIP Matt Guitar Murphy
Post by: hieronymous on June 19, 2018, 04:35:33 PM
Wow dead_head - you got to see him play? And smokin_dave - you got to play with him?!! Both very very cool stories.