Its Lhistoire Du Soldat instrumentation. He is/was a very public figure and his life very searchable. It's been said he died of heart ailment. It's all speculation, but since it was well known that he was gay and his personal long time doctor confirmed he had AIDS, maybe that's the reason he died. An announcement on Metheny's Facebook page said he died surrounded by loved ones "after a long. r199 there's a difference between being positive and dying of AIDS. Rock music developed from the rock and roll music that emerged during the 1950s and includes a diverse . His medical files were never made public. [10], After leaving the University of North Texas, Mays toured in the US and Europe with Woody Herman's jazz big band, Thundering Herds, for approximately eight months. He died from a drug overdose, like so many rock stars do. PS: Bowie looks like Melissa Etheridge -- or some other aging lez -- here (?). Don't count on it, R234. Drug overdose and intoxication are significant causes of accidental death and can also be used as a form of suicide.Death can occur from overdosing on a single or multiple drugs, or from combined drug intoxication (CDI) due to poly drug use.Poly drug use often carries more risk than use of a single drug, due to an increase in side effects, and drug synergy. Do you think people like Neil Patrick Harris, Burt Reynolds and others are ever going to admit they have AIDS. It wasnt even on my mind to do an acoustic record. By the time Mays had finished his formal education, his arrangements for North Texas State University Lab Band could be heard on the Grammy nominated Lab 75, the first of 23 lifetime nominations for the Recording Academys coveted gong. What makes you so sure? People were totally in denial regarding Michaels transformation with the skin bleaching and plastic surgery. This was not the first time they had done this during the tour, but it was a definite first for me. Around the same time, he became an ardent jazz fan after coming across Bill Evans At The Montreux Jazz Festival, a live trio album on the Verve imprint that featured bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette. I thought Brad Davis revealed his diagnosis shortly before he died. Hmmmmmmm. By Emily Blackwood Written on Feb 26, 2019. First attending the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Mays transferred after two years to the University of North Texas (then still known as North Texas State University), where he studied in the famous One OClock Lab Band with fellow keyboardist Coil. Guys who lived in these areas were wholesale fucking visitors/tourists and seamen (no pun intended), allowing infections to spread pretty rapidly. RIP Lyle Mays. 2023 Madavor Media, LLC. NEW YORK Lyle Mays, a keyboardist, composer, and arranger best known for his long association with guitarist Pat Metheny, died Monday at Adventist Hospital in Simi Valley, Calif. Across more than 30 years, every moment we shared in music was special. He was on steroids when he died thus the bloat. You aint special you sanctimonious fuck. Lyle Mays, a jazz keyboardist whose work, chiefly with the Pat Metheny Group, won nearly a dozen Grammy Awards, died Feb. 10 in Los Angeles. Not necessarily something that happens when you get poisoned. Lyle Mays (November 27, 1953 February 10, 2020) and Pat Metheny pioneered a unique style of jazz fusion, integrating elements of jazz, rock and musical traditions from around the world. From his legendary status and strong voice in the Pat Metheny Group to his sparsity of solo recordings and trepidations about the music business ("The music business left us."), enjoy a conversation with the self-proclaimed non-jazz keyboardist, Lyle Mays. He died in 1999 at 63 for a heart condition but had lost an enormous amount of weight. "Did Bert Convy die of AIDS? There are lots of murder cases where someone was slowly poisoned. Sign in to continue reading, The keyboardist, composer, and close collaborator with Pat Metheny has passed away at 66. Max Robinson, the first African-American broadcast network news anchor in the United States. Who could imagine me with a gay man?? Mays final post-retirement release, The Ludwigsburg Concert (2016), is an archive recording from 1993. He was just a weird guy who "didn't think like other people", hence his serious eating disorders. So very sad. True, r219, but let's face it. In 1975 he met Pat Metheny at the Wichita Jazz Festival and later founded the Pat Metheny Group. From 1977 to 2010, Mays and Metheny wrote most of the group's songs jointly, achieving an uncommon popularity for a jazz group and winning 11 Grammys. Prince became quite the homophobe himself when he became a Jehovahs Witness Lyle Alzedo died from a brain tumor as a result of his excessive fondness for steroids. The spread of HIV was caused by whorish male flight attendants. r109 - Yeah, right after Prince died lots of speculation on DL (and elsewhere) that he had symptomatic HIV. Incredibly sad to hear of this. At the tail end of 2022, Brad Mehldau took advantage of a New York sojourn to play piano with old friends at Smalls. Given what we know about the incubation period and progression to full-blown AIDS, the timeline makes sense. that's really good of you r18 - you a great person !! And as 1981 progressed things began to ramp up rapidly. Always feel like the blood transfusion excuse is just a cover up for whole range of other sexual escapades their loved ones would rather not have to deal with in the public domain. Hello. Published February 8, 2021 - Paul Wertico. Redirecting to /news/grammy-winning-jazz-keyboardist-lyle-mays-dies-66 (308) He contracted it from a blood transfusion according to his family and his publicist. My friend who ultimately died of AIDS claimed to have lymphoma for about 30 years. Getty Images. R104 you mean Leonard Bernstein? So its no wonder they all had ensuing health problems. Lyle Mays - Eberhard Mug $10.00 USD. The title stems from the long personal crisis in Mays' life that inspired it. In the end he was another actor who died at a rather young age. There was a huge media buzz in the SFBA, many more cases of the mysterious set of symptoms were turning up amongst the gay male population. He was 84. I was almost resistant to the idea, though. View Comments. If you are an insider and want to share please do so, but your post doesn't mean a lot without more detail. I am going to run through a list of famous people who have been known to die from something besides AIDS, but rumors persist. In the 1990s, he offset his work in the Metheny Group (which kept him touring through most of the year) with projects by McFerrin, Coil, Paul McCandless, and Earth, Wind & Fire. I got interested in architecture early on, to the extent that I designed my sisters house, he said in 2016. R19 Amanda Blake had a home in Scottsdale, AZ not far from my home. Years ago I read an article in a local weekly about a gay man, still relatively healthy twenty years after his diagnosis, in which he stated that he was able to determine the day he contracted the disease. Now I wonder if it was a political statement, or if it was indeed homophobic? click ACCEPT. Search on obits from 82 to 92 and find all the youngish guys who died of "lever cancer". I've always wondered about Wilt Chamberlain. Bernstein, along with many others on this list, smoked like a chimney. The last thing I remember was visiting his grave site and a relative commenting that it was nice someone paid to put a marker on his grave. R108 If he died of mesothelioma, shouldn't one of the cable channels have an endless tribute to him? (What the person died of) Manner of Death= Classification system developed for public health statistics based on the circumstances under which death occurred (How the person died); Manners of death currently includes 5 categories: Accident= An . This is so true, that its perhaps the even more sad part on this.. . I heard Jackie O got it from Nureyev, but it was hushed up. I don't see the point in spreading totally unfounded rumors. [13][14], Mays composed, orchestrated, and arranged as a core member of the Pat Metheny Group, playing piano, organ, synthesizers, and occasionally trumpet, accordion,[15] agog bells,[16] autoharp,[17] toy xylophone,[18] and electric guitar. [R245] Steve McQueen really? I hated her neighborhood because there were bats. Diana, Princess of Wales Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Jim Henson NOT Gay are you mad or paid to post such nonsense. Not covered up; but if he was HIV+ or living with AIDS it was not known as that at the time. Adored his brilliance, his music, his ability to stir every emotion in my soul. For a while he was eating nothing but carrots which turned his skin orange. I was like thanks [shrugs]. Convy - brain cancer 1991". His death was announced via his Facebook page: It is with deep sadness that I share that my uncle, Lyle Mays, passed away this morning in Los Angeles surrounded by loved ones, after a long battle with a recurring illness. They said so. [quote]Clayburgh had chronic lymphocytic leukemia for 20 years. The two first met at a jazz festival in Wichita, Kansas, during 1974. He didn't have AIDS. [11], After the Pat Metheny Groups long-form recording The Way Up in 2005, and the unofficial Songbook Tour in Europe and Japan in 2010, Mays decided to retire from public music performance, although he did perform at the Western Michigan University Jazz Club in 2010 and at a Ted Talk event[12] at Caltech in 2011 with his own groups. For all the people who don't think fat people die of AIDS, Robbin Crosby from the metal band RATT was almost 400 lbs when he died. All rights reserved. Don't make shit up. Odd since he's not that old and was once muscular. The description of how he died was not in line at all with typical AIDS symptoms. There used to be a strong urban legend/ rumor that Michael Jackson died of AIDS in 1985, and his bleached stand-in debuted during the Bad era. Lyle Mays - Eberhard Vinyl + Digital Download Card $20.00 USD. He didnt say AIDS deaths didnt exist until 1980, he said it was before there was a correlation between HIV and gay sex. The acclaimed keyboardist, composer and arranger from Wausaukee died Monday at age 66 in Los Angeles. [30] As an amateur architect, he designed his own house, home studio, and his sister Joan's house in Wisconsin. I certainly enjoyed his work. He recorded his first (self-titled) album under his own name in 1985, one of only five he ever made. CHRISTINE ARMARIO Associated Press Writer. site without all this bureaucratic nonsense, In West Hollywood. He died in 1985 EXCUUUUSE me, but I was not a homersexshul. He was 66. Known to have been battling against a long-term recurring illness, he passed away surrounded by family and friends, including former Metheny Group bandmate Steve Rodby. r104 - Oh i totally believe people speculated and spread rumors and "casually dropped it into conversation" But like a lot of office gossip it might have a very thin connection to the truth. He had a lot of pulmonary stuff going on anyway. About Jazz Journal A lot of wisdom here in this dad-blamed thread. Get email alerts Did Prince "accidentally" overdose on his AIDS medications? r108 AIDS deaths go back at least to the 1960s, what an idiotic and/or manipulative thing to say. Subscribe Another Giant becomes history. Of course, there have been AIDS patients who used cancer as a cover, but gay men do sometimes die from actual, non-AIDS-related cancer, just like any other population, and did not cease doing so between 1981 and 1995. The explanation for his death at the time was pure hokum. Mays was the primary arranger for the Group and was responsible for the synthesizer sound that gave their music its distinctive contemporary fusion aesthetic. In 2019, his health took a bad turn, and at the same time he decided to try to get this piece recorded. On the first two records I did [Lyle Mays and Street Dreams], I spent a lot of time in preproduction orchestrating things. Terms & conditions The shocker came six months after her death when The L.A. County Coroner announced that the husband of Brittany Murphy, Simon Monjack, had died from the same acute pneumonia and severe anemia. His broad intelligence and musical wisdom informed every aspect of who he was in every way. When I was involved in AIDS projects in Hawaii in the late 80s, we used to meet for information sharing once a month at the office of a professor at the U. of Hawaii in Honolulu. From the old SUMMERSTOCK MEMORIES thread: The one story where I really cant tell you the name of the star involved a magical summer night. He couldnt understand it at all. It pains me to say this but Freddie ALMOST covered up the cause of his death. Birthday: November 27, 1953 Date of Death: February 10, 2020 Age at Death: 66 Live Live Death Statistics Worldwide and The United States Lyle Mays - Biography Lyle Mays is a musician,composer who was born on November 27, 1953. But did he say he got it from GM or mutual Paul Stag?? His death, at Adventist. Just not in the way you meant it. Across more than 30 years, every moment we shared in music was special. [249] The epidemic then rapidly spread among high-risk groups (initially, sexually promiscuous men who have sex with men). In the last 15 years, there are practically no influential personalities to die from AIDS-related complications. He was a heroin addict into the 80s. [quote]While we now know about AIDS deaths in the early eighties, the first reports of a "mystery" disease killing gay men weren't published until 1982. He wasn't HIV-positive. Could Prince, George Michael, David Bowie be included? Of course not! I remember Arsenio Hall had a discussion about it on his show. Mind you, these friends would be in a position to know based on professions and families, so who knows! Across more than 30 years, every moment we shared in music was special., noted Pat Metheny. That's what HE said. Lyle Mays - Eberhard Digital Download + Digital Liner Notes $5.00 USD. Beyond Sketches Of Spain Tete Montoliu And The Construction Of Charlies Good Tonight The Life, the Times, and the Rolling JJ 04/80: Beyond the Mainstream: Herbie Hancock. I will not tolerate any filthy disease in this house. Lenny B could as easily have died of something age-related (which is what I have always believed) as AIDS-related. Just heard about his death. Mays jazz studies landed him at North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas), where he studied under the direction of Leon Breeden and joined the schools prestigious One OClock Lab Band, alongside bassist and future collaborator Marc Johnson and future Freddie Hubbard drummer Steve Houghton. I have every Album from the Pat Metheny Group and have seen him more than 20-times in Concert. 202 here. Fictionary (1993) with Marc Johnson and Jack DeJohnette perhaps brought the most straight-ahead music of Mays career, while Solo: Improvisations For Expanded Piano (2000) was an epic journey through a MIDI-enhanced landscape. There's a song he sang in the 70's about "fa**ots". The first time I saw him I knew he was gay. Advertise with Jazz Journal Three people popped to mind reading the thread title. Sometime in 1978, IIRC. He was 66. From Wikipedia: "According to some of his friends in news articles he did enjoy the services of female prostitutes.". Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays ~ Ozark (1981) Georgy Porgy's Favorites 22.2K subscribers 516 36K views 3 years ago "Ozark" is a song from "As Falls Wichita, so Falls Wichita Falls", a collaborative. He won total 11 Grammy awards and was nominated 23 times. That's different. . Mays and Methenys creative partnership extended outside the band, as well. Wikileaks released an alleged death certificate for Jobs that stated HIV as an underlying cause for his death and that Karposi's of the pancreas leading to respiratory failure as the primary cause. Lyle was one of the greatest musicians I have ever known. Lyle Mays, a pianist, best known for his connection with guitarist Pat Metheny, died February 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 66. An eponymous 1986 debut carried on in the Metheny Group vein, while the lush Braziliana of Street Dreams (1988) juxtaposed big band and chamber orchestra. At the time of his death he survived by his large extended friends and family. Reportedly, more than half if them tested positive. His death was announced by his niece, vocalist Aubrey Johnson, who posted the news to social media late on the evening of the 10th. Also it was known at the time of death that Arthur Ashe and Max Robinson had AIDS. Mays became the groups chief arranger, with his distinctive touch and impressionistic piano solos heard on the bands Grammy-nominated album, Lab 75! He was 66. [27] The prominent Brazilian singer-songwriter, Milton Nascimento, also recorded a remake version of the same piece, "Quem Voc," with Portuguese lyrics for his 1991 album, O Planeta Blue Na Estrada Do Sol. Been listening to the Pat Metheny Group since the early 80s and seen them live so many times. The lifestyle of going out on the road night after night, Metheny wrote, for sometimes hundreds of nights at a time, is not for everyone and has real challenges . If anybody was trying to cover it up, they were doing a piss poor job of it. Mays is survived by two sisters. Benedetto Guitars, the company that made his signature model . Duh. --Ed. Very sad indeed! His final release, 2015s The Ludwigsburg Concert, was an archive recording from a 1993 performance in Germany. Is Iman okay ? It's anonymous site. That death certificate has never been verified and is usually dismissed as fake. I have no idea why there would be gay rumors about Jim Henson. I kind of feel like the music industry has left me, he said in a revealing podcast interview for Jazziz in 2016, and his observation that people were increasingly reluctant to pay for music has proven to be remarkably prescient. Even the merest speculation of HIV meant a damaged, or tainted, estate value and posthumous reputation. If Prince had homo sex I hope it was with a nice guy - not a sleazy loser. Or left all of us., Ive gone where the economys gone, he added. Lyle Mays Death/ Cause of Death Mays died on February 10, 2020, after a battle with a "recurring illness". While there were certainly a lot of people who hid their disease, those who died of the disease in the early eighties didn't know they had it. Peace to him and his family. By 1978, the prevalence of HIV-1 among homosexual male residents of New York City and San Francisco was estimated at 5%, suggesting that several thousand individuals in the country had been infected.[249]". They are James Brown, Patrick Swayze, Luther Vandross, Bob Marley, Andy Warhol, and football great Lyle Alzado. r10 I don't think that was covered up, it was just said that he got it from blood transfusion, or at least later on AIDS/HIV was mentioned as cause of death. People are just making this up. Perhaps thats a key to what makes me tick a very strong curiosity, which makes me a perpetual fanboy of whatever Im discovering, Mehldau says. The first is regarding Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "Miles Davis. Developing an early interest in mathematics, architecture and chess, Mays played organ at his local church, and as a teenager was guided into the world of jazz by the twin touchstones of Bill Evans and electric-era Miles Davis. The number 9 is the peak of change because this is the time to close an old cycle and open a new cycle. May have been pancreatic cancer as claimed but neither condition can be treated by diet which is what he is alleged to have done until it was too late. Lyle was one of the greatest musicians I have ever known, Metheny wrote on his website. LOS ANGELES Lyle Mays, a jazz keyboardist whose work, chiefly with the Pat Metheny Group, won nearly a dozen Grammy Awards, died Monday in Los Angeles, it was announced. While we now know about AIDS deaths in the early eighties, the first reports of a "mystery" disease killing gay men weren't published until 1982, and HIV was not identified until a couple of years later than that and couldn't be detected by testing until after that. Had a deep and abiding love of the twink, the fresher the better.". Across more than 30 years, every moment we shared in music was special. "Our family was experiencing a lot of difficulties," Mays, 40, said. What a loss. He was a bisexual man, who died of AIDS and circulated the Roid story as it was far more palatable. there is NO RECORD in medical science of anyone developing a brain tumor from roids. He studied music in college, got turned on to jazz and went off to playing with Woody Herman's Big Band. I think Harry Hamlin has AIDS. As for so many artists of his generation, rock and popular music were formative influences, and Mays collaborative credits also included recordings with Joni Mitchell (Shadows And Light, 1980), Rickie Lee Jones (Girl At Her Volcano, 1983), and Earth Wind & Fire (Heritage, 1990). He died in 1980, before there was any known connection between HIV and gay sex. [quote]A certain known to be closeted athlete who died of AIDS years ago. He was coughing up blood and should have gone to the hospital sooner. And he may or may not have had HIV but if he did it was under control. Mark Hollis has died. In a . Mays was born in Wausaukee, Wisconsin, on Nov. 27, 1953, to a musical family. Certainly one of the top keyboard players and composer of the second half of the 20th century. Sad, so sad. Miles Davis. But medical experts told News . Mays was a cofounder of the Pat Metheny Group in 1977, and remained a member for 33 years. But what the world lost with his passing is, as Cantor put it, an amazing intellect. Oh, he was full blown alright. Jackson regularly used a wheelchair and many people questioned whether he could perform his 2009 concert tour obligations. There were rumors that he had AIDS because he stopped taking his HIV meds per his JW religion. How about the people who have lived on, like Guy Parse or Mr Smith from the Matrix. I saw Chamberlain at dozens of tennis events through the years - US Open and Virginia Slims in the Garden - and he was always alone. The death, of unspecified causes, was . Time goes by. He was 66. Yes and lived with it just fine, until the HIV infection pushed her into death. In a 2016 interview with Jazziz, Mays explained that Its not that I have a real desire to leave the music industry I kind of feel like the music industry has left me. True R239 many broadway actors, producers, set/costume designers, dancers, etc. An appreciation of science would never leave him, and amongst Mays many non-musical achievements was designing a house for his sister. Tue 26th Feb 2019 12.24 GMT. no r114, but Ibread here both men had the same middle-aged bareback gay pornstar as a "friend". "My partner's father had a crisis with Parkinson's disorder. Published since 1970, JazzTimesAmericas Jazz Magazineprovides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the jazz scene. He was playing with Pat [Metheny], and it was just the quartet at that time. In the meantime, Mays continued freelancing, including work with bassist Steve Swallow, drummer Bob Moses, and Rickie Lee Jones. Speaking of Brad Davis, his daughter is now a trans man. Keyboard master, composer, founding member of the Pat Metheny Group and self-taught architect, Lyle Mays died in Los Angeles on the morning of 10th February 2020 aged 66. Interesting the number of people who supposedly got infected by infected blood following a transfusion during surgery Amd yet - we also know - or its been long rumoured - that they were utter sleazes. According to Loftus, the CIA had knowledge of his condition, and convinced Israel not to assassinate him and wait for his inevitable death of the disease, since the subsequent widespread connotations of the disease with homosexuality would discredit him. Btw I died of AIDS too. Lyle Waggoner, known for his work on "The Carol Burnett Show" and " Wonder Woman ," has died at the age of 84. Gods speed Mr. Lyle Mays, I just discovered Moses, the Lawgiverit makes me miss Lyle Mays that much more! Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Maybe that's not it, but he does look frail. To the general public, it appeared that Michaels 50 year-old frame was wearing down faster than expected. He will be sadly missed. Mays performed with a MIDI-fied Steinway Grand Piano and a variety of synthesizers, notably an Oberheim 4 Voice synth. Lyle Mays, better known by the Family name Lyle David Mays, was a popular Musician. I feel so good now, more than enough to keep me fed all year! Gower Champion died of blood cancer in 1980. It's not like the movies. r25 i think you wandered into the wrong thread. In late 2004, after effectively being confined for over two years by the Israeli army, Arafat became ill, fell into a coma and died at the age of 75. I could be bitter about that, but I have other interests and other skills, so Ive moved on.. Lyle Mays - Eberhard 12 Inch Album Poster $5.00 USD. This brings up the question. Celebrate your homophobic hero at your local church, not here at this Lounge where the Gay is loud and proud, presenting hole while draining pasta. He was 66. I was MARRIED! The renowned R&B/funk group, Earth, Wind & Fire, recorded Lyle's most beloved original composition from his first solo album, "Close to Home" for their 1990 album, Heritage as an interlude and he participated in the arranging and recording session for the piece. Jim J. Bullockoh wait, it was only his career that died. The pianist played on Methenys second album, 1977s Watercolors, before the two co-founded the band that became the Pat Metheny Group. Also sad that the main stream media wont recognize this. As it is there have been documentaries about him, I watched one several years ago.

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