Guy Berger Posted August 28, 2006 Report Posted August 28, 2006 Somebody posted on AAJ that Pip Pyle, drummer for several prog rock bands (National Health, Hatfield & the North), passed away last night. RIP. Guy Quote
GA Russell Posted August 28, 2006 Report Posted August 28, 2006 My word, I'm sorry. I had quite a number of his records in the 70s. In those years I spent more time listening to Canterbury prog rock than to jazz, and he was a very major player. RIP Quote
7/4 Posted August 28, 2006 Report Posted August 28, 2006 I'm confirming this, I made a phone call to a friend who knows those folks. A bit too early, only 57 or so. Quote
GA Russell Posted August 28, 2006 Report Posted August 28, 2006 As I recall, and I'm not 100% sure of this, but I think he was also an early member of Gong, on the Camembert Electrique album. Quote
B. Clugston Posted August 28, 2006 Report Posted August 28, 2006 Here's an obit: http://calyx.club.fr/mus/pyle_pip.html Pip Pyle played with Gong in 1971 plus some later incarnations in the 1990s. Quote
Guest akanalog Posted August 28, 2006 Report Posted August 28, 2006 played wit soft heap. a good group of british musicians. h-ugh e-elton a-alan p-pip. however the good live album on ogun has someone filling in for pyle (soft head with d-david sheen)! Quote
GA Russell Posted August 29, 2006 Report Posted August 29, 2006 B. Clugston, thanks for that link to the bio. Very informative. Last night in memoriam I listened to National Health's Playtime CD on Cuneiform. It was a 1979 concert not released till 2001, with Alan Gowen, John Greaves, Phil Miller, Pyle and a fellow I don't know named Alain Eckert. Within the past two weeks we have learned of the deaths of Moacir Santos, Maynard Ferguson and now Pip Pyle. I'm a bit stunned. Quote
sidewinder Posted August 29, 2006 Report Posted August 29, 2006 Really sorry to hear this. First Elton Dean, then in a matter of weeks, Pip Pyle. Just happened to be playing an 'In Cahoots' CD in the car only the other day and really enjoying it too. Much too young - may he rest in peace. Quote
david weiss Posted August 31, 2006 Report Posted August 31, 2006 (edited) A shame, great drummer. Heard him just a couple of months ago here in New York with Hatfield and the North. The band was great and Pip looked fine. You never know I guess. Edited August 31, 2006 by david weiss Quote
clifford_thornton Posted September 1, 2006 Report Posted September 1, 2006 Damn! This is really sad news - I am a big fan of Gong and really enjoyed the National Health records. Saw him with Gong on a reunion tour maybe six or seven years ago, and it was really nice. RIP and thanks for the wonderful music, Pip the Heap (PHP)! Quote
rostasi Posted September 3, 2006 Report Posted September 3, 2006 pip pyle - discography 1970 - Carol Grimes & Delivery - A Fool's Meeting 45 r.p.m. "Harry Lucky" 1971 - Daevid Allen - Banana Moon 1971 - Gong - Continental Circus 1971 - Gong - Camembert Electrique 1971 - Dashiell Hedayat - Obsolete 1972 - Bridget St. John - Thank You For .... 1973 - Coxhill/Miller.Miller/Coxhill 1974 - Hatfield And The North - Hatfield And The North 1974 - Lady June - Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy 1975 - Hatfield And The North - The Rotters' Club 1975 - Hatfield And The North - Over The Rainbow 1978 - National Health - National Health 1978 - National Health - Of Queues And Cures 1978 - Gilli Smyth - Mother 1979 - Soft Heap 1980 - Hatfield And The North - Afters 1982 - National Health - D.S. Al Coda 1982 - John Greaves - Accident 1982 - The Ghoulies - Dogged By Dogma 1984 - Neil - Neil's Heavy Concept Album 1986 - Patrice Meyer - Dromadaire Viennois 1987 - Pip Pyle's Equip' Out 1987 - Phil Miller - Cutting Both Ways 1987 - Didier Malherbe - Fetish 1988 - Phil Miller - Split Seconds 1989 - Alain et Yvon Guillard - Pazapa 1989 - Faton Cahen - Couleur Rubis 1990 - National Health - Complete 1991 - John Greaves - La Petite Bouteille De Linge 1991 - Pip Pyle's L'Equip' Out - Up! 1991 - Lydia Domancich - Au-Dela Des Limites 1991 - Phil Miller/In Cahoots - Live 1986-1989 1991 - Phil Miller - Digging In 1992 - Gong - Shapeshifter 1992 - Johan Asherton - The Night Forlorn 1993 - Phil Miller/In Cahoots - Live In Japan 1993 - Hatfield And The North - Live 1990 1993 - Gong - Live On TV 1990 1993 - Shortwave - Live 1994 - Phil Miller/In Cahoots - Recent Discoveries 1994 - Richard Sinclair - R.S.V.P. 1995 - Gong - The Birthday Party 1995 - Gong - The Peel Sessions 1995 - Soft Heap - A Veritable Centaur 1996 - National Health - Missing Pieces 1996 - Phil Miller/In Cahoots - Parallel 1998 - Gong - The Family Jewels 1998 - Pip Pyle - Seven Years Itch 1999 - Brainville - The Children's Crusade 1999 - Mark Hewins - Rebela 2000 - Pyle-Iung-Greaves - The Pig Part 2001 - In Cahoots -Out of The Blue 2001 - National Health -Playtime 2002 - The Canterbury Tales - Various Artists 2002 - Jack Monck - Inside The Whale 2003 - Absolute Zero - Crashing Icons 2003 - Various Artists - The Best Progressive Rock Album Ever 2004 - Pip Pyle’s BASH! “Belle Illusion” Cunieform Records Rune 193 2005 - Pip Pyle’s Equip’Out “Instants” Hux Records Hux 062 2005 - Hatfield and the North “Hatwise Choice” www.burningshed.com Quote
7/4 Posted September 3, 2006 Report Posted September 3, 2006 damm, and I only heard a few of them. Quote
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