#Ian Bairnson

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Pilot From the January 18th, 1975 issue of Jackie Magazine (via: eBay)

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Former Alan Parsons Project Guitarist Ian Bairnson Dies at 69

- Musician also played with Pilot, Kate Bush and others

Ian Bairnson, the longtime Alan Parsons Project guitarist and in-demand session musician, died April 7.

Bairnson was 69 and had had a “long battle with dementia,” his wife, Leila, said.

“Although Ian has left us, his musical legacy stays with us and will continue to delight and brighten our lives, as it did his, forever,” Leila Bairnson said in a statement.

Bairnson, whom Parsons called “a musical genius,” played on all of APP’s 11 LPs from 1976 and 1990 and also toured with the Live Project.

“He was a true master of the guitar - he knew every possible playable guitar chord and how to describe it … but amazingly, he never took the time to learn conventional musical notation,” Parsons said in a statement.

“Ian will be greatly missed, but never forgotten,” Parsons added.

Bairnson was a member of the Scottish band Pilot and toured and recorded with, among others, Mick Fleetwood, Eric Clapton and Kate Bush, performing the guitar solo on the latter’s “Wuthering Heights.”

“Ian was the finest guitar player I have ever worked with and also a long-time friend,” Pilot’s David Paton said in a statement. “We shared many happy and successful times together. We lived the dream of many aspiring musicians.”

4/9/23

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On Air (1996) album cover by Alan Parons

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The Alan Parsons Project Ultimate 2004 Arista ————————————————— Tracks: 01. A Dream within a Dream 02. The Raven 03. What Goes Up 04. I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You 05. I, Robot 06. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether 07. Lucifer 08. Damned if I Do 09. Games People Play 10. Time 11. Sirius 12. Eye in the Sky 13. Prime Time 14. Don’t Answer Me 15. Psychobabble 16. You Don’t Believe 17. Days Are Numbers (the Traveller) 18. Old and Wise —————————————————

* Long Live Rock Archive

[spoiledstrawberry]

RIP IAN BAIRNSON🎸🖤

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Έφυγε απο τη ζωή σε ηλικία 69 ετών ο κιθαρίστας των Alan Parsons Project, Ian Bairnson.

[mxdwn]

RIP: Guitarist Ian Bairnson for Alan Parsons and Kate Bush Dead at 69

https://music.mxdwn.com/2023/04/11/news/rip-guitarist-ian-bairnson-for-alan-parsons-and-kate-bush-dead-at-69/

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Oh, oh, oh , it´s "Magic" de PILOT, memorable softrockerada UK setentera post beatle.

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In Memoriam: Ian Bairnson (1953 - 2023)

Ian Bairnson (August 3, 1953 – April 7, 2023, born as John Bairnson) was a Scottish musician, best known for being one of the core members of The Alan Parsons Project. He was a multi-instrumentalist, who played saxophone and keyboards, although he was best known as a guitarist. He was also known for preferring the sound of a sixpence to a plectrum. He was a session guitarist before joining up in…

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Happy 74th birthday Scottish musician David Paton

Paton was s member of Pilot, the band that had a smash hit in the 1970s with “Magic.”

Born 29th October 1949 in Edinburgh, he grew up in the south-eastern suburb of Gilmerton where he attended Inch Primary then Liberton High School where is art teacher was Roy Williamson of the Corries.

His first band was called The Beachcombers and they signed a recording contract in 1968 with CBS Records. The band were hugely popular in Scotland in the 60s, introduced the young Paton to the city’s live music circuit, venues like the Palais de Danse, Top Storey, The International on Princess Street, The Gonk Club and The Gamp

They changed their name for The Boots and released a couple of singles with little success, the band split because of money problems in 1970. He then replaced a guitarist in the Bay City Rollers, for a short period of time but never recorded with them. After leaving them in October 1970, he became a member of another band called Fresh, which changed their name for Chrystian and published a single, "Nursery Lane", in 1971.While still playing with the band, he took a job as a musician in Tiffanys, an Edinburgh nightclub where he met Ian Bairnson and they formed Pilot.

The band compromised, Paton with Ian Bairnson, Billy Lyall, and Stuart Tosh, Pilot literally made magic with their commercial single of the same title. “Magic,” (written by Paton and Lyall, produced by Alan Parsons) this skyrocketed the Scottish group to international star status. The band struck gold again with Paton’s “January.” More albums and singles followed. By 1977, only Paton and Bairnson were left from the original foursome, and they recorded Pilot's final album (the aptly titled Two's a Crowd) with session musicians, eventually Paton and Bairnson went there separate ways and Pilot folded.

After Pilot, Paton steadily built an impressive body of work, collaborating with The Alan Parsons Project, The Pretenders, Paul McCartney and Kate Bush, among others. In the last decade, Paton has toured the world in his own right and released his own music, including one album containing the first recording of January.

David Paton is still making music, his last album , The Traveler was released last year, I have however chosen to highlight Fragments, a collection of traditional Scottish songs and two of his own compositions, one of which I picked. Have a listen it's a cracking Scottish song, and check Youtbe for his versions of Scots' Wa Hae, Jock O'Hazeldean and The Bonnie Blue Bonnets among others.

This Honest Land

I've had my kicks wi' brother Scots

From Adelade to John O' Groats

I've met them a' the world o'er

They're on every distant shore

Though some be rich and some be poor

They'll welcome you and that's for sure

There's warmth and kindness there to see

They'll give the same to you as me

This honest land is in our hearts

No matter where we go

And when we come together

We let it show

Sing if you wanna feel love inside

Say any time is right inthe day or the night

Sing and we all can sing along

Say if you wanna feel love if you wanna be one

Well the rain may come

And the wind might blow

But the sun will shine

And the clouds will

But either way to me is fine

It's aye the same come rain or shine

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Un Disco per la Pausa Pranzo no. 5 - 20 Settembre 2017 - The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid - 1978

Canzoni:

Voyager

What goes up...

The eagle will rise again

One more river

Can't take it with you

In the lap of gods

Pyramania

Hyper-Gamma-Spaces

Shadow of a lonely man

Canzone preferita: Shadow of a lonely man

Musicisti:

David Paton: Basso elettrico - Voce (2)

Stuart Elliott: Batteria - Voce

Ian Bairnson: Chitarre elettriche e acustiche

Eric Woolfson: Tastiere

Duncan Mackay: Tastiere

Dean Ford: Voce (2 e 5)

Colin Blunstone: Voce (3 e 9)

Lenny Zakatek: Voce (4)

Jack Harris: Voce (7)

John Miles: Voce (9)

The English Chorale: Cori

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Farewell - diese Musiker mussten 2023 gehen

Leider war auch das letzte Jahr nicht zu allen Musikern gut gewesen. Einige richtig einflussreiche Menschen mussten die Bühne wechseln, wie immer eigentlich zu früh. Den Musiker hören ja nie wirklich auf Musik zu machen. Was bleibt ist in allen Fällen ein Vermächtnis. Ein Werk für die Nachwelt. Deshalb möchte ich natürlich all den Musikern gedenken, die im 2020 in den Tourbus gestiegen sind und ihre letzte Tour angetreten haben. - Sebastian Marino (Overkill, Anvil, Ramrod) 07.11.1965 - 01.01.2023 (Herzinfarkt) - Fred White (Earth Wind & Fire) 13.01.1955 - 01.01.2023 - Manni Jordan (Heaven's Gare, Steeltower, Carrion) 27.01.1960 - 02.01.2023 - Jeff Beck 24.06.1944 - 10.01.2023 (Hirnhautentzündung) - Doug Grandon (Psychosis, Mass Psychosis, M.O.D.) 10.01.2023 (Parkinson) - Lisa Marie Presley 01.02.1968 - 12.01.2023 (Herzversagen) - Van Connor (Screaming Trees) 17.03.1967 - 17.01.2023 (Lungenentzündung) - David Crosby (Byrds, Crosby Stills and Nash) 14.08.1941 - 19.01.2023 - Top Topham (The Yardbirds) 03.07.1947 - 23.01.2023 - Michael Kupper aka Maik Moti (Running Wild) 29.08.1957 - 16.02.2023 - Steve Mackey (Pulp) 10.11.1966 - 02.03.2023 - Gary Rossington (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 04.12.1951 - 05.03.2023 - Wayne Swinny (Saliva) 22.03.2023 (Hirnblutung) - Nora Forster (Sex Pistols) 06.11.1942 - 06.04.2023 - Lasse Wellander (ABBA) 18.06.1952 - 07.04.2023 - Guy Bailey (The Quireboys) 07.04.2023 - Ian Bairnson (Alan Parsons Project) 03.08.1953 - 07.04.2023 (Demenz) - Mark Sheehan (The Script) 29.10.1976 - 14.04.2023 - Tim Bachmann (BTO) 01.08.1951 - 28.04.2023 (Krebs) - Gordon Lightfoot 17.11.1938 -01.05.2023 - Andy Rourke (The Smiths) 17.01.1964 - 19.05.2023 (Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs) - Chas Newby (The Beatles) 18.06.1941 - 22.05.2023 - Kirk Arrington (Metal Church / Vanderhoof) 23.01.1962 - 22.05.2023 - Sheldon Reynolds (Earth Wind & Fire, The Commodores) 13.09.1959 - 23.05.2023 - Tina Turner 26.11.1939 - 24.05.2023 - Lee Rauch (Megadeth) 10.09.1964 - 23.06.2023 - George Tickner (Journey) 08.09.1946 - 05.07.2023 - Jane Birkin 14.12.1946 - 16.07.2023 - Tony Bennett 03.08.1926 - 21.07.2023 - Sinéad O'Connor 08.12.1966 - 26.07.2023 - Randy Meisner (Eagles) 08.03.1946 - 26.07.2023 (COPD) - John Gosling (The Kinks) 06.02.1948 - 04.08-2023 - Robbie Robertson (The Band) 05.07.1943 - 09.08.2023 (Prostata Krebs) - Peter Haag "West" (Hämatom) 15.08.2023 - Bernie Marsden (Whitesnake) 07.05.1951 - 24.08.2023 (Meningitis) - Jack Sonni (Dire Straits) 09.12.1954 - 30.08.2023 - Jimmy Buffett 25.12.1946 - 01.09.2023 (Hautkrebs) - Steve Harwell (Smash Mouth) 09.01.1967 - 04.09.2023 (Leberversagen) - Matt Vinci (Liege Lord) 01.03.1965 - 09.09.2023 (Krebs) - Roger Whittaker 22.03.1936 - 13.09.2023 - Jon Kennedy (Cradle Of Filth, Hecate Enthroned, Imperial Genocide) 25.08.1977 - 25.09.2023 (Autounfall) - Jeff L'Heureux (Culprit) 17.11.1959 - 10.10.2023 (Motorradunfall) - Rudolph Isley (The Isley Brothers) 01.04.1939 - 11.10.2023 (Herzversagen) - Steve Riley (Keel, W.A.S.P.) 22.01.1956 - 24.10.2023 (Lungenentzündung) - Heath (X Japan) 29.01.1968 - 29.10.2023 (Krebs) - Vittorio "Vic" Vergeat (Toad) 15.05.1951 - 01.11.2023 - Pete Garner (The Stone Roses) 03.11.2023 (Krebs) - Charlie Dominici (Dream Theater) 16.06.1951 - 17.11.2023 - Mars Williams (The Waitresses, The Psychedelic Furs) 29.05.1955 - 20.11.2023 (Krebs) - Kevin "Geordie" Walker (Killing Joke) 18.12.1958 - 26.11.2023 (Schlaganfall) - Shane MacGowan (The Pogues) 25.12.1957 - 30.11.2023 (Lungenentzündung) - Danny Laine (Wings, Moody Blues) 29.10.1944 - 05.12.2023 (Lungenerkrankung) - Ken Erb (Shok Paris) 14.12.2023 - Manny Martinez (Misfits) 16.12.2023 - Colin Burgess (AC/DC) 16.11.1946 - 16.12.2023 Leider wird auch diese Liste vermutlich nicht vollständig sein. Rockt in Frieden Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

[spoiledstrawberry]

Ian's smile... 💙