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Nine Life Lessons We Learned From George Jones (1931-2013)

By Benjamin Leatherman Fri., Apr. 26 2013 at 4:30 PM
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George Jones
The country music world truly lost one of its biggest badasses today when the legendary George Jones passed away this morning at a Nashville, Tennessee hospital. He was 81 years old.

The Possum, as he was known to countless, leaves behind a towering legacy in country, a long and troubled life filled with wrecked marriages and lengthy history of substance alcoholism, and -- ultimately -- a voliminously exhaustive discography of glorious, heartbreak-laden music that such tumultuousnes inspired.

By the numbers alone, Jones was incomporable.

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Kevin Pate Remembered by Brian Smith of Beat Angels and Gentlemen Afterdark

By Phoenix New Times Staff Fri., Apr. 12 2013 at 7:09 AM
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Bassist Kevin Pate
Brian Smith, onetime member of Gentlemen Afterdark and Beat Angels (and onetime New Times staff writer) reminisces about his late great bandmate, Kevin Pate.

My old band Gentlemen Afterdark once had a demo deal with A&M Records. We were very, very young, and living in L.A, and recording at A&M Studios with this guy Rob Jacobs producing. He'd recently engineered and mixed some huge multi-platinum albums, including U2's Rattle and Hum.

Now, we knew Kevin Pate was incredible, that his was a skill that couldn't be taught. We just figured Kev slid from the womb that way, cigarette dangling.

His musical intuition stunned us; he had that sense of when to pull back, when to sustain, when to push, when to flood.

See also:
- Serene Dominic remembers Kevin Pate.
- Two Kevin Pate memorials scheduled for this weekend.

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R.I.P. Rick Martinez, a.k.a. DJ Essential

By Melissa Fossum Fri., Mar. 22 2013 at 11:44 AM
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Rick Martinez (far left) with Z-Trip, Sean Badger, Sean Watson, and Pete Salaz
Lately, we've had to report on far too many deaths in the Arizona music scene. But alas, it's our terrible duty to report that Rick Martinez, better known as DJ Essential, passed away on Thursday, March 21, around 2 p.m. due to complications from cellulitis.

Martinez was 43 years old, and widely recognized as one of the first DJs to bring drum and bass and jungle to Arizona.

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Kevin Pate, Phoenix Music Veteran, Dead at 54

By Serene Dominic Fri., Mar. 15 2013 at 10:21 AM
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Kevin Pate
On Monday night, Kevin Pate -- a valued member of the Phoenix music community -- was fighting for his life in a hospital in Yuma, where he was serving a four-year jail sentence for DUI and violating parole. Misinformation was spreading across online social networks that he'd passed on, but ever the fighter, his heart kept beating for days, and this week his sister, Karen Pate, flew in from Oregon to be by his side, updating his status throughout the week. Today, she reported that Pate, 54, had passed on due to cirrhosis of the liver, while they listened to "Bach's most beautiful cantata, 'Wachet Auf (Sleepers Awake).'"

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