Buddy Miles drummer for Jimi Hendrix in the Band of Gypsys and a star in his own right has passed away.
Band of Gypsys was an album that changed my life, the song Machine Gun did more to radicalize me than any other song except Bob Dylan's "The Times They are a Changing". Buddy Miles had a big hit with the song "Them Changes" and was also the lead Raisin for the California Raisins.
Having the huge man with the huge Afro, who played so powerfully and yet with such nuance, involved in a song was always a reason for me to listen. He was only sixty when he passed away, the same age as my Father. Seems to be the same things that got too him as well overweight and congestive heart failure.
The world is a little darker and colder for the passing of such a great musician and human being.