PUBLIC MARKS from itsatrap with tag music

A music giant has left us. Josef Erich "Joe" Zawinul -- who established a new school of music with Miles Davis and led the seminal Weather Report with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, et al. -- passed away Tuesday in his beloved Austria, appropriately in Vienna, the "city of musicians." He visited this planet for 75 short years and, had I my druthers, would have had 75 more productive seasons before his exit...

SS: ...Why do you believe that an artist's opinion on politics should matter? GP: I don't participate actively in expressing political views and always turn down the offer of appearing on bills for political causes. Surely, everybody's opinions on politics matter, apart from very stupid people, who should shut the f?!k up...