Nick Reynolds, RIP

Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio died yesterday at age 75. Kingston Trio's Nick Reynolds, 75, dies in San Diego

[#1 posted by DasYendi , October 3, 2008 5:11 PM]

Let's get Charlie off the MTA!

[#2 posted by Walt Guyll , October 3, 2008 5:19 PM]

A bunch of guys that had a blast and changed the music industry. So long, Nick.

[#3 posted by hiland , October 3, 2008 5:38 PM]

Poor boy, you're bound to die.

[#4 posted by Frank_in_Virginia , October 3, 2008 6:02 PM]

Scotch and soda, mud in your eye
Baby do I feel high
Oh me oh my do I feel high

Dry martini, jigger of gin
Oh what a spell you've got me in
Oh my, do I feel high

People won't believe me, they'll think that I'm just braggin'
But I could feel the way I do
And still be on the wagon.

All I need is one of your smiles, sunshine of your eye
Oh me oh my do I feel higher than a kite can fly
Give me lovin', baby, I feel high.

Oh, people won't believe me, they'll think that I'm just braggin'
But I could feel the way I do
And still be on the wagon.

All I need is one of your smiles, sunshine of your eyes
Oh me oh my do I feel higher than a kite can fly
Give me lovin', baby I feel high.

[#5 posted by bondjamesbond , October 3, 2008 7:36 PM]

The Kingston Trio was one of the first music groups I discovered as a kid in the '60's great music....

The video posted above is a bit strange as an example...

Here's a link to Scotch and Soda from last year....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nTsP3hsmiQ&feature=related

I'm going to miss Nick....

[#6 posted by Takuan , October 3, 2008 7:45 PM]

noddy, get a grip

[#7 posted by eti , October 3, 2008 7:51 PM]

In the words of Martin Mull:

"remember the folk music scare of the '60s?"--"that shit almost caught on!"

[#8 posted by FoetusNail , October 4, 2008 2:32 AM]

My father taught himself to play the guitar listening to the Kingston Trio.

[#9 posted by Sam , October 4, 2008 4:35 AM]

I know the concept of "selling out" was a bit different back then, but geez - couldn't we find a better example?

Loved the Kingston Trio - my dad played them all growing up!

[#10 posted by Sam , October 4, 2008 4:41 AM]

In fact, this is about the most appropriate song for such an event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBtT9NfWtbE

[#11 posted by bbreader , October 4, 2008 10:10 AM]

Having never really heard them before seeing the vids posted here. I gotta say I'm baffled. It's like A Mighty Wind come to life. Beyond awful.

[#12 posted by pinch , October 4, 2008 10:41 AM]

And this is different from John Lydon how?

[#13 posted by Digital Artz , October 4, 2008 5:25 PM]

It's hard to imagine today that these guys were so
popular on college campus in person as performers
and on vinyl.Really safe and tepid music.
As a teenager in the 1950's this sort of folk music ala the Newport Folk Music events was sort of rebellious and subversive. Anyway we listened to Jazz,it was our poetry and primal scream.

[#14 posted by nickwasgod , October 14, 2008 10:40 PM]

Many of the comments here are incredibly misinformed. The Kingston Trio were a seminal force in popular music and a bridge which allowed much of the great music that followed them to exist. I suppose it's easy to dismiss them now, after 50 years of pop music evolution. But make no mistake, they were great, they were fun and they were intelligent-as good as it got between Elvis in the army and the Beatle's arrival. And at the risk of sounding misinformed myself, they were infinitely preferrable to the pretentious, insufferable, BEYOND AWFUL "jazz" of the period.