r92 - maybe because he had no history of transfusions. Lyle Mays, a jazz pianist and composer, and longtime member of the Pat Metheny Group, died Feb. 10, 2020, in Los Angeles, Calif., after a long illness, at age 66. Could Prince, George Michael, David Bowie be included? Thank you for the music. You really cant trust what his personal doctor says. Lyle Mays. Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, which is an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the solid organs, but the condition was in remission. At the time of his death, he was 67 years old. Lyle Mays - Eberhard Digital Download + Digital Liner Notes $5.00 USD. I was like thanks [shrugs]. [quote]While we now know about AIDS deaths in the early eighties, the first reports of a "mystery" disease killing gay men weren't published until 1982. Everything I read (like the article I'm attaching) stated long-term lung conditions/damage leading to heart attach. So essentially (according to datalounge) anyone rumored to be gay, every effeminate male, every closeted male has AIDS or has already died of AIDS. Keith Aspden, the longterm manager of Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis, has confirmed the singer's death. When David opened up, there stood the leading man. RIP. Mays became the groups chief arranger, with his distinctive touch and impressionistic piano solos heard on the bands Grammy-nominated album, Lab 75! [quote]A certain known to be closeted athlete who died of AIDS years ago. That's what HE said. Please click here to get full access and no ads for $1.99 or less per month. Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag. 2:02. Also - quite a while since Price died and not one man has come forward to say he had sex with Prince. Not one. I could be bitter about that, but I have other interests and other skills, so Ive moved on. I really think your playing is the best Ive heard you play, Mays told writer Martin Johnson. r205 there was no cover up on that one. All rights reserved. Lyle Mays, a jazz keyboardist whose work, chiefly with the Pat Metheny Group, won nearly a dozen Grammy Awards, has died at his home in Los Angeles. Hell, have you ever seen [bold]anyone[/bold] with a chronic fatal disease who wasnt withered just before the end? Thanks, caulixtla, found it here: [quote]Anyone who had "cancer" from 1981 to 1995 and was gay had AIDS. And these words are all true. His father, a truck. Sourced told the . Suspicious timing. Giggling to themselves as they post yet again .. R125, I have to admit, I even chuckled at that. At the tail end of 2022, Brad Mehldau took advantage of a New York sojourn to play piano with old friends at Smalls. I heard Jackie O got it from Nureyev, but it was hushed up. Now, Lyle Mays has taken the last train home, passing on Monday, February 10, 2020 at the age of 66. Very possibly with the AIDS virus. The best recording I think Lyle ever made was with Metheny on the So falls Wichita Falls recording. I hadnt prepared a record. But what the world lost with his passing is, as Cantor put it, an amazing intellect. Some people think Steve McQueen died of AIDS. Lyle was born on November 27, 1953 in Wausaukee, Wisconsin to a musical family. Their music has been a constant theme and a reassuring thread for most of my adult . Much like Marburg did for 30 years and Ebola on and off for ten year cycles, till both took hold in the 90s and became much more mainstream. He didnt say AIDS deaths didnt exist until 1980, he said it was before there was a correlation between HIV and gay sex. I really enjoyed reading an interview he had in Keyboard Magazine back in 1986, complete with a recording of his music on one of those thin record-player compatible disks magazines had back then. If you listen to the score for The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, said Cantor, who produced the sessions, its Stravinsky. Oh, he was full blown alright. A certain known to be closeted athlete who died of AIDS years ago. r25 i think you wandered into the wrong thread. There were rumors that he had AIDS because he stopped taking his HIV meds per his JW religion. Rumor has it that John Lennon looked so skinny and ill just before he got shot in 1980 because he was seriously sick, and some have suggested it was HIV or AIDS that was the cause. Jazz keyboardist Lyle Mays, whose work won nearly a dozen Grammy awards, died Monday in Los Angeles, Calif. Nowadays, + people will be put on toxic drugs & will die of liver cancer from the cocktail, not full-blown AIDS. Pianist Lyle Mays died Monday after a long battle with reoccurring illness according to a family member twitter 148 Jazz Music 40 comments Best Add a Comment Brewster345 3 yr. ago Such terrible news. He died in 1999 at 63 for a heart condition but had lost an enormous amount of weight. He was my dear uncle, mentor, and friend and words cannot express the depth of my grief. I remember Arsenio Hall had a discussion about it on his show. Pianist and keyboard player who moved from NTSU through the Woody Herman band to become a key figure in the Pat Metheny Group. After his death, John Loftus reported on ABC radio that Arafat had died of AIDS. [247] Although the virus may have been present in the United States as early as 1966,[248] the vast majority of infections occurring outside sub-Saharan Africa (including the U.S.) can be traced back to a single unknown individual who became infected with HIV in Haiti and then brought the infection to the United States some time around 1969. He was 66. I know kidney failure was the official cause, but she got around A LOT and was with Prince during his Wild days. Celebrate your homophobic hero at your local church, not here at this Lounge where the Gay is loud and proud, presenting hole while draining pasta. James Coco died of a heart attack, not AIDS. Writing shortly after Mays death, Metheny said: Lyle was one of the greatest musicians I have ever known. Had a deep and abiding love of the twink, the fresher the better. Jim Henson died of pneumonia. John Lennon looked so bad due to years of smoking, drinking, drug addiction and poor diet. [4] In 1985, Metheny's and Mays's compositions were performed by the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago in the critically-acclaimed production of Orphans by Lyle Kessler. I'm surprised we're at over a 100 replies and his name hasn't been mentioned. Steve had truly bizarre eating habits. As for so many artists of his generation, rock and popular music were formative influences, and Mays collaborative credits also included recordings with Joni Mitchell (Shadows And Light, 1980), Rickie Lee Jones (Girl At Her Volcano, 1983), and Earth Wind & Fire (Heritage, 1990). I think Harry Hamlin has AIDS. Took a while to sink in, what a huge loss. I've wondered about Wilt as well. I loved his sounds, i.e the ARP, Oberheim MOOG, and other beautiful sounding synths and keys he used. [6] During his senior year of high school, at summer national stage band camp in Normal, Illinois, he was introduced to jazz pianist Marian McPartland. He contracted it from a blood transfusion according to his family and his publicist. Mays, who died in February 2020 at the age of 66 after a long battle with a recurring illness, was best known as the co-architect of the trailblazing Pat Metheny Group (PMG). Rumors exist and we will examine the big ones. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . R135 nope, that's indeed George Michaels last foto. We did a brief round of gigs a while back, and it was clear in every way that he had had enough of hotels, buses, and so forth., Mays quietly lived out the rest of his days in California, working in the computer industry and encouraging the creative efforts of his niece. [4], Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival and Filles de Kilimanjaro by Miles Davis (both recorded in 1968) were important influences. Peace to him and his family. Regarding the comment above claiming Alzado died from a brain tumor. This is totally dvastating. In an interview with JAZZIZ magazine in 2016, Mays said he had been working as a software development manager because of changes in the music industry. Ralphie May, the comedian and veteran of "Last Comic Standing" who died at age 45 in October, died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease, the Clark County, Nevada, coroner's . He was just a weird guy who "didn't think like other people", hence his serious eating disorders. I'm guessing if he were HIV symptomatic it could only make things worse. 0:00. In a . He died in 1985 EXCUUUUSE me, but I was not a homersexshul. I haven't been able to locate the article, I'd very much like to see it again. What a loss. Retiring from music in 2011, Mays embarked on a new profession as a software designer. A. crazy rumor I heard was that Alexander McQueen killed himself bc he found out he got hiv from George Michael. There were reports in late 1980 about two men in San Francisco dying mysteriously of very similar symptoms, symptoms that later became what became indicators of what would later be called full-blown AIDS. [23] Mays also composed Distance for Pat Metheny Groups Grammy-winning and RIAA-certified Gold album, Still Life (1987, Geffen), "Mindwalk"[24] in 2009 for renowned marimba player, Nancy Zeltsman, and previously "Somewhere in Maine"[25] in 1988 for her duo with violinist Sharan Leventhal, Marimolin, and Street Dreams 3 for his solo album, Street Dreams (Geffen, 1988) with top classical performers in New York City. I thought Arafat was poised? "My partner's father had a crisis with Parkinson's disorder. He was 66. But given his interest in music and that he was playing piano at the time, it became something that he had to figure out.. I lived in Berkeley up until 1981 and there was a small article in the local paper about men coming into the Gay's Men's Health Center with lesions of unknown origin. His former manager, Keith . Sponsored content If you can't find the email you can resend it here. [quote] omeone in a Prince thread right after he died said that Jamie Foxx was the one who infected Prince with HIV. Kurt Cobain blew his head off with an AIDs infected bullet? From the old SUMMERSTOCK MEMORIES thread: The one story where I really cant tell you the name of the star involved a magical summer night. Eberhard is scored . The title stems from the long personal crisis in Mays' life that inspired it. Guys who lived in these areas were wholesale fucking visitors/tourists and seamen (no pun intended), allowing infections to spread pretty rapidly. He died of mesothelioma which is not that rare. The true cause of his passing was revealed only years later by his wife (also a film director) Agnes Varda. that's really good of you r18 - you a great person !!