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Phast Phreddie Patterson

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Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Don Waller, Mrs. Muddy Waters, Muddy Waters, Phast Phreddie--Backstage at the Roxy Theater, Hollywood, CA, 1978



Lux Interior, Poison Ivy, Phast Phreddie and Dave Alvin backstage somewhere--maybe the Starwood--a long time ago.
Phast Phreddie no longer writes the obituaries column for Goldmine Magazine. Some of the old ones can be found at Hot Platters (click on the "Grim Report" icon) in their unedited state. Also, he has started his own blog called The Decedent Activity Report . Check it out.
His DJ activities--and possibly a two-way dialog--can be found here:
The Boogaloo Omnibus
Phast Phreddie Patterson is also involved in these other fine myspace sites:
The Wang Dang Doodle
Subway Soul Club
The Love Supremes
Earl Bostic
Phast Phreddie & Thee Precisions
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Phast Phreddie can now be heard on the radio during Michael Shelley's program on WFMU (91.1 FM in NYC area, 90.1 FM upstate NY--show starts at 11:00 AM Eastern Time). Usually around 12:30 most Saturday afternoons, Michael calls Phast Phreddie and they take about five minutes to pay tribute to musicians who have recently passed away. The show can be heard over the internet here [WFMU] and it is archived here [Michael Shelley Show] .
Sometimes Phast Phreddie Patterson writes for the ARChive of Contemporary Music blog.
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Historical and scientific photographic proof:
Phast Phreddie in the KXLU record library circa 1982, photo by Gary Leonard.
Phast Phreddie at the ARChive of Contemporary Music, April 2007, photo by Marty Jourard.
Historical and scientific conclusion: Some things never change!

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My Blog

Liner notes for 20/20 album.

The following was written for the liner notes of a 20/20 album that may never come out.  If it does come out, it most likely won't have these notes.  Too bad.  Anyway, it was a gas writing the notes a...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:56:00 GMT

Sonny Rollins live at Carnegie Hall, Tuesday September 18, 2007

On November 29, 1957, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins played at Carnegie Hall forthe first time leading his own group--a trio consisting of ex-Duke Ellington bassistWendall Marshall and drummer Kenny...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:00:00 GMT

July 2 Obituaries

ObituariesJuly 2, 2007By Phast Phreddie PattersonSoul singer Freddie Scott (74) died of a heart attack at his home in Queens, New York on June 4.Scott was born in Providence, Rhode Island on April 24,...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:39:00 GMT

June 4 Obituaries

By Phast Phreddie Patterson R&B vocalist Zola Taylor (69) died of complications of pneumonia in Riverside, California on April 30. She had suffered several strokes and had been hospitalized. She was ...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:35:00 GMT

May 7 Obituaries

By Phast Phreddie PattersonJamaican singer Alerth Bedasse (79) died of a stroke on March 5 in Jamaica.Alerth Rockford Bedasse began singing as a boy, growing up in Clarendon, Jamaica. He sang in scho...
Posted by on Mon, 07 May 2007 15:41:00 GMT

April 9 Obituaries

Obituaries April 9By Phast Phreddie Patterson Rock singer Brad Delp (55) was found dead at his home in Atkinson, New Hampshire on March 9. Bradley E. Delp was born in Danvers, Massachusetts June 12, 1...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:35:00 GMT

Obituaries March 12,2007

By Phast Phreddie PattersonR&B singer Crown Prince Waterford (90) died in Jacksonville, Florida on February 1. No cause of death was announced.Most sources state that Solomon Charles Waterford was bo...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:30:00 GMT

February Obituaries

February 12By Phast Phreddie PattersonBlues singer, guitarist Homesick James Williamson (probably 96) died December 13 at his home in Springfield, Missouri. No cause of death was reported.He was born...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:21:00 GMT

Obituaries January 15, 2007

By Phast Phreddie PattersonSongwriter Dennis Linde (63) died of a rare lung disease at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee on December 24, 2006.Linde was born in Abilene, Texas on March 18, 1943 and he...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:52:00 GMT

Obituaries December 2006

Blues singer/harmonica player Snooky Pryor (85) died on October 18 at a hospital in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.He was born James Edward Pryor on September 15, 1921 in Lambert, Mississippi. As a teen, h...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:23:00 GMT