Ronnie Hammond, singer for the Atlanta Rhythm Section died last Monday

[pintobean]

Heart failure at age 60. ARS has been one of my favorite bands for over 35 years.

http://www.ajc.com/news/ronnie-hammond-60-ars-873696.html

Another Man's Woman From the Red Tape album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLZWwOGrl-g

[kedrys]

1. Aw man...!

:cry: :cry: :cry:

I've been transferring all my vinyls to MP4, and that song on that album was one of the first ones I picked out.

RIP Ronnie, you were great. :cry:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. You picked my favorite ARS song...

...and my favorite version is from the live "Are You Ready" album, specifically the closing vamp around the 12:30 mark ("It don't matter what you're doing tonight, just as long as it feels right...WHOO!")

One more example of a band that was great in its prime, is now pretty much forgotten by the mainstream, and if you hadn't posted the info on Ronnie's passing, I never would have known. Charlie Sheen blinks and it's front page news on 100 Websites.

Sad, but that's how life normally works.

R.I.P. Ronnie.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IBigK-nP7zw/SlxW2AvDWbI/AAAAAAAAD9k/k4tYX0wqAjo/s400/Atlanta+Rhythm+Section+-+Are+You+Ready+-+Front.jpg

[pintobean]

3. Until recently, I hadn't listened to "Are You Ready" in over a decade.

I no longer have a turntable. A few months ago, I found it on a music blog (no longer available) and downloaded it. I had forgotten what a great album it is.

Here's a blogger who has some rare ARS albums posted. The last words in his write-up are the download links. You'll need a program to extract the .rar files. I use The Extractor, available on cnet for free.

http://skydogselysium.blogspot.com/search/label/Atlanta%20Rhythm%20Section

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Thanks for the link...

...I use WinRar for .rar files.

:toast:

[pintobean]

6. Cool. He's got a lot of good southern rock

and some good links to other music bloggers.

[Bluzmann57]

4. Man oh man, that's really a shame

I saw them in about '78 or '79 (my memory of that time is REALLY bad) and I liked 'em. "This is a song for the Jesus hearted people" was my fave because it sort of described where I grew up and lived at the time. RIP Ronnie Hammond.