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He replaced John Wetton in Heep in 1976 and made his recording debut with them on 1977′s Firefly. He also played on Innocent Victim, Fallen Angel and Conquest, before joining Wishbone Ash. In 1983 he returned to Mick Box’s outfit and played on Equator two years later. He’d appeared on every album since, including their most recent outing, 2011′s Into The Wild.

He announced his hiatus from touring after his health worsened.

Earlier this year he announced what was hoped to be a temporary absence as a result of surgery. He later told Classic Rock: “I had pancreas cancer so I had to have that removed. Not the entire pancreas; but still, it was bad news. They’ve cut out the bad bit. I’ve had a bit of chemo, got to have that, which I’m doing now, in case there’s anything hanging about. Once that’s done, I should be back to doing what I do for a living.” The band had said he was aiming to be back in action in time for Heep’s appearance at the Download Festival.

The following statement was posted on Uriah Heep’s website:

It is with great sadness that Uriah Heep announce the passing of our friend the amazing Trevor Bolder, who has passed away after his long fight with cancer. Trevor was an all time great, one of the outstanding musicians of his generation, and one of the finest and most influential bass players that Britain ever produced.

His long time membership of Uriah Heep brought the band’s music, and Trevor’s virtuosity and enthusiasm, to hundreds of thousands of fans across the world. He joined the band in 1976 and, barring one short break, was a fixture until his ill health forced him to take a step back early this year. Prior to joining Heep he was a founder and ever-present member of David Bowie’s legendary Spiders From Mars band, performing on all of their key albums and at countless shows. He also performed with Wishbone Ash, Cybernauts and The Rats.

Mick Box said, “Trevor was a ‘World Class’ bass player, singer & songwriter, and more importantly a World Class friend. He will be sadly missed by family, friends and rock fans all over the world. We are all numb to the core”.

Bolder shredding:

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“The concept of the whole thing is: best box set ever,” Clash guitarist Mick Jones – who oversaw the remastering – told the Guardian. “Remastering’s a really amazing thing. That was the musical point of it all, because there’s so much there that you wouldn’t have heard before. It was like discovering stuff, because the advances in mastering are so immense since the last time [the Clash catalogue] was remastered in the 90s.”

All the music has been remastered from the original tapes, Jones said. “We had to bake the tapes beforehand – the oxide on them is where the music is, so if you don’t put them in the oven and bake them, that all falls off, because they’re so old.”

For the band, hearing some of these old recordings was like hearing for the first time.

Bassist Simonon highlighted a guitar line on Safe European Home, from the band’s second album Give ‘Em Enough Rope, saying he’d never even heard it before. “It’s probably some session musician, while I was asleep,” Jones joked.

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…Like Clockwork, the new Queens of the Stone Age LP, is out on June 4 through Matador.

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Speaking about their involvement with the show previously, Sigur Ros said in a statement: “The band’s music scores Homer’s visit to Iceland, make an unprecedented musical collaboration between the show and a band; with this episode, Sigur Ros have written and performed more original music for The Simpsons than any other outside band in the show’s history.”

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That sound has been silenced with Manzarek’s death Monday in Rosenheim, Germany, where, according to the band’s Facebook page, the 74-year-old co-founder of one of the 1960s’ most influential bands had been hospitalized as he battled bile duct cancer.

“I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate,” said Doors guitarist Robby Krieger in a statement. “Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him.”

Manzarek and Krieger had toured together for the past 10 years; drummer John Densmore’s relationship with his former bandmates has been more fractured, mainly because of disagreements over how the band’s legacy should be treated financially.

The iconic rock band famously had its 1965 genesis when Manzarek and Morrison, who were both students at the University of California at Los Angeles, met up at the beach and Morrison recited some of his poetry for his friend.

It was the iconoclastic makeup of The Doors that helped make them a success from the monster debut of the group’s self-titled 1967 album.

There was Morrison’s otherworldly howl, Krieger’s Spanish-influenced guitar work, Densmore’s subtle, jazz-infused drumming and perhaps most striking of all, Manzarek’s keyboard, which did triple-duty as lead instrument, accompanying instrument and the band’s lone bass sound. Together, the group recorded five multiplatinum albums and had hits with L.A. Woman, Break On Through to the Other Side, The End and the Manzarek showcase, Light My Fire.

“You just can’t imagine Light My Fire without Manzarek’s organ,” says Andy Greene, associate editor of Rolling Stone. “He was unquestionably one of the best rock keyboardists ever. But more than that, he was proud of the band’s legacy (after Morrison’s 1971 death in Paris). The Doors came back in a big way in the ’80s and Ray was mainly the one carrying the flame.”

Greg Harris, CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, of which Manzarek was an inductee and at whose ceremonies he was a frequent performer, said the organist was “instrumental in shaping one of the most influential, controversial and revolutionary groups of the ’60s, (which owes) much to Manzarek’s innovative playing.”

For many fans and musicians alike, The Doors’ brooding and sometimes dark sound crystallized the experimental rock music emanating from Los Angeles, which stood in stark contrast to the lighter, soaring sound coming out of the San Francisco Bay Area that was typified by the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.

“The Doors represent the L.A. sound for me,” tweeted rock guitar legend Slash, whose own debut band, Guns N’ Roses, came to define the raw Hollywood-bred music of the late ’80s and early ’90s. “RIP Ray Manzarek. Words cannot express.”

Fans are being asked to donate in Manzarek’s name to standup2cancer.org.

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A post on Tame Impala’s website stated that Allbrook was “hopping off the Tame Impala band wagon so that he can try and screw his head back on, and make an attempt to assimilate back into society. A task the rest of us fear we will one day have to perform….”
Allbrook told NME, “All bands and projects and stuff will keep going, it’s just hard to keep them all going if you’re touring all the time. The only bad part will be not seeing my mates every day. I love them more than anything.”

Tame Impala continue to tour last year’s Lonerism, and will play this weekend’s Primavera Sound Festival. Check out their tour dates below, followed by a Pitchfork.tv film of the band performing “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”.

Tame Impala:
05-23 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera
05-25 The Gorge, WA – Sasquatch Festival
05-26 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
05-27 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom
05-29 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
06-17 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
06-18 Richmond, VA – The National
06-19 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
06-25 London, England – Hammersmith Apollo
06-26 Paris, France – Olympia Hall
07-03 Berlin, Germany – Astra
07-04 Gdynia, Poland – Open’er
07-11 Toulouse, France – Le Bikini
07-13 Madrid, Spain – La Riviera
07-14 Lisbon, Portugal – Optimus Alive

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The head and neck cancer for which he received treatment in 2007 and a clean bill of health in April 2012 has in fact returned. In August 2012, Philip and his doctors noticed a new tumour and this one is in a position whereby treatment is seriously ill-advised and would almost certainly cause a stroke or worse. The cancer is, in short, inoperable and will prove fatal in time, though it is at present impossible to measure life expectancy. Chevron, who was last year part of the releases The Pogues In Paris and The Radiators’ Sound City Beat, is currently taking a break from both bands. The Pogues are on a prolonged time out, emerging only in support of matters relating to their 30th anniversary this year, while the Radiators From Space have formed a splinter group, The Trouble Pilgrims, in which Chevron plays no part. In recent times, Chevron has accepted several theatre music commissions, including the Old Vic Theatre in London and Galway’s Druid Theatre.

Philip thanks his friends, colleagues, family and management team for their enduring support and hopes to make some notable musical contributions before, as he puts it, the cancer becomes “lethal.

Chevron played in Irish punk band Radiators from Space prior to joining The Pogues in the mid-’80s.

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If I Had A Tail

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