drummer dies during performance--band plays on.

[alocispepraluger102]

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The drummer of an American disco group suffered a heart attack and died mid-show during a performance in Brazil over the weekend

Brad Parker was performing with his band Generation Esmeralda in Uba, some four hours north of Rio, on Saturday night when he suddenly slumped over his kit and then tumbled off his stool.

Video cameras caught the horrifying moment, as the 59-year-old's bandmates initially kept playing, apparently unaware that Parker was in trouble.

[AllenLowe]

maybe his time improved.

[JSngry]

Always have a drum machine at the ready, just in case.

[CraigP]

Blame It On Rio.

[Chuck Nessa]

It's not like a 'bone player died.

[JSngry]

Blame It On Rio.

Nah...

[Rooster_Ties]

On a related subject, isn't there footage of the Ellington band with somebody completely asleep in the sax section?

Like, out stone cold?

(I'm sure I read about it around here somewhere.)

[AllenLowe]

you know, I thought I was gonna get the usual chorus of "Lowe don't you have any manners" - you guys are worse than me.

[JSngry]

On a related subject, isn't there footage of the Ellington band with somebody completely asleep in the sax section?

Like, out stone cold?

(I'm sure I read about it around here somewhere.)

None other than The Hero of the Newport Jazz Festival!

Listen at the very end, during the applause...Duke calls "Cottontail" for the next tune. :g :g

[mikeweil]

[felser]

you know, I thought I was gonna get the usual chorus of "Lowe don't you have any manners" - you guys are worse than me.

Lowe, you don't have any manners! But then again, some other jazz board described this neighborhood as "wild and wooly" or something.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I wonder if the band was playing "Out Of Nowhere"?

[JSngry]

I wonder if the band was playing "Out Of Nowhere"?

Is that a Warne Marsh reference?

[AllenLowe]

"Take Another Little Piece of My Heart" ?

[Swinging Swede]

Bass solo!