Turkish legend dies(long)

[TSanc43763@xxxxxxx]

Hey Bompers, 

I know this will mean very little to anyone on the list at this moment. 
         But, at the moment, (as mentioned earlier) I've been listening and
learning about Turkish beat, and one of the Turkish legends, Baris Manco, died
of a heart attack yesterday morning.

Quick Turkish history
Like everywhere else in the world, Turkish teens started picking up guitars to
play rock influenced by Hank Marvin + The Shadows, and then the Beatles and
the Stones. some Turkish folk elements (folk instruments and folk tunes)
slipped in occasionaly.then in '68, the top rock musicians in Istanbul had a
meeting at the Hotel Konak.  They consciously decided to start putting in more
of these
folk elements and ANADOLU ROCK was born. western rock mixed with Turkish
folk. they truly created a unique music style.(Crazy huh!)  (There were
beat bands, soul bands, and garage bands, even girl bands (although I haven't
heard any yet (Sorry Glynis))).  Most of these Anadolu bands had lots of psych
influence. A lot morepsych was released  there than beat.        

One of the greatest artists I've been admiring was Baris Manco,who along with
Erkin Koray formed the 1st rock band in Turkey in 1956.  Baris was the leading
popularizer of rock in Turkey, performing rock n roll and rhythm n blues
regularly on the radio here back in 1959. He continued to play rock
until 1983 when his sound got softer and less interesting. (to people
like you and me) (actually, most of his recorded stuff from the early
'60s until the mid to late '70s is worth hearing). However, he was much
more than a rock n roller in Turkey. His death is considered the passing of a
cultural icon whose life and music affected people of all ages in
Turkey, somewhat analogous to the deaths of Elvis, Frank Sinatra, or
John Lennon in the US.
  
As I said, this doesn't mean very much to anyone at the moment, but I am told
that the best of this stuff is already being compiled for compilations through
a label in Holland.  So when you finally hear it, you know why I was so amazed
by his songwriting.            Tony