{"id":2123,"date":"2012-04-23T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T16:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2012-04-23T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T16:55:56","slug":"rip-billy-bryans-1949-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"RIP Billy Bryans 1949-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was saddened by the news that drummer percussionist <strong>Billy Bryans<\/strong> had passed away at the age of 63 after a lengthy fight with lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>In 1979 he had co-founded one of my favorite Canadian bands, <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=k57x2rZ0UQI&#038;offerid=162397&#038;type=3&#038;subid=0&#038;tmpid=3664&#038;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fca%252Fartist%252Fthe-parachute-club%252Fid381737391%253Fuo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30\" target=\"itunes_store\">The Parachute Club<\/a>, which scored numerous hits in Canada and abroad in the 80&#8217;s with their reggae seasoned pop and rock including &#8220;<strong>Rise Up<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>At The Feet Of The Moon<\/strong>&#8220;. And since the late 80&#8217;s he has become a world renown producer and engineer in the Cuban music scene.<\/p>\n<p>He was truly an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/arts\/story\/2012\/04\/23\/obit-bryans-billy-parachute-club.html\" target=\"_blank\">innovator<\/a> and will surely be missed.  <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/widgets.itunes.apple.com\/itunes.html?wtype=4&#038;app_id=null&#038;country=ca&#038;partnerId=30&#038;affiliate_id=http%3A%2F%2Fclick.linksynergy.com%2Ffs-bin%2Fstat%3Fid%3Dk57x2rZ0UQI%26offerid%3D162397%26type%3D3%26subid%3D0%26tmpid%3D1826%26RD_PARM1%3D&#038;ww=325&#038;t=RIP%2520Billy%2520Bryan%25201949-2012&#038;d=A%2520sample%2520of%2520his%2520works%2520with%2520The%2520Parachute%2520Club&#038;pl=0,382053048,382053034,382053041,382053036,382053047\" frameborder=0 style=\"overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden;width:325px;height:300px;border:0px\" ><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was saddened by the news that drummer percussionist Billy Bryans had passed away at the age of 63 after a lengthy fight with lung cancer. In 1979 he had co-founded one of my favorite Canadian bands, The Parachute Club, which scored numerous hits in Canada and abroad in the 80&#8217;s with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8],"tags":[123,949],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}