Marshall Tucker has died

[Gil Bang 26014]

Fucking interesting 

 

 

Marshall Tucker never played a lick of music in the Marshall Tucker Band. In fact, he wasn’t known for performing at all. He was in the music business though. For almost 50 years, Marshall Tucker was one of South Carolina’s most trusted piano tuners. He tuned pianos for some of the most famous piano players ever, including Lawrence Welk and Liberace. But through a twist of fate, his name became known worldwide, and synonymous with Southern Rock.

Born blind but with perfect pitch, Marshall Tucker learned how to tune pianos when attending a boarding school for the blind and deaf. When a piano tuner came to the school, he discovered young Marshall Tucker could name off any note he heard, and tell if it was on pitch or not. This led to Marshall Tucker being trained to tune pianos for a living.

So how did a Southern rock band from Spartanburg name itself after him?

In 1972, original Marshall Tucker band members Toy Caldwell, Tommy Caldwell, Gray, Jerry Eubanks, George McCorkle and Paul Riddle rented an old warehouse as a rehearsal space. This was in the band’s nascent stages before they had an official name. One of the band members noticed that the key to the warehouse had the name “Marshall Tucker” inscribed on it, since Marshall Tucker had rented the space previously for his piano tuning business. Thinking that the name was cool and catchy, the band decided to name themselves The Marshall Tucker Band right then and there.

At the time, The Marshall Tucker Band didn’t even know the name referred to an actual person. Marshall Tucker didn’t figure out he was named after a band either until one of his friends remarked to him that they saw he would be playing music in town. Both the band and the man eventually put two and two together, and Marshall Tucker has been sort of a Marshall Tucker Band mascot ever since.

The same year Marshall Tucker became the namesake of the Marshall Tucker Band, he also married his sweetheart Lois who was born legally blind as well. The members of The Marshall Tucker Band have changed quite a bit over the years, but as a collective, they always kept up with Marshall Tucker through the years. The band is who informed the public that Marshall Tucker died on Friday, January 20th at the age of 99.

“Though he was never a member of our band, we wouldn’t be here today without his historic name,” the band said in a statement. “Marshall was blind since birth but amazingly could play the heck out of the piano. He always said his talent was simply God-given. He tuned pianos in South Carolina for decades. We are thankful for Mr. Marshall Tucker and the life he lived! Sending blessings to his wife and family.”

[G650 14277]

Man I hope Molly Hatchet doesn't die soon.

[Deej 76915]

By the way, which one's Pink?

 

 

[HornOnTheBayou 8946]

Jethro Tull is still dead.

[DougO 5256]

Old Dan Tucker dead, too.

Edited January 23, 2023 by DougO

[Deej 76915]

Justin Tucker is still alive and kicking. 

[BearSchlong 8114]

Im gonna have cry when Steely Dan kicks it.

[HenryJames 66170]

[dcbc 14509]

31 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:

Im gonna have cry when Steely Dan kicks it.

There's alwya the Dan Band.

 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52596]

RIP to Fred Zeppelin 

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

Damn, I should’ve called. 

[Napoleon 8700]

So this is what he looked like. 

I did not expect him to be so pigmentally challenged.

[Macanudo 13012]

Saw an articlr about this earlier today.  It mentioned that the cause of death was not known.   WTF?   Dude was 99 fucking years old.   I think we know what the cause of death was.

[Noah Fence 480]

17 hours ago, Deej said:

By the way, which one's Pink?

 

 

[yoladu 4094]

someone should check on Hootie

[Longhornstampede 3186]

On 1/22/2023 at 9:11 PM, BearSchlong said:

Im gonna have cry when Steely Dan kicks it.

Username and whatnot....