{"id":14428,"date":"2011-10-05T17:51:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T21:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14428"},"modified":"2011-10-05T17:51:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T21:51:32","slug":"r-i-p-bert-jansch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/r-i-p-bert-jansch\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Bert Jansch"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, a founding member of the band Pentangle and a well-known guitarist in his own right, has died at the age of 67.<\/p>\n

Jansch, who had cancer, passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning at a hospice in Hampstead, north London.<\/p>\n

Born in Glasgow in 1943, the musician recorded his first album in 1965 and his last, The Black Swan, in 2006.<\/p>\n

Between 1967 and 1973 he was part of acoustic group Pentangle, best known for their 1970 hit single Light Flight.<\/p>\n

John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee, Danny Thompson and Terry Cox were the other original members of the band, whose albums included Basket of Light and Solomon’s Seal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Along with John Renbourn, Bert Jansch was the inspiration that diverted my attention away from what I should have been studying in university – mathematics and philosophy – into playing the guitar.<\/p>\n

Here he is playing one of his ingenious arrangements, best known because it was filched by Led Zeppelin\u2019s Jimmy Page:<\/p>\n