RIP Mars Williams
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Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode Greg pays tribute to the saxophonist Mars Williams, who played with everyone from The Waitresses to Psychedelic Furs to Billy Idol to jazz greats in the AACM. Williams died November 20 at age 68.
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| 0:00.0 | I tell you little buddy this whole island is bewitched. |
| 0:04.0 | Just the cost away, the island lost a sea. |
| 0:09.0 | Now I'm stranded all my own. You remember we were ship back together? |
| 0:23.2 | I'm the fuck of the home. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome to this bonus episode of sound opinions. I'm Jim Deregadis. My co-host is Greg Kot. |
| 0:36.0 | And if you want to be the first to hear our bonus podcast, become a sound opinions member on |
| 0:40.8 | Patreon like Simon Econo Meadez. Members, a beautiful musical name. Thank you Simon and thanks for your support. Every |
| 0:53.9 | listener who joins us on Patreon at whatever amount helps keep the show going. Now the |
| 1:00.4 | two of us have so much music we are always eager to talk about can't cram it all |
| 1:05.4 | into one weekly hour-long podcast and a public radio show across the nation so we have |
| 1:11.8 | these bonus podcasts when we've got a song |
| 1:14.2 | we're eager to share with you and to talk about we added to the Desert Island |
| 1:18.9 | jukebox Greg give us a little hint of what you're going to play today. |
| 1:22.1 | All I'm going to say Jim is I'm going to Mars. |
| 1:24.6 | We'll hear more about that in a minute on sound opinions. |
| 1:28.6 | Welcome back to sound opinions. |
| 1:30.8 | Greg, what are you doing on Mars? I'm going to Mars in terms of |
| 1:35.4 | Mars Williams. The late great Mars Williams, unfortunately I have to say, died |
| 1:41.1 | November 20th at age 68. |
| 1:43.8 | Anybody who covered music in Chicago over the last 30, 40 years |
| 1:49.2 | knew Mars Williams. |
| 1:51.2 | He was everywhere, it seemed, just a real mainstay of Chicago music and got |
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