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I was going to post something about him but got caught up in other things yesterday. Many times when I go to shows, I tend to fixate on one member of the band. It's typically fairly random and it can change per band depending on the mood I'm in during that particular concert, but whenever I was lucky enough to see him play (three times, I believe - twice with CRB and once with Hard Working Americans) he was the one that caught my attention. Losing all these artists, especially in that manner, is one gut punch after another.
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Giff wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:36 am I was going to post something about him but got caught up in other things yesterday. Many times when I go to shows, I tend to fixate on one member of the band. It's typically fairly random and it can change per band depending on the mood I'm in during that particular concert, but whenever I was lucky enough to see him play (three times, I believe - twice with CRB and once with Hard Working Americans) he was the one that caught my attention. Losing all these artists, especially in that manner, is one gut punch after another.
I saw him play with CRB as well as Circles Around the Sun at Lockn in 2016 (as well as Phish, Wee, My Morning Jacket, White Denim, Gary Clark, Umphrey’s McGee, JRAD, Phil and Friends, Tedeschi Trucks, and even Peter Wolf. Looking back, that was an amazing festival, except each day reached about 110 degrees and it only dipped to the mid 90s at night. Kalahari hot.

It just frustrates me to no end he went down this path.
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I saw him in the 90s with a singer named Iris DeMent. It was a different kind of show. He was very affable.
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BFJ is the town wizard who runs a magic shop. He also has a golem that he has trained to attack anti-Semites.
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Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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She had cancer for so long I thought she died years ago. Tough lady.
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Jimmy Johnson.

Not that one, the other one.

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Robert Mugabe

When I was a teenager, he was a hero to so many - a rebel leader committed to overthrowing a heinous white minority regime.

He then became the living embodiment of how power corrupts. Good riddance to a vile man.
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Charlie Silvera...Yogi Bera's backup catcher with 6 rings and a single HR.
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T Boone Pickens, billionaire asshole extraordinaire and Oklahoma State donor.
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Slightly surprised Ronnie Spector outlived him.
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Was real close to giving him is own thread, but I was sure that I had mentioned on here that my first viewing of his "I Think I'm In Love" video was a pivotal moment in my sexual awakening (the sexy vampire girl's "come hither" look, not Eddie, though he's never looked better) and couldn't find the thread.

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BFJ is the town wizard who runs a magic shop. He also has a golem that he has trained to attack anti-Semites.
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Can’t you see that long white rope?
Hangin’ from the hangman’s tree?
Take the restless horse; tie my hands, of course
Tell my mother that I’m finally free
Let me die like a man no one understands
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Hug your favorite 80s male rock singer close tonight.
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And sorry, I realizes I sort of betrayed the purpose of this thread.

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rass wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 7:41 pm And sorry, I realizes I sort of betrayed the purpose of this thread.

I was wondering what was up when KEXP played 3 Cars songs in row. Very underrated band...
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Ric Ocasek is still hated by a pretty huge portion of the GBV fanbase for his production on Isolation Drills. It’s a pretty good lesson in how it’s possible to actually overproduce an album.

Still, RIP of course. (Being an overrated producer is not a big deal.)
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Their first and second albums were a big part of whatever summers they were.

Can't believe he was 75.
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Surprisingly old. The Cars’ first album is awesome, start to finish.
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:35 am South African Rugby Star
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There's a few that's passed on now from that 1995 final, hard to believe it's nearly a quarter century ago
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sancarlos wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 10:05 pm Surprisingly old. The Cars’ first album is awesome, start to finish.
That LP is one of the best start-to-finish records of all time, no question. Synchronicity and Stone Roses, Zeppelin I, etc.

Though for whatever reason, their track, ‘Shoo Be Doo > Candy-O’ is my favorite. Couple tracks on that LP sounded like Talking Heads, actually.

Neat Cars factoid: Cars drummer David Robinson and Talking Heads bassist Jerry Harrison were both in an early version of The Modern Lovers.
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Baloney wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 7:24 am
wlu_lax6 wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:35 am South African Rugby Star
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/spor ... -dead.html
There's a few that's passed on now from that 1995 final, hard to believe it's nearly a quarter century ago
Here's a pretty good story about Williams and about the tragedies that have befallen that team.
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They sound like the 1994 Chargers.
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I've never heard of this guy, but his obit is fantastic.

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Sabo wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:14 am I've never heard of this guy, but his obit is fantastic.

Joseph Heller (non-author variety)
That put a huge smile on my face.

Sounds like Old Joe was one in a million.
Joe faced his death and his mortality, as he did with his life, face on, often telling us that when he dropped dead to dig a hole in the back yard and just roll him in.
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sancarlos wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 10:05 pm Surprisingly old. The Cars’ first album is awesome, start to finish.
The first two are awesome, and the next 3 are really good.

I saw them in Albuquerque in the spring of 1982. Don't remember much of the show, but I do remember that I learned the one liquor store in Pojaque that would sell beer out of the back door on a Sunday (package sales on Sundays used to be against the law in NM), and that the friend I was with caught Benjamin Orr's guitar pick when he threw it into the crowd at the end of the night.
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Pruitt wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 12:18 pm
Sabo wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:14 am I've never heard of this guy, but his obit is fantastic.

Joseph Heller (non-author variety)
That put a huge smile on my face.

Sounds like Old Joe was one in a million.
Joe faced his death and his mortality, as he did with his life, face on, often telling us that when he dropped dead to dig a hole in the back yard and just roll him in.
I particularly like this part:
During their formative years, Joe made sure that their moral fibers were enriched by both Archie Bunker and Benny Hill. When they began dating, Joe would greet their dates by first running their license plates and checking for bald tires. If their vehicle passed inspection, they were invited into the house where shotguns, harpoons and sheep "nutters" were left clearly on display.
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Sabo wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:15 pm
Pruitt wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 12:18 pm
Sabo wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:14 am I've never heard of this guy, but his obit is fantastic.

Joseph Heller (non-author variety)
That put a huge smile on my face.

Sounds like Old Joe was one in a million.
Joe faced his death and his mortality, as he did with his life, face on, often telling us that when he dropped dead to dig a hole in the back yard and just roll him in.
I particularly like this part:
During their formative years, Joe made sure that their moral fibers were enriched by both Archie Bunker and Benny Hill. When they began dating, Joe would greet their dates by first running their license plates and checking for bald tires. If their vehicle passed inspection, they were invited into the house where shotguns, harpoons and sheep "nutters" were left clearly on display.
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Sabo wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:14 am I've never heard of this guy, but his obit is fantastic.

Joseph Heller (non-author variety)
The New York Times weighs in on this obituary and funeral.
On Friday morning, Mr. Heller’s body, in a coffin draped with an American flag, was placed on the 1941 Mack fire truck he helped restore and taken to Centerbrook Cemetery to be buried next to his wife, Irene, who died in 2015, and whom he embarrassed daily “with his mouth and choice of clothing,” according to the obituary.

Family members followed the fire truck in Mr. Heller’s immaculately restored 1932 Plymouth roadster with, as per his request, a set of plastic testicles dangling from the rear bumper.
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Worthy of his own thread, too lazy to give him one.

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Jerry got his lyricist back.
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Rush2112 wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 3:59 pm Jerry got his lyricist back.
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Joseph Wilson, Who Challenged Iraq War Narrative, Dies at 69
Joseph C. Wilson, the long-serving American diplomat who undermined President George W. Bush’s claim in 2003 that Iraq had been attempting to to build nuclear weapons, leading to the unmasking of his wife, Valerie Plame, as a C.I.A. agent, died on Friday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 69.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2019 4:46 pm Joseph Wilson, Who Challenged Iraq War Narrative, Dies at 69
Joseph C. Wilson, the long-serving American diplomat who undermined President George W. Bush’s claim in 2003 that Iraq had been attempting to to build nuclear weapons, leading to the unmasking of his wife, Valerie Plame, as a C.I.A. agent, died on Friday at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 69.
Nice.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Barrie Masters
Lead singer/frontman for English band, Eddie and the Hot Rods.

They were a favorite of mine when I was in college. They got lumped into the group of bands comprising the first wave of Punk Rock, but they weren't really punk - just a pub rock band that played really fast. Notably, the Sex Pistols got their start opening for Eddie and the Hot Rods. (Good obit linked)

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