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.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 10:27 am
by EnochRoot
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.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 10:51 am
by sancarlos
I saw him in the 90s with a singer named Iris DeMent. It was a different kind of show. He was very affable.
T Boone Pickens, billionaire asshole extraordinaire and Oklahoma State donor.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 9:52 am
by A_B
One ticket to paradise, please. RIP Eddie Money.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 9:56 am
by L-Jam3
Slightly surprised Ronnie Spector outlived him.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:00 am
by rass
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.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:38 am
by bfj
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:50 am
by EnochRoot
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
Let me pray, let a poor man pray
Smack that horse in the ass
With my last, dyin’ gasp; my brother could hear me say,
“Gimme some water!”
‘Cause I shot a man on the Mexican border
Hug your favorite 80s male rock singer close tonight.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 7:41 pm
by rass
And sorry, I realizes I sort of betrayed the purpose of this thread.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 7:44 pm
by DaveInSeattle
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...
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:30 pm
by brian
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.)
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:41 pm
by Pruitt
Their first and second albums were a big part of whatever summers they were.
Can't believe he was 75.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 10:05 pm
by sancarlos
Surprisingly old. The Cars’ first album is awesome, start to finish.
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.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 1:04 pm
by DaveInSeattle
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.
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.
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.
If my obit doesn't have the phrase "sheep nutters" in it, I've failed in life.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 6:35 pm
by sancarlos
John Ralston
He won two Rose Bowls while head coach at Stanford. But, to me, his legacy is turning around the Denver Broncos in the early 1970s. The Broncos were the sad sacks of pro football in the 60s and never had a winning record until Ralston came aboard and quickly turned them around. But, while doing so he alienated his players. After a 9-5 record in 1976, a group of players went to management and demanded he be fired. He was fired, and in 1977 they went 12-2 and to the Super Bowl with new coach Red Miller.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:18 am
by Sabo
Sabo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 11:14 am
I've never heard of this guy, but his obit is fantastic.
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.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:49 pm
by EnochRoot
Worthy of his own thread, too lazy to give him one.
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.
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.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 5:04 pm
by sancarlos
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)