Karl Wallinger, British musician, songwriter and record producer. He was best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s stint in the Waterboys.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:14 pm
by EnochRoot
sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:06 pmKarl Wallinger, British musician, songwriter and record producer. He was best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s stint in the Waterboys.
Love me some World Party, but it was best that he bolted The Waterboys, cuz with him butting heads with Mike Scott, I doubt FIsherman's Blues gets done as great as it was.
RIP
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:32 am
by Baloney
sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:06 pmKarl Wallinger, British musician, songwriter and record producer. He was best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s stint in the Waterboys.
Hungry Eyes will always have an ironic place in my heart because Dirty Dancing is my wife's favorite movie, but I'll appreciate him most for Go All the Way by The Raspberries. That ended up on the first Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack, which we listened to constantly in the car the summer it debuted. Told the girls it was "Please Go Away".
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:58 am
by sancarlos
The Raspberries were great. And, All by Myself was constantly on the radio in its day. Here’s another good Raspberries tune.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:22 am
by EnochRoot
Put the message in the box
Put the box into the car
Drive the car around the world
Until you get heard
Been listening to World Party all morning.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:37 am
by sancarlos
I love his voice. Did a great cover of All the Young Dudes on this soundtrack, too.
Critic Roger Ebert so admired him that he created the "Stanton-Walsh Rule,"
which states that "no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh
in a supporting role can be altogether bad." Ebert later admitted this
rule was broken by Wild Wild West (1999), in which Walsh appeared.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:38 pm
by wlu_lax6
Ron Harper....Land of the Lost & Planet of the Apes...not the shooting guard.
The last survivor of the Arizona more than deserves a mention:
So I’m not going to suggest the Michael Bay movie was any good, but the attack sequence, especially the Arizona explosion, man, how anyone survived that. Oh, and he later got shot down in shark-infested waters. Little surprise he trained navy pilots in survival and rescue; this guy just kept stiff-arming the Grim Reaper for decades.
Words can't convey how much I loved "SCTV" When I was a kid, it was the greatest thing I had ever seen. A cast that has never been matched, and Joe Flaherty was probably my favourite.
Back when I was working at the CBC, I was a driver on a figure skating/comedy/variety special (don't ask - it was a short-lived Canadian subgenre) and I drove Joe Flaherty every day from his hotel downtown to the arena north of the city where the show was being taped. He was such a nice guy, and funny as hell as well.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:43 am
by sancarlos
I also loved SCTV. And I still imitate Count Floyd when something like a spider appears in our house. Ooh scary ooh scary!
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:06 am
by Steve of phpBB
Old guys represent.
Did SCTV have a skit where a Eugene Levy character was doing a call-in show and someone said his name was "Haji"? I seem to remember Levy saying "Okay, 'Haji'". That popped into my head during the NCAA tourney, one of the players was named Haji.
Do any of yall remember that?
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:17 am
by MaxWebster
Pruitt - that's really cool to have that personal experience w/ Joe. And of *course* I'm gonna ask about this variety special!?
I'm with you - SCTV was legendary humour in my youth as well - how to even document favourite characters/skits/themes...
Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:04 am
Words can't convey how much I loved "SCTV" When I was a kid, it was the greatest thing I had ever seen. A cast that has never been matched, and Joe Flaherty was probably my favourite.
Back when I was working at the CBC, I was a driver on a figure skating/comedy/variety special (don't ask - it was a short-lived Canadian subgenre) and I drove Joe Flaherty every day from his hotel downtown to the arena north of the city where the show was being taped. He was such a nice guy, and funny as hell as well.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:08 pm
by MaxWebster
gonna stop myself after this one but
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:50 pm
by mister d
Going to admit I had no idea who Joe Flaherty was until I saw a reference to Happy Gilmore. That role always seemed like "what if Rob Schneider were funny".
As long as we're reaching that far back, three-time WS winner Ken Holtzman.
Holtzman pitched two no-hitters for the Cubs.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:57 pm
by sancarlos
Yeah, Holtzman was a great pitcher for the Oakland A's in those three World Series wins. Hit a home run in one Series, too.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:09 pm
by L-Jam3
sancarlos wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:57 pm
Yeah, Holtzman was a great pitcher for the Oakland A's in those three World Series wins. Hit a home run in one Series, too.
Last pitcher to hit a home run in a World Series game until Joe Blanton in 2008. #makingitallaboutmyselfandmyownfandomlikesimmonswould
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:16 pm
by Steve of phpBB
I remember that one, now that you mention it.
He was not a pitcher you'd expect to hit a homer. He only had 2 HRs in 600+ PAs before the AL adopted the DH.
Re: Worthy of mention, too obscure for own thread
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:20 pm
by Pruitt IV
When I was a kid, Ken Holtzman was a legend to us.
