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[TheGreenOne]

Buddy Charleton

[TheGreenOne]

Gary Moore

[GreyBoy2]

The give and take in this one is amazing.
http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

[Bognoz]

Reliable reports have confirmed
Jerry Garcia remains deceased.

[TheGreenOne]

R.I.P. Poly Styrene

[Félix]

I just heard that Michael Jackson died...

[artemis]

If I had planned that raid on Usama's million dollar hovel, I would have planted a Les Paul and a bigass Marshall amp in his room for the photo op, and maybe some Ozzie posters. Let people think he spent his last years trying to nail Crazy Train.

[TheGreenOne]

Now, that's funny.

[Félix]

Edited by Félix, 09 May 2011 - 12:36 PM.

[Absinthe_1900]

If I had planned that raid on Usama's million dollar hovel, I would have planted a Les Paul and a bigass Marshall amp in his room for the photo op, and maybe some Ozzie posters. Let people think he spent his last years trying to nail Crazy Train.

No, Whipping post.

[jaded prol]

Gil Scott Heron


http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

[Bognoz]

RIP

Long live the revolution.

http://www.dailymoti...-televise_music

[Absinthe_1900]

It loses something when you have to watch a Bud Lite™ commercial first.

[Louched Liver]

Big business won the revolution.

[jaded prol]

Yep. Dirt nap of the Republic.

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[Bognoz]

You don't have to watch it.
As you walk through the lobby
of life on yr way to the revolution
you can merely acknowledge
that it's playing without
letting it ruin yr day.

[G&C]

Sad fact is, it is being televised...

[Kirk]

400 people own 98% of all the assets and cash in the US, the other 250 million plus are struggling to survive on the rest. It's shameful, and when people talk about the liberal media I have to throw up, if the media were liberal, this would be a well known fact. If those 400 were dead I wouldn't mis them at all.

[Absinthe_1900]

Sad fact is, it is being televised...

There was no revolution, only Television.
http://www.youtube.c...feature=related

[Bognoz]

Revolution?

Televiision?

Foxhole!

[artemis]

It loses something when you have to watch a Bud Lite™ commercial first.

Brilliant.

I hate that VEVO crap. There isn't much that can ruin a Devo video, but if you have to watch one with a picture of Lady Gaga leering at you from the edge of the frame ...
What a hideous skank. She was a consultant on American Idol this year - she tried to counsel the country boy who eventually won the thing to be more nasty. He backed off from her like she was a leper and kissed a cross he was wearing around his neck. Funniest moment on the show, right up there with when Steven Tyler responded to an audition with something like "strike a fire and save the matches, fuck a duck and see what hatches".

Yes, I watch American Idol, but with my finger on the mute button.

[Stroller]

[Stroller]

Gary Moore

Blues for Greeny, one of his best.



Greeny!

[G&C]

Indeed!

[TheGreenOne]

I would have loved to have been at that show.

[Félix]

Gary Numan

[Absinthe_1900]

Gary Numan


http://www.contactmu...t-scare_1125285

[GreyBoy2]

Blow that sax Big Man:

[Kirk]

Shook his hand one time, mine disappeared in that huge mit of his.

[Félix]

You know what they say about big hands...

































































































































































































Big feet!

[Absinthe_1900]

What if you have both?

[Bognoz]

Relatively speaking, I'd say
the chances are good
that yr a dwarf.

[Félix]

He's got a giant head too.

Xirtboy = 6'2" dwarf

[TheGreenOne]

Amy Winehouse

[Crosby]

She's joined the "27" club.

[TheGreenOne]

David "Honeyboy" Edwards

[G&C]

Long live the Blues...

[TheGreenOne]

No one listens to that crap anymore...

[G&C]

Hello,
My name is No One. I listen to the Blues.

Humble Pie at the moment. Steve Marriott is Black Coffee...

Next is the Fleetwood Mac from before those women wrecked the band.

[Félix]

Hello,
My name is No One...

Oh, we're playing a game...

Is your first name 'jacass'?
Do you look sorta like Wally Walrus?

[Félix]

Phonin'it in.

[TheGreenOne]

Next is the Fleetwood Mac from before those women wrecked the band.

I'm glad someone remembers.

[G&C]

Oh, we're playing a game...

Is your first name 'jacass'?

No. That's your name, your game.

Edited by G&C, 30 August 2011 - 11:12 AM.

[G&C]

Also, your broken link...

[artemis]

[G&C]

I love that song.

[TheGreenOne]

[G&C]

I really love that song.

[TheGreenOne]

He still plays it beautifully.

[Absomphe]

It's always great to hear the real Fleetwood Mac.

[GreyBoy2]

At your age it's just great to hear.

[Crosby]

Nice stuff!

[Félix]

Old, Bald, Boring...

[TheGreenOne]

Speaking of Liver, what happened to him?

[GreyBoy2]

He stopped drinkin', so...

Old, Bald, Boring...

[artemis]

I like Fleetwood Mac with the women okay.

I liked Hypnotized for years without realizing they did that song. It's an interesting song - driving and laid back at the same time. The Carlos Castaneda reference is cool, too. Whoever made that video did an outstanding job combining the sky with the song - one of the very best I've seen whether professionally produced or not.

[TheGreenOne]

Etta James, R.I.P.

[Kirk]

She was a real sweetie.
Artemis, that's one of my all time favorite songs, I've always wondered where the pond in North Carolina is, with sides as smooth as glass, do you know?

[artemis]

Flying in Mexico without an airplane is an obvious reference to Carlos Castaneda. I've wondered about the pond a few times, but never looked it up until now - this is what I found:

http://www.songfacts...il.php?id=12050

[artemis]

David Jones, ex-Monkee, heart attack.

[Bognoz]

Ronnie Montrose

[Bognoz]

Bugs Henderson

[TheGreenOne]

Earl Scruggs, R.I.P.

[Kirk]

He put the middle finger in picking.

[TheGreenOne]

Jim Marshall, R.I.P.

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[Crosby]

Barney McKenna

http://xfinity.comca...d.Obit.McKenna/

[artemis]

Jim Marshall, R.I.P.

You should send that picture to the New York Times, as they don't appear to have a clue what a Marshall stack is.

formidable wall of amplifiers

[TheGreenOne]

You really think anyone at the NYT is capable of learning?

[artemis]

Today they learned that the Yankees are 0-3.

Detroit Tigers are 3-0.

This is as it should be.

[TheGreenOne]

Levon Helm, R.I.P.

[artemis]

Dick Clark too.

[TheGreenOne]

Adam Yauch, R.I.P.

[eric]

Donald "Duck" Dunn, RIP.

[TheGreenOne]

Chuck Brown, R.I.P.

The Godfather of Go-Go.

[TheGreenOne]

Bob Welch, R.I.P.

[Absomphe]

Ray Bradbury.

Okay, he was no blues man, but he sure knew how to sing the body electric.

[artemis]

There was a blues man in there somewhere. Ray Bradbury was one damn fine writer.

[Bognoz]

Bob Welch

[artemis]

Sheriff Taylor. Rest in the shade of Mayberry, Andy.

[Kirk]

http://bottomline.ms...chief-dies?lite
Sergio Pininfarina.

[Bognoz]

Jon Lord R.I.P.

[jaded prol]

Gore Vidal.

[Kirk]

http://www.nytimes.c...at-87.html?_r=0

[jaded prol]

[Absinthe_1900]

Sadly the ranks are thinning.

 

He used to tell a great story from his early days, how he tried to interest agents, and record people into seeing an unknown friend, named James Hendrix playing the clubs in NY.

 

I hope they are jamming in the beyond now.

[TheGreenOne]

Roy Buchanan -- The Messiah Will Come Again

[A.B. Normal]

There's always music playing in the background at my work, usually it's 'classic hits.'
Lately, it seems to be classic rock. And that's fine with me. I don't usually even notice.
Though I did notice last week that it seemed to be all Stones all day.

But today, out of nowhere, three gals with whom I work,
all under 25, start asking me what this 'weird coffin piano music' was.
It was the fucking Doors, Light My Fire.

[Kirk]

Ray Manzarec warped my mind at a very early age with his key board.

I had two speakers torn out of transistor radios, they were very small, and two traffic cones, I taped a speaker to the small end of each cone and then placed the large end on each ear and plugged them into my record changer, it was amazing.

[A.B. Normal]

I am truly smiling at that mental image.

[TheGreenOne]

three gals with whom I work,all under 25, start asking me what this 'weird coffin piano music' was.
It was the fucking Doors, Light My Fire.

 

Ouch.

[G&C]

On the other side of that, my 24 year old daughter loves The Doors.

[TheGreenOne]

Good upbringing.

[A.B. Normal]

The Doors were before my time, but I knew who the fuck they were by the time I was 11 or 12, at the oldest.

Music history should be a priority, if for no other reason than the ability to recognize whom your new favorite artist is sampling.

[Bognoz]

I remember a long ago time

when we spoke of artists

trying to guess their influences.

 

Now we look at the torn edges

of samples stolen whole.

[Bognoz]

Will someone please

close that door?

[TheGreenOne]

After they send Clinton a check.

[A.B. Normal]

I caught some interview on NPR with some group...never caught the name. It was a short car ride.
But they cited Blink 182 as an influence.
Can you even do that?

[TheGreenOne]

Remember when NPR mattered?

[jaded prol]

It's been a long time but at least they have good jazz programing locally.

[TheGreenOne]

These folks have great jazz programming but its diminishing.  The station is in the midst of great drama.  They're always in the midst of grate drama.

[Bognoz]

Whatever happened to

footnotes?

[G&C]

The times they are a changin'...

[Kirk]

[Bognoz]

Bobby Keyes

[Bognoz]

Daevid Allen

[Bognoz]

Andy Fraser

[Bognoz]

B.B. King

[Kirk]

The Blues is dead, long live the blues.

[jaded prol]

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube....ayer_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[TheGreenOne]

R.I.P., Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come

[jaded prol]

Beat me to it

 

https://www.youtube....LaJ2ULGDQRQ#t=2

[Bognoz]

Chris Squire

[TheGreenOne]

Allen Toussaint, R.I.P.

 

Southern Nights

[TheGreenOne]

Lemmy

[Kirk]

https://video.search...6a2&action=view

[A.B. Normal]

Well, fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
2016 really sucks.
Prince was one of the last few artists on my list I really wanted to see.
I assumed I'd have more time.
Fuck.

[TheGreenOne]

This thread should be closed due to excess death

[TheGreenOne]

Toots Thielemans

 

[Kirk]

R.I.P.

[Kirk]

[TheGreenOne]

[artemis]

A poet of the highest order.

I remember buying the album with the blue swallows and heart tattoo, and being blown away.

My favorite cut:

 

[Bognoz]

Fuck

[Bognoz]

http://3.bp.blogspot...ybody-Knows.jpg

[TheGreenOne]

[TheGreenOne]

[Bognoz]

Dammit.

 

[artemis]

I remember reading quite some time ago that Leon was very sick and not long for this world.  Seems he hung in there for a while.

Hard to be upset when people leave at 80 years old (more or less, both Leon and Leonard), especially when they contributed so much before going.

I bought a Leon album in the 70s because the cover featured a Rolls Royce hitched to a camping trailer.  Great album.  So was this one.  Intro with the Japanese instruments - shakahuchi (I think) and snakeskin banjo, then the dobro - brilliant.  I like the girl at around 1:18 : "Can I hear the other part, too?"

[Bognoz]

Radim Hladík rip. Only 69.

 

 

(the Elmer Fudd guy on guitar)

[Bognoz]

Young Fudd. For English speakers.

 

[Bognoz]

Fusion Fudd with mutton chops.

 

[TheGreenOne]

The show ends

 

 

 

Greg Lake: King Crimson and ELP star dies aged 69

[Bognoz]

It's been a long year.

[Kirk]

Shorter for a few.

[Bognoz]

I'll say

a phew.

[Bognoz]

16:50

 

[Bognoz]

Butch Trucks

RIP

 

[Bognoz]

Another one gone

all Starless and Bible Black

 

John Wetton, RIP

 

[Bognoz]

Edited by Bognoz, 31 January 2017 - 08:05 AM.

[Bognoz]

[Bognoz]

His name was Robert Fisher.

 

RIP

[artemis]

The Pope of black and white movies.

 

I loved that man.  Tuning into Turner Classics and hearing Robert talk (never with anything like condescension) about a movie was like a comforting visit with an old friend.

[Bognoz]

James Cotton

Playing harp with the angels

[Bognoz]

Chuck Berry

[artemis]

He could play the guitar like ringin' a bell.

[Bognoz]

Just like

that.

[Bognoz]

John Warren Geils

[artemis]

I saw him twice in the 70s, once at "The Warehouse", literally an abandoned warehouse on the NOLA waterfront with no amenities (no seating, no air conditioning, lots of spider webs), and once outdoors.  At the warehouse it was a birthday of some sort for them or somebody in the band and they were presented with an enormous cake.  They tore it up and threw it at the crowd, which threw it back at them.  Outside, Lynyrd Skynyrd didn't show up and the other two bands, Geils and ZZ Top, played overtime to cover the gap.  Musically, they met every expectation both times.  Great high-energy band.

 

No doubt about it.

[Bognoz]

Gregg Allman

Ain't Wastin' Time No More

RIP

[TheGreenOne]

Prodigy

[artemis]

Feeverte site?

[Kirk]

She's dead I guess, too bad.

[TheGreenOne]

The Electric Guitar

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/the-slow-secret-death-of-the-electric-guitar/?utm_term=.b6a50aabe6a5 

[jaded prol]

Feeverte site?

 

Seems down for the count. Everything passes . . .

 

As for the electric guitar, I prefer the upright bass -- accompanied by the saxophone and or the piano. All have more depth, aren't generally over-amped and don't need to be plugged in.

[Bognoz]

It's feedback and the abuses

of built-in amplification

that made elecricified instruments

indispensible to rock and roll.

[Bognoz]

So, is rock and roll dead?

[TheGreenOne]

It's feedback and the abuses

of built-in amplification

 

??? 

[TheGreenOne]

Na na na na
Na na na na
Hey hey hey
Goodbye

[Bognoz]

That's not funny.

[artemis]

[artemis]

 Rock and Roll can never die.

[artemis]

The decline of radio and then TV probably has more to do with it than anything else.

If the utes of the world were watching TV, all a guitar company would have do to is buy air time and run the above clip, and this one: https://www.youtube....?v=DgDy1SQ6hnw.

Neil the Neanderthal, yet all that enraptured pussy ...

Instant guitar sales.

[artemis]

FV is functional again, albeit no less dead.

[jaded prol]

Dead, are you kidding? There were 129 guests there when I visited.

[artemis]

I didn't take note of that.  Maybe it's like those TV shows with intrepid explorers and/or morons exploring a haunted house.

[TheGreenOne]

Decline of TV and radio? No, more likely the growth of easier to use technologies. Learning to play the guitar requires work. Learning to sample someone else's work, perhaps not as much practice is required.

[Bognoz]

Oxy's army of cyber bots.

To keep up appearances.

[artemis]

Watching those Neil Young videos, I thought, how could anybody not want to do that shaman's dance?  It must be that nobody is watching them anymore.  Most people probably saw Buddy Holly only on TV.  The empowerment of the guitar hero was tied that medium.  That's what I was trying to say.  But of course, I've seen similar reactions from the audience for the guy who wears a light-up mouse head and does nothing but push buttons, up on a pedestal above the crowd.  A different sort of priest.  And I like it myself - it has its place.  So yeah, maybe people are inspired to do that sort of performance now, because it looks easy.  It's probably not, but for damn sure it's easier than playing a guitar.  Shame of it is, neither Hey Hey My My nor Cinnamon Girl is technically difficult to play.

[Bognoz]

Walter Becker

Reeling in the Years

RIP

[TheGreenOne]

Xit.

 

Tom Petty, R.I.P.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8

[Bognoz]

Play with Heartbreakers

it'll cause your ticker to stop.

[TheGreenOne]

That's what the doc said would happen to me iff'n I drank decaf.

[Bognoz]

Seems like it's been a long time coming

In a World Possessed by the Human Mind

The Tragically Hip are met by death

[Bognoz]

That is to say

RIP Gord Downie

[Bognoz]

...time to say goodbye

 

Fats Domino, RIP

[artemis]

Keith Partridge

Highest paid performer in the world in one decade, broke in a later one, dead at 57.

[Bognoz]

67

[Bognoz]

Laddies and gentiandrinkers...

The Partridge Family.

[artemis]

67 - I thought I heard 57 on the radio - that's where I heard the news.  Should have known better - watching that TV show back in the day, it was obvious to me that "Keith" (David Cassidy) was older than I.  So was his "sister" with the braces, to whom I had fantasies of doing things.

[Bognoz]

^{I always thought the mom}

^{needed a greezy knockwurst}

^{in her bubbly smiling maw.}

[Bognoz]

Ray Thomas.

of the Moody Blues.

RIP

[TheGreenOne]

Xit.

[TheGreenOne]

Dolores O'Riordan 

[Bognoz]

Bassist Jim Rodford

[jaded prol]

Hugh Masakela

 

 https://youtu.be/DUpladEGOsw?t=182

 

 https://www.theguard...er-dies-aged-78

[artemis]

Ursula K. Le Guin

 

We discussed here some time ago the lathe of heaven that wasn't actually a lathe.

 

Still, a formidable writer.

[Kirk]

I think we decided it was a potters wheel

[artemis]

As I remember the ancient Chinese words don't include a tool at all, but potter's wheel was something they knew, as opposed to a lathe, which (as far as we know) they didn't.  Either works as an analogy to the universe, I guess.  Potter's wheel and lathe, yin and yang, chalice and blade.

[TheGreenOne]

Ursula K. Le Guin

 

We discussed here some time ago the lathe of heaven that wasn't actually a lathe.

 

I loved that discussion.

[artemis]

I enjoyed it my ownself.  Honestly, one of the most enjoyable aspects of my tenure as as assbinthe expert was all the translation, and the niceties thereof, such as to take or not take poetic liberty, as Le Guin apparently did with "lathe".  It was nice to get back to Chinese, too.

[artemis]

How did Charles Manson's exit not make the cut?  In November.  Maybe nobody noticed.  I heard about it two days ago.  Maybe he was deemed unworthy; I know I read that no cemetery would take him.  His mortal remains were put on ice while a legal fight probably develops over them.  He's probably at a hootenanny in Hell, but there's still money in his name.  Shit, he was probably more famous than anybody else who's been mentioned in this thread.  Still, better off dead.

[Bognoz]

Get on Home

 

1:57 or so. Whoa.

[Kirk]

Those are all day and night trippers

[TheGreenOne]

There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'

[artemis]

A lot of people think that Sharon Tate's house was chosen at random.  It wasn't.  Manson had met a record producer for the Beach Boys, who lived there.  He had met at least one of the Beach Boys, too. Manson hoped these people would help him turn his music into money, and he was pissed off that it didn't happen.  But the house had changed hands by the time Charlie sent his puppets over there.

 

Manson was furious when he found that Dennis Wilson had not only changed the lyrics but had listed himself as the sole composer, and at one point, [Manson] leaves a bullet and tells Wilson, ‘I know where you live. I know where your children are,'” said Jeff Guinn, the author of “MANSON: The Life and Times of Charles Manson.

http://abcnews.go.co...ory?id=46023397

[TheGreenOne]

I've got blisters on my fingers.

[jaded prol]

And here we are --

 

Manson America

[artemis]

I understand that Joseph Goebbels was invited to all the best parties; he told funny jokes.

[Bognoz]

I strain to comtemplate

what a funny joke told

by Goebbels would be.

[artemis]

Ein Jude, ein Kommunist und ein Neger betreten eine gasthaus ...

[Kirk]

und der Barkeeper sagte: "Ist das eine Art Witz?"

[TheGreenOne]

Vic Damone

[Absinthe_1900]

My Mom and Dad used drink with Vic Damone way back in the day. He had a good run.

[TheGreenOne]

Your Mom and Dad drank with Vic Damone? Cool.