Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:00 pm
RIP Eddie Van Halen.
Damn. Just… damn.
Rest in peace.
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Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:12 pm
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 1:14 pm
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 3:00 pm
Should we make a foolhardy attempt at an EVH tribute cover fight?! Maybe if we each tackle 1-2 measures and spend a month listening at 1/10th speed we could do a collective cover of Eruption? 
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 4:32 pm
I would be willing to do that or a more conventional coverfight. Either one.
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 5:04 pm
Fuck, where's the dislike button? 
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 7:28 pm
Wow. Like'm or not, Van Halen was a massive game changer of his time and for a long time. Underneath the pyrotechnics of his playing is some nice phrasing, some very good songs, and some seriously gnarly guitar tones. RIP.
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:06 am
Johnny Nash.
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:06 am
I enjoyed this person's look at some of EVH's playing, from the original David Lee Roth era.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/10/92225257 ... guitar-god
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/10/92225257 ... guitar-god
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:29 pm
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2020 7:58 pm
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:57 am
Tony Lewis of The Outfield, 62
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:57 am
British synth designer Chris Huggett, creator of the Wasp and OSCar, has died
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2020 8:06 am
Actor Sir Sean Connery, of many films, possibly most notably the old school James Bond films, has passed away at 90:
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/mov ... t-1084336/
This is something I did not know, which is pretty wild:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0059800/
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/mov ... t-1084336/
This is something I did not know, which is pretty wild:
Anyway, he was my favorite Bond. A year or two ago we went and saw "Thunderball" in an old art deco theater in Oakland, and it was awesome. That movie is bananas, there are so many outlandish things in it, particularly the finale was is a massive underwater battle between two small armies of frog men.Connery was cast in the role of Bond thanks to the actor’s “animal magnetism,” Bond producers told Rolling Stone in 1983. The choice was a surprise as, years earlier, the actor had been forced out of Hollywood following a threatening phone call from mob boss Mickey Cohn, who blamed the actor in part for the death of gangster Johnny Stompanato, who was stabbed to death by the daughter of Lana Turner; that actress had handpicked Connery to be her love interest in 1958’s Another Place, Another Time. Leaving Hollywood in the midst of a Twentieth Century Fox deal, Connery reestablished himself in British cinema before landing the Dr. No gig.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0059800/
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2020 9:27 am
Dang. Gonna watch Zardoz in his honor.
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:24 am
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... bit-67459/Phil Spector, Famed ‘Wall of Sound’ Producer Convicted of Murder, Dead at 81
Revolutionary producer behind some of pop music’s most enduring songs dies from natural causes while serving prison sentence
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:32 am
I realise this thread is for people, but I just read that one of Melbourne Zoos seals, Tarwin, died this morning and now I'm sad.
https://www.facebook.com/zoosvictoria/p ... 4702338068
I've spent a lot of time in my life sitting in that enclosure watching the seals. Some people talk about the feeling you get in the Rothko Chapel, and watching the seals swimming in Melbourne was my Rothko Chapel.
You might not know it, but Tarwin made a secret guest appearance in one of my songfight album art entries, for Eyes in the Dark, and also in an earlier entry that wasn't used for Floating Away.
https://www.facebook.com/zoosvictoria/p ... 4702338068
I've spent a lot of time in my life sitting in that enclosure watching the seals. Some people talk about the feeling you get in the Rothko Chapel, and watching the seals swimming in Melbourne was my Rothko Chapel.
You might not know it, but Tarwin made a secret guest appearance in one of my songfight album art entries, for Eyes in the Dark, and also in an earlier entry that wasn't used for Floating Away.
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 9:15 am
Awww RIP Tarwin
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:44 pm
Aw goddammit.
Jim Steinman, songwriter/producer extraordinaire passed away Monday April 19 at age 73. He is probably best known for his collaborations with Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler, but there are also a half dozen or so musical acts that I do not particularly enjoy except for the one song of theirs that Jim Steinman produced for them: bands like Air Supply, Barry Manilow, Celine Dion, The Sisters of Mercy, etc. His music is awe-inspiring and overwhelming, and it's a bummer that he's gone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... y-1158472/
Jim Steinman, songwriter/producer extraordinaire passed away Monday April 19 at age 73. He is probably best known for his collaborations with Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler, but there are also a half dozen or so musical acts that I do not particularly enjoy except for the one song of theirs that Jim Steinman produced for them: bands like Air Supply, Barry Manilow, Celine Dion, The Sisters of Mercy, etc. His music is awe-inspiring and overwhelming, and it's a bummer that he's gone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... y-1158472/
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:49 pm
I doubt anyone else (other than Robyn) know who he was, but LeRoy White died on Monday. A relatively obscure musician who nonetheless meant a lot to me and pretty much everyone who knew him. https://www.newportri.com/story/news/lo ... 879069001/ RIP LeRoy, one of the deepest people I've ever met.
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2021 6:55 am
DMX known for putting a red dot on your chest to open up your ribcage, Shock G known for doing the Humpty Hump and Mike Mitchell of The Kingsmen known for playing guitar on Louie Louie.
Re: Rest In Peace
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 3:39 pm
Joey Jordison of Slipknot.
Dusty Hill of ZZ Top.
Music just lost some style points.
Dusty Hill of ZZ Top.
Music just lost some style points.