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:blackr:Tom Petty:blackr:

Oct 20, 1950 - Oct 2, 2017

(Fellow gravedigger, btw)

I was in high school when "You Don't Know How It Feels" came out. The student-run news program used a clip of the song as the intro to their broadcast one morning, and my whole classroom started singing along, "let's get... to the point, let's roll... another joint."

And then it was a big school-wide scandal, and the news crew wasn't allowed to use music with lyrics anymore. Good times.

Three down two to go, Dylan is 76 and lynne is near 70.

It's true, there ain't a lot o' Wilburys left.:(

I'm sad. I never got to see Tom Petty in concert.

I'm affected. Famous people dying don't usually bother me very much.

Ol, Tom was making the same music at the end that made him famous in the beginning, and he was still relevant.

I only know of one person who didn't like Tom Petty. My wife's aunt loathed him. I have no idea why.

I liked him. He seemed like the kind of a guy you would want as a friend.

He's always been in play rotation in our house.

Tom Petty once got me laid.

It was this song that done the trick:

Makes no sense. I suspect she would not be enjoyable to be around. Like a person that looks for bad in everything.

The thing about Petty's stuff is that it always seems absolutely genuine.

Also he was an outstanding talent at getting the exact right guitar sound for a song.

She's a fine person, but quirky.

Still, it makes no sense.

I think it doesn't have anything to do with Tom Petty, rather she has a specific psychological trauma which is peripherally associated with Tom Petty. Example: she had an abusive boyfriend who listened to Tom Petty. Or, she was at a bank robbery and almost lost her life --while a Tom Petty song was on the radio. Afterwards, compartmentalization kicks in, and Tom Petty is stored in the "inaccessible file" that contains the bad memory. Thus, Tom Petty is a pointer to a locked file. Tom Petty = [error message]

I will grant you, I always found his face to be creepy beyond belief. The stringy hair, and the gaunt cheeks--straight up murderin' hillbilly aesthetic. But as long as I avoided the music videos, it was fine.

I agree with Flint.

Apparently my little brother grew up in a different house than me. We were comparing notes on Petty and he revealed that Mom gave him a pretty thorough break down of why Learning to Fly is so real. This was around the time he told her he was an atheist and she didn't flinch. many layers...

I guess your dad wasn't around for that conversation either. ;)

You should be sad. I did see him in concert. He *opened* for B. B. King at the Hollywood Bowl. What a concert that was...

That must have been one great concert.

Without a beard he looked just like a corpse.

His daughter posted some candid snaps that made him look less gaunt and spooky.

Jeez, I saw Jeff Lynne years back at the Schubert Theater with ELO. The opening act was supposed to be Robin Trower and instead we got Fleetwood Mac. Of course this was before Stevie Nicks and they weren't very welcomed by the audience. I'm sure it was a low point for the band.

Actually, I as just looking at the Wiki for Fleetwood Mac and it's entirely possible I got to see the "fake" Fleetwood Mac. What the hell did I know, I think I was in ninth grade at that point.

Excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleetw...2.80.931974.29

"The fake Fleetwood Mac (1974)[edit]
In 1974, the band's manager, Clifford Davis, then claimed that he owned the name Fleetwood Mac, and recruited members of a band called Legs (which had recently issued one single under Davis' management)[26] to tour as Fleetwood Mac.

The fake Fleetwood Mac consisted of Elmer Gantry (vocals, guitar), Kirby Gregory (guitar), Paul Martinez (bass), John Wilkinson (keyboards) and Australian-born drummer Craig Collinge (formerly of The Librettos, Procession and Third World War). Fans were told that Bob Welch and John McVie had quit the group, and that Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie would be joining the band at a later date. The members of the fake Fleetwood Mac apparently had been told that Mick Fleetwood would join them on later dates, and averred that Fleetwood had been involved in the early planning stages of the tour before dropping out.[27]

As the tour got underway, Fleetwood Mac's road manager, John Courage, realised that the line-up being used wasn't authentic. Courage ended up hiding the real Fleetwood Mac's equipment, which helped shorten the tour by the fake band, which soon dissolved. But the lawsuit that followed—regarding who actually owned the rights to the band name "Fleetwood Mac"—put the real Fleetwood Mac out of commission for almost a year. While the band was named after Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, they had signed contracts that showed the band forfeited the rights to the name."

PS: Hello to the original members of cellar.org (with Waffle BBS!). This is the long lost meph AKA Chowderhead #1. I tried to activate my account but I'm guessing the email I used to register is an old domain that's long gone. So it's a new account.

:D welcome back sir

One of the Cellars prodigal sons? :welcome: home.
I remember every once in awhile a DJ would talk about the Fleetwood Mac story as it happened. Of course with legal crap it can be months before the next shoe drops so it sounded very confusing getting snippets as it developed.

Aw, shit man...Ralphie May died?!

Ralphie May
http://www.tmz.com/2017/10/06/ralphie-may-dead/

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Y.A. Tittle

1926 - 2017

In the above pic, Tittle just had the slobber knocked out of him by John Baker of the Pittsburgh Steelers (perhaps you've heard of them?;)), after throwing a Pick Six interception. He suffered a concussion, and a cracked sternum, but managed to finish the season, his 17th, and, final.

That photograph became one of three that hung in the lobby of The Press Photographers Association, alongside the Raising Of The Flag On Iwo Jima, and the Hindenburg Disaster. A copy now hangs in the Football Hall Of Fame.

Ironically(?) he dies the same weekend the current Steelers QB cried no mas and quit in the middle of a game.

Stan Kowalski died on Oct 20.

No, not the guy who yelled "STELLLLLLLLAAAAAAA!!!!!", the wrestler.

No, not the wrestler Killer Kowlaski. His name was Walter.

The other wrestler. Tiny Mills' tag team partner.

Aw, shit, man. Benson died.

Robert Guillaume, dead at 89.

Dude was a class act all the way.

Fuck cancer.

He was excellent on "Sports Night".

Fats Domino
http://www.newsweek.com/fats-domino-...nd-roll-692843

Misters Domino and Guillaume were both 89, and both died on the 24th of October.

John Hillerman
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...-84/850469001/

Nancy Zieman
http://host.madison.com/wsj/entertai...441b77a43.html

Just stunned Momdigr with this news. She's watched Sewing With Nancy for as long as I can remember.

Thanks for the news, Fargon.

Can't believe no one has posted that Malcolm Young, of AC/DC fame has died of dementia at age 64.

That band was my first concert. I think it was Fly on the Wall. Love my AC/DC. He will be missed.

While dementia can be a stand alone diagnosis and cause of death, at that age there's often more to it. Perhaps people were just waiting to see what gives.

THE greatest rhythm guitarist ever.

Malcolm Young was 64.

Echo echo echo

Mel Tillis
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...ead-at-85.html

Robert D. Raiford, too.

And Della Reese.

Earl Hyman died, too. He played Cliff Huxtable's father on The Cosby Show.

David Cassidy
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/21/entert...ies/index.html

Rance Howard died on the 25th. He was father to Ron Howard, the director, and Clint Howard, actor.

Yeah you know ol' Rance.

Man, he got work!

I'm sure I've seen him in scores of roles, but I remember him best as Captain Sheridan's father on Babylon 5.

Apparently he was on a Mork and Mindy episode.

"Mindy brings home a record of Robin Williams' "Reality, What A Concept" and notices that Mork greatly resembles the comedian on the album cover. Mork doesn't see it but the people in Boulder do because they think he "is" Robin. Robin happens to be coming to Boulder for a live show and Mork is nearly trampled by crazed fans. Mindy gets to interview Robin and brings Mork with her."

Damn, Gomer died.

Jim Nabors was 87.

Native American actor Steve Reevis died yesterday. You probably know him from Last Of The Dogmen, he had a non-speaking role in Dances With Wolves, and was also in Geronimo: An American Legend.

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He was 56.

Wiki link

Young

Says the instagram spam.

Brits! Cheggers! He was 60 and had lung disease.

Keith Chegwin

Bruce Brown
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituar...211-story.html

I know, right? Man, that threw me. I felt quite sad.

Talking of, but on a slight tangent, there was a programme on tv last night about John Noakes. I actually felt a little teary watching it. Especially when they showed the clip of him announcing Shep's passing.

That was a fantastic movie, I watched it the first time on a screen set up infield of Pocono Raceway. It was Saturday night, in the middle of two days of motorcycle races.

I know all the kids in that movie. I grew up in that neighborhood.

The Capistrano Beach Palisades. GOD'S COUNTRY!!!

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Sportscaster Dick Enberg died the 21st of Dec. Heart attack. He was 82.

Rose Marie, 94, she was a trooper.

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