Forgot to recognize Mark Hollis, of Talk Talk, who died 2 weeks ago.

Back in the day, we hated musicians who would sell out - take their artistic success and flatten it for a commercial success.

Talk Talk was a remarkable reverse sell-out. In three albums, they went from making new-wavey synth singles ("Talk Talk"), to deeper, more sonically-interesting singles ("It's My Life", "Life's What You Make It")...

Then the fourth and fifth albums "Spirit of Eden" and "Laughing Stock" are utterly serious art. Unsellable. The opener is to "Spirit of Eden" is nine slow, deliberate minutes long, and the first two minutes are not song at all. It's almost just noise. Impenetrable. If the first records with singles sold a million, the last two probably sold 50,000 each.

And then, over time, that reverse sell-out paid off. People found the uncommercial records, and realized how goddamn good they were if you put the time in. They are now regarded as superb art. Very influential. Some people feel those records mark the founding the genre of "post-rock".

Spotify reports that the first single "Talk Talk" currently has about 4 million plays. "The Rainbow", that nine-minute opener to "Spirit of Eden", also has about 4 million plays.

I think that is a fine outcome. RIP Mr Hollis.

https://pour15minutesdamour.blogspot...p-supreme.html

I think someone hacked that website.

It's just gibberish.

:o

Chrome offers to translate the page from French to English on my system.

I was just trying to be silly.

Guitar God, "father of heavy metal", Dick Dale died on Mar 16, of heart failure.



Dick Dale was 81.



And yes. In the vid above, he's playing a left-handed Strat strung upside down.

My god, he was so good, so original, when that would come on in the car my father would turn it up, when my mother was there she would turn it off.

"You Know They Have A Hell Of A BAND!!!" The lead guitar has just shown up.

Dick Dale, King of the Surf Guitar.

His music, invented by and played by him, was in HEAVY ROTATION, during my life at college, and ever since. I had headphones as a kid, but it wasn't until college that I had the freedom to listen to what I wanted, as loud and out loud as I wanted.

And I wanted Dick Dale. And Jon and the Nightriders and The Ventures and The Surfaris and The Bel-Airs and and and... To this day, my favorite surf track is Mr. Moto. Unless it's Miserlou.

You're right, that is one helluva band.

Pete was pretty bummed. His ring tone is Dick Dale. I was over at his shop when the news dropped. We immediately changed the record (yes, vinyl) to Dick and we cranked it up. His phone pinged the rest of the night with people texting him the bad news.

Pete had met Dick a couple years ago, and the record we played, he had bought from his hand 2 years ago.

Sad. He was a really cool old dude from all accounts. At the show that night, someone threw their gum up on stage, and Dick picked it up and popped it in his mouth and chewed it for the rest of the set.

That is a bummer.

Dale...

You may remember the [English] Beat for "Mirror In the Bathroom" and "Save It For Later". You may remember General Public for "Tenderness" and their cover of "I'll Take You There". Co-founder/singer Ranking Roger, has died of cancer, age 56.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...y-aged-56.html

Remember the movie Quiz Show?

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Charles Van Doren died April 9. He was 93.

I love this part:

The band's long-time body guard, Con, just died.

Aw, man, Georgette died.

She passed on April 12.

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Georgia Engel played Georgette Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show for 5 years.

Cause of death is unknown, she was a Christian Science practitioner, and as such did not consult doctors. She was 70.

Director/producer John Singleton

Remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom? Remember Marlin Perkins?

Well, do you remember the guy who did all the dirty work?

Jim Fowler died on May 8th. His fish was complications from heart disease.

~Some comedian

Aw, shit, man.:sniff:

Grumpy Cat,

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(real name Tardar Sauce) has died (May 14). She was 7 years old. The mixed breed cat died of complications of a urinary tract infection.

Her 'grumpy' appearance was caused by an underbite, and feline dwarfism.

Also, architect, and crossword puzzle clue/answer I.M. Pei died May 16, at 102. As for his fish...He was 102!

He and his wife were married for over 70 yrs when she died in 2014.

Grumpy Cat, aka Tardar Sauce, 7.

This is a true loss for the Internet. Grumpy Cat represented a better time, when we used social media to just enjoy pictures of a cat who looked grumpy.

I cried real tears when i read about Her this morning.

She even gets a NYTimes obituary, well done

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/b...-cat-dead.html

Writer Herman Wouk, if ya can believe he was still alive to begin with.

The author of The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance died in his sleep, ten days shy of his 104th birthday.

Former F1 World Champion Niki Lauda

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died in his sleep yesterday (May 20), at the age of 70.

His and James hunt's F1 rivalry was the subject of the movie Rush.

Bart Starr

Leon Redbone ,
one of my faves

Dr. John.

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The Night Tripper died of a heart attack "at the break of day" on June 6th. He was 77.

I bet he and Leon Redbone are already jammin'.

Gloria Vanderbilt, who I thought had been dead for years. She was 95. No fish.
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Bishop Bullwinkle, of Hell To Da Naw Naw fame, died June 16, of complications of a heart attack. He was 70.

I learned just recently that she was Anderson Cooper's mother...

Same here.

That is some weird stuff.

Author Judith Krantz died on June 22.

At least a half-dozen of her novels were turned into TV mini-series, including Scruples, probably the most famous.

She was 91.

Actor Billy Drago died on June 24 (complications from a stroke). He's been in everything.

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His real name was William Eugene Burrows Jr., and he was 73.

The great Rip Torn, 88

Rip Torn's Hairy, Shirtless Brawl With Norman Mailer Remains A Legendary Moment of Movie History

Read that first, then watch.



Rip Torn's Wiki page is worth a read.

Charles Levin, Seinfeld's nervous mohel, and The Golden Girls' "fancy man."

Rutger Hauer

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49098435

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to die.

o o f

'A long time ago I was one of you. You're all brand new and perfect. No mistakes, no regrets. People look at you and think of how wonderful your future will be. They want you to be something special... like a... a doctor or a lawyer. I hate to tell you this, but if you grow up here, you're more likely to wind up selling your bodies on the streets, or shooting dope from dirty needles in a bus stop. And if you're successful, you'll make money selling junk to crackheads. And you won't think twice about killing someone's wife, because you won't even know what was wrong in the first place. Or, maybe... you'll end up like me - a hobo with a shotgun! I hope you can do better. You are the future.'

In a good mood are we Henry? :D

Yep, right over yer head.
 

:drool:

Hobo With A Shotgun

Not lost on all of us...

"Hobo With A Shotgun Not lost on all of us..."

No, just Bruce.

I asked if you were in a good mood, in other words sarcastically asking if you're having a bad day, which would be a logical reason to post that quote. It was marked as a quote, but I didn't know where it came from because I don't watch that crap. I thought it more important as to why you posted it.

Henry Fonda is no longer in any mood.

In other news, Peter Fonda has died.

Peter Fonda has taken that last ride.

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Hey, did you guys know that Peter Fonda died?

Were you fonda him? I guess he just petered out

He was a lousy actor and looked better with large sunglasses.

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What's the word on Peter Fonda?

He's brought down the curtain and joined the choir invisible...

He is an ex-actor, he is bereft of life...

The only reason he had been standing on stage in the first place was because he had been nailed there!

He's just having a bit of a kip. Must be pining for the fjords, is all.