David (terrrrrrrr)
I'm all out for the cidre...
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Loc: Deux Sevres, France
C'est moi... (and my wife)
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« Reply #1000 on: December 29, 2015, 11:46:08 AM » |
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I never found much in Lemmy's music that appealed to me, but oh boy, did I admire his attitude. I'd say RIP, but I don't think thats what he would want us to say. Have a good **** off you old (insert appropriate words)...
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Time it was, and what a time it was
A time of innocence, A time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories; They're all that's left you.
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« Reply #1001 on: December 29, 2015, 12:28:26 PM » |
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"Gamblin's for fools, But that's the way I like it baby I don't want to live forever...." (Ace of Spades)
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If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink!
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« Reply #1002 on: December 29, 2015, 03:47:56 PM » |
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Sad news about Lemmy, but he made it to 70, must have had an amazing constitution.
RIP Ian x
Yes, 70 is a good innings for one who had such a rock n roll life. |
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Bridgwit (Bridget)
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« Reply #1004 on: December 29, 2015, 04:15:26 PM » |
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62 but it's still far too young I was (still am) a huge fan of the Specials - I'd love to see them at Cropredy. RIP John x |
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Never look down on anyone
Unless you're helping them up
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« Reply #1005 on: December 29, 2015, 04:45:41 PM » |
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62 but it's still far too young I was (still am) a huge fan of the Specials - I'd love to see them at Cropredy. RIP John x I should have worked that out myself - that was the age they put up originally. |
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PeteD
They choose the path where no one goes...Gercha!
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« Reply #1006 on: December 29, 2015, 05:46:35 PM » |
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Just heard this. Such sad news, particularly for a Cov Kid like myself. John's drumming was so important to The Specials music and the whole Two Tone sound. Sad day!
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« Reply #1007 on: December 29, 2015, 07:57:29 PM » |
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Losing one great is bad enough but two on the same day.
Thanks Lemmy and John for the good times over the years.
R.I.P boys
I'll raise a glass to you both tonight
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Will S
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« Reply #1008 on: December 30, 2015, 12:04:18 PM » |
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Andy M Stewart of Silly Wizard. Terrific voice. When I was getting into folk music 30 odd years ago, Silly Wizard were the tops. Never saw them live but have several albums still as well as some solo work of his. The By The Hush album from 1983 or thereabouts is an absolutely stunning album I must get on CD one of these days.
I missed that at the time. Love his voice, both with Silly Wizard and his solo stuff. His Fire In The Glen album (with Phill Cunningham and Manus Lunny) is a big favourite of mine. |
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All the diamonds in the world
That mean anything to me,
Are conjured up by wind and sunlight
Sparkling on the sea
(Bruce Cockburn)
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Jules Gray
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« Reply #1009 on: December 30, 2015, 05:01:34 PM » |
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It is indeed. Dreadful news. Jules |
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Now be thankful for good things below
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« Reply #1010 on: January 01, 2016, 05:31:13 PM » |
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Just seen on the BBC news website that Natalie Cole has left.  |
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Flobbadob!
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Brendan
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« Reply #1011 on: January 01, 2016, 09:41:26 PM » |
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Lemmy. Never thought you would make it to 70 but you did it! Put your feet up and rest in peace brother.
Is it insensitive to wonder why Ticketmaster have just offered tickets for Motorhead in the "Hot Tickets" section of an email today? |
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"I'm only a bag of Rags in an Overall"
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Paul
I've Got A Bike
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I was a fair young curate then.
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« Reply #1012 on: January 01, 2016, 10:28:12 PM » |
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Lemmy. Never thought you would make it to 70 but you did it! Put your feet up and rest in peace brother.
Is it insensitive to wonder why Ticketmaster have just offered tickets for Motorhead in the "Hot Tickets" section of an email today? I doubt there is any human input into these emails, they are probably automatically generated from a database. A friend of ours bought her son Motorhead tickets for Christmas. He is absolutely devastated. Paul |
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« Reply #1013 on: January 08, 2016, 02:13:53 PM » |
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Pianist Paul Bley and composer/conductor Pierre Boulez, both of whom pushed the musical envelope in their own ways. If I was Pete Brown, I'd be worried...  |
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fstix (Michael)
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« Reply #1014 on: January 11, 2016, 06:36:23 AM » |
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Although The Easybeats are probably best known outside Australia for Friday On My Mind, they had many more hits in their home country, and Stevie Wright went on to have a solo career that was successful for several years, until sidetracked by drug abuse. He was also one of the victims of a controversial "deep sleep therapy" by a certain infamous doctor, which saw patients put to sleep for days and weeks at a time. Some died and some brains were damaged as a result, and Stevie wasn't quite the same afterwards either. He'd booked in to try to beat his heroin addiction. This was in the mid 1970s. Some comeback attempts were made afterwards with varying, lesser degrees of success. More arrests for theft and drugs. He became more a figure of tragedy, though was always respected as one of the great frontmen of the 60s and possibly Australia's first international rock star. Better remembered that way. And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drNqZWzj5GYAt least now, the fake "Easybeats" that surfaced in the 2000s in Europe with no links to the real band and a lead singer who called himself "Steve Wright" can't try that trick any more..... |
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More like I am today than I ever have been before.
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« Reply #1015 on: January 11, 2016, 06:55:20 AM » |
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Sky is reporting that David Bowie has died, aged 69, from cancer. Apparently confirmed by his management. RIP David.  |
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Jules Gray
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« Reply #1016 on: January 11, 2016, 06:58:17 AM » |
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I just heard about Bowie. A true legend. I'm at a loss for words. I'll miss him. RIP David.
Jules
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Now be thankful for good things below
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« Reply #1017 on: January 11, 2016, 07:12:56 AM » |
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One of my heroes. A true original and one of the greats. I'm devastated |
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« Reply #1018 on: January 11, 2016, 07:43:20 AM » |
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The Dude abides
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GubGub (Al)
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« Reply #1019 on: January 11, 2016, 08:13:03 AM » |
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Well, what is there to say? More than anyone else we have lost in the interim I feel a sense of loss much like the one I felt for John Lennon. The circumstances are very different of course and I am no longer 16 years old as I was then. But once again I have been woken by the news and had to process it in a semi conscious state. Once again I had been listening to his new record just the previous day. And once again it is going to be a day when it is difficult to fully focus on work.
I don't even know where to start in paying tribute. Goodbye David and thank you.
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