the first vic & bob exposure i ever had was concert footage in which they said 'and now, here's the man with the stick' and a man walked on stage with a stick and the crowd went UTTERLY BONKERS and then the man with the stick left again. my face at the time == hagman's face upthread
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 24 November 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, see, I love the Man With The Stick. Graham Lister on Novelty Island doing Three Laughs With Lard was the first real WTF moment for the viewing public I think.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Saturday, 24 November 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Maudlin and full of self-pity. He's magnificent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEOsVofRZk
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 November 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like hags was at death's door ever since dallas ended, feel like there was a time when the tabs were showing him exiting hospitals and crowing about "months to live", and this was pre-"nixon". good for him for hanging around to a respectable age tbh.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Saturday, 24 November 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
He looks older in that Primary Colors than he did last week.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 November 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Michael Dunford of the progressive band Renaissance. Had no idea he was in the Nashville Teens too.
http://www.progrockmag.com/news/renaissance-guitarist-michael-dunford-dies/
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 25 November 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
RIP strugatsky
― the late great, Sunday, 25 November 2012 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
Frank Barsalona
One of Barsalona's lasting legacies was to see that musicians' compensation and treatment improved whereby they could earn a good portion of their living through touring and beyond selling records. He is also credited with vastly improving the fan experience upgrading the quality of live rock performances.
― and I scream Fieri Eiffel Tower High (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 25 November 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Almost as important to sport in the 20th century as Robinson, Ruth, or Ali:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ex-players-association-exec-marvin-miller-dead-95-article-1.1208710?localLinksEnabled=false
― clemenza, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
damn.
possibly the most significant person I have shared an elevator with.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
dang RIP
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Mickey "Guitar" Baker, of Mickey & Sylvia and who knows how many classic blues and R&B sessions.
Great photo/interview here, from a few years ago: http://jimherrington.tumblr.com/post/16519854865/mickey-baker-musician-toulouse-france-c-jim
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
aw :(
I was just listening to Love is Strange this morning
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Love Is Strange" was great in Casino. Classic album cover:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tyNeUNytv6s/TzEtE_4JrJI/AAAAAAAAHpA/esOsGgEZfbs/s1600/Mickey%2BBaker%2B-%2BThe%2BWildest%2BGuitar.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
bummer. RIP, Mickey.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
About half a year too late to be turning over in his grave re: the Pitbull sample.
Seriously, though, RIP.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/cadillacs-singer-earl-carroll-dead-at-75-20121127
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 05:48 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Spain Rodriguez:
http://comicsbeat.com/rip-spain-rodriguez/
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
Re "Speedo": another song I identify with Scorsese (Goodfellas, first time we meet Jimmy Conway). One of the greatest fast doo-wop songs ever.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Spain. :-(
― WilliamC, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Rest in peace, Spain.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
just saw that about Spain. RIP dude. made my neighborhood a more beautiful place
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 November 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
Jack Brooks, pro-civil rights Texas Dem legend who was Nixon's "executioner."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/us/politics/jack-brooks-former-texas-congressman-dies-at-89.html
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
Dave Brubeck :(
― Zen Jet Era (doo dah), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh whoa
― i dream of booze pinata (jjjusten), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
bummer.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
awww man
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
Off to that Sunday brunch in the sky.
― blues bras (Eazy), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
Jonathan Harvey today as well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/05/jonathan-harvey-dies-73-composer
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
posting here re: Spain Rodriguez' passing:
http://images.tcj.com/2012/11/Nestor-Makhno-page-1-650x796.jpghttp://images.tcj.com/2012/11/Nestor-Makhno-page-2-650x828.jpg
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Oscar Niemeyer, aged 104. What a day.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 6 December 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
Huw Lloyd Langton of Hawkwind, aged 61
http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/hawkwinds-huw-lloyd-langton-dies/
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Friday, 7 December 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer and broadcaster, dies aged 89
― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Sunday, 9 December 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Mr Moore, he was a legend.
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 9 December 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
No Moore Mr. Night Guy.
― DavidM, Sunday, 9 December 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
aw RIP
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 9 December 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
Don't know how I feel about this guy, seemed to get away with saying a lot of very horrible things on the grounds that he was just a funny old eccentric.
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Sunday, 9 December 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
I mean sure, it's Wikipedia and all but:
Proudly declaring himself to be English (rather than British) with "not the slightest wish to integrate with anybody",[60] he stated his admiration for controversial former MP politician Enoch Powell.[64] Moore devoted an entire chapter ("The Weak Arm of the Law") of his autobiography to denouncing modern British society, particularly "motorist-hunting" policemen, sentencing policy, as well as the Race Relations Act, Sex Discrimination Act and the "Thought Police / Politically Correct Brigade".[65] He later wrote that "homosexuals are mainly responsible for the spreading of AIDS (the Garden of Eden is home of Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve)".[66]
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Sunday, 9 December 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
You don't need to go to Wikipedia, there are newspaper reports of a lot of them; not least in 2002 when at an Age Concern function he described immigrants as parasites and that we should send them all back where they came from. Or the May interview for the Radio Times where he said:
“We must take care,” warned Moore. “There may be another war. The Germans will try again, given another chance. A Kraut is a Kraut is a Kraut. And the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.“There can be good, free, honourable, decent Germans," he conceded. "I haven’t met them myself, but I’m sure they exist.”
“There can be good, free, honourable, decent Germans," he conceded. "I haven’t met them myself, but I’m sure they exist.”
UKIP since the 90s to boot.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
on the other hand, he did love cats
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
OK, I didn't know that, although I do recall some women-should-be-in-the-kitchen remarks. Ho hum.
(I remember liking the guy as a kid but I've no idea when or why I would ever have seen him - my Dad watched The Sky at Night semi-regularly but I'm sure I only saw it very occasionally, if at all)
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Gamesmaster, maybe?
― ailsa, Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
That's a good thought but I think I liked him before that and found his appearances on it kind of silly? (I was a stuffy little kid.)
Probably my Dad just told me he was good or something. My mum had one of his 50s fiction books, which was pretty tedious and outdated even to a kid like me who'd grown up reading my parents' old Jennings books and Eagle annuals.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
wasn't his fiance killed in a bombing raid during the war? Perhaps explains anti-German sentiments, without wishing to try to excuse them.
― Neil S, Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, but when that interview (from May this year) also contains such gems as "the French betrayed us, the Belgians did nothing and the Italians are only good for ice cream" and "those countries were much better off when the English ran them" (where "those countries" are the Commonwealth) you quickly get the concept that he wasn't particularly anti-German, he was anti-foreigner.
Still he wore a monocle. How could anybody that wore a monocle ever be bad?
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
it was genuinely moving to hear him talk on tv about his fiancees death. he himself flew with raf bomber command during the war btw but i'm sure he only ever killed bad guys
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Sunday, 9 December 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
Think he was a navigator wasn't he? Having little Englander views might make him a bore, but I don't think it necessarily makes you a bad person- I'm not sure you it's possible to judge people on those terms.
― Neil S, Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
sorry that sentence got a bit mangled!
saying "homosexuals are mainly responsible for the spreading of AIDS (the Garden of Eden is home of Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve)" makes you a bad person
― 炒面kampf (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
hah true enough
― Neil S, Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link