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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 4, 2023 16:59:53 GMT -5
Steve Harwell, lead singer of Smash mouth, has died, at age 56 of liver failure.
I was ambivalent to their music, at the time; but seriously grew to hate "All Star," after it turned up in every third advertisement or movie trailer. Still, he had a distinctive sound and was successful with it, outside of selling the song to anyone who wanted to use it, for cash.
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 5, 2023 17:04:41 GMT -5
It's been a rough few days for fans of classic rock. Singer-songwriter Gary "Dreamweaver" Wright has died at age 80.
Cei-U!
"My love is alive" (but Gary ain't)
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 6, 2023 1:43:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I saw the news about Wright's passing; don't know if I ever mentioned it here, but whenever I hear "Dream Weaver"... ...I immediately think of this comic...  ...every single time. Not entirely sure why, but possibly because the song came on the radio in my parents' car as we were driving home from the grocery store where I had just picked up that particular book. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 6, 2023 6:23:29 GMT -5
I liked that song. They are all passing away
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Post by foxley on Sept 6, 2023 7:53:25 GMT -5
I liked that song. They are all passing away Almost like we're getting older.  |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 12, 2023 13:39:33 GMT -5
R. I. P. Charlie Robison. Robison was not by any means a household name. What he was, was a damn fine singer/songwriter who released one of the very best country singles of the 1990s with "My Hometown." 59 is just ridiculously young. Give him a listen...and while you're at it give his younger brother Bruce a listen too. |
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Sept 19, 2023 10:56:15 GMT -5
x.com/AndyKindler/status/1704041960594690119?s=20A friend just texted me about Joe Matt passing away at only 60 years old. I was a huge fan of Peepshow back in the day. Not for everyone, for sure. He was very much a spiritual successor to Crumb. He didn't produce a lot of comics work and nothing since 2007 RIP
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 19, 2023 13:07:23 GMT -5
x.com/AndyKindler/status/1704041960594690119?s=20A friend just texted me about Joe Matt passing away at only 60 years old. I was a huge fan of Peepshow back in the day. Not for everyone, for sure. He was very much a spiritual successor to Crumb. He didn't produce a lot of comics work and nothing since 2007 RIP Always on the periphery of my reading; but, I never got around to checking out his work. |
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Post by commond on Sept 19, 2023 16:56:28 GMT -5
x.com/AndyKindler/status/1704041960594690119?s=20A friend just texted me about Joe Matt passing away at only 60 years old. I was a huge fan of Peepshow back in the day. Not for everyone, for sure. He was very much a spiritual successor to Crumb. He didn't produce a lot of comics work and nothing since 2007 RIP Wow, that's a shock. I only just read Peepshow in the past year or so. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 25, 2023 10:26:56 GMT -5
R. I. P. singer/songwriter/instrumentalist Mike Henderson. I never managed to track down any of Henderson's solo work. But The Steeldrivers were legit one of the best bands around for a few years and a lot of that had to do with Henderson's work on mandolin and dobro, as well as his songwriting with Chris Stapleton. Henderson was just a great songwriter. All co-written by Mike Henderson |
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 25, 2023 10:59:07 GMT -5
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Post by tartanphantom on Sept 25, 2023 12:13:26 GMT -5
I have long counted Roger Whittaker's music as one of my guilty pleasures. Nice songwriting, and a smooth, warm, folksy voice that is almost subversive to the psyche-- like "I can't believe I'm listening to this, and enjoying it as well."
It wasn't always this way, though. As a kid, when The Last Farewell hit the US airwaves, I hated it and dismissed it as "old peoples' music" for the Geritol generation-- I listened to a LOT of AM radio from 1969 to 1975, and its Billboard 100 ranking assured frequent airplay in 1975 on just about every AM pop station. However, by the time I hit college and began to take music theory and do some songwriting of my own, I placed it in the same category as Richard Harris' rendition of Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park-- that is to say, a song that an indisputable earworm and an example of very effective songwriting, despite some folks' unabashed loathing of it. The older I got, the more I came to appreciate Whittaker's musical panache, and his persistent eschewing of most mainstream folk idioms. An example is his cover of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now, which is quite different in arrangement from either Mitchell's own version, or the more popular Judy Collins rendition.
Oh yeah, almost forgot-- the guy was an absolute monster Adult Contemporary artist in West Germany.
RIP Mr. Whittaker.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 25, 2023 17:11:15 GMT -5
R. I. P. to David McCallum, best known to us nerds as Illya Kuryakin, the Russian half of the 60s spy duo in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. McCallum was also in one of my favorite films of the 60s, The Great Escape as Ashley-Pitt "Dispersal." My mother loved The Man From U.N.C.L.E.  |
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 25, 2023 18:15:49 GMT -5
Oh, no! His Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard was one of the best reasons to watch the original NCIS. I suspected he was in failing health, as his participation in the show was noticeably sparse the last couple of seasons, but I was hoping he's bounce back. Damn it.
Cei-U!
I summon the pithy pathologist!
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Post by foxley on Sept 25, 2023 18:53:34 GMT -5
Oh, no! His Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard was one of the best reasons to watch the original NCIS. I suspected he was in failing health, as his participation in the show was noticeably sparse the last couple of seasons, but I was hoping he's bounce back. Damn it. Cei-U! I summon the pithy pathologist! Indeed. The interplay between ducky and Abby was the main reason to watch the show. 
MaCallum was also the voice of Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: Gotham Knight, Son of Batman and Batman vs. Robin.
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