Lobowolf Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Jimi Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell died today, and I heard today that a tremendous magician and magic theorist, Nick Trost, died a couple of weeks ago. So...a new thread for anyone to post a shout-out regarding the passing of anyone whose work you've appreciated or been inspired by. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 I posted maybe a year ago about Oscar Peterson passing away. He is still a youtube favorite of mine (he has advanced there from cd favorite then napster favorite). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Jeff Healey a great blues & rock guitarist died on March this year.... here my favorite video from his amazing live performance on german TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZywo3PBTE Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feegle Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Aberlour, I see you have the 'Dark Side of the Moon' album cover there.Sad to hear that Richard Wright (keyboard) died of cancer a few weeks ago.(Can recommend 'Pulse' DVD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Aberlour, I see you have the 'Dark Side of the Moon' album cover there.Sad to hear that Richard Wright (keyboard) died of cancer a few weeks ago.(Can recommend 'Pulse' DVD) yes this was very sad...very Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Okay, so what's so bad about death? (Other than no longer being able to spew on the internet.....) We have to graduate from the school of life someday, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 The bad thing about other people than yourself being dead (of course I don't mean you, I mean whoever feels sad a bout somebody's death) is that they are no longer here with us to give us their company, insight, music, humor, etc. That's what's sad, that they go away and we have to stay without them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Cherishing what you once had I can appreciate just, how can you miss something that is no longer there? :rolleyes: (ie You can no longer ever have access to it so you are patently wasting your time for no good reason.) So, your best friend from high school that you haven't seen in 20 years....you could look them up, if you wanted to....but dead people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoAnneM Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 I am going to assume that you are just pulling our leg. How do you know that these people wanted to die, and that we should not be sad that their lives ended before they were ready. Especially with artists, and I include musicians in that of course, the imagination never turns off and we have lost whatever was still there, and they have lost the joy of discovering it. Being the mother of a very successful artist, musician, composer might make me sensitive to this feeling that as long as he lives he will still be creating, but it goes for the rest of us too. You don't feel the same sadness about a musician's death as you would your father's death but you should recognize the loss with respect, not be cynical about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Nope, I was "dead" serious. ;) They all wanted to live as long as they were alive. Any that didn't would commit suicide. Many do. If one has a "creative" bag of tricks, then that bag has a bottom. Once you have gotten through it, "Mission Accomplished" as it were. I get sad about sad things....death is not one of them (for me). :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Michael Crichton died last week. I thought this was very sad as he was still not very old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoAnneM Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Yes, and it is sad to think about the books he won't be around to write. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobowolf Posted December 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Bettie Page...at the ripe old age of 85. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keylime Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 I still remember when Barry White and then a couple of years after, Lou Rawls, passing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 The phrase "shout out" died after the 2008 U.S. Presidential elections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOut Posted December 12, 2008 Report Share Posted December 12, 2008 Bettie Page...at the ripe old age of 85.Some nice photos of Bettie Page here: In Memoriam of Bettie Page Because her original fame subsided before my own interest in such matters began, I did not know of her until I saw the film about her life. It's quaint now to think about how much fuss such good-humored photos stirred up. And it reminds me how nice it was when a woman did not have to look like a skeleton to be considered attractive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobowolf Posted January 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2009 I am Mr. Roark, your host... Ricardo Montalban is now welcoming people to heaven with Tattoo. Or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobowolf Posted January 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 John Updike...double Pulitzer winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted July 10, 2010 Report Share Posted July 10, 2010 Jim Bohlen, whose snap decision to sail to Amchitka Island, Alaska, to protest an underground nuclear test led to the creation of the environmental organization Greenpeace, died Monday in Comox, British Columbia. He was 84 and lived in Courtenay, British Columbia. With a test scheduled for fall 1971, little more than a year away, Mr. Bohlen complained to his wife, Marie, that the committee was deliberating too slowly. As she offhandedly suggested that they sail a boat to the test site, a reporter for The Vancouver Sun called to check in on the committee’s deliberations. Mr. Bohlen, caught off guard, said, “We hope to sail a boat to Amchitka to confront the bomb,” a remark that appeared in the newspaper the next day. The committee made good on Mr. Bohlen’s pledge. After Irving Stowe, a core member, organized a fund-raising concert in Vancouver with Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Phil Ochs and the Canadian rock band Chilliwack, the committee leased the halibut fishing vessel Phyllis Cormack, and, after renaming it Greenpeace, sailed to Alaska. Although the boat was intercepted by the Coast Guard, public outcry caused a delay in the test. The program was later abandoned, and Amchitka Island was turned into a bird sanctuary.more .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OleBerg Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 Alan Turing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 George Steinbrenner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobowolf Posted August 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2010 J.C. Wagner, one of the great close-up magicians died last night. Also wrote a couple of great books for magicians: The Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner, and Seven Secrets. Nice guy, creative thinker, great personality, and a real craftsman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted August 17, 2010 Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 I have fond memories of a couple of guys mentioned early. Oscar Peterson taught a master class on computer assisted jazz composition at the U of T despite never graduating High School. How brilliant is THAT! I was at a local club in Ottawa where a wannabe group of kids was performing during bluesfest when Jeff Healy walked in and did a loooong set with them. Very classy act. I heard a radio interview with a guy that backed up Jimmy Buffet who talked about an off night in NYC when they all went to the club where Les Paul played. Jimmy went up to do a number with him and was introduced by Les as "Jimmy from Florida". When he said to Les, I don't have a strap for this guitar Les said, "Don't sweat it, you won't be up here that long". With memories like that these people don't depart until I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babalu1997 Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 jaybee3 a player at bbo i remember her from the refugee club and never denied me a seat whne i was novice always seemed glad to chat, tho i never played with her dont know why i miss her, but i did cry, think she was a friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgoodwinsr Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Eddie Fisher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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