Rest in peace, Gary. I count myself lucky to have seen Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert in 1973 (opening for The Who) and 1975 (bringing up the middle following Black Sabbath and preceding Peter Frampton). Helluva band.
Rest in peace, Gary. I count myself lucky to have seen Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert in 1973 (opening for The Who) and 1975 (bringing up the middle following Black Sabbath and preceding Peter Frampton). Helluva band.
The character of Munch was based upon his real life stand-up career. He espoused loads of conspiracy theories and if you go back to where he started, Homicide: Life On The Streets as Munch and follow through he is the character, Munch, on more shows than any other. It's like 9 or 10 that he's been on. Even the X-Files lol.Originally Posted by rcarlberg
Didn't realize he'd written a bunch of books promoting conspiracy theories on JFK assassination, UFOs, Marilyn Monroe, Malaysian Flight 370, etc. Reportedly his last words were "F*** you, motherf***er." Probably thought death was a conspiracy too
Munch has become the only fictional character, played by a single actor, to physically appear on 10 different television series. These shows were on five different networks: NBC (Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, and 30 Rock), Fox (The X-Files and Arrested Development), UPN (The Beat), HBO (The Wire) and ABC (Jimmy Kimmel Live!).
Munch has been one of the few television characters to cross genres, appearing not only in crime drama series, but sitcom (Arrested Development), adult animated sitcom (American Dad), late night comedy (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) and horror and science fiction (The X-Files).
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Carry On My Blood-Ejaculating Son - JKL2000
RIP Robert Blake.
RIP Topol
RIP Bobby Caldwell
https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...r/11476518002/
This is really sad. I loved his voice and songs.
I always felt that he had a great voice, but stayed away from all of the fancy stuff a lot of singers try to throw in.
Wrote some beautiful and well crafted songs.
Listening to him now. RIP, Bobby.
Jim Gordon – who drummed with the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Steely Dan, Delaney and Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos – has died. He was a great session drummer but had mental health problems and was incarcerated until his death in a Californian psychiatric prison after killing his mother in 1983.
We walked arm in arm with madness, and every little breeze whispered of the secret love we had for our disease (P. Blegvad)
I've just read Lance Reddick passed away today at age 60. Plenty here will be familiar with him from his roles in Oz, The Wire, and Bosch among many others.
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Lance was excellent in Bosch. RIP
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
Fantastic in The Wire too.
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I'm one of the 212.
RIP Robin Lumley. He was an on and off keyboardist for Brand X. I didn't see any mention of this here so I thought I would mention it even though it looks like he passed away about two weeks ago.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
There was a seperate thread: https://www.progressiveears.org/foru...ight=RIP+robin
There is a separate thread on the Way Off Topic's forum. Agree, he was one of the greats.
RIP Harry Belafonte. 96yo.
A long life, well lived.
and a class act.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
Wow. This is one of those times when I didn't know he was still alive. Oh well. I remember when I saw the Kinks in 1982 they did "the banana boat song." RIP Harry.
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
RIP Harry [emoji20]
Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit
RIP Dick Groat and Jerry Springer.
Very sorry to report the passing of a close friend yesterday. You may or may not have heard of him his name was Neville Chesters. His life story is the stuff of legend which his Wiki page only touches on.
1963-64 road manager for the Merseybeats
1965-66 road manager for the Who
1967 - while staying in a flat in London with fellow Yorkshireman Lemmy Kilmister and Irish guitarist Noel Redding, Noel got a call from Chas Chandler asking if he could play bass as he had a new American guitarist who was putting a band together. Redding said yes, and offeredNeville as road manager with Lemmy pitching in he could help too - so off they went to meet Chandler and his find - a certain Jimi Hendrix with whom he set up to tour later in the year.
Later in 1967 he worked with Cream and The Bee Gees as part of Robert Stigwood’s operation.
Later still he worked for Brian Epstein doing various jobs including chauffeuring John Lennon.
1967 to 1968, he worked as the road manager for Hendrix, with gigs all over Europe and the States. He left the band when Hendrix became more US-centric and changed his band members.
1968-69 back to working with the Beatles Apple Records for Peter Asher
1972 he was back on the road, this time as personal road manager for Greg Lake.
1973-74 He was instrumental in getting Stray Dog signed to ELP’s Manticore Records - Snuffy Walden being a friend of his. He toured widely with the band.
He took a rest for a few years selling antiques in London.
1990 he moved to New York and started working in producing porn movies-as Neville Chambers. He had a loft in New York which was known officially as “the Loft” but in the business as the Fuck Factory. He released many porn movies, even starring in them occasionally. The business stuttered as the center of porn moved to LA and hand-held video cameras made porn producers of anybody with a camera and a willing couple(or more).
After that he took life much more slowly, doing occasional interviews and some light roadying work with New York based musicians like Jon Paris and Alan Merrill(of the Arrows and author of I Love Rock n Roll).
I actually met him when he came to fix a problem I had with my roof. When he heard my accent he started telling me his life story. We became fast friends over the following years as his health began to fail him - years of barbiturate abuse taking it’s toll - the drug of choice of the always-on-the-road road crews.
In the late 2000 teens he hooked up again with Pete Townsend and Townsend arranged and paid for him to fly back to London for treatment.
Settling in Milton Keynes, Neville worked with Malcolm Bruce - son of Jack Bruce, and got reacquainted with the family of Jim Marshall - founder of Marshall Amps who are now also based in Milton Keynes.
The last I heard from him he was going in for some tests about 6 weeks ago. I just heard the news from his girlfriend about an hour ago.
Neville lived an amazing life and I will miss him and his amazing stories.
^ RIP to your friend. May he Rock! In Peace ✌️
Just saw a YouTube video mentioning Linda Lewis had passed away. She had a few hits in the mid-70s and can be heard wailing away on David Bowie’s Panic in Detroit. She was a pretty good songwriter but never really broke huge, being known more for her backing saying roles with Bowie, Cat Stevens and Rod Stewart.
^^ If it's the same Linda Lewis: she also sang on albums from Peter Bardens and Stomu Yamashta, Family, Joan Armatrading and Colin James Hay.
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