Picasso, 8https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigcasso
― StanM, Friday, 8 March 2024 01:53 (three months ago) link
(dammit. piGcasso)
― StanM, Friday, 8 March 2024 01:54 (three months ago) link
Akira Toriyama, 68. creator of Dragonball, character designer for Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger etc.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 8 March 2024 03:18 (three months ago) link
I'm not a huge Dragon Ball guy but I've always loved Toriyama's art and 68 is too young :(
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 8 March 2024 03:53 (three months ago) link
Longtime WBGO DJ Rob Crocker.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 March 2024 20:55 (three months ago) link
https://www.wbgo.org/music/2024-03-08/rob-crocker-longtime-wbgo-radio-host-dies-he-was-78
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 March 2024 20:57 (three months ago) link
Guy's voice is burned in my brane.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 March 2024 21:08 (three months ago) link
Colin Bennett, the janitor/authority figure on Take Hart
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 9 March 2024 00:31 (three months ago) link
Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:46 (three months ago) link
Didn't he just leave the band recently? I guess maybe he had been sick?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:52 (three months ago) link
He'd been battling cancer and other associated health issues for quite a few years off and on. Apparently he went into the hospital for some relatively minor procedure and suffered heart failure.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:55 (three months ago) link
oof. RIP.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:57 (three months ago) link
Stephen Linard, British designer and New Romantic, 65.
― steely flan (suzy), Sunday, 10 March 2024 19:46 (three months ago) link
Vince Power, promoter of festivals and owner of many London gig venues, 76.
― steely flan (suzy), Sunday, 10 March 2024 21:44 (three months ago) link
karl wallinger of world party and the waterboys, 66
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:21 (three months ago) link
oh RIP
― President Keyes, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:22 (three months ago) link
Oh wow!
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:22 (three months ago) link
oh bummer, RIP
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 March 2024 19:44 (three months ago) link
didn't realise he was from money - Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger no less. One of his first bands was with two future members of the Alarm, they were called Quasimodo.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 11 March 2024 19:50 (three months ago) link
Wow, shame!
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:19 (three months ago) link
(xp) An Old Carthusian in fact!
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:20 (three months ago) link
just like Genesis and ugh, Jonathan King
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:23 (three months ago) link
Whole of the Moon, Dancing With The Moonlight Knight, Everyone's Gone To The Moon, hmmm
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
...and oddly the school crest shows three crescent moons:
https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/images/e/e1/Charterhouseschool.jpg
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 11 March 2024 21:23 (three months ago) link
RIP Tyrone Williams, lifelong Detroit resident, brilliant scholar, and phenomenal experimental language worker. I read with him in 2015, before I had a proper book or anything, and he was kind, gracious, and very funny. Won’t soon forget him and his work.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 11 March 2024 21:40 (three months ago) link
Wow now word that Eric Carmen has died.https://www.ericcarmen.com/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:37 (three months ago) link
noooooooooo ;_;
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:40 (three months ago) link
I guess he's gone ... all the way (R.I.P.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:47 (three months ago) link
Just saw that. What wild career peaks. It is here where I recount my wikipedia find that "Hungry Eyes" was written by Franke Previte and John DeNicola, who also wrote "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" and, I presume, got really rich. Anyway, "Hungry Eyes" was first recorded by New Jersey band Franke and the Knockouts, who soon after hired one Tico Torres. And the rest, as they say, is (forgotten) history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHqkja5GPxk
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:49 (three months ago) link
Dude had a great varied career, for sure. He also wrote two hits for Shaun Cassidy: “That’s Rock N Roll”, and “Hey Deanie”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:56 (three months ago) link
No longer turning that radio up or losing control, RIP
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:57 (three months ago) link
oh he's still doing those things . . . in heaven
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:01 (three months ago) link
I didn't know he wrote "Hey Deanie"! My sister had that album, I heard it a lot.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:01 (three months ago) link
lol just listened to it now, Shaun Cassidy was a terrible singer. So I put on the Eric Carmen version instead, much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aphab0R1yE
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:04 (three months ago) link
how dare u also funfact: Joan Jett ended up with his rad white Gibson Melody Maker guitar from his time in the Raspberries
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:08 (three months ago) link
i like this one from his first solo albumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EOiFYIEQyI
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:30 (three months ago) link
My hero, sort of. Still can’t sing any of his songs though, too high. RIP.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:33 (three months ago) link
I love this, from the link James Redd posted above.
How does a song like Hungry Eyes, a giant hit that’s so perfect for your sort of lounge-y style … how did you not write that one?
Jimmy Ienner, the Raspberry producer who also produced my first album, called me up one day. I hadn’t actually talked to him in probably 10 years. Jimmy said, “I’m working on this film called Dirty Dancing with RCA Records and I think that you ought to sing this one song.” I said, “Do you have a demo?” and he said, “Yeah.” And I said, “Well send me the demo, I’ll take a listen to it.” Normally don’t do other people’s songs, but I listened to this song and he says, “The director loves this song …” and that said to me Jimmy owns the publishing.
There you go.
It turns out he had signed this band called Franke and the Knockouts back in the 1970s or ’80s to his Millennium label, and Franke and a guy named John DeNicola had written both I’ve Had The Time of My Life and Hungry Eyes. Once Jimmy said, “No, no, no, the director loves it,” I thought about how I could rearrange it and add some spunk. The demo kind-of sounded like Air Supply with John Bonham on drums.
You’ve got to let me use that quote. Come on Eric. That’s a great one.
I didn’t know it at the time, but it turns out one of my very best friends played drums on the demo. His name is Tommy Allen and he’s actually the guy who mixed the new album Pop Art. He and his brother used to own a record store in Syracuse, I think, or somewhere in that area, and his mom even used to send me postcards, and it was like if you weren’t a Raspberries fan, Tommy wouldn’t be friends with you. I told Jimmy, “Okay, I will do it if I can produce it.” I hired a bass player and a guitar player and I went into a local studio in Beachwood, Ohio on a shoestring budget. In about five days we recorded, sang and mixed the whole thing, and off it went to Jimmy in New York. The next thing I knew the movie had come out, and a month or two later I got a platinum plaque in the mail.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:40 (three months ago) link
Oh, the link's actually on the Raspberries thread: https://observer.com/2017/08/eric-carmen-raspberries-pop-art-live-interview/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:42 (three months ago) link
lol that’s great “the director loves this one”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:47 (three months ago) link
Oh, the link's actually on the Raspberries thread: https://observer.com/2017/08/eric-carmen-raspberries-pop-art-live-interview🕸/
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:59 (three months ago) link
Eerie: earlier tonight, not knowing this (and because it includes a Donovan song, connecting it to something I'm doing), I rewatched To Die For, which uses "All by Myself."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:05 (three months ago) link
It’s in that same interview, I slightly misquoted, but only very slightly.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:07 (three months ago) link
I feel like a curmudgeon saying this but I don’t like “All By Myself” nearly as much as his Raspberries stuff.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:08 (three months ago) link
...and you'd feel like curmudgeon if you said you prefer "Stand Up In It" to either.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:36 (three months ago) link
Re: Karl Wallinger, this excellent MOJO piece says that he was at Charterhouse on a scholarship: https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/karl-wallinger-remembered/
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 11:52 (three months ago) link
Nice, thanks
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 12:16 (three months ago) link
Carmen's credited with producing "Hungry Eyes" himself, though, not that it makes a difference (I've never disliked it).
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 12:58 (three months ago) link
Damn, RIP Karl Wallinger :((
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:15 (three months ago) link
Vince Power
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/11/vince-power-concert-and-festival-promoter-dies-aged-76
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:34 (three months ago) link