Hearing that the king of twangy guitar, Duane Eddy has passed.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:10 (four months ago) link
Wow! He was still alive then
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:11 (four months ago) link
rip :(
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:26 (four months ago) link
Wow, I thought he died years ago, RIP Duane.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:34 (four months ago) link
Thing I always thought about Peter Gunn is it's actually all about the sax? Not to do him down, RIP man of twang
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:39 (four months ago) link
Richard Tandy, from ELO
https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/13886/richard-tandy-elo-keyboardist-dead/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 20:11 (four months ago) link
RIP MC Conrad :( xpsA lot of those Bukem mixes were better for having him on them
― groovypanda, Thursday, 2 May 2024 16:59 (four months ago) link
Gary Floyd of the Dicks and Sister Double Happiness
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 3 May 2024 01:55 (four months ago) link
Oh shit.. that's crazy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 02:21 (four months ago) link
Never saw the Dicks (little before my time) but definitely saw SDH many times.. I used to see him hanging near the jack shacks in North Beach all the time, he was one of a kind
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 02:23 (four months ago) link
mr veg saw them a ton in SF, he was def a fan back in the day
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 May 2024 03:00 (four months ago) link
I remember hearing their one major label album, Heart and Mind, in 1991, and wondering why they were being marketed as "alternative" when they were just a (very good) stomping barroom blues-rock band.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 3 May 2024 03:15 (four months ago) link
RIP Gary
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 3 May 2024 08:11 (four months ago) link
(I only know him as a Butthole Surfers song)
― StanM, Friday, 3 May 2024 09:12 (four months ago) link
Oh man, the Dicks were so brilliant
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 09:32 (four months ago) link
I only really know The Dicks Hate The Police - what a banger that was
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 3 May 2024 10:10 (four months ago) link
worth checking out Kill From The Heart, which got reissued this year I think - Rich Daddy (I Never Had One) is an absolute killer
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 10:30 (four months ago) link
reissue is due out in 2 weeks on Superior Viaduct. I have the Alternative Tentacles reissue from 2012.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 3 May 2024 11:04 (four months ago) link
oh man, RIP Gary
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 3 May 2024 11:27 (four months ago) link
"Hate the Police" might be my favorite punk song. Definitely the best "POV of the oppressor" punk song. There's a weird empathy in Gary's delivery of the vileness that makes the character all the more pathetic. Most hardcore singers delivered this kind of lyric with a sinister sarcasm.
― sox concrète (bendy), Friday, 3 May 2024 14:33 (four months ago) link
"if you can't find justice, it'll find you" = one of the best punk lines ever
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 16:58 (four months ago) link
Frank Stella, 87, of lymphoma. I saw a big retrospective of his work at the Whitney Museum in 2015. Amazing stuff.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 4 May 2024 20:45 (four months ago) link
Sam Ash Music, age 100https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/business/sam-ash-music-closing-stores.html
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 5 May 2024 00:43 (four months ago) link
A fond farewell to Frank Stella, who died today, at age 87. I took this photograph in his studio in Rock Tavern, N.Y., where he kept a narrow cot amid his baroque constructions and was no doubt awakened on countless occasions by a jolt of inspiration. pic.twitter.com/lXxqPIQYs8— Deborah Solomon (@deborahsolo) May 5, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:14 (four months ago) link
Another I'd assumed had died years if not decades ago...
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:24 (four months ago) link
he was making art this year. that's a really long time to make abstract art. he was cool. genius? i think he kinda was. endlessly inventive at least. a huge imagination. though he will probably always be most famous for the black paintings that he made when he was impossibly young. i also love abstract artists who could have been cool and minimal forever who go nuts with color and shapes. and few people went nuts with color and shapes like he did. like a paint store throwing up on an automotive store with some of those sculptures.
― scott seward, Sunday, 5 May 2024 12:13 (four months ago) link
Always loved this clip of a young Stella. RIP.
Great docu, by the way.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:33 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_rRCfRdmQ
Bernard Hill, Theoden in LOTR & captain Smith in Titanic
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68962192
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:15 (four months ago) link
Ah man
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:22 (four months ago) link
Yosser RIP
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:30 (four months ago) link
... fuck yer Titanics and hobbits.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:31 (four months ago) link
hes exquisite in lotr, almost certainly the best performance in it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:32 (four months ago) link
Yeah, was just thinking that. It's a performance that is both consistent and has range, and absolutely plays off with everyone around him just so, especially Miranda Otto's Eowyn. Each of their scenes together are fantastic.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:22 (four months ago) link
(And Tom D., we never got Blackstuff over here at the time! Wish we had!)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:23 (four months ago) link
Damn RIP
His character arc is one of the more impressive and complex ones, if not the most. He's performed as flawed, prone to moments of selfishness and anger, occasional poor judgement, absolutely human, and the most astonishingly and thrillingly heroic at the perfect time. I think him and Otto were in the running for the MVPs of that series in terms of how they grounded it.
― omar little, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:28 (four months ago) link
yep his stuff in LOTR is top grade acting - what comes to mind would be someone like christopher lee; full commitment and seriousness regardless of the possible sillyness of the content
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:30 (four months ago) link
Yeah, it's very Tolkien to not let the interiority of his characters out much aside from the hobbits themselves, and so the translation to a different medium by default allows for more. That plus the screenwriting team decided -- I think rightly -- to foreground his son's death more, adding weight to his reactions and decisions. (That plus, per Hill's own mention of it in the DVD commentary, he was the one who came up with the "No parent should have to bury their child" moment, drawing on an instance some years prior where, IIRC, he'd been talking with a mother who'd lost a child in a bombing in the UK or Ireland and she said that to him. It's not Tolkien's Theoden but it absolutely works in the film.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:33 (four months ago) link
I was thinking he'd already passed but was mixing him up with fellow Blackstuff actor Michael Angelis.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:38 (four months ago) link
rip bernard hill, he nearly steals the third movie from under everyone’s noses
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:44 (four months ago) link
i didn't know who he was and i clicked on the link and went ah yeah! he was awesome! but i was totally thinking of the other dragon show. the jean reno type guy. so now i still don't remember this guy but RIP! great job. you obviously made quite an impression on real fans of the thing. for the record the other guy was my favorite character on the other dragon show. and i still like jean reno.
― scott seward, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:53 (four months ago) link
Hill is really good in Greenaway's Drowning By Numbers.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 5 May 2024 18:45 (four months ago) link
Late to thread. So great in lotr Every single fucking time, when he leads his people into battle screaming “deeaaaathhhhh!” my eyes fill with tearsIdk why, some weird buried dna memory of my Viking ancestors (me: 5’4” never been in a fight, chronically sickly)
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:07 (four months ago) link
Forgot he was in drowning by numbers, absolutely one of my all time favorite films
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:08 (four months ago) link
Jazz Musician, Bill Holman, 96
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:13 (four months ago) link
STEVE ALBINI
https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:22 (four months ago) link
holy shit
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:36 (four months ago) link
i dislike this very much
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:39 (four months ago) link
yeah we need his curmudgeoning now more than ever
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:41 (four months ago) link
Rip to one of the best x
― nxd, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:43 (four months ago) link