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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote someone_else Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 15 2016 at 02:45
RIP Henry McCullough (Sweeney's Men, Joe Cocker, Wings a.o.). He passed away yesterday aged 72.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The T Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2016 at 23:19
RIP Trent Gardner, of Magellan, Explorer's Club and other projects. Of the latter, "Age of Impact" is probably my favorite progressive rock metal album of all time. The rest of his output is very uneven.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2016 at 12:44
^ indeed.  I just tried to make that point to Raff over pizza and ..perhaps.. a few too many high octaine beers.  I asked her point blank if she, as a European, undestood just how important, how special that man was. She had to note that she woke up this morning to find me at the computer.. tears in my eyes.. watching a youtube clip of his fight against Foreman. Tears of emotion. An admiration of beauty that music can often inspire. Watch that if you haven't seen it recently. He wasn't pretty.. he was beautiful.

Anyhow. I don't think she does. How can you if you are not from this country.

Anyhow.. feeling no pain.. nor any compunction for making my views known (even in a crowded restaurant) I compared him to todays current crop of atheletes who of course flooded social media with their admiration.

bullsh*t.. find me one athlete willing to throw his livelihood away, even risk it, to stand up for what is right in the name of all that is wrong.  Anyhow.. I guess the guy sitting next to us agreed. As he left.. he interrupted my tirade.. and gave a me a 'hell yeah' and a thumbs up.  Said today it is all about the money... hell yeah it is.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote emigre80 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2016 at 10:03
Originally posted by A Person A Person wrote:

"My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother or some darker people or some poor, hungry people in the mud for big, powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me n****r, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Poor little black people and babies and children and women. How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail." — Muhammad Ali

I don't care about boxing or any sports but I respect him for his anti-war stance.
 
Agreed. I'm not a fan of boxing but that has nothing to do with how much I admired and respected Ali.
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"My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother or some darker people or some poor, hungry people in the mud for big, powerful America. And shoot them for what? They never called me n****r, they never lynched me, they didn't put no dogs on me, they didn't rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Poor little black people and babies and children and women. How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail." — Muhammad Ali

I don't care about boxing or any sports but I respect him for his anti-war stance.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote emigre80 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2016 at 09:51
I always remember the great - also late - George Carlin's riff on Ali's refusal to fight in Vietnam:
 
"He talked about the injustice of Muhammad Ali's banishment from boxing for avoiding the draft — a man whose job was beating people up losing his livelihood because he wouldn't kill people: "He said, 'No, that's where I draw the line. I'll beat 'em up, but I don't want to kill 'em.' And the government said, 'Well, if you won't kill people, we won't let you beat 'em up.' "
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RIP Mohammed Ali. This most definitely constitutes the end of an era.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote LearsFool Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2016 at 00:23
RIP Ali
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RIP Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, fighter legend, 
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Cassius, well miss you so.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote emigre80 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2016 at 23:49
Now Muhammed Ali. 
 
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Oh damn, damn, damn. Saw him at Cropredy a few years ago.  He still played a mean fiddle.
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Sad to inform R.I.P. Dave Swarbrick.

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RIP Nick Menza. One of the best metal drummers there was

 



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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote CassandraLeo Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 23 2016 at 01:44
I think it's probably difficult to overstate just how much an influence Rust in Peace had on the heavier strains of progressive metal. It's a borderline example of prog in and of itself (though if Megadeth had kept to its style they would probably have a page on the Archives as at least "Prog-Related"), but it's pretty much as technical and complex as thrash ever got. A large part of the reason it worked as well as it did was due to Menza's drumming. The man was a beast. The only other drummers in thrash I can even place in his league are Gene Hoglan and Dave Lombardo.

The fact that he died doing what he loved certainly makes his passing a bit less harsh, but still, I've had Rust in Peace cranked up to eleven and placed on repeat for a lot of the day. I suspect the rest of the week is going to follow along similar lines.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JD Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2016 at 12:46
Good or bad, he died what he loved doing. What more could a person ask for? i didn't know he turned his eyes to Progressive Jazz. I'll have to look and see if they have any recorded material.
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RIP to Nick
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Nick Menza (Megadeth, Ohm) appears to be the latest victim of 2016. Just 51 years old.
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R.I.P. to all of the above.
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