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micky 
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 Posted: June 04 2016 at 12:44 |
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^ 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. Edited by micky - June 04 2016 at 12:51 |
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emigre80
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Posted: June 04 2016 at 10:03 |
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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A Person
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Posted: June 04 2016 at 09:58 |
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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
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emigre80
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Posted: June 04 2016 at 09:51 |
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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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micky
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Posted: June 04 2016 at 06:10 |
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the greatest...
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lazland
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Posted: June 04 2016 at 02:32 |
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RIP Mohammed Ali. This most definitely constitutes the end of an era.
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LearsFool
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Posted: June 04 2016 at 00:23 |
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RIP Ali
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Icarium
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Posted: June 04 2016 at 00:18 |
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RIP Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, fighter legend,
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 04 2016 at 00:00 |
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Cassius, well miss you so.
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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
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emigre80
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Posted: June 03 2016 at 23:49 |
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Now Muhammed Ali.
Wake me up when it's 2017, I've had enough.
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emigre80
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Posted: June 03 2016 at 15:28 |
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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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AZF
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Posted: June 03 2016 at 15:26 |
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Sad to inform R.I.P. Dave Swarbrick.
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siLLy puPPy
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Posted: May 24 2016 at 15:29 |
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RIP Nick Menza. One of the best metal drummers there was
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CassandraLeo
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Posted: May 23 2016 at 01:44 |
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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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JD
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Posted: May 22 2016 at 12:46 |
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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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Icarium
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Posted: May 22 2016 at 12:24 |
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RIP to Nick
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Windhawk
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Posted: May 22 2016 at 11:10 |
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Nick Menza (Megadeth, Ohm) appears to be the latest victim of 2016. Just 51 years old.
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Posted: May 20 2016 at 14:54 |
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R.I.P. to all of the above.
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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Posted: May 18 2016 at 11:59 |
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http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2016-05-17/tributes-to-musician-killed-on-way-home-from-gig/
Chris Burgess, 27, a young guitarist in a local hard rock band Heinous Pianist - not rich or famous, or known to many people outside Hampshire, but was good enough to earn support slots with Karma to Burn, Wolfsbane and Blaze Bailey. Edited by Dean - May 18 2016 at 13:42 |
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LearsFool
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Posted: May 18 2016 at 11:04 |
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It keeps getting worse.
RIP Marlene Marder, of seminal all-girl Swiss post punk group Kleenex. |
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