The RIP Thread...

[woodworkingboy]

Bands like Slayer, they are always singing about gruesome dying anyway....."Awaiting the hour of the reprisal"....... stuff like that. Careful what you wish for. I guess if you like downer subjects, but can't they sing more about happy things? You can still drink lots of whiskey and hang with strippers.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Never was a Slayer fan. RIP, fella.

 

[Raafbeard]

Bands like Slayer, they are always singing about gruesome dying anyway....."Awaiting the hour of the reprisal"....... stuff like that. Careful what you wish for. I guess if you like downer subjects, but can't they sing more about happy things? You can still drink lots of whiskey and hang with strippers.

Just ying and yang isn't it, and when I was a youth I always found aggressive guitars beneficial to riding and skating, still enjoy some brutal guitar playing when I'm in the mood, but when its out of my system maybe I'll stick on some Genesis or Jethro Tull. Music to suit moods.

For me I'd rather go with a bang than just fade away... but I think all of us on here know about living life to the full.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for THE DOORS. Thanks for the great music, RIP.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/20/entertainment-us-usa-people-manzarek-idUSBRE94J0V520130520

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[MasterBlaster]

Frigging cancer!!!

 

[Altissimus]

With Ray and Jim gone ... the Doors are down to two I believe Robbie Krieger And John Densmore are still alive

 

[woodworkingboy]

I saw Robbie in a vid recently, along with Ray. There are some great vids on youtube with superb musicians playing at what is called Darryl Hall's place or house. Robbie looked spaced but can still play.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Looks ain't everything!

That's all that matters.

 

[Jack]

James Gandolfini Dead: 'Sopranos' Star Dies In Italy

 

[MasterBlaster]

51? Dayum...

 

[Jack]

 

[MasterBlaster]

RIP, Old Girl!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Be nice if they carried on by making a new state of the art Enterprise out of her.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Swords into plowshares!

 

[MasterBlaster]

They are building a new Enterprise, CVN-80. I might still be around to see her.

 

[Steve Mack]

I saw some pictures of the new Enterprise being built, it's big.

Slim Whitman's gone as well but he lasted a bit longer than 51. http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/19/local/la-me-slim-whitman-20130620

 

[Steve Mack]

I saw some pictures of the new Enterprise being built, it's big.

It was the CVN-78 USS Gerald R. Ford, not the Enterprise. It's replacing the old one, and construction doesn't start on the new one for a few years yet.

 

[MasterBlaster]

2018, to be exact.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Where is it eventually being built? Cool if you could go to the launch, MB. Wonder if any ingredients from the original ship?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just a time capsule, AFAIK.

 

[wiley_p]

19 members of Granite Mountain Hotshots burned to death yesterday in Arizona. RIP Brothers.

 

[MasterBlaster]

So sad.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

RIP ..... Damn tragic.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Those big fires are bad news indeed. People read and hear about them, but direct experience is a whole different thing. My dad used to work them as a medical aid person for the Red Cross in California, treating injuries,. He'd come home a changed man, red as a beet, very tired and irritable, and barely spoke for a number of days. I needed the Red Cross then. His best friend, Hugh, died up at one, beheaded by a helicopter while standing on the bed of a truck that was backing up. Dad walked in the door weeping and buried his head in mother's chest, never forget it. Really bad news.....

 

[1BUS]

I heard about this first thing this morning on the way to work, its been on mind all day, very said news.