The RIP Thread...

[Steve Mack]

Mine was Billy Thorpe, 1963. Wagged school to go and see them. He went to he US a few years later and did pretty well.

He died a few years ago at 60, pretty fit, just died.


Some fancy guitar work here.
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I think Chuck was in jail then.


I did this once, only it was me in a Star Model Ford and a Mark VII Jag. No cops.

Ford's didn't handle too well but they went faster, I got there first.

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[Tree09]

Buddy guy was my first. Seen him a half dozen times since too And chuck berry was the shit. His stuff sounds easy now, but if I'm not mistaken, wasn't he responsible for the single note lead? (In rock of course) Just about everything before him was chord progessions, and he started the single note lead, which was finally possible because of the amplifier. I might be on crack, but i thought i read that somewhere. Or it might have been the guitar riff. Either way we have been copying him ever since

 

[FireFighterZero]

Chris Ledoux was the first concert I ever went to.

I was already 21 or so.

Chris has been dead a while.now too.

 

[Bodean]

STRYPER!!! Was my first official show.....

I was young and my Christian Stepdad took me.

 

[Burnham]

First?...I reckon it was Dolly Parton. Tiny little venue in a suburb of Atlanta, GA in the early 1970's. Seated maybe 75. Man, she could work a crowd...plus sing like an angel. She's old like me these days, ought to give it up, like I have .

 

[MasterBlaster]

I always have and always will love Dolly!

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[Burnham]

Anyone who doesn't...deserves what they get, eh?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Also, another babe...

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[Burnham]

Poor Linda, horrible health issues with Parkinson's, can no longer sing as I understand it.

What a voice she had. One of the truly rare ones.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Also...

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[Burnham]

Yessir, no doubt.

 

[Fiddler]

Chuck Barris

 

[MasterBlaster]

He always seemed stoned...

 

[FireFighterZero]

Huh, I thought it was a typo!

Never was exposed to the Gong Show.

 

[Cobleskill]

He probably was stoned. On that note I was surprised when I looked up James Garner, for no particular reason, to find out he started smoking pot at a young age and continued through his life.

 

[Levi]

There is a cool movie about Chuck Barris, "confessions of a dangerous mind"

 

[Raj]

Huh, I thought it was a typo!

Never was exposed to the Gong Show.

Never. Saw. The. Gong. Show?!?!??!

https://youtu.be/tDxDYIQL6Nc

 

[MasterBlaster]

RIP Doc Rickles...

 

[Raj]

 

[BlackSmith]

Damn, the only person in Hollyweird I could relate too. RIP ya crazy ol bastid...

ETA: Classic Rickles... https://youtu.be/ZblPwNLH6hg

 

[cory]

Gotta say that was damn good

 

[Burnham]

Rickles was off the charts ahead of his time. A classic.

 

[MasterBlaster]

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[Altissimus]

I often wonder in today's uptight political correctness scene if he could have come up through now and made it. Same for Richard Pryor.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Sheit.....not a chance.