The RIP Thread...

[MasterBlaster]

RIP Angry Grandpa...

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[Mick!]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42319115

A strange and sad story, Charles Jenkins, defector to NK.

 

[BlackSmith]

“In 1965, while stationed with the US Army in South Korea by the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), Mr Jenkins decided to abandon his unit and defect to the North, fearing he would be killed in patrols or sent to fight in the Vietnam War.”

Sad?

 

[cory]

AC/DC founder Malcolm Young.

Lordy, dem Foo Fighters and Dave Grol just have a deep love for rock and roll. Here is their tribute to Malcolm Young. Beware, this may remove your face.

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[MasterBlaster]

Dave is the coolest guy in rock & roll!

 

[cory]

He is the freaking man. I'm not even a huge fan, its just that everytime I see him doing something, it's really cool

 

[FireFighterZero]

https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Dolores+O'Riordan&qpvt=Dolores+O'Riordan&FORM=EWRE

 

[BlackSmith]

Great singer, crazy as a chithouse rat tho.

 

[Altissimus]

Anniversary , the day the music died

 

[stig]

Great singer, crazy as a chithouse rat tho.

Lot of the best are, it seems.

Just to stay in the Irish genre, Sean MacGowan isn't too sane either, but man, can he sing.

 

[Mick!]

Lot of the best are, it seems.

Just to stay in the Irish genre, Sean MacGowan isn't too sane either, but man, can he sing.

Who?

 

[stig]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFuck!

Shane MacGowan.

Man, the names of all those potato eaters sound the same.

I'll go beat my head against the wall now!

 

[Mick!]

Ok, thought as much.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Dont take it too hard Stig.

I was no closer to knowing who it was anyway.

Is he from Belize?

 

[stig]

Not hardly:

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[MasterBlaster]

Hahahahaaa

 

[Mick!]

He’s an interesting character, from the studio of alcoholic Irish artistes, ugly, terrible teeth, not especially talented but has a kind of gritty humanity in his writing and voice that strikes a chord.

Here he is singing Fairytale of New York with the late Kirsty McColl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8 He is rather admired over here.

 

[stig]

" Not especially talented"?

He has written and song some absolutely brilliant songs.
I think you stand pretty much alone with that statement, Mick.

 

[Mick!]

Vocally.

 

[stig]

OK!
Got ya.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Just because you are not very good at singing doesn't mean you are not a good singer.

 

[Mick!]

I agree Jim, but it helps.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Some of the great country western singers were rubbish.

Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb to name a couple.


For a guy like me, I would need to sound like Pavarotti.

 

[stig]

Pavarotti's voice never did anything for me.
But then, that is true of most male opera singers.
I always preferred the females.
The coloratura sopranes most of all ( since we are in the crazy as a shithouse rat section, anyway).

Edda Moser is my favourite, at least when it comes to Mozart.

Der H?lle rache kocht in meinem herzen:

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[pete mctree]

I've always been a Shane fan - rum sodomy & the lash is an album that has been a constant in my adult life