R.I.P. 2020
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@Salacious-Crumb said in R.I.P. 2020:
He used to tour NZ in the early-to-mid 1970s with his band The First Edition (later: Kenny Rogers & The First Edition) a band that seemed every bit as as much flower children as country-folkie rockers. Not exactly Moby Grape or the Burritos, but a Buffalo Springfield-meets-The 5th Dimension for the whole family.
I remember his band and road crew comprised a pretty good softball team, kinda legendary in Nashville, and they would have charity game challenges on tour in NZ. He did seem like super-nice bloke who had a genuine affection for Kiwis. R.I.P.
I watched this a couple of years ago, a doc about his 1975 tour to NZ
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@Hooroo said in R.I.P. 2020:
@JC said in R.I.P. 2020:
@sparky I’m not going to lie, I thought he was already gone. RIP though old boy.
So did I. I was genuinely surprised. I think Goscianny (SP) passed some years ago.
1977 apparently.
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Fred 'Curly' Neal
Harlem Globetrotters legend 'Curly' Neal, 77, dies
Fred "Curly" Neal, who played 22 seasons for the Globetrotters and was just the fifth player of the organization to have his number retired, has died at the age of 77.
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Statistician Tony Lewis, half of the team, who came up with the Duckworth-Lewis system.
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http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200218-andrew-weatherall-the-90s-master-of-the-remix
It is difficult to take someone else's art and make it your own without simply riding their coat tails. He seemed to achieve the task pretty well.
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Bill Withers has died at 81
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Good obit on Bill
Remembering Bill Withers, the Soul Legend Who Lived on His Own Terms
The singer-songwriter behind “Lean on Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine” passed away at the age of 81.
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Meant to post this earlier, Surprised @Chris-B isn't all over it
The original bristling, bludgeoning wicketkeeper. Totally unafraid. Skill didn't match his expectations.
After consistently miscuing or missing hooks off Lillee the Aussie bowler glowered at him and asked him where he fucking learned to hook. Big Jock replied off mug bowlers like you.
So yeah confident but stupid.
I saw him play against the Aussies at Eden Park in 77. He played a typically aggressive knock in the first innings riding his luck for a 50. Papers were full of it - Jock was a folk hero, so a bunch of us went down for the Sunday - sat on the grass in front of the west stand drinking beer in the sun. Glorious. Lillee and Walked destroyed us. In no time at all we were 31/4 In comes Edwards - he totally looked the part as he walked out to bat all staunch defiance. This was the man who would stem the tide. 4 balls later we were 31/5 and he was lucky to last that long. Had just enough time to get a top edge off a hook caught Marsh bowled Lillee.
Still a great character. Gone to early.
Footnote to match - Burgess and Hadlee did put together a counterattacking stand but it only delayed the inevitable as we lost by heaps
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@dogmeat aawww shit!
Jock was our local hero and as a snot nosed kid i watched him heaps during that Hawke cup era.
I saw the famous shot over the Trafalgar park grandstand, a lofted sweep on one knee - the story goes it landed in a passing truck and ended up in Blenheim 😉. I think it was in the middle of a double ton.Never heard any shit stories and a quiet wee barrel of a man as far as I could tell.
Rest in peace Graeme, a name no one ever called him.
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And some belated recognition for a former Olympic medallist - Eric Verdonk
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@sparky said in R.I.P. 2020:
Statistician Tony Lewis, half of the team, who came up with the Duckworth-Lewis system.
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Oh, man. Mort Drucker. One of my heroes. R.I.P.
Mort Drucker, Master of the Mad Caricature, Is Dead at 91
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Appearing on “The Tonight Show” in 1985, the actor Michael J. Fox told Johnny Carson that he knew he had made it in show business “when Mort Drucker drew my head.” The director Joe Dante wrote that “there are few thrills in life quite like seeing your own movie parodied in the pages of Mad.”
But not everyone was so pleased. According to Mr. Hendrix, Mad’s 1981 parody of “The Empire Strikes Back,” “The Empire Strikes Out,” prompted the Lucasfilm legal department to send a cease-and-desist letter demanding that the issue be recalled. “Mad replied by sending a copy of another letter they had received the previous month — from George Lucas, offering to buy the original artwork for the ‘Empire’ parody and comparing Mort Drucker to Leonardo da Vinci.”
Mr. Lucas knew Mr. Drucker’s work well. He had commissioned one of Mr. Drucker’s classic multicharacter pileups as the poster for his first hit, “American Graffiti” — a nostalgic movie set in the same summer “The JFK Coloring Book” was a best seller. And, of course, Mr. Drucker had illustrated Mad’s sendup, “American Confetti.”
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@MiketheSnow said in R.I.P. 2020:
Fred 'Curly' Neal
Harlem Globetrotters legend 'Curly' Neal, 77, dies
Fred "Curly" Neal, who played 22 seasons for the Globetrotters and was just the fifth player of the organization to have his number retired, has died at the age of 77.
I grew up with the tv cartoon series, used to b’cast it after school in NZ in the 1970s. Curly was the star of that cartoon. No ifs-and-buts. I suspect he was more recognizable in his day than Meadowlark Lemon and Wilt Chamberlain, which is kinda shocking, but that’s how global a superstar he was.
