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R.I.P.
Jul 28, 2021 23:49:21 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jul 28, 2021 23:49:21 GMT
Terrible news. Only 72. I like ZZ Top a lot. "La Grange" is a favorite. R.I.P. Dusty.
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Jul 29, 2021 12:57:20 GMT
Post by kds on Jul 29, 2021 12:57:20 GMT
Terrible news. Only 72. I like ZZ Top a lot. "La Grange" is a favorite. R.I.P. Dusty. Unfortunately, they were one of those bands that I kept saying "I should probably see them in person." I'm a fairly causal ZZ Top fan, and I'd say that about most southern rock in general, but I've probably liked everything I've heard from them. I actually did buy most of their 70s albums in a set through BMG several years ago, called the ZZ Top six pack. Although, I learned later that those CDs were mixed to sound a little more like the 80s sounded ZZ Top albums.
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Jul 29, 2021 13:01:40 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Jul 29, 2021 13:01:40 GMT
ZZ Top were a band I only came to know through MTV, in almost real time, with Eliminator ('83) and Afterburner ('85) especially. Like KISS, Twisted Sister, David Lee Roth, Prince, and Michael Jackson, they were a perfect band for a budding music fan because they were so cartoonish. And those hits were everywhere through the mid '80s.
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Jul 29, 2021 13:04:44 GMT
Post by kds on Jul 29, 2021 13:04:44 GMT
ZZ Top were a band I only came to know through MTV, in almost real time, with Eliminator ('83) and Afterburner ('85) especially. Like KISS, Twisted Sister, David Lee Roth, Prince, and Michael Jackson, they were a perfect band for a budding music fan because they were so cartoonish. And those hits were everywhere through the mid '80s. That's how I came to know them initially too. Then, they had a song and cameo in Back to the Future Part III. I actually had a cass-single of that song - Double Back. I think I was in college by the time I became aware of their 70s material.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 21, 2021 12:22:20 GMT
R.I.P. Tom T. Hall (May 25, 1936 - August 20, 2021)..."The Storyteller". Tom wrote "Harper Valley P.T.A." for Jeannie C. Riley and had a hit record with "I Love" (reaching No. 12 in 1974).
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Aug 21, 2021 20:27:37 GMT
Post by carllove on Aug 21, 2021 20:27:37 GMT
R.I.P. Tom T. Hall (May 25, 1936 - August 20, 2021)..."The Storyteller". Tom wrote "Harper Valley P.T.A." for Jeannie C. Riley and had a hit record with "I Love" (reaching No. 12 in 1974).
I had not heard that! Sad š¢
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Aug 22, 2021 13:47:28 GMT
Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 22, 2021 13:47:28 GMT
R.I.P. Don Everly (February 1, 1937 - August 21, 2021), of The Everly Brothers, and the older brother of Phil who passed away in 2014. Part of a legendary duo and very instrumental to many of our favorite artists including The Beach Boys, The Beatles, and Simon & Garfunkel.
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Aug 23, 2021 0:35:21 GMT
Post by carllove on Aug 23, 2021 0:35:21 GMT
R.I.P. Don Everly (February 1, 1937 - August 21, 2021), of The Everly Brothers, and the older brother of Phil who passed away in 2014. Part of a legendary duo and very instrumental to many of our favorite artists including The Beach Boys, The Beatles, and Simon & Garfunkel.
Dang! Sad news! Thanks for the post.
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Aug 23, 2021 4:35:20 GMT
Post by lonelysummer on Aug 23, 2021 4:35:20 GMT
Phil's death hit me very hard. Completely unexpected. Maybe that's why I'm not feeling as emotional this time. Neither one of them were active in recent years, so I can only hope their final years on Earth were happy, peaceful. I kept hoping back in the 90's that they'd do one more album - those 80's records are very good.
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Post by jk on Aug 23, 2021 8:17:07 GMT
Real shame. Still, 84 is not bad as ages go. He had a good innings.
Heaven has just gained itself some heavenly harmonizing.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 23, 2021 11:48:33 GMT
Yeah, the Everly Brothers obviously have not been a...significant recording act (I can't think of the proper term)...for years now, and, of course, Phil passed away seven years ago. But, it still hurts now that Don is gone. When I hear songs like "Wake Up Little Susie", "Bye Bye Love", "Cathy's Clown" and others, they almost define the late 50's radio music. It just has a great sound - a combination rock, pop, folk, pop, country, whatever. How many movies and TV shows has that music been featured in. It's hard to believe that Jerry Lee Lewis is now the last one standing from that era.
And, in The Beach Boys Today! Forum trivia..."All I Have To Do Is Dream" was the No. 1 song on the day I was born!
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Aug 23, 2021 19:58:49 GMT
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Post by lonelysummer on Aug 23, 2021 19:58:49 GMT
I'll never forget the night I heard that Phil Everly had died. I had been on the phone for several hours with a long distance girlfriend - another lover of 50s and 60s pop and rock music. Our conversation ended, I went online, and there was the news. Stunned. Shocked and stunned. So who is left from 50's rock and roll now, besides Jerry Lee Lewis and Dion Dimucci? Clarence Frogman Henry?
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 23, 2021 22:32:29 GMT
So who is left from 50's rock and roll now, besides Jerry Lee Lewis and Dion Dimucci? Clarence Frogman Henry? Huey "Piano" Smith is 87. He had two hits with "Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu" and "Don't You Just Know It".
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 24, 2021 12:21:38 GMT
R.I.P. Sheila Bromberg, the harpist who played on The Beatles' "She's Leaving Home". She was 92.
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Aug 24, 2021 16:49:02 GMT
Post by Kapitan on Aug 24, 2021 16:49:02 GMT
Charlie Watts, 80, has died.
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