Re: Celebrity Death List MMXVII/The Death Thread 2017

by JGK Thu 18 May 2017, 03:09

lardbucket wrote:Actually, it's been the proverbial bad few days for Australian 80's musicians.

Robbie Souter of the Dynamic Hepnotics also gone - liver failure.

http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2017/05/12/dynamic-hepnotics-drummer-robbie-souter-passes-away-aged-68/

Hard lives.

Did they do anything other than "Soul Kinda Feelin'"?

by JGK Thu 18 May 2017, 03:10

lardbucket wrote:Kevin Stanton, MiSex guitarist, only 61.

Cancer from too much time playing Compu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter Games?

by Bradman Thu 18 May 2017, 05:25

JGK wrote:
lardbucket wrote:Kevin Stanton, MiSex guitarist, only 61.

Cancer from too much time playing Compu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter Games?

Geez there was some crap around at the end of the seventies.

by lardbucket Thu 18 May 2017, 06:18

horace wrote:Dynamic Hepnotics were great...great live, but now sadly not... Continental Robert out bluesed the Blue Bros....great rhythm section of which Souter was they key.

Continental Robert still goes well.

They were tragically hep. Some irony in that name given the subsequent liver issues.

by lardbucket Thu 18 May 2017, 06:19

Bradman wrote:
JGK wrote:
lardbucket wrote:Kevin Stanton, MiSex guitarist, only 61.

Cancer from too much time playing Compu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter Games?

Geez there was some crap around at the end of the seventies.

Annoying lyrics (Kiwi) but a memorable growly riff (Aussie as)

by Bradman Thu 18 May 2017, 06:33

Little bit too techno for me.

by JGK Thu 18 May 2017, 06:43

Bradman wrote:Little bit too techno for me.

To be fair - it was the start of the electronica era. It's not surprising that groups were experimenting with sound.

It was also a pretty memorable music video for the time wasn't it? Lots of green lasers everywhere.

by skully Thu 18 May 2017, 07:05

Bradman wrote:
JGK wrote:
lardbucket wrote:Kevin Stanton, MiSex guitarist, only 61.

Cancer from too much time playing Compu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puter Games?

Geez there was some crap around at the end of the seventies.

Fark orf, Computer Games was/is a grouse song. It immediately takes me back to a very happy and carefree time of my life. snoopy-dance

by Bradman Thu 18 May 2017, 07:07

Well at the time you couldn't get away from some of it at the clubs. Who did Space Invaders? I seem to remember they had a theme going.

And look what it begat.

by lardbucket Thu 18 May 2017, 08:14

Agree with the techno excess, but I was always tuning that out and enjoying the guitar sound ... the song was ubiquitous for a while.

by skully Thu 18 May 2017, 10:00

RIP Chris Cornell, lead singer of Soundgarden. Dead at just 52.

by horace Thu 18 May 2017, 13:50

Squalid Roger Ailes departs this mortal coil.

Maybe Murdoch and Trump will attend the funeral...maybe a few women journos too will cover the event to make it's true.

by JGK Thu 18 May 2017, 15:34

horace wrote:Squalid Roger Ailes departs this mortal coil.

Maybe Murdoch and Trump will attend the funeral...maybe a few women journos too will cover the event to make it's true.

OK, not quite Mugabe but I'll take it.

by JGK Fri 19 May 2017, 01:29

Doesn't sound good for Nicky Hayden...

http://au.eurosport.com/moto/hayden-suffered-severe-brain-damage-says-hospital_sto6170294/story.shtml

by skully Fri 19 May 2017, 01:36

Indeed. When I read this article I immediately thought of Michael Schumacher. Any word on how he's doing?

by JGK Fri 19 May 2017, 01:43

skully wrote:Indeed. When I read this article I immediately thought of Michael Schumacher. Any word on how he's doing?

Not from him.

by skully Fri 19 May 2017, 01:43

*cough*

by JGK Fri 19 May 2017, 01:44

Too soon?

by skully Fri 19 May 2017, 02:19

by JGK Fri 19 May 2017, 02:20

Ah. Fair point.

by Big Dog Fri 19 May 2017, 06:11

skully wrote:RIP Chris Cornell, lead singer of Soundgarden. Dead at just 52.

The black dog strikes again.

by skully Fri 19 May 2017, 08:29

Aye, hung himself apparently*. Very sad.

by JGK Sat 20 May 2017, 06:03

JGK wrote:
horace wrote:Squalid Roger Ailes departs this mortal coil.

Maybe Murdoch and Trump will attend the funeral...maybe a few women journos too will cover the event to make it's true.

OK, not quite Mugabe but I'll take it.

Rolling Stones' obit on Ailes:

“He is on the short list of people most responsible for modern America’s vicious and bloodthirsty character.

We are a hate-filled, paranoid, untrusting, book-dumb and bilious people whose chief source of recreation is slinging insults and threats at each other online, and we’re that way in large part because of the hyper-divisive media environment he discovered.

Ailes was the Christopher Columbus of hate. When the former daytime TV executive and political strategist looked across the American continent, he saw money laying around in giant piles. He knew all that was needed to pick it up was a) the total abandonment of any sense of decency or civic duty in the news business, and b) the factory-like production of news stories that spoke to Americans’ worst fantasies about each other.”

by taipan Mon 22 May 2017, 07:45

Not celebs, apart from the Swiss Machine, but it appears there are 6 down on the big E so far this season.

by WideWally Mon 22 May 2017, 19:05

JGK wrote:Doesn't sound good for Nicky Hayden...

http://au.eurosport.com/moto/hayden-suffered-severe-brain-damage-says-hospital_sto6170294/story.shtml

RIP Nicky

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