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Tangle Member Posts: 9514 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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My irony meter needs recalibrating.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8563 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
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Phil Everly - Jan 19, 1939 - Jan 3, 2014 (top)
Reunion Concert - 1983 [ABE] An indulgence for an old man's memories, please. This one I used to sing to the pretty girls. You wouldn't know it now but I was pretty good at that 50 years ago.
To my young love. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.
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dronestar Member Posts: 1417 From: usa Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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I don't know, but I think a forum devoted to critical thinking and logic should salute one of mankind's greatest fictional polymaths (B.A. from U.S.C., a B.S. from U.C.L.A., an M.A. from S.M.U. and a Ph.D. from T.C.U.):
Russell Johnson (November 10, 1924 — January 16, 2014), as the Professor Not sure if the type of watchers of Gilligan's Island ever appreciated his keen intellect, but I am hoping he inspired some to travel farther intellectually than they would have without his presence.
Russell Johnson - Wikipedia Edited by dronester, : added degrees
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8563 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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Pete Seeger - Folk Singer, Social Activist May 3, 1919 — January 27, 2014
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ramoss Member (Idle past 641 days) Posts: 3228 Joined:
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I remember seeing him on the Clearwater going up and down the Hudson, more than 40 years ago.
I think his raising awareness about the environment is one of the reasons that there was an effort to clean up the river.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8563 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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That's Seeger, the activist hero.
He all but flipped the bird at congress when called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, convicted of contempt, sentenced to 10 years (reversed on appeal). Then Vietnam, Cambodia, Watergate. Some funny, some deep songs, pointed right at the hearts of LBJ and Nixon. For a generation of baby boomers he was a symbol of defiance, protest, renewal and hope. Bye, Pete. And Thanks.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
I think his raising awareness about the environment is one of the reasons that there was an effort to clean up the river. Jeez Ramoss, it just might...just might have been "possibly" a reason. This country just lost its Greatest Living American.- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
- xongsmith, 5.7d
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Trump won  Suspended Member (Idle past 1269 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
rest in peace pete seeger. I got to meet him and his wife at a concert he did at a Poughkeepsie church. made the mistake of bringing up Dylan.
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ramoss Member (Idle past 641 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Are you in Poughkeepsie?? I worked at IBM in Pok for a bit. And what DID Pete say about Dylan?
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Trump won  Suspended Member (Idle past 1269 days) Posts: 1928 Joined:
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no, I live in millerton. he looked at me funny when I brought up Dylan after we talked about the banjo, his only anecdote (about the banjo) being that he didn't know how he played so fast on his early records. I think this was 2006 or so and he said a few years before Dylan showed up at his house unannounced and they shot the stuff for awhile, I suppose.
I don't think he cared really either way, but it was offputting for me to bring up Dylan because he is in some ways just as big of an icon as Dylan, and he aborted the convo shortly after. it was a relatively short encounter. I know he brought up how he couldn't understand a thing Dylan said the last time he saw him on stage. he was one of my idols at the time, so it was nice meeting him. I don't think his wife appreciated the grandeur I seemed to place on her husband with my kinda awestruck eyes. I didn't expect to see him at all aside from on the stage. coincidentally my banjo instructor was in the audience with his wife. (I no longer play.) man, he rocked the house at that concert too. his hands were still really dexterous. I saw him awhile after in beacon and he wasn't nearly as pliant on the instruments. it was kind of amazing how he could bring the house down in his late eighties or ninety or whatever the heck year it was with a simple banjo and a simple guitar. maybe a capo. the Poughkeepsie journal did a whole issue on him now. I have it. it says bob Dylan once called him a saint and he responded "what a terrible thing to call someone." Edited by Kierkegaard, : No reason given. Edited by Kierkegaard, : No reason given. Edited by Kierkegaard, : No reason given. Edited by Kierkegaard, : No reason given. Edited by Kierkegaard, : No reason given. Edited by Kierkegaard, : No reason given. Edited by Kierkegaard, : No reason given.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4
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it says bob Dylan once called him a saint and he responded "what a terrible thing to call someone." excerpted from Bob's 11 Outlined Epitaphs on the notes to his 3rd album, Times They Are A-Changin': with the sounds of Franois Villonechoin' through my mad streets as I sumble on lost cigars of Bertolt Brecht an' empty bottles of Brendan Behan the hypnotic words of Al Lloyd each one bendin' like its own song an' the woven spell of Paul Clayton entrancin' me like China's plague unescapable drownin' in the lungs of Edith Piaf an' in the mystery of Marlene Dietrich the dead poems of Eddie Freeman love songs of Allen Ginsberg an' jail songs of Ray Bremser the narrow tunes of Modigliani an' the singin' plains of Harry Jackson the cries of Charles Aznavour through the quiet fire of Miles Davis above the bells of William Blake an' beat visions of Johnny Cash an' the saintliness of Pete Seeger - xongsmith, 5.7d
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Percy Member Posts: 22504 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 4.9 |
After his career Ralph Kiner did New York Mets television broadcasts with Lindsey Nelson and Bob Murphy for years and years, and at end of each game he interviewed a ballplayer on Kiner's Korner. Nolan Ryan began his career with the Mets and Kiner broadcast Ryan pitching many times.
--Percy
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