Dropping Like Flies
Kofi Annan.
Bianca del rio's career? some,how, I doubt it. she is insult, she is brilliant, and she's not sorry.
i know . . . who?
i know . . . who?
walkonbyeeeeeeeee wrote:
Bianca del rio's career? some,how, I doubt it. she is insult, she is brilliant, and she's not sorry.
i know . . . who?
Damn, she is really funny too. Hard to keep walking that edgy line without jokes not landing. She is too talented to go away.
moeszyslak wrote:walkonbyeeeeeeeee wrote:
Bianca del rio's career? some,how, I doubt it. she is insult, she is brilliant, and she's not sorry.
i know . . . who?
Damn, she is really funny too. Hard to keep walking that edgy line without jokes not landing. She is too talented to go away.
Isn't "she" really a guy named Roy?
The inestimable Stefan Karl, a Julian’s American in honorium.
Eddie Willis guitar playing Funk Brother
Ed King, Skynyrd
Justin wrote:
Robin Leach
400 pages. That's a lotta flies.
got to imagine Julian's America is getting ready grant a posthumous knighthood for this key player in the brand
his interview standards seem to match membership critera
anyone with a net worth above $50 million (the minimum cutoff).
John McCain
Neil Simon
ggw wrote:
Neil Simon
I have longtime history with his works. He was amazingly prolific and, even with some duds, brought so much laughter and acute observation over many themes.
Him being out of the limelight for over a decade and hitting 91-years-old makes his passing not overly tragic but it still marks an end to an era – his contributions to the world of comedy and Broadway likely will never be matched.
I was listening, to some head doctor, discuss how it may be a borderline mental illness, to feel the need to be the first person to declare the deaths of famous people on some type of, forum.
He's just saying that so he can be the one to post first!
walkonbyeeeeeeeee wrote:
I was listening, to some head doctor, discuss how it may be a borderline mental illness, to feel the need to be the first person to declare the deaths of famous people on some type of, forum.
I've heard it's the race-to-update-Wikipedia that is the gold standard for this.
walkonbyeeeeeeeee wrote:
I was listening, to some head doctor, discuss how it may be a borderline mental illness, to feel the need to be the first person to declare the deaths of famous people on some type of, forum.
I'd love to hear their thoughts on my participating in dead pools…
They would say, you are, greedy . . . with a slight Eastwood personality disorder.
Ellie Mannette, a Trinidadian musician known in the United States as the father of the modern steel drum, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Morgantown, W.Va. He was 90.
The cause was kidney failure, his daughter Juliette Mannette said.
As a child in Port of Spain, Trinidad’s capital, Mr. Mannette became fascinated with the bands he saw using trash cans and buckets as drums, hitting them in different ways to create different sounds. For the rest of his life, he sought to elevate and expand the craft of steel-pan music, and to share it with the world.
He became a master tuner, builder and teacher. His shop, Mannette Instruments in Morgantown, is a major supplier of the instruments in the United States, and he trained students in tuning at West Virginia University for nearly 20 years. Numerous American universities now have steel-pan ensembles of their own, some led by Mr. Mannette’s former apprentices.
Mr. Mannette was among the first to fashion a steel drum that had all the notes of the chromatic scale, so it could play any melody in any key.
“He imagined a sound of this instrument that nobody else had imagined for it,” Shannon Dudley, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Washington, said in a telephone interview. “He strove to create that sound, and it captivated a lot of people.”
Mr. Dudley added that steel pans, now seen as a symbol of innovation and resistance, were once disparaged. Earlier percussion instruments had been banned by colonialists in Trinidad, and in the 1940s and ’50s the music was associated with rivalries and fights. But Mr. Mannette, he said, “helped to bring it out of that denigrated status, by making the music more and more compelling.”
Today the steel drum is the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago.
Kim Johnson, the director of the Carnival Institute of Trinidad and Tobago, said that Mr. Mannette’s greatest contribution was how he shared his knowledge generously, even before he left the island.
“He was a natural teacher,” Mr. Johnson said in a telephone interview. “His way of making pans became the first globalized way, the first way you’d find all over the country, from people he taught, from bands whose instruments he made, and from people trying to copy him.”
Elliott Anthony Mannette was born on Nov. 5, 1927, in the small beach town of Sans Souci. His father, Sydney, was a carpenter and mason, and his mother, Imelda, was a homemaker. He was one of nine children.
He gravitated to carnival celebrations and music as a child and joined his first band when he was 11. Before long, he was creating his own instruments out of old oil drums and other discarded items. By 1940, he had formed the Invaders Steel Orchestra with two of his brothers and other musicians.
He designed and tuned the pans for the band, drawing on skills he picked up working in an iron foundry. He fashioned drums out of 55-gallon barrels and made them concave, like a bowl, which gave them a different sound. He tuned the instruments by ear, tapping with a hammer to get the exact note he wanted from the metal.
In 1951, Trinidad and Tobago sent him to Britain as part of the Trinidad All-Steel Percussion Orchestra. By 1959, the band had a contract with Columbia Records.
In the 1960s, Mr. Mannette traveled to the United States to help develop the Navy Steel Band, which brought steel-band music to the American public.
In 1967 he made the transition permanent, moving to New York to work with urban youth in music programs. He would not return to Trinidad until 2000, when he received the Chaconia Medal from Trinidad and Tobago, the country’s second-highest state decoration. That same year, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine.
Mr. Mannette was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1999. He was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2003.
https://youtu.be/23Bp59xfAUw
The cause was kidney failure, his daughter Juliette Mannette said.
As a child in Port of Spain, Trinidad’s capital, Mr. Mannette became fascinated with the bands he saw using trash cans and buckets as drums, hitting them in different ways to create different sounds. For the rest of his life, he sought to elevate and expand the craft of steel-pan music, and to share it with the world.
He became a master tuner, builder and teacher. His shop, Mannette Instruments in Morgantown, is a major supplier of the instruments in the United States, and he trained students in tuning at West Virginia University for nearly 20 years. Numerous American universities now have steel-pan ensembles of their own, some led by Mr. Mannette’s former apprentices.
Mr. Mannette was among the first to fashion a steel drum that had all the notes of the chromatic scale, so it could play any melody in any key.
“He imagined a sound of this instrument that nobody else had imagined for it,” Shannon Dudley, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Washington, said in a telephone interview. “He strove to create that sound, and it captivated a lot of people.”
Mr. Dudley added that steel pans, now seen as a symbol of innovation and resistance, were once disparaged. Earlier percussion instruments had been banned by colonialists in Trinidad, and in the 1940s and ’50s the music was associated with rivalries and fights. But Mr. Mannette, he said, “helped to bring it out of that denigrated status, by making the music more and more compelling.”
Today the steel drum is the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago.
Kim Johnson, the director of the Carnival Institute of Trinidad and Tobago, said that Mr. Mannette’s greatest contribution was how he shared his knowledge generously, even before he left the island.
“He was a natural teacher,” Mr. Johnson said in a telephone interview. “His way of making pans became the first globalized way, the first way you’d find all over the country, from people he taught, from bands whose instruments he made, and from people trying to copy him.”
Elliott Anthony Mannette was born on Nov. 5, 1927, in the small beach town of Sans Souci. His father, Sydney, was a carpenter and mason, and his mother, Imelda, was a homemaker. He was one of nine children.
He gravitated to carnival celebrations and music as a child and joined his first band when he was 11. Before long, he was creating his own instruments out of old oil drums and other discarded items. By 1940, he had formed the Invaders Steel Orchestra with two of his brothers and other musicians.
He designed and tuned the pans for the band, drawing on skills he picked up working in an iron foundry. He fashioned drums out of 55-gallon barrels and made them concave, like a bowl, which gave them a different sound. He tuned the instruments by ear, tapping with a hammer to get the exact note he wanted from the metal.
In 1951, Trinidad and Tobago sent him to Britain as part of the Trinidad All-Steel Percussion Orchestra. By 1959, the band had a contract with Columbia Records.
In the 1960s, Mr. Mannette traveled to the United States to help develop the Navy Steel Band, which brought steel-band music to the American public.
In 1967 he made the transition permanent, moving to New York to work with urban youth in music programs. He would not return to Trinidad until 2000, when he received the Chaconia Medal from Trinidad and Tobago, the country’s second-highest state decoration. That same year, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine.
Mr. Mannette was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1999. He was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2003.
https://youtu.be/23Bp59xfAUw
Conway Savage of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-pianist-conway-savage-dead-at-58-718568/
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-pianist-conway-savage-dead-at-58-718568/