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Dropping Like Flies

bunnyman
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 23, 2023 at 01:53 PM UTC #
Algy Ward from the Damned. Performed on Machine Gun Etiquette. Wish he had done more with the band…that bassline on "Love Song" is pure genius.
bunnyman
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 23, 2023 at 02:11 PM UTC #
Justin wrote:
Andy Rourke


Really having a tough time with this one. Never met the guy. I shouldn't feel that sense of loss that I've lost a friend, but I think the impact of the Smiths for me at such a young age was profound because I was confused, figuring myself out, and the Smiths made it perfectly OK to be the weirdo who didn't listen to heavy metal or whatever pop schlock was popular that week. Nobody can dispute the genius of Johnny Marr. Andy made his own playing the ingredient in the Smiths that somehow was the thing that you constantly heard, but maybe didn't identify right away. No other bass player could bring such a groove to a bummer like "How Soon is Now?" and make it feel like it should be played for the dance floor. There was elegance in "the Boy With the Thorn in His Side", the early versions of "These Things Take Time", "You've Got Everything Now", and of course "Handsome Devil" are downright propulsive. "William, It Was Really Nothing"…I bet if you were to isolate the bass, you'd have a banger that you could dance to all on its own. Marr's playing was like stitching that often enveloped the song so it was tight, but Andy's bass could be so substantial but taken for granted for how perfectly-placed it was. Regardless of what the Smiths' legacy is now, I think what's key is how in an extremely short amount of time they crafted some of the best songs I've ever heard. Andy's contribution was essential, and it still saddens me that he left at such a young age. I suppose his loss reminds me of a pivotal time in my life where I developed the maturity to be my own self…to figure out how to leave behind the idea of what I am supposed to be and realize what I am…weirdo, geek, and different, and know that it's all a very good thing. Great music can do that. And Andy was a great musician.
Hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 23, 2023 at 02:27 PM UTC #
Wow…way to cancel Moz
kosmo
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 23, 2023 at 02:40 PM UTC #
bearman🐻 wrote:
Algy Ward from the Damned. Performed on Machine Gun Etiquette. Wish he had done more with the band…that bassline on "Love Song" is pure genius.


I was going to mention this one yesterday, but I lazily wikiepdiaed him and it placed him in The Damned for a year so I figured he was just one of many bassists in the group, didn't realize the impact he had for that one record.  He was also briefly in The Saints on their second and third albums, 78-80.

Post Damned he was in a Heavy Metal group called Tank, which I'm going to check out.  A group which eventually split in two versions
bunnyman
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 23, 2023 at 08:18 PM UTC #
Hutch wrote:
Wow…way to cancel Moz


LOL. I still think he's a brilliant lyricist. Not sure I'm going to go see him perform anymore, but his eulogy to Andy was spot on. And I forgot to mention Mike Joyce…another amazing and underrated drummer.
Hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 24, 2023 at 08:03 PM UTC #
Damn

Tina was one of a kind in so many ways
Space Freely
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 24, 2023 at 08:07 PM UTC #
vansmack wrote:
Tina Turner?  Trending…

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/breaking-tina-turner-dies-age-30069386


We still have the sweet spot that is Frank Turner.
jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies May 24, 2023 at 08:21 PM UTC #
Space wrote:
vansmack wrote:
Tina Turner?  Trending…

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/breaking-tina-turner-dies-age-30069386


We still have the sweet spot that is Frank Turner.
I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A TRADE.
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 03, 2023 at 01:49 PM UTC #
Truman
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 05, 2023 at 10:15 PM UTC #
Mmmmm bop
Hanssen
Hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 06, 2023 at 12:41 PM UTC #
Astrud Gilberto


Dammit
kosmo
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 06, 2023 at 10:57 PM UTC #
George Winston

Tony McPhee (The Groundhogs)

Francoise Gilot - Artist and one time girlfriend of Picasso
grateful
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 07, 2023 at 01:19 AM UTC #
Wow!


I saw George Winston at the Kennedy Center in 1988.
jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 07, 2023 at 01:54 AM UTC #
kosmo wrote:
Francoise Gilot - Artist and one time girlfriend of Picasso
Would you say that age difference was Pablo-matic?
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 07, 2023 at 10:36 AM UTC #
kosmo wrote:

Francoise Gilot - Artist and one time girlfriend of Picasso

He was only five foot three
Girls could not resist his stare
Subsequently, Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
Yada
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 07, 2023 at 03:26 PM UTC #
The Iron Sheik
jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 07, 2023 at 03:45 PM UTC #
Yada wrote:
The Iron Sheik
At least he got to see Saudi Arabia conquer golf. Suck it Hogan.
nkotb
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Re: Dropping Like Flies June 07, 2023 at 04:51 PM UTC #


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Subsequently, Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
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