Dropping Like Flies

Yada wrote:
Assata shakur

wow, quite a story and Tupac's godmother
Man did the gov't do some shitty things in the 60s/70s on it's 'war on crime'
feel like history is repeating itself

Kaleb Horton

yeah, that one is rough.  Spent a good chunk of the weekend re-reading some of his past work.

Yada wrote:
Kaleb Horton

Did we ever get any details on the "how" here?

Yada wrote:
Kaleb Horton

We still have Tim Horton.

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:
Kaleb Horton

We still have Tim Horton.

To be fair, the quality has really dropped off.

I saw someone attribute it to a seizure, but didn't really dig too deeply

Julian, wrote:

Yada wrote:
Kaleb Horton

Did we ever get any details on the "how" here?

Chris Dreja - Rhythm Guitar Player for The Yardbirds, switched to bass briefly in the 60s.

Clearly Led Zeppelin was the cause of at least two missed opportunities

Yardbirds bassist and rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja has died at 79. Jimmy Page offered him the role of bassist in what was to become Led Zeppelin, but he declined in order to pursue photography.

Soo Catwoman

For any current or former New Yorkers:

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/dining/saul-zabar-dead.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

John Lodge, Moody Blues

Mike Greenwell, Red Sox

David “Blockhead” Wright keyboard player for The (English) Beat and composer of “I Confess”

And as the story goes


“Dave Blockhead, the piano player, had been our lighting guy. And one evening Saxa was unwell—he’d had a bit too much to drink the night before probably, but we used to call it ‘unwell’—and said he couldn’t play that night, and was adamant about it. He’d said that a few times before, but he really didn’t look that well, and didn’t look like he could play, so we were stuck. And Blockhead popped up and said, ‘Well, I know all of Saxa’s horn lines on the piano, and I could play them on an organ, if you could get one.’ He was a classically trained pianist, and lived in Barbados for about eight years as a geography teacher and while he was there he taught himself how to play Calypso on the piano as a hobby. This is a 6-foot-3-inch skinhead. [Laughs.] So he jumped onboard and played Saxa’s solos on the keyboard that night, and it worked.”

Ian Watkins
(Lostprophets)

Talk about burying the lede

He was killed in prison where he was serving a 29 year sentence for child sex offenses

Diane Keaton

Oh no!!

For years, whenever someone would ask the question, “hey who was that hot little number in that thing,” the answer was invariably “Diane Keaton.”