*** Official OOT Less Important Than George Michael RIP Thread ***
Here's a catchall thread for condolences for all your George Michael and below subchampions. May they all RIP.
RIP Alla
Charles Dolan, Cable Industry Pioneer and Founder of HBO, Dies at 98.
Former President Jimmy Carter 100
First president to be born in a hospital. Seems like the best actual human being to be president. RIP
If this doesn't merit a thread title change, I'm not sure what would.
Great human being!
RIP
The 1976 electoral college map is wild. RIP.
oh like the only lessons learned are how garlic centric cultures are able to exploit the current financial situation
precisely
just funning with words
may will all be a paul bearer at his funeral
Decades ago I fell into the habit of spending a weekend at the Kerrville Folk Festival which spanned three weekends every year. I usually chose Memorial Day weekend to go as there was an extra night of music. As it turned out Peter Yarrow's birthday usually fell during that weekend, and he was often a performer that weekend.
In those days most of the seating was BYO lawn chairs or blankets on the ground. One weekend I was there with an ex and there was a small group of talkers directly behind us. I was annoyed (not unusual for me) through a few of the other performers with the yakkers, but their distraction was actually fairly easy to ignore. However, they were apparently too young to appreciate Peter Yarrow as their talking became louder and more distracting when he came on. My ex was a big PP&M fan, and suddenly she was far more annoyed than I. It didn't take long for her to lose it and turn toward the talkers and loudly demand, "Shut up! I'm trying to listen to songs about peace and love." Through the darkness came a faint, feminine, "Yes, ma'am." No more audible talking the rest of the night! I could not quit laughing--as quietly as I could manage.
RIP Peter
what an amazing memory
Beloved Las Vegas Lounge Lizard Cook E. Jarr Dies
Bob Uecker passes away at 90. RIP
AS I said in the other thread, grew up a Brewers fan, listening to his play-by-play. This was just at the time he was achieving notoriety. I am saddened by this.
Must be in the front row...
RIP
Garth Hudson passed away. The last member of the Band.
My favorite Garth story I heard from the movie the Last Waltz.
Garth was educated in music. His mother was adamantly against him being in a rock band and wasting his life. So he charged the rest of the members of the Band a couple of dollars a week and told his mother he was giving them music lessons.
Beat me to it. Gonna queue up a viewing of the Last Waltz this evening, I think.
I tried to find a video clip of the story but failed. Here’s the exact details from his wiki page
Hudson was first approached by Ronnie Hawkins and Levon Helm in the summer of 1961, after a Kapers show in London, and asked to join the Hawks, an offer he declined. The Hawks persisted, and in December 1961, Hudson agreed to join the band on two conditions: that Hawkins buy him a Lowrey organ, and that he be paid an extra $10 a week by each of the other band members to give music lessons to the other Hawks. This second condition was in part to justify the move to his parents, who he feared would think he was squandering his years of music education by playing in a rock and roll band.