OT: Dead hard rockers week

[SadShark]

Brian Dennehy RIP. Awesome actor, First Blood was my favourite. Shout out for Tommy Boy as well of course.

Did a great job as John Wayne Gacy in “To Catch a Killer”.

 

[Eion]

Did a great job as John Wayne Gacy in “To Catch a Killer”.

One of those rare blokes who made everything he was in better...by being in it.

 

[tom of poland]

Matthew Seligman, a member of The Soft Boys (original bass player) and Thompson Twins who also worked extensively with Thomas Dolby and David Bowie, has died from COVID-19.

Any love for the Soft Boys out there ?

 

[SadShark]

Dave Greenfield - The Stranglers keyboardist, 71 (COVID-19).

 

[carcharias]

Dave Greenfield - The Stranglers keyboardist, 71 (COVID-19).

71 !!!
Sheesh
Love that band. So inventive and original.

 

[bad boy bubby]

He had a hand in writing the song that made me notice them as a kid, probably the same for a few of us i daresay.

 

[tom of poland]

Loved the Stranglers right from the start, 1977 for me, as 2JJ played them a lot and had the pleasure of seeing them on their very first tour here in 1979 at a long gone place called the Stagedoor Tavern, near Central Station. It was very loud and very packed.

 

[carcharias]

He had a hand in writing the song that made me notice them as a kid, probably the same for a few of us i daresay.

such a beautiful song.
...and I mean beautiful in a man way.

I love Peaches.

 

[Quigs]

Loved the Stranglers right from the start, 1977 for me, as 2JJ played them a lot and had the pleasure of seeing them on their very first tour here in 1979 at a long gone place called the Stagedoor Tavern, near Central Station. It was very loud and very packed.

O.T. Thomas.... Many happies for the other day. Hope you had a good one.

 

[tom of poland]

O.T. Thomas.... Many happies for the other day. Hope you had a good one.

Thanks Quigs it was very pleasant.

 

[SadShark]

Florian Schneider - Kraftwerk, 73.

 

[bad boy bubby]

Florian Schneider - Kraftwerk, 73.

Saw them at the BDO. I think it was 2004.
I got given Pocket Calculator in a high school assignment to study and make an assessment of it. f**ked if I can remember what I wrote but the song has stuck in n my head forever.

 

[tom of poland]

Back at school we used to sing "I'm the masturbator with the pocket calculator".

Being as old as I am I remember first hearing Kraftwerk on the ABC radio station 2BL (thats ABC local radio for you young ones) which had a progressive rock music show called Room To Move. They played virtually the whole of the Autobahn album, and the announcer said that Kraftwerk were part of an electronic music scene in Germany which had been labelled "Krautrock". I was very surprised when 2SM started playing an edited version of Autobahn several months later, but that was probably because the album had started selling well.

 

[tom of poland]

RIP MIllie Small, who sang "My Boy Lollipop" and was said to have introduced ska music to English pop music in the mid 60s.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...cRj3cu-HanpqVANPi1zc0_3l-DTQ7mmTMGzpryw6_bkSU

 

[carcharias]

Saw them at the BDO. I think it was 2004.
I got given Pocket Calculator in a high school assignment to study and make an assessment of it. f**ked if I can remember what I wrote but the song has stuck in n my head forever.

I vaguely recall seeing them too.
It was late in the day from memory.

 

[bad boy bubby]

I vaguely recall seeing them too.
It was late in the day from memory.

Yep. In that Boiler Room or something.
Kent from The Rifles was living at my place at the time, he got us freebies.

 

[carcharias]

Boiler room
My idea of hell

 

[SadShark]

Brian Anthony Howe - lead singer Bad Company, 66.

 

[Thick Skinned Shark]

Back at school we used to sing "I'm the masturbator with the pocket calculator".

Being as old as I am I remember first hearing Kraftwerk on the ABC radio station 2BL (thats ABC local radio for you young ones) which had a progressive rock music show called Room To Move. They played virtually the whole of the Autobahn album, and the announcer said that Kraftwerk were part of an electronic music scene in Germany which had been labelled "Krautrock". I was very surprised when 2SM started playing an edited version of Autobahn several months later, but that was probably because the album had started selling well.

f**k you must be old Tom But no one could say your memory is not intact!

 

[azzah72]

Roy Horn of siegfried and roy, died of complications from the Rona.

I don't know much about them but I dare say he lived a crazy life.