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Re: Rock & Roll Star Death Pool
MarkSJohnson #416970 02/10/16 08:58 PM
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Wow, my little thread has at least two of you "50-somethings" starting to get jittery. Funny how differently we each measure our own successes.


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Re: Rock & Roll Star Death Pool
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George Martin should count, right? He was 90.


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Re: Rock & Roll Star Death Pool
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Keith Emerson.

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I suppose every generation has this pain.


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Re: Rock & Roll Star Death Pool
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Keith Emerson, RIP. Sad, sad, sad.


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Needless to say, he was an early idol of mine, as he was to all R & R keyboard players. He took the spotlight off of the guitarists, if even for a little while. A brilliant player.

Whoa! I just read how! He shot himself in the head, following depression from nerve problems in his right hand.

If I shot myself in the head every time I encountered a very serious medical problem that depressed me, then I guess I could have limited it to just that first problem, huh?

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Re: Rock & Roll Star Death Pool
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Originally Posted By tomtuttle


I suppose every generation has this pain.


That made me think, and I have to disagree, Tom, though not with any particularly strident feelings.

No generation before ours (boomers) propelled so many musicians, actors, artists, et al, to such heights of global fame and fortune. We MADE the record industry! Add that we were the first to be raised with TV, then the #'s of famous people we "know" is even bigger.

But back to music. In my parents' time, there were artists with a first and last name. The people who actually played the instruments and wrote the songs were not names they usually knew. When a big-band trombone player died, no one noticed.

Our artists were mostly bands AND writers, so there are 4 or 5 individual names we know for each "artist." That ups the #'s considerably.

Our parents were not fans of 100+ musical artists in their lifetimes. I had crashed through that number before I was 20, just like a lot of you.

We have put more people on pedestals than anyone before. That leads to lots of falling off said pedestals.

I can't believe the coincidence of starting this thread when I did. I had intended it to be more like DraftKings or FanDuel, only sans $$. Now, the recent spate has shown how impossible it is to guess.

(How often do you get to write "spate?" Really? And why is it so often preceded by a temporal adjective? You see, these are the real questions. To focus on other things is folly.)

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Re: Rock & Roll Star Death Pool
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Re: Rock & Roll Star Death Pool
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Originally Posted By tomtuttle


I suppose every generation has this pain.


That made me think, and I have to disagree, Tom, though not with any particularly strident feelings.

No generation before ours (boomers) propelled so many musicians, actors, artists, et al, to such heights of global fame and fortune. We MADE the record industry! Add that we were the first to be raised with TV, then the #'s of famous people we "know" is even bigger....

We are also a generation fond of overestimating its importance, in this case expressed as its 'firstness'.
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(How often do you get to write "spate?" Really? And why is it so often preceded by a temporal adjective? You see, these are the real questions. To focus on other things is folly.)

Should we now brace ourselves for a spate of temporal adjectives?


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Re: Rock & Roll Star Death Tally
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Originally Posted By fredk


We are also a generation fond of overestimating its importance, in this case expressed as its 'firstness.'


Should we now brace ourselves for a spate of temporal adjectives?


The first is not possible.

As for the 2nd, no, I've moved on. I'm now contemplating what lies in the middle of "soulful" and "soulless." What if one is certainly not full, but neither without? Souly, Soulish?

P.S. I had to change the thread tuttle, I mean title. It's happening too fast to see it as the competitive endeavor I had envisioned.


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Re: Rock & Roll Star Death Pool
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Originally Posted By tomtuttle
I love you, Bob.


At least you didn't use an emogee, which would have caused me to have to turn away.

Let me explain so others don't misinterpret. Tom has a tablet. He saves my posts for when he has to sit on the toilet. He gets laughage during his squattage. In other words, he only reads my crap when he's taking one of his own.

Now if THAT's not love, then I ask you...?


Edit: My shrink's been working in S. Africa for almost a month now. Let's all hope he can squeeze me in when he returns this week.

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