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Post by Senator Phillips on Jun 7, 2019 0:03:07 GMT
This one hits me hard. One of the best performers I have ever seen live, an effortless virtuoso on the piano, a musician's session player, an outsized character who lived quite the life. Dr. John was New Orleans, through and through, and brought it with him wherever he went. Really recommend people check out his first album, Gris-Gris, and his last major release of original stuff, Locked Down. Both are wonderful in their own right. |
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Post by Nth on Jun 16, 2019 11:53:44 GMT
Canadian character actor Sean McMann at 83. Probably don't recognize him from name, but he's appeared in over a hundred movies, tv shows and commercials ever since the 70's and was always fairly recognizable as one of those 'that guy again' actors.
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Post by Zealot on Jul 10, 2019 16:06:32 GMT
Couple more notable deaths here. Former third-party candidate Ross Perot and actor Rip Torn.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Jul 11, 2019 2:55:28 GMT
Rest in Peace, Rip Torn.
He was excellent in everything I saw him in, particularly the Larry Sanders show.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2019 2:58:45 GMT
For whatever reason I happened to think of Ross Perot a few days before his passing. Specifically, I remember "voting" for him in this mock election thing for kids in '92. I don't remember why; probably I just thought he was funny.
That was the only time I've ever voted third party for President.
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Post by BakFu on Jul 12, 2019 9:34:05 GMT
Couple more notable deaths here. Former third-party candidate Ross Perot and actor Rip Torn. To be totally honest, I didn’t realize that either Rip Torn or Ross Perot Made it out of the early 2000’s (and for some reason it took me a while to separate Rip Torn and Rip Taylor in my mind!). Rip Torn apparently did VO work in God of War III, I don’t think Perot did any VO work though, maybe he was too busy doing something else? 🙂 |
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Post by Zealot on Jul 15, 2019 16:54:49 GMT
RIP to one of the greatest boxers of all time in Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker. He was sadly struck and killed by a car at the age of 55.
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Post by Nth on Jul 25, 2019 0:10:04 GMT
RIP Rutger Hauer. Made it to 2019, ironically the same year his most iconic character Roy Batty from Blade Runner died.
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Post by BakFu on Jul 25, 2019 0:37:31 GMT
RIP Rutger Hauer. Made it to 2019, ironically the same year his most iconic character Roy Batty from Blade Runner died. Wow, crappy. I’ve always liked that guy. It was so cool to see him in something as campy as Hobo with a Shotgun, and just to have him back on the big screen again. I remember seeing a film WAAY back with him in it that I found at an old, local video rental place. I liked him in Blade Runner and all that, so when I saw him on the cover of a movie called Ladyhawk (with Michelle Pheiffer and Mathew Broderick) I was stoked. What a bad ass actor in many cool roles, that’s a sad one. |
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Post by Nth on Aug 2, 2019 0:46:29 GMT
Harley Race at 76.
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Post by El Marsh on Aug 2, 2019 0:52:20 GMT
RIP King
Dude was the definition of toughness
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Post by OrochiGeese on Aug 2, 2019 1:47:39 GMT
R.I.P. Harley Race.
Harley's a guy I only really got to watch the "second stage" of his career as. Although I had heard of him when I was younger, as the guy Flair won his first NWA World Title from, I didn't get to see him until he became Vader's manager. I'd put Harley as one of my favorite managers ever (maybe right below Heenan and Heyman). Not only did he have the brains but dude looked so tough and he was one of the few managers who could kick the ass of the wrestler his own client was fighting!
I've only seen some clips of his matches but he was really influential and indeed tough as they come.
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Post by BakFu on Aug 2, 2019 2:00:00 GMT
Shit, not too many tough guy shooters left from that era now. Stone Cold has some great road stories about Harley Race (and the chiropractor neck adjustment one is fun/horrifying!), and Dynamite Kid actually showed Race legit, shoot respect in his book of things he hates (aka his biography). RIP Harley. 🍺🍺
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Post by BakFu on Aug 2, 2019 14:26:41 GMT
R.I.P. Harley Race. Harley's a guy I only really got to watch the "second stage" of his career as. Although I had heard of him when I was younger, as the guy Flair won his first NWA World Title from, I didn't get to see him until he became Vader's manager. I'd put Harley as one of my favorite managers ever (maybe right below Heenan and Heyman). Not only did he have the brains but dude looked so tough and he was one of the few managers who could kick the ass of the wrestler his own client was fighting! I've only seen some clips of his matches but he was really influential and indeed tough as they come. His manager stage was my first exposure to Harley, too. I had no clue who this old cat with the blond perm was following Vader around! Sooo IG’NUNT! It wasn’t till much later that i’d get smartened up to Harley’s legacy, when I kept reading his name mentioned with the utmost respect in all of the books I was reading about the wrestlers I like. I started watching his heyday matches from the US territories and saw his stiff work style and his influence on next gen guys like Dynamite Kid and many others from that era. Fun stuff for a fan of the material to discover a generation or two later, and with an interest generated almost entirely because of the respect shown to otherwise almost unknown wrestlers of the past by a funny looking wresting video game from Japan! 😊 Stone Cold’s stories about driving with Harley were awesome. He talked about being brand new and having to sit in the back seat with a case of beer, having to open a can and turn the opening the right direction so that Harley could reach back and grab a full one while driving VERY fast, no matter what the weather or the pitch blackness of the road in the middle of he night, and continue pounding beers without disruption for the duration of the ride. Apparently not anticipating the need for a new one and/or having the hole the wrong way was not a good thing for the rookie Austin. He also said the shit he’d learn about the business on the trips from Race and which ever other OG was along for the ride was pure gold. Funny shit from a different era. |
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Post by IamAres on Aug 2, 2019 16:18:01 GMT
His manager stage was my first exposure to Harley, too. I had no clue who this old cat with the blond perm was following Vader around! Sooo IG’NUNT! It wasn’t till much later that i’d get smartened up to Harley’s legacy, when I kept reading his name mentioned with the utmost respect in all of the books I was reading about the wrestlers I like. Pretty much the same for me. The first that I ever saw him was on one of the old Wrestlemania tapes, 2 or 3 maybe, where he was on the undercard. I had no idea who this old guy with the big body and skinny arms and "king" getup was, but I didn't see enough of him to be impressed. Not till I read Mick Foley's first book (which was kind of my bible regarding REAL insight inside the business) that I started to realize how important Harley really was to the wrestling business, and what a tough, no-bullshit guy he was even then, during his manager years. I remember a story where Mick got split open on the ringpost or guardrail outside, and their medical back then explicitly covered injuries IN the ring only. Harley proceeded to tell the ringside doctor that it had been from a headbutt inside the ring and that the doctor would treat it. When the guy protested, Harley reiterated, "It was a headbutt. Inside. The ring." The doctor quickly remembered that yes, of course it had been a headbutt, and he would stitch Mick up right away. As Mick said, he'd had the Fear Of Harley put into him. |
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