RIP Lee Kerslake, dead of cancer at age 73. He's best known as the hard-driving powerhouse drummer on about a thousand Uriah Heep albums, but he also acquired renown for his work on the first two Ozzy Osbourne solo albums and, along with bassist Bob Daisley, getting royally fucked over by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. Happy trails, big guy.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
Just found out my friend Walt Kraemer, the composer of this piece, died of COVID-19 last week. Months after the dumbass dick in the White House said it was just "disappear." What am I supposed to do with these feelings? https://t.co/Nh3NE7fFzS
Gee, just what the doctor ordered - another mortality reminder.
I read a bunch of interviews with Eddie back in the day in which he said the real musician in the family was his brother Alex. The IPU is generous indeed for assuring those two ended up in the same family and same band.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
RIP Spencer Davis, dead of pneumonia at age 81. The Spencer Davis Group pumped out some fine music, although Steve Winwood did the vocals on all the band's hits until he left to form Traffic in 1967. I read somewhere that they called it The Spencer Davis Group because Davis was the only band member who didn't freak out at the prospect of doing press interviews.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
James Randi has died, of "age related causes". Considering he was 92 and increasingly frail in public, I don't think I need to be skeptical of that.
Randi was my "skeptics 101." I rediscovered him in the early 2000s after causally searching for some debunking I remember him doing. It was probably the Uri Gellar stuff on Carson. I found the JREF forums from there and thereafter ruined my life.
I am admittedly reaching "old man yells at cloud" stage, but I'll believe Limbaugh has cancer when the news comes from a source other than Limbaugh. I am not yet convinced the "news" of Limbaugh's imminent demise won't be followed with "news" of a complete cure brought on via MMS, colloidal silver or some other quackery on which Limbaugh will make major bank.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
He was convicted of bribing the president and evading taxes, but, in a pattern typical of the cosy relationship between chaebol (family-run conglomerates) and government in South Korea, received a political pardon in both cases. Lee Jae-yong, his son and the de facto boss of Samsung, is on trial for bribery and stock-price manipulation (both of which he denies).
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
Robert Murray, the board chairman of the largest privately owned U.S. coal operator, who long fought federal regulations to reduce black lung disease,
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No official cause of death was given. Public reports recently stated Murray had applied for black lung benefits with the U.S. Department of Labor. The application said Murray was heavily dependent on oxygen.
Is this ... poetic justice? In 2020? I can't quite believe it.
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