The Dead Thread

[Frank Gallagher]

can we add the dapper looking dogs thread to this.

was a sad sad sad day...

@Donald Twain @silent bob

 

[silent bob]

can we add the dapper looking dogs thread to this.

was a sad sad sad day...

@Donald Twain @silent bob

 

[Donald Twain]

I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish, pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on earth
Hallelujah, Noel be it heaven or hell
The Christmas we get we deserve

 

[Kurt.]

RIP @Ashtonian

 

[Gladystweet]

I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish, pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on earth
Hallelujah, Noel be it heaven or hell
The Christmas we get we deserve

Cracking song that. Don't even care if that's what he's remembered for cos he was obviously proud if it.

 

[mezzrow]

John Glenn, first American to orbit earth, dead at 95.

Ever see a Mercury capsule up close? Great big brass ones on John Glenn.

A hero of my childhood, then ruined it by going into politics.

Still, Semper Fi and rest in peace.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Is it an urban/football myth that Middlesborough once had Emerson Lake and Palmer in their midfield?

Don't think so but they deffo had Liddle Whyte Cox

 

[Walken]

@Ashtonian we barely knew ye

 

[Boss_Blue]

@Ashtonian we barely knew ye

What's happened here mate?

 

[ilikecheese]

@Ashtonian we barely knew ye

With the angels not soon enough. Xx

 

[Walken]

What's happened here mate?

I think GOT's top nazi sympathizer may have been slain

 

[SerenityNigh]

@mezzrow

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/arts/music/dave-brubeck-jazz-musician-dies-at-91.html

Dave Brubeck, Whose Distinctive Sound Gave Jazz New Pop, Dies at 91

Dave Brubeck, the pianist and composer who helped make jazz popular again in the 1950s and ’60s with recordings like “Time Out,” the first jazz album to sell a million copies, and “Take Five,” the still instantly recognizable hit single that was that album’s centerpiece, died on Wednesday in Norwalk, Conn. He would have turned 92 on Thursday.

He died while on his way to a cardiology appointment, Russell Gloyd, his producer, conductor and manager for 36 years, said. Mr. Brubeck lived in Wilton, Conn.

In a long and successful career, Mr. Brubeck brought a distinctive mixture of experimentation and accessibility that won over listeners who had been trained to the sonic dimensions of the three-minute pop single.

Mr. Brubeck experimented with time signatures and polytonality and explored musical theater and the oratorio, baroque compositional devices and foreign modes. He did not always please the critics, who often described his music as schematic, bombastic and — a word he particularly disliked — stolid. But his very stubbornness and strangeness — the blockiness of his playing, the oppositional push-and-pull between his piano and Paul Desmond’s alto saxophone — make the Brubeck quartet’s best work still sound original.

Outside of the group’s most famous originals, which had the charm and durability of pop songs ( “Blue Rondo à la Turk,” “It’s a Raggy Waltz” and “Take Five”), some of its best work was in its overhauls of standards like “You Go to My Head,” “All the Things You Are” and “Pennies From Heaven.”

 

[mezzrow]

@mezzrow

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/arts/music/dave-brubeck-jazz-musician-dies-at-91.html

2016 - a remorseless year. Brubeck, more than just a musician, a mensch. A wonderful man. People today don't know just how important he was back in the days of the new frontier. RIP, Dave. Even at 91, the good die young.

 

[SerenityNigh]

2016 - a remorseless year. Brubeck, more than just a musician, a mensch. A wonderful man. People today don't know just how important he was back in the days of the new frontier. RIP, Dave. Even at 91, the good die young.

I'm not familiar with his entire collection, but quite impressed with him. Three to get ready is probably now my favorite--so simple yet so elegant, a sublime piece.

 

[Professor Toffee]

2016 - a remorseless year. Brubeck, more than just a musician, a mensch. A wonderful man. People today don't know just how important he was back in the days of the new frontier. RIP, Dave. Even at 91, the good die young.

The biggest musical loss of 2016 , real tears