2021 RIP Thread
dizzybull
Eerie Dicks 338 Posts
Dustin Diamond, aka Screech from Saved By The Bell.
dizzybull
Eerie Dicks 338 Posts
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He was unerringly nice and more importantly, was an absolute mother on keys. My favourite set is the Akoustic Band live at The Blue Note, Tokyo. It's where Vinnie Colaiuta deps for Dave Weckl. Vinnie is channelling the ghoast of Tony Williams and it's, uh... Electric. You can find some of the set on YouTube. Vinnie sneaking a cigarette at the kit.
There's also one with him and Hiromi and the late youth Austin Peralta knocking six shades out of "Someday My Prince Will Come" in Tokyo too. If you know, you know.
Rest in power. Gutted.
Rush Limbaugh- love him or hate him he was a talk radio icon since I was a kid RIP
Alongside all the other great Wailers stuff, I have come back to this 45 regularly over my life because of "school"
Always cracks me up everyone talking about equality, undoing the patriarchy and dealing with the fact the US is basically a racist oligarchy but then many of these same people and news outlets are obsessed with the British Royalty and idolizing them. You know, the monarchy that murdered and enslaved millions while stealing and plundering their lands and property many of which the monarchy still posses and refuse to return to the rightfully owners/descendants. Most museums is stolen shit people especially in England. And they stay rich and powerful (and friends of scum like Epstein) when they should have been stripped of it all a long time ago. No wonder this planet is a disaster. It's like the US forgot we fought a war with them to gain our independence which we've since totally flushed down the toilet.
The whitest and blackest men on Earth died on the same day.
I don't know how I hadn't heard that before. Styles goes off too... and Jada sounds so young.
When Shock said he was retiring from rapping, I remember the first comment under the announcement article was some dummy (genius?) going "so what does this mean for Humpty? is Humpty still gonna perform?" like, dude. But I'm gonna be the better man here and not make the joke upon the man's death.
(Thought weirdly, there is a young hump and weirdly if I remember right he's not terrible)
At the time they were making noise and well known. But as time moved on, I definitely feel like they should be a bigger note in history. They were the early pioneers of the merging of west coast hip hop and funk. Even today at work on a zoom call with a co-worker who is a huge 2Pac fan. I made a comment of Shock G's passing and he didn't know the connection. Mind you, he was under 30.
Thank said. I'm now left wondering if there are Burger Kings in the after life?
always loved this one
Hilariously - years ago i finally found the vinyl (reissue tip) and purchased, i listened to it the day i got it about 10 times - it reminded me how dope it was (i have the cassette, but they dont get played much now and it had been a while since i heard the album) i was nostalgic as fuck...and then it dawn on me "where the fuck was GUTFEST 89'....i was gutted (no pun) that it was left off the album, it was the only difference between my cassette and the vinyl version, ugh GUTFEST is such a sick track... and then my brain kicked into overdrive...wait? WTF even is GUTFEST? where is this held? is it real? the track sounds "WILD as fuck" to me, after some googling i found myself "double gutted" ugh, there is no such thing as GUTFEST and i can not go, lol
** on the DMX tip, i was never really a HUGE fan but i liked a few of his tracks and never new of his struggles, i caught a few dope DMX tributes on youtube over the last few days though...
RIP
Also love the dry wikipedia description of the album concept. You forget how bananas these dudes were.
I'm that old too - I remember reading rumours about Humpty's face being disfigured in whatever rap mag I was buying at the time.
Doowutchyalike was such a refreshing anthem at the time and holds up very well Damn, he was STILL funky