Donald "Duck" Dunn, Stax legend, bass player for Booker T & The MGs
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/cropper.jpg
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
Oh holy shit noooooo
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:22 (eleven years ago) link
:((((((tried in vain to find the scene from blues bros where he says "[incomprehensible garble] to go piss on some gasoline" or something
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnLgNmB1eM
― how's life, Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
you are a star
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Sunday, 13 May 2012 09:10 (eleven years ago) link
"We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline."
― get wolves (get bent), Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
An amazing bass player and a fantastic guy. If you only know the Blues Brothers, go here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32187
― Three Word Username, Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
:(
― The Unbassful Serpent (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 May 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
ah hell. RIP Duck Dunn.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
didn't see the talk here before i started a thread. well, he deserves his own.
― arby's, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-brown-dies-the-godfather-of-go-go-was-75/2012/05/16/gIQAJAfPUU_story_1.html
RIP Godfather of Go-go Chuck Brown. Will treasure your gogo and your jazz sounds and your warm presentation
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Hailed as the President of DC in today's Washington Post
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
wouldn't argue with that at all.
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Donna Summer
― on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Donna Summer! Holy Shit.
http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Carlos Fuenteshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18081034
RIP, Carlos
And RIP, Donna Summer. Man, Booker T was right.
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
from wfmu's twitter stream:
Pete Seeger, Iconic Songwriter, Found Resting Under Tree Near NY Home: 93Yr-Old Folk Legend Was Serene, Tranquil
so far that's the only mention i've seen. i hope it doesn't mean what i think it means.
― get wolves (get bent), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Sure it wasn't the Onion?
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
nonononono
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I hope that's doesn't mean what I think it means either
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
WFMU @WFMU@clemmusic No, Pete Seeger was just resting. Hes 93, but for the most part he is perfectly OK. Some rheumatism. A bit of arthritis.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
thank goodness
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
strange thing to report tho? "pete seeger still alive, napping"
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
A variation of the old SNL Franco bit
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 May 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Never really got into the Rock And Roll Heaven iconography genre but if somebody made one of those with Duck Dunn, Andrew Love, Levon Helm, Skip Pitts and Donna Summer I would totally use it as a screensaver.
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2012 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
Robin Gibb, apparently.I loved the Bee Gees when I was young :(
― on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Sunday, 20 May 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
:(Remove bookmark from this thread
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
noooooo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
I guess we can take comfort in the fact that Spin has provided us with a long list of best guitarists, most of whom won't be going anywhere anytime soon
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
"Jam Master Jay still . . . lives"
― mookieproof, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
aww RIP
― Chris S, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
Score score
― Jeff, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
what a month
― the late great, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
It won't be long before Otis Redding will able to record some new material on Stax Celestial.
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 May 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Led Zeppelin IIhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-led-zeppelin-ii-dies-0524-20120523,0,1108232.story
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
Love this:
"Since I became Led Zeppelin, my life has improved a thousand fold."
Fuck it. I'm changing my name to In A Silent Way.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Pathos and lols all at once:
The 64-year-old Zeppelin "climbed the 'Stairway to Heaven'" May 18 at Alton Memorial Hospital, according to a death notice published in newspapers, including the Tribune. He died of a heart attack, his daughter said.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
"I don't want to appear to be some off-the-wall, drug-addict idiot. I just changed my name from the standpoint that I can be a better person than I used to be."
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
i think i actually have a lot of respect for that guy
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
No I do not want to meet your friend named In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I'm fairly certain I won't like him.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
Survived by his wife Custard Pie
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
after reading that article I have formed a short mental list of friends of mine who might be convinced to change their name to "Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game"
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
As of today you can all refer to me as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
can i call you HOTS for short?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
sure
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
"If he'd become Sabbath Bloody Sabbath instead, he'd have lived to 200" muses Bill Magill
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
But then his soul would belong to Satan.
― nickn, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link