[OBIT] 2025 Gone But Not Forgotten

Mr. S£im Citrus said:
Man, Demolition's theme was right there!
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It trolled a lot better on facespace when I broke up the posts.

I had honestly thought Rick died 10 years ago. I suppose it was Johnny Winter.
Who first performed Rock n Roll Hoochie Coo (Rick wrote and performed on Johnny's version though).
 
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Brian Wilson has passed. This is like losing my musical father. Hearing the Beach Boys for the first time changed my life. Forever.

Family statement.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
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Brian Wilson has passed. This is like losing my musical father. Hearing the Beach Boys for the first time changed my life. Forever.

Family statement.
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Ouch. 😢

Sly Stone and Brian Wilson within a week of each other, and both at 82. Both possessed extraordinary gifts and overcame extraordinary struggles after achieving fame. Time waits for none of us, but it does sting when we lose such gigantic, influential figures. May they rest in peace.
 
After my dad introduced us to the Beach Boys on a family trip to Tahoe, my brother and I used to set up on the front porch of our home in East Sac strumming tennis racquets and singing all their greatest hits. My first concert was the Beach Boys, all the Wilsons were alive and accounted for but Dennis would pass soon after. They invited us up on stage, but thinking my mom and dad just wanted us to dance, we declined. They were my gateway to "real" music. They were the inspiration for picking up the guitar for both my brother and I, and why I sing.

I look forward to getting off of work today and celebrating him proper by spinning Little Deuce Coupe, the album that started it all for me, and SMiLE (I listen to a few tracks off Pet Sounds daily).

now that we have search back - here was my LDC selection from our very first music draft.
 
I don't consider Ananda's era to be the Golden Era by any stretch but that's heartbreaking, only a year older than me.
 
I saw Ozzy live exactly once. It was the summer of 1989, live at Arco. White Lion (with the amazing Vito Bratta) and Vixen (who I pretty much blew off except for their hit by walking the causeway chatting with friends and smoking reds because I was 14 and stupid) opened.

It was a great show. How I prefer to remember him compared to him reading from prompters. I am glad he got to have his friends give him such a great sendoff but I thought seeing him performing from a chair was incredibly sad and depressing.

Ozzy always introduced us to great guitarists. Randy Rhoads (RIP) chief among them. Absolutely my favorite guitarist ever, yes, even over Johnny Thunders, Steve Jones, Billy Zoom, Brian Setzer and all those cats. He had Zakk Wylde with him at that time. Zakk in 89 was much different than the biker dude we have today, very much a Randy clone of sorts, though he still did way too many pinch harmonics and nobody plays like Randy (sorry, it's just truth). I think that is what I will appreciate Ozzy for the most. Hell, Iron Man was the very first song I learned on guitar!

RIP Prince.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
oh god why did I not post this, it's my favorite Ozzy song because Randy but still. my favorite.

Jack Black did a shot for shot remake of this ahead of the final show and it was great and Morello's kid hit every single note but again, nobody plays like Randy.
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It was an awesome cover! You'd be hard-pressed to find a better outro than the one on Mr. Crowley.
I performed Dreamer and Ordinary Man recently. Dude had a nice touch for metal ballads. Paranoid was one of the first songs I learned to play.
 
Spike said:
It was an awesome cover! You'd be hard-pressed to find a better outro than the one on Mr. Crowley.
I performed Dreamer and Ordinary Man recently. Dude had a nice touch for metal ballads. Paranoid was one of the first songs I learned to play.
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Cover is great but Randy had this magic way of making picked notes sound like they were one continuous note and nobody quite does it the same. This is probably going to irritate someone but I even prefer Randy's playing of the Sabbath songs on Tribute. God bless the man who does not veer from E standard tuning. 🤣
 
TMZ but this time it's not a fakeout...

Hulk Hogan - 71 - Cardiac Arrest

you know brother, I got bored of him really quickly, but I probably wouldn't have become the wrasslin fan I am today had the WWF expansion not gone on how it did since Sacramento wasn't exactly a hot territory.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
TMZ but this time it's not a fakeout...

Hulk Hogan - 71 - Cardiac Arrest

you know brother, I got bored of him really quickly, but I probably wouldn't have become the wrasslin fan I am today had the WWF expansion not gone on how it did since Sacramento wasn't exactly a hot territory.
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One of the first things I'm gonna do when I get back home on Saturday (only because I will have the house to myself at that time) is to crank up the volume on Hogan's theme song and walking around my house pretending to be the Hulkster himself.
 
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