[OBIT] 2025 Gone But Not Forgotten

[pdxKingsFan]

RIP to a real one.

Sadly, Rick Derringer has left us.

Classic rock guitarist Rick Derringer of ‘Hang On Sloopy’ fame dies aged 77

Derringer was just 17 when his band The McCoys recorded ‘Hang On Sloopy’

www.the-independent.com

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Man, Demolition's theme was right there!

 

[Tetsujin]

Not going to pass up the opportunity to post the Mean Gene/Derringer collab

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Man, Demolition's theme was right there!

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).

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Well damn, I was literally just looking up Loretta Swit yesterday, to see what she was up to. RIP.

 

[Padrino]

Sly Stone Dead at 82

Man. Fresh is, for my money, the greatest funk album of all time.

RIP Sly.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

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.

 

[Padrino]

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.

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.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

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.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1932849551041290685

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1932887912091353346

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

For those of you who lived through what I consider to be the "Golden Era of MTV"...
Link to Yahoo.com article: Ananda Lewis, former MTV VJ who shared breast cancer journey, has died at 52

 

[pdxKingsFan]

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.