But they're all over in pop culture, so the guy that created them seems to be consequential in some ways...
Roy Clark has died. Most people know him because of that dumbass TV show. But he was a fantasticly good guitarist.
I know Dick Clark but I think he is already dead, I am just not much into old American music, maybe that is why I do not know the name.
Great album. Played "Yesterday, When I was Young" and was a pallbearer at Mickey Mantle's funeral'. RIP.
This comment makes me sad-- Stan Lee was the guy who first broke with the convention that the comic world was milk white, and he spoke eloquently at times about the need for the comics universe to be as diverse as the real one...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/if-you-remember-stan-lee-for-anything-let-it-be-t “Let's lay it right on the line. Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today. But, unlike a team of costumed super-villains, they can’t be halted with a punch in the snoot, or a zap from a ray gun. The only way to destroy them is to expose them — to reveal them for the insidious evils they really are. The bigot is an unreasoning hater — one who hates blindly, fanatically, indiscriminately. If his hang-up is black men, he hates ALL black men. If a redhead once offended him, he hates ALL redheads. If some foreigner beat him to a job, he’s down on ALL foreigners. He hates people he’s never seen — people he’s never known — with equal intensity — with equal venom. “Now, we’re not trying to say it’s unreasonable for one human being to bug another. But, although anyone has the right to dislike another individual, it’s totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race — to despise an entire nation — to vilify an entire religion. Sooner or later, we must learn to judge each other on our own merits. Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill out hearts with tolerance. For then, and only then, will we be truly worthy of the concept that man was created in the image of God – a God who calls us ALL — His children. “Pax et Justitia, Stan.”
He received the transplant for cirrhosis and Hep c both IIRC, but when biopsied it turned out to be cancerous also-- and the cancer had metted, to his lungs already IIRC. Whether he lived long enough for it to met back to his new one, I don't know. But I believe new protocols were developed to prevent a repeat-- had they realized he was cancerous they'd never have done the transplant. And I believe under the circumstances they'd never have installed the 2nd liver in yet another patient-- too much chance that the cancer is hiding in there already even if you can't see it.
Now. Who was it five or ten years ago who gave me a ration for saying that Pete Townsend is basically mostly a flamenco guitarist and "Tommy" a flamenco opera? I think that 2 nd video makes my point even though it has nothing to do with Pete at all.
Illusionist Ricky Jay passes...or did he? https://www.nydailynews.com/news/na...nist-actor-ricky-jay-dead-20181124-story.html
"In the late 1960s, he was booked for a magic act at Manhattan’s nightclub The Electric Circus, in which he was scheduled between a Timothy Leary LSD lecture and a performance by Ike and Tina Turner." That must've been some show. Holy shit, LOL.
Saw his show once. "Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants". He was a phenomenal card magician. He could throw them like Ninja-Stars. Buried playing cards in a watermelon rind ten feet away. Really good in Deadwood as well. (He was Powers Booth's assistant who tried to prevent Booth killing the teenage grifters) ']www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtgUSUHnzLI[/URL][/URL]
R.I.P. idiot missionary. Not going to post his name, he's gotten enough press. Roy Clark was an amazing entertainer and an expert on just about anything with a string. Glad that Fil of Wings Of Pegasus did several videos about studying Roy's awesome guitar work and technique before he passed. He just did another video honoring Roy after he passed.