The Gong Show was AWESOME.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
I watched syndicated versions of it DAILY as a kid.
It was truly a unique thing for it's time.
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The Gong Show was AWESOME.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
I watched syndicated versions of it DAILY as a kid.
It was truly a unique thing for it's time.
I agree, I am old enough that I got to watch it during it's heyday when I wasn't in school. The Gong Show and Match Game were my two favorites growing up, both funny as hell, and Chuck Barris was a hoot to watch. The stuff he came up with after acts had finished were, I assume, ad libs, and usually damn clever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merrick ap'Milandra
Same here. I absolutely loved the Gong ShowQuote:
Originally Posted by Bonlainy
Don Rickles. 90. Kidney Failure.
I got to see him about 5 years ago.
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Founder Paul O'Neill Dead at 61
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Paul O'Neill, the producer who put together Christmas-inspired prog-metal group Trans-Siberian Orchestra, has died. The group's Facebook page reported the news Wednesday night, saying he had been suffering from a chronic illness. He was 61.
"The entire Trans-Siberian Orchestra family, past and present, is heartbroken to share the devastating news that Paul O'Neill has passed away from chronic illness," the group's Facebook page announced. "He was our friend and our leader – a truly creative spirit and an altruistic soul. This is a profound and indescribable loss for us all."
O'Neill co-wrote "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24," which combined the yuletide staples "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Carol of the Bells," with Jon Oliva, the keyboardist and sometime lead singer for the metal band Savatage, for that band's 1995 album Dead Winter Dead. Wanting to expand his vision on that song, he assembled Trans-Siberian Orchestra with Oliva and Savatage guitarist Al Pitrelli and keyboardist Robert Kinkel; they put out the album Christmas Eve and Other Stories and released the song as a single.
https://youtu.be/MHioIlbnS_A
The song has since been certified gold and has made appearances on Billboard's rock and adult-contemporary charts in 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2004. The album was subsequently certified three-times platinum, and the group has issued five other LPs, scoring another multi-platinum release with 2004's The Lost Christmas Eve and Top 10 releases with 2009's Night Castle and their most recent album, 2015's Letters From the Labyrinth.
The group regularly embarked on winter tours, mostly in the U.S., staging over-the-top arena shows with lasers and fire displays. Blabbermouth reports that last year, Trans-Siberian Orchestra sold more than 927,000 tickets, grossing more than $56.9 million. Billboard ranked them Number 25 on its list of Top Touring Artists of the Decade in 2009. They regularly donated portions of their earnings to various charities.
O'Neill explained the influences that led to his vision for Trans-Siberian Orchestra in an interview with The Morning Call last year. "[Effects-heavy concert production] was always part of the vision for Trans-Siberian Orchestra, [and] the mixing classical with rock, which I obviously got from bands like Emerson, Lake and Palmer," he said. "The rock-opera aspect, which I love because it gives a third dimension, which I plagiarized from The Who."
He began his music-industry career as personal assistant to manager David Krebs at Leber-Krebs, a management company that worked with Aerosmith, AC/DC and others. O'Neill promoted tours in Japan and co-produced Aerosmith's two Classics Live! volumes in the mid-Eighties. Around that time, he also forged a relationship with Savatage, a dramatic power-metal band from Tarpon Springs, Florida, producing their 1987 LP, Hall of the Mountain King, and each of their subsequent releases through 2001's Poets and Madmen. He also produced albums by Badlands, Heaven and Metal Church.
In Trans-Siberian Orchestra's announcement of O'Neill's death, they asked for fans to respect the privacy of his family. While a specific cause of death remains unknown, the band wrote that they would be sharing more news about his death soon.
https://youtu.be/4cP26ndrmtg
https://youtu.be/pWBjl-jPcVM
https://youtu.be/6P9xxJ4V7no
Don Rickles: funny guy, no matter how many times I saw him on something, I never failed to laugh.
Paul O'Neill: damn, that guy's done some great music. I was a big fan of Savatage and actually thought Dead Winter Dead was one of their better albums. Also, TSO puts on a hell of a show.
Don Rickles has always been one of my favorite comedians, loved his style.
TSO is one of the, if not THE, best shows in the history of shows. We went and saw them last December, and it was as incredible as the first time I went. Paul O'Neill was a serious talent, very sad to lose him.
What, no fans of the J. Geils Band here?
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...411-story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqDjMZKf-wg
I'm definitely a fan of The J. Geils Band, I just never saw the story. My favorite song of theirs is still Love Stinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0LAs7X5ybE
Musta Got Lost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW0hxbrmFhM
and anyone near Detroit loves
Detroit Breakdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKNANo2BgBs
Charlie Murphy, dead at 57. I loved him on the Chappelle's Show - very funny guy :(
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/...-at-57-w476365
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Charlie Murphy, the older brother of Eddie Murphy, a Chappelle's Show star and an accomplished comedian in his own right, died Wednesday in New York City. He was 57. Murphy's publicist confirmed the comedian's death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause of death was leukemia.
Dan Rooney, chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers and former US ambassador to Ireland, at 84:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...aign=editorial
That's a great picture with Antonio Brown.
Author of the NFL's most frequently circumvented rule. And that's to the shame of his fellow NFL owners, not him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delores Mulva
Am not and have never been a Steeler fan, quite the opposite in fact, but Rooney knew how to run a team.
We are all here on this message board largely because of efforts led by this guy:
Robert Taylor, innovator who shaped modern computing, dies at 85
Somehow, despite enjoying their music, I have never owned any of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by PPatty
Something disparate disparate radio-to-cd era something something.
I was never allowed to touch the vinyl or 8tracks and since I was born in the late 70's and didn't have money to afford my own stuff until compact discs were a thing (and EXPENSIVE at first) I feel I missed out on a lot.
I'd probably recognize tunes due to american bandstand and the like but I couldn't name a single one, which is pretty sad.
I guess this as good a place as any to put this:
https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/04/19/aa...ommits-suicide
That's weird.
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Everything about the guy was weird.
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