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RIP to a couple of music legends: Ennio Morricone and Charlie Daniels

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Devil Went Down to Georgia is one of the greatest songs of all time, and Daniels was a legendary talent.

And as soon as Morricone entered the Gates of Heaven, you know this played...



A few of the people involved with these spaghetti westerns were exceptionally long-lived. Clint Eastwood is still going strong at 90, Eli Wallach made it all the way to 98(!!!), and Morricone was 91. Unfortunately, Lee Van Cleef only made it to 64 and the great Sergio Leone died at 60.

For a Few Dollars More is one of my favorites. The theme music for The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly is iconic of course, but the best piece of music he put together was Indio's theme with the haunting pocket watch music. That moves me every time I listen to it.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/89076752 ... a_WuZ5YdpQ

Grant from Mythbusters. 49.

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Saw this today, too. Very sad.

Ah, damn. This is a pretty big one: Regis Philbin, just a month short of turning 89.

https://ew.com/tv/regis-philbin-dies/

I think the thing I remember about him most was his appearance as David Letterman's second guest his first show back following 9/11. The first guest was a sobbing Dan Rather, who kinda left everyone even more heartbroken (not his fault though). Regis came in and did his usual schtick and immediately turned the mood in the studio around, all the while talking about his paraplegic son who was working at the Pentagon when it was hit that day (he was okay).

Eddie Shack - dead at 83.

I don't have much recollection of him at all actually, except for this image, and the TV caricature that followed after his hockey career.

https://www.wkbw.com/sports/sabres/form ... -at-age-83

Screen legend Olivia de Haviland dies at the age of 104 (!!!)

Also, longtime actor John Saxon dies at 83.

To me, if you've made it past 80, you've lived a good, long life. There's not a ton to be sad about.

Wilford Brimley, who made it to age 85 but between me and nearly everyone I know, it sure feels like he HAD to be older than that, right?

Here's live footage of him riding into Heaven:

My father turns 80 in a month. I'm really surprised to hear that Brimly was only 5 years older.

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Here's the fun facts that blow my mind: When Wilford Brimley was cast in Cocoon, he was 49 years old and turned 50 during filming. He was at least 20 years younger than his castmates, and they actually had to use makeup/dye techniques to make him look older.

Meanwhile, Tom Cruise is 58 years old, has a Top Gun sequel coming out soon, and is getting ready to film another Mission: Impossible installment next year.

Peter Green blues guitarist extraordinaire who replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Blues Breakers in 1966 and along with Mick Fleetwood founder of Fleetwood Mac in 1967 who died in London on July 25, 2020, at the age of 73. Green wrote a number of well-known hits such as Black Magic Woman, Oh Well and Man of the World. Green suffered from Schizophrenia and didn't really receive all of the credit due to him although he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. His condition wasn't aided by the use of very strong LSD which was available in the late 1960s.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/26/peter-green-obituary

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Bíonn macalla ag an bheatha sa tsíoraíocht. Liverpool FC: 2019 and 6-time Champions of Europe. 2020 and 19 time English Premier League Champions YNWA. JFT 97

Famous people die all the time, and it's sad and how life goes, but Chadwick Boseman dying fucking sucks.

Instead of getting to enjoy Black Panther, he worked to cram a career's worth of movies in between chemo and surgeries in the short time he had left. What a legend.

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And visited kids in hospitals, and he got shit for looking "tired" on his social media posts to the point that he removed them. People suck dog balls. That dude was amazing!

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Fucking hell, I about screamed when I saw the news suddenly pop up on Twitter the other night.

As someone on social media said, the wrong people keep dying.

Diana Rigg passes at 82.

https://ew.com/tv/diana-rigg-dies-game- ... -avengers/

She obviously got her big break playing impossibly sexy characters on TV and film, but her best-ever role was probably Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones. She had by far the best lines.

I can't get too sad when someone has lived a good, long life.

She was incredible in GOT.

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Thanks Chuck, E.L. and Harmy!

Frederick Nathaniel 'Toots' Hibbert, front-man of Toots and the Maytals, who helped make Reggae famous worldwide died today in Kingston, Jamaica at age 77. As Eric said, celebrities die all the time, but, this one saddens me.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/12/toots-hibbert-pioneering-reggae-star-dies-aged-77

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Bíonn macalla ag an bheatha sa tsíoraíocht. Liverpool FC: 2019 and 6-time Champions of Europe. 2020 and 19 time English Premier League Champions YNWA. JFT 97

I was coming to post the same sad news.

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Eddie VanHalen has gone to play with the Angels! Eddie battled his own demons and had relationship hurdles with former band members. He may not have been the most agreeable dude but he was a God on the guitar.....

F'n A Eddie!







A full listen of Fair Warning is appropriate!

Interestingly enough Eddie first had tongue cancer which he attributed not to smoking and booze but to:

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Wow. It's impossible to overstate how big Eddie Van Halen factored into rock music for my generation. Huge, HUGE influence on so many artists, he seemingly redefined rock guitar for so many. Some might call him overrated, but I don't think I can do that. Even the Van Hagar years, which aren't looked kindly upon by many, were full of big hits and influential albums.

I kinda wish he hadn't let his ego get the best of him and alienated Roth a second time and also bullied Michael Anthony out of the band simply because he had the audacity to record something with Hagar, but that doesn't erase all the great music he made in the 80s and 90s.

I assume this is the end of VH, unless Wolfgang picks up the guitar again and they bring Anthony back in to play bass.