Dale Griffin, Mott The Hoople, R.I.P.

[GreenBean]

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Going to be a great jam session now.

R.I.P., Dale.

[realdeals]

God I feel so damn old right now

We have lost some greats this last week or two.

R.i.p Y'all.

[rsot]

mad nice tunes and jams

[realdeals]

OMG.....

in the last hour or so it has just been announced EAGLES member Glenn Frey has died, aged 67.

My heroes seem to be dropping like flies right now, so , so, sad.

HOTEL CALIFORNIA FTW.

[jeffweico]

Time just keeps marching on. When I was a kid, I barely knew the people whose funerals I attended. They were all old, and while they were mostly relatives, I hardly ever saw them. Sure, it is sad when anyone dies, but they really didn't affect me.

When I was 12, this girl named Sheila died. Her dad went to Sears one night to buy a new water heater and she wanted to go for the ride. A drunk driver slammed into the passenger side of their car and she was killed instantly. While me and her were not best friends or anything, she was nice, I liked her and all the neighborhood kids know each other.

Then, you become a young adult, in your 20's. By now you either HAVE experienced the death of someone you knew very well or you soon will.

Time marches on and you know more and more people who have died. You have worked with them, lived close to them, been friends with them, or whatever.

In your 30's and 40's most people lose at least one parent. Of course, this is dependent on how old your parents were when you were born, but it IS very common. It seems strange to be on your own. You are used to going to your parents for advice. Now people are coming to you for advice.

You start watching what you eat. You join a gym. You buy vitamins and are not so quick to change the channel when those anti-aging infomercials come on. You buy life insurance. You start to take safety into consideration when planning your activities. Somehow - and you really don't know precisely when it happened - you have become mortal. Death is no longer a far off, unlikely possibility. It is inevitable.

Someone you love ends up in the hospital. Diseases start running through your mind... cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimers, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, whatever it was that Michael J Fox has...

You wonder how this could have happened. You remember graduating high school and it seems like it was only a couple of years ago. Time goes by faster. The injustices of the world bother you more. You find that you can be reduced to tears in a heartbeat. Life is different.

And it keeps getting reinforced. Celebrities that were the hot young things when you were young are now old - very old - or dead. You go to the new Star Wars movie and cannot believe how awful Princess Leia turned out. Harrison ford looks like he is days away from being in a nursing home and you wonder if Mark Hamill will live to complete the next Star Wars movie.

Every day, you take the pills your doctor gave you and wonder if you should open a pharmacy since you are already getting the bulk discounts. So far you have been lucky, the doctors can control your high blood pressure, your sugar levels, your cholesterol level, and even your pain. But you wonder if you will soon join those unlucky souls that you see in the hospitals. The older ones, who look like they have given up, the ones who look like they are in constant state of pain even though they are on a constant morphine drip.

You begin to wonder if your loved ones will drop you off at a nursing home, never to return. You begin to wonder if death truly IS the worst thing that can happen to a person, of if there are other things even more horrible. You hate thinking about these things, but you can't help it. You pray to God that medical research will find a cure for the aging process - not for YOU, but for your CHILDREN! Because as a parent, you realize that one day this will happen to them, too.

You remember those times you disrespected your elders. That time you pretended to be sick so Mom and Dad wouldn't drag you to the nursing home with them to visit your Aunt Barbara. The time you made up an excuse why your girlfriend wasn't at the party at your parent's house because you were too embarrassed by grandpa farting all the time and grandma pinching everyone's cheeks. Would it have REALLY been that bad for them to have met her?

You think about that kid you bullied in school, not because you had a problem with him, but because everyone thought he was gay. And the co-worker you threw under the bus so you wouldn't be blamed for your screw-up. Somehow the justifications you relied on seem ridiculous, full of holes. Is there really a God? A heaven? A hell? Are you a good person? Are you a bad person? Are you something in between?

And you realize that no matter what, you can't change the past. So, you try to be a better person. Not just because you don't want to go to hell, but because you genuinely feel bad about the wrongs you have done. You wish you could take them back, do it over again, set things right.

And then in the blink of an eye, it is your turn. You're dead.

That's life.

I know it sounds like a cliche, but tell the people you love that you love them. Do something nice for them. Try to right the wrongs that you still can. Don't be a miser - you really CAN'T take it with you - help where you can. Make sure your affairs are in order, because you never know which day will be your last. And you don't want those you are leaving behind to suffer, all because you forgot to make that appointment with your lawyer.

Most importantly, try to be nice to the people you encounter. Try to do the right thing. Be nice. Don't listen to those who would turn you into a hater. Because I believe that if God exists, he won't care much that you missed attending church. But he is probably going to judge you based on your actions toward others. There is nothing wrong with defending yourself from those who would do harm to you or your family. But be nice.

[ilcarletto]

Originally Posted by jeffweico

tell the people you love that you love them. Most importantly, try to be nice to the people you encounter. Try to do the right thing. Be nice.

jeffweico, I really enjoy all your posts. Business and non business related.
Thank You.

[mine]

I lost my mother a few months ago. You must be a different kind of person than her because she was quite an unpleasant person for the last 15 years of her life. She liked to take advantage of people and make them feel like they're obliged to do things for her. That saddest thing is that she really didn't get that big lesson in life even in her advanced years and with all her life experience. She still thought that happiness lay within material possessions. If there's one thing you should learn out of life is that happiness is family. Getting together and doing things as a family is the pinnacle of happiness and contentment. If you never pursue that goal then you will never know how good it can get.

[RosieTosie]

Nice A-Z on life Jeffweico, back in the '70s went to the see the Motts at Lancaster University, they were cool, but they had a tremendously cooler support group, the one and only Queen just a few weeks before Bohemian Rhapsody came out and shot them into the stratosphere.

Freddie Mercury stole the show, never been anyone like him before or since. But the Motts had the great All the Young Dudes of course and that did even up the balance somewhat between them and Queen that night. Amazing that just a few days after David Bowie left us that the Motts are losing members. Bowie had such a huge impact on the Motts as well, gifting them their biggest success, that persuaded them to keep on going after being so close to calling it a day.

RealDeals, yes we were all the young dudes back in the day, and all the heroes that everyone looked up to and listened to have grown older as we all have. They were a bit older than us so of course they are passing before us in most cases. Of course, like Jeff said the end of the road is only a stones throw away for all of us to a greater or lesser extent.

[elusive1]

Though it seems like there really has been a huge amount of musician deaths the last few months, it is likely to continue as the boomers all age.

I remember The Onion's headline after Johnny Ramone died. "Ramones reunion almost complete."

[ilcarletto]

Originally Posted by elusive1

I remember The Onion's headline after Johnny Ramone died. "Ramones reunion almost complete."

...I guess this sounded not so good for Marky Ramone...

[elusive1]

I was working in Las Vegas and had a concert business on the side in Las Vegas in 1984, I actually spent a day with Johnny Ramone at the Marina Sportsbook. Actually it was December 8th 1984, as the concert was on December 7th, 1984 ( Pearl Harbor day). We sat in the sportsbook all day, sweated football games, and talked NY sports. I remember teaching him how to bet football round robins. A very pleasant day

[ilcarletto]

Originally Posted by elusive1

I was working in Las Vegas and had a concert business on the side in Las Vegas in 1984, I actually spent a day with Johnny Ramone at the Marina Sportsbook. Actually it was December 8th 1984, as the concert was on December 7th, 1984 ( Pearl Harbor day). We sat in the sportsbook all day, sweated football games, and talked NY sports. I remember teaching him how to bet football round robins. A very pleasant day

Wow, I guess you saw some music "history" going by.
I have seen the Ramones in 1980 in my hometown. That was not a concert it was a riot... never seen so many fists flying.
It was fun tho'

[rsot]

Originally Posted by realdeals

OMG.....

in the last hour or so it has just been announced EAGLES member Glenn Frey has died, aged 67.

My heroes seem to be dropping like flies right now, so , so, sad.

HOTEL CALIFORNIA FTW.

That was sad news as well - http://www.aspkin.com/forums/everyth...les-r-i-p.html

[RosieTosie]

Agreed rsot Hotel California was a real classic and of course one of those songs that defined them and defined a generation.

[pimpin624]

It defined my generation.

[elusive1]

I heard a quote yesterday that " Being a fan David Bowie made is cool to be different, and being an Eagles fan made it cool to be normal"