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R.I.P. Mike Peters

The front man of Welsh rockers The Alarm, Peters died after fighting blood cancer for 30 years.

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I remember watching a concert of them on MTV and really liking the band. Once I won a CD sampler from The Loop (WLUP) and it had this song on it:

 
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R.I.P. Tony Haselden

Guitar player and vocalist for LeRoux has died at 79. i saw Tony live when LeRoux opened for Kansas in 1979. It was an insane night. My friend got a hole burned in his jeans from someone's cigarette. I got doused with a beer. It was July 8th and everyone showed up with their fireworks. Folks were lighting Roman candles in the arena and they were exploding on the ceiling and raining down on the crowd. Strings of firecrackers, bottle rockets and the occasional cherry bomb shook the stadium. After the show, I saw about a tanker truck's worth of vomit and unconscious folks were strewn all over the lawn outside the stadium.

Tony was an award-winning songwriter and producer in Nashville, having written many #1 songs for popular artists such as George Strait, Colin Raye, Shenandoah, and Shania Twain.

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R.I.P. Sly Stone

Sly Stone, founder of Sly and the Family Stone has died at age 82.

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I'll always remember late one heavy snow morning, sitting on the south side of Navy Pier in my little folding chair popping a nice limit of great sized perch. As the large flakes piled up on my lap, Sly and the Family Stone's greatest hits were playing over the Navy Pier outdoor sound system. Good times! And I had the whole place to myself.
 
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RonG said:
R.I.P. Lou Christie u

Lou Christie, one of the most beloved teen idols of the 1960s and the voice and songwriter behind Billboard Hot 100-topper "Lightnin' Strikes," has died. He was 82 years old.

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Actually I never heard of the guy or his hit. Maybe he means something to Rambler? Why are these guys all dying at 82 lately?
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One of the great falsettos of the 60s.'Lightening Strikes' was a mega hit when I was a Jr in high school. My band wanted to cover it but I couldn't get that high.
 
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R.I.P. Mick Ralphs

This one only broke about 5 minutes ago. I heard it on 95.5 WCHI. Mick Ralphs, Guitarist in Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, Dead at 81

I always loved Bad Company. My friend Jerry and I recorded a Wacky Weenie for Johnathon Brandmeier in his heyday. it was the song Bad Company and we re-worded it to Bad Johnny B. I played all the music and Jerry sang. It got a good amount of of airplay on WLUP.

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One of the coolest things was Paul Rodgers had just completed a two year world tour with Queen and literally a couple weeks later he was solo playing the fireworks fest in Wood Dale. We were right up to the stage, basically front row, but we were standing. So cool to see a rock legend like Paul like that.

If you listen to Bad Company, most folks don't realized was that Mick was about the most simplistic guitarist in rock. He may not have played a flurry of notes, but it always rocked and sounded great.
 
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R.I.P Ozzy Osbourne

Speechless. Not much to say. 76 years old.

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Just 3 days ago, I was enjoying Night Ranger in Cheeseland and guitarist Brad Gillis was telling his story of how he was hired to replace Randy Rhoades in Ozzy's band when he died in that plane crash. Brad was the only guy Ozzy could find that could handle the Randy Rhoades chops. The band flew right into Crazy Train and did an excellent job of it.

 
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Most that know me might find it hard to believe but there was a period in high school where I thought I might have been a bigger Ozzy fan than Kansas fan. :eek:

I think it was more the songs and Randy Rhoades' stunning guitar work on those first two solo albums than it was Ozzy himself.
 
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It was storybook how Ozzy got to have one final concert and then passed on.

As a kid I was told if you played his music backwards it was satanic verses.

Around 98 when I was in the Army I was hanging out with some guys at the San Antonio Riverwalk mall when Ozzy and a small entourage walked by us. I thought it was pretty cool he could walk through the mall without being bothered. This was right in the time frame he had his comeback album with a pretty cool song Back on Earth that we we were always jamming.

RIP Ozzman. Thanks for the memories.
 
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FishinMatt said:
As a kid I was told if you played his music backwards it was satanic verses.
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He did have one big lawsuit. A teen killed himself and his parents blamed it on him listening to Ozzy's Suicide Solution tune. (I just heard it on the radio 1/2 hr ago)
The lyrics played forward go:
Wine is fine, but whiskey's quicker
Suicide is slow with liquor
Take a bottle, drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrows

Ozzy's lawyers argued he wasn't saying alcohol and suicide were the solution to your problems but that alcohol is a "solution", a liquid mixture. lol, clever. It must have worked because the case got thrown out. I always saw the song as a warning against drowning your sorrows and taking your life.

Similar is Sabbath's Die Young song. I thought it was horrible, pushing kids to oft themselves until I listened closer to it. It's a warning to kids who drive like wackos and live crazy and do nutty stunks thinking they are invincible.
 
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Just thought of another. Sabbath's Children of the Grave sounds really evil but the message is: Now that we are in a nuclear age, the young generation must do something different besides all the previous generations' hate and war. The need to pursue love or else they are destined to become Children of the Grave as they are all annihilated with the rest of us in a nuclear war,

A lot of Metallica is like that. It sounds evil and scary, but the message is often the opposite, positive. It gets the parents and the Bible thumpers all riled up.
 
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R.I.P. Chuck Mangione

It seems a travesty to have to put this in here and move on from Ozzy's memorial. Dead at 84. He had that one big Chucky Cheesy, sappy, horn blowing hit when I was a kid that was huge at the time.

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Oh, and I don't know if he sang, but he sure could yell. RIP Hulk Hogan
 
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