Neil Peart has passed from gliablastoma ( a fast moving brain cancer for which there is no cure).
“Peart officially joined the band on July 29, 1974, (Lee’s 21st birthday), two weeks before the group’s first US tour. Peart procured a silver Slingerland kit which he played at his first gig with the band, opening for Uriah Heep and Manfred Mann in front of over 11,000 people at the Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 14, 1974.[18] ”
I’m musically retarded (forgive the word, but believe me it’s the one that suits) but if yinz want to talk about drummers – my adoration for Led Zep is well known and this vid of their drummer Jon Bonham – just the drums on Whole Lotta Love – may be something you enjoy. I hope. Sorry, it’s the best I’ve got.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dT2YWMqw5A
Pekka Rinne Scores Rare Goalie Goal For Predators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Su1dDVBiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtgY1q0J_TQ
Key and Peele .nobady is funnier working today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2ZxldMO-M
More Key and Peele
so the girl and I just got back from seeing 1917
Very well done
We are passing… We are shadows, smoke being blown by the wind. God rest you Neil Pert.
I spend most of my time working these days. I get up at 4am, leave for work at 5am, and get home around 5pm. Somehow Neils passing on the 7th escaped me.
I know in a purely academic sort of way that the worlds “Rock Stars” are older, the majority in their 60s and 70s. They are not long for this world.
Being born in 1961, my short stint as a Rock Star makes me one of the youngest of what, if I may be permitted the liberty, I would call my musical peers.
Currently, the world has no shortage of celebrities. Many of whom both the media and the public refer to as “Rock Stars”. In truth however, the real Rock Stars are passing away at a frighting rate.
When the very last of us are gone, the world will never again see our like. I do not know if this will be a good thing or a bad thing. So many of my peers were such horrible role models for the worlds youth.
We indulged in such vulgar excess and behaved with so little moral or ethical impulse. We threw caution and constraint to the wind to pursue our every lurid desire.
Along the way a few of us got indescribably famous and wealthy. Far fewer than most would believe. A few of us created music that was celebrated as actual Art.
Exactly what our legacy will be, once the dust has all finally settled, is yet far from decided. Will we have been a force for good in the world, or just one more shift of the Overton Window to a more degenerate and vulgar world.
Personally, I fear, that should by the grace of God through his Son Jesus Christ I find myself to be invited into an eternal rest within the household of God almighty, I shall not see many of my musical peers there.
I can only hope and pray that Jesus Christ is as kind and forgiving as the Christian scripture assert him to be, and that, perhaps, even if I might be permitted to hope against all hope, he is somewhat, if even only a little, a fan of Rock and Roll.
@ doriangrey:
well said.
doriangrey wrote:
Of course He is. Just look at Keef
I wish we could trade some of the anti government protestors in Iran for some of the anti government protestors here.
Oh, this would be interesting
Trump allies looking to purchase One America News Network: WSJ
https://disrn.com/news/trump-allies-looking-to-purchase-one-america-news-network-wsj
@ eaglesoars:
from the comments at Instapundit:
A colleague is close to a pretty influential conservative voice who had dinner with the President a month or two ago. The President asked this person what he should do when he’s out of office (and he meant in 2024) and the response was “you should start your own media empire, you have a talent for this”. The President loved the idea. This could well be the first step..
OANN is currently owned by Herring Network. They also own the Washington Times.
@ doriangrey:
You stated that very nicely.
@ lobo91:
great find, that was cool
and in football news
the Titans beat the ravens 28-12
damn. Sir Roger Scruton has died. You may be vaguely familiar with the name but not be able to place it. He brought the term ‘oikophobia’ into the discussion.
eaglesoars wrote:
I know.
The Conservative world has lost a leading light. He was never a traditionalist however no matter that tradition (probably inherited from his mother’s side) was always there in the background.
RIP Sir Roger.
GB just beating the snot out of seattle
28-10
rain of lead wrote:
We were at Chili’s today and they had the National Felons’ League on. Houston was beating KC 24 to zip. Now I hear that KC turned that around and beat Houston.
/It ain’t over til it’s over.
AHAHAHAHA!!!
Facebook Glitch Reveals Greta Thunburg’s Father Posting As Teenage Climate Activist
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youve-scripted-my-childhood-facebook-glitch-reveals-greta-thunburgs-father-posting
eaglesoars wrote:
Oops. For once a mistake that went our way
It’s been bugging me for few days, since he popped up to shoot his mouth off again. John Kerry is aging oddly and I couldn’t figure out who the hell he reminded me of. Looks a bit like a muppet but that’s not quite it.
Then it hit me.
Those Easter Island heads.
*snort*
morning y’all
Monday Monday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY
DEVELOPING: Gov’t watchdogs raising concerns Hunter Biden’s political gifts to several Senate Dems–inclg Leahy, Menendez,Booker,Whitehouse,Cardin,Cantwell–may transgress Senate “conflict of interest” rules & possibly trigger recusal requirements during Senate impeachment voting
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1216479597899997185
@ doriangrey:
truth.
small matter of a football game this evening….
new thread going up
nap time. new thread