Category Archives: RIP

Deep Purple Doing Smoke On The Water LIVE

July 18, 2012 – 3:33 am

Sing Along People

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Jon Lord Deep Purple RIP

July 18, 2012 – 3:04 am

Deep Purple’s Jon Lord passed out of the Here-Now to join friends, family, and fans in the Here-Before, but his music with the premiere heavy metal band in history shall survive in the Here-Beyond for as long as young boys sing the four note motif of SMOKE ON THE WATER. The classically trained pianist was […]

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Ray Bradbury RIP

June 8, 2012 – 11:02 am

In 1953 Ray Bradbury wrote FAHRENHEIT 451 at a rented room at UCLA’s Powell Library. The total cost for rent and typewriter was $9.80. The title was in reference to the temperature at which paper ie a book is combustible. “In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that […]

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Another

May 28, 2012 – 5:40 pm

Two days ago Eric D. Warren, a US Marine Hospitalman was killed by an IED attack in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. The dead have names. His friends in Shawnee will miss him. They have families. He came from Oklahoma. They are not forgotten. Bring the troops home. ps the photo is of Eric D. Warren taking […]

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Donna Summer RIP

May 17, 2012 – 2:28 pm

Music critics have argued over whether the first disco song was the Hues Corporation’s “Rock the Boat”, George McCrae’s “Rock Your Baby” or”Kung Fu Fighting” by Biddu and Carl Douglas, but incontestably the greatest hit of disco was LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY by Donna Summer. Sadly the Queen of Disco has passed from the […]

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