RIP thread

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Aldrich Ames, American spy.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Béla Tarr, Hungarian film director.

[Paraselene]

Lai Yuking, 23

[awty]

Bob Weir, Grateful Dead co-founder, dies aged 78

[Thumpalumpacus]

What I wrote on the other forum:

Was never a big Dead fan, but they did some decent stuff and he seemed like a decent guy.

I think the first time I played in public was in Ventura, CA, in June 1984. The Dead were playing the County fairgrounds on the beach, so my drummer and I carted our gear down to the Ventura Pier about half-a-mile away and set up underneath the pier where people would some to find shade and the acoustics were better for the rock-base of the pier. He brought windchimes, a couple of bongos, and a set of crotales, and I brought my 12-string guitar, and we just sat there and played for an hour or two during the afternoon, well before the Dead went on that night.

There was a lot of money thrown into my open guitar case when we were done, and a healthy bag of Thai buds. I'll say one thing, those Deadheads were a generous lot.

[Fake Messiah]

Erich von Däniken, the ancient aliens grifter.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Erich von Däniken, the ancient aliens grifter.

I thought he’d assumed room temperature long ago. My bad.

Boru

[AFTT47]

Me too.

[Deesse23]

Erich von Däniken, the ancient aliens grifter.

Yep, just read that as well.

De mortuis nihil nisi bene. --> lets continue

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘I also hope for the continuing popularity of books like Chariots of the Gods? in high school and college logic courses, as object lessons in sloppy thinking. I know of no recent books so riddled with logical and factual errors as the works of Däniken.’ - Carl Sagan, 1976

Boru