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Amy Winehouse found dead, aged 27

I do feel really bad for her parents and family. I remember seeing her father on several talk shows, and he really loved her and wanted her to get help.
 
I cried when Johnny Cash died. Of COURSE it was expected, so see how that doesn't work? I said "He won't last six months without June" and I was right. He didn't.

I cried too. I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news. I walked out onto the balcony of my office in the centre of Phnom Penh and wept for a while. He's the only person I didn't know personally who has died and whose death had that effect on me. That moment comes back every time I hear When The Man Comes Around. 'It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks'. How true.
 
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Keith Richards is only alive through sheer luck. Scientists will later be baffled by him.

And he'll still probably be around for them to study
 
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When she was on, she was... amazing. But everyone knew this day was coming, and it came far too soon. RIP Ms. Winehouse
 
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I never really liked KISS. I thought Marilyn Manson was all gimmicks too... Oh, and Snipknot. Those are middle aged guys hiding behind masks, but they had the formula down pat and made a lot of money doing it.

I've never been a KISS fan. Their music is just kind of ....whatever... for me. I won't turn it off if a song comes on the radio, but when I catalog the greatest rock musicians in my mind they don't show up. Now hopefully there isn't an Ace Frehely worshipper here. Trust me, when it comes to a guitar player having a hardcore following that will never admit that any one is even their equal, it is the Ace Frehely fans. If they show up in threads, its best to just leave.
 
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I've never been a KISS fan. Their music is just kind of ....whatever... for me. I won't turn it off if a song comes on the radio, but when I catalog the greatest rock musicians in my mind they don't show up. Now hopefully there isn't an Ace Frehely worshipper here. Trust me, when it comes to a guitar player having a hardcore following that will never admit that any one is even their equal, it is the Ace Frehely fans. If they show up in threads, its best to just leave.

Don't know much about guitarists myself, but my brother has met some Swedish guitarist a few times because he is in the music business... I can't think of his name, something like Invey Maumsteen???? I don't who Ace Frehely is either, sorry. My brother might know.
 
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amywinehouse-1.jpg

such a loss
after serbia/belgrade this summer, in no way unexpected
 
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Don't know much about guitarists myself, but my brother has met some Swedish guitarist a few times because he is in the music business... I can't think of his name, something like Invey Maumsteen???? I don't who Ace Frehely is either, sorry. My brother might know.

Ace Frehely is the lead guitarist for KISS. Your brother met Yngwie Malmsteen, who is an incredibly talented guitarist who has done some of the best guitar work I've ever heard. But he's also released a whole bunch of pedestrian efforts as well. He essentially plays classical style music on electric guitar, and very fast. He shines with instrumentals, but he has some of the worst lyrics and "rock" songs for an immensely talented musician. I've been a fan of his for a while now, but his recording quality has declined and I haven't bought much of his music lately.
 
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I've never been a KISS fan. Their music is just kind of ....whatever... for me. I won't turn it off if a song comes on the radio, but when I catalog the greatest rock musicians in my mind they don't show up. Now hopefully there isn't an Ace Frehely worshipper here. Trust me, when it comes to a guitar player having a hardcore following that will never admit that any one is even their equal, it is the Ace Frehely fans. If they show up in threads, its best to just leave.


Hmmm I never ever thought KiSS was about the music.
 
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Hmmm I never ever thought KiSS was about the music.

I agree, but don't say that to an Ace Frehely worshipper.
 
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I don't really appreciate the cavalier attitude people have toward her death, or when they even mock her. I was not a fan but I enjoyed her peripherally. She must have been suffering terribly in order to end up on such a downward spiral. The pressure of fame must have been enormous.

Like many people with amazing and unique talent, her gifts were partly fuelled by her shadow side. It got the best of her.

Rest in peace, Ms. Winehouse.
 
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Hmmm I never ever thought KiSS was about the music.

They have some similarities to the Ramones. Gene Simmons is one of the smartest men in rock. Johnny Ramone was a world class guitarist who -if push came to shove-play with Mick Jones of the Clash, Pete Townsend of the Who, Lesley West of Mountain etc. Just because the Ramones were all three chord blitzkriegs does not mean JR was limited to that. Same with Simmons et al.
 
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Hmmm I never ever thought KiSS was about the music.

What kind of men would form a band, call it Kiss and wear tons of makeup and platform shoes?
 
What would be surprising is if her death had nothing to do with drugs, alcohol or suicide.

Everybody is acting as if they know how she died they don't. Maybe she died of natural causes. Nobody knows at this point. Sure I suspect OD but do not know!! I think people should stop saying she died over drugs til there is proof of it.

One of my fav songs
 
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What kind of men would form a band, call it Kiss and wear tons of makeup and platform shoes?
Band that was from the seventies nothing unusual for that day and age.
 
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What kind of men would form a band, call it Kiss and wear tons of makeup and platform shoes?

smart rich ones


I saw Gene Simmons asked that same question

he was hilarious

He noted he was butt ugly and didn't look like Roger Daltry nor Robert Plant and he couldn't sing like either of those two all time greats

hence the Schtick
 
Everybody is acting as if they know how she died they don't. Maybe she died of natural causes. Nobody knows at this point. Sure I suspect OD but do not know!! I think people should stop saying she died over drugs til there is proof of it.

One of my fav songs



true it could have been a Mossad hit team-the same one that took out Princess Di:lamo
 
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smart rich ones


I saw Gene Simmons asked that same question

he was hilarious

He noted he was butt ugly and didn't look like Roger Daltry nor Robert Plant and he couldn't sing like either of those two all time greats

hence the Schtick

He isn't butt ugly... :shrug:

And not all guys that do that are smart or rich. There are many of bands that look like fools and go nowhere. That band just got lucky, and they happen to suck IMO.
 
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He isn't butt ugly... :shrug:

And not all guys that do that are smart or rich. There are many of bands that look like fools and go nowhere. That band just got lucky, and they happen to suck IMO.

Gene simmons is butt ugly compared to the two guys he was talking about

and he is brilliant
 
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He isn't butt ugly... :shrug:

And not all guys that do that are smart or rich. There are many of bands that look like fools and go nowhere. That band just got lucky, and they happen to suck IMO.

Gene Simmons wouldn't look bad if his hair didn't look like a dead coyote.
 
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Gene simmons is butt ugly compared to the two guys he was talking about

and he is brilliant

You could call Marilyn Manson brilliant for the same reason, but I prefer to call the people who bought into his image stupid...
 
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