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David Cassidy 1950-2017

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CNN has reported he died today from organ failure. HE previously was reported as suffering dementia after years of documented drug abuse.
 
I saw him in Vegas in '94. I adored him in the 70's...would have traded my little sister for him in heartbeat, so it was pretty cool to see him come up to our table in Vegas. Sad for him to go so young but if he had dementia, then it was probably a mercy.
 
The most amazing thing of all is that three cast members of the Partridge Family are dead and none of them are Danny Bonaduce. True story, Danny was buying smack from his dealer when his dealer gets shot dead, right in front of him. So what does he do? He buys some smack from the shooter who then becomes his dealer.

RIP David Cassidy.
 
TurtleDude said:
CNN has reported he died today from organ failure. HE previously was reported as suffering dementia after years of documented drug abuse.
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He was pretty old so dementia could have just come naturally.
 
TurtleDude said:
67 isn't exactly pretty old
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It is to me! Isn't 70 like the average lifespan of a human being? Dementia may come from many different factors.
 
PoS said:
It is to me! Isn't 70 like the average lifespan of a human being? Dementia may come from many different factors.
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its over 78 now and if you make it to 65 your expected life span is in the 80s
 
Hard to really say where the dementia came from, but RIP nonetheless.
 
RIP.

It looks like he had a tough life:

An alcoholic his entire adult life
Lots of money issues
Two kids but didn't raise his daughter.
Father was also an actor but was an alcoholic, had mental issues and died in a fire.
His manager was a drug addict

Given these circumstances, I guess it's surprising he lived this long.
 
Northern Light said:
Hard to really say where dementia came from, but RIP nonetheless.
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His father was bipolar and his mom had dementia. I think its genetics. Him being an alcoholic didn't help either I guess.
 
Bucky said:
His father was bipolar and his mom had dementia. I think its genetics. Him being an alcoholic didn't help either I guess.
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He said someplace that he had long figured it was coming, the dementia.

That was a different America that they were trying to talk about, dead now.
 
I never was much of a fan of his.

Yeah I watched the Partridge Family as a kid, but what did I know? I was a kid!

But I have no animus or criticism towards him, and wish he rest in peace.
 
beefheart said:
The most amazing thing of all is that three cast members of the Partridge Family are dead and none of them are Danny Bonaduce. True story, Danny was buying smack from his dealer when his dealer gets shot dead, right in front of him. So what does he do? He buys some smack from the shooter who then becomes his dealer.

RIP David Cassidy.
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Danny has a great book out. It's a pretty short read, and being way better than I expected, I knocked it off in one night. It's actually a page turner. It really surprised me. Highly recompensed.

Amazon - Random Acts of Badness: My Story
 
TurtleDude said:
CNN has reported he died today from organ failure. HE previously was reported as suffering dementia after years of documented drug abuse.
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Shame. 67 is young.
 
PoS said:
Dementia risk increases with age. That's an accepted medical statistic. :neutral:
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My understanding is it can be exasperated by heavy drug or alcohol use. One more reason not to overindulge in mind altering substances. From what I've read, DC had a huge drinking problem.
 
I totally get why we loved this show as young teenagers.

PartFam11.jpg
 
Rest in peace.
 
Lursa said:
Not available on Kindle, oh well.

Too spoiled to read regular books anymore :)
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It might be worth a temporary technological reversion. It's really a good book. Then you could pass it on, and share the love.
 
Deaths in the past week or so of Jim Neighbors, Della Reese, David Cassidy. It's times like these that remind me of Jim Morrison who hammered home the point that no one gets out alive.

I knew these among others as performers during the 60s when I entered my 20s and in the 70s when I entered my 30s. Each of 'em had remarkable abilities and talents as a singer of songs. Which is how I remember 'em.

Neighbors surprised most people by communicating that he was multi talented. I never watched his show Gomer because the whole idea of it was so base and low class. Indeed, as we know today his town were the people across America who made the difference in the election of a year ago.

Della Reese could belt it out and she was one of the many successful black entertainers enabled by rock 'n roll which goes back to Chuck Berry who also passed on fairly recently. B.B. King and Jerry Lee Lewis were other first among equals.

I didn't watch David Cassidy's Partridge Family show but I didn't watch Fonz and Obie either -- same for most of those airhead teenypoo shows. My friends and neighbors were the real deal which is what mattered. I preferred the singing groups of the time as so many of 'em emanated the power and pizzaz of the times. Stones, Led Zepplin, Jefferson Airplane/Starship -- the list gets long. In college we had an art major in our group who printed up counterfeit concert tickets to live shows by numerous groups one after the other.

It wuz a cool ticket scam racket we had uninterrupted for a long time and pulled off completely. We ran it out of a closet kind of office we had in the Student Union Building to publish an alternative newspaper (funded by the college hah!). We'd buy one ticket and the artsy guy would examine it, buy the paper, the right colors and the like. Reproduce the ticket off a cylinder with a needle that back then constituted a first generation primitive fax. The small churchmouse guy had the fingers of a safecracker (and for all we knew maybe he wuz one). Billy Blue we called him cause of his blond features and blue threads every day.

The outstanding thing about David Cassidy is that he was a singer above all else in time, engagements, commitment. Yes he griped about it but who doesn't gripe about something that didn't go exactly so and precisely as fantasized. Fact is David Cassidy enjoyed his singing immensely. He made the enjoyment contagious. I never bought his stuff or attended a concert but David Cassidy was the sole teen idol singer/actor I paid any mind to. David swore later it wuz all an act but who can do such an act each day for a score of years and in the way he did it for two score years. DC was in fact the real deal and good on the highly talented smiling gentleman David Cassidy for doing it thx.
 
Tangmo said:
Deaths in the past week or so of Jim Neighbors, Della Reese, David Cassidy. It's times like these that remind me of Jim Morrison who hammered home the point that no one gets out alive.

I knew these among others as performers during the 60s when I entered my 20s and in the 70s when I entered my 30s. Each of 'em had remarkable abilities and talents as a singer of songs. Which is how I remember 'em.

Neighbors surprised most people by communicating that he was multi talented. I never watched his show Gomer because the whole idea of it was so base and low class. Indeed, as we know today his town were the people across America who made the difference in the election of a year ago.

Della Reese could belt it out and she was one of the many successful black entertainers enabled by rock 'n roll which goes back to Chuck Berry who also passed on fairly recently. B.B. King and Jerry Lee Lewis were other first among equals.

I didn't watch David Cassidy's Partridge Family show but I didn't watch Fonz and Obie either -- same for most of those airhead teenypoo shows. My friends and neighbors were the real deal which is what mattered. I preferred the singing groups of the time as so many of 'em emanated the power and pizzaz of the times. Stones, Led Zepplin, Jefferson Airplane/Starship -- the list gets long. In college we had an art major in our group who printed up counterfeit concert tickets to live shows by numerous groups one after the other.

It wuz a cool ticket scam racket we had uninterrupted for a long time and pulled off completely. We ran it out of a closet kind of office we had in the Student Union Building to publish an alternative newspaper (funded by the college hah!). We'd buy one ticket and the artsy guy would examine it, buy the paper, the right colors and the like. Reproduce the ticket off a cylinder with a needle that back then constituted a first generation primitive fax. The small churchmouse guy had the fingers of a safecracker (and for all we knew maybe he wuz one). Billy Blue we called him cause of his blond features and blue threads every day.

The outstanding thing about David Cassidy is that he was a singer above all else in time, engagements, commitment. Yes he griped about it but who doesn't gripe about something that didn't go exactly so and precisely as fantasized. Fact is David Cassidy enjoyed his singing immensely. He made the enjoyment contagious. I never bought his stuff or attended a concert but David Cassidy was the sole teen idol singer/actor I paid any mind to. David swore later it wuz all an act but who can do such an act each day for a score of years and in the way he did it for two score years. DC was in fact the real deal and good on the highly talented smiling gentleman David Cassidy for doing it thx.
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Best thing to do is enjoy the ride, because it certainly will soon come to an end.
 
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