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posted 12-08-2008 09:18
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The Hold Steady aren't actually that old, are they? Like, 35 or something.
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posted 12-08-2008 10:38
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Thanks for those MP3s, G-Man and Neil.
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posted 12-08-2008 12:35
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Am I the only one that finds parts of the NYT obit to be, well, almost insulting?
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With his lascivious bass-baritone and flamboyant wardrobe, Mr. Hayes developed a musical persona that was an embodiment of the hyper-masculine, street-savvy characters of the so-called blaxploitation films of the era. In his theme song to Gordon Parks’s “Shaft” from 1971, the title character is summed up in a line that has become a classic of kitsch: “Who’s a black private dick/Who’s a sex machine to all the chicks?”
(Furthermore: “He’s a complicated man/But no one understands him but his woman.”)
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By the late 1960s Mr. Hayes was stepping out as a solo artist, and his reputation grew as much for his dress as for his music. The cover of his 1969 album, “Hot Buttered Soul,” pictured him in customary style: shaved head, dark shades, gold chains, bare chest. The album was similarly eccentric...
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posted 12-08-2008 17:28
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Drifting a little off topic here, I was pondering earlier what Scientologists do with death.
Would he be buried or cremated like the rest of us ? Will he have died believing he was going off to commune with a spaceship or something like that ?
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posted 12-08-2008 17:41
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Am I the only one that finds parts of the NYT obit to be, well, almost insulting?
The tribute piece on the BBC1 evening news featured some bloke who was supposed to be an expert. After a weird shot of him struggling to get a Hayes CD out of his rack (all the other ones kept falling over and trapping his fingers) we saw him opining that, without Isaac Hayes, there might not have been a Barry White as we know him.
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posted 12-08-2008 18:04
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Thanks for the link though I'm not really any the wiser for it !
Alex Ferguson will be bullying Ronaldo into signing one of those billion year contracts through successive lives to ward of Real Madrid if he gets wind of that bit.
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posted 12-08-2008 20:02
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I had the same problem dalliance. I was quite "what the fuck?"
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posted 12-08-2008 22:30
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That was indeed a pathetic obit Inca (no pun intended)
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posted 12-08-2008 23:04
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It's official, the cause of death was a stroke.
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posted 13-08-2008 10:18
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SR: Craig Finn's in his late 40s I think.
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posted 13-08-2008 10:52
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Oh wow. He's exactly my age. I'm not sure whether I'm made up or upset.
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posted 13-08-2008 12:28
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I understand that Broker/Dealer project of his was rather good? I've yet to check that out.
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posted 30-09-2008 20:38
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I'm sure that everything I wanted to say about this great man has been said already. I jst want to say that I thought that he was absolutely the MAN. And Mrs. House Cat loved him.
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