RIP Thread

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AnOminous said:
Holy shit, this year has been a meatgrinder for great musicians. David Crosby, Jeff Beck (that one hurt), Harry Belafonte just a few days ago, Tim's brother Robbie Bachman, Burt Bacharach (one of the greats of all time), Ryuichi Sakamoto. The list goes on and on and I'm getting depressed just thinking about it.
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Holt shit, I never realized Ryuichi Sakamoto died until now. He was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Japan.
 
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Hearing the news about Gordon Lightfoot dying messed me up a bit. I remember playing ”Sundown” while watering both my plants and lawn during the Summer season. I never really knew that his songs were that much about about sadness being disguised as wanting to witness a higher power with happiness and optimism.

It even sucks more that he’ll never get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, since he epitomized country and folk mixed together with rock and pop.
 
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Absurdist Laughter said:
His comedy is what Drag used to be, then it became unfunny, woke, and pedophilic, socio-politically involved. Legend, he lived a long while as well.
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There's always been a difference between cabaret/burlesque style drag which always has a sexual element to it, fetish drag, and comedic drag which isn't sexually motivated but more based on how ridiculous it looks for, say, John Cleese or Barry Humphries to be dressed up as a woman.
 
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Back to Gordon Lightfoot, the guys of American Thinker posted a good text.
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Gordon Lightfoot, RIP

Canada lost its greatest folk singer in Gordon Lightfoot, who died on Monday at the age of 84. Lightfoot's music hailed pioneers, working men, laborers, little guys, trailblazers, and even drunken losers in the true folk tradition of...
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May 2, 2023

Gordon Lightfoot, RIP​

By Monica Showalter

Canada lost its greatest folk singer in Gordon Lightfoot, who died on Monday at the age of 84.
Lightfoot's music hailed pioneers, working men, laborers, little guys, trailblazers, and even drunken losers in the true folk tradition of both Canada and the U.S. It was sensitive but distinctly he-man masculine, a vivid reminder of such a thing in this age of anti-masculinity. He sang of the same world described by longshoreman/philosopher Eric Hoffer. His music, though Canadian, had a significant affinity for Michigan, northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, upstate New York, and states of the historic northwest, where there are many fans. And while many obituaries described Lightfoot's work as "1970s," that's nonsense. His work is so well crafted and original that it doesn't date. It's as easily listened to today as when it first was released, standing the test of time.
Not surprisingly, Lightfoot's death triggered an outpouring of grief and reminiscing on Twitter and beyond, and rightly so.
Even Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, a woke leftist who is all about persecuting working men such as Canadian truckers, unexpectedly wrote a gracious tribute:
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