Plato Shrimp / The Morgue

**Posted by Jinnistan** 12/17/2024 4:08 pm

Zakir Hussain, master of Indian percussion, especially his signature tabla, best known for his collaborations with John McLaughlin on the long-running Shakti project. Also contributed to music by George Harrison, Van Morrison, Pharoah Sanders, Mickey Hart, Bela Fleck and many others, in addition to Hussain's own recordings.

McLaughlin provided his epitaph - "The King, in whose hands, rhythm became magic"

**Posted by Rock** 12/27/2024 8:42 pm

R.I.P. Olivia Hussey

I just rewatched Black Christmas a few days ago.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 12/28/2024 3:28 am

True blue beauty.

**Posted by Rock** 12/29/2024 4:16 pm

Jimmy Carter

https://www.ajc.com/news/former-us-president-jimmy-carter-100-dies/3ODQTR5NHVDTDF2SXOU34MKNZM/

**Posted by Jinnistan** 12/29/2024 10:44 pm

Bump

Jinnistan wrote:

This is a bit pre-emptive. As of midnight tonight, Jimmy Carter is still ticking. But I wanted to get in first. Carter has been put on hospice care to spend his "remaining time" at home with loved ones. The 98-year-old is already the longest living president of all time. Also the most underrated of modern presidents, hobbled by economic and global pressures beyond his control. He's Exhibit 'A' for why being a genuinely decent man is a disadvantage for being an effective president. Obama better start building some houses, because Carter also has the most honorable post-presidency legacy as a charitable ambassador of good will. We should celebrate the man while he still might hear us. But prepare yourselves for all of the pundits who have been ignoring him all these years to come out of the woodwork in the coming weeks to sing his posthumous praises.

Guys? Don't tell Stu.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 12/30/2024 11:04 am

Dayle Haddon, supermodel of the '70s, and also actress in a number of films, World's Greatest Athlete and North Dallas Forty, and several Italian productions including The Cousin, Spermula and The French Woman - the latter from Just Jaeckin, erotic pioneer (Emmanuelle, Story of O, Lady Chatterley's Lover).

Tragically died from an accidental carbon monoxide leak from a broken boiler-heater. She was 76.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 1/06/2025 10:45 pm

Emilio Echevarria, best known (to me) as 'El Chivo' from Amores Perros.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 1/10/2025 3:43 pm

I haven't mentioned Peter Yarrow. I've only ever had a couple of Peter Paul & Mary LPs, and I proably never listened to them more than a couple of times each. (I might still even have them in a dusty bin somewhere.) One could make the argument that their brand of soft-comfortable folk-pop was a necessary conduit to accustom the popular palate to the more provocative edges of the folk/protest movement of the Dylan and the later '60s.

Yarrow, more than either of his bandmates, is now best known as an important fixture of the Greenwich Village folk scene, whose significance is less about his musical talents than his musical taste, a custodian of folk legacy, an important Dylan-whisperer, and an invaluable resource for historical reference.

(Anita Bryant's death is perhaps more cause for celebration, but I do want to mention, what I assume to be a coincidence, that while taking a brief sojourn to a local record store, I saw one of Anita Bryant's gospel LPs staring at me from the dollar bin, and I spent a good, solid minute seriously considering picking it up for purely ironic yuks. But I declined. Even for a dollar, I knew I was just buying the cover. Anyway, I hope her spirit was watching from below, and her soul stung by by my extremely but appropriately petty negligence.)

**Posted by Jinnistan** 1/12/2025 5:03 pm

The Mighty Sam Moore, lost his truck load.

**Posted by Rock** 1/16/2025 4:42 pm

David Lynch

**Posted by Jinnistan** 1/16/2025 4:58 pm

**Posted by Jinnistan** 1/17/2025 5:30 pm

Unfortunately, Bob Uecker is mostly known for his slight role in the Major League movies and his '80s beer commercials. As can be seen below, he was quite a colorful personality and wrote a couple of very amusing books.

I know Joan Plowright is a very accomplished stage actress in all kinds of respectable and proper films, but my favorite role of hers has to be as Tracy Ullman's mother in the woefully dismissed I Love You To Death. "Don't think of them as drug addicts. Think of them as killers." Runner up? I dunno, let's go with Drowning By Numbers then.

**Posted by crumbsroom** 1/17/2025 6:44 pm

You forgot Mr. Belvedere!

**Posted by Jinnistan** 1/17/2025 7:03 pm

crumbsroom wrote:
You forgot Mr. Belvedere!

Thankfully, Norm did not.

**Posted by Jinnistan** 1/21/2025 4:48 pm

Ol' Garth Hudson, the mad scientist of The Band, its last surviving member (as well as its oldest), and the amateur engineer who captured The Basement Tapes.

All of Hudson's instrumental work was delightful, from his wide variety of keyboards to his assorted saxes, he has been called "the most brilliant organist in the rrock world". It's difficult to pick favorites, although "Chest Fever" was his obvious war horse and concert showcase. But for my favorite, I'll go with that notorious "Basement Tape" which was never really a basement tape, but still has that fine Hudson solo.

**Posted by crumbsroom** 1/22/2025 3:25 pm

I only recently was made aware of this exchange between Rolling Stone and Garth Hudson, and it kind of exemplifies what I love about him.

GH: Yeah, my dad was an entomologist; he was a Canadian, government inspector. He would inspect foreign produce, imports, little trees; he conducted the Dutch elm disease survey. He also managed the surveys on the Japanese beetles. I was interested interested in the science or research end of agriculture.

RS: Do you feel like talking about the Band at all?

GH: I don't think that is necessary

**Posted by Jinnistan** 1/22/2025 11:40 pm

Speaking of Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield offered a very good tribute including some of his favorite Garth moments, including one I'll be happy to cosign.

**Posted by crumbsroom** 1/23/2025 12:33 pm

Jinnistan wrote:
Speaking of Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield offered a very good tribute including some of his favorite Garth moments, including one I'll be happy to cosign.

Possibly my favourite performance in the movie.

**Posted by crumbsroom** 1/23/2025 12:34 pm

Came across The Band's fourth album Cahoots in a dollar bin yesterday. It's not nearly as big a dud as I have been led to believe. I definitely prefer it to the album that followed, and I honestly wouldn't put it all that far behind Stage Fright (although it clearly doesn't have that one's highlights, Life Is a Carnival is probably one of the weakest Band singles I've heard)

**Posted by Jinnistan** 1/23/2025 12:55 pm

crumbsroom wrote:
Possibly my favourite performance in the movie.

I never can resist pointing out the well-known fact that Robbie Robertson's microphone was switched off, and the magnificent backing harmonies are from Manuel and Helm instead. Unfortunately, Richard Manuel got very little camera time in the film. But Robertson got in a great solo, including that little 'dice shake' move.