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lumen
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response 50 of 244:
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Mar 18 23:08 UTC 1998 |
Ah. I have the feeling it will bomb (but I'm not going to hold my breath
either way).
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bruin
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response 51 of 244:
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Apr 5 14:52 UTC 1998 |
Reports from the German media say that Rob Pilatus <sp?>, half of the infamous
Milli Vanilli duo, has died at the age of 32 as a result of substance abuse.
In case you tuned in late, Milli Vanilli was the duo that won a Grammy for
best new artist, only to lose it because they lip synched their songs from
other people's recordings.
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mcnally
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response 52 of 244:
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Apr 7 16:29 UTC 1998 |
Apparently popular country music singer Tammy Wynette (responsible
for the mega-hit "Stand By Your Man" has died, probably of a blood
clot, at the age of 55.
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bruin
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response 53 of 244:
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Apr 7 20:22 UTC 1998 |
RE #52 I had thought about entering the response on Tammy Wynette, but yielded
to another person on Grex, as I had just entered the obit on the Milli Vanilli
member who had died.
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mcnally
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response 54 of 244:
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Apr 8 16:06 UTC 1998 |
Also, Wendy O. Williams, member of the 80s punk band "the Plasmatics"
(which were chiefly famous for her (at the time) outrageous antics)
has apparently committed suicide..
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bruin
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response 55 of 244:
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Apr 8 23:42 UTC 1998 |
Looks like death has once again come in groups of three, they being Rob
Pilatus of Milli Vanilli, Tammy Wynette, and Wendy O. Williams rounding the
trio out.
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rcurl
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response 56 of 244:
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Apr 9 04:03 UTC 1998 |
Is that supposed to be significant? Sounds like "numerology" to me.
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cyklone
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response 57 of 244:
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Apr 9 05:57 UTC 1998 |
Sorry to mess up the numbers but Cozy Powell, a rock drummer with many,
imcluding Jeff Beck, also died Sunday
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bruin
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response 58 of 244:
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Apr 9 11:57 UTC 1998 |
RE #57 I did see the obit on Cozy Powell in the _Ann Arbor News_ yesterday.
BTW, he also replaced "Palmer" in Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
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mcnally
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response 59 of 244:
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Apr 9 16:20 UTC 1998 |
re #56: the "celebrity deaths occurs in threes" thing is a popular
superstition that says a great deal more about the human mind's
proclivity for finding or imposing patterns than it does about the
distribution of celebrity deaths. I suspect bruin wasn't advocating
a serious belief in it -- I thought of mentioning it myself to poke
fun at it..
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rcurl
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response 60 of 244:
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Apr 9 16:47 UTC 1998 |
Actually, they occur in ones...but spaced unevenly in time. (I was not
aware of the superstition, but I like to poke holes in superstitions
as every little bit helps in eliminating them.)
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albaugh
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response 61 of 244:
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Apr 9 17:54 UTC 1998 |
I thought celebreties died according to the fibonacci sequence... ;-)
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rcurl
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response 62 of 244:
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Apr 9 18:13 UTC 1998 |
Fibonacci did....
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tpryan
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response 63 of 244:
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Apr 13 03:00 UTC 1998 |
Hmm. 63 in 63. There's some numerology for ya.
Celebreties die in three's. Exspecially airplane disasters.
Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Richie Vallens. All on the same airplane.
Jim Croce and two of his musicians died in an airplane crash. Not
sure if it was airplane that also took out Bill Chase (of the group
Chase, from the early 70's).
Cowboys Copas, and two other Country stars (includeding a
more famous one, the brain sludge just won't give it up right now)
back in tthe 50is a well-remembered airplane disaster. So well so,
that even today, no three Country artists will fly in the same plane.
They prefer busses to get from city to city while on tour.
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tpryan
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response 64 of 244:
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Apr 13 03:09 UTC 1998 |
Wow. Web search on Cowboy Copas. He, Hawkshaw Hawkins, and
Patsy Cline died in a plane crash near Camden (?NJ?) on March 5,
1963. So actually after Buddy Holly, reinforcing the idea that
you do not get in a plane with two othermusicians.
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rcurl
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response 65 of 244:
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Apr 13 05:17 UTC 1998 |
Superstitions aside, it is a fact that many corporations forbid their
executives to fly on the same plane. This is not because of any mystical
numerology, but to prevent the simultaneous loss of multiple executives
in the event of a crash.
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mcnally
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response 66 of 244:
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Apr 13 16:28 UTC 1998 |
I rather suspect some companies would stand a greater chance of
benefitting if their execs *were* on the same plane but since the
execs make the rules they presuppose a certain amount about the
importance and usefulness of executives..
After a tragic incident in WWII where a set of five (I think) brothers
(the Sullivans?) all died together when their ship was sunk, the armed
forces also have rules intended to minimize the impact of a single
disaster on any given family..
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bruin
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response 67 of 244:
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Apr 13 17:25 UTC 1998 |
RE #64 And wasn't there another country music star of that era who was killed
in a traffic accident while traveling to (or from?) one of the funerals in
the Cline/Copas/Hawkins plane crash.
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krj
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response 68 of 244:
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Apr 14 05:09 UTC 1998 |
Bruce Martin died in late '97, if I remember the news correctly.
Martin was the official bagpiper of the Philadelphia Folk Festival;
he opened every festival evening concert for 30 years.
The March 1998 FOLK ROOTS reports that Simon Jeffes, leader of the
Penguin Cafe Orchestra, "died on February 19, aged 48, after
a long battle with cancer."
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krj
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response 69 of 244:
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Apr 14 21:16 UTC 1998 |
Tuesday's New York Times brings another obit: Tom Cora, 44, who played
in an experimental music group Skeleton Crew with Fred Frith -- and sometimes,
with Zeena Parkins. I saw the Cora/Frith/Parkins group play the Ark
about ten (?) years ago; the show was at the outer limit of what I
perceive as music.
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cloud
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response 70 of 244:
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Apr 16 01:23 UTC 1998 |
Didn't John Denver die in an airplane accident? Or have we already covered
that one?
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omni
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response 71 of 244:
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Apr 16 03:43 UTC 1998 |
We covered that one. Maybe you weren't here.
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krj
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response 72 of 244:
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Apr 23 10:37 UTC 1998 |
I forgot to get back here to mention that (according to a net report)
Tuesday 21 April was the 20th anniversary of the death of British
singer Sandy Denny. (I'm sure it was April 1978 when she died,
I remember the news well.)
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bruin
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response 73 of 244:
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May 22 22:46 UTC 1998 |
Jazz pianist Dorothy Donegan, who played in Ann Arbor at the Summer Festival
a few times, has died of colon cancer at the age of 76.
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scott
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response 74 of 244:
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May 23 00:37 UTC 1998 |
With little press notice, Wendy O. Williams (best known as vocalist of the
Plasmatics) died recently.
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