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Post by mirium on Jul 4, 2009 18:30:18 GMT -5
Well, it's been a busy month for www.deadoraliveinfo.com ! David Carradine, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Harve Presnell, Karl Malden, Billy Mayes, Gale Storm, Mollie Sugden, Steve McNair... Yikes, who's next?  |
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Post by mirium on Jul 7, 2009 6:16:47 GMT -5
Add Robert McNamara to the list. Some of us have mixed feelings about this...and you Canadians gained some new neighbors because of him, so you might be feeling ambivalent too. Depending on what the new neighbors were like. |
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Post by mirium on Jul 19, 2009 8:23:28 GMT -5
Walter Cronkite's gone -- The Most Trusted Man In America. If Walter said it, you KNEW it was true.
For those of you too young to remember, the term "anchorman" (a particular kind of person who reports the news) was invented to describe what he was doing. Literally. He was the first one.
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Post by mirium on Aug 19, 2009 18:36:29 GMT -5
Les Paul, who invented the solid body electric guitar. Robert Novak, who outed Valerie Plame. Don Hewitt, who created the "60 Minutes" TV show.
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Post by luf100 on Aug 19, 2009 22:29:14 GMT -5
Les Paul I was actually slightly sad over. I remember going to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and going through like a whole hall all for Les Paul and all his guitars. He pretty much invented the electric guitar! That makes him like, part god in my eyes.
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Post by mirium on Aug 22, 2009 7:00:59 GMT -5
Yeah, before Les Paul, an "electric guitar" meant an acoustic guitar with a sound pickup added to it. (You can still get those -- it's for folk singers who are performing in really big spaces.) He invented the "solid body" version, which is what people mean now by electric guitar. Jimi Hendrix on an acoustic just wouldn't have been the same.  |
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