Celebrity Death Thread

[YT]

CG, This must be more your speed

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A"]"SING, SING, SING" BY BENNY GOODMAN - YouTube[/ame]

[Dan V]

We called them REO Fagwagon all through highschool from 1977-80.

Time for me to fly was our homecoming theme- would NOT dance to this and had a hot date to boot.......

[Drew]

REO was my first concert when I was 16. I went with my neighbor brothers. A day or so before, my older brother by 6 years (he had already moved out of the house by then and was visiting) looked at me and while smiling said, "So, you're going to see those pussies, REO Speedwagon, hunh?"

I was so confused, I didn't know what he meant. I only knew Riding the Storm Out and thought that was pretty hard. I just thought he was just doing what he did my entire childhood growing up. Dominate me physically and mentally.

Honestly, I was afraid of the concert crowd and getting into a fight more than anything.

[Panoptes]

REO still puts on a good show. Again, imo, anchored by Dave Amato and his guitar work.

[Chuck Cunningham]

I like the older music like Ridin the Storm Out, but I liked the "sell out" music as well (the Hi Infidelity stuff.....those bad guys, wanting to put out a #1 album!!!).

[ghandi]

I always thought Rollin with the Changes was their best song.

[DanO]

I like REO.

[edindetroit]

I always thought Rollin with the Changes was their best song.

Me too.

[Malto Marko]

"It ain't over, till it's over".

Well, it's over.

Baseballs most colorful character has passed.

Yogi Berra is dead at age 90.

RIP Yogi.

......and I know, You didn't say all the things you said!

[Drew]

RIP Yogi

[bimmer84]

RIP Yogi

[Marko69]

Any relation to Edinburgh born soccer defender, and ex jambofucker, Christophe Berra?
RIP Yogi.

Edit: Didn't hear about the REO death. Not good. One of their songs was played as one of my wife and I's wedding songs. Must admit, I hadn't really heard anything by them before meeting her in 2002.

[froot loops]

Imagine how much money Yogi would have made in today's game. Good grief, his resume is one of the most impressive resumes ever.

[fontes91]

Was a soldier on D Day and one of the greatest catchers of all time. Was on 10 world series winners, more than anybody. Gave a ton to charity. Was a blessing to mankind. I'll pull out some of my Yogi cards today. Got '52-61 Topps and '53-55 bowman. RIP Yogi. Say hello to Mickey and Joe D.

[The Cat]

Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra is perhaps best known for being an All-Star catcher, but his quips have garnered plenty of attention throughout the years, too. Whether it was his use of double negatives or a cleverly misused word – e.g. “Pair up in threes” – Berra’s “Yogi-isms” revealed his true personality. Below are selected quotes highlighting the former New York Yankees and Mets manager’s witty outlook on the game he loved and life in general:
On baseball:
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
“It’s d?j? vu all over again.”
“If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”
“Baseball is 90 per cent mental. The other half is physical.”
“You give 100 per cent in the first half of the game, and if that isn’t enough in the second half you give what’s left.”
“Pair up in threes.”
“Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.”
“He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”
“I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”
“I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.”
“I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.”
“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
“All pitchers are liars or crybabies.”
(On the 1973 Mets) “We were overwhelming underdogs.”
“I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?”
“So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.”
“In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
“I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this day necessary.”
“I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.”
“Slump? I ain’t in no slump. I just ain’t hitting.”
“If you don't catch the ball, you catch the bus home.”
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
“A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it’s home or on the road.”
“It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.”
“It gets late early out here.”
On life:
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
“We’re lost but we’re making great time!”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
“Take it with a grain of salt.”
“You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
“I wish I had an answer to that, because I’m tired of answering that question.”
“We have a good time together, even when we’re not together.”
“If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them.”
On golf:
“Ninety per cent of short putts don’t go in.”
“Eighty per cent of the balls that don’t reach the hole don’t go in.”
“I think they just got through marinating the greens.”
On travel gear:
“Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.”
“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
On naps:
“I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.”
On “fan” mail:
“Never answer an anonymous letter.”
On his own words:
“I never said most of the things I said.”