Paid Members Statto Posted April 20 Paid Members Posted April 20 Actor Patrick Muldoon, aged 57, from a heart attack. Probably best known in the States as a soap actor (with stints on Melrose Place & Days of our Lives), I imagine most here will know him (as I did) as dashing pilot Zander in Starship Troopers, Rico's rival both for Carmen's affections and in that weird arena football type game where they score easily on every play. Quote
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted April 22 Paid Members Posted April 22 Elsie Kelly has passed at 89. She was awesome as the Oracles mum in Benidorm, stole every scene. Quote
Rossman Posted April 24 Posted April 24 (edited) Dave Mason has passed away at the age of 79. Dave was a founding member of the 60's rock band Traffic with Steve Winwood. He wrote and sung their biggest hits. Hole in my Shoe & Feelin' Alright. An underrated guitarist, Dave went on to do session work for Jimi Hendrix playing on All Along The Watchtower & Crosstown Traffic. He recorded Street Fighting Man with the Stones. Played guitars on George Harrison's, All Things Must Pass. Dave had a prolific solo career, releasing 15 solo careers. His best in my opinion would be the debut, Alone Together. Dave moved to the States at the end of the 60's so has largely been forgotten here. This is one of my favourite songs of his. Wicked tempo shifts, Leon Russell tickling the ivories, Jim Gordon's thumping drum beat and the guitar solo 2/3rds in is exquisite. Edited April 24 by Rossman Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted April 24 Paid Members Posted April 24 7 hours ago, Rossman said: Dave Mason has passed away at the age of 79. Dave was a founding member of the 60's rock band Traffic with Steve Winwood. He wrote and sung their biggest hits. Hole in my Shoe & Feelin' Alright. An underrated guitarist, Dave went on to do session work for Jimi Hendrix playing on All Along The Watchtower & Crosstown Traffic. He recorded Street Fighting Man with the Stones. Played guitars on George Harrison's, All Things Must Pass. Dave had a prolific solo career, releasing 15 solo careers. His best in my opinion would be the debut, Alone Together. Dave moved to the States at the end of the 60's so has largely been forgotten here. This is one of my favourite songs of his. Wicked tempo shifts, Leon Russell tickling the ivories, Jim Gordon's thumping drum beat and the guitar solo 2/3rds in is exquisite. It's a bit eerie, this. Just got back from running a live music night, just after which I was chatting with an audience member about a particular rendition of John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic. It is a superb version. Unfortunately, I haven't heard much else by Traffic, but I'm on a bit of a 60s/70s folk kick at the moment, listening to Steeleye Span, Planxty, Pentangle, etc., so looks like Traffic are going to be next on my list to listen to. Quote
SaitoRyo Posted April 30 Posted April 30 Controversial outlaw country legend David Allan Coe at 86 (which is a hell of a run for a controversial outlaw country legend). Hard to sum up his life and career, which certainly took some turns, but underneath it all he was a hell of a songwriter, singer and performer. Quote
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted April 30 Paid Members Posted April 30 Ted, the true star of Gone Fishing has sadly passed. His underbite, the fact that you could literally smell him though the telly and his gentle, fun character will be missed. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted April 30 Members Posted April 30 3 minutes ago, Thunderplex said: Ted, the true star of Gone Fishing has sadly passed. His underbite, the fact that you could literally smell him though the telly and his gentle, fun character will be missed. Oh no, that's really got me. Hope he's partying somewhere. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted April 30 Paid Members Posted April 30 That's brought me down. RIP Ted. I didn't know much about David Allan Coe, so went on his Wiki, and this story was quite fun: Quote Coe's second album, Once Upon a Rhyme, contains one of his biggest hits, "You Never Even Called Me by My Name", written by Steve Goodman and John Prine, and which first appeared on Goodman's 1971 debut release. Coe's version became his first country top-10 hit single, peaking at number eight in 1975, and includes a spoken epilogue where Coe relates a correspondence he had with Goodman, who stated the song he had written was the "perfect country and western song". Coe wrote back stating that no song could fit that description without mentioning a laundry list of clichés: "mama, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk". Goodman's equally facetious response was an additional verse that incorporated all five of Coe's requirements, and upon receiving it, Coe acknowledged that the finished product was indeed the "perfect country and western song" and included the last verse on the record: Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison And I went to pick 'er up in the rain But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck She got runned over by a damned ol' train. Quote
ultimo the great Posted April 30 Posted April 30 (edited) RIP Ted ☹️ Edited April 30 by ultimo the great Quote
Paid Members Statto Posted April 30 Paid Members Posted April 30 1 hour ago, Carbomb said: That's brought me down. RIP Ted. I didn't know much about David Allan Coe, so went on his Wiki, and this story was quite fun: Every spring, I play a set of themed country songs with my mate Paul and my old drama teacher Hugh, as part of the monthly Sunday Sessions Hugh runs at a local venue (we did this year's on Sunday just gone as it happens, a "5 big hits, 5 deep cuts" Johnny Cash set as requested by Hugh). Last spring's was based around that song - we opened with it, then played 2 songs about mama, 2 songs about trains etc etc. Quote
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted April 30 Paid Members Posted April 30 My daughter met Ted at an author signing, both book releases. She’s a big fan of Gone Fishing as well. I’ll let my wife tell her instead. Quote
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted May 2 Paid Members Posted May 2 On 4/30/2026 at 12:45 PM, ultimo the great said: RIP Ted ☹️ I have a feeling those biographies may be ghost written? I was greatly saddened by his passing. I hope in his final episode this series he gets the full "in memorium" treatment. Quote
Chili Posted May 2 Posted May 2 (edited) https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/cvgz0kpxjpgo Ex-F1 driver and Paralympian, the brilliantly named Alessandro Zanardi has died aged 59. Famously lost both legs in a horrific CART crash in 2001, went on to still do stuff in Motorsport and elsewhere. Real young age, but he was clearly made of sterner stuff. Edited May 2 by Chili Quote
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted May 2 Paid Members Posted May 2 The willpower of Alex Zanardi was amazing. Won races in World Touring Cars after his accident as well as 4 Paralympic cycling gold medals and a couple of silvers, plus countless world championship medals. A real inspiration One thing I find funny that I shouldn't is that the Long Beach Motorsports Association put him in their Walk Of Fame in 2022. Quote
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