The RIP thread...

Indeed. Welcome home.

Mike Starr

RIP Mike. Heroin is shite.

that's just all kinds of wierd. spotify just started to play them bones and i clicked on this thread.

sad indeed - man knew his way around a spector bass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwvSS8J4ze0

Another tragic loss :(
We were just playing their MTV unplugged album earlier as well.... hey ho

Owsley Stanley, maker of Owsley acid. He turned on, tuned in, and has now dropped out. Died in a car crash in Australia.

Big Jack Johnson, guitarist with the legendary Jelly Roll Kings... RIP Jack, now jamming in blues heaven with Frank Frost and Sam Carr...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-vuofgyX8

Just seeing this thread immediately made me think of Japan. What do you say to that? As more and more footage comes in you can see just how appalling is was/is. Rest in peace, I guess.

Race Face.
http://www.singletrackworld.com/2011/03/race-face-closes-doors/
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/have-race-face-gone-into-liquidation-29596
http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/raceface-closes

R.I.P Smiley Culture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZDPMwrPDM

Nooooooooooooo!

:-(

Fuck, reading the details now.

REGGAE MUSICIAN Smiley Culture who scored two chart hits in the Eighties has died following an incident with police.
The Police Office singer, real name David Emmanuel, is believed to have stabbed himself after officers raided his home in Warlingham, Surrey, earlier today.
He was due to face trial after being charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine in September last year alongside four others.

Fuuuuuuuck

Nuh prodoooSAH

Well sad :(

'stabbed himself'?! Yeah right!

The OB press and media dept must've taken ages to come up with that one!

Nasty business, I saw him live at the Battersea Arts Centre back in the early 80s... Him and Laurel and Hardy were my fave London toasters back then... RIP Smiley... :[

DaveH beat me to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jOjZKDoo08

RIP Smiley

R.I.P Smiley Culture!

Them 70's and 80's reggae cats, must be half of them dead already.

R.I.P

Them 70's and 80's reggae cats, must be half of them dead already.

R.I.P

dead but never forgotten baby

Alphabetical index here: http://www.reggaetrain.com/lasttraintozion.asp

R.I.P

Send money to the survivors.

R.I.P Smiley Culture!

+1

Very, very sad to me personally. Those days were the best. Many on here are too young to have ever been in a shebeen, or a blues, but that was where music was, and people danced till the sun came up through some window in a strangers house.

Smiley was always played, and the memories will always stay with me. How prophetic, his attack on police behaviour.

Just awful. He was the don.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF74D3kbbTI