| Another Celebrity Bites The Dust |
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| Les Paul is dead. |
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I guess I should mention that this blog turned 20 years old last month.
It’s true that I haven’t been writing much for the past few years, but then
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1 month ago
Yeah, we should all have had such a great creative ride. And left the world a better place.
ReplyDeleteYes, but you speak of yourself in the past tense! Are you dead? Is it already too late? Oh, Lord, have we lost her?! If you need it, I'll attest that you were a great piece of--uh, work before you gave out!
ReplyDeleteI guess he came in on the wave BEFORE the one that took so many promising musicians away again due to over-indulgence of one sort or another. That fact stood him in good stead. The entertainment world changed soon after his rise to fame, and became a more glittery but more dangerous world to live in.
ReplyDeleteRIP Les Paul.
Yeah. It's probably every generation's duty to complain that "all our best artists" bite the dust too soon. A certain unlucky percentage of every category of people die relatively young and somebody is bound to make too much of it that their celebrity "hero" has died. Of course, most of them were rather chickenshit heroes who courted their own deaths with a variety of bad habits and risk-taking behavior. Celebrities are like buses; there'll be another one any minute and we can jump on that one.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so I'm feeling snarky.