Dropping Like Flies

[Cock Van Der Palm]

Stan Love - basketball player
But we still have Mike Love - asshole brother

[shemptiness]

Stan Love - basketball player
But we still have Mike Love - asshole brother

[hutch]

Mike Peters


(Unconfirmed but being reported)

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Mike Peters


(Unconfirmed but being reported)

damn, what a battle this man has waged with cancer
just a short while ago it looked like he'd beat it yet again

His show at the State is a fond memory for me
One of the first bands I saw live (Stonybrook university of all places)

never knew this, but probably good they decided to change the name
started band The Toilets in Rhyl in 1977, after seeing the Sex Pistols play in Chester.

[bearman🐻]

Mike Peters


(Unconfirmed but being reported)

I interviewed Mike close to 30 years ago...he was doing a show at the Bayou, and I spent a lot of time with him in his dressing room. He was one of the most alive, vibrant, and kind human beings I've ever met. If you met that guy, he had an immediate and lasting impact on you. He was the real deal. Loved life, loved what he did, and never once seemed ungrateful for a moment of any of it. All these years later, I still remember wondering how someone could be so put together, but also authentic. Because to me that was what struck me...it wasn't an act. That's just who he was. It didn't matter I was a writer for a college paper. He just wanted to make me feel like I was welcome to hang with him and chat. So this does make me very sad. A friend's 23-year-old daughter died last week. And an old school 9:30 employee has terminal brain cancer...I'm just feeling like there's a lot of stuff happening that doesn't seem fair or just. It sucks.

[sweetcell]

Mike Peters


(Unconfirmed but being reported)

now confirmed

[rich_WDC]

Mike Peters


(Unconfirmed but being reported)

now confirmed

A short rush of nostalgia for me when seeing him perform at a benefit at Pearl Street in early 2019 since -- besides that '95 Bayou show -- it had been close to thirty years since the heyday of the band.  Great, great memories of him from that era.

[hutch]

Didn’t realize he died from lymphoma


The Alarm for a while seemed ready to conquer the world. A new U2. It didn’t happen. They just plateaued. Same kind of happened with Big Country although I never thought of them as U2-like.

[Mobius]

As I recall, in late 1987 there was a ton of prime new (or newish) music from the eras heaviest hitters - U2 Joshua Tree, New Order Substance, Cure Kiss Me Kiss Kiss Me, INXS Kick, REM Document, Smiths Strangeways, Depeche Mode Music for the Masses etc

. . . And the Alarm’s Rain in the Summertime may have been the best song of the time at the time.

[shemptiness]

Seymour Weiner

[Yada]

Seymour Weiner

The walky thread is >>>>

[hutch]

Andy Bey

[Space Freely]

Damn, why does it always have to be an obscure musician and not a prominent politician or one of their fascist staffers?

[nkotb]

Damn, why does it always have to be an obscure musician and not a prominent politician or one of their fascist staffers?

[hutch]

Jill Sobule died in a house fire.