RIP

[paul secor]

I don't find them tiresome at all. If they bother or annoy anyone, they don't have to read them. Easy enough.

[AllenLowe]

if we stop letting Jim post his RIP threads, can I post an RIP thread for Jim's RIP threads?

Edited April 12, 2017 by AllenLowe

[ghost of miles]

... And anybody who finds tiresome the notion that an ongoing proliferation of R.I.P. threads is tiresome and making this place look like Organdonorissimo is free to ignore this thread as well! Etc, etc. People have posted RIP threads about musicians and non-musicians ever since this board started. It's only lately that Jim's taken to posting numerous ones, which does tend to give the board a whiff of the obituary page. I don't see Dmitry or anybody else crashing the threads themselves about it, just stating it here. 

[JSngry]

It's not that many, really. Think about all the people who die every day, and then compare it to how many RIP threads there are here. It's like complaining about a jazz musician getting too popular or something.

[Chuck Nessa]

I thought this was a really slow build to my demise. ?

[AllenLowe]

I just did the mirror test on myself. So far, so good.

[Chuck Nessa]

Bummer

 

[medjuck]

At my age you read a lot of obits just trying to keep track of your friends.

[Rooster_Ties]

11 hours ago, Dmitry said:

This place is starting to smell funny, if you know what I mean...

Assuming jazz itself isn't actually dead, I thought Frank Zappa's explanation for the smell seemed entirely plausible.

[JSngry]

[sonnymax]

You know what's tiresome? The endless "album covers with..." threads. But then, I just avoid them. Simple really.

[Justin V]

1 hour ago, sonnymax said:

You know what's tiresome? The endless "album covers with..." threads. But then, I just avoid them. Simple really.

[xybert]

1 hour ago, Justin V said:

Good album! 

[soulpope]

5 hours ago, paul secor said:

I don't find them tiresome at all. If they bother or annoy anyone, they don't have to read them. Easy enough.

Dito ....

[Gheorghe]

I don´t have to post "RIP" just to raise the number of my posts.

And too many persons I don´t have any idea who it was.

If it´s about a musician who means something to me I might say why I love his music so much, or remember when I heard him/her live.

Anyway, as I grew up with the jazz that was heard then, from post-war bop to 70´s rock-jazz and that´s my listening habits, say from ´45 to late 70´s , most of my idols are gone, from Diz to Alphonse Mouzon...., let´s say, so who´s left just a few.... 

[JohnS]

I'm with Gheorghe here.  I don't know who some of these people are.   But where else would I find out about musicians such as Arthur Blythe and Alphonse Mouzon for example..Maybe we can keep the RIPs for musicians.

Edited April 13, 2017 by JohnS

[Big Beat Steve]

4 hours ago, xybert said:

Good album! 

 

I think my heavy metal-inclined son has it too. At least he has their patch (among many others) on his jacket.

Good move anyway, JustinV!

 

Edited April 13, 2017 by Big Beat Steve

[Scott Dolan]

6 hours ago, sonnymax said:

You know what's tiresome? The endless "album covers with..." threads. But then, I just avoid them. Simple really.

Talk about thinking outside of the box!

 

[gmonahan]

On 4/12/2017 at 2:02 PM, JSngry said:

Not deadly tiresome, I hope.

Not to me. Keep posting. If people don't want to read a thread, then, wonder of wonders, they don't have to click on it, do they?

 

 

gregmo

[Scott Dolan]

But what a horrendous inconvenience it is to them! 

[gmonahan]

 

 

gregmo

[Brad]

A thread about threads, now there's something novel 

[Justin V]

20 hours ago, Brad said:

A thread about threads, now there's something novel 

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/36558-what-is-your-clothing-style/

[mikeweil]

On 13.4.2017 at 3:27 AM, medjuck said:

At my age you read a lot of obits just trying to keep track of your friends.

... and the aging musicians you love.

[JSngry]

I'm fascinated, genuinely fascinated,  by how many people I don't learn about until I see their obituary. Interesting people who did interesting things that I may (or may not) have had interaction with, but never at they level of "somebody did this, but who?" Like the guy who died last year, who invented/designed the Solo plastic drink cup. That guy touched more lives more times than we have numbers to count them, I'm sure.

And the reality is that, like most people, I have neither the time, interest, nor focus to keep up with all these people and all their accomplishments in real time. But when their day's work is done, it's nice to be remembered, right? And I'm glad to know who they were, what they did, and how I was touched by it. I'm glad to know that, just as I'm sure most of us would be glad to be known about when our day's work is done. Not forever, but just once.