The Cellar / RIP, Famous person

**Posted by Flint** 1/21/2022 7:53 pm

lol twice

**Posted by footfootfoot** 1/21/2022 8:52 pm

monster wrote:
Flint wrote:
good run for a fat comedian
68 yards or feet?

I imagine fat comedians rarely get to 69...

Most hilarious. Teh funny are you!

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 1/24/2022 11:56 am

monster wrote:
I imagine fat comedians rarely get to 69......

This reminds me of Sam Kinison talking about the possibility of Louie and Roseanne having something going:

"Louie, and Roseanne, yeah, like there's a bed that'll hold that action..."

Hmm, if not for Roseanne that woulda been an all-dead comment. Well, there is her career, so...

**Posted by griff** 1/24/2022 5:09 pm

Don Wilson

**Posted by fargon** 1/24/2022 10:33 pm

That is the soundtrack of my childhood. And Don Wilson played a big part in it.

**Posted by footfootfoot** 1/25/2022 8:43 am

Bummer.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 1/25/2022 10:08 am

fargon wrote:
That is the soundtrack of my childhood. And Don Wilson played a big part in it.

That's how I felt when Malcolm Young died. He played rhythm guitar for the soundtrack of the formative years of my life.

**Posted by monster** 1/25/2022 6:33 pm

This is what i read (due to the visual field cut I have and being tired......)

TheNeverWas wrote:
That's how Malcolm Young died. He played rhythm guitar for the soundtrack of the formative years of my life.

**Posted by tw** 1/25/2022 7:48 pm

TheNeverWas wrote:
He played rhythm guitar for the soundtrack of the formative years of my life.

Never really understood this. I understand what a lead guitar and bass guitar does. But how does a rhythm guitar fit in the band? What does he play that is unique from the other two?

**Posted by monster** 1/25/2022 9:12 pm

tw wrote:
TheNeverWas wrote:
He played rhythm guitar for the soundtrack of the formative years of my life.
Never really understood this. I understand what a lead guitar and bass guitar does. But how does a rhythm guitar fit in the band? What does he play that is unique from the other two?

This is how I understand it: consider a traditional household. If the lead guitar is the kid(s) and the bass is papa, the rhythm guitar is mom keeping all the shit together and generally underafuckinpreciated... but I could be wrong

**Posted by footfootfoot** 1/26/2022 7:27 am

Monster's MOM Rules Cheat Sheet:

1.) Mom is always right.
2.) If Mom is wrong, refer to rule 1.

**Posted by Flint** 1/26/2022 8:08 pm

tw wrote:
TheNeverWas wrote:
He played rhythm guitar for the soundtrack of the formative years of my life.
Never really understood this. I understand what a lead guitar and bass guitar does. But how does a rhythm guitar fit in the band? What does he play that is unique from the other two?

Rhythm guitar is functionally grouped with the 'rhythm section' of bass and drums. It expands on the punctuation of the drum/bass pattern with another structural element that's also slightly more melodically intricate, bridging the gap between the the lower-pitched percussive sounds and the sustained melody/harmony notes of lead guitars/vocals. It generally does structured chord strumming or some kind of repetitive staccato pattern. It can be easy to overlook the rhythm guitar part, if it is doing a good job of blending into the background structure of the song and not calling attention to itself.

That's what "rhythm guitar" means to me. As a drummer, I really tune into the rhythm guitar part to define the "character" of the song, how to approach the material, how much or how little drumming is needed.

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**Posted by tw** 1/26/2022 8:16 pm

Flint wrote:
It can be easy to overlook the rhythm guitar part, if it is doing a good job of blending into the background structure of the song and not calling attention to itself.

So maybe I did not hear Lennon's part? Curious. I must listen for it on better fidelity audio.

I had always thought 'interplay' was between drums and bass guitar.

There is subperb work by bass guitars that can be overlooked by lesser audio systems.

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**Posted by Flint** 1/26/2022 8:19 pm

"Rhythm Guitar" can also be a position in a band, a job title.
In some instances I think "Lead Guitar" is almost like saying that guitarist has "top billing"

**Posted by Flint** 1/26/2022 8:22 pm

tw wrote:
There is subperb work by bass guitars that can be overlooked by lesser audio systems.

Rhythm guitar parts get it even worse-- they're in the subtle details of the mid-range, exactly the area where many consumer-grade stereo systems smear the signal out into indistinct mush.

**Posted by BigV** 1/26/2022 9:34 pm

The Ventures, awesome!
Best selling instrumental band in history.
Had eight albums in the top 100 at the same time.
Walk, Don't Run. Hawaii 5-0. So much awesome.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 1/27/2022 9:28 am

I've always thought of the rhythm guitar as the Keeper of the Key. The 'key' being the key the song is played in.

I also think of it as the mind of the song, bass being the body.

**Posted by Carruthers** 1/27/2022 5:23 pm

One for the dwindling band of Brit Dwellars.
Comedy writer, comedian and game show panellist, Barry Cryer.
He told his last joke a couple of weeks before his death in a phone chat with a friend.

A man and his wife are out walking one day when they spot a lone fellow on the other side of the road.

“That looks like the Archbishop of Canterbury over there,” says the woman. “Go and see if it is.”

The husband crosses the road and asks the man if he is indeed the Archbishop of Canterbury.

“F— off,” says the man.

The husband crosses back to his wife, who asks, “What did he say? Is he the Archbishop of Canterbury?”

“He told me to f— off,” says the husband.

“Oh no,” replies the wife, “Now we’ll never know.”

**Posted by monster** 1/27/2022 6:34 pm

I know he was a comedic genius and I have enjoyed and laughed at many things he's written, but for some unknown reason he always creeped me out.

(No I'm not glad he'd dead, (unless he wanted to be), just being honest. Bernard Cribbins does too. I don't think it's the accent or the hair but....I just don't know.....)

**Posted by tw** 1/27/2022 8:31 pm

TheNeverWas wrote:
I've always thought of the rhythm guitar as the Keeper of the Key.

So why did Lennon always detune his E string?

**Posted by BigV** 1/27/2022 9:23 pm

tw wrote:
TheNeverWas wrote:
I've always thought of the rhythm guitar as the Keeper of the Key.
So why did Lennon always detune his E string?

Maybe he played in lower case.

**Posted by monster** 1/27/2022 11:18 pm

tw wrote:
TheNeverWas wrote:
I've always thought of the rhythm guitar as the Keeper of the Key.
So why did Lennon always detune his E string?

prolly dissed him.

**Posted by tw** 1/28/2022 11:05 am

So he was killed because he was not a good Keeper of the Key?

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 1/29/2022 7:31 am

No, he was killed because Mark David Chapman was/is bat-shit-insane.

**Posted by fargon** 1/30/2022 8:37 pm

Howard Hesseman.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/howard-hesse-man-dead-wkrp-in-cincinnati-police-academy-1235167152/

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