Well known personalities who have passed away recently (Renamed)

[pmccarthy]

HQ hermaphrodite.

[red750]

I know I posted about James Moylen, but I didn't mean for the thread to be dragged off with all this car stuff. 

[facthunter]

$#!t happens. Quote.  T A Bot in Afghanistan, surrounded with soldiers.  Nev

[red750]

Grateful Dead guitarist and founding member Bob Weir has died at 78, his official Instagram account confirmed on Saturday.

[red750]

Rob Hurst, drummer and founding member of Midnight Oil, has passed, aged 70.

[Jerry_Atrick]

70! WTF! I am getting old! 😉

 

I bought my first midnight oil CD in Czeske Budejovice (pronounced Cheskey Boodeyovitza) in the Czech Republic (Czechia is actually made up by Google, I was told by a Czech who works for me). That was in 1998, while I was working at one of their nuclear power stations. Fond memories of both the place and oddly associating Midnight Oil with the place. Also, my first non-French European landing was at Czeske Budejovice.  

 

True story - the sister of one of my then Czech work colleagues, now firend, was the singer in a cover band (she still is an absolute cutey; her brother didn't quite fare so well). I was taken to a restaurant where they played, and on learning I was there, the band riffed AC/DC and Midnight Oil songs virtually all night. The restaurant owner sat with us for a while and asked if I could broker live sheep exports to the Czech Republic from Australia. "Sure", I said, imbibed with local beer. Never happened, though. 

 

Sad  Rob Hurst passed relatively young.

 

 

Edited 18 minutes ago by Jerry_Atrick