Kansas Crimson

TDub wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 9:56 pm Nope. Radiohead is awful in any way, shape or form.

Fail.

Jake Black, a Composer of the ‘Sopranos’ Theme, Dies at 59

Jake Black, who wrote “Woke Up This Morning,” the indelible theme song for the groundbreaking HBO drama “The Sopranos,” with a bandmate in the group Alabama 3, died on Tuesday in London. He was 59.

Therese Mullan, a representative of Alabama 3, said the cause was acute respiratory illness.

Mr. Black and Rob Spragg founded Alabama 3 in the Brixton neighborhood of London in the 1990s. The group, which combined genres as disparate as blues, country, gospel and acid house, built a following and became known for its energetic live shows with a rotating cast of musicians.

Mr. Black died days after Alabama 3 performed at a festival in Lancashire, England.

“Woke Up This Morning,” which Mr. Black wrote with Mr. Spragg, appeared on the group’s first major-label album, “Exile on Coldharbour Lane” (Geffen Records, 1997). Mr. Spragg performed the ominous lead vocal on the song, which features a sample of the blues singer Howlin’ Wolf.

“We later found out that David Chase, the writer, was driving the New Jersey Freeway, the route that Tony Soprano would take in the series, and the track came on the radio at the time and he went, ‘I want that band,’ thinking we were from Alabama,” Mr. Spragg said in an interview with what is now the British newspaper The Derby Telegraph in 2010 (though the highway Tony mainly took was the New Jersey Turnpike). “Then he finds out it’s a Welshman and a Scotsman living in Brixton, pretending to be American. But he loved it and still wanted the track.”

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Cisco Kid Was A Friend Of Mine.
Back when kewl was cool and cool was kool.

Friend sent this to me last night.
Coupla Jooozzzz!

Quick!

What’s your favorite Nick Cage movie?

con air

The Rock

Leaving Las Vegas. A truly great performance.

Wild at Heart

*clears throat*




Raising Arizona

Seems I'm about to be a grandpa.

Congrats 99!
Or was that a title of a Nick Cage film?
In some states you were a grandpa about 9 months ago.

Paul1 wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 8:59 am Congrats 99!

^^^

I might have told this story in the professionalism thread, but the F&B manager at work here got his hot shot, guitar playing, Harley riding, 19yo son a job as a bellman. Next thing you know, he’s banging his manager. He knocks her up, and everybody knows but the parents.

So one day in the break room the IT manager comes up to the FB manager in front of everybody and says, “congrats grandpa!” And the guy is just standing there like, what the hell are you talking about?”

kid has some 'splainin to do

I’d mention how the kid’s manager had to get a restraining order against grandpa cuz he was so relentlessly pressuring her into aborting it, but that might be for another bored. And besides, now we’re just gossiping.

isn’t that pretty much ALL we do?

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 8:53 am Seems I'm about to be a grandpa.

That isn't a Cage movie.

how about some Valley Girl lol

(one of the wife’s favorites, regardless of actor...we actually have the dvd)

Quick, anyone have Nick Cage in their favorite movie?

Yeah, I thought so