Mic drop: The 2024 RIP thread for musicians

I reckon Tito has stopped teasing.

 

I think Marlon was the Jackson most people had the hardest time remembering. Tito was second. Michael, Jermaine and Jackie were pretty easy.

Man, the Jackson 5 made the jukebox in the Boca Raton Junior High cafeteria rock back in the day. Three plays for a quarter!

I think "ABC," "I Want You Back" and "The Love You Save" were all in there. And how many of us remember the Jackson 5 cartoon?

 

Fireballs vocalist Jimmy Gilmer dies at 83

"Sugar Shack" was Billboard's #1 song for 1963 and the last American hit before Beatlemania.

 

https://variety.com/2024/music/obit...uther-dead-eagles-new-kid-in-town-1236148047/

Wrote many hits for the Eagles and had a few of its own. Part of that great Detroit rock scene with Glenn Frey and Bob Seger.

 

That is an outstanding obituary.

I have a very special memory associated with "Best of My Love." I did not know he wrote it. For that, thank you very much Mr. Souther, and RIP.

 

Akron, Ohio, native:

 

If you never risked a speeding ticket listening to the end of Green Grass & High Tides then I don’t know if we can hang out.

 

Sunuvabitch.
GGHT, the last 5 minutes of Freebird and Runnin Down a Dream may be the 3 most “pedal on the right” songs of all time.

 

Mom’s first encounter with a state trooper was when Radar Love was on the charts.

 

Freak
Lmao

 

Not in the Dear Penthouse sense.

 

Add the back half of of Mr. Brownstone to that list. I've literally looked down on the speedometer and realized I'm driving 10-15 mph faster during those verses.