2016 - The great Boomer Die Off ?

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RAJ

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Holy shit.

We're a couple months in and we've lost Bowie, Glenn Frye, Mott the Hoople drummer, Lemmy, dude from Tower of Power, American Breed guy, REO Speedwagon shredder.

Is the hard partying of the 70s and 80s catching up to these people? Or is this normal aging process. Decades of coke and alcohol abuse coupled with all nighters and touring couldn't have done these people well.

Facebook is one big eulogy right now.

:OJ:
 
I guess they could have squeezed out a few years more If they would have gone to bed early, had eaten clean food, cut out the booze and the drugs, stopped smoking amd worked out at the gym five times a week.
I highly doubt that Lemmy would have traded more ten years for this kind of lifestyle.


 
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Duderonomy said:

Time for a Strut deadpool?



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Duderonomy said:

Keith Richards.



The Internet will collapse when this happens.
 


finelikewine said:

I guess they could have squeezed out a few years more If they would have gone to bed early, had eaten clean food, cut out the booze and the drugs, stopped smoking amd worked out at the gym five times a week.
I highly doubt that Lemmy would have traded more ten years for this kind of lifestyle.






this post sums it up.. read about the lifespan of working musicians not that long ago and essentially it boils down to the above.. In other words #MamasDontLetYourBabiesGrowUpToBeRockStars
 
Which elderly musician is currently living the unhealthiest lifestyle? Can someone hold a candle to Lemmy and Blowfly?
 
the 2 folks whose death will freak out the boomers more than anybody else will be Bob Dylan & Mick Jagger
 
http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/p-funks-bernie-worrell-is-battling-lung-cancer-and-needs-our-help/
 


willie_fugal said:

the 2 folks whose death will freak out the boomers more than anybody else will be Bob Dylan & Mick Jagger




Wrong. When McCartney dies the cute one death wail will trigger earthquakes.
 


willie_fugal said:

the 2 folks whose death will freak out the boomers more than anybody else will be Bob Dylan & Mick Jagger



Good lord, it will be Dylanpocalypse here when Bob dies.
 
Keith Richards death will destroy facebook... if he ever dies.

There was a SNL skit with folky lounge singer (Dan Aykroyd?) "This next song is by my good friend, the late great, Bob Dylan".
 


ManItsAHighCastle said:



willie_fugal said:

the 2 folks whose death will freak out the boomers more than anybody else will be Bob Dylan & Mick Jagger




Wrong. When McCartney dies the cute one death wail will trigger earthquakes.




I was thinking of including Macca in there too, but I feel like with Lennon having died so long ago (and George Harrison too), it won't be quite as impactful? I mean––obviously it will be a huge deal, esp. to the boom-booms, but I don't think it will have that same sense of "I thought it would never happen."

Keith Richards is the other obvious one, but when he goes isn't everyone just going to think "Welp, we knew he couldn't beat the odds forever."

Dylan is basically the Zeus of the Boomer Mt. Olympus though, and Jagger always represented boomer ideals of vitality to a greater extent than anybody else.
 
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