Dropping Like Flies Now

The Great Die-Off continues, as people who (for reasons that remain unknown to me) held to their empty meaningless existences through the hideous holidays finally give the hell up.

Mic Gillette, of legendary Tower of Power
horn section, dies

Mott The Hoople drummer Dale Griffin
dies aged 67

(Wow. On first remembered listen in 20-30-35 yrs. that is some tinny production.)

Joining the kool kids is a dude from an outfit generally agreed to be one of the three to five worst musical aggregations in the history of recorded or not music. Sounds as if nature, in its wisdom, nickel-&-dimed him to literal death, rather than the "courageous battle w/ cancer" or the heart suddenly exploding/fading out.

Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Acute Ulcerative Colitis and Pneumonia.

Hey, no one here yada yada ...

(The Eagles are not hep or even hip, therefore no Eagles embed.)

[San Jose Mercury News/The Guardian]