RIP 2018
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No great loss. Pretty amusing for all the comments on facebook as expected. True to form good old Stuff.co.nz were quick to point out he was a convicted sex offender in the first sentence.
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Lois Lane aka Margot Kidder
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12051515
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A couple of obscure departures in the last week, but interesting in musical history.
Glenn Snoddy - Pioneering Nashville recording engineer and the inventor of the ‘fuzz box’. Changed the sound of R&R guitar for good.
Roger Clark - FAME and Muscle Shoals session drummer from age 16. Played on probably 50 odd major hit albums. -
I have read several books over the years about Hollywood and rock n’ roll during the free-love cocaine-fuelled era of Los Angeles during the 1970s that frequently mention Margot’s pad as Party Central.
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Damn. Awful , only 61
I am a big fan, I can't believe it. He was quite an edgy personality though, not totally unsurprising.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this
He was certainly the first 'celebrity chef' (he wasn't a celebrity until after writing) the laid bare the reality of how kitchens work.
Marco Pierre White had done a warts and all TV series before Kitchen Confidential came out but that was only showing the heated environment and abuse, not the food 'trickery' or truths. He got a lot of shit for it at the time as he smashed the wall of mystery that others had always adhered to.
Even now, TV shows display these gleaming sparse unhurried kitchens led by calm head chefs who may occasionally swear. There's no drug addled dish pig in the corner that may disappear at a moments notice. No career commis chef that spends their days/nights getting shit from above for everything they do, never any steaks dropped on the floor. -
Damn. Awful , only 61
I am a big fan, I can't believe it. He was quite an edgy personality though, not totally unsurprising.
Will they play some Billy Joel at his funeral?
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His all access look at el Bulli and the 5 hour lunch at the French laundry were good porn at their finest
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Shame , he was a role model to me
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