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DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

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St. Clown said:
I just learned that he was from Minneapolis, got his start at Uncle Sam's, which eventually became The Depot, and finally 1st Ave - owned by Prince and featured in Purple Rain.
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Um, Wikipedia lists him being from Milwaukee and getting his start in Sausilito, CA.
 
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And I'm pretty sure Prince didn't own 1st Ave (not that he couldn't have of course).
 
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goldy_331 said:
Um, Wikipedia lists him being from Milwaukee and getting his start in Sausilito, CA.
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I was a little off in the nature of his Minneapolis connection, but it does appear strong, played a big part of making him the musician he became.

From the Strib.

Al Jarreau grew up in Milwaukee and earned his big break in California, but the seven-time Grammy-winning jazz singer pointed to his time in Minneapolis as a pivotal step in his career. That five-decade legacy ended Sunday when he died at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 76.

“I had kind of a lusty one-nighter with Minneapolis,” Jarreau laughingly described it in an interview last year.

...He and his manager at the time, Shelly Jacobs, returned to Jacobs’ hometown of Minneapolis in 1969, and for the next year Jarreau said he enjoyed a great creative spurt.

“What we were doing was a little against the grain, but the [Minneapolis] audience was open to it,” he remembered, pointing to his performances at the newly opened nightclub the Depot, now First Avenue. “It was a young, hip audience that was open to new sounds. The entire city at the time really had it going on.”

Original Depot/First Ave owner Allan Fingerhut remembered Jarreau was “trying to make up his mind” about becoming a singer or a professional baseball player when he performed at the club. “I think we played a significant role in launching his career, because the audiences really dug him,” Fingerhut said.

Jarreau said he wrote his first songs in Minneapolis, and he put together a band that included future “A Prairie Home Companion” bandleader Rich Dworsky — then still a senior in high school — along with Bobby Schnitzer, Dik Hedlund and Bruce Kurnow. They followed Jarreau out to California in 1971, where he eventually signed with Warner Bros. Records.
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George "The Animal" Steele.
 
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Bob Michel, the last competent Republican.
 
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Former NE Patriot Leonard Myers.
 
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh see ya! (As-shole.)
 
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Hammer said:
George "The Animal" Steele.
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Ah, sweet memories of his green tongue and chewed up turnbuckles!
 
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1999 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Charismatic, 21. :(

He rejoins Chris Antley, who probably saved Charismatic's life in the 1999 Belmont.
 
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Alan Colmes.

I enjoyed his sparring with Sean Hannity.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Alan Colmes.

I enjoyed his sparring with Sean Hannity.
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In other news, the Washington Generals still live.

Give Steele & Unger a listen. It's what happens when the fight is even.
 
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@DetroitRedWings: The #RedWings are saddened to hear about the passing of Ted Lindsay's wife, Joanne. Our thoughts are with Ted and his family.
 
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