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Post by dsjr on Apr 5, 2024 13:22:05 GMT
I've just this hour found out that PM has passed away recently. I kind of knew him in my KJ days but not properly although he was the resident hippy in many Linn rooms at 70's to early 80's shows.
I had a proper chat with him as he was a good friend of RD (RD and wife stayed at his home weekends regularly) and helped Richard's widow at the funeral with lifts to the crematorium and back and as always, he came across as a deeply knowledgeable and kindly chap willing to share his experiences. He may have been an early subjectivist by choice, but he knew what was what nonetheless and I felt he was honest in his reviews as he saw it without aggressive ego to force his opinion through.
R.I.P. I'd like to have known you better.
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Post by Westie on Apr 5, 2024 15:01:01 GMT
Life really is short, and so desperately sad. I so want to be eternally young.
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Post by dsjr on Apr 5, 2024 17:48:00 GMT
I'm looking back for too much, but currently the future is grey until things get moving... In a few months, it's fifty years since I started as Saturday boy in the Watford store after a year in a local TV/radio/B&O shop and there used to be queues outside before we opened and really busy all day. So much to learn and absorb and I look upon it so fondly. VAT went up the following year and late '75 and early '76 were a huge come-down I remember...
I'd love to be young and knowing what I know now, but not as I was back then... 75yrs old is nothing these days though, is it?
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Post by André on Apr 5, 2024 19:36:11 GMT
To say people are suppose to live longer i don't agree i know a lot of people that are gone way before that, both our dads were gone well before, all my Dads mates are pretty much gone before. Ive drastically aged within ten years, I used to have thick dark long hair, now im light grey & thin on top.Pretty much the reason i have it all cut off.
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Post by Westie on Apr 5, 2024 20:37:41 GMT
To say people are suppose to live longer i don't agree i know a lot of people that are gone way before that, both our dads were gone well before, all my Dads mates are pretty much gone before. Ive drastically aged within ten years, I used to have thick dark long hair, now im light grey & thin on top.Pretty much the reason i have it all cut off. I think a lot of it has to do with wealth and the life it makes you lead. The weight of a hard job and living amongst people you’d rather be a million miles away from can take its toll. Then there’s access to healthcare and treatment, and all the other lifestyle benefits that wealth can buy. I think the only reason many people have been living longer is down to the improved living standards they had over their parents. The latest evidence I’ve seen is that lifespans are declining again, especially in poorer areas and regions. Within theseareas and regions, there is still a divide between rich and poor in terms of lifespan. I feel like I aged a generation when I got ill. Ongoing problems just seem to keep dragging me back from getting fit and healthy again. I can’t afford to sleep as long as I need, and I spend almost half my waking time with unbearable headaches. That can’t do anything but take its toll. If I had access to the best surgeons in the world, I bet the “inoperable” issues I have would have been fixed long ago. Sadly, the rich enjoy more years and a far better quality of life within that long period. Inequality goes way beyond money. |
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Post by Westie on Apr 5, 2024 20:39:39 GMT
I'm looking back for too much, but currently the future is grey until things get moving... In a few months, it's fifty years since I started as Saturday boy in the Watford store after a year in a local TV/radio/B&O shop and there used to be queues outside before we opened and really busy all day. So much to learn and absorb and I look upon it so fondly. VAT went up the following year and late '75 and early '76 were a huge come-down I remember... I'd love to be young and knowing what I know now, but not as I was back then... 75yrs old is nothing these days though, is it? I’d really love to have that eternal youth and also keep my life experience. If it was a choice between young and daft or old and wise, I’d happily be daft again though  |
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Post by Westie on Apr 5, 2024 20:43:31 GMT
Sometimes just chatting can affect you, and as I type I’ve decided to semi-retire in September. I need to get fit again and I can’t do that if I’m working every bleeding day. I also need to do something in terms of quality of life. Since Covid, I’ve just lived the life of a drone. Time to do stuff that makes me feel good.
If it wasn’t for my fears for the NHS and state pension, I’d retire altogether, but I don’t want to live with that worry.
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Post by André on Apr 5, 2024 22:31:47 GMT
You deffo have something regarding passing away before your full term working hard, especially the conditions people worked in my dad worked in a melting shop & back then no masks or general health & safety was very slack exposed to lead dust, wifes dad was a fireman on the Railways stoking the engine up exposed to smoke & coal dust all shift. The thing is its only when they retire & out of that working the routine lost they seem to go down hill.
My ageing was down to over eating & especially junk food & i used to drink for England, Not done that for around 8 years now but the damage is already done regarding rapid ageing.Prior to the bad lifestyle i was like my dad 12 hour shifts 6 days a week grafting in the steel works, never put any weight on because i was constantly working it off.
fast forward these days blokes would no know physical graft if it hit them between the eyes on top of that the bad food & drinking will & does take its toll on them, not saying everyone is like that but a hell of a lot are.
When you get older however you health suddenly becomes an important concern. Did me, i just wish id realised how important it was to keep fit & live a stress free life.
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