Posted on 03/06/2018 9:24:38 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Talk about the perfect coda: Tower Records founder Russ Solomon died with a drink in his hand and a smart-aleck remark on his lips.
The swashbuckling, visionary entrepreneur who built a global retailing empire and the most famous company in Sacramento history died Sunday night of an apparent heart attack. He was 92.
Solomon was watching the Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night at his Sacramento-area home when he was stricken, said his son, Michael Solomon, the former chief executive of Tower.
"Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his wife) Patti to refill his whiskey," Solomon said. When she returned, he had died.
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“Does everyone just download music off the internet nowadays?”
Most folks buy their CDs from Amazon. It’s the best selection in the world.
Death by Kimmel.
Drive up to Amoeba Records in Hollywood. You can spend hours in there. Sounds and smells like our childhoods.
Play them through a tube-amp?
Yea that was a great location and a fun part of town.
Saw a great t-shirt on this older guy the other day:
I am old, I need my glasses
Shot glass, beer glass, wine glass
despite the wonderous medicinal and longevity powers of the whiskey, NOTHING could save him from the deadly Hollywood Oscars!
I guess you could watch the Oscars using the Mystery Science Theater approach, in that way it would be entertaining. As for whiskey, no thanks.
BFL
That’s not the way I want to die.
I want to go like grandpa in restful sleep, unlike the other three people with him in the car, as it flies off the cliff.
I don’t even know what kind of people watch the Oscars anymore.
People who embrace their depravity and evil I suppose.
He needed alcohol to be able to sit through the Oscars. Sad.
CD’s are becoming obsolete and vinyl is making a big comeback.
I wish!
(A buddy visited the Jet Propulsion Lab on business a few years ago - said they had a whole climate-controlled warehouse full of vacuum tubes - man, that's like gold).
I miss Peaches. Had of bunch of their crates for my albums.
A cousin of mine had a Fisher tube audio amp in the ‘60’s. I don’t think it was stereo but it was the best I ever heard playing vinyl. A little later I used to play cassettes through my 85 watt Fender Twin Reverb but only when no one else was home.
What a looser!!!
I’ve got about five Peaches crates full myself, somewhere. Hope I had the foresight not to put them in the basement, it’d be a pity to ruin them with mildew.
If it hasn’t been mentioned already, let me recommend the documentary “All Things Must Pass”, covering the rise and fall of Tower Records.
It was a mercy killing
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