Billy Thorpe dies age 60

**Dinty** · 28th February 2007, 09:13 AM

G'day All, And by his own admission in an interview I saw about 2 years ago, we lived wild, sex, drugs booze to the max, well whether you believe it or not it does have long term detrimental effects on the body full stop, yeah I liked his sound but no-one lives forever, vale Billy Thorpe cheers Dennis

**Frenchie** · 28th February 2007, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by Dinty

G'day All, And by his own admission in an interview I saw about 2 years ago, we lived wild, sex, drugs booze to the max, well whether you believe it or not it does have long term detrimental effects on the body full stop,

Or you can live a really boring life and die at 80.

Like Billy Connolly says (something along the lines of) "Why do people eat brown bread? It might give you a few extra years but you get them at the end of your life when you're dribbling and ****ing yourself. F that!"

**incisor** · 28th February 2007, 09:38 AM

the live concert at the melbourne city hall is my favorite album....

**Dinty** · 28th February 2007, 10:13 AM

G'day All, I dont live a boring life but have seen enough mental and physical wrecks (self inflicted I might add!!!!) in my lifetime in the job that I do thank **** for Land Rovers cheers Dennis

And if thats what fame and fortune does for you they can collectivly stick it up their rectum

you only have to look at the crap magazines headlines So and So back in rehab so and so dead, well I will have my life thank you very much

**amtravic1** · 28th February 2007, 03:54 PM

Saw Billy play at the Village Green in Melbourne about 12 years ago. He was part of Mick Fleetwoods Zoo. Probably the best nights entertainment I have seen although my ears were ringing for days afterwards. It was LOUD. I read a story about him a few years ago and he seemed to be a decent bloke. He lived next door to Mick Fleetwood whilst in America and the families kids played together. He will be missed, another great entertainer gone.

**p38arover** · 28th February 2007, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by UncleHo

G'day Inc.

Yeah, Yeah, OK he was born in Manchester, but was discovered working in Moorooka Bris

I remember at high school in 1964 (crikey, I was doing Senior that year!) when he had the hit, Poison Ivy, that he got a bit of rubbishing in chemistry class as we were doing something on calomine lotion.

Billy was in the same year as me at Salisbury State High but not in my class.

Ron

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 28th February 2007, 05:15 PM

saw him at nambour RSL about ooooh 5 years back,,

LOUD????

better believe it!!!!
walls, tables, drinks, all vibrating,,,

best act I've seen in years

**loanrangie** · 28th February 2007, 05:42 PM

The free gig he did at Myer music bowl in 94' was the loudest gig i have ever been to, an absolute tragedy to lose another Aussie rock legend.

**UncleHo** · 28th February 2007, 06:03 PM

G'day P38arover

So you went to Salisbury High, Eh Ron

I went to that wonderfull establishment known as Balmoral State High School

back in the days when you were taught to spell and do punctuation

did you have the rule: If you do it in Biro, you will re-do it 10 times

cheers

**p38arover** · 28th February 2007, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by UncleHo

G'day P38arover

So you went to Salisbury High, Eh Ron

Yep. Not a bad school. I had a few great teachers who I really liked - Mr. Pearce (or Pierce) for physics, I can't remember my Chem teacher's name - all I can remember is that he was Chief Instructor of the Qld Parachute Club (we could do parachuting as a schools sport) and that his name reminds me of Avagadro (as in the theorem). I really liked him as well. We also had an excellent English teacher. Another one I remember had large breasts and she wore low cut tops. We all loved her classes - especially when she leant over our desks.

Funnily enough, my best grades (physics (Mr Pearce or Pierce), chemistry (Mr. Avagadro

, geometry and trig (Mr Brough), were in classes where I really liked the teachers.

I went to Calamvale Public prior to that. The headmaster there was great and I really liked him (he also gave me coaching after school to get me up to speed on the Qld curriculum after I moved from Sydney) and I lusted after his daughter - 6ft tall (same as me) slim blonde.

Originally Posted by UncleHo

I went to that wonderfull establishment known as Balmoral State High School

back in the days when you were taught to spell and do punctuation

Maybe that's why I can spell. I recently came across my report card from Hume Weir School in 1954 - I got an A in spelling way back then.

My report cards from Salisbury weren't as good.

However, I did get 5 As, 3 Bs, 2 Cs, and a P (pass in French) in the Junior (11 subjects!) and a similar result in the Senior Public Examination.

Originally Posted by UncleHo

did you have the rule: If you do it in Biro, you will re-do it 10 times

I don't remember that. I do remember taping several Biros together so that when I had to write out lines, I wrote several lines at a time.

Ron

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