RIP Zoogz Rift

Musician and professional wrestling personality Zoogz Rift, called by Trouser Press "as imaginative and stimulating as he is irritating and vitriolic," has died — not from a heart attack, but complications from diabetes.

You got the shit down man? How fast can you play double-kick?

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Stage Presence

Homer Fardwod via Recordo Obscura has some advice on concert etiquette for aspiring musicians, please take heed.

Where are they now?

One of the things that I wonder about is "What do musicians do when not making records?" The ones who had quite a bit of media exposure, might still record, but really probably didn't make enough to retire.

I also wonder this about actors too. Josh Saviano, aka Paul from "The Wonder Years" is a lawyer.

For example, we know from the Smoking Gun that Exene Cervenka (from the band X) was also a teacher/librarian.

Juliana Hatfield has a book called When I Grow Up that discusses that sort of thing.

Poe? Crazy popular in the 90s, only made 2 records. She's supposedly making a third. Her brother,Mark Z. Danielewski, wrote House of Leaves, and he's still writing.

Am I the only one who thinks about this?

Jerry Reed (R.I.P.)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jerry Reed, a singer who became a "good ol' boy" actor opposite Burt Reynolds in car chase movies like "Smoky and the Bandit," is dead at age 71, according to his longtime booking agent.

Carrie Moore-Reed, who is no relation to the star, says Reed died early Monday morning of complications from emphysema.

Reed was a gifted guitarist who later became a songwriter, singer and finally an actor.

As a singer in the 1970s and early 1980s, he had a string of hits that included "Amos Moses," ''When You're Hot, You're Hot," ''East Bound and Down," and "The Bird".


In the mid-1970s, he began acting in movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," ''Gator" ''Hot Stuff," ''High Ballin" (with Peter Fonda), "The Survivors" (with Walter Matthau), "BAT-21" (with Gene Hackman) and "W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings."