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Quake / Re: Seattle FFA Frag Night In Memory of Pepp

« Last post by Mya on February 09, 2025, 10:44:02 AM »

I have really good memories playing with pepp on his Seattle server. I enjoyed playing the unique maps. We used to talk a lot. He always had a good attitude. I am sad to hear the news. He will certainly be missed.

R.I.P. pepp5.

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Quake / Re: Seattle FFA Frag Night In Memory of Pepp

« Last post by rikwad on February 08, 2025, 10:34:23 PM »

 Unexpected and sad news. Thank you for your time, knowledge and generous spirit Pepp.

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on February 08, 2025, 10:31:19 PM »

I've been slowly reading through the Meditations of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius lately. The father of Stoicism, he was a "philosopher emperor", and perhaps Rome's only reasonable, fair, and decent emperor. Emperors were effectively dictators, so many of them tended to be considered tyrants in some way. I especially liked this quote, so I made a pic for it.

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Quake / Re: Seattle FFA Frag Night In Memory of Pepp

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on February 08, 2025, 08:52:25 PM »

I first met him around the time I showed up to TS in 2007. Back then I had just joined clan EoM, and he would drop into our weekly FFA meets. Used to spend mornings back in maybe 2015-ish or before playing FFA with him, Travolta, and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head at the moment (he had a regular crew he played with) on the Mutant server, occasionally one of the Xatrix mod servers, or the then recently forgotten Vanilla server which we all tried to promote and keep alive as long as we could. I beat him some, he beat me some, he was fun to play against. In more recent years, we antagonized each other arguing about politics and such, but I definitely still liked the guy and it was all in good fun. He was a cool dude, will miss him.

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Quake / Re: Seattle FFA Frag Night In Memory of Pepp

« Last post by Sgt. Dick on February 08, 2025, 08:01:21 PM »

I have not played in quite a while, but I check in here from time to time.

This is terrible news.  I have known Pepp for many years and he was always a great person to talk to and play against.

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Quake / Re: Seattle FFA Frag Night In Memory of Pepp

« Last post by cse on February 08, 2025, 01:04:04 AM »

Very sad to hear this news recently
Pepp was a really nice guy and great to chat with. He was passionate about Quake2 and the community. He will certainly be missed.
Thanks for the memories and good times. Rest in peace, brother.

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Quake / Seattle FFA Frag Night In Memory of Pepp

« Last post by RailWolf on February 07, 2025, 10:43:58 PM »

Long time Quake II player pepp has passed away on Feb 5th, 2025 after some health battles in the hospital.

He managed the Seattle FFA server which been around for many years. Come by Seattle FFA server Saturday night 2/8/25 to frag and chat in memory of our quake buddy, pepp.

Rest In Peace Pepp

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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on February 06, 2025, 04:01:34 PM »

One of my favorite groups from the 1960's...

Blind Faith

...a "supergroup" featuring guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker from Cream, and Steve Winwood on vocals/keyboard from Spencer Davis Group, as well as Ric Grech on bass who would go on to join Steve Winwood in the band Traffic. Unfortunately they only put out one single album and only ever played a handful of live dates. I wish they could've stayed together long enough to put out a couple more albums. I thought the combo of Steve Winwood on vocals paired with the guitar and drum sounds of Cream was really great.

Here's a solo acoustic performance by Steve Winwood of Can't Find My Way Home. You might think he chose the fireplace as just a photogenic place to perform it, but I think it's more likely that it was a cleverly chosen location that along with the mic selection and placement helped maximize the bass projection of his guitar to make it sound fuller and more dramatic when the verses start over. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoSn2Y-b6wI&ab_channel=SteveWinwood

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art, music, etc. / Re: Ozzy Osbourne

« Last post by Puffs on February 06, 2025, 11:34:37 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgKATgblWZc

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art, music, etc. / Ozzy Osbourne

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on February 05, 2025, 03:15:34 PM »

"ONE LAST TIME... THE FINAL SHOW..."

Yeah well... we've all heard that one before. It's always "the last tour"... until the next one happens.

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath announce final show

At this point, do we even accurately remember when the FIRST TIME that the LAST TIME was supposed to happen? I can't remember if after Randy Rhoads died there was any talk of Ozzy hanging it up. But I do definitely remember that after No More Tears came out in 1991, that tour afterwards was supposed to be his "farewell tour" (the tour itself was called "No More Tours"), which resulted in the 1993 live album Live & Loud, which I thought was a fantastic live album. It really showed just how great of a guitar player Zakk Wylde really was. On the Live & Loud version of Shot in the Dark (originally from The Ultimate Sin, 1986, guitar: Jake E Lee), Zakk played it a tad bit different from Jake E Lee's version, and I always thought Zakk's choice of notes flowed smoother and sounded better.

But then in 1995, he comes out with Ozzmosis. Then the tour after THAT was supposed to be the final tour. Then in 1998 he releases his greatest hits album, Ozzman Cometh, which featured the track that became a hit, Back on Earth. I remember the video got a good amount of play on MTV - the video was a spoof of the old 1922 silent vampire film Nosferatu. The song was actually an unreleased track from the Ozzmosis album, and at the time Ozzman Cometh came out, Zakk Wylde had started his own thing as Black Label Society, so thats when guitarist Joe Holmes joined. I remember seeing Joe Holmes in a live performance Ozzy did on MTV to promote the Ozzman Cometh Greatest Hits album. At that point, Ozzy's voice was GONE. He sounded awful. And I guess they hadn't quite gotten to the point where live digital pitch correction was possible like nowdays, because it sounded BAD. I remember thinking, "God damn, I wish he would've retired, I really don't like remembering him this way."

After that... the 90's were over and I kinda lost interest in Ozzy and lost track of what he was doing. I was a super-duper Ozzy fan in the 90's, collecting all of his albums, listening to them ALL THE TIME. I just looked in my mp3 collection, and I do have the 4 albums that came after Ozzman Cometh (Down to Earth - 2001, Under Cover - 2005, Black Rain - 2007, Scream - 2010), but I honestly couldn't name one single song from any of those albums because I've almost NEVER listened to them.

Part of me wishes he really would've retired for good back in the late 90's. I get why he hasn't. For a musician, music is always there in your head, in your blood, and you can't just turn it off. You can try, but it's still there.

Ozzy ain't getting any younger. He isn't in the best health anymore. Is this "THE LAST" tour, or is this just "the last one... until the next one"... again? I say he'll be back. And this thread is here so that when he does come back, I can point to it and say "Told ya so."

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