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 Post subject: Alex Chilton
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:55 pm 
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Dead of a heart attack at 59.

Influential musician - worked with other artists that many of us are fans of like Wilco, Replacements, Jon Spencer, Cat Power, etc.

Saw him live at Metro in '98. Not bad.

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:58 pm 
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I thought he was the guy who wrote the car manuals.

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
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A7X wrote:
I thought he was the guy who wrote the car manuals.

No idea what this means.

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:59 pm 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSJYZyouek

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:02 pm 
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Chilton Manuals are used by mechanics to help them work on cars. Sorry for the vaguery.

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:08 pm 
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:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
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Chilton Manuals are used by mechanics to help them work on cars. Sorry for the vaguery.

You don't have to explain your humor to that prick, fuck him.

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:06 pm 
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Who the hell doesn't know what a Chilton manual is?

I'm far from a mechanic myself, but I remember well the old man going to the local library to reference the Chilton manuals in the early '80s or so then getting his own manuals every Christmas thereafter and accessing them if and when a repair was in order.

Ah, small town life...


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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
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Replacements, one of the all time underrated bands.

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:23 pm 
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A7X wrote:
I thought he was the guy who wrote the car manuals.


Outstanding; keep mine in the trunk, btw.

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
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Big Star was one of the most influential bands of the early '70's within the music industry, yet many people have never heard of them. They mixed the Beatles, Beach Boys & power pop They were gonna play at SXSW next week in Austin.
Chilton was a genius songwriter.

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
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A7X wrote:
Chilton Manuals are used by mechanics to help them work on cars. Sorry for the vaguery.

You don't have to explain your humor to that prick, fuck him.

Sean Penn wants you to die screaming of rectal cancer, old man.

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
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Good obit written by Greg Kot in the Trib today

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/ ... bands.html

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 Post subject: Re: Alex Chilton
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A7X wrote:
Chilton Manuals are used by mechanics to help them work on cars. Sorry for the vaguery.

You don't have to explain your humor to that prick, fuck him.

What do these manuals have to say about the car's Johnson Rod?

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