I don't know how many people knew Cardinal Fang,Jimmy Whitley.But Jimmy passed the other day and I feel a deep pain.Jimmy was a smart,friendly,fun,and generous friend I went to concerts with for the last 13 years.I just wanted to let everyone know and to send best wishes to Jimmy's Dad and sister.Jimmy lost his Mom two years ago and now hopefully he is talking with her as I type this.Thanks and loads of love to a great friend,Jimmy Whitley.

RIP Jimmy

I am very sorry for the loss of your friend.
My sincere condolences.

RIP Jimmy, so sad.
I remember Fang was a talented poster .
Condoleance to vhis family and friends  :'(

Condolences to friends and family.
RIP Cardinal Fang.


Sucks to see another RIP thread for one of our posters. :(

RIP Cardinal Fang

My sincere condolences.
RIP Jimmy....

Wow. Sad news. He posted some great things. RIP

"Sucks to see another RIP thread for one of our posters."

Ain't that the truth.

I recall Jimmy/Fang posting here quite a bit back a few years ago.
Very sad news.

I remember Fang very well from here and that other place.  I remember calling on him to weigh in as technical expert on the ridiculous notion someone had that Jagger played guitar on Highway Child.  Fang proved by algebra that it had to be Keith.

RIP

Very sad news. RIP Fang.


sc uk

RIP Jimmy.  He was a cool guy and, like Zack said, his Highway Child post was a classic.  More than once he would send me e-mails of support and comradery.  Miss him....

Condolences to you and his family.  RIP Jimmy/Fang

wow.

what did he die of?

Jesus. Not another one. I know he hadnt posted here in a long time but I have very fond memories of him, traded with him occasionally and chatted to him on the phone a couple of times. A lovely, warm, funny guy.

Can only have been in his late 40's, too.

RIP Jimmy.

" Cardinal Fang,Jimmy Whitley.But Jimmy passed the other day and I feel a deep pain.Jimmy was a smart,friendly,fun,and generous friend I went to concerts with for the last 13 years. "

RIP Jimmy !!!!!

The Jimmy Whitley ( Cardinal Fang ) was a great man ( Big Stones / Who Fan )   . We traded often in the late 1990's / 2000 .

This sucks   --- I still remember his Little Smiley Face at the end of his signature :)


First Five " Flanagan Irish Reds " are for Jimmy tonight .



" I LOVE YOU ALL !!!!! "

'kins ®

Gazza wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2013 at 7:26am:

Jesus. Not another one. I know he hadnt posted here in a long time but I have very fond memories of him, traded with him occasionally and chatted to him on the phone a couple of times. A lovely, warm, funny guy. Can only have been in his late 40's, too. RIP Jimmy.

not much older than me, I'm 45… we hungout a bit in SF… I took him and Erin to see Rancid play, and they had a brief, but very intense love affair… I think that's known by most of  us… if not, oops.
He had a big heart, really big… but seemed very troubled… sad news!!!

rest in peace cardinal

Jimmy had a heart attack.Thanks everyone for the kind words to another good friend.

This totally sucks. We hung out at the Hollywood Bowl in 2005.

scotmw65 wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2013 at 10:25am:

Jimmy had a heart attack.Thanks everyone for the kind words to another good friend.

syph? is that you?

if not, syph has reported over at Gx3 that it was a massive heart attack brought on by severe pneumonia. very touching thread over there if anyone is interested.

effin' depressing if you ask me.

hopefully there WON'T be a third.....

Bummer,sad to hear that. RIP Cardinal Fang.

Sad news R.I.P. Cardinal Fang, didn't know him but he sounds like a nice guys by the previous posts.

Damn ...very sad, indeed. I missed seeing him around. Does anyone know why he quit posting a long long while ago? I mean, I haven't seen him on here in a few years possibly?



Ian

Pdog wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2013 at 8:10am:

Gazza wrote on Mar 22nd, 2013 at 7:26am: Jesus. Not another one. I know he hadnt posted here in a long time but I have very fond memories of him, traded with him occasionally and chatted to him on the phone a couple of times. A lovely, warm, funny guy. Can only have been in his late 40's, too. RIP Jimmy. not much older than me, I'm 45… we hungout a bit in SF… I took him and Erin to see Rancid play, and they had a brief, but very intense love affair… I think that's known by most of  us… if not, oops. He had a big heart, really big… but seemed very troubled… sad news!!!

He turned 40 when we were dating, in 04, so he would have been turning 49 in June. It is sad. I hope he found happiness in the last years of his life. He really did have a great big heart. Like I said over at Gasland, RIP, babe. Will always have a place in my heart for Mr. Whitley.

WOW, REST IN PEACE,FANG.
ONE OF THE LOST POSTERS THAT GOT ME HOOKED ON THIS ASYLUM.
GOT A FEW DVD'S FROM HIM TOO.
WILL HAVE A DRINK FOR FANG TONITE.

http://www.albec.net.mx/personales/rocksoff/h3-someoneelse.jpg

Jimmy, with 'Marilyn'.

Taken in the Mojave Desert a few years ago.

Ahh, the photo that launched a thousand internet message board crushes.  ;)

Please stick around Ms Rat. You are sorely missed around here.  :wtf1

I'm in shock again, he was a very good friend of mine, he was a great person one of the many I do consider a real friend, he was active here for many years

Really sad news again, shit!!

Without any doubt he was a great person and a great fan, he was really bright, funny, cool, very knowledgeable about rock, not just the Rolling Stones and he was sooooooooooooooooo Stone, stoner than Brian... Between many things he was the winner of one of our trivia, I’m sure it was the hardest; he won an original photograph by Fernando Aceves. This is him saying a public "thank you" to Rocks Off, he made the caption and sent this one to me

http://www.rocksoff.org/h3-thankyou-ro.jpg

This is the image exactly as he sent me

http://www.rocksoff.org/headers/h3-thankyou-ro-bigone.jpg

Still I'm sad, really, this sucks

Gazza wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2013 at 4:55pm:

http://www.albec.net.mx/personales/rocksoff/h3-someoneelse.jpg Jimmy, with 'Marilyn'. Taken in the Mojave Desert a few years ago.

Yeeeeeeees! I like that one, in fact I took his face from this picture to add Jimmy to our Rocks Off logo, he is at the top-right corner, above Irina, the image is in fact a mirror of the original

http://www.rocksoff.org/wereonlyinitforthemoney-edit16.jpg

We talked a lot and traded a lot of Stones and Frank Zappa, what the fuck why the good ones are passing!!!

Also I didnt knew him, I'd saw many RO's members passed away. Horrible news this one to me. Seems that just  the good people has to go.
But now he's in peace with his mom and is in peace. Many condolences to the family.
                                       RIP Cardinal Fang

ripCF,

Way too young to go.




Rik

That's sad.  I meet Jimmy once, with SheRat and PDog.  Fun guy, crazy, friendly.  And he knew his Stones.  Really sad news.

Zack wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2013 at 6:41am:

I remember Fang very well from here and that other place.  I remember calling on him to weigh in as technical expert on the ridiculous notion someone had that Jagger played guitar on Highway Child.  Fang proved by algebra that it had to be Keith. RIP

I remember that well: hmph. trying to post the link to that discussion, which took place EXACTLY TEN YEARS AGO yesterday (how weird is that?) does not work. You can find it easy, though, Zack if you wanna revisit.

No.I am not Syph.Syph and I used to hang at concerts with Jimmy.Jimmy,Syph.and I had recently gone to see X here in Sacramento.Going to see X was a yearly thing,the next show won't be the same without Jimmy.Jimmy and I had gone to see Alice Cooper a few months back as well,whenever a band came near Northern California that Jimmy liked he would take me and turn me on to bands I really didn't know.He taught me a lot.And meeting the band after the show was always a given.He was fearless when it came to getting to meet the band.Anyway,I met She Rat(Erin) once when  they were dating,Jimmy still talked about you up until a few weeks ago.
Like Syph said Jimmy had Pneumonia that lead a heart attack,thanks for all the kind words I will pass them on to his family,Scot

best fang ever!

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b187/Starbuck947/h4-syphcardinalfangandstevenadler20.jpg

I was saving that one for the next header in his honor, anyway it will be one! Thanks Starbuck

Condolences to his friends and family

Holy freaking Shit, I was great friends with Jimmy.  We traded a bunch f times, he was a huge Iggy fan.  Fucking hell, can't believe it.

RIP Jimmy Whitley.  Another goodbye to another good friend.  Fucking hell...


I just re-read Jimmy's email from 2005 about his and Syph's band Angels of Wonderland and their "Stones EP".



Syph, if you read this, please PM FG.

I remember chatting with Cardinal Fang a few times. He seemed like a cool guy.

RIP

FG, you can find syph over at GX3 in the JW thread.

speaking of regulars who've passed, did anyone ever find out about TTM? gazza sent me his name and i spent about three hours one afternoon a year or two ago combing the interweb for info but couldn't find anything.

That's sad news. Can't say I knew the man very well, but Fang was/is quite a legend on these boards. So I'll have myself a good glas of Laphroaigh and drink it in his honour. RIP

Dear Lord, such sad news.
Fang was a gem!
RIP Jimmy...

Oh NO. This is horrible news.  I haven't talked to Jimmy in years but once upon a time we came to the realization that, if we lived in the same town, we would form a band and live on pizza noodles (his funny genius words) and I was always keeping that one in my back pocket for when all else failed. Now my back pocket is empty.

God damn it.  I hate this fucking shit.

Just another thing I remember about the guy.  I met him once, like I said, then talked on the phone a few times, one was about 2-3 years after I met him.  Most intense conversation about women, sex, love, god, all those difficult topics.  We were both high/drunk on something, of course, but the guy was all emotions and expressing them.  He was almost female in that respect, which I recognized as a rare and admirable quality in men that he was one of the few to have.  

Starbuck wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2013 at 6:27pm:

speaking of regulars who've passed, did anyone ever find out about TTM? gazza sent me his name and i spent about three hours one afternoon a year or two ago combing the interweb for info but couldn't find anything.

I had no luck either. Steve Phelps was TTM's real name. He sent me a PM saying that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, had about six months left and didnt want to go public but that he would just 'fade away quietly'.

He was last on here on 18th October 2008, which was about 2-3 months later. In accordance with his wishes, we kept his disappearance private until we did a thread for him on what would have been his birthday on March 27, 2009.

Gazza wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2013 at 9:03pm:

Starbuck wrote on Mar 23rd, 2013 at 6:27pm: speaking of regulars who've passed, did anyone ever find out about TTM? gazza sent me his name and i spent about three hours one afternoon a year or two ago combing the interweb for info but couldn't find anything. I had no luck either. Steve Phelps was TTM's real name. He sent me a PM saying that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, had about six months left and didnt want to go public but that he would just 'fade away quietly'. He was last on here on 18th October 2008, which was about 2-3 months later. In accordance with his wishes, we kept his disappearance private until we did a thread for him on what would have been his birthday on March 27, 2009.

Damn.
That would appear to be "our number 3"
Very sad.  :'(

Luxy, Cardinal Fang
possibly TenThousandMotels aka MotherBaby (We had a few big fights back in the day).

It's nice to see SheRat and parmeda. The ROCC Ladies.

Cheers to all of us! The Rocks Off family.

xoxo
LJ.

Starbucky,

I saw Syph posting in the Jimmy thread on Gasx3, but it doesn't have his email addy.  Would you let him know Factory Girl is ISO Syph.   Thanks, Starbuck and check PM.

LadyJane wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2013 at 9:15pm:

Gazza wrote on Mar 23rd, 2013 at 9:03pm: Starbuck wrote on Mar 23rd, 2013 at 6:27pm: speaking of regulars who've passed, did anyone ever find out about TTM? gazza sent me his name and i spent about three hours one afternoon a year or two ago combing the interweb for info but couldn't find anything. I had no luck either. Steve Phelps was TTM's real name. He sent me a PM saying that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer, had about six months left and didnt want to go public but that he would just 'fade away quietly'. He was last on here on 18th October 2008, which was about 2-3 months later. In accordance with his wishes, we kept his disappearance private until we did a thread for him on what would have been his birthday on March 27, 2009. Damn. That would appear to be "our number 3" Very sad.  :'( Luxy, Cardinal Fang possibly TenThousandMotels aka MotherBaby (We had a few big fights back in the day). It's nice to see SheRat and parmeda. The ROCC Ladies. Cheers to all of us! The Rocks Off family. xoxo LJ.

Amen LJ. I don't go as far back as some of you. But have come to love this site.Not just for our love of Rolling Stones. But for the most part this group avoids the petty ass pissing contests,fights,spamming and trolling that so often dominates the internet these days. Very sad to lose memebrs. but the fact that people care enough to take notice means that this is just another web site. Gazza and Voodoo are to me highly commended for their efforts in that. If I do take the plunge and pay the ridiculous ticket prices the Stones charge on this tour. I would probably only do it to meet some of you very nice people from this side and do things only the way Rocks Off can do it. :willya

RIP Cardinal.

RIP Cardinal Jimmy

Albert
Holland

So sad.  Such a Shame that the circle of life takes some of us so soon. RIP. Live well, Laugh often, Love Always.

One the best posters ever, RIP "THE" Jimmy Whitley

RIP Jimmy Cardinal Fang. Sounds like the man was well liked by many on the board  Any friend of RO is a friend of mine so sending a smile to his friends and family. A smile relieves a heart that grieves.

No!!! This hurts my heart... Jimmy was a such a super nice guy. When I was a young Stonesling inhabiting the old GasGasGas board, he was beyond kind to a neophyte such as myself. I loved reading his informative posts, be they about guitars, music, or life in general. I learned a lot from him and, for that, I'll never forget him.

Also, he was the first person I ever saw use the article "The" in front of his name. I nicked that very quickly, and "The" Steve Cronen became my widely-accepted nickname from high school right up to present day. So I owe him that, as well. Thanks, Jimmy. I'll be raising a glass to you as soon as I can.

Do you remember how he got the name THE Jimmy Whitley? I think it was a misprint in a newspaper article but I can't recall right now.

Jimmy was so thoughtful to everyone...he had a chance to interview Joe Strummer once, and he contacted SS and I to see if there were any questions we wanted to ask since he knew how much we both admired Joe. And he gave SS a CD signed by Joe afterwards.

As a matter of fact, the only thing Jimmy ever did that pissed me off was dying.

FPM wrote on Mar 25^th, 2013 at 10:12am:

Do you remember how he got the name THE Jimmy Whitley? I think it was a misprint in a newspaper article but I can't recall right now. Jimmy was so thoughtful to everyone...he had a chance to interview Joe Strummer once, and he contacted SS and I to see if there were any questions we wanted to ask since he knew how much we both admired Joe. And he gave SS a CD signed by Joe afterwards. As a matter of fact, the only thing Jimmy ever did that pissed me off was dying.

Now you mention interviews - I remember he interviewed Ron Jeremy one time when The Hedgehog was doing a bit of promo work for the movie about his life. He asked me if I could think of a question to ask, so  I came up with one. (Decorum on a thread like this prevents me from saying exactly what it was). He took great pleasure in telling me afterwards that after being bored senseless being asked the same questions that he'd been asked a thousand times, Ron's face lit up when Jimmy asked him the one I'd suggested.

About ten years ago, I uploaded a photo of myself on a camel in Tangier. It was Jimmy who christened me 'Gazza of Arabia' and any packages I got sent from then on had that as my name on the front....I always liked that.

The 'Cardinal Fang' moniker, for those who don't know, came from the Monty Python 'Spanish Inquisition' sketch.

http://www.cardinalfang.net/episodes/season_two/images/cardinal_fang.jpg

Sirstonesalot was known as Cardinal Ximinez for a while, if Im not mistaken.

Yes, Gazza you are correct.  SS was Cardinal Ximinez.  Those were the good old days.  

I remember when Jimmy made Katie's Uzi for me....

His death just fucking bites the big one.

This blows.. very sorry to hear. Rip to Mr Jimmy!

FPM wrote on Mar 25^th, 2013 at 10:12am:

Do you remember how he got the name THE Jimmy Whitley? I think it was a misprint in a newspaper article but I can't recall right now. Jimmy was so thoughtful to everyone...he had a chance to interview Joe Strummer once, and he contacted SS and I to see if there were any questions we wanted to ask since he knew how much we both admired Joe. And he gave SS a CD signed by Joe afterwards. As a matter of fact, the only thing Jimmy ever did that pissed me off was dying.

from over there--->(in 1999, a thread about the Toronto show, wherein you, FPM, inquired:

"A "brief" story of the origins of the "THE Jimmy Whitley". Please allow me to introduce myself. I have ALWAYS been an individual. In my senior High School yearbook I actually was voted "Most Unique" and "Best Sense of Humor" (you notice no "most likely to succeed" though?) Anyway I get told a lot that I am "a character". As a kid I would go to our very large family reunion's where we would have name tags stating our name/parent name/grandparent name/etc. ( "Oh, you're so and so's grandson etc.) In my family it seems EVERY male Whitley has the first or middle name of James so you would see a lot of "Jimmy Whitley" name tags! (another reason for the parent/grandparent tag too) When I was about 12, I just decided there may be a few Jimmy Whitley at this picnic but I am "THE" Jimmy Whitley! The family got a kick out of it etc. Later in High School/College I had my own campus and radio and TV shows. On the High School TV show the introduction went, "The one, the only, THE Jimmy Whitley." So it sort of stuck. Flash forward to MODERN times now! When I started posting back on the GOIN'HOME board I knew that a lot of people from the U.K. were on it. There is this the real football star in England named Jimmy Whitley but I really know nothing about him. Anyway, you know how people will sometimes post under famous names of other people? I didn't want people to think I was just using this English the real football star dudes name so I resurrected the THE JIMMY WHITLEY bit."

That's right. SheRat, still the Boards Historian.

So sad to hear about Fang.

But I think he would be pleased to know he brought so many platinum posters back to Rocks Off, if only to offer condolences. The list of posters in this thread looks like 2005!

Welcome back to our wayward lunatics. You know who you are.

RIP Jimmy.

Very sad news, RIP

LadyJane wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2013 at 9:15pm:

Gazza wrote on Mar 23rd, 2013 at 9:03pm: [quote author=Starbuck link=1363940978/25#44 date=1364081255]speaking of regulars who've passed, did anyone ever find out about TTM? gazza sent me his name and i spent about three hours one afternoon a year or two ago combing the interweb for info but couldn't find anything. I Damn. That would appear to be "our number 3" Very sad.  :'( Luxy, Cardinal Fang possibly TenThousandMotels aka MotherBaby (We had a few big fights back in the day). It's nice to see SheRat and parmeda. The ROCC Ladies. Cheers to all of us! The Rocks Off family. xoxo LJ.

3 too many and way too young to go Very sad!

Oh man what a shame. I haven't been here in a while so I was completely unaware of Jimmy's passing. He was such a genuine guy. I only chatted with him on the phone a couple of times, but we hit it right off. We were very simpatico on so many levels. He called me at my radio station several years ago. I was on the air at the time, but we still talked for well over an hour. Great guy with whom I immediately clicked with. He made mention of perhaps coming to NYC should the Stones tour again, and he said he would like to get together and have a couple of beers and maybe catch a show at The Stone Pony, and see some of the sights in Asbury Park and the Jersey Shore. In a conversation that lasted just under two hours I really felt like I got to know the man. I'm happy for that. I only wish we could have had those beers, and seen that show at The Pony. He was a good guy that passed far too early. Golden journeys to The Jimmy Whitley.


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