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Re: Cardinal Fang RIP
Reply #50 - Mar 23^rd, 2013 at 9:15pm

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

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.

Damn.
That would appear to be "our number 3"
Very sad. Cry

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

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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,194 US Gender:	Re: Cardinal Fang RIP Reply #51 - Mar 23^rd, 2013 at 9:30pm Starbucky, I saw Syph posting in the Jimmy thread on Disneyland, but it doesn't have his email addy. Would you let him know Factory Girl is ISO Syph. Thanks, Starbuck and check PM.
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Re: Cardinal Fang RIP
Reply #52 - Mar 23^rd, 2013 at 10:29pm

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

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

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.

Damn.
That would appear to be "our number 3"
Very sad. Cry

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

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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. Fuck you Gazza, Will ya?

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TomL Rocks Off Regular Offline Change the Fucking sets Posts: 1,149 Sweet Virginia Gender:	Re: Cardinal Fang RIP Reply #55 - Mar 24^th, 2013 at 11:12am So sad. Such a Shame that the circle of life takes some of us so soon. RIP. Live well, Laugh often, Love Always.
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Re: Cardinal Fang RIP
Reply #58 - Mar 25^th, 2013 at 12:27am

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.

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Re: Cardinal Fang RIP
Reply #59 - 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.

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Re: Cardinal Fang RIP
Reply #60 - Mar 25^th, 2013 at 11:52am

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.

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

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Factory Girl Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 2,194 US Gender:	Re: Cardinal Fang RIP Reply #61 - Mar 25^th, 2013 at 1:50pm 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.
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Re: Cardinal Fang RIP
Reply #63 - Mar 25^th, 2013 at 5:36pm

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.

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SweetVirginia Rocks Off Regular Offline I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it Posts: 1,427 NY Gender:	Re: Cardinal Fang RIP Reply #64 - Mar 26^th, 2013 at 10:57am 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.
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Re: Cardinal Fang RIP
Reply #66 - Mar 27^th, 2013 at 10:31am

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

Gazza wrote on Mar 23^rd, 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.

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Damn.
That would appear to be "our number 3"
Very sad. Cry

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

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

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Re: Cardinal Fang RIP
Reply #67 - Mar 30^th, 2013 at 11:49pm

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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