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07-09-2010, 04:13 PM
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No More Infinities
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Freak Accident Kills Former ELO Member
Mike Edwards, the cellist out of ELO, was killed in a freak accident, when a 318kg hay bale rolled down a hill, jumped a fence and flew out onto a motorway, landing on the roof of Edward's van as he was driving past 
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07-09-2010, 04:17 PM
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You have to be kidding, man his time must have been up, not to get away from the sadness to his family,  talk about freakish, even one second earlier or later he would be alive today.
It just shows you we never know when the time is here. 
Leon 
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07-09-2010, 04:21 PM
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Just one of those things.....weird, but tragic.
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07-09-2010, 04:41 PM
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Unpredictable
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I reckon the insurance companies will have a field day with that one (no pun intended).
Circular bales roll, right ?
Very sad.
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07-09-2010, 05:19 PM
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Searching for Travolta...
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 That's very sad news
E.L.O. are also one of my favourite groups.
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Originally Posted by leon
talk about freakish, even one second earlier or later he would be alive today.
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Spot on Leon. I got goose bumps from reading that line...
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07-09-2010, 05:21 PM
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I saw this on the news earlier - terrible stuff, and as leon says, his time was up.
I agree Suzy, ELO were a great band.
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07-09-2010, 06:40 PM
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An extremely freakish accident. Sad news.
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07-09-2010, 06:44 PM
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geez, what are the odds! If he'd left half a second later or earlier he'd probably be alive, or if he was doing +/-1km/h, or got held up by a lane hogger, or forgot his wallet.....it's really a one in a 100 million.
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07-09-2010, 07:01 PM
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Look up, look good!
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Sad!
My first ever album was Discovery? by ELO!
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07-09-2010, 07:07 PM
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One of my favourite groups as well. An old friend of mine from when I was working in the goldfields in WA told me once his father had all the first cut vinyl albums of ELO. Apparently, his dad knew the guys for years, being from Birmingham himself, and they gave him the albums. I think he said they'd been friends since they were teens, so they'd gotten along pretty good. Can you imagine how much those albums would be worth now!!!!!.
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07-09-2010, 07:30 PM
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Let there be night...
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Another ELO-loving fella right here. Sad, and the very definition of tragic.
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07-09-2010, 08:19 PM
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Mostly harmless...
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Damn. What a way to go.
My fav band too - another ELO tragic here.
Thanks for the music Mike....
At least Jeff L is still kicking.
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07-09-2010, 08:59 PM
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The sky is Messier here!
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Very tragic indeed, top group ELO was
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07-09-2010, 09:05 PM
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I saw that too and will be passing the news to all my old friends. They were one of the groups of their age. Amongst my friends 'On the Third Day' and 'Eldarodo' were the favourites but I very much liked ELO2 - or at least the bits I could play. [It was second-hand and in poor condition. But as a five-finger discount it was great value-for-money. I later found out that the reason the store so regularly offered such discounts was that the owners were out the back off their trees.] I think I might contribute to the inevitable spike in the sales of ELO cds.
I saw them live once and it was a bloody great show! It must have been the late 70s at the Pavlova backed by 'Ol 55. I forget what they played but they had the place rockin'. I remember the violin solo, I'd never seen or heard anything like it. And towards the end they were playing their cellos like guitars, down on one knee with the cello across the other knee. Then for a real party trick they dropped them behind their backs while still playing - I've seen that done with violins, guitars and mandolins, but a cello?
The band in heaven now has a cellist.
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08-09-2010, 12:33 PM
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Support your local RFS
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That's terrible news.
What a freak event to happen though.
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08-09-2010, 01:14 PM
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I saw this too but didn't post it as I seem to post a lot of entertainers passing on
They where a good group, and yes what a freak way to go
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09-09-2010, 08:17 PM
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Moving to Pandora
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oh wow that is not how i would like to go, talk about bad timing I was a big fan of ELO too
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