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Post by Admin on May 20, 2015 17:57:40 GMT -5
It's really unfortunate today to learn the news of the death of Mark Roberts, who we all have known under different monikers, but probably most well known as Bible Salesman. His nephew tweeted the band earlier today. www.legacy.com/obituaries/poughkeepsiejournal/obituary.aspx?n=mark-roberts&pid=174884506&fhid=2854Just absolutely garbage news. Condolences to his friends and family. He was definitely was a person who loved the band with all of his being, and my last conversation with him was a positive one last February. Going to miss him and his stories. |
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Post by Phils_fan on May 20, 2015 20:24:43 GMT -5
Some of you may have known him more recently as dabook, but he'll always be Bible to many of us. He wrote some of the most beautiful and intelligent posts on the boards. And, yes, he wrote a few that probably pissed some people off.
He made every NY show better- I looked forward to seeing him every time I went up there. His "slowest stage dive in history" at Irving Plaza was a wonderful and unexpected moment, and today I'm so glad he did it and that I saw it.
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Post by Rich Tarbell on May 20, 2015 22:21:20 GMT -5
Some of you may have known him more recently as dabook, but he'll always be Bible to many of us. He wrote some of the most beautiful and intelligent posts on the boards. And, yes, he wrote a few that probably pissed some people off. He made every NY show better- I looked forward to seeing him every time I went up there. His "slowest stage dive in history" at Irving Plaza was a wonderful and unexpected moment, and today I'm so glad he did it and that I saw it. What he said. |
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Post by john k on May 21, 2015 6:49:47 GMT -5
Legend of the old board. So long buddy.
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Post by hoodrat on May 21, 2015 10:03:30 GMT -5
I'm feeling maudlin lately and like an old crank myself. See ya on the flipside, Bible.
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Post by yesterdayspapers on May 21, 2015 10:44:12 GMT -5
RIP
This evening after a nice dinner out for my wifes birthday, we came home for some cake, with her sister and brother in law and the kids...I lit a fire and we all sat down, opened presents and had coffee..and were engaing in the usual bullshit. My BIL went over and sat on the couch which faces the fireplace, and we kept talking...all of a sudden there was slight rattling from the fireplace, and my BIL yells "HOLY SHIT" ...and we see a ball of flame shoot out of the fireplace and bounce around the living room before taking off down the hall... IT WAS A FUCKING SQUIRREL ON FIRE!!!! We jump up and note that only two doors are open, one to the master bedroom and one to the sons bedroom, we start the search while after much debate and imploring my W gets me to call animal control...they put me in touch with the Police who get there rather quick. The two cops who show up were the nicest, funniest pair i have ever met, and we had a blast. The squirrel had climbed in to the valance above our bay window in the bedroom...the cops have two of my hockey sticks trying to get it while I hold the mag lite...all of a sudden the squirrel comes over the TOP of the valnce and jumps across the room...like Rocky the Flying Fucking Squirrel...we all scream and me and the cops dive for cover..I break a lamp in the process...the squirrel takes off down the hall but doubles back,,,this one cop tries to take a "slapshot at and misses and its back in the bedroom and up the curtain...all the while my entire family is outside hearing all this yelling.. so now we go after it again but this time we open the windows...we are on the second floor...Squirrell jumps out but this time goes over the bed and then under it..we are all hysterical laughing cause we dont want it jumpimg on us..the fucking thing is BLACK..its half roasted...so it runs out from under the bed, over a rocking chair and jumps out the window!! Now one of the cops says "Well we gotta scare them outside...here take this" and picks up a stuffed animal which I stick under my shirt and we all run out yelling 'We got it" and my W is screaming 'its in his shirt' and i pull out the stuffed animal and toss it to her...she about faints...LOL..it was like "Christmas Vacation" for real...funniest damn night I have had in along time...carry on.
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Post by hoodrat on May 21, 2015 10:48:25 GMT -5
thanks, yesterdayspapers. that's a stone cold classic biblesalesman post, there.
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Post by yesterdayspapers on May 21, 2015 10:57:59 GMT -5
Its actually from another one of his handles on another board from over a decade ago. Thought I'd share it for the people over here.
I guess since this is The Hold Steady board, I'll say RIP and thanks so much for introducing me to this great band almost a decade ago. I never met him, but he was such a good dude.
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Post by parock on May 21, 2015 12:28:57 GMT -5
I had my own personal board issues with Mark, but never met him 'in the flesh' so I put myself at fault for that more than he. Regardless of our differences on a little message board, you never like to hear this news. Hope he and his family are at peace.
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Post by laurenjean on May 21, 2015 13:27:57 GMT -5
Oh that man's stories. He made New York seem both awesome and disgusting. If I ever visit there, I'll be thinking of him.
I will light a candle. Peace to Bible and those who love him.
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Post by delboydrums on May 21, 2015 15:03:35 GMT -5
Such sad news.
Didn't know the man, but his posts were always interesting / amusing.
You've got to love a guy who rated Wild & Innocent as the best album he owned. I'll be playing it in his honour.
Will someone be passing on condolences and sympathy to his family on behalf of the Scene? (please)
RIP.
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Post by hoodrat on May 21, 2015 15:32:28 GMT -5
I was going to write a note this weekend!
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Post by delboydrums on May 21, 2015 15:56:06 GMT -5
I was going to write a note this weekend! Thanks. |
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Post by wealdstone on May 21, 2015 17:07:28 GMT -5
So sad to hear the news today. Meeting Mark last year in Williamsburg for the 10th anniversary show was one of the highlights of the trip (though Eric might not agree). I enjoyed Marks musings for several years, enlightening, sometimes controversial but always entertaining, best summed up for me by his thoughts on the death of David Carridine, he simply wrote "Hung Fu"
RIP Bible
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Post by stringer on May 22, 2015 4:58:45 GMT -5
Such horrible news. Rest easy Sir.
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Post by Phils_fan on May 23, 2015 8:32:23 GMT -5
Some of you may have known him more recently as dabook, but he'll always be Bible to many of us. He wrote some of the most beautiful and intelligent posts on the boards. And, yes, he wrote a few that probably pissed some people off. Rubber Gym Flooring If you're going to spam a Message Board, maybe a thread about people who died isn't the best choice. Who knows?- maybe it's Bible back for more. |
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Post by somuchjoy on May 26, 2015 14:26:46 GMT -5
One of the tiny tragedies of the digital age is that, on a long drive in a car without a physical radio knob, it's so damn hard to tune in the left of the dial. Press seek-down and the dropping green numbers land you inevitably on a Japanese news station, up and it's That Guy with his corduroy-blazered bloated jazz remembrances. Can't stand dubstep, can't speak Spanish, most college dj's are too youthfully vain to play Herman's Hermits. So you keep one eye on the road and toggle back and forth in the 80s, trying to land on the one station in range that has a budget miniscule enough to allow the staff to play the music that they, and maybe they alone in the universe, know sounds great. Even if you can eventually lock them in, you have to put up with static, some cringe-worthy shoegazer banter and a ton of mishits. But, what you might get is real enough to keep you frustratedly scrolling up and down for a while, despite knowing that, in the end, you're just going to drive past the signal in a few miles anyway. On some nights, most nights are crystal clear.
Mark was, to me, a delightfully uncurated 88.9. For someone who camped out at CB's in the 70s, front-rowed THS at Warsaw and, according to legend, did his ridiculous butt-wiggle dance for the Dead at, well, everywhere, he knew of almost no music written between 1979 and 2002, had atrocious taste in concert headwear, repeatedly and sometimes epically failed fan net-etiquette 101, and apparently somehow interpreted #greenpointfacialhair as "Cliffy's moustache." Not often you get to buy MHOW beers for a dude sporting a croakie. much less one who picked a board name redolent of the 1940s. But fuck, that guy had a unique soul, a devout appreciation of his existence, and an outspoken passion about that which he loved -- his son, brothers, mom and family, THS, the City, the way life kicked you in the nuts and made you laugh at/with/because/despite of it, all at once. The New York Rangers. Rock and roll: like Jenny just five years old, it seemed that loud music for him was a means of expression for his hard-wired brain, not an expression of means to an ulterior end. Don't have a single regret spending the time to search him out at shows or on the boards, hanging out if only for half a beer, even knowing that his signal was always ever going to dissolve into static.
So put both fists up, stick your butt out and rock on, motherfucker. May your Rosalita dance party go off every night.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that this dying crap can just fuck off for a little bit.
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Post by campfirewood1980 on May 26, 2015 19:05:13 GMT -5
Truly a one-of-a-kind. Peace be with his family and friends.
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Post by Rich Tarbell on May 27, 2015 23:44:51 GMT -5
So put both fists up, stick your butt out and rock on, motherfucker. May your Rosalita dance party go off every night. As always, somuchjoy perfectly eloquent with a beautiful eulogy of a cantankerous dude and sticks the landing too. I too am glad I got to hang out with him last year at MHOW for half a beer. |
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