We're told Alan had a heart attack while he was playing hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter. He was transported to Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center around noon today, and pronounced dead there.
We're told Alan had a heart attack while he was playing hockey with his 19-year-old son, Carter. He was transported to Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center around noon today, and pronounced dead there.
2016 continues its suckage.
Yeah still over half the month of DEcember left. Lotsa people gonna suck it and kick it.
Then its gonna continue in 2017, 2018, and maybe beyond..
RIP Mr. Seaver
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2016 really is the Darkest Timeline. Seriously... #### 2016.
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2016 strikes again. R.I.P
Its almost as if all the people who were around for the explosive growth in mass media and celebrity worship from the 50s onward are getting old or something.
Don't expect 2017 to be any better. Or 2018. Or 2019...
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Its almost as if all the people who were around for the explosive growth in mass media and celebrity worship from the 50s onward are getting old or something.
Don't expect 2017 to be any better. Or 2018. Or 2019...
Oh yeah, like death is inevitable, Mr. Smart Guy.
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Of all the TV fathers I grew up watching, Jason Seaver is the one that I try to model myself after.
This one stings.
I have few idols, but Alan Thicke was one of them.
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Alan Thicke and the Hockey Sock Rock
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Esposito: Alan called me and he said, “Phil, I’d like to do something for diabetes,” because his son Brennan had juvenile diabetes. And I said, “What do you want to do?” He said, “I wrote this song. I want you guys to sing it.” One thing led to another, and we ended up doing it, and singing it, and recording it.
Dave Maloney (retired NHL defenseman; New York Rangers, Buffalo Sabres): When we were in the studio recording the song, I remember different Hollywood types popping in to say hello. I remember Robin Williams kinda bouncing around. At one point, he did a five-minute stand-up routine on a hockey player with a French Canadian accent where he pulled his shirt over his head. It was a total blast.
Duguay: Phil did all the lead [vocals], and the rest of us were backup, and you kinda got a sense of what it was like to record a record.
Esposito: Alan told me, “You can carry a tune.” I said, “I can?” When I first heard it, hell, I didn’t even think it sounded like me. But my wife said it sure did, and people told me you can hear my voice through the singing and everything else — that’s because Doogs and Maloney and J.D. [John Davidson] couldn’t carry a ####ing pail!
Thicke: I had gone to Sonny Werblin with the Rangers and Jerry Buss with the Kings and I said, “Will you fund this for me?” God bless ’em, they each wrote a check for $25,000, which was essentially 25,000 records — we were selling 45 rpm records back then. That really launched the project.
Bummer. I would hear him constantly on Satellite Radio doing those IRS Fresh Start Initiative commercials and think to myself he came a long way from the days of the Alan Thicke Show.
Alan Thicke Dead at 69
