R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley

wonder toy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:07 pm

So long Mr/ Jefferson. Thanks for all the laughs.

Bet you didn't know he was a big prog rock fan.

asterisk · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 4:32 am

Seen him pictured in a YES t-shirt many a time. He was a really interesting and versatile actor. He had a way of playing a really fecking irritating character yet always managed to sympathetically pull you over to his side. And that is not easy to do. Special fellow.

MG · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:24 am

Alan · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:02 pm

I guess he moved on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky. He was a funny man, and great actor.

Parsongs · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:35 pm

I wasn't aware that he liked prog rock, but I saw some videotape of him on the news where he was playing a Yamaha DX7 in a small home studio surrounded by keyboards, not unlike my own.

Tom

tomk · **Joined:** Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:22 am **Posts:** 1522

A clip of him dancing to Nektar!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHY3pMEUJs

Also he actually cut an album with YES founder Jon Anderson. Called Festival of Dreams, it has never been released.

wonder toy · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:02 pm

Alan wrote:

I guess he moved on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky.

Hope he got to take his Eloy albums with him.

Alan · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:41 pm

I still can't get over the fact that he recorded an album with Jon Anderson. I would love to hear it. I wish it had been released. It's odd, but yesterday on my way to work I was listening to Jon Anderson, for the first time in a while. When I got to work, I learned about Sherman's death. Of course, I never put the two together. Truth is indeed stranger that fiction.

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R.I.P. Sherman Hemsley

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