Cultural significance? Just because he name-checked a Beatles song or two? Ah, no. This thread is just an excuse for people to vent about capital punishment and politics. Charles Manson is no more an icon for the 60s than Ted Bundy was for law students.
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So?
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QuoteHairball David Cassidy was embraced by pre-teen/teeny bopper girls. My older sister was born in '61 (me '63), and she and her friends loved David Cassidy. As for the tv show, I liked Laurie (Susan Day), the two young ones, troublemaker Danny, and momma Shirley who reminded me of my own mom. I always thought the David Cassidy character was more like Greg Brady - not very hip o
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QuoteRockman eeeerrr na have never seen one Partridge show in my life ... C'mon, get happy, for once in your life. Just think of Susan Dey... Partridge Family theme song:
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Legacy, shmegacy. If they still bring joy to tens of thousands a night in providing a capable celebration of a now extinct form of musical culture, then it is their privilege and right to play wherever and whenever they want. My Generation, Tommy, Who's Next, and Quadrophenia -- that is their legacy and can never be diminished, because the past can never change.
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OK, time to take stock. Just looking at the "Posts" and "Views" totals for pages 1 and 2 here. This gossipy thread has nearly 20k views and 364 posts in a week, but the recent tour threads that have popped up here in recent days and weeks have just a few hundred or a couple thousand views and only just a few posts each compared to this. Just an observation. The number
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"Mick Dating 22-Year-Old in Paris" And you're all paying for it, with those ticket prices -- congratulations! I'd love it if Charlie had another mid-aged crisis, gets back on the scag and the crank and then busts into Mick's hotel room at 5 a.m., punches him in the face, saying "You're my singer!", and then carries the little wench off caveman style,
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Hey folks, 102 years ago an ocean liner was sunk by a German submarine. For years and years there was a "conspiracy theory" that it was used as bait to get the United States into a European war. Over 1,000 civilians were killed, 128 of them U.S. citizens. But, hey, guess what? The government documents were finally declassified and made public in the 1990s, over 80 years after the
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Quotekeefriff99The Ramones are the complete opposite end of the spectrum...a very sad story. Joey and Johnny died of cancer and Dee Dee overdosed all in a 3-year period (2001-2004), and then Tommy died of cancer in 2014. Somehow, the Ramones singing/performing Rock And Roll High School in their seventies just wouldn't have been right. Whereas you can sing/perform Love In Vain and Time
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He looks more like this guy... Max Schreck Willem Dafoe
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Quotekeefriff99 I daresay that Neil Peart is the only drummer in any band where their fans wouldn't accept a replacement under any circumstances. Phil Collins is the other.
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They could never replace Keith Richards -- he is an original founding member, only one of two that remain. They could, however, replace Charlie. He's been there almost since the beginning, but he wasn't an original founding member, just as Bill Wyman wasn't. So long as Mick and Keith perform publicly together, it's still the Rolling Stones, and they could still call it
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This thread is attempting to compare apples and oranges. The Whorelywood hacktresses were often complicit in the Old Boy workings of the mainstream movie industry. Also complicit were the journalists who were sitting on these stories since at least 2004 but who were bought off for their silence -- as were all these Whorelywood hacktresses who benefited in terms of career advancement. Roc
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Yeah, so? I guess there's a sexist point you want to make? By the way, how is this news? I suppose this is going to wind up being another "Bill and Mandy" thread.
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Quotejlowe Quotestonehearted It would be great to see Mike Pinder and Ray Thomas rejoin Hayward/Lodge/Edge onstage for a performance: Yes...Mike Pender...he seems to have had a very low profile since leaving The Moodies. Dies he still live in the States? Yes, I believe he does. You know, he kept such a low profile that he didn't even tell his children what he did before. Around the
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It would be great to see Mike Pinder and Ray Thomas rejoin Hayward/Lodge/Edge onstage for a performance:
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QuoteNiek If it's so accessible then you can easily choose to use it. But I guess that people think the same about our drugs policy in The Netherlands. If I had a drug I would shoot first -- in the arm or up the nose or wherever -- and ask questions later. Hope you enjoy your bike ride here in North America (i.e., the U.S. and Canada). Just a helpful tip -- when I first started ri
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QuoteGreen Lady You were not an issue, but there's no legal reason why your neighbourhood bully couldn't have owned a room full of guns just like your dad's. Or bullied you into letting him have access to your dad's collection (which is where I thought your story might have been going). Maybe that's because you were thinking in terms of 2017 and not 1977, the era in wh
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It's a bit crazy here -- I mean where I live, in the USA. Mostly it's the 24/7 bottom-feeder news/media culture, all corporate owned working everybody up, making us think we live in an abattoir just because of the actions of a few against the many. You know, there's an album by Simon and Garfunkel (Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme), with a closing track called 7 O'Clock Ne
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QuoteHairball A bit mean-spirited.... Google translation: I love these Google translations! Just hilarious examples of broken English. I think I might do something different and take to posting in Google translatese. Hmm, let me see now... I am forwardly looking to more reading to reviews on the orchestra grandeur business as usual in the Google transpeaktion in the very near time soon
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QuoteHairball No more LongBeach? WTF?!!! Yeah, when someone like LongBeach (intelligent, witty, amiable) gets banned, then you know it just isn't safe to post here any longer, at least not for a while. I think I'll take a break from this place myself. I'm getting that "walking on eggshells" feeling again that there's going to be another "purge". It ha
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And in the end George Carlin became the angry old man, going off on pointless political rants trying to pretend to be funny, just because unlike his contemporaries and people who followed him he was unable to advance beyond stand-up comedy and move on to a successful acting career. Instead, he was left with unending tax debt and having to tour constantly and do Vegas 100 nights a year. At l
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QuoteLongBeachArena72epidemiologist. Is that a 7 syllable word or 6? I've lost count. I've had 10 beers -- beer cans are the only thing I can count. This is a 3 chord band remember.
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As a sidebar to The Who's Endless Wire tour, there was the Racher Fuller presentation In The Attic, in which Pete Townshend and Lou Reed duetted in an acoustic format. Waiting For The Man: White Light White Heat: Pale Blue Eyes:
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The best "Keith-isms" are in James Phelge's book:
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Maybe he gets his stamina from those early Hamburg club days with the Beatles, like the 48 nights they played (in a row!) over a contracted 2-month residency in 1960: "They were expected to perform for four and a half hours each weekday night, from 8-9.30pm, 10-11pm, 11.30pm-12.30am and 1-2am. "They also had to play for six hours on Saturdays, from 7-8.30pm, 9-10pm, 10.30-11.30pm,
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QuoteTheBlockbuster Youtube videos are great since you're not overwhelmed by the arena sound and the mistakes are really easy to hear And also the added distraction of the drunk as a skunk sixty year old lady dancing in front of the seat next to you who keeps stepping on your foot every ten or fifteen seconds without even bothering to notice.
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I think that now the jury is out on the issue of critiquing Keith's playing, or anyone's, on the basis of YouTube videos. This thread and the Zurich concert thread both show that people can tell, just from the YouTube clips, whether Keith's playing has improved and he is having a really good night. The next time someone complains about someone else complaining about someone&#
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QuoteWoz Powerful Keef intro to SFM! He hit those chords accurately and with authority. I find it amusing how posters get criticized for listening too closely to every chord, etc., when they're making mistakes, but that it's okay to judge them when they "hit those chords accurately and with authority". Glad they played well tonight and that everyone enjoyed them. I wo
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QuoteHairball Lol something must be wrong with the quoting system again as those quotes above got a massive screw-up...similar to the intro to Brown Sugar. ...If you've never made the quotes you should still thrown down your $.0250+ and say it before it's too late, or something like that.
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