FireOpal
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Where my Doors people at? Consider contributing to the Kickstarter campaign for a documentary on the real person Jim Morrison, featuring interviews with Morrison family members and pre-Doors friends: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zmachine/before-the-end-jim-morrison-comes-of-age
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What made me happy today: news of an Alan Partridge movie, and an accompanying photo of Steve Coogan in a powder-blue leisure suit such as I haven't seen since childhood.
Why don't men dress like this anymore? The world would be a happier place, for certain.
What made me sad today: said movie is not being released in the U.S., as far as I could determine. Sob.
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I wonder if Tiny Tim was a wardrobe (and hair) influence? Thank you, Jessica!!
*Jessica leaves a present on the door step and knocks on the door very fast and rings the doorbell and quickly runs away*
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No excuse, sir! Florida is a peninsula, surrounded by ocean and virtually brimming with bays, lakes, swamps and canals. Yet do we complain about the heat and humidity? Yes, without ceasing.
Actually, we are having English-type weather lately: and the rain it raineth all day.
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Oh I like Dingle Berries - that's cheerful.
Off the toppa my head: Flotsam & Jetsam. I don't think I've spelled that right. No matter.
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LOL. Hedy Lamar was (like Jimmy) a brainy beauty - she developed a signal technology used in wireless communications today.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hedy-lamarr-not-just-a-pr
Marilyn Monroe and Hedy Lamar (with a Les Paul)
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Yes, maybe it is like a dualistic dynamic - robust/frail, extrovert/introvert, fair/dark. Light and shade.
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I thought the Brits were a tough breed - what's this about the U.K. government issuing a "level 3" health warning because the temperature has reached 30C/86F?! 86 degrees is pleasant!
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Best thread ever, no? There's something strangely magnetic about the two of them together.
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Many thanks, Kenog! You're a gentleman/lady and a scholar.
Omygodness, that 2010 article is outstanding. Never knew this bit: One day in 1964 he walked into EMI studios in Abbey Road and found he was making incidental music for the Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night. "I turned up and, lo and behold, there was George Martin," he recalls, "and I recognised the music and realised what it was." He ended up contributing background guitar to Ringo's Theme, the instrumental of the song This Boy that accompanies a morose Ringo Starr as he wanders off by the River Thames.
He explained the reason he joined the choir in the Sunday Times interview he gave to publicise his photographic book back in 2010. I copied the full article onto the relevant thread, but here is the excerpt where he explains.
"...At the age of 12, Page seems to have had a pragmatic motive for pulling on a surplice and wailing The Lord's My Shepherd. "In those days it was difficult to access rock'n'roll music," he remembers now, "because after all the riots happened in the cinemas, when people heard Rock Around the Clock in the film Blackboard Jungle, the authorities tried to lock it all down. So you needed to tune in to the radio or go to places where you could hear it. It just so happened that in youth clubs they would play records and you'd get to hear Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ricky Nelson - but you had to either go to church or be a member of the choir to go to the youth club."
The full article may be found at http://forums.ledzeppelin.com/index.php?/topic/14152-jimmy-page-sunday-times-interview/page-2?hl. I scanned it onto post no.39.
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P.S. Oh wow, JP shops at Whole Foods! He really has got on the health trip then.
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The sweet little lambkins... hey, I thought JP said his parents didn't go to church. Wonder how/why he ended up in the choir.
The uncorrupted choirboy. . .
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This stonking great crop circle near Silbury Hill: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2013/silburyhill/silburyhill2013a.html
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You guys make fun of the British commentators for calling Andy Murray by his first name, but routinely refer to women players by their first names! Just sayin'.
My fellow Americans: this is the first year I can remember that a broadcast network did not carry the Wimbledon final - instead it was on the cable network ESPN. Don't know if that is a sign of tennis' declining popularity or what.
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Thinking about next week's mini-vacation. Everything else has been suckage.
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Thank you for making the important distinction "the first male winner since Perry" - I wish the television commentators were as acurate. They always say, "the British have not had a champion since 1936" - Virginia Wade must feel quite invisible.
P.S. Why do you guys all put "Andy's" name in quotes?
P.S.S. I must respectfully disagree with you about Jim Courier. Have you ever heard him baiting sweet Tracy Austin during the U.S. Open coverage? The man isn't well in the head.
Well done "Andy" for his win at Queens. (I'll sure he'll be reading this, so) he has grown on me. I think the coverage of Wimbledon, in particular, gets spoiled by the overt jingoistic need to have the first male winner since Fred Bleedin' Perry and all the hype and pressure they heap on "Andy".
I used to want all British hopes to keep failing because of this, but maybe (although we'd never hear the last of it and the hype would be sickening) it would be better long term if "Andy" won it so Andrew Castle and Sue Barker could STFU and let me watch Wimbledon in peace; without them putting everything in context of how the "Brits are doing" for example: Nadal went out last year and they were positively wetting themselves with glee and plotting Andy's run to the final while he was still in the third round. "Andy" seems like a normal bloke from a fairly normal background; so I'd rather he won it than some posh kid whose father is a major.
Wimbledon countdown: T minus 8 days.
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Isn't it frustrating? And he probably didn't even have to work at it. He wasn't standing in front of a mirror for 90 minutes with a curling iron and smoothing serum. The unfairness!
I have big curly hair, but I can't make it look like his. It must just be because he's Robert.
I don't recall you I got any of those from. If they are your's feel free to take credit. -
Anxss, where are these pics from, I mean what was the occasion? And dang, his hair is really long! Rock on, Jimmy
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Lost another great one.
Criteria Recording Studios founder Mack Emerman dies
By CURT ANDERSON
Associated Press
MIAMI -- Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records, has died after a long illness. He was 89.
His daughter Bebe Emerman said Tuesday that her father died of complications from pneumonia at the Miami Jewish Home for the Aged, where he had lived since his health began failing in 2004. The Criteria studio, which he opened in 1959 in North Miami, has been operated by the Hit Factory since 1999. Some 250 gold or platinum singles and albums were recorded at Criteria, which became known as Atlantic Records South when Emerman formed an alliance with producer Tom Dowd.
The records include "Layla" by Clapton's group Derek and the Dominoes, James Brown's "I Feel Good," "Eat A Peach" by The Allman Brothers Band and parts of huge 1970s hits such as "Saturday Night Fever" by the Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" and "Hotel California" by the Eagles.
Things went downhill for Emerman in the 1980s. His daughter said he continued buying equipment and expanding studios at Criteria even as the music industry hit a slump. Emerman eventually sold Criteria to a local investor in 1988 and three years later he was forced out. Bebe Emermen said her father suffered from depression for years afterwards. "Eventually, however, he recovered and began recording again, on a small scale," she said in an email.
Maxwell Louis Emerman was born in 1923 in Erie, Pa., and later began playing the jazz trumpet while attending Duke University. With his wife and two daughters, he came to South Florida in 1953 to work in his father's candy business in Hialeah, but his daughter said he began recording live jazz and then set up a studio in his garage, running cables into the family living room where the musicians performed. "The same family station wagon he used to haul saltwater taffy for his father by day was packed with audio gear at night as he moved from club to club, perfecting his recording technique," said Bebe Emerman.
He built Criteria with a loan from his father and opened it in 1959 as Miami's first world-class recording studio. Other musicians who recorded there over the years included Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Gloria Estefan, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Lenny Kravitz, Lynyrd Skynyrd and R.E.M.
Emerman his survived by daughters Bebe Emerman, of Pasadena, Calif., and Julie Goldman of Miami, as well as two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. -
I see VH1 classic is having a "Day Of The Doors" today! Right now watching "Soundstage Performances": "When The Music's Over".....we want the world and we want it now! How prophetic is that 40+ years later, with modern day society!
That was such a cool gesture for Jim's birthday - you don't often see that sort of thing anymore {at least I don't].
Still kinda reeling from the Ray news.
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Yes, very sad to say it is true. Official Doors Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedoors
He and his wife Dorothy had one of the most durable & happy marriages in rock 'n roll - almost 46 years!
Ray was an amazing musician and a great raconteur. R.I.P., RayMan
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Terribly shocked. What a loss. Oh man, no words.
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His hair! So lustrous, so... dayum.