Actually, when news of the Tate murders happened most of Hollywood actors left town FAST, including McQueen. He came back only several weeks later, packing his Colt. Believe me, there is much, much more to the Tate-LaBianca murders than was ever released to the public. Drug deals, bikers, & the Mob.

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I love the pick slide to end Heartbreaker...damn, what a mess I remember watching Robert & his bands performance earlier in the evening and thinking how smoking hot Plant's performance was and how good the band sounded. His set was really strong, energetic, and just damn good...Doug Boyle is such a good guitarist. After that I figured Jimmy was thinking he really had to bring his A-game to not look like a fool compared to Boyle. I guess Jimmy thought getting wasted was more important than delivering a good performance. Too bad they didn't put Boyle in a Jimmy Page wig and have him play during the Zep set while Jimmy stayed back stage.

Great movie, when I first saw it at around 9 years old I thought it was a bad idea for Connery to want to bang one of the natives. The primitives tend to think screwing a god is a big no no. I knew it would end bad for Sean-baby. BTW, Judy Garland was robbed! She should have got the academy award for A Star is Born, best version hands down and she was way better than Grace Kelly. Talk about a snub. She should have won in 62' as well but Rita Moreno did do a hell of a job in WWS so that one was not as bad as 55'. That one was outright thievery!

Plant looks like the guy from Kajagoogoo in that pic.

Um...maybe. I feel FREE!!!

Not Meryl Streep, she would have been 18 year old at the time and did not look like that at that age. Also, she was in New Jersey at the time.

Yep, the PG pic is Jimmy, however it looks like due to cropping or whatnot the image was made a wee bit wider giving him a heavier appearance.

It's interesting how much Cagney actually looked like Halsey, the casting could not have been more perfect.

Looks like early 67' to me

To be fair he did not give it ALL away, just 2/3.

Hey now, I saw the vidie and that mic stand had it coming.

Oh understand, but why did he wait almost 50 years? It was a great guitar, an iconic guitar, I would have thought he would have fixed it ASAP and still took it on the road, or at least had it back up to snuff for studio purposes right away. Who knows, maybe he just forgot about it as he had a few teles & strats lying around for studio purposes.

Jimmy had dozens of guitars including several telecasters and strats which he used during recording sessions. Case in point, he only recorded one song on the double-neck (Carouselambra), TSRTS (studio) was recorded using four different guitars if memory serves, the 12 string part done with his Vox 12 string.

The Dragon Tele was technically screwed up when a friend of Jimmy's re-painted the guitar somewhere around late 71' early 72' while Jimmy was on tour. The paint job job screwed up the electronics as a result. Jimmy removed the neck which was later swapped out with the original on his 53' brown tele. To my knowledge Jimmy did keep the body as well but what became of it? Mystery. What I don't understand is why Jimmy somewhat chucked this iconic guitar over something so easily fixable as a messed up paint job. Why didn't he just strip it like he did when he painted it in the first place and then install new electronics? He should have rehabed it, given it a new life, Drago2.0 or something. I would have loved for him to keep using it live, especially for D&C.

Nooooooooo! Damn it, I love Sweet, great quirky tunes. RIP Steve.

Your argument falls short as that is not relevant as per what you said, "being restrained by police" is an admission of fact whereas "It is within the realm" is speculative and thus irrelevant. That being said I agree this does not rise to the level of 2nd degree murder as intent cannot be proven at this point. My opinion, FWIW, this cop did this because he wanted to assert his authority, I would even go so far as to say if the crowd was not there, begging the cop to stop, this never would have happened and Mr. Floyd would be alive today. He was the cop and no one was going to tell him what to do.

Good grief. Are you referring to George Floyd? The County Medical Examiner's autopsy ruled Floyd died from cardiac arrest. Perhaps you are referring to the independent autopsy Floyd's family sanctioned afterward, which deemed it was a homicide. Now I'm going to show you why you don't press for a second degree murder conviction in this case. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the County Medical Examiner's autopsy determined that Mr. Floyd died from a cardiac arrest due to underlying health conditions and a mixture of illegal substances in his system at the time of his death. To dismiss those conclusive findings is to ignore data and science. Note the independent autopsy that was conducted later had nearly 30% less of his heart to examine. How can you conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that cardiac arrest was not the cause of death with 30% of the heart removed from the equation? If the findings don't fit, you must acquit. I rest my case". Don't ever go into law Steve, because if that is your defense, your client would go to jail for a very long time. Simple counter-argument: Prosecutor has coroner on stand who performed autopsy - "Dr. Whoever, I only have two questions, first, were there any signs of asphyxiation present on Mr. Floyd's body? And two, would Mr. Floyd have died from heart failure that day had Officer Whateverhisnameis not placed his knee on Mr. Floyd's throat for 8:43?

There is a great movie called Winter's Bone which will answer that question but yes, crime is just as high when adjusted for population. The difference is many of those crimes go unreported in Appalachia and other such communities for obvious reasons (getting killed by your neighbors for snitching is one of many). The stats I posted shows of of this.

I am truly sorry you cannot see things from any perspective but your own, but different groups have different experiences and the playing field is not level for all. If it makes you feel better to think white people are superior to others, that's on you, but to ignore systemic racism and the outcomes of such IMO, makes no sense. How do we fix the problems without addressing, or even acknowledging the root causes? Obviously what we have been doing has not worked so what is wrong with trying things from a different, more positive approach? What do we have to lose?

I think you need to some more research as your facts are not only wrong, but disproven years ago as propaganda. You need to take into account also that, as you pointed out, only 13% of the population is black so if all things were even black deaths by police should be extremely low, but it is the exact opposite. Let's look at the posted links and find out why: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/23/white-supremacists-favorite-myths-about-black-crime-rates-take-another-hit-bjs-study https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/04/another-excuse-police-bias-bites-dust/ https://www.statista.com/chart/21872/map-of-police-violence-against-black-americans/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/ Also, when studies are performed side by side (low income white neighborhoods vs. low income black neighborhoods) the numbers come back pretty much identical which proves beyond doubt poverty is the greatest contributor to crime, not race. As the majority of blacks in America are much lower income than their white counterparts, they will commit more crime as a result. That is not race, it is desperation. Or do you feel minorities have a greater obligation than their white brothers and sisters in regard to "dealing with poverty and suck it up" mentality? I have lived in poor neighborhoods, middle class neighborhoods, and affluent neighborhoods and I can attest that crime in poor white neighborhoods is just as bad as those in poor black neighborhoods, no difference.

If you wish to keep insulting me when no insult is warranted, it only makes you look like a spoiled, nasty 8 year old. How about you grow up Steve and act like a man instead of a small child, upset that he can't get his way. Who knows, maybe that is a bridge too far for you which would be a shame. Ps. The autopsy report stated murder, so he was murdered. By your logic if anyone has a pre-existing medical condition prior to a police confrontation which results in that persons death, you can claim the death was not the officers fault which is obviously a ridiculous argument and one which would never stand up in court on an normal playing field so to speak. Under no circumstances to you place your knee on another persons neck in such a situation. The man was handcuffed and was not resisting but you want to say he had a heart attack. Well guess what, if you are being asphyxiated you will die of either a heart attack or pulmonary failure depending on your health but in either case you will die.

Correct but he was immediately suspended pending investigation and second, unlike black people, white people are not gunned down on a frequent basis in America thus no need for any public outcry. Now if white folk were getting killed by the police at the same statistical rate as black folk you bet their would be protests. Also, when white people are killed by the cops, and there is proof that the cop acted improperly, historically that cop goes to jail which is the exact opposite, historically, when the victim is black.

The difference is in the Damond case, the only officer involved was convicted, in the Chauvin case, no one was arrested UNTIL the protests started and the other three, just as guilty, officers still have yet to be arrested. In case you wish to defend those other three "fine" officers, please let me explain. Say a friend of yours stops by your home and the two of you go out together to pick up some beer at the local store. Your friend says, "Steve, wait in the car, this will only take a minute" at which your friend goes into the store, robs it, and shoots and kills the clerk in the process. If you did anything but stop him (aware or not), detain him, and call the police, you too will be charged, and convicted of second degree murder even though you were just hanging in the car. In this case, the officers were in fact 100% complicit as they did nothing to stop their fellow officer from murdering another human being who was already handcuffed and restrained. Until ALL officers involved in this are arrested and prosecuted there is no justice. Ps. I am done as we have gone off topic, my apologies.

Maybe because the cop was first suspended, then fired, then tried and convicted and given a 12.5 year prison sentence. Of course the family got a nice 20 million settlement as well. So in this particular case justice was indeed served.