Quote: SlagA @ June 26 2009, 10:26 PM BSTAs if the poor bastard didn't have enough bad luck on his plate already, eh?
I know - Glen Miller playing "little brown jug" all day long.
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But, imagine it played through a BigMuff.
Quote: Balf @ June 26 2009, 10:32 PM BSTBut, imagine it played through a BigMuff.
With that bunch of muppets in the same room, I'd want my face buried in a big muff.
Quote: DaButt @ June 26 2009, 11:09 AM BSTAnother one passes:
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Sky Saxon, lead singer and founder of the 1960s band the "Seeds," who had a Top 40 hit in 1967 with "Pushin' Too Hard," has died after a brief illness.
Publicist Jen Marchand said Saxon died Thursday but did not have other details. He was in his 60s.
The Seeds sprang up in California, and their garage-band sound with Saxon's distinctive vocals became a favourite of the flower power generation. Another hit single of 1967 was "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" and their song "Mr. Farmer" was included in the soundtrack for the movie "Almost Famous."
The Mick Jagger-influenced vocals by Saxon (born Richard Marsh) dominated the sound and in turn influenced later punk rockers.
"All the bikers around San Diego thought the Seeds were apocalypse, then," famed rock critic Lester Bangs wrote in "The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll." "I recall one hog-ridin' couple ... who didn't take the Seeds' first album off their turntable for three solid months."
Saxon had recently moved to Austin, where he played with his new band, Shapes Have Fangs.
He had been planning to perform this summer with the California '66 Revue, a tour featuring a lineup of California bands from the 1960s.
A group I was kind of aware of at the time although never did anything over here. I only recently (last couple of years) discovered Pushing too hard on a compilation. Love US garage rock now.
Quote: Jacob Loves Comedy @ June 26 2009, 3:14 PM BSTI too have enjoyed the odd joke about MJ today. However, all I've constantly heard is people saying "oh he was a kiddy fiddler anyway" and things to that affect.
Jackson was found not guilty, I don't think he was guilty of those crimes. I think his father is to blame for what went wrong in his life. Michael didn't have a childhood, certainly not an enjoyable one, he was working his ass off at the age of 5. Maybe in a strange way he was making up for lost time when he was older.
Yes, he was quite strange, but not paedophile strange. One thing I do think he was, was very naive about how his actions could be looked upon by others, which is why he ended up in trouble. The parents of the children he used to hang out with then saw an opportnuity to make themselves rich, so decided to cash in on that by reporting MJ for assault against children.
Despite this, I listen to him frequently on my iPod. This is all very sad indeed.
Are you excusing all paedoes then - because most of them are the way they are because of how they were treated when they were young?
Quote: SlagA @ June 26 2009, 3:31 PM BSTI'm confused (as usual). Was he really a musician? A singer is not a musician, unless he was a whiz on Fisher-Price's My First Xylophone?
He wrote music, he made music, he sang music - so I guess he was a musician.
Quote: Chappers @ June 27 2009, 10:48 AM BSTI only recently (last couple of years) discovered Pushing too hard on a compilation. Love US garage rock now.
I assume you're familiar with the Nuggets series?
Another long post from Tuumble...
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So it was true. Michael Jackson dies and no-one can quite believe it. Few will be surprised that he didn't complete a full innings however but I don't think there would be many that expected that this would be the moment that he would meet his maker…whoever that might be.
A couple of weeks ago I was chatting about Mr Jackson and his 50 date residency at the O2 Arena and we were all agreed that we couldn't see him completing all the dates – that would be hard enough for a young man let alone someone walking around with hardly any body part he started out with.
It's testement to his back catalogue and reputation as a performer that he could sell out so many shows, and I hear there were options for more, but his fragile physical and mental state would make that number of dates too much to take surely. I could be doing him a disservice but as he didn't even make the first concert it would be hard argue otherwise.
I quite like MJ's music and I would happily sit down and listent to his albums. Having said that, I must be the only person in the world not to own a copy of Thriller in any format. I've never seen Star Wars either so I guess I'm a bit of a deviant in that respect. What interests me about all this now is what is going to happen to the music charts. As downloads count as units sold now, it's not inconceivable that Jacko could occupy the whole of the Top 10 come the next rundown. In fact, on Amazon earlier, the top 14 best selling albums were all by Michael Jackson. It's somehow ironic that as someone who was virtually bankrupt with lawsuits coming out of his ears that he wouldn't need the O2 gigs to pay his paper bill.
When I got up this morning I told my seven year-old daughter that Michael had died. She asked me how and I explained that he'd had a heart attack and she says, "Oh, like grandma".
It's hard to imagine my recently deceased mother having anything in common with Michael Jackson but now they'll have something to talk about on the other side. After 47 years with rheumatoid arthritis I just can't see her and Michael moonwalking together which I think is a shame.
Quote: bigfella @ June 26 2009, 10:06 PM BSTThe one at my local used to live at Roswell, and his dad actually saw the alien body under a sheet on a trolly at area 51. Then they got chased by the media and ended up living in Memphis, where he became an undercover plumber and actually fixed the bog Elvis died on the day beforehand.
I'm assuming that that's made up, but it would be terribly cool were it true.
Area 51 is actually in Nevada. Both my father and a good friend were stationed there during their military service and neither saw any aliens. There are lots of wild horses, however. Maybe they're alien horses?
That's why I refuse to play Super Mario. He knows something.
Quote: DaButt @ June 27 2009, 12:49 PM BSTArea 51 is actually in Nevada. Both my father and a good friend were stationed there during their military service and neither saw any aliens.
Well, if they did I would presume they knew to keep it to themselves though. If such a place that dealt in such things were to exist, then I imagine those working there would be expected to keep schtum, even from family. I'm not sure I can really believe there were aliens there though, you see how bad goverments tend to be at keeping even the smallest of matters secret.
Quote: DaButt @ June 27 2009, 12:49 PM BSTArea 51 is actually in Nevada. Both my father and a good friend were stationed there during their military service and neither saw any aliens. There are lots of wild horses, however. Maybe they're alien horses?
Witnessed an atom blast based at Area 51, does DaButt have the most hardcore dad on BCG? Did he beat up Muhammed Ali as well?
When you're as rich and powerful as Jackson then Dr moves in and gives you what you want when you want.
When you're as depressed as Micheal that's usually the kind of drugs terminal cancer patients take.
He died the same way as Elvis and Monroe too many high powered painkillers to close together.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 27 2009, 12:58 PM BSTWell, if they did I would presume they knew to keep it to themselves though. If such a place that dealt in such things were to exist, then I imagine those working there would be expected to keep schtum, even from family.
They won't talk about the secret aircraft or radars or whatever they worked with, but I don't think they'd be able to keep quiet about something like aliens. But I've heard that the military likes to wind up newcomers with talk about alien briefings, etc.
Quote: sootyj @ June 27 2009, 1:06 PM BSTWitnessed an atom blast based at Area 51, does DaButt have the most hardcore dad on BCG? Did he beat up Muhammed Ali as well?
It was about 50 blasts in all. My grandfather was the professional boxer in the family, but the doctor who delivered me when I was born in Las Vegas was the ring doctor at all the big Vegas fights. He patched up Ali on at least one occasion that I can remember.
Cool.
Area 51 is in a great location. I've been to Rachel and driven the Alien Highway but don't believe the alien connection. For years locals were reporting a strange black triangle in the nearby skies and then this little beauty made its debut. Occam's Razor.
Razor? Looks more like a plane to me. Or a stingray.