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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Oh yeah, definitely. And students of the history of journalism are taught the theory of how a common man sees the underlying truth by reading all viewpoints. It's an enlightenment idea, but always best to keep in mind the movement's connections with the romanticism movement. And so on. The reality is that common man is about as probable as an apricot unicorn eating blueberries in Hawaii on the 7th Friday of the month.
The nuts and bolts of it was anyone who could haul a printing press to a place without a printing press had a license to print money. Competition, understandably, was not in the spirit of the Boy Scouts. Turf wars for were fought on the street, literally, as in broken kneecap sort of excitement. The practices became more refined over time, but ....
Basically, look what the owners are up to and that's what we've got.
Saturday Reprise
Roadhouse Blues
Not a bad song considering it's The Doors. Recorded in 1969 over two days, Morrison was wasted during the first day. He pulled the band down but in the end, they created a classic.
Roadhouse Blues - Wikipedia
Robby, being locked in, is kind enough to provide a lesson. How cool is that.
Roadhouse Blues
Not a bad song considering it's The Doors. Recorded in 1969 over two days, Morrison was wasted during the first day. He pulled the band down but in the end, they created a classic.
Roadhouse Blues - Wikipedia
Robby, being locked in, is kind enough to provide a lesson. How cool is that.
My conclusion is, if their goal is social engineering that pushes the owner's ideals, then they aren't worth my time. RIP journalism.
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If the conclusion the written word has been weaponized, you won't find me in disagreement. How long that has been true is another matter. How much power we allow it over us is another matter entirely.
Yeah, Warren knew a few things.
Here is a little sumpin to go along with your post. Consider it a Easter gift, sincerely.
Bob.
IMHO, and mine alone, I have always felt Morrison held back 3 phenomenal muscian's with his "Antics" and his recreations. Not only musician's but family as well. His father was on the fast track towards Chief of Naval Operations until the Florida (I believe that's where that occured) incident and topped off with the Ed Sullivan show. Unfortunately his father never made past Rear Admiral. Gots to be a little higher in rank for that job.
I never was much of Doors fan even after seeing them live. But I could see the talent that was pretty much Jim Morrison's back up band.
Poet? Lyricist? I think I will leave that alone.
Only my thoughts. No offense intended.
Bob
I never was much of Doors fan even after seeing them live. But I could see the talent that was pretty much Jim Morrison's back up band.
Poet? Lyricist? I think I will leave that alone.
Only my thoughts. No offense intended.
Bob
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Hey truckers look what I found for you.
Recalling David Crosby said he feels Jim Morrison was a poser, and Croz is as close to the singularity of the 60s rock scene as one can find. The Doors is an interesting space to hang in for a while but it gets kind of old, just speaking for myself. That doesn't mean I didn't go looking for that motel he lived in in, what was it, West Hollywood? On Sunset IIRC.
There was a producer who wanted to introduce me to Ray Manzarek but that never came about.
Anyway. What I may have reported here or nearby here is I renewed contact with my journalism school for the first time since I graduated [a long time ago]. And in the course of our exchanges they told me this is the founding year anniversary of the school. There will be reunion gatherings for that, would I be interested in coming to New York and sharing my contribution to the industry? That's in December and count on me being there. It's kind of a long story but there's was a Pulitzer for what we pulled off. Not mine, to be clear, just part of what I was doing then. But our school does track Pulitzer prizes in journalism, so I guess I have a story to tell.
What I saw in my fellow students were some incredibly brilliant minds. There was almost no social mixing between the broadcast journalism students and the print journalism students. Different worlds. Didn't think much of each other, bilaterally. The ones who were really good, well, look at the clock, we're all retired now.
This bass ain't gonna play itself.
Recalling David Crosby said he feels Jim Morrison was a poser, and Croz is as close to the singularity of the 60s rock scene as one can find. The Doors is an interesting space to hang in for a while but it gets kind of old, just speaking for myself. That doesn't mean I didn't go looking for that motel he lived in in, what was it, West Hollywood? On Sunset IIRC.
There was a producer who wanted to introduce me to Ray Manzarek but that never came about.
Anyway. What I may have reported here or nearby here is I renewed contact with my journalism school for the first time since I graduated [a long time ago]. And in the course of our exchanges they told me this is the founding year anniversary of the school. There will be reunion gatherings for that, would I be interested in coming to New York and sharing my contribution to the industry? That's in December and count on me being there. It's kind of a long story but there's was a Pulitzer for what we pulled off. Not mine, to be clear, just part of what I was doing then. But our school does track Pulitzer prizes in journalism, so I guess I have a story to tell.
What I saw in my fellow students were some incredibly brilliant minds. There was almost no social mixing between the broadcast journalism students and the print journalism students. Different worlds. Didn't think much of each other, bilaterally. The ones who were really good, well, look at the clock, we're all retired now.
This bass ain't gonna play itself.
When You Put Tree Rings on a Record Player, The Sound Is Unexpectedly Beautiful
Happy Soulful Sunday?!
Happy Soulful Sunday?!
Nah, us squids gots to stick together. I was never impressed by The Doors, particularly Morrison(and "antics"), but also annoyed by their 'bass player', Claude Rains.
I've mentioned this b4, but it's been awhile. My Rheem(yes, the AC people)Kee Bass sounds a helluva lot better than the 7ender keyboard bass.
Quick Navy story: While I was stationed in Charleston, SC, there was a Commander who was 'encouraged' to resign because of his alcoholic wife's 'behavior'-or lack of. Sad.
IMHO...
Poet ? Not so much
Musician? Not so much
Singer? Good for the music they played
In that he held back 3 fine musicians with his antics? I'd agree with that.
And heavy drug use will contaminate the mind of anyone.
But somehow, all put together in a recording band, they sounded good and created a few good songs. And I say a few because it's really a handful of tunes that gave them a break and what career they enjoyed.
As for live? Can't say, never saw them. But I always got the impression that
JM was very full of himself.
YMMV
Poet ? Not so much
Musician? Not so much
Singer? Good for the music they played
In that he held back 3 fine musicians with his antics? I'd agree with that.
And heavy drug use will contaminate the mind of anyone.
But somehow, all put together in a recording band, they sounded good and created a few good songs. And I say a few because it's really a handful of tunes that gave them a break and what career they enjoyed.
As for live? Can't say, never saw them. But I always got the impression that
JM was very full of himself.
YMMV
I do not believe I mentioned that one of things I was going to be when I finally grew up was a Journalistic Photographer. In fact I was 4 units shy of my degree when my late wife talked me out of it. The career choice not the degree. She made two very good points so that sheepskin gathers dust. I would have given my eye teeth to have had a conversation with Ray Manzarek! He was one of my Rock legends. And now point 3. Croz has absolutely NO room to talk. I admire the man's talent and voice but Morrison was never dragged off stage (as far as I know) for spouting his political beliefs for almost 90 minutes holding up what is considered the first rock festival. He no longer was member of the Byrds after that. I guess Hillman had enough.
I agree with you on what you saw in your fellow students. We had 2 camps in my school. Brilliant and Not so Brilliant. The 2nd group sense was not too common.
Happy Easter All!
If it is still available and I don't know if it is, there was a documentary that filmed a concert in Canada with the Doors performing with Albert King. They were very good together especially Robbie with Albert. But when they did Back Door Man it was Phenomenal! Montreux(sp) could that be correct?
Been a long time
Bob
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Three of us shared my car in a semester where we ran our own newsroom. Each of us were on assigned beats. We wrote our stories on manual typewriters, and turned them in to another student who was today's designated editor. Our professor pretty well let us do our assigned work without intervention.
The first of the two who rode with me grew up in a very wealthy community. As in, very, very wealthy. The other started J school after a few years experience with a detective agency. She won that job over a game of pool in Detroit.
One of the three of us had absolutely no comprehension of the Firesign Theater lines the two of us exchanged as we rocked out on some Dead bootleg cassettes I was in the habit of collecting.
To this day I can still swing a camera if needed. But like the slushboxes vs. manual transmissions (by the way, saw today Sterling Moss died at 90 after long illness), I prefer the lazy now. It's not really lazy, it's more fat. As in I'm too [mentally] fat to bother with F stops and shutter speed. Besides the entire photograph is in post-processing, even if only cropped <shrug> Composition is never forgotten, nor are any of the other things that go with it.
And Croz is Croz LOL
... would I have jumped on the opportunity to meet Morrison? is that even a question?
Morrison meh!
Manzarek= I am not Worthy, I am not worthy.
"White lightening White lightening this is ground beef Control. Do you read me over?"
I only read good books over.
Ok that's enough of showing my age.
This is a Red Letter Day Contessa. We have agreed on almost everything. Especially that this bass ain't gonna play itself if I wanna hear these Custom Shop pickups. Btw it is a J-Bass.
;[)
Bob
My photog skills have waned considerably.
Bob
Bob
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Speaking of Jazz Basses (and that's one fine looking Jazz you have there, Bob, La Bella DTFs?) this is Peter Albin's bass. Met Peter (okay, introduced myself) when he was playing with The Dinosaurs. The bass is even more magnificent in real life.
That is great!
Actually no. Those are D'Addarrio Chrome flats I had laying around.
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