Love this, I'm so jealous. As my avatar suggests, I'm a big fan of Joe. I wish we could get his musical take on all that's happened since he passed.
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I got high on a tour bus with Pantera one night.
Dee Snider held up a performance at a Widowmaker show because he was busy talking to me and my guitarist.
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Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
I helped put together the first two Vintage Baseball World See. Jim Bouton is much taller than you would think, and a very nice man. He was still pitching last year.
I used to sell Lee Marvin cigarettes. He looked dapper in an old white Tee and dirty jeans.
I respect a man that works in his own yard.
I respect a man that works in his own yard.
I used to sell Lee Marvin cigarettes. He looked dapper in an old white Tee and dirty jeans.
I respect a man that works in his own yard.
Wow, Lee Marvin - legend!
Wow, Lee Marvin - legend!
I'd love to see that John Boorman documentary, about Lee Marvin, again.
I can't remember what it was called, but the sequence where Jim Jarmusch is reading from Marvin's war diary, is pretty hard hitting.
And the story about hooking a gigantic Marlin...
Wasn't aware of the John Boorman doc, thanks for the head's up.
My ex-wife Sammi starred in a Boorman movie called Hope And Glory. If you've seen it, she plays the main kid's older sister, who gets pregnant.
She had a brush with greatness with the director during filming where she stormed off across the soundstage in a snit and he chased after her intending to give her a spanking. Sammi said the set was of a London city block and built to perspective so that it got smaller and smaller, and that fleeing a furious Boorman as he came after her and the buildings got smaller was extremely Alice in Wonderland.
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... The ex was also in a movie called Mona Lisa, starring Bob Hopkins. Good flick.
As I have reported here previously, Sammi had on a number of occasions brushes with George Harrison, who produced the film. But he was so low-key and she was so engrossed in the movie that she didn't know he was a Beatle until years later -- she knew him simply as "Hippy George," and figured he was an eccentric millionaire (which he most certainly was).
I've often played hockey on the same ice as Wayne Gretzky.
Of course, never at the same time. My team really stunk.
Of course, never at the same time. My team really stunk.
I had pretty much that same in-depth, heart-felt conversation with Jaco...in between sets, in front of (maybe) 3 dozen people at a NYC bar where you were asked not to drop toothpicks into the toilet because the crabs had learned to pole vault.
He was as high as a Concord.
I did get to shake his hand.
(I remember crying when I heard Paul Harvey announce that Roy Buchanan had taken his own life.)
...much happier handshake!
The panda cubs were new to Zoo Atlanta, and folks were packed in to see them. I stepped on some guys toe and turned to apologize. I saw past the tortoise shell glasses right away and said “You’re Greg Maddox!”
‘Yeah, I am...
...I’m here with my family.”I shook his hand and we both went back to stalking the pandas.
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"That was a Googley!"
Yeah, I love that movie - based on Boorman's own childhood, if I recall.
I remember your wife too - she must have been about 16 at the time though.
A lot of Boorman's documentary, is drawn from Marvin's widow's biography "Lee - a love letter" (if I've remembered the title correctly), which is well worth reading.
Sammi was born '64 and Hope and Glory was released in '88, so she must have been 23-ish when they filmed the movie.
Yeah, I remember that too - it was a really big deal at the time.
I also remember you mentioning the George Harrison story - I made the Kim Carnes : Sammy Davis Jr joke.
Handmade Films did some crackers - Time Bandits, being an absolute classic.
Yeah, crying shame for George Harrison that his company was flying so high in the late '80s. Yet due to mismanagement, he was touring
Japan out of financial necessity just a few years later. In fact, it is pretty well observed that he would have not bothered with the Beatles Anthology stuff had he not been so broke from Handmade films.
