Joe
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Post by Joe on Jan 25, 2010 20:34:15 GMT -5
Always wondered why CBS hired Pernell Roberts to play Trapper John the same year it hired Wayne Rogers to play a different doctor in a sitcom. Then again, these are the types of things about which I wonder.
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Post by Miss Dee on Jan 26, 2010 6:41:55 GMT -5
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Post by Almeda J. Becker on Jan 26, 2010 9:05:20 GMT -5
Just saw him in an episode of The Bold Ones on RTV on Sunday. Wondered if he was still kicking. Now I know. Momo will have fun stalking him in heaven.
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Post by Miss Dee on Jan 27, 2010 17:11:23 GMT -5
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Post by Iron Rich on Jan 28, 2010 14:32:02 GMT -5
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Post by Almeda J. Becker on Jan 28, 2010 21:13:34 GMT -5
I like the guy who said he didn't die, he just became extra reclusive. Wonder if his unpublished works will see light of day now?
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Post by Fromage on Jan 28, 2010 22:41:42 GMT -5
I like the guy who said he didn't die, he just became extra reclusive. Wonder if his unpublished works will see light of day now? Moi aussi, je suis morte. S'il vous plaƮt publier mon roman.
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Post by Almeda J. Becker on Jan 29, 2010 14:52:30 GMT -5
Moi aussi, je suis morte. You are to ME, vichyste.
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Joe
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Post by Joe on Jan 29, 2010 19:09:58 GMT -5
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asshat
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Erin Go Bragh, y'all.
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Post by asshat on Jan 29, 2010 20:17:55 GMT -5
I remember Warren. Diamond Reo, Silencers, etc. Dead at 57. No good. I remember hearing "Ain't That Peculiar" on the radio when I was a kid...
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Post by Joe on Jan 29, 2010 20:59:17 GMT -5
I remember Warren. Diamond Reo, Silencers, etc. Dead at 57. No good. I remember hearing "Ain't That Peculiar" on the radio when I was a kid... Back in the day, the Electric Banana & Decade crowds didn't mix too well, so I didn't go to the Decade that often. I did make it there, however, to see the Silencers a few times. I know a few folks who scoffed that he would bill himself as "The Fabulous Warren King," & I guess I was one of 'em, but the guy really could play. The Silencers had high hopes. People forget that Byrd Foster left his job as the main singer in Roy Buchanan's band to become the Silencers' drummer.
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asshat
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Erin Go Bragh, y'all.
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Post by asshat on Jan 30, 2010 7:25:08 GMT -5
I remember Warren. Diamond Reo, Silencers, etc. Dead at 57. No good. I remember hearing "Ain't That Peculiar" on the radio when I was a kid... Back in the day, the Electric Banana & Decade crowds didn't mix too well, so I didn't go to the Decade that often. I did make it there, however, to see the Silencers a few times. I know a few folks who scoffed that he would bill himself as "The Fabulous Warren King," & I guess I was one of 'em, but the guy really could play. The Silencers had high hopes. People forget that Byrd Foster left his job as the main singer in Roy Buchanan's band to become the Silencers' drummer. I was never a fan of Warren's playing, really. Thought he was wildly over-rated based on what I'd heard (at this point I was mostly listening to Allan Holdsworth, Al DiMeola, etc.), but I never saw him play live. The Silencers were a decent band overall, though. I used to live less than a block from The Decade in '82. Like I could easily throw a rock from my front porch and hit it. Seemed like the only bands that ever played there were Billy Price et al, and I wasn't even close to being into them...
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Post by Joe on Jan 30, 2010 10:46:15 GMT -5
I was never a fan of Warren's playing, really. Thought he was wildly over-rated based on what I'd heard (at this point I was mostly listening to Allan Holdsworth, Al DiMeola, etc.), but I never saw him play live. The Silencers were a decent band overall, though. I used to live less than a block from The Decade in '82. Like I could easily throw a rock from my front porch and hit it. Seemed like the only bands that ever played there were Billy Price et al, and I wasn't even close to being into them... Yeah, I was never big on King's playing, either, just recognizing that he knew how to play what he played. As you say, in those days weekends at the Decade were dominated by the Silencers, Billy Price, the Iron City Houserockers, & Norm Nardini, & I was never into them much either. These bands thought they were a lot better than they were & often took the stage an hour late, which I wasn't crazy about. Also, Nardini & Joe Grushecky were very vocal about how they thought the bands at the EB sucked, which was a turnoff to me, altho' in the '90's I did end up buying one album by each of Norm & Joe. The Decade was a meat market with loud rock-n-roll in the background. It was more fun at the EB. Also, at the EB the musicians would talk to me about music. At the Decade, they'd tell me that I didn't know anything coz I wasn't a musician myself & thus didn't understand music. That's BS on 2 levels. First, I don't hafta know that a song is in the key of G or that a guy just played a B flat minor chord to know whether a song is good or not. Second, I may not understand how music is played or created, but I understand things that woefully few musicians try to understand themselves---I understand Lightnin' Hopkins, Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, the Mississippi Shieks, Robert Johnson, Cisco Houston, Maxine Sullivan, Jelly Roll Morton, the Carter Family, Tampa Red, et. al. I have appreciated our debates over the years coz you never pull that "you don't understand music" stuff on me. The Razzberry Rhino was a cool place, too, that in retrospect I wish I'd spent more time there.
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Post by asshat on Jan 30, 2010 11:08:44 GMT -5
I was never a fan of Warren's playing, really. Thought he was wildly over-rated based on what I'd heard (at this point I was mostly listening to Allan Holdsworth, Al DiMeola, etc.), but I never saw him play live. The Silencers were a decent band overall, though. I used to live less than a block from The Decade in '82. Like I could easily throw a rock from my front porch and hit it. Seemed like the only bands that ever played there were Billy Price et al, and I wasn't even close to being into them... Yeah, I was never big on King's playing, either, just recognizing that he knew how to play what he played. As you say, in those days weekends at the Decade were dominated by the Silencers, Billy Price, the Iron City Houserockers, & Norm Nardini, & I was never into them much either. These bands thought they were a lot better than they were & often took the stage an hour late, which I wasn't crazy about. Also, Nardini & Joe Grushecky were very vocal about how they thought the bands at the EB sucked, which was a turnoff to me, altho' in the '90's I did end up buying one album by each of Norm & Joe. The Decade was a meat market with loud rock-n-roll in the background. It was more fun at the EB. Also, at the EB the musicians would talk to me about music. At the Decade, they'd tell me that I didn't know anything coz I wasn't a musician myself & thus didn't understand music. That's BS on 2 levels. First, I don't hafta know that a song is in the key of G or that a guy just played a B flat minor chord to know whether a song is good or not. Second, I may not understand how music is played or created, but I understand things that woefully few musicians try to understand themselves---I understand Lightnin' Hopkins, Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, the Mississippi Shieks, Robert Johnson, Cisco Houston, Maxine Sullivan, Jelly Roll Morton, the Carter Family, Tampa Red, et. al. I have appreciated our debates over the years coz you never pull that "you don't understand music" stuff on me. The Razzberry Rhino was a cool place, too, that in retrospect I wish I'd spent more time there. I'm not entirely sure when it dawned on me that music is something different to everyone, but dawn it did. Beyond technical metrics, there is no objective way to ascertain whether someone is "better" than someone else, and technical metrics obviously have no bearing on most people on the consumption end. One of the greatest and most amazing things about art of any kind is that it is entirely subjective. Few other human endeavors are. One likes what one likes. My personal preferences run to mathematically involved, harmonically dense composition, whether prog rock, jazz, or symphonic. Hell, I like Mahler and Stravinsky, as well as Beethoven and Mozart. Bill Evans, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis speak to me. I lean heavily to music others find intolerably dissonant. Why? Who the hell knows? I have my guesses, one of which is that I grew up listening to a lot of complex music from the 40's and 50's via my dad. His taste ran to more involved music as well. Never heard rock or the blues until later in elementary school, maybe 6th grade...
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Post by Miss Dee on Feb 4, 2010 18:33:46 GMT -5
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